skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soviet Russia had a rather different trajectory than China. By the 1917 Russia had significant ties with Europe, which helped both economically and scientifically. Having good pre-revolution scientific schools helped to maintain the lead in hard sciences - military tech like planes and artillery. Then achievements were also demonstrated in rockets and space (up to orbital stations), nuclear area (competing program for nuclear power plants, thermonuclear weaponry, particle accelerators), quantum physics (e.g. lasers), computers and material science (friction welding and Al-Li alloys come to mind as examples).

It could be possible to maintain lower level of life comfort while keeping the "academic part" competitive, if the world outside USSR wouldn't demonstrate that a better life is possible. So, I think for some time USSR could maintain the lead, which it did, but then it wasn't enough.

China has tremendous advantage in number of people - 4x compared to USSR - and way better economical system, but disadvantage in scientific schools traditions (which it tries - up to a point - to improve) and similar problems with freedoms. Improving scientific level takes time and may lead to conflicts with societal limitations. China may have some years - or even decades - before such problems will become critical.
Another SaaS that may suddenly stop functioning tomorrow.
So, per-device licenses. This is dead on arrival.
I’m sure there are Mongolians living in the United States and elsewhere.
It turns out JPEG2000 is also royalty free baseline. So that statement changes nothing.
I'm reminded of this Agile Bits blog post about "curing" themselves of Slack.

https://blog.agilebits.com/2016/04/19/curing-our-slack-addic...
Canada legalized marijuana. How does that affect employees?
I don’t know how to run a business. But, I know how not to run a business. That’s one way.
That's because the US already took over and genocided the interesting parts of its continent (+ Hawaii), and used covert operations to install friendly dictators across the hemisphere when it needed to maintain "democracy".
Where the ‘No Ending a Sentence with a Preposition’ Rule Comes From
Exploring contravariance using Swift
> Hardware overlay is not only for video, but also for rendering Android applications that run on a hardware overlay plane, such as the Wayland client of Chrome OS.

What?

What is a "Wayland client of Chrome OS" and how is it an Android application??
> most of the balloons ended up in Canada

in these tense times, Prime Minister Trudeau should look back with an open heart to the days when a great American city gave the Canadian people thousands of free children's toys.
Bookmarked to read later!
Thanks
Why isn't there some kind of "privileged access" test? If the third party gives the information to anyone upon request, it should be considered less private than if the police need to "ask" for it.

Not in an absolute sense. A concerned citizen might want to be helpful to police by providing them lots of information, and that shouldn't need a warrant. But it seems like a pretty strong signal that, if the police are asking for it, it is more likely to be private.
There are definitely alternatives to material design that is not just un-styled HTML.
Depends, but that typically refers to AUM

Source: Close friend does the same exact thing as person in article...works with NFL, NBA, etc players
"but judges routinely rubber stamp every warrant request that comes across their desk."

Provide numbers or data or real insight on this. You simply saying it does not make it true or factual.
Point to ponder: A (small, but potent) bunch of Middle Easterners got very interested in blowing up the USA.

Why did they not blow up Canada, or Mexico, or China? Do you think the US military actions might be a reason?
They aren't bees. They are indentured servants ripped from their communities to make money for oligarchs.
It even claims it's the fastest time series db. Is it faster than kdb+? I'm skeptical.
Wouldn't it be really easy to convert that technology into a weapon? Giant space lasers and all that jazz?
The default Formats setting for the built-in camera app is "High efficiency", which saves as HEIF/HEIVC. You have to change it to "Most compatible" to use JPEG/H.264.
Tuning Input/Output (I/O) Operations for PostgreSQL
An interesting challenge: build a small tree/pole-climbing robot that would methodically pollinate all flowers (manipulators, image recognition).
Agreed! Glad we don't always come to a consensus. Discourse is allowed.
Roblox could be worth $2.5B
Here's how I see it: I'm not going to be held accountable for someone else's actions. I'm going to be held accountable for my actions. I'm not going to plan ahead to make it easier to kill someone in some as-yet hypothetical self-defense scenario.
I’m confused. I’m on my phone so I haven’t looked at the repo. But if this material done in bootstrap or is this a ui using material? Why is bootstrap mentioned...
The cost of doing that would have to exceed the value of providing clean energy? So the political gain would have to be enormous to bother (already have bombs etc).

Granted, anything designed to project terawatts has got to be treated with respect.
The decision seems to be pretty narrowly focused on law enforcement and rules of evidence, so it shouldn't stop practice from continuing.
Ok, thanks for a more informative reply, I didn't know about how some of the interop between JavaScript and native broke the native bits. That's good to know. Still though, this is a subset of native functionality. It sounds like there can still be two apps one native one 'react native' that are indistinguishable as long as they use that subset. No?
I disagree with your opinions and your characterization of my argument. I didn't say people will not think about technological problems.

Despite the incredible amount of good the party has done for the people of china they are still an authoritarian regime. I don't think authoritarian regimes are good at fostering innovation.
This is getting OT, but I think there is a mimetic and performative nature to any discussion larger than, say, four people that means you can never get serious as a group (or on a web forum). In any event would love to hear from you.
What is "2-and-20" ?
How does conservative not mean anti-progressive? They're opposites by definition, aren't they?

I'm not just talking about a colloquial US usage. This is also how history books divide political forces when describing past societies.
You could argue that that is a good thing because some people shy away from unfamiliar syntax, no matter how great the language is. Case in point: Lisp.
Roe standing on expectation of privacy seems to be a similarly poor analogy.

The real missing piece goes back to the same fear the framers had when enacting the Bill of Rights in the first place — namely that by enumerating some rights it would inadvertantly serve to exclude those unenumerated but equally inalienable rights, such as right to self-determination and ownership of one’s own body.
You realize that this is exactly what Netflix is doing? They are using a lot of AWS services and have completely tied their fate to AWS.
My family has been to Disneyworld a few times, and we also like to explore real places as well--went to Venice last summer. I can see the appeal of both. Disney parks aren't going to get you out of your comfort zone, but they do have a distinct charm, however artificial, and a guaranteed consistency and welcome that other touristy experiences--and don't kid yourself that Venice and Machu Picchu are not tourist traps--often lack.

Venice in particular is a great example of a place that has basically become a Disney-lite type of experience. Sure the city buildings are ancient and the canals and alleyways make for a truly unique location that's fascinating from a historical point of view. But it's smelly, hot, hard to get to, utterly packed with visitors; the lines are long, the attractions aren't always what they are cracked up to be, they nickel and dime you for better access and shorter lines, you have to carefully choose restaurants and food vendors, the "shopping" is barely different than what you find at an upscale mall in any large city in the world, there are pickpockets and scammers, the rides cost extra and aren't always working, the gift shops are overpriced and often terrible quality. All in all, Venice may be more real, and if you're a history nut you can probably see some interesting settings from old stories, but if you are wanting to have fun on your vacation and experience something pleasant that you can't normally do, Disneyworld is cheaper, easier to get to, less crowded, and a lot more fun.
If I could just find a way of curing teams from agile...
Physicists get their share of doubt too. Reactions towards string theory, for example.
>well thought out design language

I see it as less "well thought out" and more "designed into meaningless oblivion."

I don't know anything about how Material was put together, but from an outsider's view it looks like something that came out of a committee of committees of committees.
One of the scenarios that sticks in mind from learning to drive in the UK is the bouncing ball. Drive through residential area, ball bounces out in front, you immediately go for the brakes because there's a good chance there's a kid chasing it.

Does Uber do that? Does any of the more advanced systems (lidar, radar etc) do that?
Yeah, I love that Go uses structs. Go is my favorite language, but it still has lots of rough edges, like no generics or sum types. If I were designing Go2, I might also get rid of interfaces in favor of closures or explicit vtables (but that's a little puritanical and I might change my mind after programming in that style for a while). Still, I get things done faster in Go than I do in many of the languages that I've used professionally, like Python, JS, C, and C++.
Thanks for the link - it's linked in the post as well, certainly interesting to know. We also have someone working at our company who previously worked at 1Password and is really happy that he can use Slack again.
I had, but I didn't realize it was developed at Twitter. That's interesting, thanks!
How much of your salary do you donate today? This is not something the government has to enforce. You are free to do it by yourself.
You mean the country that just appointed a dictator for life and has a debt:GDP of 260% in 2017?
Building structures on earth to collect sunlight is expensive due to need for maintenance, inefficient due to weather and day/night cycles and the transportproblem (no line of sight/ cables) and needs lots of land.

Spacebased power generation can get around that.
Jared Cohen is the driver behind YouTube censorship and making Google/Internet an arm of the US government's propaganda effort. Schmidt has been trying to push his way into world politics as an unelected guru for about a decade.

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/inside-googles-internet-justic...
The article is dated two days ago.
The current administration is responsible for its own actions; they are the ones elected and in power. If they don't want or aren't competent to handle their responsibilities, then they should step down. Blaming others and making excuses is absurd and irresponsible. You are the POTUS; figure it out.
they disabled both the built-in emergency braking system and their replacement emergency braking system. they absolutely did disable a safety feature and did not have anything in its place.
Ask HN: What can we do to help with the humanitarian crisis at the US border?
I don't want to make this too political, but if you have been following the news you'll know that there is a significant humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border where, according to numerous reports and first-hand accounts, children are being separated from their families, with no recourse to get them reunited later.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-chaotic-effort-to-reunite-immigrant-parents-with-their-separated-kids/2018/06/21/325cceb2-7563-11e8-bda1-18e53a448a14_story.html?utm_term=.405da70826e9

What can we do to help mitigate this?
Also different topics attract people with different views.
That's what I was wondering too. There hasn't been any mention, and this is for a years old cellphone case that doesn't deal with GPS tracking, just regular tower triangulation. (The podcast Serial, season 1, covers an interesting cases where such data was used to convict someone for murder).

I don't see any specific mention of the Stingray in any of the articles I've seen on this, but from the surface it would seem to indicate police would need a warrant to use a Stingray to target an individual.

Anyone else got more info?
Interesting, didn't know that!
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1138/

Also, there's a lot of terrible ways to manage stress without going postal (or some variant thereof) and there's plenty of things other than stress that can lead people to going postal.
I want personalization if done right.

A co-worker went to try a new restaurant, and ordered his drink. The bar tender made his drink as ordered, and then realized that there was only one person in town who ordered that drink and what he wanted was slightly different from what was ordered. Because she knew what he wanted she remade the drink to be exactly what the customer wanted not what the waitress wrote down. (she delivered the drink personally just to verify that it really was the customer she thought it was and not a new guy who might have wanted it as ordered, which is how I heard the story)
Why aren't any representatives from the 99.9% of humanity invited to these meetings? Many (most?) would prefer a more democratic sort of world leadership.
Getting into and maintaining SAG membership is very time consuming and expensive.

You could work in the industry for years and never get in. Others get lucky and get in within a few months. A lot of people are SAG Eligible but can't afford the initial fees to get in.

It's not like a standard union where you show up to work every day for months and you are in. Non-union basically do the exact same thing as union folk, but get paid less per hour. In contrast, there is a budget limit to how many SAG workers can be on set, so while your hourly is higher, the quantity of work you have is much lower.

Most SAG members are background extras, who don't earn very much money, and can't work more if they wanted to.

Definitely not the union you'd want to emulate. Film and TV actors are all temporary workers.
Reliable message delivery, reliable history and history search.
One island the size of France.
Cannot agree more. one of the default settings I used to set my windows computers on is "adjust for best performance". that used to really remove all sorts of nonsensical animations. I would suggest UI designers include this option in their apps. the first 2 times the menu bar progressively shows its items may look cute, but after 500 times it's really an annoyance.

Another pet peeve I have is when web pages shows very little content because:
1. the fonts are too big
2. there are too many sidebar (top/bottom/etc) items
3. the graphics or icons take too much room

i have some ideas about optimization but will reserve that rant for another time.
What's the current value of BitCoin against USD relative to the price Mt Gox went under? (I do not know where to go to conveniently answer that question and I'm sure there are many who will read this who will.)
You might as well ask for a specification of a scientific experiment proving that dogs can't perform operas. Humans have been observing gorillas for a long time and have seen no indication of a linguistic capacity. Perhaps a gorilla will surprise us and speak. And maybe a dog will surprise us by performing Nessun Dorma. It's not the business of science to rule out every mad fantasy someone might dream up.
and for 911 calls. So in theory, if there's a case involving a 911 call, that location information can be used without a warrant.
"In all of human history"? Are you sure? Ghenghis Khan and Alexander the Great likely killed more people than either Hitler or Stalin.

And then there's the institution of slavery, which wasn't political until abolition efforts were underway. (Semi-related: hard to label abolitionists conservatives or rightists.)

It also bears mentioning that Hitler was anti-immigrant and nativist, which are the forces that animate today's Western conservative backlashes (including Trumpism).
The parent I replied to made me think so strongly of Go that I forgot the context regarding embedded systems. A quick search shows support for ARM; beyond that, I don't know if any options exist.
I'm not going to sacrifice my sanity and overall wellbeing for the purposes of the state. I don't live in China, I am not going to act like I have to protect myself like I live in China.

Future algorithms won't detect it. The future population will do it without realizing that's what they are doing. That's what generational rebellion is all about.

P.S. I'm already a deviant, and I'm fairly well accepted in my community that values diversity over discrimination, offers me everything I need to sustain myself independently, plan for retirement, etc. I managed to get all that, while being a deviant.

It's counterproductive to worry about. I do my work, get the job done, I do a good job, end of story. Why overload the brain with fears when I have to use so much of it to reason correctly and create good code? Does that make me more predictable, more easily controllable, more financially viable, or less? Those are questions people who want to control other people can ask themselves.
You can create elaborate class systems using metatables in Lua; the problem is that there are hundreds of them. I've done some Lua programming using Love2D, and one of the painful parts was that a lot of the major libraries implemented different class systems (or rolled one of their own), making it hard to include in a single codebase. (At least Lisp has CLOS as its common class system...) Also you can mitigate the "undeclared variable = nil" problem using a script like strict.lua (https://github.com/deepmind/strict/blob/master/strict.lua), but when you try to expand that for field accesses you then want to make sure all of those libraries with different class systems or methodologies are also compatible with it (which a lot of the libraries do not).

The underlying problem with Lua is that it went too wild with the philosophy of "being the most expressive using the least amount of features" (so you can implement everything using only metatables). Although many would say that this is a good thing, for me it seems better for a language to have some kind of subset for which people can conform and rely on.
CIVIL WAR REENACTMENT – Port Hudson State Historic Site – Jackson, Louisiana
You think the US itself doesn't do this?
That’s a synthetic benchmark based on a theory about reading comprehension.

GP is talking about trying to measure reading comprehension to see which patterns actually work.
Facebook's fight against fake news
Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists,—talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having. They have, they tell you, an intense love of nature; poetry,—O, they adore poetry,—and roses, and the moon, and the cavalry regiment, and the governor; they love liberty, “dear liberty!” they worship virtue, “dear virtue!” Yes, they adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel; we shiver with cold. A little experience acquaints us with the unconvertibility of the sentimentalist, the soul that is lost by mimicking soul. Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment? Was ever one converted? The innocence and ignorance of the patient is the first difficulty; he believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds. Then poverty, famine, war, imprisonment, might be tried. Another cure would be to fire with fire, to match a sentimentalist with a sentimentalist. I think each might begin to suspect that something was wrong.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So more or less you are hitting all the points from this bit:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Laryngeal_nerve#But_it_is_desi...

so I'll answer from there myself:

Make no mistake, as an explanation this achieves as much as saying "because the Flying Spaghetti Monster wanted a laugh". It does leave a few curiosities about the supposed intelligence of the designer, however, which are unanswered by this non-explanation. It effectively makes the larynx an afterthought in the design process; as if it was only a by-product of the nerve's existence rather than an aim, despite communication and language being so important to humans. But the designer, given omnipotent powers to yield creatures as She sees fit, doesn't think to merely alter the branching points of the nerves instead? This is a very counter-intuitive approach design at the very least.
The commoditization you describe though is for entertainment forms that can be incrementally replicated at little to no cost. In that regard, entertainment is more commoditized than ever with things like streaming music and video services.

Arguably, there's more VIP-style pricing discrimination than there used to be for in-person entertainment. It's probably easier with online booking. But good concert seats or opera tickets were never particularly cheap.
They didn't go so far as to overrule Smith, the ""pen register" decision, where the court held that dial digits are a "business record" of the telephone company. That 1979 decision mentions the pen register's "limited capabilities" - the device was just not suitable for bulk surveillance. This decision mentions Smith, but the court didn't overrule it.

I own a "pen register". Recently bought it on eBay and restored it. It's a brass clockwork device on a cast-iron base in a wooden box. It prints dashes on a paper tape when connected to a dial phone line. It's extremely simple - one electromagnet and a wind-up mechanism, wound with a huge brass key, to advance the tape. A dial pulse starts the clockwork, a lever pushes the paper tape into an ink roller for each dial pulse, and when the input hasn't changed for four seconds, the clockwork stops. The timing mechanism is similar to Edison's stock ticker from the 1880s. Weighs about 15 pounds. It's a nice looking piece of machinery.

That's what cops had to use for most of the 20th century. Telcos themselves did not log call data except for long distance calls. Electromechanical switches had no large data storage devices. A pen register had to be physically connected to a single phone line, usually in a telephone central office. Someone had to check on it frequently and wind it. No way could those things be used for bulk surveillance. Hence the court's holding as to its "limited capabilities".

The legal system has trouble with scale. Today, every transaction a phone has with the switch is logged to a hard drive for nearly zero cost. Data logged per call has increased by many orders of magnitude since the days of the pen register and the Smith decision. But the court has not seen fit to overrule Smith. Yet.
Love PyCharm too, AS so far was a nightmare, mostly because of gradle/jvm/whatever breaking down, but AS often does NOT help, where it could.

Also saw regression creep in in more and more other intellij products.
Sure, most natural flavorings have artificial substitutes, but there is a market for the natural products even if nobody could really distinguish them by taste alone.
They will learn Bezos considers workers fungible too.
Not really sufficient, unfortunately. People will always abuse this and mention you whenever they feel like it, without thinking if it really needs immediate attention. The only solution is disabling notifications entirely.