skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has to be a point where you stop relying on national exceptionalism as the reason for why something can't happen, because all it sounds like is an excuse. It's as if you're saying you have a lot of land so there's no point in improving anything.

Public transport in the US is an overwhelmingly shit experience not because of the geography of the country, but because it all got sold out to lobbyists who wanted to sell as many cars as they could. Shit public transport = more cars.

It's overwhelmingly shit because urban planning favoured cookie-cutter suburbs far out of town, with no local amenities and no convenient transport connections in any reasonable walking distance. They never had to be designed that way.

Add to that the whole nuclear family rhetoric - a husband, a wife, some kids, a couple of cars...

People won't pay out of pocket to upgrade infrastructure and provide these services knowing how much they've been gutted over the past hundred years, so it really requires a government who is willing to invest in it and support it and begin to change the perception of public transport. That will probably come at a loss but an arguable purpose of a government is to provide such services that a corporate entity won't, without profit motive, because it is still ultimately in service of its people.

This isn't the only topic where people in the US are convinced they're in a unique situation that nobody else in the world has ever encountered and then solved, and I'm sure that it almost always boils down to some element of corporate lobbying that rejects any attempt to make life easy for citizens.
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looking at that ticket, the response from google is catastrophic. the guy or gal handling the ticket has no idea about web browsers. the reporter shows up with a complete reproducer and the best google manages is throw clueless screenshots (for a brief fully textual error message no less!) at them? they've already done a bunch of your work for free. get your ass off the heap of money, ffs!
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edit: oh, and i lower my hat to you for coming here and taking the heat. appreciated, having a real person to vent at is so special in the case of google...
I think that's the point. It's supplemental income for someone - not a real business.
I guess it depends what you mean by outdid? If you mean more popular then open source web frameworks are wildly more popular than the equivalent closed source ones (ignoring ecommerce for the time being). If you mean technically better then you’d be hard pushed to argue that the Windows kernel is much better than the Linux kernel. If you mean genuinely a better user experience, then Firefox vs Internet Explorer comes to mind.
Put the phone down! :-)
Though it has no clear commercial counterpart (Adobe Pagemaker? QuarkXPress? Adobe InDesign?) (La)TeX is far superior to any rough equivalents for document production.

For text manipulation (including editing), GNU Emacs (which also was superior to and eventually beat out commercial Emacs like Gosling Emacs [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs ]) is far more powerful than any commercial offerings.

As an operating system, Linux seems to be well-established as the server and scientific/supercomputer OS.

Maybe OpenZFS over commercial RAID offerings?
The following isn't facadism, but a different turn on a similar theme: https://goo.gl/maps/doYSK7sUdSR2 (turn the camera to the left to see the giant Shepard Fairey mural, which is probably destined for demolishment or painting over by the look of the scaffolding attached to it)

Everywhere in gentrifying Northeast Philadelphia, there are these horrendous modern buildings going up next to traditional brick and stone rowhomes. They look like a modernist disease attacked a normal building. And they're going for a mil and a half.

View here: https://goo.gl/maps/uxrVykuDmDy and then move forward in the street one inch, and you'll see the earlier plywood skeleton of the modern building on the right. It's so sad. (these are actually the attractive examples)
Former Citrix Chief is new CEO of DigitalOcean
The study referenced in the article says they found HHV-6 in normal brains but there was "increased HHV-6A and HHV-7 in brains of subjects with Alzheimer’s disease" [1]. So I would say that is surprising and worth noting.

[1] https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(18)30421-5
Yes, in this particular case, it doesn't open a security hole.

But scrub all your inputs anyway. That one time you forget, it will be a cosmetic error due to double encoding instead of a security hole due to no encoding.
There we go again hacker news hate for Tesla. Not credible
I just found it interesting (and grating) that he was quoted as saying it.

Substantively what stands out is that Musk's earlier accusations seem to have been misleading and an attempt to shift blame for internal problems. But it's perhaps still too early accuse Musk of misleading the public.
A Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve
Yeah, I considered adding that Index funds "mostly" don't create indexes, but I'm sure that some do. And some ETFs have been created that almost track certain indexes. You see special ones that are mostly S&P500 without tobacco or without guns or some other ethical choice.
That looks like a humorous photoshop.
Because they have no reason to.
> So it's 50 years now, is it? Seems a little long to me but whatever.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...

And before that there was efforts to stimy acedemia as the models are so painfully obvious and unambiguous... Yeah, 50.

> What's important here is that this is another claim of "FUD",

Yeah, because it's a literal campaign of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (see link above). Less a "claim" as an "obvious, proven, well established fact". And the trolls are obvious and everywhere, even here.

> go look at the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere of Venus ... Mars...

Too bad I didn't say anything that would have any connection to this irrelevent, obtuse, comparison. Did Venus experience a runaway greenhouse effect? Are you seriously implying greenhouse gases don't have greenhouse effects? Also: what does NASA say about terraforming Mars and CO2?

The top minds over there seemingly know something you do not. Climates can get hot from the greenhouse effect -- those who disagree are disagreeing with obvservable reality.

> go track down a full spectrum chart of sunlight and how carbon dioxide and water vapor and such absorb that sunlight

I'm completely befuddled by this attempt at a point. Greenhouse gasses absorb infrared radiation, CO2 is one of them. Are you implying the IPCC and top brains at Oak Ridge has missed something in a straight-forward chart about the absorbtion of sunlight? For decades? Sheesh.

More energy in a system, what could possibly happen. Wow. Hard. I dunno. Only we all do.

The physics of it are crystal clear, even if the predictive models were tricky to make. It makes absurd gesticulating to minor percieved issues look flacid, weak, and hallow.

> some years back a "skeptic" once very publicly tried to replicate a [greenhouse gas] similar experiment ... it didn't replicate as described, as I recall, implying...

... implying very little as the experiments I was referring to are painfully simple and have been carried out repeatedly, not just twice. I'm sure you've alerted the relevant journals and conferences, though, to this travesty of scinece.

I bet they're sweating with this straightforward and easily proven assault on the foundations of their field... Mmmmm Hmmmm. Time to worry about black helicopters, false flags, and you getting disappeared! Or... is this backed by The Deep State? Tinfoil! Tinfoil!

> most of the "skeptics" that I've seen online are right on top of this kind of stuf

No they aren't. This is a(nother) blatant falsehood.

They are dishonest liars with no credibility and an armory of logical fallacies and hostile attitude that they use to export their moronic, uninformed, world-view. A world-view that is blatantly supported by monied interests pushing junk science and FUD.

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Here's the thing: as yet another in a lOOooooooooooooooong line of climate trolls on the internet, you gotta step it up. These obvious attempts at spreading debunked factoids was played out in the early 00's. So, yeah: "skeptic", because genuine skeptics would read and learn, instead of regurgitating talking points like a Russian Twitter troll.

2/10, needs more effort.
much duplicity all around on this obviously-important topic .. here is a blog (discontinued) specifically on Electronics topic https://web.archive.org/web/*/ewasteinsights.info/*
Bloomberg says 3600:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-09/where-hav...
I didn't say it was a great idea... just that a registration is not necessary to conduct business. In American common (and civil) law, the right to conduct business belongs to the individual as well as the corporation.
OpenAPI and Design-First Principles
Seattle buses only have the noise problem.

I've dropped $350 on a pair of noise-cancelling headphones. It was the best investment I've made in a long time, because it let me ditch my car, without a serious reduction in commute comfort.
Or are at least willing to indemnify you based on their answer should their answer prove incorrect.
Big thanks for the clarification.
Yo Yo Ma, George Gershwin, Chuck Mangione, Weather Report
We need to stop making things out of plastic, where any alternative exists.

The stuff is going to be the asbestos of the 21st century. Microplastic has been vastly, vastly underrated as a problem. All my lifetime the attitude has been that plastic takes eons to degrade and pulverize, but when it does, the problem of unsightly or dangerous litter is presumably finished. Now we're seeing the opposite: plastic dust is a poison sponge that bioaccumulates and has got absolutely everywhere.
I'm not begging anything of Google, but I would want them to make this work better.

Google accounts are not just about data and personalities, but also about permissions. As long as I'm "logged into" multiple accounts, it should be able to map the content I'm trying to see to an account. Or at least offer to switch to that account. For example, if I'm trying to view a company document, but my default account is my personal account, then I don't want to see an often obscure "permission to view denied" error, which always freaks me out and makes me think I've been locked out or something.

Better yet, build this badly-needed auth stuff into the browser and allow apps to negotiate access with the browser.
Which part?

Remember that all of these articles have spin. The spin so far i've seen on this is pretty stupid[1].

One thing it doesn't note: The amendments were approved 8-0, so all the republicans and democrats on the committee were in favor.

But of course, that gets spun as massive conspiratorial collusion by the folks who think it was wrong, and bipartisan cooperation by those who think it was right.

edit: It turns out they were not approved 8-0, despite a number of news stories claiming otherwise. They were approved 8-2[2]

[1] Someone tried to paint the picture that AT&T was a major campaign contributor to him, but they really aren't:
https://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=23421278

[2] https://medium.com/@fightfortheftr/at-t-funded-democrats-in-...

et al

vs

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_...
Oooh, ouch.
What would be interesting is to have a subset with managed side effects and purity elixir i.e. something like Elm does at the frontend, the Elm experience is amazing and what annoys me in erlang is having too much effects around
Top 6 Application Security Must Dos with Limited Resources
Show HN: Bitcoin price index – as a service
A significant facet of the decline is overcrowding. This is a prescription to make that part of the crisis far worse.

The epicenter of this decline is New York, where cars are already impractical and everyone already relies on the subway.
That's fine. Manhattan, Kansas does not need a highly functional train system. Seattle, LA, San Diego do.
Ah thanks, good to know.
What's to stop universities in countries where the government picks up the tab already from doing this?
I have not heard of using oxytocin for children on the specturm. Are there articles, resources, or papers that talk about this?
Anyone ever feel like a vendor is collecting sales tax, but never remitting it to the taxing authority. I remember Vonage was collecting a city\state telecommunication services tax for where I lived but only the city (not the state) actually levied the tax.
But did hedge funds keep their money in cash? Warren's point is exactly that the funds' decisions are not worth the cost.
> But HTTP/2 and QUIC are taking us back into the realm of non-standard and more rigid and opaque binary protocols.

This whole BINARY vs. PLAINTEXT paradox where the binary tends to be more efficient where the plaintext more open and intermediate ground between humans and machines, for me can be solved in a optimal way where the final output is always binary, but where you can assist humans with plaintext latter.

Just look how many beautiful and expressive computer languages we have now where the output is a pure obscure binary.

So i think if you follow this path you can have the best of both worlds. And because of that i tend to disagree with your point of view, where the default must be plaintext.. The layered approach is probably much more sophisticated and less amateurish when you care about waste of CPU cycles and RAM memory, without the need to have only a obscure and opaque representation.
Zoning is the problem, especially parking minimums. Not only are areas zoned to only allow single-family homes (thus reducing density), but many zoning codes mandate a certain number of parking spots for every new business, leading to a car-centric lifestyle.
Love the concept.

But please don't use fonts with ligatures in code snippets on the homepage.
Especially when these code examples are actually screenshots which people can't copy.

Ligatures may be "obvious" to developers already familiar with the syntax of the language, but can make things very confusing for beginners, esp. in FP languages that lean heavily on operators etc.

I am really glad that the docs/roadmap etc. are on Github. Github is really the gold standard when it comes to programmer friendly aesthetics.
>I suspect this "account taint" behavior is because Epic is using Sony's payment platform for loot crates.

But Sony's response says "We also offer Fortnite cross-play support with PC, Mac, iOS, and Android devices". It seems like consoles in their target market are specifically excluded for portability here.
Can you give an example of a better-functioning legal system?
These buildings are in London. There aren't any earthquakes.
"Wait, entrepreneurs have healthcare costs?"

Unless you're saying that the only people who should be involved in startups are the completely healthy and those without any family or the desire to start one soon, yes.
Yeah, LA has a lot of commuter express buses from the suburbs that only have 3-4 stops. The problem is you're stuck in the same freeway traffic that everyone else is. Despite this, I know several people taking these buses, which are ~2.5 hour one way trips during rush hour.
There buildings where the taxes change depending on where in the building you are in.

The level of complexity surrounding taxes is amazing
> This obviously gets voted down because most people don't want higher taxes for system that will only benefit urbanites in the short term.

There's more to it than that though. In cities not named Chicago, DC, and New York, these stupid light rail measures inevitably end up with trips that take waaaay longer than driving, and still involve driving to a bus station. Patronage is predictably low and the system loses money per passenger in perpetuity. No, that can't be why people vote these down, they're just hating on them fancy downtown folks.
The United States of America is, in the terms of other countries, 50 states that have given up certain powers and responsibilities to a federal government but retain their own powers, including the ability to set tax policy inside their own borders.

The Commerce Clause gives Congress the power: "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes." This has been widely construed as meaning that states cannot make taxes that affect other states' citizens unless they are doing business in that state.

The Supreme Court has just ruled that their earlier ruling (that Store A had to have some physical presence in State S in order for S to require A to charge sales tax) is wrong, and no such physical presence is required.
Imagine the flip side: a city with functional public transit, where most poor people take subways and buses to get to work. Now someone proposes cutting down on public transit because you can always buy a car and that gives you more freedom.

Imagine how much burden it would be for a poor family to suddenly have to buy a car.

That's the cost America is passing on to poor families. It just doesn't look like much because it's been thoroughly normalized.

* That said, of course with change of policy some people will be hit and some poor people will be hit the hardest, so there should be mitigating measure.
It's almost like there are multiple factors to these things.
Think OP is referring to the last-minute amendments.
That is a separate issue from what the article is describing. The article is about keeping the facade of a building and putting non-match, new buildings within the old walls. Cookie cutter houses don't start with anything - they are just poor design from the start.
They did. At first they said that it would be processed but I told them that's not good enough and made them process it right there.
To me it seems that the people in power; either likes to have it in the ass, or are just pure evil/ignorant.

There is nothing on this earth that justifies the way that big IPS/telco operates when it comes to stuff like this. Not in a million year can you convince me that companies like AT&T, BT, Comcast do this as benevolence of hearth.
You might enjoy reading McMansion Hell [0].

[0] http://mcmansionhell.com
Can't there be separate contained instances?
I do not remember the name[0], unfortunately, but I vaguely recall reading about a tool that gives you a high-level interface to define firewall rules and than emits a script/config file for various packet filters.

It was a long time ago, though, and my memory may trick me. And if that tool really did exist, it might be unmaintained and outdated.

[0] I though it was called Firestarter, but that tool appears to be Linux/iptables-specific.
This puts into context all of the laws that have been passed recently banning plastic
A prototype for pymc4[0] is in the works, to be built on top of TensorFlow. There's also a Google Summer of Code student[1] assigned to the effort.

0. https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc4

1. https://github.com/sharanry
Even something like "let's just set next year's budget at, say, 98% of this year's budget" is met with pushback and scorn.

As a kid, I remember hearing some political debates and people were talking about 'cuts' to programs (military, whatever). Our govt teacher dove in, and showed us what they were actually talking about was cuts to proposed increases. Proposing an increase of 30%, and someone else saying "just make it 27% increase" could be accused of "cutting program X by 10%!" And (enough) people often believe it, and we get nothing done.

It would be fantastic if we could, for example, say next years military budget is 99.5% of this years, and the year after, the same thing. 2 years from now we'd still be at ~99% of current spending. I doubt even something this sane could happen.

What's all the more crappy about this is some of the same people voting for continued increases in military spending have also been the ones who've condescendingly talked down to people about "family budgeting"-style spending, and "we just can't afford that extra $37m for food programs for the needy!"
> "References provided upon request"

Don't even put that.

Nobody's going to say, "oh this goofball didn't say 'references provided upon request', they must have something to hide."

It's a given that you'll provide references upon request.
That's not their entire sales, that's their entire sales to people in South Dakota.
There is also this recently published work: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/393/eaag2882

This one uses machine learning and brain scans to predict the diagnoses for someone as young as 6 months old. It also predicts the severity.

What's also interesting is how it differentiate between people who are at-risk, but without a diagnoses, and those who are at-risk, and have a diagnoses.

I also wonder if there are more to be studied with the Broad Autism Phenotype (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2746421/)
That was my assumption as well. I imagine a worker being chastised for gluing "bricks" to the wall over a window in the wrong orientation, not because the wall will fail, but because they won't look right.

https://images1.apartments.com/i2/kxqVDahEc7Jmxp6e5JSwEuPIJR...
Thanks for a valuable comment worth reading a couple times or thrice. The insights into academia are depressing, though I already know well the plight of the adjunct. Unionize!

> Well, I am skeptical that people are that easily led... I feel that it's more the case that they respond to what they need and so if what you're providing doesn't line up with their (possibly dysfunctional) view of the world your ideas will fall on deaf ears.

I'll add a couple points, hopefully without belaboring the question: First, governments, corporations, and political organizations spend a lot of time and money trying to influence opinion, especially online (even on HN); they must believe, rightly or wrongly, that they can lead people. Second, I agree that your ideas can't conflict with their worldview, and in fact the way to lead people (in this sense) is to target their worldview; frame that, program their assumptions and their conclusions are second nature.
"those so disabled they _can't_ work"

Why wouldn't they be on Medicare, unless you're in a state that declined to expand it.

"I self-insure, and am happy the tax penalty bit the dust."

Good for you, but realize you're not always going to be healthy. Once you're not, you're going to hope and pray that there is still a way to distribute costs like we have today.
The poorest Americans do not own cars.
Ok, so the ones with jobs should pay for those without a job?
I have a better solution, why not let the unemployed drive the busses without pay. Then they get to do something, I get free transportation. Win-win?
Minor point, but:

> A test case for the bottom-up methodology is the bottom meson, a composite particle made of something called a bottom quark and another known as a lighter quark.

I thought mesons were just a quark + an antiquark, I suppose they meant another (anti)quark that's lighter than the bottom quark?
> Apparently they have,

No.

> because IP laws do, as you said, apply to the internet.

IP laws that are different depending on where the peers are.

> IP laws differ strongly per country. Which of those should the internet adhere to?

The user will have to respect whichever laws apply to the user, the host will have to respect the laws that apply to the host, the business owner will have to respect the laws that apply to the business owner etc. It's not rocket science. You're talking about it as if it's some sort of hypothetical situation we have yet to solve, but this is how it works now.
Purescript by example[1] is the most approachable introduction to Functional programming that I have seen (yet).

Even if you don't intend to ever use Purescript itself for application development, the book is worth a read, as an introduction to FP concepts, especially if you are coming from a Javascript/Web-dev background.

[1] https://leanpub.com/purescript/read