skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google balloons still show up on ASD-B (aircraft transponder tracking) from time to time, but beyond that I dunno.
Drink - the toe?

For those of us thousands of kilometers away, can you explain what strange and probably amazing Canadian tradition this is, please?
Scientists discover a new mechanism that prevents proliferation of cancer cells
Velleman used to sell one, I see it is gone from their line up.

https://www.velleman.eu/products/view/?id=380384

I have nothing but good stuff to say about Elektor so if you can get this shipped you'd be in business.

https://www.elektor.com/six-digit-nixie-clock-150189-71
What the parent is describing isn't a shape at all, though. The behaviour is different depending on the direction the cursor is moving.
> I think you're confusing personal preference with universal UX guidelines, especially w.r.t copy-paste.

OP started a conversation based on the premise that there are right and wrong ways to design a user interface. If you're going to say it's really just a matter of personal preference, that's fine, but that's not an argument for one side of the original debate, it's a choice to pass up on that debate and have a different conversation altogether.

> Most programs which support rich text copy-pasting have "paste with formatting" versus "paste text only" options, with the ability to change the default.

Does Google Docs have these features? If so, how do you change the default?

> If an application doesn't, that's the fault of that developer, not the OS semantics.

If we accept that argument (which as it happens I don't), it's not an argument in favor of current OS semantics, it's an argument that OS semantics doesn't matter and we shouldn't be debating it in the first place.
Ah, I didn't realize this covered overstaying a visa. Sorry. That's not a serious crime so ICE detaining does seem wrong.

Sneaking over a border being only a misdemeanor surprises me though. The amount of man power, deadly force and investigational power centered around the borders is disproportional to a misdemeanor. Heck, there's even a 100 mile no civil rights zone around all international borders. If it's not a big deal all that stuff has got to go.
Sorry I drifted off into solipsism in the last few sentences. Didn't mean to. Just meant to point out that even rocks can be said to have any number of the "components" required for consciousness. If consciousness is expected to emerge from things that look like neurons and neural networks, then we can consider the molecules of the rock to be its neurons, and the electrons (or sound/heat/energy) travelling between molecules of the rock to be neuronal pathways, and then we should expect it to be possible for consciousness to emerge from that structure, atleast theoretically.
I've been applying to YC since 2013 (so this is going to be around our 10th time), although with different companies and cofounders. I've never gotten accepted, though we've made it to the interviews twice but never made it to the finish line to actually get in. Here's what I learned that could mean something:

1: Every time we got an interview we asked for recommendations. Last time we got a straight up email rejection when we decided it was probably a bad idea to ask again our network for a recommendation for the third time. If anything our startup was doing better than the last time we applied so I'm not sure how their process works.

2: We recycled our 1 min video and we got an interview. So if you're too lazy to make a new one, I guess it's fine

3: We'll apply for the 10th time sometime this weekend, and probably for the 11th.. fuck it.
Seems rational. I would not count on fb being abke to compete with fulltime airplane design companies when they started focusing on it. Fb instigated the market, others who are more capable are picking it up, so fb handed over the batton.
Hah. The actual title, "High altitude connectivity: the next chapter" and the admission that the project is actually shutting down remind me of Google's corp-speak drenched blog post about Google Fiber, "Advancing our amazing bet": https://fiber.googleblog.com/2016/10/advancing-our-amazing-b...
i wonder why they didn't have the execution policy of a template parameter - if they pass the object on the stack then they would have to switch on the type in runtime, with template parameter you can have a specialization on the type without that overhead.

Also what is exactly the difference between parallel_execution_policy and parallel_vector_execution_policy ?
You got to accept that building and maintaining data enters are simply an old and obsolete model of doing IT that will eventually go away.
Why Europe’s astronauts are learning Chinese
I'm glad to hear that the system indeed at least works equally badly for "both sides". It wasn't clear to me at all.

I refuse your attempt at categorizing me. This isn't a battle. I don't want any "pro-SJW" content hidden from the front page either, just because a few people don't like it. That's not what user flagging is good for.

My point stands: As moderators, why do you accept these bad-faith flags that have a huge impact on visibility? With this policy, you are supporting the extremists on both ends.
YC Bio Application idea: The Artificial Human Womb

Prompted by two considerations. Surrogacy centers throughout Indian and Southeast Asia are shuttering as legal regulation catches up with a grey market that often lures young unskilled women with promises of life-changing compensation. Only to deliver much less upon delivery of a newborn infant for adoption. Demand among infertile and / or non-traditional first world families for reproductive solutions creates a window of opportunity for innovation and investment. Public perception is evolving. After all, even thirty years ago so called "test tube babies" once condemned by church doctrine, are now seen as a miracle technology.

The other belongs more to the realm of sci-fi or speculation. In the event of a mass depopulation event. Either human-made or environmental. It may become essential to rapidly re-populate the earth. Or off-planet colony. Beginning an artificial womb project today, may yield the fruits necessary a generation or two down the road.

To be clear, this is an artificial womb for gestating humans. We don't wish to begin with Mus and work our way up. Funding (ask $1M) would be used primarily to attract the team and begin feasibility study and simulation toward a goal of version one prototype.
An FPGA is not an ASIC. Latches are totally valid design choices and they take less silicon area if doing a custom layout. The thing is that an FPGA has a lot of time/money spent on getting the clock network and tooling for that clock network correct in a flopped digital style, and you obviate that by trying to force latches.
The offline brotli compression tool uses maximum compression by default. The ngx_brotli module uses 6. I think that's reasonable. If you're compressing a file offline, you probably don't have big time constraints, so it makes sense to try to get the smallest size possible.
While I didnt live up there I lived a bit South in Eastern WA and I think the desert out there is amazing (and Eastern OR). I was hoping to get to osoyos but didn't make it and now live down in California.
I really wish Wifi to 4g handoff was truly seamless since that's a lot of the reason I end up turning wifi off. As I'm walking around an office building or a college campus, loading webpages is a subpar experience at best since it's constantly losing wifi, switching to 4g, and re-establishing all of my connections. I have the same issue with sticky wifi connections where my phone stays connected for 10-20 seconds after I am out of range of the network, during which nothing works.

I would love to either have a vpn that connects over 4g and wifi and seamlessly redirects traffic depending on conditions, or have widespread support for something like multipath-tcp that supposedly fixes this issue.
Exercising and eating right aren't 100% fungible with money. That's not even close to the blocking factor for most people.
Facebook might still be salty with the Falcon 9’s rapid unscheduled disassembly on the pad with their communications satellite onboard.

“Facebook has expressed disappointment in the loss of its Amos-6 communication satellite. The satellite was supposed to deliver broadband internet access to remote locations in Africa as part of the internet.org initiative. Facebook and satellite provider Eutelsat spent $95 million to license satellite’s Ka-band communications array for five years. The satellite is owned by Israel-based Spacecom.”

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/234845-spacex-falcon-9-e...
I think snow counts, Antarctica's average equivalent precipitation is 160mm a year (6 inches or some such).
Yeah, back then IBM was charging ridiculous margins, and so everyone else was charging merely fat margins. Depending on what brand and sales channel, PC prices were all over the place. And they certainly weren't priced for the consumer market.

And people were paying for the big heavy cases, expansion slots, full keyboards and etc. Amiga didn't look the part. (And neither did Apple until the Mac IIs came out.)
how often does a company build entire research and development facilities and lobby regulators and be the first movers... just to instigate a market? If competition is the problem they’re not even acquiring a single company? And if it’s just insufficient tech instead of worry over competition, Facebook usually has no problem acquiring what it can’t develop. They even acquired oculus to step into VR. It would appear that there’s more to it than just that.
I don't actually disagree too much with what you're saying (regarding enforcing borders, etc).

But why have a sham scoring system if you're just going to rig it? That's where the ethics come in. Because you bet your ass that they'd be using the score of this system to justify what are essentially racially motivated actions.

There are arguments to be said that if a lot of these people had a legal way to enter and leave, they actually wouldn't stay the whole time. After all, most people want to be in their homeland and with their culture, and not always feel like second class citizens. But their need for jobs keeps them in a place like here.
Terraform Remote State with Consul Back End – Via Codeship – Via Codeship
Waiting for this !
In discussing the economics, the article neglected to mention the huge reduction in maintenance costs.
You may be managing your own datacenter but you sure won’t be building any new ones.
> At no point have I been more likely to convert to a free software zealot.

Free Software doesn't mean "take other people's non-free work and do whatever you want with it". If you believe FOSS advocates will have any more sympathy for you, you're in for a rude awakening.
Whatever you may think of social networking, Facebook takes huge amount of pains to ensure reliability. They moved all the data from spinning disks to flash, also migrating to a new db. No downtime at all.

I'm a bit unclear as to how this process resulted in 90% decreased storage use.
The story calls him a "A $5-an-hour office supply store salesman", so at 2,000 hours a year it's $10,000. That makes the gross prize money five times his salary.

He could easily have paid for someone to attend Harvard on the prize money (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1990/3/20/ivy-tuition-rat...).
Well we know very well that rocks have molecules arranged in complex patterns, and that energy transfer occurs between these molecules in the form of electrons, or sound/heat/energy. Nothing too different from a neural network on a fundamental structural level.
Love the persistence. Happy to help edit your app or do a mock interview.
Random idea for your product you've probably heard before - wedding website providers might be a good channel.
If Spotify wants to win on podcast there is an easier way to do it: License podcast episodes with a two-week exclusive window. The ultra loyal fans and Twitterati will care but the podcast wont lose mass appeal.
> Workspace can become toxic

Well this is why I tried to specify only keeping people who were performing poorly not because they were unpleasant to work with. Do people quit because they feel like their coworkers aren't smart or hard working enough?
But wouldn't it mean that literally all living beings have consciousness?
That consciousness is not a binary thing, but there are many levels of consciousness.

Humans always liked egocentric views -- "The Earth is the center of the Universe". Or another version: "Humans are superior because they have consciousness".

If there are many levels of consciousness, one may imagine some extraterrestrial super intelligent beings that are many levels above humans, that would think of humans as non-consciousness beings -- like we think of many animals.

Now, if we go down instead, we can say that all animals with brain are conscious (just as not as we are), can't we?
A large streak of 'blue' was found on the Red Planet
Earth's Location in the Universe
It got fixed a while after my comment, in one of the many commits with the message “ok” (!) at https://github.com/dosyago-coder-0/mimic-bloomberg-menu-no-j....

(Author: commit messages are a nice thing and worth putting at least some effort into.)
The group velocity[0] of an electromagnetic wave in copper is about 95% as fast in copper as it is in air, so that's going to add a few nanoseconds to the ideal latency.

[0] The speed of light, but not the speed of light.
Yeah, I've heard from ham types that it's really common to see near 7-figure buy-outs for prime tower land(50' x 50' + access) before even talking about costs of putting up 100'+ tower, power and hardware.
I am a developer, gamer and a voracious consumer of online content. I do almost 300 - 500 searches on any given day.

6 months back, I stopped using google search and started using https://www.duckduckgo.com and have not faced any problems in the quality of search results.

I sincerely suggest you to try it out.
As linked from the Wikipedia page on our Local Group:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group
This is Popper's theory and it is false. You can't define what is false without some standard of what is true. It is a misapplication or misrepresentation of Aristotles's law of non-contradiction, i.e. a contradiction proves something false but not what is true.
YC is still a great focusing mechanism and equalizer. If you haven't raised money before, it's fantastically helpful to go through YC. It helps get past all the status BS with investors and lets you worry purely about how your business is doing.
China Begins to Question Whether It’s Ready for a Trade War
No calories at all, just drink water when we're thirsty.

I've found it has worked wonders for resetting my relationship with hunger; I feel I'm far less susceptible to boredom hunger in the few days immediately after the fast, something I'm hoping will progressively improve further.

Honestly, we haven't found it that hard at all. The first two weeks were a bit of a struggle just because you aren't used to going that long without food, but now it's just the day we don't eat and we don't really pay it much attention past that.
When to hire an ethics officer
> Truth does not exist

Are you claiming that this is true? If so that is a self contradiction and you have reached a dead-end. Check your work.
> If I'm reading that right, it's not an open source license. It has a field-of-use restriction

How do usage terms dictate whether the source is open?
Faculty Position in Quantum Information, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Mostly just plain old Open Source stuff: mediawiki (same as wikipedia), an IRC server, an email server...

I find it weird that people tolerate depending on anything else. You are at the mercy of some other company. They can cut features (for example, confluence killing wiki markup compatibility to lock users in), they can jack up the price, they can totally discontinue the product, they can switch licensing, they can require an always-on backdoor for "upgrades" or "licensing", and so on. Why would you tolerate this risk to your business?
Doubtful as they'd get on the bad side of a lot of governments doing that. VPNs are something that the upper brass are aware about and will make a fuss about if they're added. It's a high profile security measure.
Yeah, that's what's worrisome about IoT gadgets: what happen when the company goes belly up?
> After finishing his prison sentence, Pokora spent several more months awaiting deportation to Canada in an immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey

So I've never done anything that would result in my being deported, but man does this scare me. The current climate, if I fuck up in some minor way, I still feel like I could end up in prison for months waiting for them to send me back north.

It's just scary.
Even to this day, there are certain users who double-click on everything. (e.g. on AJAX forms you always need to disable the button.) My assumption is users are confused when a single click or a double click is appropriate, so they always double-click.
Thanks, we've reverted the title from the submitted “UC Berkeley Open Sources Largest Self-Driving Dataset” to the original.
Unless you're buying crates of stolen GPUs off the black market with heaps of cash.

I am betting these guys have some connections.
It is a template parameter, they just use a global object of a particular type to select it, probably for easier defaulting.

E.g. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/reduce
Obviously you can develop things however you want, but IMO, not using a descriptive message in your commits (like repeatedly naming them "ok") is a pretty bad habit.
I think you're on your own in regards to these issues. Been 100% stable across my two Mac's and Surface Pro.

Its a fantastic web browser.
Do you pay more income tax than is legally required? Why do you expect a company to do different?
No, the GP is referring to things like c3 vs c5 families. When you're locked into the 3 year old hardware, you have to pay the cost of upgrading eventually.
I've tried lots and lots of database of all sorts.

I always hit come sort of limitation and come back to Postgres.

One day I'll just stop betting against Postgres, but I really do want to give some of those graph databases a try just for fun.
"Open" is not just whether you get to see it. Among other things, it's whether the software is open for all users to modify.

The Open Source Definition is curated by the Open Source Initiative and has been stable for many years. A huge industry rests on top of it.

https://opensource.org/osd
Unfortunately I’m finding this to be the case with much of TC’s content. A shame because there used to be genuinely interesting commentary all over the sure not long ago.
Tl;dr: Apparently Apple Geniuses ask customers who are dropping off their Mac for an off-site repair to turn off their admin password.

Despite the fact that: access is not needed for some repairs where they ask that Question and there's a more secure option available: transferring the device password to Apple's CRM, where its use is auditable.
IIRC the wireless modulations got more attention because of the spectrum scarcity and so are very efficient coming close to the Shannon limit. I don't know if the same is true for wired; at least Ethernet uses a pretty dumb modulation and started out focusing on other useful features such as simple hardware, listen before talk, etc.
The Data-Backed Case for Lime-S Electric Scooters in San Francisco
> How do you think "everyone able to fairly able to express it's own value" would work ?

I don't believe this is possible; it seemed like that might be what you were suggesting. I wasn't sure what point you were trying to make with your links and "seems to fit" comment in response to the "markets notion of value" correlating to wealth, but I also wasn't sure that I was correctly interpreting your comment.
More cores, maybe. AMD is already planning to sell a 32 core chip. Even if you turn off hyper threading, it still has 32 threads.
"For example, the article mentions that they used the cost for only 1/2 of an onion if the recipe called for only 1/2 an onion, but what happens to the other 1/2? Depending on how often you cook at home, how often you go out of your way to use existing ingredients, and how much time you spend meal-planning, you'll either manage to use the rest of the onion (which is pretty easy for something as common as onions), or it will go to waste. Personally, since I'm typically just cooking for 1, most of these end up going to waste unless I want to be eating the same thing for several days in a row."

You can freeze a lot of fresh food for later use. That's what I use with a lot of the fruits and vegetables I buy, and then use them in smoothies. Cookies can be frozen. Bread can be frozen.

Often I'll save time and effort by buying frozen fruits and veggies. They're often fresher than "fresh" produce, as they're usually frozen immediately after they're picked rather than sitting around unfrozen in transport and then on the store shelf who knows how long before you buy them.

For example, you can buy frozen, chopped onions, and save yourself the time, hassle, and tears of chopping them yourself. I buy frozen fruits and berries, and "triple washed" kale and throw it immediately in to the freezer for use in smoothies. Lots of time saved and it's very economical. Nothing goes to waste.
Yes, definitely try to get a recommendation from a YC alum or partner. It's easier than you think, just hound them (be nice and polite thought) on Twitter and try to meet them for coffee (ideal) or over Skype to ask for advice. Think of it as a pre-interview, they'll ask you a bunch of good questions and will help you to come up with the answers. If you are personable and passionate enough, you'll very likely get a recommendation without even asking.

Also, practice for your interview with someone else (there are some good resources out there with sample questions), that practice will help you feel calm and confident for the real interview.

Last, but very crucial for your startup nonetheless, focus on showing your ability to grow/gain traction. Even great ideas are not that valuable by themselves. And having 10 clients with a shitty product is way more impressive than a great product with 0 clients.
“Open source” means a lot more than “you may look at the source.”

https://opensource.org/osd
They've taken a long time to dial in for me. Initially, I received none, then ads that assumed I was female (I had my gender unset, but generally followed/liked fairly male things; yet received ads for menstruation underwear!), then ads that assumed I was Russian (I'm nowhere near Russia and can't speak/read any Russian; I follow one person who has a Russian background, but never interact with them). I've been on there for years and speak pretty openly about the things I like (travel, cooking, etc) - surprised it took so long to give me relevant ads!
> That doesn't mean there isn't one right in front of our eyes though.

If there were, I would expect us to be carelessly crushed in a short period of time.
It's not an app for posting photos exactly (even though it is), it's an app for showing people things. Here's my food, here's my outfit, here's what I was doing today, here's what the sunset looked like on my vacation. It's an interesting take on communications between people. It has its dark side (people going out of their way to "get the gram" so they can be envied by their friends instead of just trying to enjoy things organically; people, especially young women, who become overly pressured by their peer group to look and act a certain way) but when used well it can be a nice way to keep up with what your friends are doing. Think about it like a modern take on post cards.
Critique my Node.js API auth boilerplate project. Explained in README
of course it is win, no one is saying it's not a win, what im suggesting is there is a much higher probability that MZ got really lucky than assuming he some sort of clairvoyant genius.