skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Houston has some problems. Would zoning have prevented the subdivisions inside the reservoirs? When they interviewed the county officials who should have enforced the admittedly rudimentary requirements Houston does have, they claimed not to know about the reservoirs. I sort of blame CoE, for not buying up the development rights for the farmland they condemned to flood. As usual with CoE (or USA military in general?), everyone would have been better off if they hadn't done anything.

Most of what you write here seems to confirm my point, with the exception of the zero commercial in your sister's development. Should we assume there is some sort of contract or HOA enforcing that? If so, I guess that isn't zoning, but it acts in largely the same way, doesn't it? Also, look at any other metropolis in Houston's timezone, and you'll find identical suburban situations. So maybe we can't blame the lack of zoning here? As I'm sure you're aware, in many situations zoning has been blamed for unmixed development.

It's possible that Houston might do some sort of BRT someday, which would help a great deal with commute times. BRT could even use some of those horrible un-American private roads. Already, the commutes you describe are better than those in lots of cities with extensive public transit.
Well, this was for the funding of a second round of sperm washing procedure, when they already had a healthy son through such a funded procedure. In the end they paid from pocket for the second one. Doesn't seem unfair to me.

As for being infected in the first place and getting compensated, I strongly suspect that a trial happened considering how many haemophiliacs were affected...
France measles outbreak: babies hit hardest
Vast lake of liquid water discovered on Mars
Testing divisibility with state machines
Machine learning will be the engine of global growth
Atlassian exits business communications space, surrenders to Slack
> where they keep it running until it is ~20 years old

I've seen lots of cars in Morocco that were more like ~30... maybe the dry air helps reducing wear, I don't know. My 10-year-old Corsa in England was starting to rust pretty bad, it wouldn't have lasted another decade for sure.
Traditional Meat Producers Lobby Trump Over Cultured Meat
This occurred before HIV was isolated and identified as the cause of AIDS. There was concern earlier on that there seemed to be a correlation between the platelets products and AIDS cases but they had very little data.
Starving bed bugs await to feast on you at 30,000 feet
This is just showing the areas on the map where the dark alleys might be, because that's also where all the streets and boulevards are.

Red spots are where two AIS transponders got close enough for a transfer between their vessels. Black spots are where one AIS transponder slowed or stopped long enough for a transfer with a non-transponder vessel.

A lot of the spots can be explained by completely legitimate floating factory ships, or cargo-ferrying vessels that bring the fish back to port while the fishing boats stay where the fish are.

You would need a second data set, containing known-legitimate transfers, to filter out results from the first. As it is now, it's just a map of where fishing activity typically happens. Of course there will be shady transactions somewhere in there, using the massive amount of above-board activity as cover. It's about as useful as saying that one of the fast-food employees at a gigantic food court might also be selling marijuana.
The article doesn't say, but he may be an elite controller or something similar.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/51/2/239/303856
"erl" seems to be a purely quantitative diminutive, whereas "lein" seems to be more of a qualitative modifier, I guess?
If hauling mass into orbit relatively cheaply would be possible, wouldn't it be easy to just send along a counter-mass (or actually a second useful item) and split them when in orbit (e.g. with some explosives)? So you would end up with two symmetrically orbiting items, but without having to deal with rocket propellants.
strange emphasize on the job history of the wife, including her exact title, and the purchase of the luxury car... detracts from the core topic....
I have a System76 Galago Pro, and I'm a big fan!

It's been a joy to use, and fits my use case well.

It has rather terrible battery life, but I tend to just plug it in wherever I go anyway.
In the long run, nothing is sustainable.
Don't forget about insurance. If you lose your health long term insurance is the cheapest way to deal with that. Likewise if you have loved ones who depend on your income life insurance is the cheapest way to ensure they can live without you. Unemployment insurance covers losing a job in some cases (but if you work for yourself check the rules). Your government might provide some of this.

Also consider your real needs vs luxury. You have to pay rent, and food. The cheapest phone and internet plan is probably part of your getting a new job. Nearly everything else is optional. You can cut your expenses greatly, walk to the library (free) and read a book for entertainment. Cook your own meals.

Most people have an event in their life that puts them out of work for a year. It isn't a big deal so long as you can cover the basics.
Kontact was KDE's attempt at integrating its productivity stuff into one app, I liked it for a while when I lived in email+calendar world, but I don't think it speaks Exchange if that's what you mean.
I never said it was less useful, but we need to focus on protecting this planet first. There won't be one left by the time we even have the capacity to get to others.
Twitter in this way has been exposing the breadth of human opinion to people who may not have been exposed to it before.

Welcome to the real world. Same as it ever was.
I want to second this. I did CHIP-8 two weeks ago and it’s good for getting your feet wet.

I’m gonna finish it up with super chip-48, and then move to Gameboy. The progression feels natural and it’s fun and rewarding.
Well, fair enough. I wish you luck getting to those thousand post conversations. Aesthetically the site design is pleasing and I find it easy to read. And I hope you can find a solution to ctrl-f. :-)
I don't think you and I are talking about the same kind of authenticity.
Just curious, do you still use a DECtalk Express day to day, or do you just have one for the sake of nostalgia? What do you use a speech synthesizer for (e.g. screen reader)?
Gotta say, I love that the CEO is commenting here.
Hey guys

A few months back I posted an Ask HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16885344) trying to get general input on what people knew or thought about Oak Ridge National Lab, where I work as a data scientist and realized that the "if you post it they will come" approach wasn't really working well for our positions we were hiring for. There were a lot of great, brutally honest comments.

To summarize, there were 3 main categories of responses

- I’ve never heard of ORNL

- I’ve heard of ORNL and the national labs, but aren’t they just low paying government jobs?

- I’ve heard of ORNL, but I don’t really know about living in Tennessee

Based on this feedback, I tossed the existing job posting and rewrote this one to try and address, or at least acknowledge, the main points that were mentioned in the Ask HN.

If you are interested, let me know. The position is a part of my team so I should be able to answer any questions you might have. Also, general feedback on the posting itself would be great.

Thanks!
Solution: NIFs on remote nodes.
> "An enormous amount of electricity would be required to actually replace all combustion engines in just regular cars"

Not as much as you might think. In the UK, for example, electrifying all ground transport would add only on the order of 25-30% to current grid demand. That's similar to the amount that grid demand has declined in the past decade due to energy efficiency, despite population growth.

Ofgem, the UK's energy market regulator, recently confirmed that there is enough grid capacity available for widespread adoption of electric vehicles, provided a significant portion of charging happens at off-peak times.

> "plus a lot of investment into infrastructure to charge all these cars."

Yes, but this is actually pretty cheap compared to the massive infrastructure requirement for H2 or synthetic fuels. With electricity, the production and distribution infrastructure already exists.
I know that the popsci media can overblow this, but wasn't there some optimistic results for super-capacitors that wouldn't rely on any of these rare-earth metals? I'm seriously asking, since looking this up tends to bring up links to crap-sites like IFLS and whatnot, so I don't know if the hype is warranted.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/18/mueller-i...

"The good news is that FBI agents in Atlanta made a mirror image of the server that Lamb breached when they were investigating his intrusion, and the plaintiffs are hoping the judge overseeing their case will rule that they can examine this image. It’s unclear, however, whether the image preserved everything that was on the server and whether the image still exists.

A spokesman for the FBI’s Atlanta office refused to comment on the matter and referred POLITICO to KSU. KSU did not respond."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/10/26/computer-file...

"The FBI is known to have made an exact data image of the server in March when it investigated the security hole. The email that disclosed the server wipe said the state attorney general's office was "reaching out to the FBI to determine whether they still have the image."

Atlanta FBI spokesman Stephen Emmett, responding to AP questions, would not say whether that image still exists. Nor would he say whether agents examined it to determine whether the server's files might have been altered by unauthorized users."
I understand that his voice was his identity but our voices naturally and distinctly change as we mature and age. I am left to wonder why it was so important that his voice remain frozen in time?

Also, though it borders on surveillance, this text-to-speech technology offered the byproduct to record every spoken word that Professor Hawking said in lecture and made available as searchable text. He had authored every conversation he had. Does such a repository exist in his estate?
The question is not how many resources we have, the question is how hard they are to extract. The more resources we extract from earth the more difficult they become to extract, that is, we need to apply more resources/pollution/energy/technology to extract the same ton of cobalt that we used in the past. This turn this problem in an exponential one, I don’t know when we will need to face it but I understand the concern of Nature (pun intended).
can't we use thorium to make thorium reactors to charge or shiny new electric cars?
> an opinionated but coherent desktop

Isn't this Ubuntu?
Time is most valuable when collaborating
my point is going too deep into one idea because we'll find more of it.

oil is flowing longer than expected .. and that's not something we're enjoying a lot right now
Google follows in Apple’s footsteps by cleaning up its Play Store
We recently launched https://developers.mattermost.com/ to make it easier to find developer documentation. If there's anything you want for docs that isn't there, let us know on GitHub and we'll help find it.
That would require a level of long term policy and conspiracy that I think the US government incapable of. More likely to be arguably poor policy with unplanned for market consequences.
Where is this earth located?
> Yeah is radioactive but you can build a bed out of it and sleep on it so its not radioactive in any practical sense.

Eh, you're technically correct in the sense that you can also make a bed out of asbestos and sleep on it and be fine, as long as it doesn't become airborne. Sure, you won't get thorium in your system as quickly but it's still a material that you probably don't want in your household or in the environment in general if you don't need it.

I do agree that in the general sense fears of radioactivity are exaggerated, and even then only selectively: those scanners we installed at all airports in the last decade will also cause more incidences of cancer, but you hardly ever hear anyone about that.

What should be feared more is the mining industry not giving a shit about human health, the environment or, for the lack of a better term, "the commons".

If the waste of the mining industry ends up in the groundwater we do have a big problem. And in practice this is not an "if", it's a "when", or even "how long will it take before they are found out this time and still get away with it".
Let's just use D batteries. Good enough for a flashlight, good enough for a Macbook.
I'm not sure that I have any viable advice for you.

But I was in school at the same time as well. I had to leave because the money dried up. (I was reliant on government and bank loans, and couldn't for the life of me find a part-time job that would take me on at the time)

I ended up having to leave school halfway through my second year, give up my apartment, leave the city and move home a few hours outside of the city to a small, small town. The bits of available labour out there dried up as well. I thankfully had a family member in Calgary and moved there with the promise of a construction job.

When I arrived, the job never materialized. Fortunately the town was fairly insulated against the recession due to the oil sands boom up in Fort McMurray (well before the fire) and I was able to find a job working in audio/visual boutique sales. I made a subsistence there, though I was miserable and my time there was largely feels like a waste. The oil sands workers on their off-time would spend loads of money in the city, so it kept sales flowing. I'll skip the rest of the story, because it's tedious.

It seems like the advice everyone else has is good. I get concerned about the same thing sometimes. If the city dried up, would I have to leave my girlfriend to find work elsewhere? Would I have to put my career on pause again?
I don't know why space exploration is such a target for comments like this, given the amount of money poured into vapid social media companies over the last decade or so.
Do you mean a codified and consistent set of actions and beliefs that we recognize as ourselves and appreciate?

Like people who think "I should stand up for myself at work more" and it causes internal strife?
A concept that sounds completely illegal in the EU.
A website that asks for your email in order to find out more about getting other people's emails.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
> juggle multiple meetings across 3 continents and 5 time zones

For some reason I thought that you where still talking about German provincial government. Which was extremely funny for me to imagine since those guys are not even allowed to speak English in official capacity.
>I would think many men would have had the same problem

But not on average. The average woman is physically weaker than the average man. Which means, on average, women lack the body strength needed.

Why is HN getting infested with "muh feelings"? I don't know why people get so offended by basic facts.
It’s too soon to tell if the Great Barrier Reef’s bleaching was a catastrophe
The government can, and will in any WWII-level war, choose to ration industrial metals that are in short supply. The US government in WWII effectively allocated who was allowed steel, copper, tin, cobalt, etc. to ensure that sufficient material was diverted to military needs.
LinkedIn adds voice messaging because we’ve definitely been clamoring for that
>Twitter, a self-identifying neonazi can spout death threats, and the response to that will get the responder banned.

Could you link an example?
just find the poop and get the DNA from there? What does the worm add?
It's just for fun. I got it because it sounds like Hawking. It came DOA from a music shop and it just turned out the battery pack needed to be serviced. Anything with a serial port can use it to speak.
Samsung’s new flexible display can withstand a lot of drops
> The only option was Uber/Lyft

New Yorkers have relied on cabs for generations before Uber and Lyft.

> Removing Uber/Lyft is a bad idea

They aren't removing them, just regulating the number of cars, of which there is an oversupply: the number of for-hire vehicles in the city has surged, rising to more than 100,000 vehicles, from about 63,000 in 2015, according to the city.
The internet would not be nearly as useful as it is without Ted Nelson's hypertext concepts.

For those of you who are interested in understanding Ted Nelson's role in envisioning and evangelizing hypertext, I wrote a review of Ted Nelson's Ph.D. thesis which he wrote in Japan.

https://www.openpolitics.com/articles/ted-nelson-philosophy-...
There's loads of cities built on and with granite, and long before any awareness of Radon came about, without undue health effects. Scotland particularly - Aberdeen is even nicknamed the Granite City. Modern levels of draught exclusion can make for a little more of a problem of course.
HIV wasn't the only known blood-borne pathogen, though, so I'm not going to let "the authorities" off the hook.

Edit: To be clear, I know you're not making excuses for them either.
garbage article - lithium batteries are not the way to store that kind of energy. Hydrogen and fuel cells are better.
Best beginners book http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

Curated library list https://awesome-cl.com

Cookbook https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/

IDE+Runtime https://portacle.github.io

Printable cheatsheet http://clqr.boundp.org
It's a little known feature where you can get Spotify to sync local files across devices by putting both devices on the same wi-fi network. It's a pain, though, and it sometimes fails in the ways I'm talking about (I still use the feature anyway).
Take my own changing habits, for example: over a span of 15 years, I "migrated" from MySpace to Tumblr to Reddit and a few news websites. I have only ever used Facebook except to promote a website. I think tens of millions of people, mostly young guys, prefer playing videos games over any form of social networking or even writing comments in response to ANY type of content.
Percy – modular toolkit for building isomorphic web apps
Redux is useless in React (and no one uses it elsewhere). Good job following in its footsteps to solve an imaginary problem.

If you are using Angular, use a service.

If you are using vanilla, encapsulate a state object with a closure using the module pattern. P.S. this means "5 lines of code make your library redundant".
yeah, that looks great for Americans, I guess. Again, another thing businesses assume about people: they're American ;)
so basically a "rocket" (two rockets?) with a high reaction mass?
Right, but there isn't actually anyone in twitter calling for a trigger warning on literally every art installation (is there?), whereas there are lots of bona fide racists.
I would imagine part of it is that our voices change gradually. Even in extreme cases, like when we go hoarse or get sick, there's an essential progression to link our new voice to the old, and there's an identifiable common thread. Meanwhile, for Hawking, it would have been a sudden, disjoint change - and with the exception of the mentioned upgraded CallText voice, any replacement would have been completely new, utterly unrelated to his prior voice; Imagine how disconcerting it would be to awake with a stranger's voice, with no expectation of getting your own back.
The player is closed source but the SWF spec is open.

https://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf.html
TWTR/FB have both peaked. Now what?
THE KINSEY PROJECT the Mind Behind Systematically Creating Sex Predators
Excellent app! And great music. Had so much fan playing it instead of sleeping last night.

There’s only one thing I wish (musician here): slightly bigger visual distance before strong beats? Or make a circle a itty bit larger? This is the only reason I might prefer musical notation for sight reading.

Technical question: can you tell about latency? What’s the typical? Is it consistent across devices?

PS now I have to beat this thing on hard...
What a shitty reporting: no reporter name, no scientist(s) name.
Coming from the country where secret services are known to fake urine samples from sportsmen...
I wouldn't take it at the face value...
If you think libraries are useless, try going to one a few times and talk to the staff about the services they provide. I'd personally say libraries are one of the government organizations with the best return on investment, because education and information are almost invaluable. I'll fight a war over libraries, no joke.
I'm skeptical about the GoF book. To often, it's been the proverbial hammer that makes you see nails everywhere.
Those are pretty much solved... if you're hungry, eat the incredibly cheap and plentiful food available due to Western technology. If you're thirsty, drink water. Don't have access to water? Move. Or, dig a well.
In my open office it seems that rules are made up as they go along. Enough people complain about smelly food at desks -> ban on smelly food.

Now if they can ban clipping your nails at your desk I'm sure the guy next to me is going to be have to do it at home, but that would improve my level of sanity.
Length of sales cycle is a biggie. You have to stick through it for months, sometimes even years, in order to get the result at the end.

There now can be a lot more dancing around security, so you might expect to work through gargantuan spreadsheets or documents answering odd, often poorly thought-out questions about how you handle security in hundreds of places/scenarios in your organization. Once you've answered these someone might come on-site and ask you to show evidence. Then they'll want to confirm more details. A lot of patience is needed.
Even for them it can make a lot of difference the only thing I need to do to book a room is to forward an email of the invite of the meeting to the booking system and it would book a room for me and setup the conference system to automatically call in that is a convenience that is hard to give up when you don’t have Exchange and AD that have all the user and resource info stored for multiple systems to hook into.
Google AutoML: Is there any business model?
Wanted to take your insights on who might be a customer for this?
> For Tech/AI this is too vanila, they might make their own models and deploy.
> For hobbit's: Not serious customers, they won't pay for this.
> For non-tech companies: Won't they outsource the work or rather just use an API from another AI startup?
What words would you have left if you ever encountered real slavery?
Is this how companies are typically valued?
Please submit job postings to the monthly "Who is hiring" threads, not as individual submissions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
GrubHub Buys LevelUp
I think this is a common situation: a worker is sent a non-trivial Word document, possibly from someone external, that will only be properly rendered in Word itself.
The tiny problem is you go for the experience flight and come down addicted. At least that's what happened to me. :)
Before becoming mayor, de Blasio lived here in Park Slope. I guess he never used these yellow cabs he’s so interested in preserving because getting one to go to Brooklyn from Manhattan is fucking impossible.

Seriously, everything about yellow cab service is worse. Why don’t they buy back the medallions instead?
Then in the future the number gets recycled and someone else suddenly takes over your account.

WhatsApp lets you set a pin number to prevent this. Can't remember if Signal does similar..?