skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the best evidence supporting TIGHAR's Nikumaroro/Gardner Island Hypothesis is the sextant case discovered on the island in close proximity to the unidentified skeleton.

We don't know what happened to the sextant case or the skeleton, so they're only know from the original reports from the British colonial authorities at the time.

This is the text of the radio-telegram mentioning the sextant serial numbers:

Some months ago working party on Gardner discovered
human skull – this was buried and I only recently heard about it.
Thorough search has now produced more bones ( including lower jaw )
part of a shoe a bottle and a sextant box. I would appear that

(a) Skeleton is possibly that of a woman, b) Shoe was a womans and
(probably size 10, c) Sextant box has two numbers on it 3500
(stencilled ) and 1542 – sextant being old fashioned and probably
(painted over with black enamel.

Bones look more than four years old to me but there seems to be very
slight chance that this may be remains of Amelia Earhardt. If United
States authorities find that above evidence fits into general
description, perhaps they could supply some dental information as many
teeth are intact. Am holding latest finds for present but have not
exhumed skull.

There is no local indication that this discovery is related to wreck
of the "Norwich City".

Gallagher.

The notable thing to me is that the sextant case had two different serial numbers on it.

A scan of the original document can be found here:

https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Taraw...

The two serial numbers fairly conclusively identify the sextant as a Brandis sextant that had been surplussed by the U.S. Navy sometime after 1918.

This page has more information about the sextant:

https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bullet....

If the sextant post-dates 1918, then it and the associated skeleton are either associated with the 1929 wreck of the Norwich City or they belong to the survivor of some other accident. Given the location of the island where the sextant and skeleton were located, it seems unlikely that they would be associated with the Norwich City.

The only other loss in that time period in that part of the Pacific Ocean is, as I understand it, Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan.
Having worked in several Chinese tech co's, this is not in the least surprising to me. In one company I worked in, the CEO used the girls in the office like his personal harem. Women are hired based on looks and age, and whether they are married or not.

The one surprising thing, to me, is that the accusations are gaining traction, which is good to hear.
> This is a cultural problem.

Obviously.

> why not just look at what other humans in other countries are doing?

Like some sort of top-down policy...what exactly are you referring to?

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api conjectured about the cause of the US culture shift over the past few decades, but never said that child protectionism had a univariate relationship.
Perhaps you’ll see differently when you have more real-world experience.
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.google? Obviously not generally use, but used quite a bit by Google and entirely trusted for that use.
What probabilistic generative model of language generates ``Balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to''? Is this a bigram model taking the highest probability continuation? Certainly nothing modern, right?
>> image service

> Now the data is outside, not an option.

The company can easily host it's own image service. The one I work for has had one for over a decade.

>> grep logs

> How do you tell a designer to use grep on her iPhone? I can't even figure that out myself.

How do I get a Slack client on my Nokia N9? Contrived examples can work both ways.
On my fleet I simply bind-mount /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime from the host (the latter sourced from /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin).

Biggest benefit: the timestamps in logfiles are actually correct and make sense.
Sometimes companies do build their identities based on color. For example, UPS brown, Fluke yellow, or Louboutin red.

While it seems silly, they're distinct cues that indicate a specific brand, and having another company use them would cause customer confusion.
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Would ReactOS (https://www.reactos.org/) address any of your Windows complaints?
Discussed in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10547772
GM crop ruling shows why the EU’s laws are wholly inadequate
I've stopped using + addressing because it's been more trouble than it's worth. It's supported in gmail, and: Gmail's anti-spam catches basically all my spam, a surprising number of places don't support + extensions (the Dell support guy told me "I can't put in a +, I'll just remove the "+dell" at the end of your address), and also a surprising number of places freak out at these addresses ("Why does your e-mail address contain MY company name?").

I used to do it all the time, but with "-" instead of "+". It was quite effective when I was running my own mail server and despite my best attempts, spam was quite a problem. I had anti-spam set up (greylist, spamassassin, RBLs, my own custom blacklists). I'd get a dozen or more spams a day anyway.
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> The social-media behemoth’s stock lost roughly one-fifth of its value.

That's one way to describe it. Another way is, Facebook's stock fell to where it was two months ago, which is 70% over what it was at the start of 2017.

I'm not saying that a large one-day drop is insignificant or isn't news. But to paint this as the bottom falling out is unwarranted.
I agree, reads like a pure bio PR, the title says it all. Lots of trust building about his personally,the usual pantomime of nazi's and Russian bots, no bias there..

So we should't trust content pushed by people centric platforms, and only trusted news sources with well written introductions..
> Then YouTube's algorithms show them more and more fake content in an attempt to keep them watching.

Have a source for that claim? I watch a lot of YouTube with one account and it only recommends things similiar to what I already watch. There's no sudden fake news switch to Fox news or CNN or... anything, really.
(I'm the author of the 2014 article posted here - really pleasant surprise to see it surface on HN.)

Fully agree with your comments. It's not just Google that can tell you about busy roads, though - in some countries that's available as open data.

I run https://cycle.travel/map , which uses open traffic data (in the US, UK and a couple of other places) to influence its OpenStreetMap-based bike routing. So, for example, in the Home Counties (broadly the London commuter belt) the A-class roads are generally busy and unrideable, whereas A-class roads in the Scottish Highlands are often (not always) beautifully quiet. cycle.travel will happily route along the latter but not the former.

The Strava approach is interesting, but Strava users are biased towards athletic cyclists who generally have a higher tolerance for busy roads. For tourers and other leisure riders I'm less convinced that the presence of other cyclists is a good signifier of pleasant cycling. (In London, for example, Strava shows the Euston Road as a busy cycling thoroughfare, which I'd never dream of riding.)
No, the dumping part is valid. Free OS with free services to kill competition.
> I was begging for something like this in ice skating class, where they would just be like "watch me do left foot, rotate shoulders, turn 180, extend leg". Too long of a sequence to remember without a reference, too hard recognize the long sequences as composed of the same basic movements.

This is, in part, why we ended up developing SiteSwap. Being able to communicate and remember juggling sequences was really hard, and the notation made a huge difference. The emergence of the underlying mathematics was a bonus.
Your example, like all the ones in America, reflects ultimately an abuse of power.

The (sensitive) males who were raised to respect women despite power relations, and do, are in for a rude awakening they’ll be helpless to defend against. Similar males with no power at all will suffer the most.

“One bad apple, get rid of them all” has been the #metoo trend in America; and the apples are the male gender, not abusers of power. Because we are culturally tuned to only reward power, this kind of thinking is all too easy. Wouldn’t this tendency probably be multitudes more engrained in China?

In the end, abuses of power remain king in the abstract, and I am not sure we should be so encouraging.
China's Xinjiang: A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen
>using a regular expression such as /\S+@\S+/ that catches common entry errors but doesn't keep the user from entering uncommon but valid patterns.

your regex is too strict and doesn't accept all valid email addresses. my."really uncommon".email@is.valid is a valid email address that you would be rejecting.

the sane regex is /.+@.+/. Anything beyond checking for an @ is getting into very complicated territory (even the domain part allows stuff like round and square brackets)
Sure, carry a big stick and such. But that doesn't mean it is without problems.
IME DNS based blocking on the router works great.

And yes, you do need a software rule based blocker to supplement IP blocking.

Most ads come from a few sources, that's why hosts based blocking has been effective since 2000s.
The documentation is a key success for small business but they could not able to do because they have a low budget. So cloud service like Google Customer Service on https://googlesupport.co/blog/google-play-services-has-stopp... provides a documentation service for small business at low budget
I'm not 100% sure but please check that it's even possible to apply for a working visa while you're in the country. I think that normally you have to make your application from outside the country.
Fastmail has aliases if you use your own domain, and you can combine with + adressing:
alias amazon@yourdns.com to username+amazon@fastmail.com and then all the emails are going into your folder amazon :)
Tipu made the first indigenous rocket is a myth. There is ample evidence that the indigenous rockets were in use in Deccan at least 100 years before Tipu’s time. History of Aurangzeb’s reign, the Farsi manuscript of Mathir-i Alamgiri and the official records of the reign called Akhbarat-i Darbar-i Mualla mention Aurangzeb examining an indigenously made rocket at the siege of Satara diring his wars in Deccan in 1700 AD. So its sad to see the myth alive and being reported by British press.
Our brain is a storyteller, not a reporter from an inner world
The Trump campaign and his right wing supporters tried to present it as a scandal which should not only disqualify Hillary Clinton from running, but which proved a criminal, possibly treasonous, conspiracy by the DNC and Clinton to undermine the American political process and "rig the election."

It was quickly forgotten about because the right wing overplayed the anti-leftist outrage card, as they tend to do, and only people already invested in their conspiratorial rhetoric could muster the effort to care.
Introduction to Raspberry Pi 3 B+
Study finds evidence that leopard geckos can make new brain cells
I use a catchall as well, but if I think my email address is going to be read by humans somewhere, I try not to throw people off by using something like firstname.companyabbreviation@example.com.
That's actually supported by a lot of providers (not Outlook of course...) although a lot of websites unlegitelly refuse addresses with a + in their forms.
More : https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-addr...
incredibly annoying how the examples are links to another site. had to stop at the 3rd example.
I manage a group of hourly workers. On occasion, one or two of them would stay a bit late to finish some work and not count it in their hours because they didn’t want to clock overtime.

Another worker would sometimes leave early or come in late, but write the straight 9-6, because “the other place I worked was okay with it.”

I put a stop to both immediately. The first is exploitative, the second is time theft, and neither are good for the company.

I am grateful that the state of California is strict labor laws. They are a pain in the ass as a manager, but they give me the tools I need to make sure the people who work for me aren’t being exploited.
The description says:

>>>This list focuses on notation as "a series or system of written symbols used to represent numbers, amounts, or elements in something such as music or mathematics." This is distinct from a language (computer or natural), interface, diagram, visualization, or tool, but may overlap with them.

Not sure how this is distinct from a language. She has an example of a notation for knots. This is a way to describe knots. Now, consider for example a notation for describing binary valued functions of a binary arguments. We have tables, the boolean algebra, with DNF and CNF, decision tree representation, and for larger functions - VHDL, for example. All are languages.

In fact, distinguishing between "language" and "notation" looks like a good example of "bad notation".
Reminds me of an incident from my college days. An international student association put on some sort of cultural appreciation event. Students from other countries would perform songs or dances or poems from their homeland.

This was around 2004 or so. I don't remember the political climate being very charged, or at least not at my engineering school. There were blogs but major social networks hadn't yet taken off.

So at this international student event, a guy goes up and says he's going to do a song from his home country, Taiwan. He doesn't get much farther before a Chinese student runs onstage, grabs the microphone away from him and yells into it "Taiwan is not a country!"
Hyper-targeted attack against 13 iPhones dropped malicious apps via MDM
Many people and projects now use NEWS that don't have anything to do with that particular coding standard.
>More than anything else, I think it is the ability of Lisp programs to manipulate Lisp expressions that sets Lisp apart. And so no one who has not written a lot of macros is really in a position to compare Lisp to other languages. When I hear people complain about Lisp's parentheses, it sounds to my ears like someone saying: "I tried one of those bananas, which you say are so delicious. The white part was ok, but the yellow part was very tough and tasted awful." – Paul Graham

Lisp programmers don't deal with "parens hell". That's one of the misconceptions that come from outsider looking in. Parens are for the editor. Lisp indeed uses indentation and not parens as you said. It's very python-like that way."You have reached Lisp enlightenment when parens disappear"

I think it would be real helpful to have editor for beginners that shows parents as transparent and low contrast, separately from the rest of the code. It would help people to understand they should not be trying to match them visually.
Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChucK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rpk461T6l4
OptaPlanner – How to defeat gerrymandering and create fair elections
AWS already has 2 air gapped regions solely dedicated for the US government. With that experience and all of their services they can offer, my guess is they will win.

Edit: the sub-linked article is much better [0]. Here is a good quote from it: "In the RFP, officials noted the contract will be competitively awarded, but Amazon Web Services is widely considered the front-runner for the contract because of its existing contract with the CIA and ability to host secret and top-secret data. According to the RFP, the winning company must meet the government’s rigorous standards to host classified data within 180 days of the contract award, and meet standards to host Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information within 270 days. Currently, Amazon Web Services is the only cloud service provider that meets those standards, though officials from Microsoft and IBM say they’re close to meeting them."

[0]: https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/07/pentagon-accep...
After you removed the comments from the second anything, and checked that it isn't a raw IPv4 or IPv6 address. jsmith@[IPv6:2001:db8::1] is a valid email address, as is jsmith@(comment)example.com.

Though you could argue that there are good reasons to disallow ip-based email addresses.
>where the term comes from

Apparently it wasn't really used before November 9th, 2016 and then suddenly it became a talking point on certain US news networks:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
> As long as code has ever made it into that tree (by being in any commit at any time), it's recoverable, and reflog lets you trace your steps back to any point in the past on that tree.

Actually it's enough for the file to hit index (staging area) to be recoverable.
YouTube is not a clear pass-through from one's truly held interests to the computer screen. I am not interested in fake news, Peppa the Pig, superhero movies, Logan Paul, Lil Durk, Time Magazine, and yet, loading up the YouTube home page just now, there they are.

YouTube profits from showing people things they might be likely to click on, and from collecting money from people who want people to click on their things. This has something to do with "interests" in some sense of the word but I do not think YouTube's recommendation engine is an unmediated expression of a user's true desires.
There's also tons of single-language/single-stack jobs out there, and tons of developers in those jobs. Go might be a bit different, because it isn't as mainstream yet?

b) in the vast majority of cases, I suspect companies using 6 languages don't have everyone working regularly in all 6, but being able to read or do small tweaks to code in all of them is useful. I don't recall really seeing job postings requesting advanced knowledge in many languages, it's more typically to have one or two and then "nice to have" of further ones.
No, it's pretty easy to set up cross-compilation with Go 1.5+. You'd just download the correct package for your OS.

Luckily for you, the project already has binaries built for Mac (Darwin): https://github.com/git-hooks/git-hooks/releases
This is in a track called "PLDI Research Papers - Floats and Maps". Is that because they had one paper on maps and two on floats, and decided to put them together, or is there some deep connection between the two?
Keyboard scrolling problems are almost the norm these days, as sites apparently implement fixed headers and footers by embedding the scrollable area, and the focus is somewhere else on the start. I guess pretty much no one tests keyboard scrolling, and the wheel is the king.

Problems with the wheel are rarer: afaik OSX normally scrolls whatever area your point at, and the focus is irrelevant, which is nice. Not sure about Windows and Linux/Unix GUIs, though—iirc Windows does take the focus into account, and you can scroll while the cursor is elsewhere.

I gotta say, generally the idea of indirect ‘keyboard focus’ affecting scrolling is kinda annoying when the screen area is right there asking to be used directly, and the mouse cursor at least simulates this 2d interaction. But then again, I'm still waiting for some manufacturer to have the idea of a touchpad in the middle of the keyboard where my hands already are (no hope for the arrow keys, though).
It definitely is. A grad school student in my grad lab issued an 11 page retraction of some of our lab's seminal work and basically any chance of her being an academe were torched. Luckily, she wanted to go into industry anyways, and at least one company found value in her honesty.
I understand that after sending the packet it still has to deal with network speeds, but the idea is that there is no buffer just mirroring all of incoming video real-time.
No, because it's not actually the resellers doing this. It's the people who own the tld doing the scammy pricing.
It is a weird dynamic, from what I understand to China is pretty far behind (just needed a word here so I chose "behind") socially in that area. Sort of Me 2 meets mid 20th century attitudes in the US?
> Japanese has significant vowel length, which English doesn't. In Japanese, "un" means "yes", and "uun" means "no". Imagine if "yes" and "yesssss" meant opposite things in English.

That's sort of true, but you also have to realise that English underwent a sound change that changed the purely quantitative (vowel length) distinction into a qualitative one, changing Middle English long vowels into diphthongs. [And for things that sound very similar but where one means 'yes' and one means 'no', think about English 'un-huh' ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uh-huh#English ) and 'unh-uh' ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uh-uh#English ). See the links for both audio files and IPA transcription.]

That just means in modern English vowel length isn't distinctive, but it is in Japanese. English on the other hand has a distinction between /r/ and /l/ that Japanese doesn't ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_of_English_/r/_and_... ).

In other languages (like Tamil), voicing distinctions in stops aren't phonemic (so 'log' and 'lock' would be non-distinct). And so on.

If as a non-native English speaker you produced 'rog' when your intended meaning was "lock", people would stare at you in confusion too.
The standard software package is called INN ( https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/). It should come pre-packaged in upstream repositories for various linux distributions.
Green badge is an intern.
Nothing, British Chess Championship is in my hometown so I'm having a computer free week.
She is a great physicist.

This said, particle physics is very unfair : one gets the Nobel price for the work of hundreds.

On the bright side, you get to be published all the time, on subjects you barely know (having been in the team, together with the 353 others).
Right. Of course there is. That’s not my point. My point is that, before accepting any applications, the administration likely already knows who they want to give this contract to. That entity will be capable of doing the work, of course, but there’s too much politics in $10B for it to be given solely on merits.
This is a pretty interesting account of the recommendation algorithms at work:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...

It links to this WSJ investigation:

How YouTube Drives People to the Internet’s Darkest Corners https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-youtube-drives-viewers-to-t...

I suspect people who watch a lot of YouTube aren't as badly affected as there is a large dataset to recommend from.
Does anyone remember Instant Music on the Amiga?
I don't tweet or post, and don't really understand social media... but why wouldn't you delete your old tweets? Any positive reason why you'd keep that stuff around beyond a year? A serious question because i only see negatives
What do you mean "discovered"? I may be confused, but I thought we're talking about hundred-year-old houses? In Greek cities, there are villas that are 100-150 years old and beautifully built. We aim to restore those, as they're beautiful buildings and nice reminders of an earlier era, but they are thought of as "almost modern". Ancient stuff is anything that's more than two thousand years old or so, and those definitely have higher significance (although you can barely dig a hole without finding a bunch of those too).
Brian Beckman: Don't fear the monad
Hey - it worked for L-Ron. Probably about as easy as monetizing a B2C SaaS play.
Cross platform serialization.
Looks like a neat project. What is the ultimate goal of it? I gather it's to do a subset of what e.g. Vue does, with simplified API and a small footprint. Is that accurate?
> Wow, where does that money go to?

There was a comment thread about how the bidding process worked in 2016:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11686086
VR space station game.