skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My family's been in the cemetery industry for decades, and this is one of those issues that I grew up seeing on multiple occasions. Cemeteries don't permit trees and shrubs on top of graves mainly because of large, ongoing maintenance problems. But they can be found nearby, and sometimes, that creates problems.

A tree's roots will mostly extend laterally a significant distance at a fairly shallow depth as it matures. Even smaller diameter roots can very easily damage the grave marker's foundation (concrete or granite bases on top of a foundation), as well as other nearby markers, roads, etc. I've even seen larger roots (from mature trees planted too close to burial spaces) break clear through old memorial bases and even bronze markers themselves on a few occasions. Beyond that, the roots would extend into adjacent burial spaces. They're narrow, closely-spaced (some more so than other, such as with lawn crypts where an entire section is excavated, and then they're installed en masse), and laid out in tight grids whenever possible. Things are tighter than one might think. All of this makes opening and closings in adjacent lots much more labor-intensive.

Double-depth burial spaces, along with side-by-side spaces, are also pretty common. Trees would have to be removed outright in order to entomb the companion.

The other issue is mowing and moving equipment into a section for burials. When they're installed correctly, flush bronze markers are generally much easier for maintenance crews to work around. Mower decks are set to clear markers with the vases down, so damage is less likely. Tree roots screw that up. Roots can lift up marker bases, and when there are large above-ground roots, they can damage the mower blades, or at the very least, wear them out quicker. A backhoe can easily crack a granite base if it's sticking up and gets run over. Those types of accidents can result in costly damage to markers, which is then on the cemetery to make right.

All of that said, trees are beautiful and can have a major impact on a cemetery's aesthetic. Though they can't be planted on top of burial spaces, they can be planted elsewhere around a section with a bit of planning. Some private mausoleums or columbaria can be surrounded by trees and extensive landscaping as well.
If you thought fake news was a problem, wait for ‘deepfakes’
Usually if you want to use a library like this, you can't really do anything else, but implement the smallest common subset of the services combined.

In the minute you implement something provider specific, you just lost the whole point of this library and you did not needed it in the first place.
You could easily take a GO train from Port Credit to downtown. Very easily. We did it from Clarkson (the next stop West).
Ask HN: Recourse with Coinbase inexplicably disabling and freezing account?
For one month my trading is disabled and my money is locked in Coinbase and I haven't been notified why. I can't get any support staff to help unblock it or explain why it's blocked in the first place.

I've been running a bot that uses ML on Coinbase since February. I don't partake in any illegal activity. The bot is successful, and I have good 30-day trailing volume.

On June 26th I received an email from Coinbase Support:

https://pastebin.com/hfBvEwcV

They disabled my ability to transfer any of my funds and to trade. My money is locked in the platform!

I've responded to this message and had dead silence. After multiple attempts to reach out to their support, I received a message from them on July 12th (16 days after being locked!):

https://pastebin.com/TEQFCfEA

It's now ONE MONTH since the original email, and TWO WEEKS since they said they would follow up. I've made more support tickets and contacted their twitter accounts. I'm getting dead silence.

I thought Coinbase was the safe and mature platform for US traders to trade on? My money is locked in the platform and I haven't been notified why.

Do you guys have any advice?

UPDATE:

I called into their hotline (didn't realize I could call in) and made no progress. Their general support staff, and supervisor, were in the dark as to why the "specialist" had not finished reviewing my case. They didn't know when the "specialist" would be done nor why my account had been disabled in the first place.

They best they could do was send the "specialist" another email to ask how things were going -- but there will be no visibility on that to me.
I look forward to seeing the summary of this discussion thread on n-gate.

If Earth were hit by a dinosaur killing asteroid it would be more habitable than mars before, during, and after.

Any ridiculous boondoggle might have beneficial side effects. There’s no evidence, however, that spending money on a boondoggle is a more effective way of generating positive side effects than spending the same money on something sensible.

I contend that if we were to spend $400B on a crash program to cure cancer we might accidentally end up figuring out how to live safely on mars.
Whether something is a "real science" is based on whether or not science is done, not the difficulty of the subject matter. Spending so much time trying to narrowly semanticize science in a way that specifically excludes economics is navel gazing. The purpose of these discussions seems to be to discredit economics and discount it's predictive power by defining it as not-science, but predictive power doesn't come from the definition of the word science, it comes from the statistical methods that science uses.

Does it involve research? Does the research produce models with predictive power? Ok, let's use it, just like every policy maker in the world pre-2016.
Great tool! I'd like to see you keep going with this. Quick feedback: it would be useful to copy the entire ruleset, including the selector and brackets (as an option). Further if you can reach into source via document.stylesheets, grab the selectors from source (as another option).
Your scrutiny of the worth of scientific results must be spot on!

You can tell from the first few sentences or paragraphs whether an article is worth reading. If you're not interested you stop reading it!
Pricing isn’t clear for larger scale apps. Is the extra charge per $1k on include the first 20k; after a tier is reached, how is the next $1k calculated.

You should have an interactive price meter where we enter MTR and see the costs per month.

You should also specify if MTR includes or excludes Apple’s cut.

A great inclusion to the service is handling timed hooks to send notifications. Like if a user is about to have their trial expires and have their subscription cancelled, sending a notification to remind them of the trial can be helpful.
50 Sales and Lessons Learned 3 Months After Writing My First AWS Course
Did they add enough housing to match? Asking for a friend.
This is typical of high density population centres - remember that Germany was starved out by the Royal Navy's blockade in 1918.
Absolutely! There are not many, but we have got lots and lots of hours out of these:

- Mr. Jack: My highest recommendation. One player is "Mr. Jack" (one of, I think, eight characters) and the other player is trying to find/arrest him. Some very fun mechanics and generally seems like an evenly matched game.

- Rivals for Catan: Great if you are in to Settlers. Lots of expansions as well.

- Patchwork: Relaxing, fun little "quilt building" game. We always take this one camping for quick plays.

- Boss Monster: A very basic dungeon building game not specifically for two players. We bought this randomly from a book store while on vacation and have been pleasantly surprised by it, though not much depth overall.

- Takenoko: Also not specifically two players, but still very fun with only two. This is a very clam little game about planting and eating bamboo (:

- Terra Mystica: If you are in to longer, complex games, this is probably my favorite game in general. The two player setup is a little forced and it's definitely way more fun with four, but I highly recommend it in general.

Have fun!
The seas were apparently rougher than they've ever attempted a landing with before.
What about the dies that aren't 100% perfect, and don't work at those high end specs? If there's a defect in a core or two, or in some area of cache, why not trim it down to a lower spec part and sell it for something (rather than scrapping it)?
I'd argue that there are many problems endemic to the way we've structured society that spell out our doom on Earth, and if they aren't fixed here, will spell out our doom on other planets.

We should fix our problems here, today, before exporting them elsewhere.

Nevermind the fact that the after almost any type of disaster, the bottom of the ocean is infinitely more habitable than Mars. Mars as a holdout for humanity is truly a moonshot.
But if you have a lot of money you don't have to bother with the bugs and the riff-raff at the campground, you can overnight in a B&B[1]! Make sure you bring your dinner jacket though. They even provide a private ferry from Fernandina Beach, FL, so no risk of accidentally touching any smelly campers.
[1]http://greyfieldinn.com
Man, your work is beautiful!
Less blogs, more Dockerfiles. That's the solution.
There is a maxim that the only things that matter in business are results and relationships. If you have those two things going for you, you can get anything done.

I am a developer, but it surprises me how many developers don’t get that. Geeks canonize Woz and say that he was the success behind Apple, but geeks are a dime a dozen. We can look at what Jobs accomplished without Woz and what Woz accomplished without Jobs as a case study.

Jobs got results because of his relationships. He could get anyone on the phone and get things done. No one else could have picked up the phone and called Gates and made the deal he made in 1997 that saved Apple (not the money, the promise of continuing to support Office on Mac). He was able to negotiate with the music industry in 2003 and the mobile carriers before the iPhone came out and completely usurp their power.

Most of the targets of Jobs wrath weren’t afraid of losing their jobs and stuck around because they didn’t have an alternative. Good developers in the right market can get a job before their last check clears.

They stayed because they believed in the vision. If I had a choice between working on the original iPhone and writing yet another software as a service CRUD app, I know which one I would have chosen.

But when the dust settled, I would have put that on my resume and wrote my own ticket to work almost anywhere.
Why is that a bad thing? Wouldn't want it popping up while I'm looking for dinner recipes, but it's a hell of a lot more useful than shoe ads. It needs to be deeply regulated -- but most ads indicating health benefits already are.
You can use SMTP/IMAP if you want using a local bridge https://protonmail.com/fr/bridge/
The installer over there should be everything you need: https://www.adacore.com/download
Same. I also worry about the genetic equivalent of FB's shadow profiles since many of my family members have used the service.
> Breaking behavior between minor versions

See https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/7248 for where conda intends to head in the future on the environment.yml issue.

> Environments not actually being isolated

That's actually a really sticky issue, and one that's more about the python interpreter itself rather than anything conda is doing. More recent discussion at https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/7173. Yes, we can change the default behavior of the python interpreter. Either way though, we'll be making a group of people mad.

> Can't create environments in long paths

Of course you can. `conda create` works well with long paths on unix systems (Windows is more difficult, but we're working on that too). What you're bumping into in that issue is that the constructor installer builder isn't (right now) compatible with longer paths. The solution really is to get conda bootstrapped onto your system, and then just use that one conda. You don't need full miniconda installations scattered all over the place. One easy way to do it is bootstrap conda into `/opt/conda` and then symlink `/opt/conda/bin/conda` to `/usr/local/bin/conda`. Now `conda create` whatever and wherever you want.

> We unfortunately have not found a strong replacement.

Conda definitely isn't perfect, and it's far from a "done" project. One thing we do have at this point is years of battle-hardening with something like six million active users blanketing all sorts of operating environments. With conda-forge being as strong as it is today, I'm not sure anything else like it really exists. Nix and pkgsrc are probably the closest alternatives.
I suppose the idea would be that if you are selling a good or service that isn't actually worth much, then the companies that don't buy will have an advantage over those who do, and eventually it should be self-correcting, if only because people tend to imitate the winners. This wouldn't make all B2B entrepeneurship sensible, but it would not have a tendency to get worse over time. Whereas, in theory, rent-seeking via government has no such reason it would not get ever-worse, as attempts by one company to influence government result in competing companies doing the same at first as a defensive measure, and then while they're in the lobbying game why not try to get something for themselves as well.
This was answered in the other replys to your comment.

> It seems like people are just seeing the label 'charity' and are thinking it's undeniable that the charity have any idea what they're doing themselves.

It seems like you are seeing 'charity' and assuming a lot about peoples level of understanding.

> If I set up a charity for those causes, took a cut for my salary and distributed the rest of the money as I saw fit, would you give your money to me instead of carrying on as you see fit?

Yes if you were a qualified skilled professional with more experience and dedicated time to do a better job than me at solving difficult problems. It would be much more effective than me doing it part time while I run another business.
I find it seriously scary how 23andMe markets itself.

Externally, they're a family company helping you understand your family history and equipping you to anticipate health problems so you can prepare for them.

Internally, in presentations to venture capitalists and in job interviews with engineers like me, the picture is quite different. They're building a genetic database and plotting world domination from a thousand different angles that most people could never have even imagined.

This stuff is straight out of a dystopian sci-fi novel.

23andMe is very similar to Google in this regard. We never imagined Google would have so much access to data, we never thought of the consequences. Now Google wields an absolutely unfathomable level of power over everyone in the world, and all anybody can really do is trust them not to abuse it.

And also trust that all future generations and governments that inherit Google will never abuse it.

23andMe is one of those companies, but we aren't just talking about your searches and communications, we're talking about genetics and humanity and life itself on a very fundamental level.

The ethical and moral dilemmas haven't been brought to light yet in a meaningful way, but it's inevitable, and they're some seriously next-level moral dilemmas. Even for Silicon Valley.
> it is only a matter of time until genetic data starts being resold.

Is there a way for them to use the data "to jointly discover drug targets" in aggregate without names/identifiers?
> No, I mean they own the contents of your correspondence because you can't get the emails out.

It looks like you can using beta.protonmail.com.[1]

[1] https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/how-to-export-...
I referred to this in my comment. It's proprietary, communicates with ProtonMail over their proprietary API, and is only supported for paid users. These are fundamental features of an MTA, not a paid addon, this is absolutely disgusting.
There would be, if NASA had the budget to plan and fund a couple dozen missions at a time. Going one at a time, with each next mission being uncertain, all they can do is to maximize the amount of science their mission budget buys, and that means building one-off, highly-specialized instruments.
I think there are really good reasons to be in Ontario and in Canada. (I'm a US citizen) but the ONLY reason I would move to the Bay area would be climate and money. And I've worked in PA/Mountain View before. Didn't like it.
Toronto is 75k CAD (57k USD) (https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/toronto-software-engineer...)

San Francisco is 124k USD (https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-en...)

So, it's not triple, but it's more than double.

Also, if you're going from a junior/midlevel role in CA to a senior position in the US, you could pretty easily triple your salary.
Show HN: Cyberchop: A Simple way to control your kids access to internet at home
Because over-testing, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment are all associated with harm.

People bang on about early intervention, and it's useful for some stuff, but for a lot of stuff there's no evidence of a reduction in all cause mortality.
From an outsiders perspective, this seems like a false distinction that you are using to rationalize your failure to get government contracts.
>Wrong. I specifically linked to data showing government healthcare spending, not private healthcare spending

...that they pay in the context of a privatized healthcare system, largely to cover the disabled, elderly, and chronically unwell, who the privatized system sees as a profit center.

I don’t understand what you can’t or refuse to understand about this. Of course the pay more under this arrangement. They would pay less if they covered everyone and the system was nationalized, which, again, the historical example of Western Europe proves to be true.
1. This uses the Image Magick command "convert" so it will work on any system that has it installed. I've only used it on Mac and Linux.

2. It isn't lossless, no. I think jpegtran can do this, but you'll need to first read the correct orientation out of the EXIF data and then give the right arguments to jpegtran. Since the loss in quality is tiny, I just use -auto-orient.
auto x = new int[8];
auto y = new int[8];
However, given how low-level a language C++ is, we can
actually break this assumption by setting i to y-x.
Since
&x[i] is the same as x+i, this means we are actually
writing 23 to &y[0].

This assumes that the address space of y starts at the end of the address space of x? In other words x+8==y? Could these two allocated blocks of memory ever not be continuous?
I found it way easier to move emigrate to Canada than most of my Canadian friends going the other way. Anecdotal but that's been my experience.
> They excuse this nonsense by saying that it's necessary for encryption, which is blatantly false.

I don't see how this is false. Protonmail encrypts all user emails on the server, which can only be unlocked by the user's password. SMTP and IMAP would require transmitting the password to the server for decryption, which makes it prey to interception a la HushMail [0]. This is why they have the bridge, which runs its own IMAP server on the client and performs all authentication and decryption locally. Of course, the bridge isn't open source yet, so we can't be sure it isn't sniffing your password anyway, but that is orthogonal to the issue of supporting SMTP.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/
I understand it's a Monty Python reference, but I'd like to point out that it sounds distinctively Kerbal.
Dropdown arrow still does not show in Windows 10 with Chrome v. 68.0.3440.75 [1]

Same with Microsoft Edge 42.17134.1.0

Works OK on Firefox 61.0.1 (64-bit) [2]

[1] https://imgur.com/a/e9pw5Ii
[2] https://screenshots.firefox.com/iv6SFyfw29zh91WG/trends.now....
No, scientists aren’t predicting 10ft higher sea level by 2050
Sure, but you now have all kinds of extra mass to lift to orbit (not the sand, but a beefier rover). You could launch more payloads and assemble in orbit.

It starts to become complicated...
It's unfortunate that ImageMagick decided to call their primary command "convert".
serverless is a config/deploy thing that deploys "functions" (to lambda etc.), ties them to HTTP routes or other events, provisions resources (storage etc.), ties them to your applicatoins etc.. The main thing it does not do is scaling etc. because you're deploying to a platform that handles that.
If you neglect the dystopian aspect (which I don't have issue doing) the possibility is amazing as someone who is not immune to health problems and appreciates modern medicine.
Edge TPU – Run Inference at the Edge
Mozilla exec says Google slowed YouTube down on non-Chrome browsers
>Google's entry and dominance in the security key industry could be detrimental overtime by limiting the actual implementation of FIDO U2F

My hope is that this is the sort of thing that just becomes a standard built-in feature in computers going forward.

If my computer is going to have a biometric reader and a trusted secure element, then let that do U2F, too.
Assuming you don't spend every red cent you earn, you're better off even if you're spending double and earning double.
Defending your early-stage SaaS startup against email spammers
Toronto is a much cleaner and nicer city, I can drive around everywhere (initially I thought I would not miss my car; I was wrong). I am also Canadian so I prefer to stay in Canada if possible.
I've worked in both the Bay Area and Toronto. Salaries are significantly higher in the Bay Area even counting COL.
Detecting Encrypted Malware Traffic (Without Decryption)
No one is taking account the demographic that are likely to move to Toronto.

If you have a partner or significant other, it's not worth relocating to Toronto. Tech job's salaries are already considered extremely high here, but the majority of other jobs don't come close outside a few industries such as medical. Not to mention, non-tech industries are not booming like the tech industry, so even finding a decent job is a challenge.

Therefore, the demographic of people that would even consider relocation to Toronto are singles. After I graduated college and moved downtown from Etobicoke, I have so much more free time to actually live life. That 2 hours of commuting is extremely valuable, and this is coming from someone who was born and raised in Toronto. If you're a newcomer and single living outside of downtown or at a distance from work, commuting 1 hour to work, then working for 8 hours, and finally commuting 1 hour back - that's already 10 hours gone from your day. Factor in daily tasks and you're left with very little time in the week to find friends or socialize.
Nice! I've been using this tool on an occasional basis for years (since long before it was converted from a Java applet to JS) and I noticed that the source code was available for download, but I had no idea it had switched to a fully open-source development model.
Of course they do. My yard has a 6' fence, no houses overlook it, it's therefore private.

A drone changes that.
Would you elaborate on these nebulous plans for world domination?
>HTTPS is about securing the connection to the website and NOT about identifying the website.

Unfortunately, it's both. Otherwise we would have had widespread encrypted connections decades ago. I'm not sure why browsers decided that no encryption is just fine, but encryption with a self-signed certificate triggers warnings that it's the end of the world.
I think it is the other way around. Somewhere up the thread someone made the that instead of spending 400B on space travel we should have spent it on cancer research.

There was little, if any, explanation of why this should be done; and the posters arguing the opposite are, in my view, suggesting some of the "why not" arguments. The burden of proof is still on the fellow who made that "we should" claim. My 2c.