skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maps are, infamously, a place where "truth" is not usually an attainable goal. All cartographers are faced with the decision between creating a map that is uncontroversial vs. one that is useful. When possible they optimize for both, but when the two (frequently) are in opposition to one another, it's time to choose.

> Matthew Hyland, [...] said he considered those all made-up names, some of which he deleted from the map

Unfortunately all place names are made-up names. If everyone suddenly agrees to start calling a place by a new name, who is Google to argue? But what if people can't agree and some start calling it by a new name and others don't? And of course you can't just poll every resident for their opinion, so you're stuck with relying on other signals...like local advertising and publications.

Appeals to authority are also of dubious value. There may be an "official" map somewhere, but if it doesn't reflect the day-to-day usage of the space, is it very useful? Prescriptivist maps generally enjoy about as much success as prescriptivist linguistics -- pretty to look at, but not what you want in your back pocket.
The Jargon File.

Magic smoke is injected into electronic components at the factory, in order to make them work. If you let the smoke escape the package, your part has failed permanently. But as long as the smoke remains inside, there is still a chance you can repair any failure by cooling the part off for a while.
He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which (as far as I can tell) was established later than the other prizes but is managed together with them with the same foundation and ceremony and so on.

Is the distinction between it and other Nobel prizes useful here?
This is the actual situation code blocks are designed for. Of course everyone just uses them for quotes...
I'm pretty sure that fire safety inspections do find a lot of violations.

And they have the benefit of educating people -- for example, we didn't know that you shouldn't place a chimney cleaning door in a bedroom. It seems obvious in hindsight, but we just didn't question the guy who installed it.
Are you discussing the questions of whether computer science is mathematics? Dijkstra considered it to be, and was not a fan of "experimental computer science".
The tradeoff for slow screw drive autofocus is simpler lenses designs. Part of what makes Pentax lenses robust is the absence of focusing and stabilization motors and reduced electronics. It also means there is less reason for Pentax to produce a new lens model, optical formulas don't change much over time.
I'm not saying Apple isn't worth a $1T market cap. I'm just saying you wouldn't use market cap to calculate if a company were a sound long-term investment. You'd look at the fundamentals, then make a determination of what you think the long-term value of the business is, then you could look at the current market cap and determine if it is under- or overvalued. Breathless reporting on the market cap of companies is sloppy, I think. The market cap kinda floats around, and worst case may be completely unrelated to the true long term value of a company.

Warren Buffet for some time said that he thought Apple was undervalued. I have no idea what he currently thinks, but it is probably still a reasonable value.
Absurd

You can just as easily spend $1500 a person for a two week vacation in Europe and enjoy essentially all the same things as if you're paying 10x as much.

$5K daily incidental, are you kidding me?

Don't fly business class unless your business is paying or you're on a honeymoon or something.
From the article, the problem isn't the transfer switch but that the microinverters used on most systems don't work without the grid. If the grid goes down or is disconnected, the microinverters stop providing power.

It is possible to get inverter that will work independently, and batteries to buffer the load, but the off-grid system is a lot more expensive than normal rooftop solar system.
Yes, in fact they're already in use. They're called pumped storage systems, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
Yes, pumped-storage hydroelectricity is used extensively [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
Let's say that you work for the government and accidentally read top secret documents with your Google Glass on and accidentally upload the recording to Youtube. Would it be a good excuse? And of course other people's privacy is much more important than those documents that are boring and uninteresting to 99% of people.

So of course the use of cameras should be regulated.
That seems quite good!
pretty strange career choice although if his intentions are to impact the way smart contracts shape up in the future it could be a good move. His intentions will certainly be tested by VC intentions to make money for the investors.
Looks great. Setting a line-height of 2.7rem gave the paragraphs some more room to breathe, those thick underlines made it claustrophobic in there. They're also not really adding anything to the presentation other than to break up the monotony of bare text, with the colored onHover gives the appearance of a link but then you get disappointed when they don't function that way. I'd pick some other way to highlight the words than underlining.

The email address at the bottom has too slight a color difference from the 'contact me at' part. Either make it contrast more or just make them the same color. The email address also gives the appearance but not behavior of a link.

Decreasing font-size on the non-bolded text on Recent Work to 1.1rem gives a better contrast with the headings.

Lowering the line height for the description text of the TwinThread blurb to 2.2rem makes the structure of the information more cohesive.
30 years ago that might have worked, when "hidden camera" was arguably a distinct category of device. But every cell phone has a camera in it that 30 years ago would have been government spy level tech, and it's not hard to buy the cameras alone or with minimal supporting electronics for perfectly reasonable reasons, and anything that fits in a cell phone is also small enough to be easy to hide. Even an old cell phone is not that hard to make into a "hidden camera", honestly, body and all. Here's a CNET article on the basic principles, just to show how mainstream this tech all is: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/turn-your-old-phone-into-a-home-... It takes only modest creativity to hide that fairly well.

There isn't a such thing as a "hidden camera" as a distinct product any more to be banned.
What?

My phone is a hidden camera.
They were probably only scared because of the security theater in the first place.
The influence of Ratings and Reviews
a class 1 carcinogen only means the substance is known to cause cancer. this is not the same thing as saying "there is no level of consumption that is safe".

from your own reference,

"for any particular person, the risk of developing cancer depends on many factors, including how they are exposed to a carcinogen, the length and intensity of the exposure, and the person's genetic makeup."
New GnuPG can use TOFU trust model that simplifies this flow (an example here: https://www.kernel.org/category/signatures.html#using-the-we... ).

> Of course imported keys default to the lowest (most useless) level so you have to change it

You don't need to adjust trust levels, just sign the key locally (lsign) and it'll be valid. (there is a difference between key validity and trust, check out this excellent resource https://www.linux.com/learn/pgp-web-trust-core-concepts-behi... ).
https://nathanfriend.io/
And the internet has made English American, newer generation in EU are now writing more American English than ever.
Hmm, it doesn't seem to work. Is it live/ready or still in development? I tried it just now and tried to send/record my message but it is not working. Just got a spinner.
It's not that remarkable. You have recounted this hole-filled tale before here on Hacker News.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11795753

And mentioned it several times since.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17111646

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13498494
> So what is the economic fitness? It is, in short, a measure of the complexity of a country’s exports. The idea is that exports represent the products from a country that are competitive with like products from the rest of the world. The larger the variety of exported products, the fitter an economy is.

This is a different approach, I guess, because, more typically, an economist might assess an economy's strength by simply tallying up the total value of its exports in dollars -- or perhaps even by placing rather little weight on the export picture at all, focusing instead upon other aspects?
I'd say that your explanation is correct in theory, but not in practice. On some issues people can not see eye to eye and then it is simple majority votes that decide topic matters.

For example, I used to edit articles about international law on Wikipedia. Most of the edits were accepted no problem, but there are some countries that tends to violate a lot of international law. Those countries also have a huge amount of supporters on Wikipedia. Supporters who aren't really interested in international law, but are very interested in improving their countries reputation online. Long arguments doesn't convince these editors at all and due to their sheer number can block any edit they don't like.

Finding other editors interested in international law to combat this is impossible for two reasons. First, not many people are interested in legal topics and second, conflicts are risky. If you go up against "the consensus" too many times, you'll be labelled a trouble-maker and will have a harder time arguing your points of view in the future.

The only real solution is to network as hell and try to make allies ("you scratch my back I scratch yours") on Wikipedia. But that takes years so the only people who do it are those who get paid for their time or those who are truly obsessed zealots.
Sorry. What exactly is "this" thought?
> That's another solution but I fundamentally disagree it is a better one. eg what if people are dyslexic or partially sighted so have their terminal configured for readability reasons? What the developer is doing is overriding that accessibility setting.

those points are totally valid and really important. I can't help but think of what the implications are for them on the web though. Sure we, as users, can control font choice and size for readability but color? Realistically the only thing i think you could do is install a plugin that compensates for various forms of color blindness by shifting the colors.

maybe _that_ is the right solution to the color blindness on the cli... modify your shell to run all input through a color shifter. I can't think of ever having seen an example of this but... it shouldn't be too hard AND for people without color blindness you could customize the behavior so that it shifted the output of apps like this one to colors more useful / happy-making to you.

I expect to be proven wrong about the "shouldn't be too hard" shortly.... ;)

> 1/ if you're running a white (or any other coloured) terminal then odds are you've already changed the other colours to suite (since other applications use the 3/4bit standard as well).

That doesn't seem right to me. The people i see running white terminals almost completely overlap with the people who have done NO customization.

> It's a CLI tool, not a fancy graphical package.

I have issues with this general approach to CLI apps. As someone who basically lives in the terminal every day I am regularly disappointed by just how poor the current state of cli UI is. There are SO many opportunities for them to be providing me with useful feedback by leveraging colors, and emoji, and formatting and most of them... just don't. This kind of UI / UX helps avoid bad data entry, mistaken choices, etc....

There are a lot of young folks writing new cli tools in nodejs these days AND thinking about how they can make the visuals more useful to the user. I totally applaud this approach. But, you're right about not taking disabilities into account.
Is this a useful view, though? It seems like level 1 is 99% of people, level 2 is 1% of people, and level 3 doesn't happen in the western world.
But they are exceptional vehicles!
I consider the fact that Call of Duty 9001, Madden <insert current year here>, and Far Cry Whatever are not available on Linux a feature, not a detriment.
While it's not a prize listed in Alfred Nobel's will, the Academy and Foundation refer to it as a Nobel Prize and announce the laureates together with the winners of other prizes. So I would say it is legit.
More generally, management is largely about weaker teams.
Kinda interesting that your experience with US healthcare is Kaiser, because being a totally integrated healthcare system, they act most like a good universal system might.
I disagree with the premise that paying $70 for a license is exorbitant. ST is a great piece of software at $70 for a license that so far has lasted multiple years.
I am a bit saddened by the fact you are getting downvoted.

Swearing adds nothing to the author's arguments and I believe you are spot-on on the analysis of the blog post.

Edit:

I missed the following from HN's guidelines

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Sounds very fair. The more you know... :)
This is reminiscent of windows93.net - but I like that this is a personal zine. It's easy to get distracted by the games and apps included, as if they are the primary draw.

Visit Start > Issues. What a novel way to do a blog type thing.
I think you're overstating the effect of money on mental health. While I don't disagree that homeless people suffer mentally and the working poor's high stress levels are bad for health, it's not a guarantee that you'll go nuts. People are more resilient than that. They had to be or we would have never survived as hunter-gatherers.

I would like to reinforce your point about the super rich. They have so much money now that it's basically impossible to spend it faster than its growing. They will continue to accelerate away from the general populace for the foreseeable future. This represents a tremendous failure of policy on the part of our government. It's locking up more and more of the wealth of the country at the top where it does nothing useful while the majority of the people who drive the economy get squeezed harder and harder. It is the government's responsibility in a capitalist system to prevent the capital feedback loop from destroying the system--nobody else has the power or will to do it.
Apple's Board Says Tim Cook Has to Fly Private from Now On (2017)
Nice, webpages without CSS are simply superior :)
It's called East Cut, I live here. NYTimes is running out of subjects to be angry about.
Usually by people who want to give it credibility it doesn't deserve. There's probably a reason no science felt the need to name their price almost like an existing in the hope of being associated with it.
> Feel free to ping me and I'll see if I can give you some pointers of how to make some progress on that ask

Spoken like a true Cisco executive. You could have just said "I'm supportive but it's out of my hands."

Or perhaps, no reply at all.
Simplicity bias in science
Those are issues, but not insurmountable, especially when the benefit is "obviate any adblocker".

They can use a trusted third party to run the proxy and use industry standards/SLAs for site reliability/uptime. And they can still use different subdomains with no obvious pattern (web1.nytimes.com vs web2.nytimes.com -- which is the ad server?) or audit the scripts sent through the proxy for malice.
A2 and the tech scene in the area is great. Glad to see this!
But for investing the market cap is irrelevant, the stock price development is relevant, dividends are relevant, interests are relevant. There are a lot more indicators which are more relevant if you want to invest in a company or not than the market cap.
A better fix is for the camera to take full control of the audio output for the duration. It can override volume and such while it's at it.

It's still kinda a stopgap, though. If one is a dedicated creeper, opening a cell phone and disabling a speaker is intro-level electronics hacking, hardly even worthy of the term. I mean, I've accidentally disabled the speaker on my laptop once because I sealed it up after a hard drive swapout and simply forgot to hook the tiny speaker wires back up afterwards.
It is relevant since the Nobel prize in economics indicates academic achievements in the field of economics.

If it would've been a Nobel prize winner for peace there would be little signal attached to it regarding the economic quality of the block chain project.
pascal-wittmann.de
easier to understand than revenue?
What a lovely map. Glen Park BART isn't even in Glen Park in that map.
to be clear, a unit of alcohol is defined as 10ml, or the equivalent of 1/3 of a pint of beer.

so 21 units a week is only equal to a single beer per day. i would not say its "preposterous" to call that moderate.
Russian Threat ‘Is Real,’ Trump Officials Say, Vowing to Protect U.S. Elections
> Hart says he doesn’t own any cryptocurrencies and is worried that “bitcoin might be a bubble.”

Probably not a good idea.
You really need to have a look at the block log. NickD has an indefinite block on that account. So that's multiple admins who blocked me.

Tim Starling blocked my IP address for a year, on my request (to be clear, Tim is a friend).

You have no idea what you are talking about.

And the board I'm talking about was the Australian Wikipedian's Noticeboard.

And believe me, I'm an experienced editor. I created the [citation needed] tag, started the ANI noticeboard and did a thousand and one other things that you don't know about on Wikipedia.

This is my last comment, the trauma is too great for me (I nearly killed myself over this) and I don't want any more Wikidrama to spill over onto HN. I have just emailed the HN admins to let them know this.
Evolution of PaaSes to Platform-As-Code in Kubernetes World
Yes. It is funded by the Swedish Central Bank.

Would you trust a Nobel prize in computing funded by Google?
If everyone would go to university, nobody would earn more money. It'd just push the boundary where people are separated.

In my country, vast majority of people go to post-high-school education. The result is that a lot of people have bachelor's or even master's yet end up working shitty dead-end jobs. Which they could do as well right after high school. In fact, many places prefer to hire people without degrees for such jobs for various reasons. Effectively higher education becomes net negative if you went there for the lulz and didn't make it.
BEAM is phenomenal but one area that's still preventing people from adopting it is pure raw performance.

People have to write NIFs far to often to obtain the raw perf they need and in doing so, negates all the tremendous benefits of the BEAM.

I hope more people push BEAMJIT development forward.

http://www.erlang-factory.com/sfbay2017/lukas-larson.html

Maybe Facebook would fund this effort given their huge BEAM investment from WhatsApp use.
So your software has no idea whether the hardware is overheating?
SQL vs. Flux: Choosing the right query language for time-series data
Oh, I see. I use Pentax as my primary camera. If I were serious about video, I'd probably go with a Sony or some other mirrorless system. I wouldn't try to make a DSLR work because the mirror is just in the way.
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Also, the 'research' tag is misspelled 'rersearch'
Why don't young people want to take difficult and dangerous jobs for 1.5x minimum wage? I can't figure it out.
What happened is that they became progressively less common in informal/spoken American English, and then only very recently in a fairly sudden transition most commercial writing abruptly lost the attention to grammar, spelling, word choice, etc., that had been previously the norm for formal writing because who has time for that?
Your experience is exactly why we're building Federacy.

Bug bounties can be an incredibly efficient way to work with outside security researchers to find vulnerabilities, test for best practices, etc., but done poorly, can cause more damage then they help. We want to make them work for startups as well as they do for companies like Dropbox, Shopify, and Google. We have our work cut out for us -- but if we're successful, we think it could materially improve how startups secure themselves.

All the dev teams we've been part of share the same challenges. We're always overburdened with work on revenue-producing features, so being flooded with more work that ultimately doesn't add much value in securing our software is the last thing we want.

Right now our solution for spam, dupes, and low-quality reports is to be extremely selective with the security researchers we allow on the platform.

We're launching in private beta so James and I can hand-pair researchers, help companies write their VRP, and review every vulnerability report.

Other ideas we’re working on:

- Very clear “Known Issues” / “Not Issue/Out of Scope” sections

- De-duping based on comparing report attributes

- Utilizing machine learning to improve de-duping based on description of vulnerability

- Collaboration. Encouraging companies to look at their approved outside researchers as a part of their team and building tools to facilitate this

Do you think any of these would help? Are there other ideas we should be focusing on that might solve these problems more efficiently?
I use Bose QuietComfort 35 https://amzn.to/2M3nXGY and it keeps me sane.

I'm thinking of experimenting with 3M Peltor X-Series Earmuffs https://amzn.to/2AL91c7 though these are earmuffs, not headphones. It may be a nice backup for when there's just too much noise.

Noise cancelling headphones do a good job with "regular" noise; not so great when your neighbor is hammering something in his garage. Earmuffs are better for that kind of noise.
Best Practices in AWS Application Management Part 2: Security
Yeah sorry, I was assuming he will die sometime in the next 50-87 years being discussed and his money will be donated to charity. So Hypothetically if he became immortal or decided to give all the money to his children. Since historically the rate of return on capital is higher than the growth in income the gap between people who inherit a lot of capital and wage earners tends to increase over time.
It's referred to as a Nobel Prize by the Nobel Foundation itself, which also selects the winners...
"A root cause is the strong attendance culture that prevails in many workplaces, i.e., rather than measuring dedication by results and achievements, an employee's physical presence becomes an important measure."

This is because it's almost impossible to measure modern cognitive work. The result is seat warming and office politics. Bricklayers don't have this problem because it's easy to measure both the quality and quantity of work.
Uh, he mentions that some details such as additional states might differ depending on the CPU/architecture. He isn’t trying to write a comprehensive reference for everything you’ll see in the wild.
Millennials, like myself, are stuck between a rock and a hard place. We either have to keep shelling out a mortgage-level rent payments every month, with a $100+ increase every year, or try and save up and spend the 20% down payment and hedge against the rent payment increases.

I went with saving for down payment and getting a home. I'd say i made the right choice though. I just looked at rent cost for the apartment I use to have, and when i started renting it was $900; It's now at $1315 4 years later. My mortgage is at $1300, and I know it will always stay that way, too. Only downside is replacing things that seem to break all the time when you own a home :P