skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>or at least the landing must be soft.

The state, has valid legal pretext and a joker in the sleeve: the special interpretation of article 149 of property law. Not a single municipality in China ever honoured the textualist interpretation of the law, in all and every case ever going to court over article 149, the outcome was that the state can't deny the automatic lease extensions, but it leaves municipality the privilege to set conditions.

And yes, Shenzhen municipality was very very happy to resell property sold on 15 and 20 year leases. And people who were previous lease holders were royally fucked because they paid for property with 15 and 20 years leases as much as for a 70 to 50 years lease.
The Daily Mail is a tabloid and not worth responding to.

Extreme poverty halved under Chavez. The most vulnerable citizens in Venezuela (poor, indigenous Venezuelans) are the strongest supporters of the socialist government.

Venezuela has had economic problems, relating to their over-reliance on oil revenue (which has always been a problem and has nothing to do with socialism), and bad monetary policy (which again, is not at all related to socialism)

Meanwhile, the US continues to levy harsher sanctions aimed at forcing regime change (ie, so their country is run by a puppet state friendly to US capital), which only makes the crisis worse.
Congrats, I'm your old one at the moment. I'm a bit more desperate because my wife is pregnant. Happy father's day to me I guess
F-15 max speed is 1646mph (around 0.45 mi/s). From take off in Portland to arriving at SeaTac would be less than 5 minutes at top speed. I assume it takes longer than that to get pilots in planes and takeoff.

Seattle also has JBLM (joint base Lewis/McChord, army and air Force), along with Bremerton naval base. I'm guessing they picked pdx because of pilot availability, travel time is near nothing compared to getting a plane in the air at those distances.

This could have been much worse. I feel bad for the guy, he needed help, but I'm glad it ended how it did. Crashing into another plane, or anywhere populated, would have been catastrophic.
Can Google's AI win at poker?
Very interesting! Is this kind of command capability (e.g. ability to modify memory contents) something that is usually only available on "non-critical" subsystems, or would you generally expect to also find it on critical components, like the communication or navigation modules?
Best comment ever. <3

OP: Nice to hear you're doing better! Well done :-)
Sounds like a security issue waiting to happening.
> Mr. Russell and his wife were active church members, Mr. Orr said, “so he doesn’t really fit the bill of someone who would steal an airplane.”

Can we please stop insinuating that people who attend church are perfect and incapable of doing wrong and, by omission, insinuating that those of us who do not are evil?

Edit: If the downvoters would like to explain how I’m wrong, that would be lovely.
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> Just to sum up, be kind when you can, it can change someone's life.

This is so great, thank you for the lovely sentiment.
One of my small pet peeves is how Texas Hold'em became the "standard" for poker games as opposed to classic 5 cards each game

You get 2 cards and fold most of the time. Not really fun.
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Terraform can do that: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/r/acm_certificat...

That said, one irritating omission I've had to deal with is not being able to add email subscriptions to SNS topics. The underlying AWS API is a bit odd - I don't think it provides an ARN until the subscription is confirmed.
The data is hosted by the community and we also coordinate hosting from our sponsors (Listed on the home page)

We work with academic institutions to ensure they allow this service. Please report universities which block the service using the feedback button shown in the lower right of the webpage.

We also encourage HTTP seeds to be specified (aka url-lists) by the uploader to offer a backup URL which can be contacted automatically if BT is blocked. We also offer a python API designed for clusters and university computers written in pure python which supports HTTP seeds: https://github.com/AcademicTorrents/python-r-api
I don't think you're wishing for a Usenet killer. We've already had plenty of those, we're just wishing for one that didn't suck.
Again, you're focusing on the legal entity. Maybe it's useful to hold the entity liable. Maybe not (I suspect not, but it's unrelated to my point).

My point is that if you want to meaningfully engage in and understand a debate about glyphosate on the Internet, then a subthread about Agent Orange is guaranteed to confuse, distract, and mislead.

It has nothing to do with the topic at hand. It's political axe-grinding. It's mere well-poisoning (and would be even if the same people were involved, but, moreover, the people responsible for Agent Orange are dead).
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You can do hard-realtime over the circuit-switched substrate of the public Internet, though. "Two tin-cans and string" (i.e. two modems and the PSTN network) still works surprisingly well for (low-bandwidth) real-time control across vast distances. You can even get a decent hard-realtime SLA (much better than that of wi-fi or cellular data service) when one of the ends is a cell phone on 3G with its headphone jack plugged into a modem.
Codementor.io. You can generally work as little or as much as you want (bulk of work is helping others via videoconferencing). Oftentimes mentoring calls you do can turn into more long-term side work, if that's what you want.
Lovely, after destroying their habitat, now we hunt them with lasers :)
Exactly this. Literally anyone can randomly luck a few tourneys. Case in point - Main Event winners such as Jamie Gold and/or Jerry Yang.
Creator of Pandas issues a request for financial support from Big Cloud
Do software engineering managers make more than software engineers?
> How much software development isn't either implementing the actual features or making the software easier to modify?

The key is the adjective, presumptive. YAGNI is about features that aren't needed now and it's uncertain whether they ever will be.
More cosmopolitan?
Japan would be thrilled with just a lost decade. It's a 25 year blackhole of destruction and counting.

Before adjusting for inflation, their GDP is at 1994 levels in USD terms. If you adjust for inflation, it's a brutal rollback.

Not only did they stagnate on economic output, they accumulated extreme amounts of debt, heavily debased the Yen, saw their savings rate drop to near zero, and lost their demographics age wise.

They have to perpetually destroy their economy via currency debasement until the national debt is effectively defaulted on to a high enough degree that they regain economic breathing room. The net result of that is vast wealth lost, and a gradual adjustment down in relative terms for their economic standing vs other nations (they've fallen from a top five GDP per capita nation, to number ~20; most likely that down trend will continue at least until they're between Spain and Taiwan in rank).
Ask HN: What OS do you use on your home server?
I guess as he mentioned on the blog it was a POC, if you just ignored the fact it's using the bitcoin api to track transactions it implements DB access, interaction with the event bus, websockets. I fail to see why it's not interesting.
At one point, this type of desperate act might have far reaching consequences in the US, it's a matter of how desperate society is as a whole.

The Arab Spring revolutions were started by a suicide brought about by severe injustice and poverty.
> So what? I would rather have Google/Amazon employees on the issue than some random DevOps dude.

This is fine if three nines of availability is all you need. Doesn't matter much if you prefer a big brand employee fixing things or a small brand employee. It doesn't change the outcome.

However there are a lot of things that simply cannot live with crappy three nines availability. And the only way to do better is to stop relying on any single cloud, which inevitably requires infrastructure engineers aka random devops dudes.
> Does is look shorter? - YES!. Is it more readable? Arguably yes. Would I vote to see this feature in Python? HELL NO!

No one has quite summed up my thoughts better than you.

Hell, I would love it and love to use it but I thing it's relatively out of place in Python. Python just has many more ways to solve what should be a rare discouraged situation.

I think it has a better place in languages like C#/Java that tend to have deeper, more rigid object hierarchies and more reasons for using nulls.
I mean, yeah, probably. But it might not be that simple. Which is why I say I'm skeptical, but don't claim to be sure this wouldn't work well.

Consider that air currents tend to be chaotic systems in general, mix in a shockwave from a bomb, and ask "can we really predict where the embers are going to go?" Especially as they rise and encounter different air currents that are moving around helter-skelter. Remember, large fires can release so much heat energy that they create their own hyper-localized weather.

Anyway, again, just to be clear: I'm skeptical, but I don't want to sound completely dismissive. I do think this merits further study. I just see a lot of potential ways this could fail to work out.
Birds will arrive the day before fruit is ripe, and the whole flock will strip the berries, trying each one and dropping the green ones on the ground looking for a ripe one. They can strip a tree in minutes. Why? If they waited a day, the whole flock could have ripe fruit. But its a flock, and any bird that waits just loses out to the ones that don't wait. Tragedy of the commons, played out in evolution.
Not at all. I expect NASA has done as much due diligence, planning, testing, and verification as possible. I just don’t think they are being upfront as they should be about the possible risks for a previously unattempted scientific endeavor. We’ve had massive failures (including NASA itself), in environments that are much better understood and with systems that have actually had exposure to those environments.
> we, as a society, cannot afford to pay

...because the giga-rich stole from us. Let's not couch their actions in the passive voice, or pretend this situation just happened somehow. The "neoliberal" (ie not new or liberal) takeover of America was orchestrated by the rich for their own benefit, and almost 40 years later we're still suffering the effects: stagnant wages, rising profits, and ever-increasing wealth inequality.

There is indisputably enough of wealth for everyone on Earth to die with dignity. The problem is distribution, not quantity.

> several hundred thousand to multiple millions of dollars in healthcare costs

Healthcare price, not cost. The underlying cost is quite affordable.

The price is not because the insurancestudent debt/pharmaceutical/healthcare industries extort obscene profits (and taxpayer subsidies!) by leaching off a life critical, non-negotiable service. See above.
> they repay hundredsfold

Most python apps is simple data proxies. Glue dicts from multiple sources into more complex dicts and pass further. If you will try to do proper modeling here you never accomplish a task.
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Well, white lists are great until someone useful wants to find you out of the blue or until companies require email verification for something then wind-up spamming you.

The ideal would be a "feed" as well as an ordinary list of messages.

Also, it would be nice to have this sort of thing run either on a server or a client.
I always thought tests were supposed to make refactoring easy since they ensure correctness. In practice I've only seen that a couple of times since the tests usually end up tightly coupled to the implementation.
Actually starlings are an invasive species in the United States. So “we” have done no such thing.
Congrats and glad you were able to persevere. I've had my share of down times as well, but at those points I always told myself you don't know happiness if you've never been on the other side of it and that it will pass. It sucks when you are but when you make it through it is that much sweeter!
Do you have some pointers to important papers of this field of study?
I recommend using Troposphere instead of vanilla CF. It's a Python library that generates CF templates. It doesn't abstract out anything, so the structure ends up looking very similar to a json or yml template, but with all the conveniences of working with objects in Python.

The biggest gripe I have with CF is that it's impossible to introduce existing components into a CloudFormation stack, so any legacy infrastructure has to remain manually managed.
In particular drought and subsequent famine, leading to not only poverty (which already existed), but food thst was priced beyond what most could afford in the necessary quantities and qualities. It’s a scary preview of what global climate change has in store for us all as people in marginal situations are suddenly thrust below the metaphorical (and occasionally real) water line. Political and social instability, war, mass migration, all are in the cards and here today.

The suicide was the spark, the tinder was almost literally brought about by a lack of water.
You might want to look at remote work, if that's something you're comfortable with. You can get paid well (think "Paris-salary") and live in more economical areas. Happy to talk more if you're interested.
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Yes. My previous job did precisely that.

We were responsible for probably 80% of the academic internet. And those Mloc perl5 programs were terrifying to work with.
RCA, at least in name, is still around. But it's just a licensing company that licenses the name to other manufacturers.

[1] http://www.rca.com/about
Best of luck man!

I'm in no position to be giving life advice, but for what it's worth:

Hang in there, do what needs to be done and be pragmatic. One day you'll look back and it will all make sense.
Scientists Deploy an IoT Network to Battle Kilauea’s Deadly Fumes
> Overall, I'm not exactly where I want to be, but -for once- I can see myself getting there.

Belief in humanity's eternal capacity for self improvement, collectively, individually, and in ones own self lies at the heart of living a good, rewarding, and just life. It's becoming increasingly rare. Good luck to you!
"You could have invented that Bluetooth attack"

Proceeds to explain elliptic curve mechanics that would make most readers completely glaze over.

Maybe they mean they just mean their normal reader base, who has an attention span for those sorts of details? Their assertion that an average reader could understand the attack might be true, but the "could have invented" is a a bit far fetched.
That seems more like the work just hasn’t been done yet, not that is has explicitly been left behind as your phrasing suggests. In fact, multiple requests to file issues/bugs have been made in that thread.
Actually starlings are an invasive species in the United States.

Yes, but so are American humans. We’re hardly in a position to throw stones in that direction I think.

Edit: My point seems to have flown past some, I am not in favor of lasering birds.
Unless Facebook is replaced by one other thing, network effect will keep people on Facebook as well as one whatever else might suit a culture they're in.

Edit: that said, there's no reason that an obscure subculture adopting a different social networking technology couldn't lead to that tech becoming universal. Facebook rose through a certain high-prestige subculture adopting it but with the Internet tending to creating different association patterns, high-prestige/"early adopter" may not, in fact, be the leaders of adoption in the future.
I'm not an MBA, but I think it's way too early to attribute motivation to this incident.
Thanks for sharing your story of strength and perseverance. I’m sure it will bring hope to others who may be in despair.

I want to add to this conversation, I found my own personal experience with depression was intertwined with anger and rage. Once I started addressing the anger and rage, my depression was significantly reduced.
Ditto for me. Too libertarian, too toxic, too uppity.
I don't know that it's fair to describe it as a random trivial fact; it at least implies that he worked that shift and nobody noticed anything amiss. The events of his final day are just a tiny part of the story, but they're a part of the story nonetheless. Journalists are going to look for narratives, and the narrative of "he worked his day normally and at the end of the shift stole a plane" is different than "he wasn't scheduled to even be there that day and came in to steal a plane," or "he hadn't shown up for work the last four days, until he came in to steal a plane."

(I'm not sure the bank robber in a blue baseball hat is a good example of an unnecessary detail, by the way. Almost every story about a robbery with witnesses is likely to include basic details about what the witnesses saw. I'm not sure I've read a single story about such a robbery that wouldn't include a detail like that!)
Maybe for a fingertip, but I wouldn't try it with a full hand. The water stuck to the hand will take time to cool down no matter how fast you remove it. Unless you're just saying second degree burns don't count as major damage...
I'm asking for other (IMO more interesting) POCs, and I do find in interesting.
Minor typo in the title: "10Mb" would be 10 Megabits.

They really mean "10 MB" as in 10 Megabytes.
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The recent thread about Kubernetes on Azure has some experience reports for EKS as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17700360
Thieving Birds. "Thieving Birds".

Who can write that in 2018? Seriously, what's wrong with mankind to not realize that we've become the biggest threat to life on Earth?

Thieving Birds...
https://www.dw.com/en/time-running-out-to-save-the-earths-pl...
What do you mean "ship" to production? Isn't the normal thing to do to modify the code directly on the production server using FileZilla on port 21?
That’s what I mean by non-sensitive stuff. I don’t care if someone inserts ads or changes stuff. I’ll switch ISPs if they do that. If some intermediate network does it, I’ll route around them. For stuff like this, I don’t care.

There’s a whole class of traffic I don’t care about, like this guy’s prototype or your mom’s blog or whatever.

And I like segregating stuff I care about vs stuff I don’t.

Also note that with SSL, google can still do all this, but they have the same pressure my ISP does if they ever try it.
Showing up and being present is about 80% of the battle of being a great dad. You can hack the other 30%. At least that was my experience. Smell that baby’s hair when (s)he is new. The pheromones will bond you and engage you in being an awesome dad. You might also want to come up with a womb song and sing it regularly. I chose “You are my sunshine”. It still calms my DD at 9 years old.
1. The new feature increased the reliability of a user onboarding function. If I hadn't built it, I likely would not have remained in business.
2. The company would go bankrupt? I don't see your point.
3. One and a half years. It didn't get me anything, because I didn't plan for the added metadata until about nine months in. If the question is "what did the nine months between when you came up with the idea and when you were forced to build it get you?" the answer is "a world of hurt." At the time, the cost of migrating was low. When my users 100xed, the cost of migrating had increased over a thousand-fold.
You only need a couple of developers to fork, and they aren't necessarily motivated by those highly technical issues. After that, by moderating forums you can bring the users, which brings the valuation.
> BTW, for smaller shops and solo devs, I hear good things about the upcoming Digital Ocean Kubernetes service.

How would smaller shops and/or solo devs benefit from using Digital Ocean Kubernetes service over GKE?
A big difference is probably that now everyone carries a video camera around and we have videos of things like this which go viral more easily.
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FedEx Shipping Integration for e-commerce
> What do I need to have a simple "hello world" CLI Java app which starts within 25ms and doesn't eat more than 10MB of RAM? Is GrallVM enough?

Yup. Here is another tutorial [1]. There are limitations, though:

* It's AOT, which means you don't get the JVM peak performance that come from JITting to your wordload profile. (but maybe in the future we can have startup in AOT then transition to JIT?)

* You're getting an embedded generational garbage collector. Not the sweet stuff like G1/ZGC/Shenandoah.

* You can't do dynamic class loading, or you have to declare (and know) beforehand which classes are reachable. A fair amount of frameworks use this and will not work with native-image. I suspect these will provide mechanisms to help in this regard in the future (for JSPs: generating the code of all classes-pages that are reachable at compile-time).

* There are other limitations [2].

All in all, great for CLIs and cloud lambdas.

[1] https://medium.com/graalvm/instant-netty-startup-using-graal...

[2] https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/substratevm/LIMI...
We brought them there.

Do you think we discriminate between invasive and non invasive birds?

"[The lasers are] running right now as we speak. You're out here in over 175 acres of blueberries," he says, punctuating the observation with a staccato of hand claps. "There's not one bird that you see flying around."

We should tell them to feed elsewhere. Put a sign or something. If they don't comply, then we'll stress them out until they stop being thieves or go to die somewhere.
Do you own an iPhone? Do you know how much the people who build them make? Do you know that these workers also commit suicide on the job?
You can request the documents and go photocopy them yourself at the museum. Or have their researchers do it for a fee.

Just don't bother with these as they've already been done: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yqpc3bglatpmpvl/AACA2CXFv1XeA1ZmL...
Good to read this! If will be great if you could write a blog detailing your journey. I am especially interested in the improvement of your health. Depression has claimed many lives and I think your story could help some people.
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> Researchers at Purdue University are studying the risk of injury to birds. Principal investigator Esteban Fernandez-Juricic says very little is known about whether lasers can harm the animals' retinas. "What we are trying to assess is whether different levels of energy output of these lasers and different levels of exposure time could cause any kind of retinal injury on the animal," Fernandez-Juricic says. "These retinal injuries could potentially be pretty serious and affect the ability of the animal to see and consequently to find food, mates or refuge."

In a separate study about seabirds and lasers, https://wsg.washington.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/SBWG...

> Attending seabirds (all species) showed little detectable response to the laser beam during daylight hours. At night however, Northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) showed a transient and localized response at lower vessel speeds (3.5 kts) while feeding in the offal plume. In contrast, gulls in flight at nighttime in pursuit of the vessel showed a strong aversion at higher vessels speeds (11 kts). These results suggest that laser beam detection by birds may be more challenging at high light levels. The implication is that lasers might be modified to increase its visual contrast during the day. From these field trials, lasers appear more likely to scare birds from an abundant food source at low light levels and success may be species and condition specific.