skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why would someone shit on an escalator?" seems absurd enough to be the setup for a joke or a Zen koan, but I'm going to ask it anyway. Why would someone shit on an escalator?
Couple of questions:

- What is your plan on package management?
- With concurrent languages I always see a great potential of building something that is better than Go lang and not backed by Google. For that to happen you need native Async IO support. Do you plan to make it part of core?
- Do you plan to support something like green-threads, coroutines, or go routines?

Take my opinion as a biased web developer who is looking for a better performing compiled language than Node.js or Go lang.
And given how much bad cgo code is out there i doubt they can ever change this.
So you are saying that Facebook wants financial data for users but they're not going to use it dot-dot-dot for ad targeting I mean they're not using it right now but it doesn't say that they wouldn't use it but it doesn't even say that they're not going to maintain it and keep it and it doesn't send Annie parameters for regulations as to how they're going to be a custodian of the data they just want the data how is that
By the same token, if you need a computer to draw [this or that] so what? Or for that matter, if you need to hire a trained draftsperson to do it, so what?

> Most people can accurately trace a line drawing, but can't accurately copy it by eye.

Yes, tracing a line drawing has much more direct feedback. The correct line is right there, and there is no need to synchronize imagination with hand movements. (Untrained people are still very slow and error-prone at tracing though, compared to professionals.)

In a similar way, people have an easier time playing a piano tune if you directly show them which notes to play on a physical piano a few at a time right before they press the keys themselves vs. if you let them hear a whole tune and then try to play it from memory a few minutes afterward.

That doesn’t make piano playing an “almost entirely audial skill, with almost trivial mechanical skills” involved.
He's a comedian. Yes, he is bill hicks. Almost 100% sure, and I spent a long time researching it.

It's a performance art, like the colbert show but he doesn't wink at the camera the whole time.
"I am deeply disappointed that the FCC’s former [CIO], who was hired by the prior Administration and is no longer with the Commission, provided inaccurate information about this incident to me, my office, Congress, and the American people. "

The first envelope is open. Next up: reorganisation.
Many of the large tech companies have offices in Boston/Cambridge. I work at Google Cambridge.
> Austin city council member Leslie Pool, pictured and quoted in this article, is a notorious pseudo-progressive NIMBY.

So are most people in the cities pitching Amazon, which is why I’m rooting for Amazon to take them to the mat.
It was originally scheduled for July 28th, but was rescheduled to yesterday. Well, at least you can still watch the twitch vods :/

That said, you still have a chance to catch the match against a professional team that is going to happen sometime between the 20th and 25th.
Related previous discussion from 6 months ago:

"Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249955 (267 comments)
Facebook should know better that fcra of 1974 prohibits them from releasing data to third parties without Express consent from the depositor and Dodd-Frank from 2010 or 2012 prohibits the sharing of data. Facebook knows good and well that what they're asking for is illegal against a shooting regulation. That should tell you everything you need to know about Facebook Behavior
I believe the rationale is that you're observed as you approach a military base - if you get close and then suddenly turn around it looks suspicious; then they'll have to go track you down, etc
New Method Simplifies Cracking WPA/WPA2 Passwords on 802.11 Networks
I feel that for a lot of the IT workforce, the opposite (phone goes into a drawer when a shift ends, no constant unpaid onduty or evening answering of work e-mail) would be a good start, although not for security reasons.
Tf: A Microframework for Parametrized Testing of Functions in Go
Old MacDonald had a PowerPC, eieio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforce_In-order_Execution_of_...

...I also liked instructions like rlwinm and stfsux. There was no "stfu" but it does sound plausible...
I think it means they are open to doing it, and will be happy to do it in the future as long as they don’t get caught.
Sounds like a great way to make the army bleed resources.
ive always thought it would be good to make public items with a built-cleaning loop.

an escalator could have a steam/preasure-washing section that the stairs loop through as a part of the system. it could even work when the escalator is in use.

a publi toilet could have a round seat cover that also spins into the same type of washer in the wall.

an elevator could dock at the bottom level and couple to a drain and water/steam pour in from the top.

the city could provide more restrooms.

clearly these issues can be designed around.
I see MS-DOS is mentioned near the bottom, but the part I was most curious about was not.

When I got my dad's old Windows 3.1 laptop somewhere around 1999, I discovered DOS and started fiddling with it, eventually discovering the "edlin" editor. Everyone else though it was bizarre and hard to use, but I really liked it because I could look at different parts of a file at the same time.

The commands were similar to the example given here for ed, but the output much much easier to read. Does anyone know if it was another clone or just coincidence?
I'm a bioinformatics scientist. Salaries are notoriously horrible in this field and I get paid better than most wet lab scientists who have more education and experience than me.

I think biotech may be exacerbating inequality more than most industries, as the profits are most definitely not going to the employees like they do in other STEM fields.
(These are unofficial highlights btw, not mirrors)
MIT Online Course: Additive Manufacturing for Innovative Design and Production
The facility was likely at the end of a long road with nothing else on it. It would be seen as suspicious behavior to drive towards it and then turn around without making contact at the gate, to say nothing of scheduling delays.

No idea on equipment costs; it's likely that OPs company had an overhead disbursement for mistakes.

The gate itself was probably a good ways away from the actual facility. If they weren't driven all the way from hotel to site by a driver, then they almost certainly stopped and parked at the gate and were driven the rest of the way under escort and blindfold.
And here is when everyone's insurance premiums go up. It will work kind of like shadow banning on Twitter. The rates will go up based on your past purchases. Especially now that most credit cards provide level 3 transaction details.
I do the same with silence

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cabooze.bu...
8bc.org used to be amazing. I loved that place.
A random person going near the gate is, potentially, a spy who has used their equipment to capture data for SIGINT (think "war-driving.") Once they've come close enough to be in your emissions bubble—let alone close enough to photograph your site—you can't let their equipment leave intact.

(And, even if someone's equipment doesn't look like the kind of thing that would capture signals, the thoroughness required to prove that a piece of equipment is benign, is too high a cost to pay for every random passer-by. You don't want a security strategy that allows guerillas to DoS your guards by just constantly bringing benign equipment near them.)

This response assumes, though, that the equipment isn't e.g. connected to a satellite uplink and streaming the data out in real-time. (These sites aren't in reach of any cell towers, but satellite phones will still work.) I'm not sure what answer modern military counterintelligence has for that particular threat.
ECS is Elastic Container Service.

Which is good, otherwise ECS Fargate wouldn't have made a lot of sense.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/
The PBFT algorithm, or any Byzantine fault tolerant algorithms are deliberate on what's the message-passing scheme and election protocol would look like.

However, in recent ICO craze, a lot of algorithms (with the exception of Bitcoin, and maybe others I didn't read) don't go very long way other than "we will broadcast to everyone". These under-specified message passing scheme can be troublesome, especially for these algorithms without Proof-of-work.
Because Android features this metaphor, it's used extensively. Because iOS doesn't, it isn't as much. iOS features different metaphors which achieve the same outcomes in different ways, such as pop-up sheets for the camera, album views and share panes.

And in cases where one app does activate another, you can go back one step by tapping the top-left corner of the screen. There's only one level of "app back", but that's plenty since iOS doesn't tend to jump you between apps a lot, and because that navigation isn't co-mingled with other "back" operations.
I don't see this some "big brother" making decisions for you, but rather people at Apple, Youtube, etc making decisions about what objectionable content they want on their sites.
This is an excellent post, and I'm very disappointed that nobody will ever read it. The OP for one reason or another has fallen from the front page really quickly.
More specifically, it's the recording and exfiltration of even step/step-count data that is dangerous. I have a lot of walking 1-1's on Mondays, which means my step count is easily double that of Thursdays (WFH days).

- "5 minutes, 100 steps, 55 minutes zero steps" (meeting)

- "5 minutes, 100 steps, 55 minutes zero steps" (meeting)

- "8 minutes, 200 steps, 52 minutes zero steps" (bathroom)

- "45 minutes, 999 steps, 15 minutes zero steps" (lunch)

- "5 minutes, 100 steps, 55 minutes zero steps" (meeting)

By correlation stand/sit times you start to edge pretty close to a rough determination of who is in meetings together, or walking from room A to room B at the same time.
Google Decides Not to Use (Mainlined) Speck
Sure. Whenever you feel the need for one of those, click this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17702940
I'm not so sure this is the right way to go about it. They give the example of cell densities, but there are also tons of things that just are never reported in in vivo papers, including the light cycle in animal rooms (mice and rats are nocturnal, so some labs make their rooms dark during the day), the preparation of treatment compounds, information about animal ages, handling procedures, etc. In addition, many papers have length limits, so you can only include so much.
"We're not doing X for purpose Y!" (translation: "We're doing X not for purpose Y, we do X for other purposes. Luckily, nobody thought to ask us about those, and we certainly won't mention those purposes ourselves, heh, heh, heh.")

Technically, telling the truth, in a weasely way.
Does a cryptocurrency-based market not conduct commerce and exist right now?

And again, how do credit/debit cards—which are centralized systems—satisfy the proposition of a decentralized market?
As an example, this is a great article detailing out how the visual system and convolutional neural networks use similar layers (representations) of processing:
https://neurdiness.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/deep-convolution...
The rise and fall of MuchMusic, from crucial TV to bust (2014)
Your results are in Now what?
Worth nothing that both Microsoft and Amazon's Kubernetes offerings are very new (literally weeks since GA). While "officially" ready, it is pretty naive to rely on them for production-critical workloads just yet, at least compared to Google Kubernetes Engine which has been running for years.

If you absolutely need managed Kubernetes, stick to GCP for now.
(Eng lead for AKS here)
While lots of people have had great success with AKS, we're always concerned when someone has a bad time. In this particular case the AKS engineering team spent over a day helping identify that the user had over scheduled their nodes, by running applications without memory limit, resulting in the kernel oom (out of memory) killer terminating the Docker daemon and kubelet. As part of this investigation we increased the system reservation for both Docker and kubelet to ensure that in the future if a user over schedules their nodes the kernel will only terminate their applications and not the critical system daemons.
I'm always kind of curious about comments like this -- it seems everybody knows you have to play games of Twister and hit twelve control keys simultaneously to do even the most basic things in Emacs.

But... I use Emacs. I've been using it for almost twenty years. And I'm struggling to think of anything I use regularly the involves hitting more than two total keys simultaneously (keys pressed in sequence obviously don't work as an argument, since that's also how you edit in Vim). I think the only one is query-replace, because it involves hitting Shift to compose the M-% combination.

And I don't use a ton of custom keybindings, either. The only custom binding I use that's simpler than the default is goto-line, which I have bound to just M-g.

Do people genuinely run into cases where they frequently have to be hitting 3+ keys simultaneously to use Emacs? Or is this just one of those "everybody knows" things that's actually completely false?
> A large majority of Americans support adding a revenue-neutral carbon tax

Citation please? And how much of that is "stated preference" vs "revealed preference"? I might say a lot of idealistic things if those are never going to pan out.

Luckily, USA allows this type of experimentation by allowing carbon tax to be introduced at state-level. So if a state (eg. New York or California) can demonstrate that revenue neutral carbon tax is palatable to the populace while reducing carbon emissions, that would be a realistic political path to introduce it to wider population.
I can confirm that Thunderbird and Lightning work fine on a CentOS 7 desktop. I use them every day.
I am surprised there is not much noise over this. In my city, they recently replaced street lights with the LED ones. These were so bright and piercing, I complained to the city, and they replaced ones near my house to lower intensity one. Still the other one's not the nearest to my house are still so bright, it is very unpleasant, even though they are at a distance. No one in my neighborhood seems to be bothered by these? In my opinion these pose serious risk to health, not just ours but to birds, animals and plants. Even when driving on roads, where these lights are on, they just hit you like a sunlight.
The entire problem they're talking about is high color temperature, not LEDs. No need to spread FUD with titles & writing like this - I have lit my home with pleasing warm white LEDs for years and they've paid for themselves in energy savings.
Not sure if a major program but here is a recent and promising one: https://github.com/lmcinnes/umap
Very interesting, I've spent a lot of time in various doctor's offices, and I've always noticed while getting allergy shots there are so many very thin people. Even the small children look skinny. Maybe only 10% of people look overweight, whereas at other offices often 60-70% of the people look overweight. Also the biggest person I saw at allergist was mildly obese where I've seen tons of 300+ lb people at many other specialties.
Alex Jones torments families of Sandy Hook victims with lies in order to enrich himself. Private social platforms can not only choose to not to be complicit in this evil--they have an obligation not to be complicit.

This is not a close call.
Nit: it's not legislation, it's regulation in the FCCs purview. The reason this matters is because it is likely going to take Congressional legislation to get net neutrality now, which means electing (mostly) Democrats.
So when you told him to use less memory you told him to provision less memory to his containers which makes a lot more sense than azure being staffed by complete morons.
Cloud Networking
Software-Defined Cloud Routers
Is there a reason for them not upgrading Android on Nexus? Disappointing news since I bought mine a mere 2 years ago.
To pile onto this comment, the Republicans in Congress can join the Democrats any time they want to and ensgrine net neutrality as the law of the land.
Quoting someone who died by misadventure when the subject is public safety is either tone deaf as hell or way more satirical than I’m prepared for on a Monday.
Not really, since they had less time to learn and experience things.
I wrote my concerns about replicating these studies a couple of years ago [1]. In short, most papers don't have enough details to allow for a third party to replicate them.

Problem areas include detailed protocols and reagents used. If you don't what someone did exactly and what they used then replicating it is going to be very difficult.

[1]
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scientific-reproducibility-re...
It's heaps and heaps better than Azure.
"Play games you already own using your own hardware for $0.00 for the next 1 year."

"We've noticed frame drops while you're playing Skyrim, click here to upgrade to a premium stream from a premium computer using your own cloud saves! (only $1.99/mo!)" ...or pay $1000 for a new video card.

"We've noticed you don't own Skyrim, click here to instantly start playing from our computers instead of your computer for $1.99/hour or $10/mo, or $100/mo for unlimited access to all games, etc, etc.!"
https://play.rainway.io doesn't work. Console logs a bunch of CORS errors for seemingly unnecessary services, but the site still fails to load. Disabled PrivacyBadger/uBlock/HTTPS Everywhere but still no luck. On Firefox 61.1/Mac OS X High Sierra.

Loading failed for the <script> with source “https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-13434394-1”. play.rainway.io:1

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://cdn.ravenjs.com/3.21.0/raven.min.js. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).

<script> source URI is not allowed in this document: “https://cdn.ravenjs.com/3.21.0/raven.min.js”. play.rainway.io:8
[Show/hide message details.] ReferenceError: Raven is not defined[Learn More] bundle.js:110:144069

Source map error: request failed with status 403
Resource URL: https://play.rainway.io/bundle.js
Source Map URL: bundle.js.map[Learn More]
Key iPhone supplier is hamstrung with the debilitating WannaCry worm
It's not terrible for in vitro studies, but that would be a stretch for in vivo studies at a CRO, especially for oncology, where lots of studies require tumor grafts. It's not my area, but I think those mice can run $1000 and up per animal. The cheap, more common strains are ~$25 each. I haven't looked at the papers they're trying to replicate, but in my lab, it's not unusual to have 60 mice in a study, so you can see how just getting animals into your facility can be expensive.
I know this is a joke, but it is false.

https://youtu.be/fLUppwRShpE?t=11

(Aside: I was about 10 minutes walk away from the location when this happened.)
That accident happened when the escalator was in motion when the mechanical failure occurred, and the brakes had been incorrectly installed. If it had been stopped and brakes correctly applied, the escalator would have functioned fine as stairs.
NASA has created the coldest spot in space to prove an Einstein theory
This is slightly depressing as I've been looking forward to Isaac Asimov's "belts" for some time now. A giant loop of of parallel walkways of graded speeds, continuously operating for city-wide underground transport.

I guess now that they'd have the escalator maintenence issues with steroids.
I’ll be stunned if they end up anywhere other than northern Virginia and if nova gives than much more than token incentives. They have a huge presence there already and if they want to negotiate for big government contracts it helps to be nearby.
> The US has banned[1] the (previously) standard low temperature (~2500k) incandescent light bulbs

Not true. They established minimum efficiency rules. Old 60W bulbs can meet the rules but 100W cannot. You can still buy 60W incandescent bulbs everywhere.

https://www.homedepot.com/b/Lighting-Light-Bulbs-Incandescen...
Ed, man! !man ed https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

>When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

>TEXT EDITOR.

>When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a Unix standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
c/12300 according to the numbers in the article.
Zero Lives Remaining (Alexis Ohanian)
> Are we interpreting the bailout of a global US-created financial crisis "saving the world" now?

Welcome to the wonderful world of spin. As a former subscriber, it saddens me to see how much barrons has fallen after being bought by news corp. I guess if you live long enough, you get to see it all.

> The U.S. and European economy is still recovering.

After increasing the national debt from $8 trillion in 2008 to nearly $20 trillion today.

I remember adam smith saying something about how the two ways to enslave a person or a nation is by force or debt. And that debt is the smarter choice.

What ever happened to banks being too big to fail and needing to break them into smaller banks so that they don't pose a systematic risk to the US and the world? Oh, that's right, they got much bigger.

https://money.cnn.com/2017/11/21/investing/banks-too-big-to-...
Of the Seattle bus tunnel escalators, I can count on one hand the number that permanently smell like day old piss...

But I shouldn’t really have to count them.
Indeed, couldn't agree more. But quite possibly AI will prove simpler than classical techniques, and more adaptable to i.e. changes in tyre pressure.
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What algorithms does Bing use for search?
Presumably these special sites are on US soil. If repeatedly doing that or conspiring to do so with others isn’t in itself illegal there’s probably something on the books they could throw at you.
Especially since one of the recommended solutions is buying $79 glasses which don't seem to be much better than the ones that Home Depot sells for a fraction of the price.
The military created GPS. It wouldn't be very productive to jam their own signals on their own bases.

Military bases already have rules covering use of electronics like laptops, cameras, and phones, so adding smart watches to that list isn't very surprising.
I wasn't aware of that. This is why you do moving GC early!

Do you have more information on this? That sounds like very bad news for Go...
Block chain developed by someone halfway competent would be better than glorified Access databases. From what I've read most election systems don't bother to have any cryptographic record whatsoever.