skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's almost certainly not hate for curl. It's just some silliness somewhere, probably about "haxx". My consulting company's name got me into some minor trouble where I had to explain to my corporation's bank some "detected activity" that turned out to be just the business' name. Apparently when Treasury started cracking down on cryptocurrency businesses someone got the bright idea to search for "crypto" and use that as an indication that whatever matches is related to cryptocurrencies. I don't know if that someone was someone at the particular bank or someone at Treasury. I wrote a lengthy letter explaining all of my activity (much of which the bank itself could confirm on its own) and the source of the company's name, and I never heard from them again. I had to guess that this was the reason, and get an very indirect confirmation from a bank agent on the phone...

My guess is that Daniel Stenberg needs to at least explain away his domain's name.

BTW, if they are going to verify 15 years' worth of personal information, that's probably going to take time, time during which more pressing things will come up to take the time of whoever is doing the review. 100 days is probably nothing in that context.
> The methods of creating fully deterministic low discrepancy quasirandom sequences in one dimension are extremely well studied, and generally solved.

Are you referring to something like quadratic residue [1]? It's basically that the sequence x^2 mod P where P is prime appears to be somewhat random, and it goes through the whole sequence before repeating. But it's obviously finite, and it's not perfect [2]. I'm mostly just curious how it relates.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_residue
[2]: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1612/1612.05852.pdf
That's a cute as an anecdote, but in cases where the employee may be creating legal liability it gets more complicated.
> I feel much safer now after moving back to Shanghai from Sydney.

I'm not talking about China. China is weird when it comes to crime, like the case of the guy welding a sword in public and no one battered an eyelid. Because violent crime like that just doesn't occur in China.

I live in Singapore, where you can leave your phone in a public bathroom for an entire day and no one will touch it.
I am thoroughly perplexed
Yea, I read it. It was a workaround for something that shouldn't happen in the first place. I assume you read it too?
I struggled with this dilemma for a long time. Have tried three approaches.

In one approach, enum columns were integer columns in db & we relied on ActiveRecord's (RoR) enum definition to map string values their integer representation. This created issues for our (separate & independent) internal application which was feeding off the read-replica.

In second approach, enums were defined as db-types. This solved most of issues seen with the first approach, but again sql-migration for maintaining the enum-values was another pain-point. Though it was not as painful as i thought, as the enums didn't change very frequently.

In third approach, used a separate table to maintain enum definition. If the column has a wider presence then, additional join might prove relatively costly compared to second approach.

Currently, we follow a mix of last two approaches.
After two weeks, I hope most critical problems are already solved, as long more complex software is working without problems, thanks to the clear and simple RV32I instruction set! Of course, as observed in the project description, I am working only with FPGAs, which means that is far more faster and easy to simulate with real software and find problems. As long most of complex work is done by the FPGA tool and I have a well comported clock environment, always according to the specifications, the verification is purely logical.
> FOV is a problem that lenses simply can't solve

Would you or someone else mind elaborating on this? I am unfamiliar with this problem.
I don't doubt it, but for the very best the multiplier is greater than that, and not moving becomes harder. The difference is between lifetime wage slavery and financial independence at that point.
Samsung's 8K TV coming in September
You do realize that wooden houses are much better insulated than brick houses? With brick you have to add an insulating layer (Styrofoam or other materials), with wood the walls themselves are the insulating material.

I live in a country that uses traditional brick and mortar construction and I can tell you that American homes are far easier to condition climatically.
Why Hong Kong Is an Ideal Travel Destination
This statistics-speak is pointless. There are not that many places you would want to live at. Mojave dessert, mountainious area? Sahara, Greenland ...
IANAL but I expect emails are only evidence to the extent that the other party acknowledges (or at least, doesn't object to) their veracity. If they do object, then you can have fun tracking down logs and stuff. Of course, that's also just text, so if that's called into question, you start questioning the people involved in maintaining the logs, etc, and trying to figure out which story is more plausible. So in short, what courts do on a daily basis anyway. All evidence is circumstantial to some extent.
> I always wondered why emails were evidence. They're just text, anyone could fake an email.

The right question isn't usually if they could, but how likely it is they would. Also, I do hope cases aren't usually hinged on a single e-mail, but include other evidence that together paints a coherent story.
can you link a write-up about this?
Tyson can be a little annoying, he's just very excitable but generally knows what he's talking about. Peterson on the other hand...
I don’t think I could successfully list every country I’ve been in the last 15 years. Not without considerable effort going through work records.

What’s most amazing is filling out the “form”. This doesn’t sound like a standardized document with any kind of control act designation. I would imagine you would have leeway to specify “work trips, various” and then a paragraph on the employer and nature of the trips, and approximate countries visited.

A definitive answer should have been given long ago. At the very least an update on the reasoning?

Even if there was an active investigation they would grant the visa and meet you at the airport. So this is just administrative hell, and it’s lame. The really sad thing is 134 days is probably just getting started.
Yes, it's so great that America doesn't do stuff like the crazy Steve Jobs and Elon Musk worship you see in other countries.
Blocking on Twitter isn’t really blocking someone from seeing the tweet. They can just log out and see the tweet.

Actually does it even prevent someone from seeing it in the first place, or does it just hide the blocked person from the blocker?
[elon musk]
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Since when did English == America?

All of these words exist and are used in other English speaking countries.
Many years ago, I briefly used to do the reverse. I was tired of constant calls by certain people, so I jokingly started to pick up and say "the subscriber is currently unavailable; please leave a message after the tone <BEEP>". Fooled two people with it before realizing that's a little too disrespectful and stopping.
That's exactly what the article talks about:

> Despite the rise of Silicon Valley and its technoelites, the Revenge of the Nerds in the South Bay has managed to line stock portfolios without moving the needle on America’s cultural values. Jocks still rule high schools that spend millions on new football stadiums while starving the arts.

Elon Musk isn't considered a national hero or someone to look up to (in most parts of the US - not talking about cali).
This is incredible. One of the best pieces of internet art I've seen in a long time.
"Deleting a public repository

When you delete a public repository, one of the existing public forks is chosen to be the new parent repository. All other repositories are forked off of this new parent and subsequent pull requests go to this new parent."

https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-to-forks-when-...
Google/dopamine: Dopamine is a research framework for fast prototyping
Fun factoid. Before World War 1 passports, as we know them, did not exist through nearly all of the world. They were a 'temporary security measure' like so many things... It wasn't until 1978 in the USA that entering or leaving the nation requiring a passport was legally encoded (though we'd been using them since the early 19th century). That's why reading of e.g. scientists from before the early 20th century you'll regularly see them being born in one country, educated in another, opening a business in another, and so on.

The reason I'd agree with your timeline is one thing you did not mention -- wealth explosion. Purely recreational international travel is and always has been relatively expensive.
I'm not sure about overtourism, but just got back from a trip to Europe. Almost the exact same countries as a trip 13 years ago. The difference was AMAZING. Technology has made traveling so easy by comparison it's SHOCKING.

1. No more staring at signs and menus in confusion. Snap a picture with Google translate and viola.

2. Related to #1, no more getting lost using public transit or walking because you can't read street signs. Google Maps with walking directions, transit directions was a LIFE-CHANGER.

3. No more being LIMITED to phrases in your phrasebook. Again, Google translate.

4. No more worries about being taken advantage of by local taxis or figuring out local taxi customs. Uber and Uber clones.

5. No more getting trapped at tourist trap restaurants or overpriced "officially" reviewed restaurants. Google search again.

6. Waze can help you navigate to the most secluded spots, even when the local signs become sparse.

I could keep going...

Actually, it's amazing how much it was Google and local clones of Uber. Yelp and Uber aren't as popular in the countries we visited as I expected.

Honestly it was almost a little too easy, in some ways I didn't feel like I was in a foreign land... I felt at total ease in any neighborhood, because even if no taxis were around, just hail a ride.

Rented a car multiple times and drove around because Waze was great everywhere if Google Maps broke down.

Overall I LOVED that technology has made experiencing a foreign country almost trivially easy.

Technology absolutely lowers many barriers to travel.

The difference between this trip and my last trip was unbelievable.
A double tap on the home button will push the screen halfway down, allowing easy one-handed access to top buttons with your thumb. That gesture has been in iOS for years.
> India elected Narendra Modi who is decidedly nowhere as educated as previous prime minister.

Yet he promotes technology (Startup India, Paperless/Digital Locker, Digital ID, Live tracking of projects online, EVMs, Soil testing labs, Solar) much more than one of the IIT educated Chief Minister. The point is that a good leader does not need fancy degrees from fancy colleges.
Depends how good you are at cooking rice. As an East Asian, westerners generally suck at turning raw rice into something nice.
Could you maybe elaborate on some examples you have in mind?

I'm strongly considering accepting a job offer for a company in NY since I'm starting to get bored of living in Seattle. I figure moving to NY would mean being surrounded by more people and having more opportunities to collaborate on projects like these.
You're not the only crazy one, or even crazy at all. Even before the technologies you mention, devs were complaining [1] about how the non-innate aspects of software development had overwhelmed the joy of writing code.

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/just-let-me-code/240168735
Location. Location. Location.

It makes sense the gentrifying(-ied) are the ones with the greatest rent increases since they also have experienced the most change - in both renter demand and neighborhood economics.

Plainly put, the established, already-pricey neighborhoods on the list just aren’t that “cool” anymore. Now that those who were previously priced-out of the pricey neighborhoods found a new place to settle into and revamp around them (i.e. Brooklyn), the prices of those new places significantly increased as troves of others followed suit and moved to the “cool, new, changing” neighborhoods.
yes this title is not true: I could now throw in some string ones in my taguage language Slovenian or in Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian
Anyone use both Transit and Citymapper and able to say how they compare?
SandboxEscaper/randomrepo: Repo for random stuff
> Have you read the relevant law (including case law) about copyright and "cybercrime" in these jurisdictions and concluded that, in fact, Slack does not have the power to restrict this? Have you read the Slack user agreement and concluded that the provisions in that user agreement are unenforceable?

Is this your first week on the Internet? Of course he hasn't read any of those things! We're all arm chair lawyers here with our own personal, grumpy views about what shape society should be.

(I'm agreeing with you.)
Tall poppies seem to be unique to NZ.
Smart people seem particularly prone to intellectual fads (religions in their own way) and being eager to use coercion to implement their ideas. Maybe it’s good to have a great mass of down-to-earth, practically-minded folks as a counterbalance. Open ridicule of the hoity-toity elite has been quintessentially American for all our history.
Then the question should be where those insults originated from, don't you think? I am rather confident most happen to appear in the 1960s US...
I think there is clear distinction between being literate and being smart. Many politicians that you noted or otherwise, have used their smartness and political acumen, to achieve what they wanted. Their smartness mostly reflects in the form of misleading voices, captivating their electorate's emotions. Dishonest, but smart. I think an achievement in STEM is not the only proof of smartness.

As far as Kitabi Kida goes - to my understanding, it is used for those who spent inordinate amount of time with books - not necessarily a insult for being smart. I think there's a subtle distinction here too.
SEO and How It Helps the Growth of Businesses
Check if an email address exists without sending any email
Sure, you could say the same of any document, electronic or not. Most crime is not that complicated.

It turns out that the metadata footprint left on a computer creating a document- if you can seize it- is rich in detail enabling creation date and the like to be identified. Mail servers may hold logs. Often a fake email or document is part of an offense and proving where a faked email was sent from becomes quite relevant, and yes, ends up as evidence in court.

You may hear a prosecutor say "and on the 30th of june 2011 did you send the following email..blah..blah"

There is a reason for that- they are establishing the possibility that it is actually evidence. Its not clear cut, otherwise we wouldn't have courts. You proffer evidence and convince people of it's weight. And that will continue to be the case.
And it doesn't trigger the asphyxiation reflex that inhaling carbon dioxide does.
Of course it's absurd to ignore American companies of similar stature (Apple, Amazon, Microsoft,...) who set shop in China much much earlier, and selectively target Google.

Provide one logical reason that can back such hypocrisy
Holy $hit! Nice work man!
This is very sad :'(
Holy $hit. Nice work man!
I've noticed this too, and it's not just about comparison with US - the relative salary compared to other jobs in Germany seems to be exceptionally low, from what I hear. I wonder what causes this anomaly?
I don't follow your argument. Grandparent had pointed out correct cyclist behavior at intersections to avoid accidents. Parent had commented that both motorists and "especially" cyclists made mistakes resulting in violations of traffic rules and expected behavior. I added the observation that many cyclists' incorrect behavior in San Francisco is willful, not only accidental.

Both parent and I agree with GP's point that, "Turning conflicts...are a significant hazard to cyclists"; I simply argued for vigilance in the presence of deliberate rule-breaking by cyclists. Surely you would not argue for less vigilance by motorists? SF drivers are a whole other rant...

If you meant to say that I am making a hasty or sweeping generalization, I did no such thing. I make no claim as to the proportion of two-wheeled scofflaws. Anybody who rides in SF can see it, and some riders have owned up in child comments herein. If your complaint is against motorists who justify their own shitty driving with claims that cyclists are 'always' flouting the rules, then I agree that this is dangerously fallacious. But such a sweeping generalization nonetheless starts with cyclists who clearly break traffic rules.

That's why I wish they would stop. This is about saving lives. And if you are also a rider then you know the apportionment of blame becomes moot when 1800kg of SUV hits 80kg of cyclist. I think GP is absolutely right that good infrastructure design is key to avoiding such risks, but like all transportation systems it has to be built on the assumption that traffic rules will be followed.
Author should look more into Euro politics. Plenty of dumb people there.

Plenty of ways to make fun of smart people too.

In fact, US feels much more "cult of genius" than Europe... At least from afar.
Swedish men were in military readiness, stationed along the borders around the country.
Looks like Google image search always has a fallback for a nonsense search query, and the images between Google and Picular exactly match (if you hover over the bottom-right of any color card, it shows the source image):

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=sdlkfjsldkfjsldfkj

https://picular.co/sdlkfjsldkfjsldfkj

If you put it in quotes, though, Google gives no results and Picular crashes (500 internal server error from an XHR):

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q="sdlkfjsldkfjsldfkj...

https://picular.co/"sdlkfjsldkfjsldfkj"
It's used in Australia too
The meeting that showed me the truth about VCs (2017)
Australia too
That is not true, I am from South Africa and there are dozens of uniques cultures here and they all have derogatory terms for smart people
I find it fascinating that people want to fill their lives with "authentic" experiences and then they go out of their way to set themselves up for cookie cutter "zombie" experiences. Cram your vacation into a minimum amount of time. Spend all your time in generic airports, hotels, and tour buses. Take the exact same pictures everyone else does. Blaming all this stuff on millenials and instagram is lame, these same patterns have been common for not just decades but generations.

It doesn't take much to get away from the crowds. It also doesn't take much to have unique, different, more satisfying experiences. Walk more, explore more, don't be so concerned with ticking off the classic "must do" checkmarks, take the time for your vacation to be for you.
The culture of anti-intellectualism is strong in America and children are indoctrinated in it from a very young age. Stupidity is worshiped. What would one expect from a society that loves stupidity so much it encourages violence against people who even appear smart, let alone those that are? Americans love stupidity because the majority are incredibly stupid.
Google denies Trumps claim that it didn’t promote his State of the Union address
not sure why the age matters?
The thing that I'd immediately wonder there is how "international trip" is calculated. It seems most probable that that number is calculated as "number of flights x people per flight". That would however lead to immense inflation. For instance you go on a round trip that involves 2 lay overs both ways, that'd be 6 "international trips." Do that once a quarter and a single person is taking 24 "international trips" in a year.
The three authors make the recommendation that, to deter fake/unapproved information from being circulated, the US should amend the US Constitution:

"Under US law, adapt the First Amendment,
perhaps by building upon existing hate
speech prohibitions that are permitted
by the First Amendment, such as the
federal cyberstalking statute (18 USC
§ 2261A); create exceptions and add
possible new regulations to Section 230
of the Communications Decency Act of
1996, a provision that shields social media
platforms from legal liability for the actions
of third-party users of their services; and
amend and evolve electoral regulation."
I'm very curious about the resolution and quality of the implant and how does it affect how you hear music. Can you distinguish half tones? Can you hear differences between similar sounding but different instruments (i.e. think of various types of the flute)?
Sdboyer's personal story about this whole #golang dependency management process
The Countries Shutting Down the Internet the Most
I can ask you for your slack password, and you can then tell it to me. How can slack fix that?

Any extension that asks for the permission to read data off webpages can read data off webpages, yes.

It's the user's responsibility to not install such an extension, not the company's responsibility to do whatever the hell they're doing here.

Anyways, this extension wasn't malicious. Its source code was available freely, and auditing it reveals nothing malicious.
Public key verification is ultimately needed in all end-to-end encryption systems to offer a strong guarantee that the conversation is not subverted by a man-in-the-middle attacker. If can be done by using the Socialist Millionaire Protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_millionaires) and a shared secret, but more often the verification is arranged in-person, out-of-band, manually.

As realtime, realistic voice synthesize is thought to be difficult, a voice/phone call encryption system usually circumvents this problem by using the caller's voice as the proof, as both recognize each other's voice. In most phone encryption systems, like many commercial systems, or the ZRTP protocol by Phil Zimmermann, or the "safety number" in Signal, they allow both parties to read out their pubkey's SHA-256 hash digest (usually encoded to words) aloud, as a mean of verification.

If this type of AI-based voice synthesizer becomes widely-available, it could be disastrous to cryptography. It is not the end-of-the-world of course, as targeted attack with social engineering is not an issue for most people, and those who need this level of security is going to perform out-of-band exchange anyway, but still, the certainty of voice-based key verification would be greatly weakened.
Testing with stubs/mocks, particularly in JS.
I think there are still so many aspects that need to be perfected and fixed by the automakers before these cars could be operated on public roads freely. I have just read an article at https://www.lemberglaw.com/self-driving-autonomous-car-accid... that talks about this. Hopefully car companies will think seriously about this.
Thanks for your comment, we've actually launched the entire V1 not just an index page but it was definitely due to the fact that we were very familiar with web development.

Hope that helps :-)
I’m not sure where you live and how it is in your area, but the majority of the country living outside a major metro has one choice for high-speed that isn’t DSL or LTE. This is also true for people renting or leasing in multi-unit buildings where the owner has chosen a provider. The last three places I lived had only one wired broadband provider.