skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up thinking most of them were intended to be black, like St Peter's Square and the town hall. Seeing them cleaned was initially quite odd.

Considering the industrial heritage I'd also like to see a few preserved that way. I'm just glad I grew up after the clean air act!
It's true that Trump has signaled for an end to the federal ban on marijuana, and that U.S. attorneys have since stopped targeting marijuana companies that are in legal states. However, this status quo was set by Obama-era rules (the "Cole memo" [0]). It's still up to President Trump to actually push through the legislation, which he has not been great at. But his public stance is definitely non-trivial, as it encourages those on the Republican side to support legislation that ends the federal ban, no matter what Attorney Sessions pushes for. Also, Sessions may at this point be seen as a lame duck anyway.

[0] http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-marijuana-20...
Everyone should patriotically sign up to Grindr now to muddy their results :P
So, apparently Apple doesn’t collect or back up transaction data to iCloud, and it can only be obtained by imaging the actual device that made the payment.

In this day and age where every shred of PI is routinely stored forever and sold to anyone who wants it, I find this quite amazing!
"WE got a good news bad news situation. The good news is, I convinced them that we are working on a nano-AI-solar-blockchain-social-drone"

"And the bad news?"

"They gave me some funding. I have to hire people. What's your cousin doing these days?"
America's ur-choropleths: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2015/06/12/americas-ur...
I think the left would respond that urban populations are diverse & educated. And the right would respond that it's hard to preach conservative values of individual liberty and personal responsibility (e.g., leave me alone, i'll leave you alone) when people are living on top of one another.
To me at first glance this seems very similar to the rust trait system, where you start with a simple non object structure that describes only the functions that an object requires.
Sure, it was individuals in a marketplace that invented the things we used now which are cleaner and more efficient. You can't regulate inventions into existence. And imagine how much customers would be willing to pay if they were in a dirty environment, and you came up with an even equally efficient technology that was cleaner...

On top of this, the more regulation you have, the more you don't have a separation between business an government. And isn't that what everyone is complaining about these days? For example, ISPs, pharma, telecom, insurance, and medicine have all become huge liabilities to compete with - unless you're one of the few designated players in the space.

Checkout page 15:
https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/-air-quality-...

No one on the free market side claims the clean air act did nothing. So it is very unfair that seemingly everyone on the opposing side is pushing the idea that the clean air act did everything (which you can tell by this graph is not true).
Expecting people much less corporation to give away for public infrastructure is unrealistic in itself. That isn't Google's job. The city and its residents need to take responsibility. By definition municipal transportation either is doing things more efficiently than Google to be able to fund others or Google is paying more than they have to. Given that they aren't trying to undercut Google Bus expenses in a "Hey we could operate it cheaper for you and buy up the buses you already have for a long term contract" it is clearly not the previous.

I fully support improved public transit and good governance but it isn't Google's job to support it but the transit's job to support everbody and make the additional taxes worth it. Why should Google pay? They already get their share and it is up to the city and its residents to decide to use it that way. The public transit option always has to compete with private regardless of what the delusional gatekeeper attitude. Not to mention flexibility - if Google wants to bus their people to a convention instead of the usual routes they can.

Resentment is still an absurd case of sour grapes. Especially given the resistance to public transit infastructure expansion for fear it may bring them in contact with poor and minorities, housing expansion for it may change the facade from when they got their or devalue their absurdly inflated nest egg from artificial property tax stagnation. I bet anything the same people would flip out if they were told they couldn't use their private vehicles on public roads yet they want to do the same thing to Google buses. After they themselves vetoed alternatives.

Lets face it - the area's biggest root problem is an entitlement issue. It is one thing to want corporations to pay more taxes, it is another to stop every possible solution and then screech like howler monkeys over solutions that don't harm them. By all means hold corporations accountable for misconduct but this is just irrational. Other areas have been trying anything to replicate their success and failing. As an outsider it is painful to watch an already objectively great area squander their potential for further improvement and act so damn bratty and crazy.
18/20 the quiz just crystallized my distaste Arial.
Manually verifying copyright claims is expensive. Responding to take down notices manually is expensive. The alternatives that are as cheap to implement involve rampant copyright infringement.
You could always conduct half of those interviews by video and do the rest on-site.
That's not an easy question. I think you need to enforce some style guide, like Wikipedia does.

org-mode is a bit like C++ or LaTeX. I say this as a good thing. It has tons of features, but you need to choose what to use and what to keep out.

For me, something that works great is to keep all org files in the same folder, with a flat structure. That includes my task list and my calendar. I version control everything, except organizational things that change often instead of growing like articles. I also keep out of version control first quick drafts of any article.
Homeless people are obviously not litter, and think its a bit of an unfair exaggeration to read my comment in that way, however, I do see how you could infer that. Regardless, in my experience the camps have tons of trash/litter around. It seems not that surprising as my house would have lots of trash if I didn't have garbage collection service. Just drive to some of the camps in Oakland/Berkeley.
Pointers deliberately hide these details from you by obscuring where things are actually located; presenting a unified memory model. To really understand what's going on you need to know how the stack is laid out, how structures work, and how functions are called.
I was expecting a Sperm whale's reference somewhere ;-)
I'm still trying to improve my clickbait skills. I guess I still have ways to go.

But I don't think you can extrapolate from a single instance what other person can or can't do. ;)

Anyway. I'd call it "Suggest HN", but there's no such thing, yet.
Really? I remembered when the Americans accused the Japanese of copying.
Wonder if we can return the favour? If someone sends us an obvious unfair takedown (like in the article) we can name and shame them. And also do the same tactics, go to their content and report it as violation of your content. Even if it doesn't they still have to respond and go through the same hoops.

If a group of us formed and we did this to all of them and gunged up the system, google would be forced to improve it.
> The ancient greeks rejected ( or ignored ) irrational numbers too

They didn't rejected it for computational reason. They rejected it because it didn't fit in their framework of how number works.

That's the whole point of the evolution of math that culminated into the subject of real analysis.

If that wasn't the point of why you brought the greek up then it doesn't make sense why you bought it up other than the main topic of the Chinese, computation, etc...
There is absolutely no reason why anyone from areas like China need to see the linked in profile of people working in special jobs for the us. They should be taken out of the social graph. Its so silly.
Go 2.0 error handling proposal
Freenode ##c recommended C books
So did lyft and uber initially, those services are immeasurably better than the previous taxis (although their treatment of employees may be worse but I haven't seen much evidence taxi drivers get better conditions/benefits).

In then end I guess I don't care because I truly believe the rules are backwards and protecting cars above any useful alternatives that may represent a useful future for green sustainable urban transportation.
It is important to note that the use of assertions is one of the few development practices that has empirical evidence support: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/assessi...
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

As there's a well known consensus that some factor (e.g. saltwater caused maintenance issues in this particular case) tends to be a game-breaker, then it's perfectly reasonable to dismiss 'without a citation' ideas that encounter this factor if the idea has no mention/citation of how they're going to fix, avoid or tolerate this.

If there's a plausible-seeming way that the idea can work despite the obstacle, then by all means we can discuss if that way will be sufficient or not; but if the idea simply ignores major problems, then there's nothing to discuss.
Ask HN: How to Uniquely Identify a Person?
Let's say I want to create data for every single person in the US, but I want to give that person (and that person only) the ability to delete their own data.

Is such a thing possible? Or is the best approximation forcing people to register with a phone number and pretend that it's an ID like everyone else?
No, undoubtedly optimum height is a major factor in his and other basketball players' success, and I don't know of any other factor that obviously dominates it.

His mental talents may be even rarer however. I don't know how we could know.
There's no question sails can move today's cargo volume. But the shape of the ships doesn't lend itself to sail power. I think these sails are specific to supporting other power. And the shape of today's ships is very much towards fitting more cargo. I think you'd need at least slightly bigger ships that are efficient for sail power alone, and able to carry similar cargo volume or mass.
Our brains are trained to find patterns. Prove it is a perfectly valid response to what appears to be a spurious one.
Time for Google to Abandon Its Attempt to Patent Use of Public Domain Algorithm
The reason autonomous/crewless isn't really feasible or worth investing in is that most container ships only have a crew of about a dozen, and they are generally from low-wage countries so that their salary costs are far out-weighted by the fuel.
Telegram did something the government didn't like, so the government tried to ban it and failed. All of the mess this caused is entirely the fault of the Russian Government, because Telegram didn't make these changes.

I'd see thinking otherwise as a form of Victim Blaming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_blaming
Given that its pretty easy to go for a few days without eating, once you let your body adjust to it, this sounds plausible to me. Besides, on days when I’m not working, I can easily go until 4 or 5pm before eating (and then only eat once more before bed).
How dare you make a negative remark towards the KING!
Title is wrong. They want to go on permanent daylight saving time.
Open source cryptography takes a step forward with the release of OpenPGPjs 4.0
Product Marketing Debunked. The Essential Go-To-Market Guide
RuntimeError: us could not be resolved on safari iPhone X :'(
Well, to be clear, the Supreme Court has not ruled on this case yet. The Department of Justice is part of the executive branch, responsible for the enforcement of the law.

As for what the difference is, I'm no expert on law, and can't confidently provide an answer.

To me, the difference seems to be that while white students may be slightly discriminated against through affirmative action, asian students face much larger hurdles.

The Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action have not decided anything as clear cut as "affirmative action is completely allowed", nor "affirmative action is not allowed". From my understanding, explicit quotas are not allowed, but if a school can reasonably argue that their use of affirmative action serves its "education goal", then it's allowable.
Django LTS won't fix one line for Python 3.7 compatibility
this might sound really awkward but a few weeks ago two chinese linkedin accounts approached me and asked me to attend a career fair based in nyc and boston but i declined and said I don't understand/ can read Chinese. sorry. And now this news comes out.
I think the bigger thing going on is Chinese companies setting up "AI labs" in Silicon Valley to juice their valuation. I'm looking right at you JD.com...
because there's a different standard you should hold a street hawker to vs a high end restaurant.

to be clear, you should be paying attention to the tastiness of the food (usually comfort food) and the atmosphere of something like a street stand in asia, where you might comment on attention to detail and innovation at someplace like coi.
Note that when the lower 32-bit eax portion of the 64-bit rax register is set, the upper 32-bits are unaffected.

That sounds like wishful thinking, and indeed would be expected by someone familiar with the 16-32 transition of the 386 (modifying AX doesn't change the upper 16 bits of EAX.) Instead of getting even more 32-bit registers, or even 64-bit registers accessible in 32-bit mode, AMD64 gave us a weird not-quite-fully-64-bit extension.

I've heard the "partial register stall" excuse multiple times, ostensibly valid but only if you insist on thinking in "partial registers" instead of simply more 32-bit ones as input. For example, some variants of the divide instruction use EDX:EAX (or RDX:RAX) for its input.
It’s very dangerous to purchase anything on the illicit market. I’d rather someone just have the effects of addiction and the drug itself to fight than also flipping the dice on their lives every time they use.
One solution is to use environment variables.
7 PM ET [1]

6 PM CT

5 PM MT

4 PM PT

? :)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%227+pm+ET%22
But if you don't travel or have business abroad or whatever, what's the point of having the same hour everwhere ?

Besides, if you phone somebody on another country, you still have to figure out if 3am utc is ok. It's the same amount of work and as easy to memorise than an approximate time zone.
I like to keep a bell in my PS1 so I get notifications automatically.
You could troll them.
Isn't hydrogen difficult to store? I've heard that it will leak out of just about everything.
Well, it's representative enough for an opinion poll, which this was.
"Consumers expect a single, national approach to keeping our internet open, not the confusing patchwork of conflicting requirements passed today," USTelecom CEO Jonathan Spalter said after the vote. "The California Assembly's vote today keeps the country strapped into a rollercoaster ride of state net neutrality regulations, but won't get us any closer to the stable and consistent net neutrality protections consumers deserve in the long term."

Well, then, Mr. Spalter, can we count on you to push for the same bill nationally?

Also, I think you’re out of touch with what I expect as a consumer.
Companies that take negative externalities and make them real for the customer at a profit are good solutions available to entrepreneurs. Charity is a good case for this. Government reactions to negative externalities have so far been pretty dismal.
Some, I've posted about this before but in many areas of Oakland parking is so inexpensive/free that cars are parked basically indefinitely. If you then want to just run into the bank or pick up take out (and you are driving) your options are drive around for a long time to find a spot, stop in the bike lane or just leave your car in the middle of the road. As someone who drives and cycles routinely I understand the choice. In Berkeley parking is time limited and expensive and you can usual find a spot to run in quickly.

I don't mind ubers quickly stopping to drop someone off on a non-separated bike lane as long as they don't cut people off and signal and merge safely. I'm happy to wait behind them or merge around just like a car would had they stopped in the main traffic lane. We can share the infrastructure, just don't leave your car in the bike lane!
It can. It's just not the case with google, as they proved again and again in the last 5 years.
Yes, this is a good point. Then I guess YouTube is a common carrier and needs to be treated the way the FCC treats broadcast TV and cable.
First ship was built 1924 so it's almost 100 years old tech by now. Still cool though.
What is the difference between subtyping and subclassing? It looks confusing to me.
Now we will also get a few posts normalising cheating.
Seems reasonable that the Chinese feel like they have more to gain through economic espionage against the US than they do through political espionage.

I would guess there are countries against whom the Chinese would do the opposite, where economic espionage isn't worthwhile but compromising the government is.

The US, on the other hand, probably has more to gain through political espionage against the Chinese than through economic espionage.

All depends on what you think you need?
Ah ha! Thanks. So yeah, if you have an executable in your PATH named cargo-foo, then “cargo foo” will execute it. But we’re planning on having that style of functionality in the future as well, the cod name is “tasks”, but it still doesn’t have an RFC.
Arbitrarily upgrading dependencies is how insecure versions get spread in the first place so saying rapid updating helps against it is null at best.
Copyright treats music, lyrics, and recording as separate entities. The recording of a song is a derivative work of music and lyrics. I'd strongly favor shortening the copyright on audio recordings, while keeping the copyright for music and lyrics strictly with the composer and writer, respectively, for a longer term.

The same could happen for video recordings and their screenplays.

I think maybe the "works for hire" regime needs to be changed such that employees own the copyright to their own contribution to a work, and the employer just gets an automatic perpetual license only to works created while on the job, exclusive only as long as the employee remains employed, and the final aggregated commercial product is a derivative work from many sources. So if you can reassemble the same team of actual humans as the original, you can re-do the work of putting their contributions together, and acquire a new copyright on a new aggregate that could be nearly identical to the older aggregate.

So you only hold a monopoly on a movie as long as the majority of key contributors in that long credits scroll at the end continues to work for you. If you fire too many people after production wraps up, particularly the script writers and scene planners and digital modelers, they could get together, compare notes, and do a shot-for-shot remake at a fraction of the budget, because their part of the work has already been done, and you lost exclusivity when you fired them.

That would surely invoke a new form of Hollywood Accounting, but at least it would encourage creators to create works with some durance in preference to consume-once ephemera. And you wouldn't end up with great artists in poverty even as their works make their current owners heaps of money.

It is still important work to turn an artwork into a viable commercial product, and to assemble and manage teams of artists to great something together greater than what could be produced individually, but that added value should not make the middleman the sole gatekeeper for the source works, forever.
I think you'll get as many answers as there are opinions.

FWIW, to me the line in the sand is drawn where you need to build it in a reasonably cost efficient manner. (Which is to say, most science involves engineering to some degree. NASA and the LHC need to try to make what they do fit in some budget at the end of the day.)
Yup. Hence my former coworker's business, Promethean (coolectrica.com), which makes milk chillers designed for markets where there is grid power, but it's intermittent and you can't depend on it being up when you need it.
Not because it's the vehicle equivalent of giving up on your dreams?
It depends on the proportionality for one. High population states have absurdly diluted voting power for senate. The offices available also give some voting power - if the population is 125 and the only positions available are dogcatcher, sherriff and coroner there is less influence than say a big city mayor capable of building schools, subways, and say deciding to buy vaccines in bulk to give away for free for the sake of public health.
Signal or Keybase are not blocked in Russia. I suppose that is because they don't have many users like Telegram. WhatsApp is known to comply with Russian legislation (and ironically several of its addresses were accidentally blocked while trying to disrupt Telegram service).
> Given how quickly music becomes "old"

That only applies to crappy pop music. Good music endures for decades and centuries.
> one way to think about what education is, is process for taking your perceptual inputs, and putting them on an abstract lattice

this is an obviously useful process in all sorts of ways
but it probably does change the way you both notice things, and remember things

The problem with this is you're inducing a hypothesis via intuition and analogy. I don't see any reason to think education has the deleterious effect you're proposing. I guess it could, but I don't think there's any compelling evidence for it. It doesn't strike me as the simplest explanation.

From my perspective, I don't think there is any inverse correlation between memory capability and educational achievement. I could just as reasonably say eidetic memory decreases as language skills develop because we no longer have as much need for episodic recollection versus semantic recollection.

But neither of these proposals is grounded in anything empirical, it's intuitive speculation based on limited anecdata. The simpler explanation, by Occam's Razor, is that educational achievement trains memory faculties.
Pretty much any social network is a dictator's wet dream. Dictatorships in the past hired entire departments to identify who was linked to who. Nowadays is seems that all it takes to access the same info is sending a legal letter to someone managing a database somewhere.
You're quite right, it's important to set the context. But no matter what context you pick, your choice is costly:

* We're going to stick with C and its standard library: lots of room to continue to make errors.

* We're going to stick with C, but it's OK to consider an alternate implementation of strings: the C standard, the standard library, and lots of other C libraries are full of functions that deal in char* strings, so you're stuck with them. Also, runtime overhead increases.

* We're willing to consider other languages: other languages have compiler overhead, semantic overhead, runtime overhead, or all three. Also, you still have to interoperate with C.
The man page suggests it's equivalent to "vim -R". I usually use that because "view" seems to ignore my .vimrc for some reason.
That's great, but why just Ghost? Why didn't you create a tool that would just extract your content from Medium and let you use it anywhere else? Now I'm just trapped on Ghost!