skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you want to go off on flights of fancy, then anything is possible, but there's no way to say anything useful about it.

I would guess, though I could be completely wrong, that a civilization that both had access to far more advanced 'sci-fi' level technology and wanted to broadcast it's existence would also have an understanding of the technology other civilizations would have access to and would choose to broadcast using numerous 'ancient' technologies that more privatize civilizations could pick up on.

When we sent probes out into space to broadcast ourselves, we realized we couldn't just write a message in English and as such tried to send numerous different ways of conveying information, some linguistic and some not.
Anyone who's believed that the key to sustainable futures is simply swapping out ICE for electric motors simply is being wishful at best, willfully difficult at worse.

The biggest problem I have with electric cars is that they continue to encourage low density low efficiency suburbs with hours long commutes into the high density cities. This is economically unsustainable, roads are expensive, and will only get worse as EVs pay no gas tax and weigh more than their ICE cousins. Considering that America's road system is in bad need of repair and we don't have the will or funds to fix it, doubling down on them is not a wise call.

Also, it's not like producing an EV is a carbon neutral act.
Or maybe it's going towards health care, education, and social services. What a concept
> Also, I think you should perhaps reconsider whether it's a good idea to have Donald Trumps face on your front page, no?

I'm going to make a charitable guess and says that's probably due to news articles and search hits more than any political leanings.
Look, it's not like all those countries are going to bomb themselves.
Review of Java Static Analysis Tools – Codacy Blog
Yup! Still not production-ready, but we're getting there.
Well it's right there below the headline.

> Procedures live on even after they’ve been proved ineffective. It can lead to harms and wasted resources.
Famed VC Kleiner Perkins is splitting up
I know. That wasn't the point.
Interesting idea! Is there any way to customize what the user sees next in the video based upon how they answer a question?
definitely agree with this
I could replace "git" and "cheatsheet" with "Unix" and "GUI", or "ed" and "screen editor", or any number of other difficult tasks. Yet even the experts I know today don't use Unix without any GUI -- or line editors.

I've been using git for almost 10 years now, and I've read the "concepts and fundamentals" many times, yet I still find these handy. I still google common git tasks, and take the first StackOverflow hit and paste it in my shell.

Knowing the fundamentals doesn't make it any easier to memorize overly-complex sequences of steps. Or maybe it does, but it requires someone smarter than me, or twice as long as it took to get both my college degrees. At what point do we admit that something is just too complicated?

Reading the Git fundamentals is like learning Maxwell's Equations. Great, you know the fundamentals. That doesn't make it easy to complete any possible task using them. I'm still going to use a cheat sheet (like Ohm's Law!) when I can, rather than deriving everything from fundamentals each time.
San Francisco is a big biking town and is very much not flat. You can get around on a bike in a hilly city, it's a combination of learning slightly longer but flatter routes to where you're going and getting used to the hills as you get in better biking shape.
"At Drug Store..."

Would they get in trouble for calling the place a Drug Store even though they do not sell prescription medicine?
Agreed. It can be complicated and expensive, but there are a lot of viable proposals for how to approach bicycle-friendly road design ( such as this https://bikeeastbay.org/news/lafayette-commission-approves-c... )
I love cycling. I grew up in my father's bicycle store and nearly 50 years later, he's still running the business and we've all worked in it at one time or another. I ride bikes around the neighborhood with my kids every day.

With that said, the U.S. is not the Netherlands. Like most Americans, I depend on my vehicle to get my kids to school and myself to the grocery store, which are 4-5 miles away from my house. This country is not predominately compact or dense. Cycling is not the de-facto best solution for every place. [1]

I wish we could stop bringing up Amsterdam with every conversation about bike lanes. I'm all for building bike paths over green space but I don't support the closing of busy traffic lanes to support a relatively small cycling commuter population. It creates traffic snarls, more pollution, and wastes a lot of people's time.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-vista-del-mar-la...
And creating the infrastructure is wildly unpopular, because typically it involves either taking lanes away from cars, or slowing them down.

The initiative to reduce car-pedestrian collisions in LA has stopped because the drivers put pressure on politicians to stop slowing traffic down. Advocates are implying (and sometimes outright saying) that a few dozen deaths a year are an acceptable price to pay for a shorter commute. That's how far we are from solving this problem.
Give me bicycle lanes and I'll cycle to work every day! Force me to share a lane with multi-ton metal beasts travelling much faster than me and I'll just get the bus thanks.
Mathematical Structure and Empirical Content (2016) [pdf]
I think cycling advocacy is alive and well, but the gains aren't as dramatic, because now they are incremental improvements to what has already been won. You are seeing miles and miles of shared bike lanes going up all across the US. I think back in the 2000's even that infrastructure was a pie in the sky dream. The jump to the next level of infrastructure hasn't taken off yet, but you are starting to see some cities actually invest in segregated bike lanes and bike highways. Since those changes require actual work and not just paint on the street I think they will be slower and take a lot more time, but I see them coming.

For instance, inside DC there was a number of dedicated bike lanes, and even a good number of segregated bike lanes. I could get all through the core of the city on a bike with relative safety, once you got out into the north Virginia suburbs the bike infrastructure turned into mostly painted lines, with a few notable trails and then by the time you hit the outer suburbs there was nothing, but they were starting to put painted lines out as far as Reston, VA ( 25mi outside the city )
"The financial crisis remains the most influential event of the 21st century."

Uh... I think 9/11 may disagree. The financial crisis didn't spawn wars and ISIL.
Yep, you can do that using the file backend: https://docs.traefik.io/configuration/backends/file
How many would accept median pay anywhere? 70k in the Research Triangle in NC is probably unimpressive. $70k in the DC area is piddly, and good devs and IT folks, esp. those with clearances and decent chops, are making easily $120k+. I'd image the same holds true for NYC and Boston.
The hard task is not to evade censorship. That is easy. That was always easy. You could always invent some creative method to pass information along. The hard part is to mass disseminate your information. The internet was promising in this regard but as coldtea points out, we ended up with a couple of platforms who control the whole narrative.

That is to say, we have achieved decentralised internet so to speak, and we have the web which is a means to broadcast information, but we do not yet have the decentralised web.
For anyone interested, here is a stab at a flask, nginx, gunicorn, and Let's Encrypt setup on a digital ocean server. Disclaimer: I am a rank novice when it comes to web development and would appreciate any feedback.

https://github.com/cirgue/flask_template
It is shocking because we don't officially acknowledge the existence of social classes in the USA.

All men are created equal here. It's counter to our national narrative to think of communities and areas where your life is fucked just because you're born in the wrong spot.
1. Holy shit they use FUSE, that's pretty bananas.

2. We're definitely getting closer to the era of language swappability, where language X transpiles to language Y, language Y compiles to language X, and strict code formatters clamp down on corner cases. I think it's great and welcome, but I would expect a side effect of this to be that more "free" languages pop up that allow programmers to be a little looser in their implementations.
how are they still in business?
How would that data look like? It depends a lot on your personal fitness level what you'd consider too steep. Just looking at number of cyclists has so many confounding variables that I don't think you can infer something about the influence of local geography.
Oh actually, it's giving me an idea. Someone should try to setup two teams, each supposed to develop the same software on its own. The two teams can speak to each other, they can see the other team code, but they can't merge into one team. I bet the resulting software (the best of the two software) could be significantly better than with one team. (at some point one the team could be instructed to copy the other team's software and work from there for another competition cycle)
"Free speech for me, but never for thee"
Buckley did serve in the army during WWII, as did Vidal. Both of them served stateside and never saw any action.

During the debate, after the infamous “queer” remark, Buckley said that he “served in the infantry during WWII,” implying that he had fought in battle, which he never had.
Davis, CA seems like a bikers' paradise until one visits the Netherlands. "Bike highways" with separation and clearly-marked routes. (Insert holy enlightment sound fx.)
Nice to hear I'm not the only one who feels this way. I finished a bachelor's degree in CS back in '94, have been programming professionally ever since. I went back and got a Master's degree ten years later, while I was working. At this point, I have a LOT of education, and a LOT of experience. More, I imagine, than most anybody out there. Yet I'm continously hammered for not being fast enough, not catching all the problems before they happen, sometimes not knowing the answers to questions on the spot... if I didn't have a degree in CS, I might think, "well, maybe they teach you this stuff in college". If I didn't have much experience, I think, "well, maybe you learn this stuff with experience". But I have all that and still find myself unable to solve every problem instantaneously with no margin for error. Either I'm REALLY stupid, or this is harder than they think it is.
This doesn't answer the prompt at all, which is: how do you define 'ethics'?
Hour+ long commutes are also just terrible. Terrible to live through psychologically, they waste time with you sitting still and not moving so you get fat and weak, and they are dangerous.
First they came for Alex Jones and I applauded because he was a jerk, then they came for me.
Looks great! My biggest concern and one of the reasons I'm not using Swift or C++ for a cross platform library is that most of the dependencies you (at least I need) need don't support those languages (Auth0, Firebase, Crashlytics etc...). So you end up writing more complex code to make that also work. If Kotlin native can bring those types of libraries to be supported it will be huge IMO.
It’s from the opinion column. Not sure of his economics credentials. So take it for what it is, an opinion piece.
That's not really what the article is about. It's actually about someone finding HipNewDrug is actually not effective at curing Frobulitis and in fact has adverse side effects, and yet doctors continuing to prescribe it for that condition.
Here is a git simulator that GitHub consulting uses in their courses. I particularly like the “Free Explore with Remote” mode.

https://git-school.github.io/visualizing-git/
The British government’s thirst for authoriatarian control of the net is just about the strongest in a democracy; much stronger than that in the EU.

In fact, the EU is currently making the UK’s investigatory powers act less extreme, as they’ve ruled that state-surveillance of the population at that scale, is incompatible with the human right to privacy.

I’m not the biggest fan of the EU, but they are a moderating force on the UK’s repressive tendencies.
I agree we're measuring things wrong, here are only two examples:

- it's good for a company to sell a ton of crappy cloths that don't last long and the production of which has terrible environmental impact

- it's good to produce a ton of low quality eggs and sell them
Could this corpus be tested against Cortana?
https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/historic-achievement-microsof...
> A lawyer is not allowed to stop learning about new laws; he would eventually be disbarred.

haaah. the things people believe about lawyers. merely being bad at your job isn't nearly enough to actually be disbarred.
Oh, are you in Edmonton? I've been cycling 365 since the bad old days, and it's great to see all the new cyclists out all seasons with the city's commitment to keeping the paths clear of snow. Cycling in winter really isn't much more hardcore than walking outside in winter, you just gotta dress for it and slow down a little. Honestly I prefer cold to rain. I look at Vancouver's cyclists and think 'you guys are committed!'
Other forms of electric transport, like scooters and electric bikes should be pushed more. Together with decent mass transit they solve the last mile problem quite nicely imho. But unfortunately the car lobby is extremely strong and doesn't want to lose its market.
If we insist on our limitations they will be ours to keep.
>get the people in western countries to think why they are being attacked, look into it, and realize that it's happening because of attrocities commited by their own governments in middle East

I get that you're paraphrasing here but that seems incredibly naive for someone who was fairly educated on foreign affairs

edit: talking about Osama being naive not GP
When you cycle, you are putting a great deal of trust into each and every car that drives by you.

I'll pass.
>This was always about sending a message. For that, it has to be obvious who did it.

That's the poor-man's theory of a blatant murder.

As if, if the same person was murdered with a gun, the message would be lost?

Russians would then had still send their message just fine (those in similar situation as the suspect would know it immediately), but still be able to deny doing anything and avoid all the BS hoopla going on now.

But this was a crude way to set it up so they can point fingers at Russia and have the less than average IQ public see it as "obvious".
While I get where you are coming from I would argue (and anybody alive and paying attention to the region during the 1990s would likely agree) that 9/11 was a symptom of the ongoing issues in the Middle-East (largely due to fallout from colonization and Cold War politics), and not a causal event. That is not to say the response to 9/11 didn't throw gasoline on the fire.
Exactly this. Towing should never occur unless its blocking traffic or another safety issue, at least for a week after a notice. Nobody should park their car and have it towed the same day.
So happy to see Spext at #3 :)
C# has a syntax called Linq Query Syntax that provides keywords in the language to do things like map, filter, and reduce.

Example:

var queryLondonCustomers = from cust in customers
where cust.City == "London"
select cust;

I'm not a big fan of it honestly, the function style seems more consistent and easier to read to me.
No mention of http://rosettacode.org, tsk tsk. (specifically: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks)
And there is a Docker Hub image freely licensed building from source: https://github.com/abiosoft/caddy-docker
I can't afford a condo in the big cities, I'm not sure how riding a bike will change that? In fact it will probably make it worse as people move to the cities to ride their bikes, which will make real estate there even more expensive.

Low density and low efficiency means low cost. Efficiency doesn't maintain itself.
Collision attacks allow somebody (say Greg) to produce two documents A and A' that hash the same. So hash(A) = hash(A'), with the result that signatures over A can be attached to A' and they work.

But this attack does NOT allow an adversary who sees some document B to produce a forgery B' such that hash(B) = hash(B')

If you believe Greg is a bad guy, don't let Greg make signed commits to your system. Trusting Alice and Bob to make signed commits doesn't allow Greg to attack you with a collision, only trusting Greg would do that, so don't trust Greg.
I think computer science is still held hostage to academia if you are interested in doing more creative work. There is a difference between "practical research" where you are developing new ways to solve problems or apply technology and "academic research" where you are developing computer science theory. However, if you want to do practical research, then opportunities are limited if you don't have a PhD. Without one it seems like the primary options are CRUD apps.

It doesn't seem like this is the case in other engineering disciplines or even outside of engineering.
Almost all the big cities I have been to in America have gotten way better with biking infrastructure in the past 10 years. When I went to school in philadelphia I can't remember a single bike lane or any form of infrastructure. Now in philadelpha there are over 200miles of bike lanes and other bike paths ( including buffered bike lanes !!!! https://bicyclecoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Bike...), and its easier to get around the city on bike then any other form of transportation.
In Pasadena, we just spent a ton of money trying out the Metro bike-sharing program [1]. Unfortunately, it turns out the key to making a biking culture is not just putting down a ton of rentable bikes. [2]

I'd love to see safer bike highways, but the city doesn't seem able to do more than mark the pavement with sharrows. I understand that Pasadena's urban planning model frequently pits cars and bikes against each other - but, I wonder if we could cut into some of the significant lawn space on each side of the street in order to make bike lanes?

[1] https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2018/07/09/pasadena-to-pull...

[2] It turns out people in the affluent parts of Pasadena aren't driving because they can't afford a bike.
Smaller, cleaner, more efficient transport can help? Small to moderate amounts of fitness will improve quality of life? Less cars will yield less fatalities? I don't mean to poke fun at the article--I'm grateful for it--but this is all obvious to a bike commuter from the rainy PNW.

It's time IMHO that extreme convenience comes at a high price. That is, car access to every city block doesn't need to be the status quo. Make me walk a few blocks if I drive to town, or make me use transit/etc if my car can only make it up to major city boundaries. At the very least, put high incentives in place to keep daily flows down.

There are fair solutions to be found that do not disproportionately different working classes/income levels.

Keep biking.
You are absolutely correct, but there is a really weird addendum to this.

There have been a bunch of studies trying to measure the relationship between commuting time and (subjective) quality of life. Most of them find exactly what you'd suspect: longer commutes reduce quality of life.

The weird thing is that they found a small uptick at the absolute extreme edges of commuting, like in the 5+ hour a day range. It's still shittier than a 30 minute commute, but it was better than a 4 hour commute. Nobody really seems to know why this is, but it's there.

Either way, I walk to work. There are few better ways to commute, IMHO.
Going by state in the US the difference is 6.3. If you go by all US states and territories it’ll go up to 7.9. The smaller your unit of measurement the greater the range will be. Counties are already prettt ridiculous given that some have populations in the millions and some I’m sure are in the hundreds.

If you want to compare European life expectancies you might be able to do it by Eurostat statistical region but none will have populations in the single digit thousands.
1. Bias:

(a) You included setting up your local repo from the fork in the Github list but it's implied in the 2nd list

(b) You included "Modify the code, add, commit, push, and type a comment" in the first list: this is literally how you use Git for normal development. It isn't an exclusive part of using Github

2. Network effect:

(a) Creating a Github account is a one-time step: this will be omitted for any platform with a large projectbase

(d) Most popular modern tooling/documentation/etc. are set up for the Github-ish workflows and general user knowledge of `format-patch` and `send-email` as commands is considerably more sparse.
Yeah, I generally agree. But I think our understanding of like, language popularity is a little colored by "the era of language fads". C++ is probably first, then Java, PHP, Ruby, and now JavaScript. If a language doesn't build a huge mainstream base (Ruby maybe failed at this but maybe only for lack of a big corporate backer) or 100% occupy the dev zeitgeist for an extended period of time, we think it hasn't caught on. But like, Erlang powers a lot of web infrastructure. Whatsapp is most famous, but there are a lot of services I'm personally aware of that are written in Erlang, and often these were situations where a mature dev team wanted to see if Erlang solved the problems they'd experienced writing backend services in Java or Python.

So yeah while syntax probably prevents you from achieving rockstar status or world domination, I think those days might be over, and I think the true measure of success is whether or not experienced dev teams are using the tech to solve real problems.
You should change your comment back to the original and wait for the voting brigade to stop.
You do realize that I do not live in Minnesota, and neither do I live in Minneapolis. Thus, I have no representative to contact there.
A 2 key points about well designed bike lanes that aren't bought up enough are:

1. raised / structural separation between the road and bikes path.

2. bike paths can be used for just about anything that is not a car/motorbike or a pedestrian. Skaters, skate boarders, mopeds and bikes can all share a common separated path way.

I have tried biking in Boston and it is a nightmare. Bike Lanes marked on the road are taken as suggestions by cars, rather than a proper space for bikes. Taking the side of the road causes cars to pass me too closely and taking a lane draws verbal abuse ( happened 3 times in 1 month...then I stopped). Technically Boston suburbs allow bikes to ride on empty sidewalks, but that draws silent stares and again occasional verbal abuse.

In addition to that , everyone from pedestrians to car owners seem to be complaining about the new bird bike scooters and boosted boards. With major ride sharing companies trying to move to 2 wheelers and community shared biking hubs becoming a thing, giving all the problem children their own space would be an excellent solution.

All of these alternate means of transportation run at about the same speed and can't cause fatal damage on collision. Definitively separating them from cars should significantly improve safety.

IMO, biking might be the solution that allows for zoning laws to be lax, as increased density wouldn't affect traffic as adversely. The increased density should also cut commute times. Aren't those literally the 2 biggest complaints about tech hubs in US ? The decreased pollution and healthcare benefits just the cherry on top.
Which government came for alex jones exactly?