skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One thing I wish QGIS had though is a command line interface.

You can do lots of geodata transformation using the wonderful GDAL suite and lots of QGIS' transformations are just wrappers around it anyway - in fact QGIS often tells you the exact GDAL command it is going to run (and then conveniently loads the results in the GUI).
The business of 4K streaming in 2018 (IBC 2018)
> massive multi-level arcades in Akihabara

Anyone been to these in Japan? Sounds fun.
I think of engineering as the practical counterpart to science. Science is finding patterns/uncovering truths/building and testing models; engineering is the deployment of technology to fulfill an objective.
If the single-world interpretation is not true, wouldn't it mean that quantum physics is useless?
What use is a quantum computer if the algorithm shows different results to different users?
That's a bunch of generalities, though; are the specific accusations about fanduel or records of them benefiting from mistakes like this?

"Well, they probably took advantage of people" isn't a very good argument.
Well, that's the thing, they don't _have_ to correct. Look at Enron. They were huge and I can clearly remember people buying in post revelations saying: "oh it's going to come back".
Learning a different language opens one's mind up to new and unexpected (often seemingly logic breaking) styles and modes of thinking. It's a naivete-busting experience. The more languages you know the less naive you're about the world around you.
While there are QGIS users here; I've been trying to find a way to create transit maps from QGIS. Does someone know of a plugin that could help?

I'm fairly new to QGIS, and I'm enjoying a lot of the smaller things about it, especially QGIS 3. We were mapping some minibus taxi routes over the past month, and I needed to do some conversion of files, export PDF maps and a few other things (snap to route, distance calculations).
I normally write something from scratch with turf.js or rustgeo, but I found QGIS very satisfactory.
There is absolutely no reason to collect and store window dimensions, other than for fingerprinting and tracking. Sure it might be an interesting piece of trivia for the dev, but it's not necessary for the dev to "make sure the website works great on all of those dimensions", since that much is already obvious and presumed when making websites these days.
I worked in a factory that produces critical parts for both the nuclear industry and the silicon fabs. Their main software stack is old dos software with a win95 front end bolted on running in compatibility mode with an integrated database that went obsolete in the early '90s.

I asked them what protections they took against hacking, and they told me that nobody would be interested in what they do, so they didn't have to spend any money on protecting themselves.
I think they have plenty of choice. They can say "no", tell these regressive regimes to go to hell, and simply not manufacture/sell their product there, where-ever "there" may be.
What if a developer's machine was somehow compromised and the bad version of the file was put into the actual repo or deploy?

In a complex environment, that's a complex problem. In mine, it's not a big problem. Keeping the security routine on an external device with no other function I think helps. And since the device is on a completely different network, and a cellular connection with changing IP addresses, if someone was targeting the company they'd never find it.

That's the theory, anyway. So far, so good!
why have one pivot at all? why can't french be the pivot between spanish and english?

if we must have one and you believe in euroversals, then german and/or french might be better than english…
I also don't understand what this javascript library does. "We just show you the essentials: pageviews, referrers, top pages, and screensizes." The information is already there in the server logs, which gives even more accurate numbers. Why would I want a slower website, with less precise tracking? The only new information is screensizes, so I don't see how it's worth any effort to install a library like this.
That's a summary wiki article, more detail here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact

also:

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/09/18/technology/ap-us...

>Targeting job ads by gender is illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
> No more bold than their constituents support it. I suspect that neither of us has viscerally satisfactory direct evidence for their respective positions.

It's not particularly bold to assume that convincing Democratic voters to repeal an obscure law that the AFL-CIO vehemently supports is an uphill battle.
Riders ride on the sidewalk because it's far more dangerous to ride on the street... cars are already not paying attention to bicyclists/motor cycles, are we to expect them to pay attention to scooters?
Anyone who inspires me to be better. Highly subjective.
AI may not be bad news for workers
Wow, from your link:

>"As I noted only recently, Google reCAPTCHA has a 99,3 % global marketshare in CAPTCHA services.

No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA uses Google’s knowledge and insights about you from tracking you around the web to determine whether you’re a computer or a human; instead of asking you to pass a cognitive tests. Google seem to have reduced confidence in their ability to identify you as a human with reduced tracking and an unusual number of unique users (every website is assigned different tracking/user ID/user instead of sharing the same ID) from your IP address."

Google has literally become a gatekeeper for substantial part of the web. I had not seen that statistic before. I'm surprised this particular point is not discussed more. More recently I have just stopped using captchas when possible. I just won't sign up for the service. I'm not sure how else to fight this. The idea that you should penalized for trying to protect your privacy is truly reprehensible.
I am interested in upgrading my GPU. I am a bit disappointed on the performance of the 2080 for most games out now, but the future could be very pretty! The 2080TI seems real impressive, but that cost makes my eyes water a little. I suppose I will hold out a little longer and see what AMD releases next.
Am I the only one who thinks "White Shark Café" is a great prey for hipster bands and also needs to be protected. A trademark, maybe?
How Dieselgate saved Germany’s car industry
I mentioned Google Analytics in my essay/overview.
The reason why I think GitLab has been massively overvalued and why GitLab will ultimately fail is because it is storming head on into becoming a stale company.

Normally a startup is innovating in one vertical, disrupting the market with new ideas or technology which enables users and the company itself to profit of those innovations. This continues normally until the startup has become number one in that vertical. Then it must defend its spot against other newcomers who want to disrupt. Part of the defence is diversification, use the capital to disrupt in other places as well. This has been the natural progression of every successful business I know. At some point that company is so big though, competing in so many verticals that it becomes stale. It stops innovating and is constantly on the defence. Only innovation comes through acquisition which is often just a way to defend your spot by buying early.

GitLab is sort of not even trying to become number one in one vertical. Like the CEO said in his interview, GitLab already competes in 9 different verticals (JIRA, Jenkins, GitHub, NewRelic, Artifactory, etc.) and they are not near the top anywhere yet. They are going to become stale before even reaching a single peak in any industry. So far they have not innovated anything yet. Their only innovation is "free private repos" and "cramming 9 different domains into one product", which is nothing more than a pricing strategy and a lack of focus and not an innovation. It's painful to watch. Their business model looks like their products: an absolute mess.
I'm not sure I follow. Do you think improving in other areas means the focus is no longer on the dev?

Github, when it came out, was the only platform that even had proper profile pages for developers. They coined the whole "social coding" thing. I find that whenever I interact with other people on the site, I actively look at their profiles, their contributions, etc.

An example of a recent-ish feature they added which IMO is a good example of "focus on the dev": Comment authors are tagged as "Owner", "Member", "Contributor" and "First-time contributor" in comment streams.
> If I live in commute range of the same location, why pay me 35 grand less?

If you are doing location-based pay at all, you can't really apply his rule because very large areas are connected by within-commute-distance links such that if you never distinguished places within commute distance by pay you'd essentially eliminate location-based-pay other than across high-friction borders or places that are (either in fact or at least for transit purposes) isolated islands.
This has been studied to death, seriously, it doesn't need to be argued here. Actual traffic engineers design roads all the time for a particular speed limit. A lot of the actual limits implemented, however, are purely political. And basically ineffective, as has been documented repeatedly. If you want people to go slower, there are easy ways to achieve that through correct road design.
Last I checked, in the EU or the USA you don't disappear in the middle of the night never to be seen again because you are:

-follower of different religion

-saying the word "democracy"

-critisizing a politician/the government

so yes, first things first.
But there you are just paying for additional storage, not for email service
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18017224
Totally agree. I live in the South Bay and occasionally ride a Bird scooter between the work bus and home. There's no way I'm riding on the bike lane without a helmet and I can't carry a helmet with me everywhere on the off chance a scooter is available. If anything characterizes drivers in this town it's their inattentiveness.
What changed?

Did your appearance / demeanor / etc change?

Are you asking for a higher role / a lot more money?
Not software, but I supervised QC inspectors at a medical manufacturer. R&D engineers would constantly try to steal their time to inspect some pre-production part, when we were trying to supply the $250k+ per day manufacturing floor with production parts that were backordered and running out on the floor (we had horrible issues with supply, but that's another story). Sure, your "brand new" part needs some pre-production inspections, but not right now since that part isn't needed for a few weeks. Once I got it into their heads that if they absolutely needed a part NOW they should come to me (so I can work it into the schedule) they always got their parts on-time from us.

I'm sure this is similar to a software workflow with QA, where every developer is vying for limited QA time, so I don't think "getting furious" is too far a step.
Sure, as long as we remove the financial aspect of it. Right now enforcement is more about revenue, so we need to cut that link before we get wild with automating enforcement.
It would be interesting to deploy a few of them in different places and check that they all see the same as well maybe.

That's a great idea. And since they're only $5 each (I think I spent $15 with the power shield), it's not a big deal.

Also did you do this as a belts and braces thing or is the system you are auditing particularly high security/risk in some way?

When I got here, most of the web sites were riddled with worms and trojans and spambots other bad stuff. One by one I just nuked them and started over. This was a deliberate isolation to keep an eye on things in case the sites or the dev machines ever got compromised.
Where I live, lawmakers and police openly admit that 10-15 mph over is perfectly fine, and expected.

Unfortunately, assurances from lawmakers and police are worthless unless they're written into the law. No matter what they might say, you're still open to legal liability for going even 1 MPH over the posted limit. Worse, this attitude makes the problem more difficult to fix—once they get everyone used to going 10-15 MPH over the posted limits they can't very well update the signs with the real speeds since that would lead people to think they can go 10-15 MPH over what the new signs say.

Selective enforcement results in injustice. Any law which is routinely broken without penalty should be considered null and void. Either set the limits properly and enforce them strictly, or do away with them entirely.
AndroidRate – library to promote Android app by prompting users to rate the app
They swear it will be finished this year, which they've said before, but there is actually construction currently ongoing at the site, which is a good sign, I suppose. I live north of Orlando, so I have to drive by it anytime I head that way.

As for building codes, I'm not sure. I just moved back down to central Fl after living in Gainesville the past 20 years. I do know that 30 years of living in Florida has taught me to never buy a mobile home. Hurricanes flatten those. I feel bad for the folks that don't have the ability to afford something more sturdy.

There's a lot of new construction in the next neighborhood over from mine (old golf course turned housing development), but I'm not sure if they're stick-frame houses or concrete. It's also an upscale development, not lower-middle-class.
But it's ok to ask stupid questions that could have just been googled? That makes lots of sense!
I'm genuinely curious to see how this works out. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I'm not part of it - but I can't help be fascinated.

Growing up, we cared what the neighbours thought. They were our "social score". If we skipped school, it'd be noticed. If we misbehaved, they knew it. And little old ladies ensured bad news travelled faster that twitter.

Now life feels anonymous, and it feels like this has been lost. Anonymity, while sometimes valuable, often leads to toxic behaviour online. A lot of things we'd never have dreamt of doing with the 'old lady brigade' judging us. And now the real world feels much more anonymous, and I fear the same happening here too.

On the face of it, it seems like China have figured out how to scale the little old ladies. This could be horribly interesting, or simply horrible. But I think I'm glad to see someone (else) give it a shot.
It's mostly due to them not paying developers enough and also having a cavalier attitude about engineering concerns. Their free product is a loss leader designed to sell you their B2B and it doesn't need to be great it just needs to be used. As with the rest of their philosophy the less they spend and can get away with the better for them. From their perspective.
Besides... optimizing a site for specific window dimensions? If I see conversion rate is lower on a certain band of dimensions, something likely doesn't display properly. It'd be impossible to test every dimension.
“How fascism works”, Interview with book author Jason Stanley
Ease of use might be the criteria when you are a student. However as soon as you start to depend on it for a living you realise that scikit-learn made enough serious mistakes such to have lost my trust in it and I am forced to pay the ~$15.000 for matlab until some alternative is available.
I wish you could turn off the hover effect once you have typed in your county.
You can just set up Tripwire to do this sort of thing

I wanted something that was completely independent of the machine. Separate box, separate network, separate architecture, etc...

What that won't do is save you from malicious code inserted into 3rd party content (script libraries, etc.) that you load from a CDN. If you're worried about that, you should make a copy of a verified version and serve it yourself.

I don't CDN on work projects. It's not worth the risk. If something goes wrong, I'd rather it be my fault and something I can understand and fix, whenever possible. Farming stuff out just leads to layers of things that can break, be compromised, or simply go wrong.

Again, it works at my scale (about 15 sites). It won't work for everyone.
The routers I am talking cannot do packet processing on the CPU. We are talking about 3.2 Tbps per linecard with 10 linecards per router.

All data plane activity is done on custom in-house ASICs called network processors (NPs). The CPU only handles control plane traffic and general administration.
I’m just starting to learn the process of capturing and mixing 360 sound. I’m confused though, is the “only” benefit of buying an ambisonic mic just have to do with the ease of workflow? Sort of how it’s best to use a matched stereo pair for stereo recordings if you want the best result with the least hassle?
"Their business model looks like their products: an absolute mess."

Quote of the year
Interesting. The DeepSpeech github indicates that it's not capable of realtime transcription, even using a GPU. How is that fast enough for this use case?
Could there not be value in knowing how many pixels your users have available to view your things? You could presumably get that information from device characteristics but then could also presumably use that for fingerprinting.
Facebook yet to comply with EU consumer rules, Airbnb in line: EU sources
> > Tilray jumped as much 55 percent to in New York Wednesday to $240

It was at $295 prior to Liquidity halt today.
Isn't that why you just use the bluetooth capabilities of your car and then use the buttons on the steering wheel? :)

That said, I don't drive much. At all. I do bike, so I have used the similar feature of the headphones I wear. Never wanted to try and use the phone.
Go 1.11 Rocket Tutorial
https://www.programsnow.com/
Interesting approach; good luck
You can use the GTFS that many agencies put out. There are a bunch of tutorials and tools out there to help; mainly people import it into a PostgreSQL database that has the PostGIS extension installed. Here's an example: http://opendesignarch.blogspot.com/2014/03/loading-gtfs-data... and another tool to help http://cbick.github.io/gtfs_SQL_importer/html/index.html
The best example on that album was the missile going through the "air" towards impact. A good demo of the technology.
This is not mathematically necessary at all. This just reads like astroturfing for an overpriced mic retailer.
security by obsolescence is a thing too
The likely truth is that any attempt at gov't enforcement of driving behavior at this level would immediately result in the politicians suggesting it losing their job. Maybe in Europe it would fly (I'm not convinced, though), but in the USA definitely not.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TLRY/options?p=TLRY

The stock moved up so much today that you can't see any calls that are out of the money or puts that are in the money on the main page of options on yahoo finance... (as of 3:16 PM ET)
Because she's no longer at ETHZ and normally they would add her current affiliation.
I've got some bad news for you re: amazon tickets... :(
Actually there is, this is one of the most interesting metrics. It doesn't have to be precise though, rounding to nearest 50px would be more than enough. I would argue that height and aspect ratio should be collected too. (I didn't downvote you FWIW)
Great news! For Kitspace [1] I am currently working on re-purposing GitLab for electronics projects. It's good to see that "upstream" is getting more financial support.

I believe GitLab being open source is going to save me a ton of time and it could do this in other areas as well. I always thought GitHub could have been a much more remarkable product if it had been open source given its community. Let's make it happen with GitLab.

[1]: https://kitspace.org
They tried it, but after backlash they backed off. https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianahembree/2017/09/09/consume...
I had the same thought upon first viewing, but actually liked it much more after seeing again.
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List of emotions
Qubic – protocol that specifies IOTA's solution for quorum-based computations
Wow those are interesting.

I'll need to do some digging on the UK government, to see what they were up to back then.
Maybe you shouldn’t ride one then?
There are a bunch of weed stocks with these same types of numbers. See weed.to and Aurora Cannibis. It's mostly speculation as to what the market might become. Like a startup forecasting numbers tends to be worth more than one that is actually in the market.
More crosswalks, and enforcement of their use, could also reduce the risk to pedestrians. There is room for give and take here. Trying to retroactively enforce 20mph limits on fast roads is pretty silly, just design the damn roads better and it wouldn't be necessary.
I live in a city doing a scooter pilot with a few companies including Bird. My observation has been that many, many scooter riders are:

* Breaking traffic laws(blowing through stop signs)

* Riding in the streets and through intersections without paying attention to traffic

* Riding quickly through parking lots without paying attention to traffic

* Riding unsafely on sidewalks

* Riding without helmets

Generally, being oblivious to any safety responsibility. I witnessed a guy the other day riding down the sidewalk with one of those long skinny beer packs across the deck flopping around and sliding off with something else in his arms.

It's super stressful operating a vehicle around the hot spots with this erratic, illegal behavior going on however I have yet to witness a vehicle plow them.
GitLab is far superior to GitHub
If we creep toward perfect enforcement the legislators and the cops should be in prison long before you or I and there will be nobody left to write laws or enforce laws. Of course that's assuming that they have to follow the same laws that we do. /s
In English?
>"I've been a long-time Github user and believer and vaguely followed Gitlab since their beginnings. Much as I admired their company and business, I had a lot of problems with their UI, UX and scattered focus."

I had a similar experience where we had gitlab in a previous job(recent past.)

The scattered focus seemed to be manifest for me anyway in their documentation. Finding documentation often involved going down a rabbit hole of user issues rather than looking in the official documentation. Additionally I found a lot of the documentation seemed incomplete and read more like internal notes than anything else. The contrast being github which has very polished and thorough documentation.
There are not many shares available (mostly locked up by insiders) and the whole sector is the new bitcoin for retail traders. Call it the Robinhood effect. It's going to be ugly when it pops.
> handle bars came off

I pulled the brake lever on my road bike once, and it FELL OFF. Went right into the front spokes and launched me over the handlebars like a cannonball. It was like putting a metal rod right into the front spokes.
Neat! So yeah, reducing Result to ! and inferring errors makes this way less boiler-plate-y. One of Rust's core design decisions is that we should never do type inference for function definitions, so we can't do this.

And yeah, if you hold a pointer to the allocator instead of parameterizing by it, that helps too. With that in mind,

fn append(&mut self, item: i32) -> Result<(), Box<Error>> {
v.push_back(item)?;
}

In today's Rust, which is sort of what already happens; a given instance can't change the allocator, but refers to the global one. I don't have a great handle on the tradeoffs from keeping a pointer vs parameterization.

Anyway, yeah, if we allowed for inferring the error type, that would make this almost the same as Zig here. Stealing your syntax:

fn append(&mut self, item: i32) -> !() {
v.push_back(item)?;
}

A four character diff from current Rust. Very cool! Thanks for the elaboration. That's quite nice.
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