skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made an attempt to acquire a piece of property similar to this. I found that in Utah, eminent domain can be used by anyone to condemn property that is not being used for a public purpose, if you are going to use it for a public purpose.

An abandoned 65k square foot jail in my town had been unused for years, and I sought to turn it into a huge public Makerspace. I fought for years to get it, but the judge finally just refused. He didn't read the actual law.

There was a huge conflict of interest, and the mayor at the time(John Curtis, who is now a congressman) had other plans. He sold the property to an insider only netting the city $100k.

I lost the case, and my faith in politics and the rule of law.

I'm so sick of people getting away with fraud and corruption. I've seriously lost all motivation to build things.
23k LOC of Elixir in Production: What We Learned
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I'm doing the same thing, and I chose FastMail. It was easy to set up with a custom domain, and I've been making heavy use of aliases and plus addressing which I like. At least for my purposes, the web client is every bit as capable as the Gmail interface. I haven't tried to import mail from Gmail yet, but it looks straightforward.

The big drawback I think is that Gmail was the interface for Hangouts/Voice, so I either need to find good alternatives for those things, or keep my Gmail account around for that purpose.

I guess it feels a little weird to be paying for a personal email account, but for a single user it's not awful, and I end up owning the entire address. I think it's worth it.
a16z invests $15M into MakerDAO
Not that I see this as totally implausible but I would love to see a source for this claim.
Media Darling Ivy League Food Scientist Brian Wansink Resigns
That inflation-corrected $21 million was only for materials, not even all of them, that had to be transported from Europe and put together again.
I'm reminded of the YouTube video that took a considered look at the mail-order bride industry. The conclusion was that it's expensive, you have to worry about companies scamming you out of your money, or less maliciously and more commonly, simply not doing their best to solve your problem and letting you rack up tens of thousands in fees, but for the most part, it's an avenue for real people with real problems to find a solution for them, and the outcomes are largely beneficial.

What we need to do as a society is to protect the unsophisticated from scams that they are entirely unprepared to spot and avoid. Like bringing workers over from other countries, taking their passports, and basically turning them into slaves.

Compared to that, this is far less wretched hive of scum and villainy. But even wretched hives are better than no hive at all.
Lambda does have a learning curve, and so does deployment safety. Many Python deployment strategies are kinda interesting because they simply always re-download the packages. Lambda doesn't allow this.

And they were close to a solution. They have a CI pipeline which can and should be doing the packaging for them. The Linux image only has to be close enough to Amazon Linux, not exactly Amazon Linux. Heck, even CodeBuild uses Ubuntu [0].

It also doesn't help that there's a lack of information or simply misinformation out there. Sometimes I think frameworks with a very specific use-case like Zappa do more harm than good. Yes, it's easier to get running, but it doesn't give you a general purpose solution and makes you think everyone is just hacking around the mess.

Serverless' serverless-python-requirements is a good solution if you can't be bothered having the CI do the packaging/artifact creation.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/build...
Is there a good description of what those $100 in parts for satellite work are? Or better yet, something purchasable that's likely to work? I've been wanting to get into it, but I've never found a really accessible guide to getting started in satellite communication.
SiriusXM to Buy Pandora for $3.5B
My favorite manager was a new store manager at a box store I worked at while finishing my degree. I generally haven't had great tech managers. This store manager was great because he was an outstanding team player who knew the rules of the game and who identified and trusted the strengths of his employees. He didn't micromanage. Sometimes he let you fail.

As a team player, he was out on the floor during the busiest retail times. The best floor associates in retail work well with each other as team players and pass tasks around, but you have to know which other members are competent and reliable. This guy was 100% both and let you know he was another team member and available for anything; if you were running to get a forklift, you could send him to an aisle where you saw a customer looking lost, have him haul goods to checkout, grab him to help load a car.

He trusted his employees and identified and rewarded excellence. I was a customer service queen at my store, and he saw that and told me, then gave me an award for it, and a raise based on it. One time when we had an unusual customer mess-up and a cashier called me to fix it (because she knew I would do everything to make it work), I pulled a team together and got it done, but he gave just me, not my team, an award for it, when I really thought it was team work. Later I realized he was right, that the task had first required a team builder (and, yeah, I got my teammates awards, also). The few times I called him as a manager to resolve a customer issue, he just stepped in and took over, never requiring me to explain my side (which didn't matter, the customer wanted something I couldn't provide, so I got them a manager), because he not only let you do your job, he understood what his was. He paid attention. He knew who was contributing and how much.

Mostly though, if you were good at your job, he knew it, he acknowledged it through opportunities, awards, and raises in addition to telling you, and he let you do it, while he did his job.

Oh, eventually some startup snagged him.
I believe these are the kinds of ideas that might actually create a genuine engineering culture in software development. Until we start applying this kind of rigor to our work, I don't believe the title of "Software Engineer" is justified. It doesn't have to be TLA+; it doesn't have to be any particular tool or technology or pattern or whatever. But the attitude that rigor and formal technique is worth the additional effort is something that I don't find often in the current culture, or at least the narrow slice of it that I've experienced.

The quote at the end sums it up nicely. Coding should be the easy part. A sentiment everyone tends to nod their head along with, but rarely has the discipline and willpower to implement.
NewSQL database systems fail to guarantee consistency, and I blame Spanner
Not at all. Just look at insurance prices based on age.
> Atlanta, and the broader surrounding areas, still have cultural scars from decades of racism

Centuries. By the way, Newnan is named after a slaveholder.

The area is also scarred by decades, close to a century, of car-centered development. It looks like the city that ought be renamed with $100k units is extremely car-dependent.
German system is doing exceptionally well. The rest of Europe has it worse - especially the eastern part.
Spark works great for me too!
I really like TiddlyWiki since it makes it easy to link everything together and organized.
It could scream in terror every time you try to turn the wrong face.
Collect Forecast Information with Angular and the HERE Weather API
Paralyzed people are beginning to walk with a new kind of therapy
Your McDonalds example is a really good one. McDonalds, as of 2012, serves about 68 million people per day. In climate migrants/day we get an aggregate of 13 million over 82 years. That works out to 434 per day. And that's on the extreme negative end of outcomes for climate change.

To give some context to the numbers here [1] are states' net migration rates. So for instance Florida currently has a huge net migration rate of 16/1k. For a population of 21.3 million that means they're seeing 340,800 new residents per year. That's 933 per day. So the entire climate migration, in the worst case scenario, will involve the entirety of the US taking on half as many residents per year, as Florida alone already does. Of course it won't be entirely evenly spread out, but it also won't be jumping from e.g. 20 people/day to 20,000 people/day. It will mostly pass without major notice and, as the article mentions, is indeed already happening.

This makes for nice shocking headlines, but this entire article is extremely hyperbolic. At the same time I don't think anybody really cares. It seems like people want to be terrified, even when the numbers in no way justify the claims. We are increasingly indeed living in a post-facts world.

[1] - http://www.governing.com/gov-data/census/state-migration-rat...
While I have heard of its use, it seems making a convincing 'carrier' may be more difficult than it seems with the limited bandwidth, and monitoring. But I may be wrong. In relation to the law it seems to violate the 'open public use' provision, but I am ignorant of the fine print. I do know the fcc is unreasonably good at finding and prosecuting illegal transmissions, but will stop short of incriminating myself or others.
I think "novemtrigintillion" was just a harmless joke about this very large number of possibilities, nothing too serious about it, I also had to Google the word I doubt anyone knew it.

> (1) Supervise the children of working adults, without interfering with their work day.

That is indeed an important objective. I want to underline that it is impossible to achieve it in practice. Each parent has a different life with their own constraint, but each school can only have one time. The complexity of school assignment and start time choice is to find a way to do as well as we can. Unfortunately to the best of my knowledge, there is no perfect solution.
> acquihire and shut down

<I should buy a boat cat> I should start a half-way decent mail app.</I should buy a boat cat>
It also helps that this document seems to be coming from people who want to build actually useful (productive, safe) systems, instead of trying to pretend they're building something useful in order to part you from your money.
BAGH!!! I just got the announcement email as well. Lame.
People just pay a $100ish 1-month premium one month every other year when they need to renew their registration. The letter of the law is irrelevant when you can't possibly afford to comply.

I didn't include it in my comment because I know that that reality is not popular around here and the specifics of how one evades paying for insurance varies from state to state.

Driving uninsured or under-insured really doesn't matter when you have no assets and are living on the edge of poverty. The idea that someone who's only reasonable way to get to work is driving would not drive just because they're not insured is laughable. You're not going to get insurance by not going to work. It's not really a big additional risk compared to all the other things in day to day life that could push you over the edge.

Regardless, insurance is still the same or cheaper in the US.
It is obvious in retrospect: if they major on quota-day, they minor on felonies.
My wife got her license at 24 (after returning from China). I guarantee her numbers are far better.
Well, in my experience, academics often write with LaTeX because that's what they know how to use. I've had to actually code in (La)TeX for some papers or slides, but that was pretty unusual. Most of the time, I was using it out of inertia, and because I trusted it more than Microsoft Word (which used to be very bad, at the time, I imagine it has grown better).
Sadly that's never going to happen. Maintaining feature parity between multiple implementations of that complicated app would cost way more than it's worth. I actually just noticed this morning my Slack "app" was taking up over a gig in memory...
Typical Workarounds for Compliant Logs
I can't wait to see their first publishing. With every article seemingly a sponsored piece nowadays, it's almost impossible to identify those with hidden agendas from reporters whose only interest is to fill up their quotas. I'm happy to see any news source that I can trust.

Mr. Newmark has put it correctly when he said "we're at an information war now". I have seen it first hand how information was reported incorrectly and intentionally on popular news websites just to attack and harm individuals. Our privacy is long gone as people spying on you just so they can sell your private life information to those who have interest. Information is literally being used as weapon nowadays so it's really time we need to wake up.

I hope they have enough power that will back them up as no doubt they will face relentless pressures from the big tech companies.
We have never specifically taught her any communication. She just picks things up, often after hearing it only once.
October 10 is really short. That doesn't give people much time.
Naively translating imperative code to run on FPGAs won't do much in the general case. It takes time to get data to and from the FPGA so whatever you're doing on the FPGA has to be time consuming enough to make up for the time spent shuffling data around. FPGAs tend to excel at things that are highly parallel (e.g. routing) or streaming applications (e.g. audio/video codecs), so most applications don't have obvious ways to benefit from an FPGA.
Section 97.113 of FCC rules describes prohibited amateur radio transmissions: https://www.w5yi.org/page.php?id=121

While it doesn't call out encryption by name it more broadly prohibits "messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning." I take that to include both encryption and obfuscation methods like steganography.
Well they are doing that, doesn't mean it's because of competition, maybe it was just for the talent and keeping the app up isn't worth their time and they would rather the newly-acquired employees focus on something closer to native Slack. Similar to what they did with Screenhero
I wasn’t able to find any controls for the possibility of high percent fee-funded police department having lower ability to invest in quality workforce and training.

I see the correlation, but not the causal link. Is high fee a symptom of lower effectiveness rather than high fees causing lower effectiveness? Or they have no causal link at all?

This seems pretty important, anybody else get this from the paper?

I’m interested in having this research concluded because my gut agrees with the sentiment that incentivizing police to collect fees will reduce impact on non-fee crimes. But my head won’t let me act without reliable evidence.
This project seems to just implement signatures + verifiability to clear text messages, which I think(I am not a HAM), is allowed under the rules.
Stay on GMail, but don't log-in to the web interface. Instead use Thunderbird. That way you can read your mail without being forced logged-in to search or video.

Google has been making this harder and harder though (now calling Thunderbird insecure, and requiring you to allow insecure app's in the options), but it is a good canary in the coal mine: Once I can't avoid this unified/universal log-in, I'll know Google turned me into an adversary.

With this setup I deem Gmail to be the best service for privacy and security.
There are Password Store app for Android (by Zeapo). It can be interfaced with OpenKeychain in order to use NFC key. So I think you will be able to achieve full-featured OpenPGP encryption for your passwords using external hardware key.
Interrupt handling is quick, paging isn't.
Exactly, it disables CGO. So if you cross compile Windows -> Linux the pure Go DNS resolution code gets used.
The first result in my Google search:

https://www.ucsusa.org/publications/ask/2012/NC-sea-level.ht...
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Surely it must be an incredibly complicated app, given all the memory and CPU power it requires...
I do SWE coaching and training. The topics vary: React, BDD, TDD, Serverless, delivery performance (previously known as DevOps), agile, etc...

Very few things work when you're trying to help someone "see the light". They are, in order of usefulness:

1. Pain experienced from bad choices

2. The socratic method

Everything else is varying degrees of useless.
I tried navigating to zoho.com and had no problems.
Do you have any recommendations for a good alternative to Gmail? I've already made the switch away from Chrome, but for some reason my mind blanks on email -- I can only think of Yahoo or Hotmail
There are. Males pay more than females in the US. They just plain take more risks, especially in their youth.
Brave?
This one is not encrypted. Its plaintext or compressed (gzip I think). Crypto is only for digital signatures.
Yes, if encryption was permitted, there would be a ton of interest...by commercial companies. Non-licensed users would out number licensed ones by huge amounts. It would put an end to amateur radio.
How realtime vehicle classification can improve traveling with public transport
Why shouldn't hosting be their biggest cost?
also mailfence (fr), disroot (nl)
Aren't government employees also taxpayers? The incentive is much weaker, but still there.
Think about it more, and connect the dots :).

Your comment sounds like what I hear from non-tech people. "My computer is terribly slow. Must be viruses. Could you clean it up?". No, your computer is fine and (mostly) malware-free. It's just the continuous cosmic inflation of website bloat.

(And then I think: if you were inclined to learn some tech, I'd teach you how to use NoScript or uMatrix. Alas, you'll probably need to buy a new machine instead.)
You can use a standard email client hooked to Gmail to stop Google from getting your browsing data.

You can relay your Gmail to another account with read-only access, replying from a VM with only email use (I do this on my phone). Or, only get/send your email from a VM that does nothing else.

Because it seems like there's two issues here: Google gaining intel from your email itself, and Google gaining intel from your browsing data, gained from your use of Gmail in a browser. What I've suggested addresses browsing data.
> You can't really test a bridge outside of simulations.

Just to pick a few nits, actually bridges are indeed tested during and after construction. It used to be standard practice to do test runs with near limit loads to inaugurate bridges, consisting of getting a fleet of military vehicles or water tankers to cross the bridge while surveyors monitored the bridge's response.

Nowadays non-destructive testing techniques are favoured for a number of reasons, including the fact that sensor rigs can also be used throughout the structure's lifetime to help determine its fatigue life.
I think in the mid-long run, remote workers will scramble to get out of KY. State income tax is 6%, and if you live/work in Louisville you get hit with another 2.2%. I GTFO when I realized that my state/local income tax in KY were was than enough to rent a comfortable apartment in Seattle.

Obviously I get hit with dozen different taxes in Seattle, but I'm also able to reap the benefits like decent public transit and well maintained roads/sidewalks. I seriously struggle to understand where my taxes went in KY. It's a pretty abysmal situation.
That's a great idea! The protocol can be implemented entirely separate from this first TypeScript client application. If anyone out there has gnuradio experience, I'd love to chat with them / offer support. I'd imagine the more folks use it the more we'd learn what modifications to v1 of the protocol would be useful.
Writer here. As someone who spends a lot of time in public transport I am always disappointed in current public transport planners, since they are ‘static’ and can’t handle well disruptions.

I created the public transport assistant concept to explore the possible advantages of live location data within public transport and to investigate the possibility of creating a more dynamic route planner. For example, once we know in which train a passenger is, we can check when this train will arrive at a certain station and act upon it.

My next step will be to create a minimum viable product that encapsulates a basic route planning system (e.g. OpenTripplanner) and the described vehicle classification system.

Let me know what you think, feedback is always welcome!
The lesson is "quantifying the cost of getting killed".

The method by which that lesson is conveyed to the student is the Socratic method.

The point is that the Socratic method of asking leading questions and building agreement at each stage was more effective in getting the point across than "do you understand X? OK, good."

The student constructs the knowledge him/herself and internalizes it better than otherwise.
SiriusXM is dying, if not already dead. Why do I need satellite radio when I can just listen to a podcast, or preload a bunch of music on my phone? Or just stream? 10 years ago, you could still do these things, but it was harder or very expensive. Now, you just open an app on your unlimited data phone, plug in the aux cable, and start driving.

So this purchase is about Sirius re-entering the market. I think they'll pivot pandora to be more self-serve and they'll merge the good things people liked about sirius (comedy, shock jocks) with the good things people liked about pandora (choice, freemium)
I'm self-taught. I love C. It's ubiquitous, understanding C has helped me tremendously when learning other languages, especially since many languages are basically abstractions built on C. I think every serious programmer should learn C.
> Seems like the standard end for any half-way decent mail app: acquihire and shut down.

For context, it takes a day or two to build an app that can display an SMS message correctly, and maybe 25 person years to build an app that can display an email thread correctly. This means that no matter how much money you raise, by the time you have a semi-working product it will be pretty much time for your VCs to start returning money to their LPs before you can get traction.

If you want an email client that's not going to get shut down, try Missive... They are funding their email client from a side business selling t-shirts rather than taking VC, so it's much less likely to go anywhere.
Aren't there testing frameworks that were supposed to help solve this problem?

Maybe you could engage customers qualitatively, and translate that information into software requirements and acceptance tests? I'm not entirely clear how you want to engage these kinds of users.
This sounds like the investment banks are reacting to the Goldman Sachs case against Sergey Aleynikov, either they want to avoid someone “stealing” their code, or they just don’t want to have to deal with that kind of situation. It’s certainly not right, but if you work in that sector, it’s something you need to be concerned about and take these kinds of attitudes into consideration.
note too a replay solution could have infinite steps to have to reproduce, assuming its not optimized to take any shortcuts to jump to a re-occurring state.
I never knew about this feature. This is great, thank you both! Now I just need to get used to using this feature. I jumped a bit back and forth while writing this comment and found myself reflexively using the old way, but with a little bit of time and deliberation I am sure that I will soon be using either the spacebar or force touch without having to think about it :)
Thanks for that! I wasn't going to find that on my own. You said 'used' as in past-tense... mind sharing why you moved on and what you moved on to?

(Did you implement serverless but in another language? mRuby was too cumbersome from what it sounds like, did you keep Ruby but ditch serverless? How is your stuff hosted today?)