skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think all of us (you, me, cimmanom) are assuming that cul-de-sac layouts are not urban.

Due to bad navigation, I walked through a bad area of western San Francisco on July 4 during mid day and then again on July 5 at around 2 AM. As a non-urban person I might be clueless, but I felt a lot less terrified with the deserted streets at 2 AM. Fewer people means fewer threats. I don't assume bystanders will somehow help me.

The idea that "criminals aren't going to try to break into a building if there's an audience" was proven wrong right after I left, with the Wells Fargo museum robbery happening in broad daylight with a crowd and a traffic jam.
Transferring backdoor payload with bmp, Go version demo
I knew about him, but haven't seen / heard of his talks.
Myth-busting the vibrator’s origins
I think the problem is you think everyone else know as much as you do, meanwhile the average programmer are not writing compilers and certainly don't have 30 years of field experience doing so. You imagine any serious programmer would look at your implementation and see where it's better then existing solutions, meanwhile the average programmer is blissful of not knowing the edge cases or at what scale her current tools fail. So sadly you should spend as least 50% if not more of your time at marketing and communications.
I wouldn't really say that splunk is time-series in the same way they wanted. It's mainly logs indexing, but not the kind of aggregation you'd want from numeric, labelled metrics.
Yikes, that didn’t work out so well for him
HSTS allows self signed certs as long as the cert is manually installed to the OS trust store for exactly that reason.
I just know that I have browser extension that prevents exactly that ;)
"Our i5 Mac Minis come with 240 GB and our i5 Mac Minis come with 500GB storage as standard."

The second i5 should be i7.
Do you mean 150MB per minute? That's impressive. Few years ago I didn't had this.
The difference is a reasonable transit ride puts you in the radius of a staggeringly large amount of housing stock comparatively in NYC.

But, go to the SF burbs and try to find high rises... :/
Hopefully efforts like this will make further ossification harder:

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg26385.h...
I wanted to try this bixby studio yesterday on GNU/Linux using wine, but UI was not rendering properly, but at least UI shows up with a couple of tricks, I wish this electron app was also packaged for GNU/Linux.

https://twitter.com/TizenHelper/status/1060258142452375553
Because supporting different instructions sets or extensions through FPGAs would lead to the beginning of the end for x86-64.
> Mercury is a logic/functional programming language which combines the clarity and expressiveness of declarative programming with advanced static analysis and error detection features.

This sentence on the front page succinctly tells me exactly what to expect: the main programming paradigm (logic, functional) and its main strength (performant declarative programming). So I can imagine the language pretty well. I might not know the syntax at all, but yet I can imagine, on an AST level, how known snippets might look like. In any case showing a snippet of Hello World doesn't say much about the language itself; it at best conveys some information about syntactic choices that one gets used to very quickly.
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My parents smacked me on the bottom or tweaked my ear a couple of times when I was a kid. I learned pretty fast that some situations are worth taking notice of...

It matters a lot how the parents treat you otherwise. In my case it happened rarely and it came with a scolding to clarify what I did wrong.
Does Kirchhoff's Law Hold? Disagreeing with a Master
I wish you allowed people to be more open about how you build and deploy software at Google. I asked about how a change in an angular website gets to production and the response was that they didn't know completely and wouldn't know how much they're allowed to share even of the things they do know.

I can imagine there is some fear of espionage or sabotage but I'm just asking the boring stuff about deploying a (web) front end system.
If NYC is currently at $3634 then yes, NYC has done much better than SF.

I remember getting out of college in 2005, hearing about the $3000+ 1BR apartments in NYC, and thinking "Why the hell would anyone want to move to NYC?" (I was living with my parents in Boston at the time, but looked at moving out and would've paid $650 with roommates or about $1100 for a 1BR in that city.) My now-wife was living in SF that same year and paid $1200 in rent.

The huge increases in SF rent happened mostly from 2010-2015. I paid $1400/month for a 1BR in 2009-2010 (Mountain View, not SF, but SF was still < $2000 at the time). By 2014 it was basically impossible to find something < $3000 in any transit-accessible part of the city, and apparently it's leveled off since.
Really exciting!

Unfortunately, it looks like some of the page references are broken for eggs. [0]

[0] http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/mpi
voice reports over radio seems a rather strange way of collecting weather data? A text-based form on the web seems more practical?
U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves Are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service
I've seen a bunch of these (HTML -> PDF). I've never seen a succinct answer to: "How is this different/better than taking <random web browser> and hitting "print", which at least on OS X will produce a nice PDF?"
Awesome.

I dislike the latex math syntax per the reasons stated in the github article. I also like the idea of being able to output polynomials from a math calculation in python without having to roll my own latex pretty printer (many libraries exist here, but given my infrequent use case I like to keep things as simple as possible).

If I'm honest, I had only thought of intermixing tex with other constructs from the web (e.g. Markdown) and 'lax' gave me the idea to look around. I found a few more tidbits:

https://github.com/s9w/preTeX
https://github.com/jobh/latex.py
https://github.com/lukasdietrich/untex
https://github.com/kosmikus/lhs2tex/
(cool example at https://github.com/kosmikus/lhs2tex/blob/master/doc/AGExampl...)

While I prefer vim and like the bindings, I like to have editor agnostic tools.

For those interested, I currently use pandoc, markdown, and latex -- via vim -- with an Ergodox EZ... (https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/layouts/ywYn/latest/0).
You obviously have never gotten an offer from Google nor do you have any idea how much google pays software engineers.

I am not even going to waste my time making a rebuttal to your biased opinion.
I saw a researcher present a model of theta as a siren light (vs strobe), that moves from the back of the brain to the front, in an oscillatory loop. Where theta is active, the whole of attention is integrating with the local input of the part. As a general principle, we look for "phase amplitude coupling" to describe the integration of fast (gamma) local oscillations with slower (theta) global oscillations.

Another well established oscillatory model describes binding in visual perception -- which is based on the synchronization of 40hz inhibitory interneurons in different parts of the visual field. Different parts of the same object have a synchronized inhibitory input. Theory is called "binding by inhibition gating" or " communication through coherence"
My rule of thumb from a few years ago: given the same semiconductor process, you roughly have a 40x area difference between ASIC and FPGA for the same amount of random logic.

There are few things that can be done very well on a FPGA, but most things are not, and the market for it tiny.

If you really have an application that's perfect for a CPU/FPGA combo, just buy a PCIe card with a beefy FPGA.

It will cost you, but the development of the FPGA logic will cost way more.
Looks marvellous!
A young googler in his 20s easily pulls in over a million every 4 years...
Its called, denial.
Great news!

When I applied for my present job (at a Golang/JS place), the dumb little coding exercise I was asked to do said it could be done in any language. Before thinking about whether or not it would actually be a good idea, I'd opened a new file and started hacking with this at the top:

;; you said any language

;; this is chicken scheme

And it worked! Thank you, chicken.
I found both history and geography pretty lacking at school (partly why I dropped them both before GCSE-level).

My only real memory of Geography classes is how oxbow lakes are formed.

My memory of history in primary and secondary school involved Celts & Romans (one in primary, once in secondary), Tudors & Stuarts (likewise), some unit about the agricultural revolution(? secondary school) and a short time learning about the Second World War (secondary school).

I think it probably gets better during GCSEs and A-Levels, but I only started learning about history again after Civilization V inspired me to check out some history podcasts (mainly because I felt embarrassed about not knowing anything about these civilizations and their leaders).
Show HN: Tool that generates a report on how to reduce your webpack bundle size
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Seems like a fantastic service!
It’s truly frustrating that this lengthy article defending the principle of individual responsibilty even had to be written. The fact that some people want to treat adults the same way as society treats children (=mostly freed from responsibility for their actions and potential high risk behaviour) just doesn’t represent a healthy, sustainable development.
Thank you for the link to the latex suite. I should have seen this before.

Links for the curious:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vim-latex/

http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/

http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/documentation/latex-suite-q...
What is a better business model then taking something that is virtually free and selling it at a premium !?
My parents loved me and I knew that, they sacrificed a lot for me. Physical punishment happened rarely and "for a reason".

Looking back, I don't think I was hurt by that kind of disciplining.

Anyway, something has to be used by parents to discipline their children; give them free courses, brochures, whatever with the proven methods to get kids under control.

I've seen some complete parenting failures which resulted in very spoiled and rude kids.
Depending on how you define "sane toolset", they do exist[1]...except they're in that class where if have to ask the price you probably can't afford it, and it doesn't relieve a developer of vendor place-and-route toolchain to build the application pipeline.

[1] https://www.nallatech.com/solutions/all-fpga-cards/
I usually see these concepts applied to wine. But sure, it's an important insight that they apply much more broadly.
Aardvark was a nice service, both for finding answers (a well-managed online "word of mouth" service), and for finding surprising intersections in interests with your acquaintances.
Daniel Barlow – NixWRT: purely functional firmware images for IoT
I'm sorry, but I work in this field and I find this so amazing that I don't have any sensible comments to make.

I still find the fast.ai devise paper demo[1] amazing, and that is just working on labelled but unseen classes via the ImageNet hierarchy.

In this case they do really fine grained classification on unseen classes, with no hierarchy and instead exploit plain (noisy!) text.

This visual pivot thing is something I'm going to spend the next year coming back to I think.

[1] https://github.com/fastai/fastai/blob/master/courses/dl2/dev...
The Actor Model According to Its Inventor (2012) [video]
I get a large amount of emails from recruiters. Is there any way I can sign up them up for a large amount of spam easily? Would that be just revenge?
After Protest, Booksellers Are Victorious Against Amazon Subsidiary, AbeBooks
Apple Will Keep Throttling iPhones With Old Batteries. Here's How to Stop It
And also for those with kids you have to think about them i.e. what opportunities will they have living in this area when they leave school.
$vau: the ultimate abstraction (2010) [pdf]
Apple is already blocking Linux installations on new hardware via the T2 chip, so I'm getting the feeling Apple doesn't care much about Linux support on its laptops.
it's a legitimate concern. the only alternatives to cowboy for http2 are chatterbox and ace which are both single maintainer and, as far as i know, not in wide use (even by erlang standards). for http1 you have elli but it's also never been widely deployed and it's unmaintained as of years ago
Let's not forget the Biscuit operating system by MIT just recently published at OSDI'18:

- The paper: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/biscuit.pdf

- The code: https://github.com/mit-pdos/biscuit
"Things that can happen that could break this cycle include"

Also: universities, new natural resource discoveries, natural disasters, different regulatory environments, developments in transportation.

I have a hunch that the North Coast of Canada is going to become a huge boom town within my lifetime, but it's likely to take a couple decades, and I don't yet know where the major cities will be. Am tempted to take a Northwest Passage cruise to find out, though.
Agreed. Had to uninstall it as somehow it became so laggy to the point of there being a 3-5 second delay between typing and text showing up in the editor.
I loved my time in the Boy Scouts. The organization doesn't matter if you find a troop with a good leader.
I think all democracies would benefit from referendums/petitions that simply force the legislature to put the issue up for debate/vote.
I agree with most of what you say.

If living beyond the age we were designed for is the cause, I wonder why the American Cancer Society says:

By 2030 the incidence rates among people ages 20 – 34 years will increase by 90% for colon cancer and by 124.2% for rectal cancer.
I once saw an employment agreement cause a revolt. Be sure things look reasonable from the perspective of both parties. Contracts should be as readable as possible, and only as long as required. People can walk away if things feel unfair.
Can we rule out near-term AGI? [video]
I'm not the guy you asked but I've been using PrinceXML to produce PDFs intended for customers of our client (e.g. invoices, terms and conditions, itineraries, etc.). Sure, we could just display the HTML and let either the customer or the sales agent press "Print to PDF" but it's not very user friendly—non-power users may not know that "print to PDF" is even an option—nor is it particularly practical for batch processing.

Full disclosure: If I'd had my way we would have used LaTeX templates to produce the PDFs but the previous developers had already implemented the HTML->PDF flow, so we just replaced the old, defunct service with Prince, which did a surprisingly good job, IMO.
It's in AT&T's interest to cut off 'unlimited' users who use a large proportion of their network bandwidth.

Using copyright claims to do that sounds like a smart plan.
Is this supposed to be profitable longterm assuming a ROI of >40months?

€1249.-[0] divided by €29.95/mo plus other infrastructure

[0] https://www.apple.com/nl/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini
I volunteer as a radio operator at some sport events. The main reason we use radios instead of cell phones is that it's faster to relay information and works well when you have many field stations talking to a single base station. There's quite a lot of overhead involved in making a cell phone call, and it doesn't work well when you need to relay lots of short messages without tying up the line for everybody else. With a radio you can key up and start talking immediately.
My brother has a great anecdote. He was at work talking to some colleagues and one of them said free will was all about freely choosing what you believe. Everyone else agreed. My brother argued you can't necessarily choose what you believe, to much derision from his colleagues. So he challenged them.

"OK, pick something you absolutely believe, that you have believed as long as you can remember and you are absolutely sure about. It doesn't matter what it is and it can be as trivial as you like and change your belief about it."
> Hitting the kid is simply a way to translate these long-term consequences into short-term ones that can be more easily felt.

That's a good argument for consequence-based discipline in general, but it doesn't make any case for striking children instead of imposing more effective consequences.

I've made two and three year olds stand with their noses in the corner, taken four year olds' favorite blankets, made six and seven year olds write essays and copy selected sections of books, and made nine year olds rewrite homework and clean public areas in penance for their childish mistakes. There are any number of ways to bring long term consequences to bear in the short term; I haven't yet felt the need to strike these kids to accomplish the behavioral change I wish to enact.

I also won't hesitate to yell and demonstrate anger if it's appropriate to the situation. I call it "silverback parenting".
We are primates, and have evolved over millions of years to signal dissatisfaction vocally and respect social order even from a young age. When I do it, I'm just acting, but the kids don't know that. Watch cartoons for kids and look how exaggerated the characters' emotions are; kid's often miss nuance, but they're well versed in recognizing and responding to basic emotions.

Spanking is just plain uncreative. We have so many options as parents I just can't conceptualize any situation where spanking was the best option. And I say this having been raised myself in a spanking household.
> Could you go into a bit more detail?

I'm not super lucid on it yet. Just recently encountered the experience and still getting a feel for what it is, but I'll try to share what I can.

> What does CartesianSelfAssertion feel like?

A bit disorienting, actually. Though that could just be a function of it's current novelty for me. It has aspects of feeling like waking up, or remembering something crucial, or turning a corner and finally finding your keys.

To philosiphize a bit, I'm tempted to say it's like recurively having a realization, "Oh! This is the real deal... Oh wait, that was just a dream, THIS is the real deal... Wait, no, THIS is it..." which seems quite utterly silly.

And completely independent of all that, I also feel like I'm spinning clockwise, or at least at the center of some spinning thought-sensation storm. And the angle of 30 degrees is in the mix as well for some reason. I have no idea what to make of either of these.

Then there's also a part of me that wonders if all the above is just nonsense, because it just sounds so tripped out. lol

> How often is it called---on the order of 40ms per OP, or less frequently?

Honestly, timing the interval never really occurred to me until reading the OP's comment. In my limited experience, there's definitely some bit of flexibility. In extreme cases I've even been able to halt the process altogether for tens of seconds or so, but modulo doing weird stuff, my gut feeling is to say somewhere on the order of 100ms---40ms definitely doesn't clash with my experience.

> Do you notice this only during/after meditation?

It's been most blatant in some of my more recent meditation sessions. Durning the normal course of the day it's mostly way in the background, though I can also sort of "consciously access" that awareness space to some level. Though the mathematician in me feels like "conscious access of sub-awareness processes" should be a contradiction.
That's sad. What was the basis for asserting this moral superiority? (I mean the "argument", what was the thought process here?)
A solved problem at what scale? A kid with pencil and paper can solve the problem when it's small enough.
I was going to say the same, no attribution at all, and dubious claims about how your success will increase.

I believe the talent stack is a valid principle, but it doesn't just double your success if you go to toastmasters and learn how to present and at your job you have neither a commission nor any customer contact.
I'm a tech worker in NYC and none of my firends (except one idiot) pays more than 2500 for their studio apartment within Manhattan. I share a super fancy apartment in a hirise in Brooklyn and pay less than 2K. If you're okay living in Queens you can get a 2BR with less than 1h commute. And this is not even talking about distant Brooklyn, Bronx or jersey (also less tax)
> If your system for preventing double voting is by a line drawn in pen across a voters entry in a paper printout, then you have to allocate voters to one, and only one, voting location (because you can't 'line through' in pen multiple geographically disperse paper printouts containing the same name quickly enough to avoid double voting risks).

In Australia we still use printed rolls, but we can vote at any polling place in our home state.

For some details on how we manage the risk, see 'What is a Declaration Vote at a polling place?' on this page: https://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/polling.htm
At this moment in time, as far as I can observe, before or after the update, though I may be blacklisted as a dev, and as I might as well be a shillbilly, I think I can observe..

What a determinism dystopia.. Are you sure you are not a schizophrenic hallucinating adds? Maybe observing the state of your system collapses the wave function of the dystopia tech you are surrounded by?
How buskers are surviving in cashless times
The Kernel Underground (2011)
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Heroku uses cowboy for their routing layer. If you inspect the headers in a response from an app served on Heroku, cowboy is the server. I would guess Heroku is the largest cowboy deployment. As for largest Phoenix deployment, I'm unsure.
Ornithopter
US regulator set to warn new Boeing 737 may have faulty software
I have come to believe the same.

Plus I have seen really complex and unfruitful css when a project starts customizing and extending ie Bootstrap.
The Feynman Lectures--Mechanisms of Seeing
Goodwill with whom? some local political hack sure for 6 months or so going to piss off a lot of staff and the good ones will not go.
Oh yeah! Definitely agree with this!
I think I experience the opposite, focusing on nothing in particular and only occasional brief flashes of focus, when I need to focus on something. Are people really more or less unaware of what is going on around them all the time?
Talking Tom: Managing a franchise with 8B downloads
Mathematics and Art
I assume this is not the case for most Hacker News Readers, who are rather warry of how much time their kids spend in front of screens, but just take their smartphone/favorite electronic device away and just observe how they _instantly_ internalize everything you tell them.

This is my personal experience at least, or what my non-techy parents used to do to me when I was little and it was surprisingly effective to a geek like me.