skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument you made against the city or state solution applies equally well to the federal solution. People cross borders for housing. It takes a very strong deterrent to stop this. You can choose to help people and enforce borders, or you can choose to let people suffer and be lax about borders.
The Betrayal of Asia Bibi
Frankly, whatever "elite" was characterized by the MIT of the 20th century is the kind of elite that's good. There were far more kids with middle-class backgrounds at MIT than at your typical Ivy and they were there because they loved science and engineering. In general, they weren't the moneyed 1% or the politically-connected. That was generally reflected in the school's administration which was much less political and PC than at other universities. As such, "hacks" were treated in the spirit in which they were done as good-natured attempts to achieve the very difficult. As a notable example of that, the police car on the dome hack included detailed instructions for its disassembly and removal. Rumor has it that in the last decade or two, that spirit has been in decline at MIT. If so, that's truly sad.
"The world is going to crack wide open. There is something on the horizon. A massive connectivity. The barriers between us will disappear, and we’re not ready. We’ll hurt each other in new ways, we’ll sell and be sold, we’ll expose our most tender selves only to be mocked and destroyed.

We’ll be so vulnerable, and we’ll pay the price. We won’t be able to pretend that we can protect ourselves anymore. It’s a huge danger, a gigantic risk, but it’s worth it, if only we can learn to take care of each other, then this awesome destructive new connection won’t isolate us. It won’t leave us in the end so totally alone." - https://medium.com/@chrstphrmllr/you-are-not-safe-bebb0538e1...
The majority of people in society have a herd mentality. Thinking patterns such as one adopts the social norms and never questions them. These people observe homeless, subconsciously consider them outsiders, and treat them as not part of the herd with disconnecting from the problem belonging to everyone. Nothing will change until people stop seeking to blame Government or the Rich. Everyone has to take the blame for something to get done. I personally think everyone has become sociopaths to some degree compared to previous generations when it comes to people down on their luck.
Yes, you're right. Or the radical priests of Latin America. MLK etc. Well, there doesn't seem much of that in the US these days. Jim Jones may have had an effect - he was a model left christian most of his career apparently.
You inspired me to write a random poison script.

#!/bin/bash

VICTIM=$(find * -type f -writable | shuf | head -n 1)
CONTENTS=$(head -c 10000 /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-
9~!@#$%^&*_-')
echo $CONTENTS > $VICTIM
echo $VICTIM was poisoned.
It's not as bad here, but just the fact people are downvoting you for stating this suggests it's still common here.
It's not just animal waste. http://time.com/3974244/cilantro-feces/
You cannot just "turn them off". What exactly are you going to do?
I'll be honest: I really think Trump won at this point and the US of A has lost. We will never see the Mueller Report.
State of JavaScript – another reading [video]
cool... what strikes me about a number of these block based programming tools is they are quite approachable and complex functionality is not that hard to look at and know what's going on
It seems he's an ontologist at heart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology
aka "Too big to fail"
There is currently an excellent podcast exploring these ideas: "The End of the World with Josh Clark"[1]. Nicely produced, fairly deep content -- including audio quotes from Nick Bostrom among others.

This link is to episode 1, but for convenience in subscribing look it up on iTunes.

[1] https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/the-end-of-the-w...
The difference is if the Superintendent doesn’t want to use the software it doesn’t matter. Construction businesses live and die by the super, something these other players never seemed to understand.

The people working in the field love PlanGrid. More than one company has been forced to abandon a competitor because the field crew refused to use anything else.

Know your customers. Your real customers. Build something they want to buy. When big players enter your territory be a honey badger :)
Quillette also writes regularly about academic freedom. Here's a recent piece:

https://quillette.com/2018/11/17/the-institutionalization-of...
Planet Money just did an episode on this issue which ended with the opinion that it was highly likely to happen again, guess they were right.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/24/641739640/epis...
> The vast majority of architects just work on run-of-the-mill housing (not unlike CRUD apps) where the combination of building codes, the client's budget, zoning and other requirements often prevents you from doing anything too flashy.

In talking with civil, naval, and mechanical engineers that I know, this type of "crank out another one similar to the last one" work seems to be the norm. I used to be aerospace and thought it was just my company. New part designed, do the same type of analysis and write it up and send it to the FAA, they rubber stamp it. But it's remarkably similar in many fields. The civil guy I know says for every new road/bridge they review it's just the same shit over and over. It's just a white collar assembly line everywhere. It reduces errors and is efficient as a division of labor, but it's not very fun.
End of Cryptocurrency is near as Bitcoin drops to new lows
My experience is that Kubernetes is too complex for the average functioning product. At our company, everyone is obsessed with it because it promises no cloud vendor lock ins! But at what cost? The complexity. Also the direction cloud vendors are going in my opinion, is more hardware-centric (eg. TPUs). How will you avoid the cloud lock in when only Azure offers the image tagging machine learning as a service? How will Kubernetes solve that? I believe a balance between a small bit of lock-in, but retain environment freedom (free programming languages like python, javascript...) is the sweet spot for cloud, eg. PaaS like appengine or azure app service or beanstalk.
I'm not going to read a comment beginning "That's silly", sorry. (And which appears punctuation-free)
I didn't downvote you.

But it was a short comment intended to convey "Oops! Sorry. My bad." So you basically replied to an apology with a suggestion that the apology had committed some greater sin.

My feeling is that probably falls under the heading "Throwing the baby out with the bathwater." I don't think it qualifies as a Best Practice for improving the social climate on some metric or other.

That's not intended to lecture you. I'm just trying to make conversation on a topic I find interesting. Given the nature of the beast, I'm having very mixed feelings about commenting at all.
It's time for media companies to adopt a common publishing platform
The two reasons given to outlaw foreign bribery are awesome:

a) Selfishly, it has unanticipated consequences for foreign policy.

b) Altruistically, it causes developing countries to misspend money on stuff they don't really need (mostly arms).

The second is particularly compelling. Laws outlawing foreign bribery seem like a powerful weapon against the resource curse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse).
Gartner exists so that greasy salesdroids can convince Pointy Haired Bosses to buy enterprise shovelware without consulting with their technical staff. Then the technical staff have to try and implement said shovelware in the least odious way possible.

So much budget will be spent on this project that it will be deemed Too Big To fail. The shitty software will sit underused for a few years until everyone forgets about it then it will be quietly sunsetted.

It's sort of like a corporate job creation scheme.
Maybe in the realm of pedantry but: Getting rid of corporations is more generally a socialist idea. Anarchists advocate getting rid of unjust hierarchy in general.

Although this is somewhat meaningless in this context since large scale worker cooperatives like the Mondragon Corporation are not (usually) considered to be "bad" organizations by socialists including anarchists.

By the way, if you are confused how anarchism could be a type of socialism check out this explanation: https://medium.com/anarchist-faq/a-1-4-83ba7fe75e15
Finding life on Mars, or anywhere in the solar system, would be huge and would radically improve our ability to predict life elsewhere. If it's chemically different from earth life, that would revolutionize our knowledge of complex chemistries. If Mars life is chemically similar but independent of earth life, that would suggest that life tends to use common chemistry. If life on earth and mars has a common origin, that would tell us a lot about the early solar system. In short, N=2 doesn't sound great, but it is lightyears better than N=1.
Many restaurants in China serve cooked lettuce as a side, I found it quite odd at first but it's really tasty and with some soy sauce easy to eat by itself.
Cooking lettuce in the western world will probably raise a few eyebrows.
I'm not sure if we're speaking past each other, but it seems we're both making the same point.

The right is not advocating for the complete destruction of the Government. The left is not advocating for the removal of corporations as a legal entity.

Those two positions are equivalent and neither side has cachet at the moment.

The destruction of certain government agencies is closer to the breakup of certain corporations or industries than it is to the right-equivalent of a Worker's Revolution.
You can't rinse off what's physically inside the plant.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5404196/
That's the funny part, he is really the bottom of the food chain. Super anti-social he does his job and goes home period. Its just he has been there all these years and seen raise after raise when union got bigger chunks of money to spend. There is nothing more to the story I'm afraid.
1. On slashing environmental watchdogs - https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/11/15/news/doug-ford-s...

http://www.rabble.ca/news/2018/11/doug-ford%E2%80%99s-govern...

2. Cancelled green subsidy program (GreenON) on efficient thermostats and lights (https://www.thestar.com/business/real_estate/2018/06/20/gree...)

3. Ontario electric car subsidy is no more

4. Cancellation of 758 renewable energy projects / contracts. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-municipalit.... (paywalled)

5. Intend to open up protected areas (greenbelt) for developers. This has not been executed yet.
Repair or Replace your broken tech: How to decide?
so instead of rent you pay interest, various property taxes, and hoa, maintenance, or property management. Most of which are still subject to inflation and price/wage disparity.

a better high level discussion would be how to reform the policy goal of owning housing as saving mechanism and store of personal wealth, since it can't be both a great investment for the prior generation and affordable to the next one at the same time (if wages are stagnant)
I call it a toy because that's what it is. It's used almost exclusively to bypass doing things the right way. As you highlight quite well with your example.
it is my potatoes in the trucks.
I can pay the road tax, or more for potato. doesn't matter.
Because Vim is like programming text. You have motion commands, you have operators that act on text motion command moves over, and you can specify how many time to repeat the operator. You have programming specific motion commands, so called text objects. This is incredibly powerful. You learn to move around efficiently and you multiply your power, because now you can also make changes, delete, etc using the newly learned motion command.

General form of the command in Vim is: nOm meaning repeat n times operator O acting over motion command m. There are motion commands to move by letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, code blocks, XML/HTML tags etc. There are delete, change, insert, etc operators.

So for example: 3dw says 3 times (d)elete (w)ord (i.e. delete 3 words). di{ says delete everything inside code block.

Vim is also modal, there is distinct mode for editing by issuing commands, and there is insert (also replace, visual etc) mode(s) which is what all other editors have as the only mode. This makes it incredibly powerful, and it is possible to make large sweeping changes with very few key strokes.

Also, vim discourages mouse use. The context switch of your arm moving to the mouse is like CPU doing a cache miss and going to disk to fetch data. It's a huge distraction and if you add time to actually find the mouse pointer, select something etc, it really slows you down compared to Vim.

So, I still (since 1993) use Vim because it makes me really productive and I can edit text really fast with it. With that said, Vim is not an IDE (even though with language server and background tasks support it can be made into surrogate IDE). So, the best of both worlds is to have a good IDE with good Vim support. Jetbrains products have solid Vim support (much much better than say VS Code), so if you need to work with verbose language or work with unfamiliar libraries, IDEs are still useful.

However, I also love the ability to work in plain Vim when I work on code base I know really well and don't need IDE type of help. Vim is also great at working though SSH remotely, tmux etc.
This isn’t the end anymore than any of the last times were the end.
> Senator Charles Percy of Illinois observed, “I am convinced that creative minds in the name of greed can concoct schemes faster than we can get legislation against them.”

That much, at least, hasn’t changed.
You missed the point...
Why is this posted on HN? Is this currently relevant to technology, other than it's timed to show that the Democrats/Silicon Valley are getting ready for an impeachment attempt?
> I feel I may be ignorant, but doesn't drawing attention to her gender like this only work to diminish her accomplishments?

Please watch the video. Every now and then she mentions her own gender as a very rare-to-find CEO, and clearly use it to her own advantage. I'm not judging whether its good or bad just merely stating the fact.
Ironically, in the specific case of a imminent gamma ray burst, we might actually have better luck staying on the planet, with eight thouand miles of rock and metal to act as ablative shielding. I'm not sure how far underground we'd need to be to survive the backscatter from eg the moon, though, and I doubt the planet would be habitable afterward anyway.
That's debatable. But also not pertinent, since the original claim was that they weren't doing it at all, without qualification.
Cities should have a planning timeframe for infrastructure improvements with a horizon longer than a couple years.
>What is there to gain on a running device except angry users due to breakages of already working functionality?

That's true, but regular distros are also faced with the same dilemma, and you see both cases. RH will patch a kernel to death ship of Theseus style for a decade, whereas Canonical offers newer stable kernel releases (although they also maintain the original kernel that the distro shipped with). Canonical leans more towards updating to a newer kernel version though.

>There's an upwards trend of people DISABLING updates because they tend to break tools they use in daily lives.

The general public is affected more by questionable updates higher up in the stack. I doubt if they interact directly with the kernel.
I'd think it would be good manners to at least provide a summary that puts the report into the discussions context when linking to some pdf report.
I have a four year old. This patch was almost certainly submitted and entered by the parent.
That seems like a better metric to me as well. Though solutions which maximize this and also increase inequality are often unpopular (e.g. free markets).
It might make the comment the wrong sort of comment for HN.
In other news, bears shit in the woods.
Orange County, CA is not a city per se, but a runoff river trail that leads to the ocean quickly became a community of homeless. When the tent area was finally disbanded (1), here are the stats:

– 700 - 1,000 homeless

– 215 tons of trash or debris

– 1,165 pounds of hazardous waste, including human and pet feces

– 5,115 needles

– 1,000 stolen bikes (2)

(1) https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/01/see-before-and-after-p...

(2) https://www.ocregister.com/2017/11/16/a-half-loaded-gun-an-u...
I doubt that killing the oscillator would make the SSD more or less readable.
I challenge you to name me one Android device that is officially supported for 4 or more years. ;)

iPhone 4 is 8 years old so not sure I see your point.
> I wouldn't necessarily have a problem with this, if not for the fact that iOS downgrades are literally impossible (outside a small window of time). Install an update and discover your phone is too slow? Either learn to live with it or buy a new phone.

Or you could just restore from a backup, possible at any time.
2.30$ CAD in Vancouver for 1.5h, you can easily cross the entire "city" on that price-tag.
Yak Nepal
The claimed issue was that the database was missing material. This could be as simple as Tumblr stopped updating their database and didn't notice, and so newer images weren't caught.
Reminds me 锟斤拷 due to Unicode replacement character misinterpretation problem. When placeholder 'U+FFFD' decoded using GBK it will displayed as these characters. Some of glitches can still be found online, e.g.,
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19199-01/817-4244-10/preface.htm...
>> They provide as much of a sanity check for enterprise/commercial IT decision making as a customer desires.

Exactly.

No-one gets fired for buying the vendor in the top-right corner of a Gartner matrix...

I'm also amused by vendors (often start-ups) releasing PRs about being listed in a Gartner Hype Cycle report. "Look we're here, at the top!". i.e. overhyped...
No, it isn't. Cryptocurrencies in this aspect are the same as the fiat money you and I use today.

The problem was everyone deciding to brand Bitcoin as an investment vehicle instead of as a currency.

Cryptocurrencies are money. The benefits are immediately realizable. If I gave you $5 in exchange for a service worth more than $10, promising that due to market forces that $5 would soon have the buying power of $10, you would laugh in my face and demand the $10 immediately, not later. Yet somehow we decided this was OK to do with crypto.

It has to do with a lack of knowledge, partially due to world governments initially being hostile towards crypto and then indifferent.

Were this technology correctly introduced to society by trusted parties with regulated information, we wouldn't be having this conversation about whether or not cryptocurrency is flawed due to an inherent volatility that comes with low market adoption.
I've read my parent comment as a claim that we are all doomed because Apple might pull the plug one day -- which I dispute on the grounds that historically this hasn't been true. Also, iPhone 3g is ancient.

Outside of that I am in full agreement with you. The mobile ecosystem is basically a dystopia where we have zero recourse as you said.
That's right (I'm the OP) - I love driving and work in the auto industry. The biggest pitch of the car(look at the commercials) is that your car defines you, and provides you a lifestyle and freedom.

However, there really is an element of freedom. You can drive where you want when you want. It's just that the average person sits in bumper to bumper traffic.
Consumer Reports had a more thorough article than the short write up by the CDC. I find it frustrating the CDC blanket points the fjnger at lettuce without disclosing root cause. People confuse the fact that plants are not the source, animal feces is (most likely in this case). Just as s it was last time...

https://www.consumerreports.org/food-safety/what-growers-are...
If you liked this, you might enjoy "Light of the Same", which examines the Drake equation and seti in the light of all the planets that have been discovered.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36236156-light-of-the-st...
I've seen worse: some machine had a built-in camera recognizing QR code, but it couldn't really control exposure so I had to manually set my phone's brightness low to get the code detected. Quick Response? Screw that.
Highlighting text on a webpage so that you can focus on a particular sentence should never move the text and make you lose your place. I like the idea but don't make it a pop-in sidebar that moves the page.
I guess I'm equating "oil corporations should not exist" with "oil corporations should not be regulated by the feds". The latter seems to have some sway with the current administration, see:

https://slate.com/culture/2018/11/john-oliver-last-week-toni...

This guy does not seem worried that he might look a bit cozy with the industry he is supposedly regulating; he's practically asking the industry to ask him for leniency.

There are countries with state oil companies and nobody is advocating for that; but there seems to be people advocating for the total abdication of regulation of oil companies. If there's a continuum between "state run" and "fully unregulated", the "fully unregulated" side seems to have a certain amount of sway whereas the other end doesn't.
If true, this is probably why the app hasn't been restored to the store yet. Apple requires apps that show UGC to have a reporting mechanism. In fact, if your comment is accurate, I don't know why Tumblr was ever allowed on the App Store to begin with.
Gartner is useful because they have tons of data on just about anything in the IT space. The Magic Quadrant is the tip of the iceberg and the thing that people know they for best, but they do tons of research (as they are a research company), which helps people in leadership positions who need to make big technical decisions make those decisions (with help from other data points, of course). They also have the whole "every IT exec uses Gartner; why aren't you" effect going for them.