skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft MapPoint. This was a phenomenal piece of mapping software and had features I haven’t been able to find in any of the online map replacements.

When getting directions, you could designate a number of areas on the map as “avoid area”.

You could map all sorts of census data. Want to colorize the map based on crime rate divided by median home price? No problem.

You could import lots of data from a spreadsheet and do useful things with it. I used this when looking for my first house. I scraped the data from realtor.com and made maps where the icon changed on the number of bedrooms and the color changed based on the price.

You could make drivetime zones. Want to see how far you can drive in 30 minutes from your office? No problem.

You can probably do a lot of this with ArcGIS, but I don’t know since its way out of my price range.

I keep hoping that Microsoft will bring some of this to Bing Maps. I would pay to use these features again and adding them to Azure would definitely differentiate them from Google Maps.
When you are leaking something illegal there are laws usually in place to protect your job or compensate you if it can't be protected. However there is no way to protect you when leak what you think is unethical but is not illegal (yet). The recommended course action in that case participate in legal actions which help make such unethical actions illegal i.e. change the law, until then you are essentially committing a crime.

You may consider committing a such crime lesser cost morally than actually partaking in the unethical activity, this by design comes at a cost. Morality to reflect in laws comes at a great cost. Slavery was not made illegal just because it the right thing, it was made illegal because people fought and died for it.
Settlers 2: There is https://www.gog.com/game/the_settlers_2_10th_anniversary and https://wl.widelands.org/
This post would be much better if it had pictures.
Complexity often masks a lack of search for simplicity. Or was "let" the simplest answer?
Do you think, that scientific process cannot work with black hole interior? If it so, I believe it is a premature belief.

For experimental method was able to prove or disprove something, you need first some theoretic statement, based on which we can devise an experimental setup. Theoretic statements, which you can test experimentally, are not easily available in a countless quantities, theorists are searching for them, finding a lot of statements that can be drawn from paradigm, and some of this statments, happen to be reachable by an experiment.

This statement maybe is not can be proved by observation, but who knows maybe if one think a little more, he would be able to draw some conclusions from this statement, that would be possible to check experimentally? How can we know if it possible to reach such a conclusions or not? The only way is to discuss angles dancing on pins. The only way is to find a lot of statments and see if some of them can be proved or disproved experimentally. And you would never know, did you had found all of such statements, or just small part of them.

See? Scientific method is not just experimenting, scientific method is more about speculating and discussing dancing angles. Scientific method fully inherited such discussions from scholastics, but it differs from them because it added an experiment as a required tool. Scientific method is not negation of scholastic method, scientific method is an improved scholastic method. So, nothing wrong with discussing dancing angles, while we do not dismiss any opportunity to get an atomic miscroscope to count angels on a pin. If we do not see any opportunity, then we continue to discuss angels, until we see one.

I don't know if it will be possible in a future to measure a volume of a black hole. But who knows... Scientists are very inventive when it comes to an experiment, and sometimes they can find some clues, that can be counted as observational evidence. Maybe they'll create experimental setup where all the conditions would be right to volume grow endlessly, but without creating a black hole? Or, maybe they create a gravitational-wave laser, point it at a black hole, and draw some evidence from observing results? I don't know. Generally we cannot know future before it happened. If we could then future was already here.
I don't have a goat story but my dog Scout (RIP buddy) ate at various times: several decorative hand soaps, an entire loaf of bread, and once he got into a grease trap and drank a ton of grease. Thought he was gonna die after the grease, his eyes were all red for a few days and he was super sick, but he lived through it to have many more adventures.

http://media.charlesleifer.com/blog/photos/p1473037171.1.JPG
I have found Pix to be the good replacement of Picasa.

https://github.com/linuxmint/pix
That sounds like fun for you and the cat. They love running around at night. Flashlights or night vision goggles?
> I only skimmed the article, but it appears to be about the prevalence of tracking in third-party services used by app developers, not in the core distribution, what did I miss?

I think it's at least partly covered on page 2 under Uncovering Parent Companies :

> We obtain the parent organizations of these services (after accounting for business mergers and acquisitions) and identify the dominant organizations in the mobile ATS ecosystem. We find that Alphabet-owned ATSes have presence in over 73% of apps in our dataset. This raises questions about Alphabet’s monopoly in the mobile ATS ecosystem.

So alongside their conclusion that information is shared freely between subsidiaries:

> Our privacy policy analysis of the largest organizations revelaed the prevalence of intra- and inter- organization sharing of user data.

It would suggest that other large "players", along side Alphabet, could have much larger collections of user data than cureently understood.
That would be my guess though.
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>Fascinating, though the factoid about being the lightest and sweetest appears to be a bit off the mark:
https://rentar.com/best-crude-oil-world-crude-oils-better-ot.... (end of the article)

Malaysian Tapis is a small deposit used as a benchmark, but isn't traded globally the way WTI is. As far as usable reserves go, WTI is still the best.
About the 1st one, it's often done "off-the-record" by the company itself.

Apple is notorious for this, it's an "unofficial announcement", given to select members of the press as to create hype and test the waters. Officially it still remains a secret.
Hi evrydayhustling

"If you use a randomizer, which you should"

That's a big IF. People should use a password manager, or create unique random passwords for every site... but they don't. Of course, if someone other than you chooses the words, you'd need to include the entire dictionary.

"But go to 5, and you're solid for 400y. This is so clearly relevant that excluding it seems suspect."

I haven't excluded this; I make reference to DiceWare at the bottom of the page. This covers both using more words chosen at random, which is the entire point.

Thanks
The EU Model 3 will have a CCS-2 port, not a rumour any more ;)

https://electrek.co/2018/11/14/tesla-model-3-ccs-2-plug-euro...
They already rent goats in the south to clear kudzu and brush.
My family had several cats over the time I grew up. All could go outside whenever they wanted.

The oldest got to 8 yrs.

Most died of organ failures, one from a genetic illness and another one never came back.

The Organ failures were probably from rat poison... So, the outside killed them
Fans of Adam Curtis, particularly his characteristic use of 'historical collage' to create a compelling narrative, might be interested in the book trilogy 'U.S.A' by John Dos Passos. It's a great read.

A quote from Adam himself:

"The biggest influence I’ve ever had was actually a novel my father gave me to read at the age of about 13. It was a novel called USA by John Dos Passos. At that age, it just got me. You can trace back everything I do to that novel because it’s all about grand history, individual experience, their relationship. And also collages, quotes from newsreels, cinema, newspapers. And it’s about collage of history as well. That’s where I get it all from."*

*https://web.archive.org/web/20140116091402/http://filmcommen...
Ted Nelson's eulogy for Doug Engelbart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMjPqr1s-cg
I am not an expert, but one factor might be that not all crude oil is the same. Maybe refineries prefer to import a different kind of crude oil than what is extracted domestically (and likewise refineries in other countries are willing to buy the crude we are extracting here).
I know but unfortunately not for Oculus Go. Not gonna buy a PC and Rift just to play it.
While your examples and reasoning seems good, I don’t think it’s enough to support the conclusion.

From what I have seen, everyone who thinks there are any significant difficulties that need to be overcome is a Remainer and everyone who is a Leaver is absolutely certain that any claim of difficulty is “just project fear” — this, combined with the inherent time lag between planting and harvesting, means that what crops are around next year is entirely down to what UK farmers already believe will happen next year.

Four outcomes, for any given farm:

1. Current crops, easy access to labour: fine

2. Efficient crops, easy access to labour: fine

3. Efficient crops, no access to labour: fine

4. Current crops, no access to labour: bankruptcy

You may consider 4. to be an obvious safe bet, but when I say I think Leavers regard any talk of difficulty as total nonsense, I mean I get the impression they place it in the same mental bucket as “Satan is real and knows your online banking password”.

In outcome 4., the farms won’t be around afterwards to try it again the right way.

Given the UK is a net food importer, this is mostly separate to any question of food security, but ironically the lack of access to labour could increase unemployment.
> I suppose the only recourse for the individual is to help change society (this is slow, and requires even more responsibility) OR move to a different society.

Neither of these things is reasonable. Am I supposed to start an election campaign if I don't like the law? Am I supposed to move my whole life elsewhere?

No, undermining the powers that be -in this case by leaking- is the right thing to do.
How do you differentiate between opinionated/politically biased pieces and general reporting ? What's the criteria for evaluating good (ie trustworthy) reporting ? Curious to know.
Not sure you'd call it an "inefficiency", but absolutely this happens.

Company A may own oil wells in Alaska and a refinery near Houston. Off the tankers go to Japan and Korea for the Alaskan crude, and in the tankers come from Venezuela to Houston.
Corsair has a mouse with a keyboard built-in that could be used for the same things. Even though I have one, find I just use Ctrl keys like everyone else. https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Color/scimitar-pro-config/p/CH...
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Binary options are NOT an investment, just silly amateur speculation. Wide spreads. Mostly unregulated. No professional investor would ever waste time on such nonsense. Do not deal with any unregulated firm. If you're going to do something dumb, at least try to protect yourself from theft. More info about it on https://safetradebinaryoptions.com/binary-options-brokers/
Citing a highly speculative piece of science fiction doesn’t support a claim.
What are the CO2 benefits of fracking?
I actually did it for GridMove -> Stack.

https://losttech.software/Stack.html
I hope they continue to laugh just until they are hit with billion dollar fines for disrespecting people’s explicit orders.
Hello hackernews, what's going on here? I commented on a businessinsider* story about this. It is now a times.co.uk story that a) I can't read in full and b) is not the story I originally commented on.

I'm not particularly happy about having my comments attached to a different article than the one I originally commented on, especially one I can't read.

* i wrote bloomberg here originally; it was actually businessinsider.com.au. i'd say i regret the error but i don't really
Innovation is not what is lacking. We have the technology today to cut global emissions by 50% or more, without major changes to our lifestyles or economy.

What is needed, however, is political will. The solutions can be expensive (in the short term), and solving environmental issues that will harm future generations does not win enough votes amongst a population mostly concerned with their own short-term welfare.
You can't meaningfully regulate for specific things before they exist for one. Trying to do so prematurely would result in nonsense that would only hold us all back. Not to mention matters of enforcibility.

Facial recognition's biggest abuses are from the fox watching the hen-house. "Common sense" would lead to such absurdities like banning using it on cops because "everybody knows criminals could use it to track them" while using it on every protester because "they might be terrorists" despite both known truths being complete bullshit.
That ought to be a oneliner in any sane language today:

numbers.into_iter().filter(|n| n>10 && n%2!=0).for_each(work);

map work . filter ((/=0) . (`mod` 2)) . filter (>10) $ numbers

Insert tirade about how for-loops are free to do so much that they are slower-to-comprehend than specific-purpose iterator/list functions, here.
Hi strictnein

Erm, haven't you proven my point for me?

You can't say "The fact that someone can relatively quickly crack your password if you used 3 random words is meaningless" and "isn't a really bad idea" in the same sentence.

"Capitalize one random letter in all of that, throw a number between the second or third letter, add dashes, whatever and they're totally screwed"

So.... ignore the "just use 3 words" advice completely and add random letters, numbers and dashes to make it secure? You'll find that's the advice we've given for years... and it too is ignored.
Oh man, so much this.

When Photos just came out and Apple was making the claims about how they've taken everything good from Aperture and stuck it into Photos I was pretty optimistic considering how solid of an app Aperture became over the years.

Now, few days down the road, pretty clear that Photos is just a marginally better iPhoto with the vast majority of features that were useful for professionals such as Stacks, never coming back.

The dumbification of professional apps to the lowest common denominator continues ...
Red is a breath of fresh air for me. It is very pleasant to use and I can see myself using it more and more, specially to build personal tools. I invite everyone to check it out.
That's a good overview, and it made me think of a parallel list of chips that got quite a lot of press but did not shake the world much after all.

Off the cuff, Intel would have two solid entries with the iAPX 432 and the Itanium, there's probably some Lisp machine and putative 'Japanese 5th gen computer' silicon to add, and maybe the Transmeta Crusoe could have honors in both lists ...
In this context, it stands for Central Nervous System [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_nervous_system
So what did happen then?
Everyone has been squabbling everywhere. Until the 1970's the Middle East squabbles had little effect on people in Appalachia, Ecuador, and Mozambique.
I agree. I can also only imagine the kind of responses you’d get today by posting your goat ate Walmart bags and headphones. Animals get in to things and it is a part of life. We try our best to minimize it but it still happens and it was refreshing that people in this thread were sharing similar experiences rather than judging and blaming the owners.
This reminds me of all social media kicking Alex Jones from their platforms. It is a nice ideology to allow free speech but it simply does not happen.
II don't know the details so my example might not make sense, but two factors are:

Shipping: no easy to ship from producing site to say NE coast, so they might buy from Sweden and Saudi Arabia, while producer, say in Texas might have a pipeline to the west coast and export to China.

Price/contracts: some large buyer (say refineries) buy on long term contracts and might still buy at prices negotiated when the US had policies restricting domestic production. Also, not everybody sells at market price, so you could buy foreign for cheaper than what's currently available domestically.
Thank you! Spot on.
Do you mean Google, the Industry? Or Google, the Browser Vendor?
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Sounds like you should be upset that management was keeping projects like Dragonfly or the ambitions of the DOD contract a secret internally then.
I think this is correct. Weight and sulfur level matter. It requires slightly different infrastructure. Also having import/export is strategic. If something happens to your local producer you've got a backup.
how do you figure this out if your cat has never met another cat since being a kitten at the shelter? I've considered having him meet a friend's cat, but I would imagine it takes a few weeks to really judge whether they're happier together.
That’s my understanding, but I’m just an enthusiastic amateur and that doesn’t take you very far with relativity.
Specifically for extracting natural gas. Gas is now much cheaper than coal which is one of the reasons coal fired power stations and coal mines are closing. Gas has a smaller percentage of carbon than Coal so creates more steam, less C02 for the same heat.
You need to explain your situation.

If I were to guess, you don't need to add employees and only need money for resources marketing in which case- it makes absolute sense. The general advice is to raise money only if you need it.
The law forces one be responsible (without choice). If a law is passed to “kick the leakers”, then if one leaks, they will be held responsible by having a good kicking for not bearing the responsibility of upholding the law. Morally, the individual is opposed to the law. Fine. Great. Even without the law, one is still responsible for their morals. Maybe the society doesn’t “kick” people, maybe society supports leakers. Doesn’t matter. There have been countless individuals acting “morally” (in their view), and we as a society have held them responsible. One should balance one’s actions against their morals, and society’s law.
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Two of the cats are interested in exploring the back on their own, one will only step outside if I go. After escorting them for awhile when training them, I generally let them go.

I think the randomness of the long trains deters them from going far, or even to the other side, and they understand that the yard square is “home base.” There is no chance anything larger than a fox from appearing this deep in the city, and there is enough foliage to escape a stray dog if it came along. So the train is the only threatening thing, which they are (appropriately) in awe of when it passes.
HE-Transformer: Deep Learning Inference with Homomorphic Encryption
I currently maintain a "legacy" VFP application that is actually quite robust. Not as modern as most languages, but desktop apps can be quite robust. The access to HTTP libraries and WebView controls can bridge some gaps.

What's really missing is a better IDE with better type hinting, autocomplete, tabs, etc... VS Code would be a great base for an updated IDE. I know that Rick Strahl's West Wind has support for Visual Studio, but there's still some functionality missing.
Fracked gas has replaced conventional oil in the US as the default heating fuel. This is the reason why America's carbon output is falling faster than anywhere else on Earth.
Google to simplify messaging strategy, will support only five messaging apps
No. But stating the Delimma allows us to talk about how to solve it.
So with such trivial actions constituting an import or export, why do we use import/export as such an important measure, rather than where the imported thing was initially produced? Wouldn't that be where most of the value was added, and where most of the profit per unit of thing would flow to?
I'm sorry, but that's nonsense if you actually think about it.

Existing passwords are broken in a matter of milliseconds, perhaps a few seconds. Do you honestly believe it's sufficient consolation to an end-user to know it took 40 seconds instead? The end result is the same... they're breached.

My point is simple. We already have FAR superior techniques in 2018 and wasting time advocating questionable techniques is an exercise in futility. The people who follow the advice are still at considerable risk, the majority will ignore it and remain almost as vulnerable.
> know very well that in 200 years the world
> won’t look much like the world we’re living in now."

This will happen not because of AI or nuclear fusion reactors or space travel or lab-grown meat.

I love Curtis's documentaries and agree with the central thesis that the models/stories to describe the world leave us trapped and need to be switched for better ones, but I think he is underestimating the potential for Climate Destruction to force a reconfiguration.

Politicians have always been mountebanks surfing on the wave of change initiated by either physical realities or collective imaginings... they don't create new models, they just latch onto whatever seems opportune.
I disagree with this characterization. A crucial part of the scientific method is hypothesis formation. Nearly all of theoretical physics (or theoretical any field) can he slotted into that part of the method. Unguided experimentation can sometimes produce unexpected results, but many of our best scientific results come as a result of theoreticians proposing complete theories in advance, and then using these theories to generate new experiments. Since you can’t exactly pick up a black hole at the corner store, this type of theory development is even more critical — since it might produce ideas for experiments that we could actually conduct. [\rant]
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There's a pretty good argument that, if you're intending to fly under the radar, you should be hanging out at a beach with your laptop--not a co-working space that explicitly pitches itself for digital nomads.
Ask HN: Which front end framework won at the end?
I wonder if it's worth using Vue, React, Or Angular for a new project.
well, maybe if there were 'some closed-source proprietary software that you once loved that is not being developed/enhanced any more' that was completely unique someone would say it? hmm
Supply was added over the years and demand and subsequent contracts/relationships were added "on demand". More generally macro economic actors don't behave rationally collectively.