skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR; Win Hoff Method (WHM) has been one of the most mysterious things that has allowed people to climb snowy mountains almost naked in middle of the winter. The core interesting aspect of it has been that it can be learned (see, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaMjhwFE1Zw) and therefore the assumption that this is because of some extreme genetics has been overruled. The current research paper has following findings:

1. WHM allows to control pain center of brain at will shutting down the pain response.

2. WHM increases response in brain areas that keep sustained focus in face of adverse conditions.

3. WHM does not cause increased metabolism to keep body warm.

4. The mechanism of keeping body warm seems to be forceful respiration that increases response of fight-or-flee autonomous nervous system increasing glucose consumption in muscles around the lungs.
Unprotected Mongodb Exposes Scraped Profile Data of 66M
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/The_MADCO...
Over 100 workers died building it.
Try the extension Cookie AutoDelete: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

It doesn't clear cache but it will automatically delete any cookies when you close a tab or when you change the domain. That might do what you need, when you use it in conjunction with Containers.
> It's possible that the article, in itself, is a kind of propaganda (...)

No. It's just poor reasoning with a click-baity headline.
Another thing to add to your learnings for the day is the difference between “metaphor” and “onomatopoeia”. The latter is only for words that are related to a particular sound they are describing, e.g., “quack”, “bang”, “sizzle”, “whoosh”.

“Pour over” is the sense you describe would be a metaphor.
Agreed. Container Tabs is fantastic, however the UI needs work. Editing a tab is also pretty awful, you have to navigate to two different areas to tweak all the options.
This is one rail line that would connect San Francisco and Los Angeles, the two most populous regions in the most populous state in the US. The fact that the entire country is sparsely populated does not affect the feasibility or utility of this project in particular.
Brad Templeton made this argument several years ago:

https://singularityhub.com/2012/09/04/can-high-speed-rail-co...

I tend to disagree. You can move a lot more people more efficiently by train. The train can’t take the direct route because land is now too expensive, versus 40 years ago when the idea was first raised.

It’s unfortunate that it wasn’t built in the 1970’s because we’d now be talking about replacing it with a 350 mph maglev in 30 years.
US dev: I prefer when areas of improvement are discussed privately- it's helped me grow at estimation, setting expectations, and honing my quality/shipit slider.

I'm sympathetic to collecting more metrics for measuring performance because it can reduce bias. Perhaps a good compromise would be making the karma count only visible by the individual employee and the manager.
For those that aren’t aware, at least in the case of the United States, the soldier buried in The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier’s identity was not initially unknown. They started off with several bodies of appropriate stature whose identity was known (but closely guarded) to those that procured them, then mixed them up and played a game of shells with the coffins to purposely un-know the identity.

All that is to say, if somehow “facial recognition” could identify the remains of the Unknown Soldier, the hope is that whosoever discovers that keeps it to themself.
10 Rules for the Secure Use of Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets
We should maybe build a vac tube instead.
> A comparatively small amount of state aid to LA Metro would do far more for California’s environment and economy

Like finishing the Green Line to @#$&ing LAX, maybe. It's ludicrous how bad the public transportation options are to what is arguably the most important airport on the west coast.

Meanwhile, on my monthly sorties through the Central Valley, the Authority continues with its gigantic monuments to bloodymindedness, building tracks no one will ride and ramps no train will crest. We could do so much better with that money.
The key sentence seems to be:

"Fortunately, only a small fraction of CAHSR’s projected cost—$1.4 billion out of nearly $100 billion total—has been spent so far."

This suggests that it might be possible to make major changes, or even start over from scratch, if there's a significantly better way to do it.
It's funny that I had just used it in class 2 days ago. It's such a great way to communicate and work on a project without actively disrupting a lecture that is actually unrelated to the code we were writing.
Standardizing on Keras: Guidance on High-Level APIs in TensorFlow 2.0
A network of self-driving cars is a train, or could be considered one if engineered properly.

Of course, self-driving cars don't run on fixed rails, which costs them a lot of popularity around here. People don't seem to understand that fixed rail is only good for transporting lots and lots of people, very efficiently and safely, from one place where they don't want to be to another place where they don't want to be.
Yea the new gmail on firefox was the reason I switched back to Chrome. I blame google for it but I just couldn't bare the performance in FF
Who contributed to this article?

> Connor Harris is a policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute.

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/about

Reading through their other literature, seems pretty partisan and not very objective.

Can we get a less biased source? I'm not doubting the problems of HSR or the project, it would just be nice to get someone with less of an axe to grind.
There was also a world wide depression.

I kinda think that paying the minimum possible attracts low quality workers, which is ok, but sub optimal.

Making the pay competitive, like it was then, might reduce the total cost.
Perfect, sincerely thank you for the link.
Implementing sensible line wrapping behavior is the hardest part of a code formatting tool. It's also very important for readability, and if you don't design for it early on it can be hard to add later.
You need something to regulate a currency. It's more than getting the math right-- it's building a package and community that people trust.

We know the following work to at least a modest degree:

* A functional state that can manufacture demand by requiring its use in trade and/or tax payments (fiat)
* Basing the currency on a natural resource with widely recognized scarcity (gold and silver)
* Using an asset with actual utility as a currency (salt, grain)
* Putting the currency in the hands of perceived-trustworthy adults (countries who replace their own currency with the USD)

We know some things don't work:

* A free market regulating on reputation and news alone (see pre-Civil War "wildcat banking")
* A state with nothing to lose (see the Weimar Republic)
* Blatantly speculative ventures packaged as a currency (like the Russian MMM scandal)

We're still deciding if some things work:

* Mathematical algorithms
* Hard-coded economic policy decisions
* Smart contracts

There's also an interesting trust relationship in currency.

With conventional currencies, the trust usually begins with the issuing institution or materials, and that's leveraged into support for the currency. If you believe Ottawa won't be sucked into a black hole tomorrow, you'll trust a 10CAD note. If you expect gold to be desirable in 2025, you'll take a sovereign for your Christmas bonus.

In the crypto world, the currency itself is the most trustworthy component, and it's more necessary to build trust and credibility around its community instead. (Noun)coin may be technically bulletproof, but if it's surrounded by pump-and-dump traders, dark-web drug dealers, and people who blame the Federal Reserve for their kidney stones, Grandma won't touch it.
Linux Forums domain rerouted [NSFW]
> Finally, x86 assembly doesn't really have what we call a type system in the general sense.

I might argue that it kind of does, based on the width of the operands. For example, you can only movq a quadword–you will get a "compile error" if you try to use it on a 16-bit value.
Typical of this place and our industry, not appreciating that a phrase like "absolute power" has loads upon loads of baggage.
no, it wouldn't be useless. Firstly, bias alone doesn't make information useless. Secondly, how is it survivor bias if the dataset also includes failed ycombinator companies?
As Uber is a major investor in self-driving tech, self driving short term rentals are all but inevitable, and likely to become the normal way cars are used. You can rent the whole car or pay less by car pooling, managed by an app. Probably it still will never be as energy efficient as a train on rails, but it's a lot better than one car one rider. And unlike the train, it can easily drop one rider off anywhere along the way.

Or combine the two: turn trains into land ferries where the route allows, and drive road cars onto train cars on one end and off on the other.
`extern crate` hasn't been made a syntax error, it's just now possible to elide it. There are plenty of use cases where I imagine people will still use it, not least of which is play.rust-lang.org, which has no direct access to Cargo or rustc, and `extern crate` is what one will continue to use to import third-party libraries there.
Further, it looks like the questions are biased towards Ruby devs.
> Depends on where you are but here iphones are the new "grandma" phone -- phones you can get for $0 and are idiotproof. They're simply not fashionable anymore.

Good thing I don't care about fashion or if I'm carrying a grandma phone (do I need a glittery case or something to be cool again??). I need something that is fairly quick, works, and I don't have to tinker with. It helps that I prefer iOS, and there is an Apple store within walking distance from my office.
> ask the battery chemists you know what the best-case storage is for a particular chemistry and cathode material

It's entirely possible that with an exponential increase in production volume (i.e., funding) we could see some new chemistries appear.

Compare to Silicon Carbide (blue LEDs) and Gallium Nitride (power transistors).
I think you are confusing the applicable scope of what the proposal implements with something else you'd like to see implemented.

This is not even an API. It is merely a proposal that wherever your change-password form lives, people should be able to get to it via this specific path, too. Perhaps this whole thing is a terrible idea, but either way the problem they're trying to solve is different than the problem you're trying to solve.
I'm not sure why you are being down voted. This sounds like it is a surprising revelation for many, myself included.
Damn, I miss my old “lunch tray” 17” MBP...
You have to notice when you're making a significant decision, but yeah, that's a good start. :)
Because employers is hiring your service base on time and not according to delivery.

Need to devise a system where programmers are paid base on deliveries and not time.

It's also more fair to be paid base on deliveries instead of time.
It takes time expertise and investment to actually effectively track programmer productivity.

A lot of organizations don't have the resources to do that, so time in seat and making sure your workers seem productive is a decent alternative.
Well, that depends on how you build your railways. The way I see it done in the US this is indeed the case, as the stations (especially in California) seem to be in bizarre places and there is rarely a way to get to say an airport by train.

But you can also build railways that make sense. See Japan for an excellent example, as well as most of Europe. These get you from where you are to where you want to be quickly and efficiently.
Actually, the poverty level doesn't continue to rise, it's been stable around 13.5% for the last 30 years. The reason why it stays that way instead of shrinking is probably related to the Pareto distribution problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcEWRykSgwE
As part of an automated Jira upgrade script (well, Makefile) we needed to export changes to the listener port/scheme configuration which is unfortunately stored “in the code” so to speak (in WEB-INF/web.xml) which Atlassian doesn’t deign to whitespace normally (indentation is all over the place, as is formatting, character encoding, and more) —- and they mangle it differently somehow with each point release. So the Makefile calls xmllint to normalize formatting and whitespace of both the untouched source files from the old and new release as well as the locally modified (deployed) configuration, then calls diff/patch accordingly (in a three-way).
Should have given the project to the French company that put forward the proposal or hire a Japanese firm from the start. Leave it up to a bloated agency with a misaligned agenda to royally screw things up at the cost of the taxpayer. If you think this is bad, you don’t want to know where your federal tax dollars go to. Reading this makes me sick.
What’s interesting to me is that the federal tax cuts passed last year cost around $150B a year. I know you may not support this either, but that would pay for the construction of 1 and a 1/2 HSR’s a year, even with the cost overrun.

Reminds me of PG’s essay about how it’s easy to loss lots of money on bad investments, even for people who are normally frugal on luxuries.
There is also the environmental impact to consider. Air travel has a much larger emission profile compared to train travel, and train travel has a much larger capacity. Plus, rail station are often in the center of the city rather than on the outskirts like airports are. e.g. traveling by train from Boston to NYC vs flying is almost a wash time wise due to travel to/from the airport + buffer time for security.
China built 17,000 miles of high-speed rail in 15 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China

There’s another 8000 on the way by 2025.
In comparison, the Chuo Shinkansen connecting Tokyo and Nagoya (286km in distance), which runs at a maximum speed of 505 km/h (314 mph), costs about 45 billion US dollars.
It really has no utility outside of Apple's app ecosystem, so why would you want it to become a standard?
Yes but the phrases carry significantly different meaning. If someone walks into my office and asks me how to report an insider transaction it's no big deal. If someone walks into my office and asks me how to report an insider trade my day just took a massive turn in the wrong direction.
What you want is cross-platform:

- Web (IE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and older versions of those browsers)
- Web responsive (When you access it from small screens or access the web from your phone's browser)
- Android (old devices to recent ones)
- iOS (old devices to recent ones)
- And, eventually, get to a desktop app, ideally on windows, mac and linux.

Say you're the tech lead and you need to make a decision about the stack to support all these platforms, and you're a team of 2-3 devs, yourself included. What stack do you pick?
"Because there is almost no reason to learn Go."

No, that's not it. It's that if you can only learn one programming language, Go is not a very good choice, so those who learn Go are almost always multilingual ("lingual" as in programming languages, not natural languages). Python and JavaScript are Swiss Army knives with outstanding ecosystems that make them excellent choices if you can only afford one tool. There are plenty of reasons to learn Go but, as a more specialized tool, it makes a better component of a nice toolset than a solitary multitool.

My anecdotal experience says that 1) most programmers are monolingual, 2) almost all Go programmers are multilingual, and 3) the average multilingual programmer is a better programmer than the average monolingual programmer for various reasons, so the average Go programmer is better than the average programmer. And, by that logic, the average Rust, Haskell, Erlang, Lisp, etc., programmer would be, too.
Not so fast, please. The very link you provide refers to the Pinatubo eruption that caused a significant multi-year cooling. It is well-known that cloud albedo changes in response to the addition of aerosols, which ultimately changes cloud water content (rapidly adjusting equilibrium with changes in global sea-surface temperature). Thus, there is at least one lever of action that we know of.
Without office space there is no networking. Without networking there is no real means to find a better job when the time is to move on. Humans are meant to collaborate and share perspectives. But again, it depends on what career path you choose on the next venture.
If you are talking about taking a car solo, that's pretty expensive. It's hard to imagine a marginal cost under $0.23/mile for driving [1], so you are looking at a round-trip solo cost of $132 minimum - that's higher than flying (if you can plan it).

Either way, I'm not sure how much autonomy changes things. You can get luxury buses overnight for $115 overnight (https://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-tr-money-20170903-st...) already which probably beats the comfort of a car anyway - how much will not paying a driver cut costs?

[1] http://www.forthgo.com/blog/2007/05/24/marginal-cost-of-driv...
What the heck is the train line doing near Fresno?

Why is it not following I-5 and making zero stops in between the South Bay and LA?
"Also, division by zero is an runtime operation error, it is not really a type error. The division operation doesn't fail because it violated the type system, it fails because you can't mathematically divide by zero."

Zero is a different type from the type that consists of integers above N.
I think it can be boiled down to: companies see potential costs but no potential advantages (for them).
wow, never realized that was a supported feature. I must have glossed over that feature in that then feature release
https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/11/15/live-share
That’s awesome. Thanks for the link
It is retaliation for another business competing with you. That is literally using your market power to try to reduce competition.

But taking anti-competitive actions by itself isn't necessarily an issue, but it is a problem if you're deemed to have significant market power in a defined market.

Essentially: if Facebook is deemed to have significant market power, this could be a problem, if it doesn't have, then it isn't a problem.

Anti-trust relies heavily on the precise definition of a market (which is a subject that Hacker News comments generally ignore when crying wolf, I mean, monopoly).
Is getting a CS degree only way to get Software engineering job?
i guess i would like to meet these mythical self taught software engineers.
I wouldn't mind this as a Macbook. I kind of miss the old 17" Macbooks.
Linux.org Hacked to Show Anti-CoC Message
Australia -- the 1st world leader of the modern Progressive policies.

2018 -- citizens loose communication privacy protection [0]

2017 -- whistleblowers and dissidents are committed to mental institutions [1]

2016 -- citizens loose financial transaction privacy (the cashless society with finalized transition by 2020) [2]

1996 -- government confiscated all firearms from the hands of private, law abiding citizens

Sweden, and Canada are next.

Basically -- step-by-step methodology to run country-sized Mafia operation is being implemented.

[0] this article

[1] http://www.blotreport.com/australian-politics/are-the-though...

[2] https://bitsonline.com/australia-cashless-2020-payments-netw...
it's worth reading up on what react-native is. it isn't "write once deploy anywhere," but rather "learn once, write anywhere." in essence it allows us to enjoy the fairly transformative one way state driven view paradigm (think functional) to write apps. that is the magical part of it - the one language multiple platforms aspect is a tertiary consideration in my opinion. the pleasure comes from an environment where code changes are almost immediately visable without a lengthy compile/run step, and the pure joy of having views that depend purely on state input without the mess of side effects.

someday everyone will realize that one-way data binding is beautiful and that functional paradigms can save hours/days/weeks of testing and messiness. react-native is just bringing that beauty to the dev process now. i've done obj-c/swift xcode, and maybe i'm not good at it, but it ends up not being easy to read, and not fun waiting every time i want to test something for it to compile and run.

under the hood react-native does something very clever, it isn't a hack or ugly, but rather quite lovely. you get the pleasure of seeing your components and data flow as a tree, a tree that only updates nodes as necessary when state changes, and where each component is a fully fledged native component with all the functionality and speed of the native component. want a UIScrollView? sure `<ScrollView></ScrollView>`. data is passed through easily and it is all very easy to reason about. that is the goal right? code that is easy to read and makes sense.
If that was true they wouldn't have pushed Safari out as an update to windows users who had QuickTime or iTunes. It was checked by default and lots of people installed Safari on Windows without realising it.

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-pushes-safari-on-windows-via...
The touchscreen was done elsewhere, by someone else. Seriously, it was presented as a product to several phone companies and did not draw them in. The key to the first IPhone was the interface and form factor.
If you look at the Copland technical docs, they describe an OS with modern underpinnings but running the Mac UI as a single process on top of it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)#Cop...). Developers were supposed to put as much functionality as they could into background processes/threads that would benefit from preemptive multitasking and protected memory.

Amusingly, classic Mac OS ended up sort of close to that if you squint. It had a "nanokernel" that ran tasks preemptively and even supported multiple CPUs, but like with Copland the entire UI ran as a single "blue" task. The main difference from Copland as far as I can tell is that non-UI tasks were heavily restricted in the OS APIs that they could call; for unsupported APIs they had to send a message to the blue task and wait for a response. More details at http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/tec....
Python is wrong for anything performance sensitive (unless the performance part is already written in C/C++, like TensorFlow).
A thing that becomes obvious when looking at the actual work being done is a lot of the central valley work is grade separation. The work is grade separating both the future high speed rail lines and existing freight rail lines. The whole project is filled with things like that. Work that already needs to be done irrespective of the HSR part. With that consideration the SF to LA feature is really about a 1/3 the total price tag.

I remember one time someone made the too spread out argument. I went and tried to do an estimate for a HSR line from Chicago to Denver. Via Kansans City and St louis. About 1000 miles.

Probably cost between 25-50 billion. Maybe less since for most of it the only things in the way are corn fields and cows.

Which seems like a lot of money, but then compare with the $2T spent on the 'war on terror' since 2001.

See:

http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/programs/construction/road_closur...
In the ARM2 era (probably the same for ARM1?) a basic ALU instruction such as MOV took 1 cycle, and a branch took 4 (if taken) or 1 (if not). (There were extra DRAM page cycles every 4 words too)

So for a simple if/else, it was usually both less code and faster to use a straight line of conditional instructions. In more complicated cases, if the programmer was feeling clever, it was possible to update the status flags to get three-way (or more!) conditionals in straight-line branchless code. Fun!