skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To provide some missing context bere, the Gizmodo quote is actually in regards to the work of the Space Telescope Science Institute.

The Nature article discusses how different groups are affected differently by the shutdown:

> Hubble’s mission operations are based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where most employees are on involuntary leave during the shutdown. A few people who operate spacecraft that are actively flying, including Hubble, have been allowed to keep working.

> But fixing the telescope, which is almost 30 years old, will almost certainly require additional government employees who are forbidden to work during the shutdown. NASA has formed an investigative team, composed primarily of contractors and experts from its industry partners, to examine the technical troubles.

> ...

> The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, which runs Hubble’s science operations, remains open for now, using money it received from NASA before the shutdown started. But many of Hubble’s technical experts are based at Goddard, which is closed.
> World policy is not a zero sum game

The Pentagon does not deal in World Policy, it deals in martial policy. As General Mattis said, "If you don't fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition ultimately".
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> ð (interchangeable with þ)

I suspect this was still a dialectic distinction by the time of the Norman conquest; I suspect the distinction survived much longer in more linguistically conservative regions like what is now Yorkshire (which was also more heavily influenced by the danish.

I believe they can still have distinct pronunciations in Icelandic.
As long as this isn't the toothing stone for more "social" features. Github needs to stay a clean engineering space. It's social enough already.

And please GOD they don't injecting ads like on Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter. That would be the death knell for Github.
Without getting into too deep a discussion of features, this development attitude of “implement everything, let them use what they want” is historically awful. The developers lose focus on what they are making, the users lose focus on what they are using. Eventually a platform that does a great job of any of the ten things that yours does poorly is a superior product and its creators are praised for shipping such a clean and minimal product.
That's the biggest difference between now and then. Back then if you needed to you could easily get a job doing something that paid decently and work your way up. Taking a risk is a lot easier if you have a reasonable plan for getting back on your feet should your fail. Nowadays it's all about not having gaps on your resume, making sure your involved in clubs, in open source, or that you're blogging and we'll known. Kids, I think, feel as if they need to have a plan for their lives at a young he and that they need to execute on it. It's not enough to just live this days.
Shareholder sues over 90M payout to Android creator accused of sexual misconduct
The Facebook app, itself, may not have location permissions but another app might and because the Facebook SDK is imbedded into that app, it's of ill-consequence if the Facebook app has location permissions or not. They're still getting that data from the imbedded Facebook SDK.
Looks like we're halfway through the next cycle. :-P
You assume the military power has a significant role to play in the future.

Building secure civilian products, countering corporate espionage, and building products bæused world wide, all probably play a bigger part.

As do diplomacy. Disagreement between the bigs powers haven't been solved with military power for a long time.. why would that change?
My parents did something like this. My near-total isolation prior to college resulted in terrible social skills. I hurt a lot of people and experienced crushing loneliness. In my 30s, I'm starting to feel like I can pass as a "normal" person and have human relationships.

On the plus side I do still know a tremendous amount of trivia about topics that I was interested in as a child, I'm not particularly interested in following rules, and I'm not afraid to be alone or to learn things from a book without anyone to help. These qualities have served me in good stead.

On the balance, I'm not sure I would change anything, but you should be aware of what your kids might be in for.
> would be to figure out why cities with good public transit / shared transit infrastructure managed to build them

Few NIMBYs and a less-car-focused mentality which is typical of the US.
they should take out payday loans and sue the federal government for the interest, that would be a fun court case.
What is wrong with Simple?
The key is that DynamoDB is just any old web service as far as you code is concerned. Everyone uses the same public endpoint, same domain name, same API, authenticate with IAM. You can also integrate it by using DynamoDB Streams as a trigger for Lambda functions which is of course a purpose-built feature. There is DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) which is a cacher running in EC2 that runs as a normal VM with an EIP.

TL;DR: RDS and this new DocumentDB are essentially AWS managing your database VMs in EC2. Advantage is drop in compat with regular apps expecting to reach a local server, because it is local to your VPC and uses normal ports. Can make them public accessible via VPC firewall, but less secure that way. DynamoDB was designed from the ground up as an HTTPS API and that's the only way its accessed.
I wouldn't have any problem with this kind of features, as long as the user can disable them in the Settings. They would actually be a nice addition.
Definitely

https://m.phys.org/news/2012-11-cosmic-rays-reveal-event-ear...
> It's not that they will. It's that they are.

[Citation needed]

> When someone who most certainly does not have your best interests at heart is building technology capable of crippling or dominating you, what response do you suggest? Passivity?
> The only recourse here is to either convince them to step down or to - at the very least - match them. Anything else puts you at a disadvantage and puts your citizens in danger.

You are presenting a false fallacy where the only two options are "do nothing" and "invest all possible resources available to the country into killing other people". A casual look at history book would quickly show you that escalating arms races are not beneficial in the long run - even to the country winning them, since they degenerate into building murder tools at the expense of their own citizens. Much like modern US, which is incapable of providing healthcare to their citizens.

That does not mean that no resources should be put into defense, but every civilian IS NOT morally obligated to help kill other people.
LiChess ratings are inflated; I'm ~1800 on LiChess but I probably am 1200 in real life.
Seeing someone's status when you mention them, assign them a ticket, etc is a very welcome addition imo. The "taking time off my side projects" status example is amazingly spot-on as well.
You can go start your own systemd free distribution.

For everyone else, there is a reason they centralized on it, and its not because Lennart was stalking their mailing lists threatening to send them expired cheese. Systemd is not perfect, but it is infinitely better than a sludge of shell scripts.
Systemd uses Simmle LGTM and QL for static code analysis which is a good thing since Coverty Scan is currently down without an ETA for restoration.
Chicken and egg problem. You can’t have a good transport system if people don’t use it (too expensive) and people won’t use it unless it’s good. Was in San Francisco recently and it really is mostly impressively bad, but one of the major sources of badness is that it’s mostly pretty infrequent. Presumably because people don’t use it.

Edit: One thing they could fix, easily; unified, visitor accessible, payment system. And more realtime bus information. Those are simple things that they could borrow off any decent-sized European city.

Further edit: looks like the Clipper card is easier to get than I thought. Googled before I went, but must have gotten outdated information.
Organic synthesis in a robotic system driven by a chemical programming language
They refer to themselves as purveying "America's most important history". Why would someone say such a thing if it's weren't true?
I have to admit I was hoping for some application of custom-printed skin cells[1] but this is pretty cool as well, and placed in an area of the market that is constantly looking for innovation.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170123090630.h...
I’d love to switch to Linux - just to be able to work with a decent hardware laptop again. But can’t live without a few mac-only apps, like Sketch.

I find that iMac’s offer good value for money, but the Macbook Pro’s are horrible laptops.

I’m still convinced that Jobs was smart enough to build good machines for developers. Cook doesn’t care.

I still have an MBP 17”, still works great, battery is dead. I would’ve loved a new version of that machine under Jobs.

1500$ new iPhones, product lines not even being slightly updated... it’s a mess.

BUT: it’s nice to have your photos appear on your desktop and ipad and, it’s just easy.
I can't wait until I can't apply my makeup because my cartridge is missing cyan.
ultimately it depends on the implementation, but in general it seems like, assuming perfect decoupling and nothing unusual, it’s less involved to swap out a front-end than a back-end, nor sure if that’s a clue one way or another but it’s what came to mind

I could re-write an angular front-end using react by using the same back-end API, but if I rewrote the backend I may need to tweak the front-end as well, or go to extra lengths to mimic the API perfectly so the front-end can continue to work seamlessly, which in my experience seems less likely to happen
Yes, and it's the fact that it's the popular narrative that drives this anxiety and ends up being a sell fulfillkng prophecy. Everyone says this is the case and then a kid gets filled with anxiety when they think about doing something else and boom, there you have it, stress addled and burned out at the age of 25.
I haven't seen much reporting of it growing.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middl...

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-american...
It alway felt to me like an enormous, manually-computed Markov chain.
> Do you go for this or still commit to eternally buying makeup

And trade your soul to the ink cartridge gods instead?
Ask HN: Any interest in a generic control room platform
Hey,

I was wondering if anyone here would be interested in a somewhat generic, API-driven, map-based control room platform.

To help illustrate it with a contrived example (putting aside bonds and privacy), let's assume you run a tool rental business (e.g. jackhammers and the like). Because of theft issues, you've decided to install discreet GPS tracking devices on your more valuable equipment.

You might want to be notified when the device is taken outside a specific geofence (i.e. 100km+ outside the city bounds), as well as view the location of your tools on a map.

Let's assume your IT team creates a bespoke service that receives the GPS data from each tool once or twice a day.

This service then pushes the location and potentially other information of each tool to the control room platform using an API (each tool would be asset in the platform), and they'd be visible on the map.

Additionally, the service also checks to see if a tool is outside the geofence. If so, it raises a warning event in the control room platform (each event might have a corresponding event type / schema predefined) linked to the tool / asset.

If the tool is brought back within the bounds of the geofence. In this case, another event (i.e. Tool Back Within Bounds) might be fired, and that event might clear the previous warning event.

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My assumption is that a useable, API-driven feature-rich (think events, event types, assets, asset types, filtering, etc) control room platform would be useful for a number of different use cases across multiple industries (e.g. IoT, asset tracking, emergency services, logistics).

Looking for any feedback and whether anyone here thinks they'd get business value from such a platform.
I saw the same thing recently as well
>Also, at least in my opinion, the very limited nature of the total set of states relative to the total set of states in something like an RTS lends itself to repeat engagement and analysis. You can, and likely will, see exactly the same board position in more than one chess game.

This makes it reactive, rather than proactive. Reactive judgments are driven more by depth of knowledge, habit, and memorization. Whereas proactive judgments are driven more by predictive/entrepreneurial reasoning. Both seem equally driven by calculated risk with a little psychology involved.

Ancillary skills are important in start craft, I'll give you that. But at least in DotA those skills could be learned by anyone relatively quickly. I don't play video games any more so no other examples come to mind unfortunately.
Actually, one thing which drives me to distraction is Emacs making C-Z a shortcut for minimising the window when using the GUI version. It's not a shell!!

It certainly makes sense when running inside a terminal. But when it's an X11 application, it makes me angry everytime I fumble C-X and it interrupts my workflow.
On the bright side, it hides the burns pretty much immediately.
This is close to the point I was trying to make about memetics and evolutionary psychology: "Is this post triggering in me some irrational behavior to which humans are commonly susceptible?"
I guess I forgot about all those users that constantly modify their operating system's software design.
Probably because there is absolutely NOTHING on their homepage or about page that describes what their service is in a simple manner. Their tag is "Mass Transit Reinvented"... great!!! How exactly are you doing that in layman's terms.
Thats not evidence of anything though.
Or just do it once with laser treatment, which is more invasive but you don't have to do it daily.
Scientists harness machine learning to uncover new insights into the human brain
I over-stated the evidence. I was thinking of a study claiming 85% of felons convicted of child porn possession also admitted to also committing child sexual abuse in anonymous reporting. But it seems there's a lot of controversy around that study: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/us/19sex.html .

That said, my understanding is the evidence does seem to indicate a correlation between the two, though in the 30-40% range. See https://web.archive.org/web/20080111204617/http://www.ndaa.o... for example. Not a majority, but still significant. And, of course, this sample is just people who were convicted of possession, not all people who ever viewed such material, so I'd have to qualify my statement to "convicted consumers of child porn"
I understand the concerns, but your "solutions" are deeply flawed and faith based. Your idea that whites won't be discriminated is a joke, because it's already reality. Whites are actively discriminated against. This is what "positive discrimination" is. It means that if you have 9 white candidates and 1 non-white candate apply for 2 jobs, and you have a diversity quota to fill, then the non-white candidate has a 100% chance, and the white candidates have an 11% chance. Remove the racism quota and everyone has a 20% chance, as it should be.

The systems in placed are already abused by assholes who try to game it. I've lost count of the number of threats of lawsuits I've had from "unprivileged" people who can barely string together an English sentence, because I refuse to hire or interview them. There are people who will play the system if it favors them. These are a minority of the minorities, but they're significant in that they waste resources (and actively harm people who are legitimately discriminated against).

Anyone can have an opinion when they have no skin in the game. Spend a few years recruiting and all of the literature in the world is worth garbage - it's written mostly be people who have never interviewed, probably never had an interview or even a proper job in their lives because they've been sheltered by the academy.
What feature allows it to "guess" your rating? Is it automatic (after a number of games it guesses your rating), or do you just set one manually and upgrade it yourself over time?
I did not find any mention of such feature on https://www.shredderchess.com/
Oh cool, thanks for sharing that talk. I might try to submit an avo talk to a meetup, if anyone will have me :)
Find me a coder who can describe the programming process - or even what it is. Sounds like you've learnt to program people. Clever boy.
This is like saying arresting people for being black is good because black people tend to commit crimes.
Making Superhumans Through Radical Inclusion and Cognitive Ergonomics
Even just mapping between the mnemonics is non-trivial. You want to think that it's just a matter of removing size suffixes from AT&T, but it's sadly not that simple. "movslq" in AT&T maps not to "movsl" or even "movs" in Intel, but "movsxd". How is anybody supposed to figure that out?
The big fish is always going to have challengers from somewhere. You may be right about the average case but the world is quite large.
Oh we had plenty of those where I grew up in Brazil. Usually they were supposed to be hired only by neighborhood associations and to transport only those people that hired them, but effectively they were clandestine bus lines and would pickup anyone who hailed them. That, added to how immensely imprudent and dangerous their driving usually was caused them to be outlawed completely some 8-10 years ago.
I knew the aliens were colluding with Trump!
I collect only the most basic info, name, card number, zip, cvc.

Maybe that's part of the problem?

However this was the happy path that Stripe's docs encouraged me to use.
For me I do it this way:
1. Get a sprite system, audio, sfx, save state, game loop solution going for the platform (GBC). Usually something is available like Cocos.

2. Create the game! Sprites, animations, sounds, game code for all parts.

Then I test play, and iterate until it’s ready to share.

Starting from scratch like this website is like starting from step zero, not step one.
perl, nice!
I’m far away from a zealot, but looking at where the money is, it isn’t PHP.
How to Do Data Science Using SQL on Raw JSON
New Technique Boosts Omega-3 Levels in the Brain
Lichess classical (long time control) most likely has a weaker smaller pool than the blitz most strong players that are playing online usually are in blitz. Good for him in excelling but I noticed he didn't mention the time control in the article. If he plays overboard and gets a rating using those openings (i.e. Orangutane)I'm guessing around 1700 maybe a little less
And there it is. All this fear-mongering as a means to just peddle socialism some more. With complete disregard for the significant progress we've made in electric vehicles, carbon sequestration, solar and wind, and construction materials.
If aligned memory writes are atomic, why do we need sync/atomic package? (2018)
Nah, I'm selling API services.

I have a majority of international customers, which maybe doesn't help...
And a much higher chance of actually destroying the target. The US dropped more tonnage of bombs on Vietnam than the entirety of WWII, and yet random destruction is rather ineffective.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, or break the guidelines by name-calling in the sense described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If we take the name-calling out of this comment, there's nothing left. That makes it a bad comment for Hacker News.
> which was indeed the case when compared to digital content in today's world.

World War 1, World War 2, Cuba, Mexico, the civil war, the Boston masacre, the boston tea party are just a few things we can point some fake and incomplete news to in America.
People use GitHub comments for communication also. Seeing a note next to people's names in a conversation if you cannot expect a timely reply from them is unarguably useful.
And if you trust a company with holding your coins....no reason they can't steal it just the same.
That is a fairly fractured statement. Lightrail actually connects DTSJ with several areas people live in (e.g. Sunnyvale, Campbell) and its transit station is Diridon, which also includes Amtrak, CalTrain, several bus lines and a taxi stand. Google picked the only spot in the south bay with an actual transit presence of any real heft.
This is a melee version of Homer's make-up gun.
> With regards to numerical programming, it's obviously already far ahead of swift, and IMO much better placed to beat it in the long run.

Julia's secret sauce is LLVM. Considering the guy behind Swift also made LLVM, I'm inclined to think that Swift will come out ahead.
When someone markets themselves as "good", they are usually trying to distract you from something not so good that they are doing.
It's not going to continue past the end of January under any scenario.

Trump will go with a national emergency declaration (we've had 58 of those declared just since 1979) in an attempt to fund and build the wall the military route. That will be halted due to an injunction. Then it'll end up at the Supreme Court. Assuming the Democrats don't offer a compromise to Trump that is.
It's marketing: the average guy won't buy a "make-up printer", but a "skin printer" sounds much more palatable.
I wish there was a way to flag comments. Maybe there is a way and I just haven't found it.

You are spouting racist pseudo-science. What evidence do you have that a particular group of people are genetically smarter than another group of people?

The idea that one race/group of people is inherently smarter than another group of people has been debunked time and time and time again. Any "evidence" you find that "proves" one race is superior to another in terms of intelligence is probably

1]false/misleading

2]at worse, can be explained by differences in educational systems, history, and other socio-economic factors.

I think the user gumby gave a more detailed explanation than me, I'm just here to say that you should stop propagating openly racist pseudo-science on HN.
Definitely didn't make this thread to argue with people who responded, but I do wish to provide a counteropinion to a couple statements there:

> Some knowledge of languages like C is generally a requirement

I have never heard of anyone using C for back-end web server code, unless they were contributing to open source tooling. When have you used C for this? I would maintain it's a total rarity and not by any means essential knowledge.

> front end work requires knowledge of HTML, CSS etc. which kids do in high school.

I don't see the connection between "age at which education system introduces basics" and "complexity of the field." This is a curriculum failing more than anything. Do you mean to say that if we introduced databases into the high school curriculum then you would stop considering the back end to be "serious"?

> server side work requires a deeper knowledge of things like Threads, sockets, processes etc.

And front end work requires a deeper knowledge of things like async code, promises, websockets, and so on. Idk, I've worked both sides of the coin and I don't see that the one is significantly harder than the other.
Please don't rant like this or conduct personal attacks on HN.

Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines in your comments here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We've all heard about “life support.” but what is it?
Yup, quite a few were renumbered last year in UK
As always, as well:

> As with similar "laws" (e.g., Murphy's law), it is intended to be humorous rather than the literal truth.