skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a fashion statement first and a warm coat second. So the question "Are they worth it" is highly individual (I reside on the "hell no" side of the fence!).
Yeah, you're right!

You also got me thinking about how some of the tools here lend themselves to assembling then contributing additional elements. Ie. drag out existing elements, do some basic vector drag and drop and editing, paint bucket, border thickness, etc. "Submit for peer review" (which can be a Pull Request).
"At the center of his anti-China argument was the concept of a centralized database of personal information called a "social credit system."

While Soros acknowledged that such a set-up doesn't yet exist..."

But it does in China, right? I've read many articles about it and I could swear they weren't just future-looking.
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Javascript DOES allow trailing commas, though it never caught on since IE6 would blow up on them.

JSON, however, does not.
I hear of a lot more people moving away from Gmail than moving to Gmail.
Is this in the US? I've had SIM cards in three European countries, never received a spam SMS.
ProseMirror – A toolkit for building rich-text editors on the web
My Grandma the Poisoner
Companies are people... I fint it funny that we talk about companies like a sentinent being..
Yes and no, because it is complicated. This is a fairly naive example of HTTP/2 to illustrate a point, while most websites I am called in on to optimize the load time are not built like this. This example only shaved off around 60ms for 20 requests, if your website has 20 requests to load, you have ads or you have a resource problem.

HTTP/2 spec says it should not share a connection across a host/port combo, any content you have loaded on a CDN, or a your own cdn.mydomain.com will be a separate connection. The reason CDNs are faster is because they are closer(lower latency) or it is common and already cached in your browser.

HTTP/2 still suffers from latency and TCP Window sizes, so no your 8mb website will still be slow after you enable HTTP/2, you still have to push 8mb out to the client. If you have a site loading over 80 resources, concat and minify that first before asking your server admin to turn on HTTP/2.

HTTP/1 clients gets around some network latency issues by issuing more than one TCP socket, just like SFTP clients using more than one thread. Because it is hard to overload a single socket when your latency for your ACK packets is 200ms+. If this wasn't true, Google would not be spending the time on a UDP based version of HTTP. HTTP/2

Overall, lower you content size, lower the number of requests it takes to load your initial website, THEN turn on HTTP/2.
How is George Soros perceived in USA and West Europe? Any comments?
Yes you are right that BPMN is primarily designed for business processes that involve human interaction (and please excuse that a bit flamboyant title). The gray area is I guess what describing automated workflows- there you can go either with bpmn or uml activity diagram. And that is what the post is exploring: how/whether we can simplify those when dealing with large workflow graphs where both of these options might be too verbose to use.
you could also fault amazon for not preventing fraudulent listings. It seems strange to me that instead of expanding their range that comes direct from manufacturers, they decided to merge their own sales with essentially a horde of unvetted eBay stores. Many people still buy from Amazon thinking they're essentially buying from an online outlet store, but they're often buying from random unvetted strangers with very little culpability.

At the very least they could add a "verified/unverified" badge to store names and give verified status to manufacturer outlets.
It's still better than the "nocebo buttons", which make the waiting longer the more often you press them :)
>So she blames Canada Goose

What gave you that impression?
There are better ways though. A countdown that shows remaining time until green has both a positive effect on perceived wait time, the same effect on crossings without green and does not have this ethical problem.
I work in New York, but I go to Seattle periodically because that's where my company's headquarters is. How people treat the buttons is wildly different between those two cities. I hardly ever see anyone press the cross button in NY, since the convention is to wait for there to be no cars and then cross (and not bother with the button). In Seattle, I've seen people wait patiently at a cross walk even though there's no cars anywhere in sight.

I would imagine rather than a placebo effect, it's more of a self-selection phenomenon - rather than pressing a button making people more patient, the people who are more likely to follow "the rules" are more likely to press the button. And even if there is hypothetically a placebo effect, the result would be irrelevant if almost no one presses the button.
Wouldn't a countdown timer solve the need for those buttons?
My thoughts exactly... The French have a saying,

"With enough 'ifs' you could Paris in a bottle."

This is what we, as software developers, do! We create conditions to make (amazing) things happen!

Conditionals are the bread and butter of programming. They're what allow us to "fix" things in short order. They give us the flexibility to make our software work in a seemingly infinite number of situations.

They also make debugging easier! Waking through the logic of even a zillion conditionals is quite straightforward and gives you that, "aha!" moment pretty quickly. Whereas walking through an algorithm that only works on a weirdly transformed data set just has us scratching our heads wondering why the previous developer felt the need to, "fuck with the data" instead of just writing a few clear and concise conditionals.

Conditionals are also easy to split up! They give you lots of clear options if they start to "grow out of control" as it were. Whereas transforming the data in various code paths can rapidly create debugging nightmares!
There's currently no one 'social credit score' in China. There's some local government pilots and some private enterprise "credit scores." The ones you hear about often are stuff like Alipay's Sesame Credit, which gives you a score based on your activities in Alibaba's app ecosystem. Currently, Sesame credit is pretty harmless, and gives you discounts on online orders or financial products if your score is good. The danger is that the national government will soon get its ducks in order and hoover all this data into one overarching national credit score and use that to police behavior.
I used to have a math teacher in high school who would say:
"When a mathematician doesn't have what he wants, he re-arranges things so as to get it."

Basically he meant, if the problem isn't presented in a way that makes it convenient to solve, rearrange the problem fist, then solve it.

A classic example of this from high school math would be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Completing_the_square
Automate Python workflow using pre-commits: black and flake8
90° V6 engines are a perversion, anyway.
If people's behavior can be modified simply by giving them the perception of their input mattering then I would expect the coming AI interfaces/assistants and goal oriented concierge services to pick up on this and leverage it, which could get pretty creepy depending on the goals involved. Advertisement disguised as meaningful interaction.
Flood of complaints to EU countries since data law adopted
I saw this a few days ago. If this means I can populate my empty Instagram profile (which was weirdly given to me by having a Facebook account) - then this is a win. I share a lot of images on Facebook, so if these went on my Instagram feed I would be really happy.
I love Spotify with two exceptions:

1. They really need to pay their artists more

2. They have no interest in their users organizing/tagging music, probably because they want more control over what plays next via algorithms/playlists

Both of these have now culminated in a malicious actor completely ruining the victim's user experience to make a couple hundred bucks.
It's funny how privacy protections are turning out. Every week or so we see the same pattern repeat. The BIG problem with privacy is government data sharing. Medical records, police records, travel records, financial records, ... we keep hearing stories of real people really getting hurt because of these data sharing agreements.

And yet all we hear about is Google data sharing, Facebook data sharing. And when it comes to problems with that, we hear about a few commercial disputes.

And yet in law the situation is that we are protecting against the second case, with everywhere exceptions for the first case. And while I'm happy for such protections, I feel protections against government data sharing (especially against them sharing mistakes/inaccuracies/out of date info) would have much more positive results.
For the app developer, React code _does_ restart rendering from scratch. You have no access to the past rendered state from the render method (at least if you don’t intentionally escape the declarative model). This isn’t true only for bugs in React.

What happens internally in React is another question. But the point of React abstraction is to let _you_ think in terms of “render from scratch”.
What if eating cereal for breakfast is healthy today but causes two accidents tomorrow?
I notice a lot in London that there are a bunch of pedestrian lights in areas witha steady flow of traffic that will only work if the button has been pressed, yet every single day I see people, often the same people, stand there until someone else presses the button.

Part of me wonders if there's almost an aspect of not wanting to cause offense involved. If you're the person who presses the button, you're responsible for the ire of whatever drivers you delay, so you'll either wait for an gap to run across the road or someone else'll press the button and absolve you.
I dont get it. We are concerned over IP theft. Meanwhile China has the Great Firewall and mass surveillance apparatus. Then you get their vice president saying ' I cannot control my unruly children who vandalize American businesses' So doesnt their IT infrastructure and super snooping ability figure out who are the transgressors? Why dont they round up ten of the worst and deport them and the assets of their companies as a show of good faith? Is it because we are doing the same? or is it because the offenders are 'too big to punish'?
That's a great book, I enjoyed it
They are very effective cold weather jackets, and have been designed and made for practical usage. High end outerwear is expensive across all brands. That it oddly took off as a fashion statement doesn't diminish the utility. Though I do think they are hitting the peak exposure moment, and soon they're going to have to remove the outer branding to allow utility buyers to not look like fashionistas.
Buildings Exist and They Look Like They Are from a Sci-Fi Movie
This is the one that leads to the joke with the punchline "... insert a known lion in Capetown to ensure the search terminates", isn't it?
Yeah, and tuning a piano is quite a feat! (patience is a virtue)
This plan doesn't scale. You can't bump the fee to $.10 an hour because there's fixed costs associated with this specific plan (paper, glue, transportation, etc).

There is a viable way to do recycling fraud, but DIY stickers isn't it.
Great article about a very significant accomplishment. Few of us get a chance to write an operating system--Dave wrote three. VMS was about as solid as you can imagine.

At the time, I wondered if there weren't too many features in VMS and now NT. But that is always the tension, isn't it?

One interesting fact that the article doesn't cover is that MS had to pay Compaq, interitor of DEC, something like $60 million as the result of hiring Cutler. There are very significant similarities in NT with VMS. All in all, it was certainly worth it.
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This makes me so annoyed. I much prefer ones without buttons because I don't have to mess with it; when there is a button, I assume I have to go over and press it, but it sounds like in some cases I don't (for a while now I've suspected them to be pointless). But there's no way to tell the difference so I still have to everywhere.
Yes, but those voltages/currents may be negligible. You can find some numbers online from the past events, like 4V/km of a power grid. That would not kill anything I have at home.
Seems odd the probabilities are actually did because of longer term solar cycles
I sent an employee to Iqaluit, Nunavut in Canada during winter there for 6 days.

He said his Canada Goose coat was great and kept him really warm.

They are indeed a very warm coat. So warm, that I prefer a Ski jacket where I can open the armpit zipper when I overheat while walking.

Remember, if you are in motion, you will generate heat, so if you are waiting for the bus a lot, a very warm coat is good. If you walk a lot in winter, you need a versatile warm coat that also allows for heat to be released so you don't sweat, and get colder.

Edit: My ski jacket is nowhere near the price of a Canada Goose Jacket, it was bought on sale for $200. So yes, they are very expensive coats and you can buy very warm coats for much cheaper. Not endorsing any specific coat, just pointing out that they are indeed very warm coats (too warm for me).
> He reports that his team has also identified about 12,000 merchant accounts linked to four banks in China, one of which just lost its Visa privileges permanently.

Only one and only Visa?

If you buy a counterfeit product through Amazon and then do a credit card chargeback, does that hit Amazon or the seller?
Living in Scandinavia, I own one, since it can get very cold. It's one of the best garments I've ever bought quality-wise, and it's extremely warm. No complaints.
I get what you mean but the "nobody's forcing you" arguments are all fallacious. Life it's not a dichotomy between forced and free.
This doesn't measure CO2 levels. It measures volatile organic compounds and calculates the amount of CO2 that would cause the same greenhouse effect.

>The SGP30 does have built in calibration capabilities, note that eCO2 is calculated based on H2 concentration, it is not a 'true' CO2 sensor for laboratory use.
Best GAN papers in 2018 (part 2)
There needs to be fines for this kind of stuff.

Each and every person affected needs to be notified, and the companies sued into oblivion. It's just negligence.
Not good enough, as many email clients show both of these fields. The whole idea why people use this is to send and receive with one address only, even if you've authenticated with another.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#Conspiracy_theori...
Well, the article at hand is about mockingbirds... So I'm not sure how any of your theories are relevant to the article at hand.
and you cannot sue Uncle Sam. Furthermore, govt data is being withheld from public access because of the shutdown - yet those fat congressmen and senators continue to draw paychecks upwards of 200k.
Given that regular umbrellas cost 3 euros on average, how much do those cost?
I wonder what platform will he use for this? Like what framework?

If anyone has any idea, please share.

Edit -> I don’t understand why the heck are honest technical questions downvoted!! It’s not like I would have found a ready answer for my question with a simple Google search. If a question does not interest you, at least please don’t downvote it! Some dumb people are courageous enough to ask questions.
Londoner here - I personally don't press the button if it's only me and the road is not busy since the time I would save would be lost over all the people I would make stop just for me.

I've seen many people not press the buttons thinking it's just there as a placebo, it's mostly tourists though as it's common knowledge amongst Londoners that the button signals the traffic operating system that a pedestrian would like to cross.
They have already done that, in practice - Google keeps coming up with other ways of writing Android apps and alternative runtimes, and encouraging developers to adopt them. It would have been silly not to, the minute Oracle sued, as insurance. But it’s a mammoth task and nowhere near completion. Moving such a humongous ecosystem is always hard; if you cut too abruptly you risk opening the market to competing platforms. This goes even more for a platform that has customers both above (developers) and below (manufacturers) the stack. Apple didn’t even change anything of substance internally, and still a lot of (most?) apps are not built with Swift. It will take years to replace Dalvik; and in those years, the crocodile would be happy to collect.
I'm fairly certain most, if not all, the lights in my area are automatic, however pressing the button rapidly causes the "wait" message to repeat as fast as you press it, which is a good way to pass the time while waiting.

More on topic, I wonder if people who jaywalk don't press buttons, or people who press buttons don't jaywalk? Seems like people who are already not going to jaywalk are more predisposed to button presses, but will not cross against the light even if they don't press the button.
> You are talking about one story. I'm talking about news in general.

I'm pointing a clear example where there was a general push for a falsified news report to push a narrative. There is no way around this.

Other examples also exist, but they fly under the radar or aren't so eggregious.
VPRI wrote an experimental TCP/IP stack which parsed the structure of the relevant IETF RFCs to generate code.

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf (Appendix E).
Also evaluate which data really needs to be saved in the first place.
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My wife is a respiratory therapist. When asked, she said higher-than-average CO2 is seen in COPD patients, and is compensated through an increase in metabolic bicarbonate production, countering the acidic properties of CO2. We are still entering unknown territories with such large populations getting exposed to higher CO2 levels, but she thinks we'll be fine.
For my daughter quite often the highlight of our walk to the shops is that she gets to push the button at the traffic lights. Whether they do anything or not, she just loves pushing buttons.
Three examples of successful MVPs
In Germany, there is a twist: When you press such a placebo button, a white light that reads "warte" (wait) starts flashing.
I'm guessing this means unifying every Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp user account into one unified "Facebook" account (already happened for Instagram).
I believe jaywalking is illegal, and enforced in Seattle.

When I'm in the UK I will normally not press the pedestrian button (unless its the type of pedestrian only crossing which only activate with the button, not on traffic lights on a junction) . But when I'm in the US, or a different country with jaywalking laws, I will stick to the rules much more rigidly.

I also really enjoy the first time crossing a road when I get back, the taste of freedom!
Not for industry standards, try to handle interoperability and code portability with forks.

MariaDB vs mysql fork doesn't matter as long as they execute the same SQL, which isn't in the case in standard Java vs Android Java.
How you get there matters for the budget. But ethically it is the same. In any case, you are consciously lying to people for their own good.

Is lying to people for their own good ethical? You decide, I don't think there is a correct answer.

In fact the second case (not removing the buttons) can be seen as the least ethical of the two. In the first case, it is an assumed choice, you did it because you think it is for the best.

In the second case, you let money guide your ethical choices. That's essentially Black Hat's answer to the trolley problem (https://xkcd.com/1455/)
He's the boogeyman for people on the right, much like the Koch brothers are the boogeymen for the left, at least in the USA.
I have a North Face down parka, with all sorts of implications it solves the same problem, that's simply not warm enough for me. It's even named McMurdo after the Antarctic research station, and cost about £350.

There isn't too much out there with extreme rating, so if the likes of North Face and similar brands aren't warm enough you start to consider them regardless of price. Even if they have become surprisingly trendy, for no apparent reason, price alone perhaps? So who is in the same niche with a better made, but cheaper product?
Also, where are the front-facing people?
If you are a lawyer the cost of hiring yourself is significant lower than the cost of a small company that need hire a lawyer to defend themselves.
Europe has it, with the GDPR. It'll never happen in the U.S., corporate America has too much lobby power.
Well, there's [Matrix](https://matrix.org) in this space which I would characterize as pushing.
But, Instagram has messaging already, no? So it's only needed to drop WhatsApp and Messenger to get integration done. Ah, and move users accounts.
Actually, no. HTTP/2 cannot be easily read or written by a human with a telnet or s_client connection without some additional tools. It also can't be supported by a lot of old software without some additional layer of indirection. This may or may not be important to you, but it is a thing that HTTP/2 cannot do.
I want my applications to feel like they belong to the platform and not identical on every platform

I'm the exact opposite. I could care less about the underlying platform... I want my apps to behave exactly the same everywhere.
Google have pushed Kotlin.
I wonder much how XMPP is left over in WhatsApp's guts at this point.
"Much less"? Not so sure. Good winter coats aren't cheap even when there isn't obvious branding. In any case, most clothing has both fashion and utilitarian aspects.

A friend of mine bought a coat from what is probably Canada Goose's main competitor in their Montreal factory store. It was expensive, even on sale, but it was also a very nice cold weather coat that fit well--in addition to looking good.
Also the huge multinationals are...huge - it varies a lot between different offices and teams.

There is no one EA or Activision experience, they are very heterogeneous entities.
(also in the UK)

> high interest loans from utility companies and landlords strikes me as an obscenity.

My point is usually that this is a lot cheaper, since these don't usually charge interest at the payday rates. Utility companies have barriers to cutting you off.

But ultimately people who have negative cashflow week-to-week are going to get in trouble. Limiting how much debt they can get in causes them to hit the buffers earlier, but less hard.

(Incidentally, this is yet another major problem with "universal credit": paying it on a 6 week delay is designed to force people to use payday lenders!)
This reminds me of an elevator's "Door Close" button. Manufacturers still include them for the peace of mind of passengers, despite computerized systems and many area laws (in the US, the ADA has language regarding door-open timespan for wheelchair access).

EDIT: Thanks to a_c_s for pointing out that the button can work when the elevator is in emergency/service mode. More fun information on elevators, crosswalk and other buttons can be found here: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/us/placebo-buttons-elevat...
Its not on FastMail, its on Sieve. It is a hook that runs on receiving. To my knowledge if you want Sieve this is the only option. I use it with Protonmail and it is the same way. I also run it on my own mailserver.

One nice thing, for me at least, is it runs prior to the email ending up in your inbox and I am uses to Outlook rules were rules execute post arrival.
I wonder how people will feel about this. I always thought that to some extent, people use different social networks to segment their interactions. I.e. will this make it feel like my mom is on Instagram now?