skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume what iaw means by "espionage purposes" is that the Space Shuttle had a bunch of size/performance requirements set by the National Reconnaissance Office [1].

There's a certain amount of conjecture here, as spy stuff is classified. It's pretty well established that NRO needs impacted the payload size and 'cross range capability' (i.e. ability to land from polar orbit) [2] which may well have driven the delta-wing design and the piggyback-booster design [3]. And of course without the piggyback design, the Columbia disaster might not have happened.

[1] http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1960/1
[2] http://www.jamesoberg.com/sts-3A_B-DRM.PDF
[3] https://history.nasa.gov/sts1/pages/scota.html
Sadly it’s only every second year, but take the train to Erlangen next year and visit the https://www.comic-salon.de/de/home
All other things being equal, I wouldn't go NoSQL over Postgres.

What makes Firestore interesting to me (not used it in production) is that you can avoid the need for a backend completely. Your normal architecture is Client <-REST-> Backend <-> DB. You can avoid all the deployment and development in the backend by doing the work in the client.
You seem to assume that soldiers are by default OK with killing people.

Up until the middle of the last century, that wasn't the case. Most soldiers would (often intentionally) miss their targets because it turns out most humans are really hesitant about actually taking another human's life.

In part, the higher "efficiency" of the modern military comes down to dehumanising the target. In the US it is very easy to see from an outside perspective how this has spilled over into the media and public discourse -- I vividly remember several politicians explicitly talking in televised interviews about how Snowden was a traitor and should be killed without a trial, for example, a statement which seemed to spark no significant outrage and had no political consequences.

The trick is that the others aren't just "a threat", they're not even human. Terrorists don't have families. And if they do have children, they're the horrible animals dragging those innocent children into this -- the "migrants" are forcing us to separate their kids from them, it's their fault for even imposing this situation on their kids. Oh, sorry, hostility towards refugees and immigrants is of course a completely different topic; no idea how this slipped in there.

Humans hesitate when told to kill fellow humans. But they're pretty good at murdering if you train them not to consider their victims human.
I just want a company to keep making the previous generation MacBook Air.

Keep the ports. Keep the MagSafe. Don’t screw with the keyboard.

More memory and disk space would be nice, but it’s not a deal-breaker. I don’t mind going for a walk or enjoying a cup of coffee while I wait for GHC to compile.

It’s a good machine. Now leave it alone.
If the goal was distancing oneself from mainstream comic strips and books, that fell apart pretty quickly. I'm pretty sure the term was popularized by Marvel's Graphic Novels series of books.
EU agrees visa-free travel for UK citizens even after no-deal Brexit
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Not all colonialism is by the sword or gun. For the ancient Romans it was quite common for them to just be luring in people in to their society which would mostly erase traditions within a generation or two.

If you look at these kinds situations through a purely economic lens, you won't be able to even identify cultural imperialism where it's quite obviously occurring.
Epiphany for all its virtues is simply not that fast of a browser when compared to Firefox or Chrome. If I ever find myself with enough free time to dedicate to an OSS project, it will be epiphany. Never has there been such a diamond in the rough.

It's very serviceable if you are on a fast computer, and hardware accelerated video in a linux web browser is such a treat, but I bet any given release of the big boys has more patches in it than a year's worth of epiphany builds.

As for firefox-wayland, I've seen that fat bug tracker, and it doesn't have webrender or many of the fancier performance stuff working, but it does run well. I've been bouncing between the two browsers for a few months now and there doesn't seem to be any showstopping issues. It's just not as shiny as the real deal firefox.
The claim that the changes outlined in the first paragraph are good for the individual and society could use some proof. Either way, the fact that the article speculates about a revolutionary new family concept shows that there are a few unsolved issues.

The ideas proposed in the article seem completely delusional to me. I would consider staying on good terms with a former partner a success, and being cool with their new partner a nice bonus. Moving in with those guys, even shouldering that other dude's unemployment, as the article suggests? An unfair, possibly disrespectful proposal.

Stereotypically, it could be the idea of someone who likes to have both the earning power and stability of the former, and the curious attractiveness of the new parter, conveniently combined in one household?

Fundamentally, the idea of a 'clan' goes contrary to the overarching trend of Individualism, which has brought us so many individual freedoms but dismantled so many formal and informal social constructs. Individualists will not submit to an artificial 'clan' unless forced by massive external pressure. A struggle to survive that has created those social constructs in the first place.
> Still not a lot to quell the skepticism that some reasonable people have about the ability of scientists to accurately predict weather decades in the future.

It's a common misconception, climatology doesn't predict weather, but climate. And predicting average of weather is easier than predicting specific weather.

It's the same as in a casino. They cannot tell what will be the next throw of dice (weather). But they can calculate (predict) that you will, in the long-term average, lose (climate).
I don’t think that’s accurate. Companies and individuals benefit from outsourcing government work, that creates a huge incentive to paint government as incompetent.

The US military which hands crazy money to private firms is viewed very highly by the Republican’s and less so by Democrats.
furthermore, multiple projectors could increase resolution.

if there's an energy threshold to overcome to cause hardening, and if you can arrange for 2 sources to just barely exceed that threshold, then you could have very crisp prints.

chemistry is statistical though. you can exceed the threshold, but nothing happens because you get unlucky with some fraction of the light. You don't exceed the threshold, but you catch a bad reflection and harden stuff you don't want. and there's probably not a crisp threshold for hardening. it's more likely just time under light.

But i think you're right. two projectors at half power (let's pretend it's linear), with the projections 90 degrees out of phase, i think the print quality would go way way up.
"...and they probably met online." That's really gonna need some citation. Given the rise of online dating to cultural acceptance is only within the last decade or so (sorry no source, I'm not a journalist :p), I find it incredibly unlikely that those family units have surpassed offline meets in number so as to make "probably" accurate.
Not here mate, not in one day that's for sure.
Netflix is just a service that packages up Americana to sell around the world.

And in so doing, drowns out local culture. The CBC has the production of Canadian cultural content (CanCon) as part of its mandate. Why must everyone in the world watch American TV? Wouldn't it ultimately be better if every culture produced their own content and then we could maintain some local identity?

The word imperialism is not being used lightly, here. TV has an enormous impact on a society. It influences how people think, which in turn can influence their politics.
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Pains me to see CBC go down this path - from their recent modernization changes that made their website unusable for basic things like news, to seeing comments like this. Makes me wonder why "non-tech" companies just copy tech companies that are able to innovate and move faster without considering their own fate. But then I remember how they work and that every company is now a tech company at the apparent mercy of FAANG. I'm seeing a lot of talk about our neighbours down south but not a lot of action. This piece made it seem like CBC is losing a piece of the pie and they are salty. Makes me feel sad to see this from the top down. We have the same tech available and the similar resources but it seems that we would much rather partner or purchase than take some risk and try something different. I hope I am wrong.
Sounds like something one of the better-known retro hardware geeks could do a kickstarter for. I'd buy one :)
Not only that, but Netflix offers content from non-US based producers, it's enabling the sharing of creative content from all over the globe not just American produced content.

The CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) requires that 55% of content broadcasted yearly be of Canadian origin. This just seems like the starting stage of trying to regulate online content in the same manner.
You don’t need to “install” VPN apps at all.

https://www.imore.com/how-configure-vpn-access-your-iphone-o...
Do you have your mobile IDE available somewhere? I am looking for a way to code from my cellphone and I can't user Termux without a code keyboard (to get ctrl, tab, etc.) which takes most of the screen space on my phone.
> The only way to get a taxi is to walk out into the freezing street

Isn't the obvious way to get a taxi in a suburban/rural setting to (1) google "placename taxi" or ask around to find the phone number of local taxi firm (2) give them a call and wait inside for the cab?
Nope. It’s all about the quality of journalism. If the Board Of Editors Of MyPressNewsInc can’t keep bias down, then they shouldn’t deserve a business model.
How does this stop two of them conspiring against the third one?
Anyone who is a weather buff should try meteogram (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloud3squa...). You can plot a huge host of parameters (temperature, dew point, pressure, humidity, precipitation, wind speed/direction, sun/moon azimuth/elevation, etc.) over time, and the insights are very revealing. You can also choose multiple data sources, and it even has options to display METAR data.
Well now. I'd probably buy one for novelty if the price wasn't absurd. Bonus points for trackpoint. More bonus points for the USB in power supply brick. I do wish that was standard rather than usually one "power" USB port in the laptop.

Lots of interesting ideas, many of which simply don't seem that useful any more. Having to carry around a bag of gender changers, PS2<-->USB and all the rest is thankfully becoming rarer. I'm not the target though, as I don't need a lot more than ability to ssh somewhere these days.

If I wanted that small I'd probably go with a Gemini, the Psion 5 spritual successor, with proven great but tiny keyboard. Even that has proved too niche to part me from actual money: https://jmcomms.com/2017/11/29/gemini-pda-20-years-on-meet-t...
"Fan historian Richard Kyle coined the term "graphic novel" in an essay in the November 1964 issue of the comics fanzine Capa-Alpha. The term gained popularity in the comics community after the publication of Will Eisner's A Contract with God (1978) and the start of Marvel's Graphic Novel line (1982) and became familiar to the public in the late 1980s after the commercial successes of the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Maus in 1986 and the collected editions of Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns in 1986 and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen in 1987. The Book Industry Study Group began using "graphic novel" as a category in book stores in 2001."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_novel

I read A Contract with God and some other of Eisner's stuff lately, e.g. The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and the version of the "To be, or not to be" speech in Comics and Sequential Art - just awesome.
Share your startup – February 2019
I like these "Share your startups" on Reddit /r/startups and IndieHackers.com, so I like to do the same here.

Please do a succinct post, to make this clear. Please include these details.

Love to know your plan(s) this month for your awesome project :)

* Name

* URL

* Small description (< 10/15 words)

* Current stage

* Your plan for this month

Thank you!
Netflix is just a service that packages up Americana to sell around the world.

Except it really isn't. Netflix (at least in Europe) has shows and movies from all over the world. Thanks to Netflix I've discovered shows from all over the place and I'd venture that less than 50% of my Netflix viewing is "Americana".
Well, "cultural imperialism" is the answer to "so what if american companies outcompete native Canadian entertainment?" i.e. it's a response to a response to your more obvious narrative.

Of course, it's not a very good argument for persuading the general public as most people don't know what cultural imperialism means.
>Why must everyone in the world watch American TV? Wouldn't it ultimately be better if every culture produced their own content and then we could maintain some local identity?

Nobody has to. That’s the point. If your local culture is really shitty entertainment that can’t compete with Netflix, the local culture sucks.

How about banning books written by Americans and restricting people from reading US authored news as well?

Protectionism is bullshit.
This would make my life easier in many situations. If it has enough RAM I would use it as my main computer even.
"these costs fall on people who I feel deserve it" isn't a good reason to completely ignore the size of the costs being imposed. Especially since these costs are sublinear with respect to organization size, causing the tech behemoths you complain about to get a free competitive advantage against upstarts threatening their business model.
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I don't think it's on the same level with "considered harmful" quite yet but definitely heading there.
BTW, two more for your list:

- Everything you always wanted to know about X (but were afraid to ask)
- X, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Y
Here's mine:

Name: PDFShift

URL: https://pdfshift.io

Description: Convert any HTML documents to high fidelity PDF in a single POST request.

Plans: I'm almost done with the redesign, hope it will convert to more customers.
No one is limiting what you can watch on CBC or any other Canadian content platform, why should I be locked into watching locally produced content I don't resonate with online?

Regulating media consumption online, a traditionally global marketplace, to your national content is just a terrible idea in every sense.
You make a quick slight-of-hand in this comment. You start off talking about how gun violence, as a whole, is at low historic levels. Then, you go on to talk specifically about school shootings. As far as I can tell, school shootings are at historically high levels.

It seems legitimate to report on that considering schools are places that parents send their kids every day and have historically viewed them as safe. Add that most schools are publicly-run institutions and you have an interesting story of children shooting children at government run locations. If that doesn’t seem newsworthy to you, the bias may be in your own interpretation.
There's a lot of mutual influence between French and Belgian comics. Both Pilote and Spirou Magazine featured comics from either origin for instance. They're usually considered to be the same genre (at least in France).
1.) Identify mentally wavering individuals by way of health records.
2.) Locate a subject and plan exploit
3.) Begin successively ramping up suggestive impulses to commit violent acts
4.) Ensure subject has access to suitable weapons
5.) Cause a complete mental breakdown of subject

And you know the rest. It would explain a lot if this technology has already been available for some time and we're just finding out about it. It wouldn't even take many people to pull off, just a handful, maybe even just one.
A large fraction of Netflix content is not produced in the US. At the core it’s an economic not a cultural argument. The issue is not the American nature of content but rather competing with high quality forein content.
Same happens (happened?) with the cryptocurrency market, except unregulated; just some people in a chatroom or voice chat, some with a lot of money to spend, working together to influence the price of a currency and the exchanges. Giving each other advance warning of big trades coming in.
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Franco Belgian is a specific style. It's been a very close relationship between France and Belgium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Belgian_comics
I recently found my old netbook while going through some stuff. The netbook trend was short lived, but I really like this machine (Acer Aspire One ZG5). Ethernet and card ports, plenty of USBs. And it has VGA, which for some reason I still have more use for than HDMI. They keyboard and mouse were better than my current laptop, a Lenovo Yoga 2 that I can't seem to get the hang of. And it has an Atom processor and really good battery life.

Sadly I slipped on ice in a parking lot and broke the screen. I ordered a new one on ebay a few days ago, so hopefully I can revive it.
I read this as, “Netflix doesn’t buy CBC shows because people don’t like watching them. CBC publicly complains to government to stifle competition.”
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Lead is quite a good gamma shield. It's modestly permeable to neutrons and high energy electrons.

It's really not hard to hide both neutron and gamma emissions, especially if you have a large enough container, like a ship's hold.

I would absolutely expect any nuclear exchange to start with ground-based stealth attacks.
I'm not sure if Spotify is the right model, but maybe the newspapers can make some reciprocal arrangements? I pay for a quality newspaper in my own region/country, and with that subscription I would also like to be able to view a number of articles on other newspapers' websites, more than not-logged-in users, but less than full subscribers of those other newspapers (say, 30 articles per month), maybe not completely ad-free but at least without obnoxious or tracking ads.
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> It's not in the best interest of the banks to monitor their internals too closely.

So keep raising the fines. make them proportional to the banks turnover, or their perceived size if it appears that they are trying to disguise profits. The leadership of the banks need to follow the rules too, and make sure that the organisation follows those same rules. Maybe they should be held accountable when that doesn't happen.

As we found out when Health & Safety legislation was enacted which did this, it turns out that when you start holding people personally accountable for their actions (or lack of), then changes start to happen in the culture of the workplace. I walked around a factory recently and they take the health and safety of themselves, their colleagues and their visitors very seriously.
Hilarious! Would love to see something like this. I have the Thinkpad X220, and it is really a nice size for getting something serious done while still on the small side.
> I'm also really tired of this attitude of protecting our culture and worrying it'll be swallowed up by foreign culture. What is Canadian culture? It's always just been a synthesis of foreign culture moulded by our site and situation.

Canadian or any other culture is culture produced domestically. Yes everyone can watch the higher production and marketing budget from netflix. But that leaves domestic artists without an audience because they can not afford the reach netflix has.

This ultimately destroys opportunities for local artists and thus also destroys local culture. It creates social issues because a segment of the population is denied a career option they would otherwise be able to pursue.
Vast majority of people employed in the tech industry (think any major hardware or software company) are implicitly contributing to and benefiting from DRM. So I'm not too surprised with the general sentiment.
You’re able to create custom apps for businesses where you can distribute to selected businesses, although you still need to go through the App Store approval process. You can also require a login to your app to restrict who can use it.
A thread on how to carefully read news stories that are in dispute
The author goes quickly to the wishful thinking territory. Save time, hack software systems together but don’t spend any time learning to code at all. How to properly work with aws sql api as he proposes when you have no idea about coding?
And as soon as you have at least some coding skills who can say you didn’t learn to code?
Reconstructing 3D models from 2D projections is a popular exercise in applied linear algebra courses (actually, 2D images from 1D projections are more common, because it's easier to visualize). The procedure is pretty easy to code up once you've understood the mathematics. Essentially you build a system of linear equations describing the influence of material density on the measured intensity, then solve it for density given intensity. https://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/applications/p...

Generating projections from a model is much easier, because you only need to write the rendering pass and don't have to invert it.
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I still have a Dell Mini 9. Everything still works apart from the battery which doesn't last long. I recently built a very minimal Gentoo on there and it's very quick. I use it as a coffee table computer in my living room.
That just makes the cultural argument stronger if now its not just the USA sending holy wood but now the entire world.
Best forecasts that I know (accurate enough to people come and ask me): https://www.windguru.cz/

Notes:

- Only the GFS27KM is reliable on free version and within next 48-72h.

- Temperatures are always conservative on extremes. When it says 37C, expect 40C. When 2C expect 0C.
That sounds a bit pointlessly pedantic to me. "Bande dessinée" is aptly translated as "comic strip", I'm not sure why you couldn't call them "comic books".

Of course there are massive cultural differences between American-style comics and the Belgian/French kind but it's also true for many other art forms and we don't feel the need to come up with a different name every time.

I suppose there's a precedent with Japanese comics that are usually called "mangas" but at least that's short and easily pronounceable by your average anglophone. "Bande dessinée" will be painful both to pronounce and to write (as you showcase yourself, you forgot the accent and the feminine -e at the end of dessinée). I guess you could borrow the common shorthand "BD" (pronounced bédé).
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Netflix isn't really "online". Yes, it uses the internet as its transport layer. But it in all other respects is a closed content delivery platform, akin to a cable subscription but with the convenience of on-demand rather than traditionally scheduled broadcast TV.

The CBC has rightly identified this. They know that most people get Netflix by plugging a box into their TV, just as they used to with a cable box. The CBC is not proposing the regulation of the web, it's proposing regulation of a platform that is essentially cable delivered over a different pipe.

Edit: moreover, the content that is on Netflix isn't open like the web, it's closed content protected by regional distribution contracts.