skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies are paid anyway: if the country cannot make payments, it will have to agree to an IMF loan that is used to pay the American companies first, and then left holding the debt along with draconian austerity measures. So for these companies the more outlandish the promises, the better! The payment is "guaranteed" by the IMF deals. During a period from the 60s on this has been the biggest cash cow for American companies operating on developing countries.
I love it. When you think you know what the issue is,

* prove it is really the issue
* fix it
* prove that you fixed it
Also pretty much anything is better than coal and fossil fuels. I can't hear the phrase 'clean coal' bandied about without wanting to bang my head against the nearest wall.
Relevance? I just said test scores aren't the only measure. By your own argument Harvard should be majority (entirely?) asian students yet some how it's majority white. There are other considerations, as there should be.
A fair approach is a subjective evaluation with a goal of keeping the student body relatively diverse as the country;s demographics.
More than it:

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/ssith-proposers-day
The state of North Rhine/Westphalia owns like 21% of VW group.
I would expect they might deprecate the statistically-implied deaths resulting from selling noncompliant cars vs. the very concrete loss of jobs and revenue should that might result from regulation.
try https://getbring.com/#!/app - it has an Alexa integration. Me and my wife use it together.
Can't blame them. US institutions have been slowly poisoned by the cancer call lobbying. You have regulators with interest ties to the industry they have to supposedly regulate all across most agencies.
> Oh-ho-ho... and here you will enter into a holy war on the scale of VI vs. Emacs but with about 1k people in total that care about it.

Ha ha, I see :)

> In my time I've used MushClient, SimpleMU and zMUD, all of which I can endorse (but MushClient was probably my favorite). I've also heard people rave about TinTin.

I will look into these ones then.

> If you're curious there's a nice wiki page about the different clients available.

Is the wiki page you are referring to on Wikipedia or elsewhere?

/me googles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD_client this one it?
I think Amazon's action concerns people bc it's strong position in the book market. It's very different from your own private action. I'm not saying Amazon should be forced to sell the book.
For those who aren't FB insiders, what is the read on this? Do the two Chris' reputation in the company have any bearing on how this is read?
"When some of those countries were unable to service their debt we often said, "Ok, you may not pay now, but your country will vote to support the US at the next vote in the UN. Or you will allow the US to build a military base on your territory." Or something else of the kind."

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201711161059158765-economic...
A while back I noticed a trend of Window C programmers (often game developers) writing their own minimal Windows.h to reduce compilation times. If you're already doing that, modifying the identifiers or adding preprocessor aliases to match your preferred style wouldn't be so much effort. But then again, you'd be rather committing yourself to maintaining your custom header indefinitely.

Personally, I have several complaints about the Win32 API (not least the ridiculous situation with long paths and having to prefix them with \\?\, which I've been dealing with lately), so the Hungarian naming barely registers as a problem, despite my distaste for it.
Looks like iCloud is having problems
Russian-built reactors are already generating electricity.
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/433902-trump-annou...
A lot of games don't need an internet connection to play, my kids know to turn on airplane mode to disable ads.
They could still do fiber to some central node, then point-to-point radios for the last mile. I have WebPass (webpass.net) and it's point-to-point, gigabit, and latency is awesome, much better than Comcast ever was for me at the same location, or any location for that matter. My ping to 1.1.1.1 is consistently around 2-4ms. And yes, this is obviously an anycast address, going to a datacenter in my city, but still impressive:

traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 0.394 ms 0.383 ms 0.470 ms
2 * * * (*) 2.460 ms 1.754 ms 2.599 ms
3 10.5.1.9 (10.5.1.9) 1.518 ms 1.424 ms 1.614 ms
4 206.51.46.41 (206.51.46.41) 1.926 ms 2.240 ms 2.138 ms
5 one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1) 1.756 ms 1.945 ms 2.015 ms

I was skeptical of this over something wired, too, but it's clear that the technology has greatly improved.
> I had an old program where I implemented the Leapfrog method, but for this post I decided to use the Verlet integration.

Those are mathematically equivalent methods though...aren't they?
"A feature does not exist until it's documented"

Like the undocumented right arrow key to advance to the next slide?

You don't even know whether this is a slide show, or a misloaded page. You hit the space bar, nothing happens. Nope, can't be a slide show. Every slide show program you've ever seen advances to the next slide when you hit the space bar.
India has one nuclear reactor's worth of diesel power plants (about 1000 MW). And 90 times more (90 GW worth) of all kinds of smaller diesel generators used as backups during power outages.

If the new nuclear electricity decreases the outages in the grid, I am sure it will almost 1:1 turn to savings in burned diesel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_and_gas_industry_in_India#...
But the 767 was descending. It was SUPPOSED to be going down.

What I recall reading is that the nose was already down somewhat before changing pitch 4 degrees THEN pitching sharply down in direct response to pilot input.

ADS-B data is being TRANSMITTED. The plane is not responding to ADS.
I think the examples provided by the Vietcong and Taliban would disagree. Picking the irregulars out of a city of civilians is really damn hard, and 'kill all the civilians' is not typically an acceptable solution, for better or worse. (There's some evidence from Russia that 'kill a bunch of the civilians in the area housing terrorists while going after the terrorists' reduces total casualties by removing cities as safe areas)
Learn, by doing.
I personally don't pay THAT much attention to the briefing because I'm an aviation nut. However, I will still pull the safety card and check exactly which aircraft I'm in and where the emergency exits are.

EDIT: I do pay a lot of attention during the takeoff and landing phases. That's when most of the issues happen, so headphones and sleep can wait.
> "impervious to certain kinds of hacking"

guess that about sums it up. it's DARPA after all folks..
Sure it can. Let's back up a bit to something physical as an example. If every car on the road were self driving, that would form a decentralized and distributed system. Each car independently monitors and reacts to its surroundings. That doesn't prevent accidents between two cars, nor does it prevent huge cascading accidents that can cause highway closures.

Decentralization often makes these scenarios harder to avoid, not easier. There are simply more ways that things can interact (and therefore break).

To avoid these failures in any setting, you need to have provable containment of failures while assuming part of your network is malicious. That's asking for a lot more than decentralization.
Top Executives Chris Cox, Chris Daniels Leaving Facebook
Because virtual DOM is not the only way to achieve efficient DOM updates, and even within the concept of virtual DOM there could be many different ways to achieve efficient diffing (e.g. React vs Snabbdom). There is nothing special about a particular virtual DOM spec to deserve a place in web standards.
> As part of this, I’m sad to share the news that Chris Cox has decided to leave the company.

"this" reads as though Cox's departure is a result of the decision to build out a "privacy-focused social platform".
Is iCloud a prediction or is there an actual outage today?
You're probably right that applications still using Win32 directly are unlikely to switch to anything new. But the other frameworks you mention seem to be more than just wrappers; they're relatively heavyweight application frameworks that bundle a lot of new functionality rather than just providing a cleaner interface to the core Win32 functionality.

It seems like there should be some appeal in a clean modern Win32 API wrapper that compiles down to almost nothing and doesn't impose design decisions like using XML to define UI layout. That would allow higher-level frameworks like UWP to be implemented in a dialect that isn't so disgustingly arcane.
DARPA's experimental computer network protocols (Arpanet) seem to be working quite fine these days.

I know DARPA is military, but they contribute so much to general research that its kinda normal to use their stuff.
> over blown

The faulty ignitions have been linked (by GM itself) to 124 deaths.

> old ignition switches

Five years is not an old ignition switch.

> should have had to cover up

On June 5, 2014, Valukas' report on the recall was made public. In it, he asserted that the company's failure to fix the defective switches sooner was not due to a cover-up on the company's part, but rather due to "their failure to understand, quite simply, how the car was built."

As well, the case study doesn't mention cover up once, but instead points out a variety of secondary issues: inadequate communication, a lack of understanding of the problem, a lack of urgency, a lack of oversight, and company culture.
> 2. Simple income inequality puts SUVs out of reach for most people where a $10k micro" EV gets the job done.

If that happens, SUVs will become cheaper. It's not like it's significantly more expensive to produce a single SUV vehicle than to produce a smaller car. It's more about market segmentation rather than actual production costs.
What substance? The story that technology A is involved in a competitions between organization B and C is a mad lib that can be filled in many ways, but A is almost always "A.I." or "5G". "Blockchain" was popular a while back but I think most people involved with that want to pretend that it didn't happen.

The current A.I. fad "Deep Learning" has an origin story complete with Maple Leafs and people who say "Sorrry" when they want to say "Sorry", but 5G doesn't have a charismatic story.

Either way it is a technology that doesn't need to be understood or have use cases, but everybody is racing to control it, so...
I know that a Ruby shop naturally wants to use Ruby for everything, but when the job described is:

a simple multithreaded HTTP proxy server written in Ruby (which serves our DEB and RPM packages)

then I would reach for Linux ipvs or haproxy, and apache or nginx to do the serving. Good tools already exist for these things, it's a shame not to use them.

(And we have a Ruby dev group, so please don't accuse us of having a phobia or hatred of Ruby.)
The Smartphone: What's Next?
No, I just typed the numbers wrongly (I had bookmarked 3 charts with similar data, but ended up pasting the link to the US user's growth).

Globally the numbers were ~15M in 1990, ~100M 1995, ~0.8B in 2000 (far from 100M in 2000).

And my point was, mobile exploded in 1990 and "kept expanding" (literally my words") -- there was like VR "a constant hype/disappointment cycle" (literally the thing I was responding to in this very thread).
Systems comprising entirely of pen/paper and manual counters with oversight by the parties, where sufficient engagement in the community provides the volunteer manpower to oversee the election, are impervious to electronic interference.
This was announced a month ago:
https://fiber.googleblog.com/2019/02/louisville_7.html?m=1

And discussed here at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19106998
(207 comments)
Or you, know, typed a number wrong.

In any case, it's not really debatable: mobile grew and kept growing. I know, I was there in those "early nineties".
How to Manage Device Sessions
If the municipalities build the infrastructure and bid out the service in renewable contracts, seems like the politicians would get theirs every 3-5 years.
We should get Telegram to censor them too, that would definitely not make things worse.
I tried to get my young son into original Angry Birds, thinking it would be a nice simple physics lesson for him, but it has become absolutely unnavigateable for his age level. So many pop up special offers for magic birds to solve the level, cut scene product placement, and other in game purchases, that I can't trust those games to not get him lost in a maze of advertising bullcrap.

I paid for this game, a kids game I thought, why can't I just enjoy it with my son?
FB's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and WhatsApp VP Chris Daniels Are Leaving
And nothing about the massive downtime fb just experienced yesterday.
I'd take that bet too
Nuclear didn't just become expensive. The fearmongering made it expensive.
No, in the cake lawsuit the owner was happy to sell the cake to the gay couple. He just refuses to make a customized cake for the wedding.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colo...

"Masterpiece's owner Jack Phillips, who is a Christian, declined their cake request, informing the couple that he did not create wedding cakes for marriages of gay couples owing to his Christian religious beliefs, although the couple could purchase other baked goods in the store. "
I have about 10 GB in multiple folders synced in various combinations between:

- ec2 instance (light burstable, always on)

- desktop (debian)

- laptop (manjaro)

- desktop (windows)

- phone (one-way sync to get photos off the phone)

- tablet (kindle fire)

It has been great. Solid and trustworthy. It picks up changes made before the service was running, handles deletes and renames just fine, and updates are simple. The web-based UI is good.

I like that calmh and the team are not adding lots of features. There are lots of things they could add to make syncthing "better", but they want to make sure syncthing does one thing well.

One nit - the UI shows the "latest change" for each folder. The common understanding of this phrase would be "the file in that folder that most recently changed" but what syncthing actually shows here is "the most recent change that syncthing made to this folder". That means that if I change a file on the current device and syncthing picks it up and replicates it out to the other devices, that change will not be shown as the "latest change". If some other device changes the file and syncthing replicates that change back to the current device, then it will be shown as the "latest change". This is confusing. "latest change" should just show the file that most recently changed for any reason.
You don't have to recount "by hand". You start with auditing by hand - looking at a sample and seeing if it's accurate. Then you run the original paper ballots through another scanner.
> Recklessness and negligence require some understanding of what you are doing and that it's wrong.

Negligence specifically does not, it only requires the existence of a duty of care (except not in specialized cases, that of reasonable care, which doesn't mean you are aware of risk, but that a reasonable person in your place would be.) Recklessness requires conscious awareness and disregard of risk, but not awareness of wrongness.

Harms from recklessness are mistakes, while recklessness itself is not, but negligence is quite normally a mistake.
Joke’s on Them: Bribing Your Way into Yale Is a Waste of Money
And in bad weather...?
IMO "Print to PDF" works perfectly for this kind of thing (and blog posts, etc)
Tectonics in the tropics may trigger Earth’s ice ages
Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time
That is it, yes!

FYI the settings differences between these are pretty simple so maybe play with a few (possibly starting with free ones) before settling in.
You still have paper ballots - with audits.
And Alibaba did it a couple years ago with Pedis! https://github.com/fastio/pedis
(looks like the project is still active, but I don't really know of anyone else who uses it.)
Over 32,000 journalists are working full time in the US, social media focus on a minute fraction of them.

You're conflating two entirely different things here. Much of the dysfunction/groupthink occurs through things like legacy media journalists using social media.

The point is that networks and social media enables offline channels for groupthink, which then affects other media.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA2JII6TG4o

So sure many NYT reporters might post their wedding photos online

This of course, isn't an issue. (But mistakenly considered as such, it might as well be a strawman.) What is an issue are blue checkmark journalists engaging in toxic groupthink on Twitter. This also happens on email lists and industry insider forums.

(This isn't actually a new phenomenon. There are Vietnam era journalists who complained about how some correspondents never left bars in Saigon. The difference is that the groupthink can follow people around in their smartphone and come at them every waking hour.)
No issues whatsoever. That was definitely my concern. Snow, fog, rain, large storms. It just works.
I can claim to have experience [0] with generating funny nonsense based on Stackoverflow data (what a wired thing to say :))

Seems like you beat me to my plan to make a Neural Network based variant and I really like the results (especially that they stay a topic instead of totally drifting off into fun nonsense like my Markov Chains.

Have you tried also using other Stackexchange sites as a source? In my experience they result in more fun questions as they have more "human" interactions (especially the more personal advice based sites) which creates things like:
- Do Greeks driving affect the whaling industry?
- Essential windsurfing equipment to fish?
- Do mountaineers eat grass?
- Can I toast

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16947038
The difference is, "dog-hater" is not a protected class as defined by public accommodation laws, so they would not have any grounds for a lawsuit. Sexual orientation is, at least in some states.

Legally, the baker would not be "wrong" in your scenario, though in my opinion they would at least be foolish. Defiling a cake does not harm a dog and once the customer pays for, it is their property to do whatever they want with.

How about if your dog-hater were driving late at night, they got tired and pulled over into a motel. They're signing in for a room and the topic of dogs comes up for whatever reason. They mention that they hate dogs and the motel owner says "Get out, we don't allow no dog-haters in here". Are they right to do that? Legally, again, they could, though they couldn't on the basis of sexual orientation (in some states) or race, religion, national origin (everywhere).

The Supreme Court has already sided with the baker on the basis of the cake being an artistic expression, so it's a moot point now.
Right, but that seems to suggest that it's getting countries to agree to take huge loans that's good for the companies, which is kind of independent of their eventual ability to pay the loans back. GGP was saying that countries paying back the loans was bad for the companies in question, when their relationship will have been over for years at that point.
very interesting read - for an alternative interface to email, try mutt[1]

[1] https://smalldata.tech/blog/2016/09/10/gmail-with-mutt
Maybe not for IRV specifically, though it would arguably be easier anyway.

There are more esoteric (see, mathematically dependent) voting systems that meet the Condorcet criterion.
> I hate being outright dismissive but it sounds like an expensive html/pdf form with a printer attached.

And I like it. The simpler the design, the better. Sometimes it takes a billion dollars and a couple of smart researchers to invent the "obvious" solution to a problem.

We've got butterfly ballots, confusing electronics-only machines, and a variety of bad standards as the basis of our current voting infrastructure. Telling everybody to use a damn PDF + printer would be a gross improvement.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393018
No it doesn't, read the paragraph immediately following the one you quoted from.
The Bollywood/2 man student films aren't censorship - they're a lack of perceived audience. If there was an audience for those, the theaters would show them. The pornography thing - maybe? There's an argument to be made that allowing freedom of choice would be a net positive.
Banning snake oil is never a part of a free society. People have a right to delude themselves. Imagine having a child with autism, you are overwhelmed by it, you are unwilling to accept what the doctors tell you.

Who is Amazon, or anyone, to tell someone that they can't explore every avenue, and read whatever they want to deal with that grief? Think about the cathartic experience of reading this book and getting momentary hope that there's an answer to a problem that you've been told is unsolvable. It's psychologically like playing the lottery.
No, that’s not true. I’m unaware of such a law and could point to many counter examples. The human genome project was declared “complete”.
Not only is Durov's net worth $2.7B, but Telegram just raised $1.7B in an ICO for their cryptocurrency they're launching off of Telegram.
Do you have a friend who works in marketing and can help you with these sales calls? Perhaps you can find someone who is willing/able to provide some of their time to help you for some potential future payout or investment in the app? Because you are trying to sell a service, I don't think it's viable to ask someone to help you for free without them having a stake in the business or receiving some sort of pay out. But I would look to friends who can help first, then branch out.
GCP may have come later than AWS but googles internal blob storage could of predated AWS for all we know.
Uber Planning on April IPO
I am not arguing, just providing alternate options. They are not for everyone.

FWIW, there are also shiny front-ends to NNTP. That would actually be a great way to have a threaded messaging system and attachments.
As I understand it - please correct me if I'm wrong!

> HTML itself is definitely declarative

HTML is the markup (not programming) language (which is Javascript). The API to actually change the DOM is imperative. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node (I don't quite grasp why they felt the need to specify that)

> Why are DOM-diffs something that is done by userland libraries?

I guess if the browser provided primitives to build trees and diff them that would be cool. But I presume using WASM *is getting the native-browser code to do the diffing.
It looks like it’s resolved now, but according to the iCloud status page some services were down or degraded earlier today.
https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
Agreed. I was about to write this off as a boring project that might go nowhere, but I have a huge confidence that Galois will treat this with the gravitas necessary from a computing and security theory point of view.

It might still go nowhere, but I expect there will be very interesting developments as a result of it.