skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paypal (and probably Stripe?) are notorious for freezing customer accounts with little to no explanation, so to answer you question to what if they did that...probably nothing? Paypal or Stripe or Square are not any more obligated to do business with a particular customer than anyone else is.

They can always accept cash, checks, Bitcoin, barter.
The reason glibc malloc doesn't like to free random pages in the middle of a mapping is probably because that inflates the number of PTEs needed to describe it. Say you have one mapping and free a page in the middle of it - now you need to PTEs to describe that. Similarly the mapping shown in the last image probably requires a few dozen PTEs to accommodate the holes.

That isn't free (it requires cache & TLB space), but it's entirely possible that Ruby is slow enough on the interpreter and data model level for this to not matter much.

Edit: Turns out malloc_trim doesn't actually modify the mapping but rather uses madvise(DONTNEED), so a higher address resolution cost probably only materializes under memory pressure.
People said they saw a missile hit TWA-800 too. Eyewitness accounts are super unreliable.
Sounds a lot like the research interview is sales.

From the homepage "Flourish is a virtual coaching program that helps you build lasting habits to maximize peak performance and feel in control of your life." (99 USD/month)
Thank you - interesting story, and a very interesting editor.
There are countries (Brazil, Mexico) where B2C use Whatsapp as an official communication channel: displayed on flyers, TV ads, etc.

Whatsapp is huge here, so it is only natural to be used as a commercial tool as well.
It looks like they have 14 MAX9s in service. Does the MAX9 have the same issue as the MAX8, and is the MAX9 included in the ground order?
I’m no fan of big tech companies, but I am a fan of constitutional right for parties to contract.

There is no catch all Amazon can do whatever they want provision, but certainly the have the contractual right to stop carrying the book at anytime without notice. Just as if you are selling your book through traditional brick and mortar they could always stop selling/carrying your book (maybe there could be exceptions if they did it on the basis of discrimination against a protected class).

Trust me I wouldn’t even put amazon to allow others to sell a counterfeit of your book/product, which the law would provide a remedy for...but they have no contractual obligation to carry your book/product.
I used to occasionally hop on and try LOTGD until dying in the same session.

There was a similar non-terminal MUD-like game called Phantasia as well. Heavy LOTR themes, Java client, permadeath, players could ascend to become Steward, King, or even Valar with special abilities that affected other players. It was available way back on Netscape and is still scraping by.

https://www.phantasia5.com/

Dragon Court was another MUD-like. Java with painted art graphics in the browser.
Fire consumes all electric motorcycles in MotoE, race's future uncertain
Does the right-arrow or Page-Down key work for you? Took me a second to figure out
> Any Googlers around to explain why Canaries didn't catch configuration causing this side effect and stopping the deployment before the issue cascaded globally?

I'm not (any longer) a Googler, but according to the postmortem this was a load-related incident. Canary changes only have a small amount of traffic directed at them (by definition) and the problem probably didn't become apparent until after the change was promoted from canary.
No, it's not. My argument isn't "The Americans is better than GoT†". My argument is that critics (through reviews) and consumers (through ratings) no longer set HBO's shows apart into a prestige category that HBO dominates. That's an empirically verifiable fact.

† It is, though.
I fully agree. But still it makes a difference from a moral analysis point of view, because my aim is to condemn the buyer, and don't judge the seller.

So now you have to convince me that buying the right to beat someone to death is a morally justifiable action. It is not sufficient for you to judge selling as justifiable to make your point. I actually agree that selling is morally justifiable, and would never vote to make this a punishable offense.
Altering your vote after the fact is not the actual problem, though.
Perhaps their terms were outrageous. That's not the kind of competition you'd want.
If you don't want people to play your game without submitting themselves to malware and psychological manipulation, block them.

I'd agree that it is unethical to avoid things that try and stop the game from working while you run an adblocker. I signed no contract and there is no social contract that says I have to look at the ads or let all your network requests go through. To create that social contract developers need to communicate it clearly (the easiest way being to attempt to block people using adblockers from playing the game). It's not like the existence of adblockers is a secret or something.
Are we even going to get a post-mortem on this? It seems substantial enough to warrant explanation, but they're usually a lot quicker than this...
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Isn't that the truth! The web we have now is great for people who are primarily interested in making money, but the web we used to have could have become so much more than that.
Chris Cox is a huge loss for Facebook. His first day speech is still the reason Facebook has the strongest culture in the valley.
Phoenix.LiveView is now public on GitHub
While I occasionally see people estimate their truly free time, some folks apparently did thoroughly time all activities, and their results are way, way worse than 40 free hours a week.

Alas, I've seen only a second-hand mention of that experiment, and don't have a link or names. That's also why I don't want to say the exact hours figure here. I'd like it very much to find a sourced study like this, even if not really scientific.
except nuclear doesn’t produce pollution on a scale close to fossil fuels. 90 reactors are producing %20 of our electricity right now without emitting air pollution (although I’m not sure about the energy used to mine/transport uranium)
This is exactly why I quit pinterest. A good 10% of the content are ads.
I've just returned from Melbourne, where helmets are mandatory for cyclists, and they do indeed provide helmets with some, not all, bike share bikes. But you can also buy them in every corner shop and 7-11 for 5 AUD (3.50 US).
China followed the big spin up plan, aren't in any sort of over regulation problem, and could roll over any anti-nuclear protest, and yet found schedule and cost overruns still occured.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612564/chinas-losing-its-...

> The country has the capacity to build 10 to 12 nuclear reactors a year. But though reactors begun several years ago are still coming online, the industry has not broken ground on a new plant in China since late 2016, according to a recent World Nuclear Industry Status Report.

> Officially China still sees nuclear power as a must-have. But unofficially, the technology is on a death watch. Experts, including some with links to the government, see China’s nuclear sector succumbing to the same problems affecting the West: the technology is too expensive, and the public doesn’t want it.
I think what you're failing to understand that as consumers we decide what is fair to factor into price.
>...where does it end?

Nice slippery slope fallacy.
I'm totally fine with this. Sell your books in a store that specializes in conspiracy theories along with the anti-vax, flat-earther, anti-gmo, essential oil and anti-global warming people.
LOL at the first reply: "I was hoping that @FBI was raiding your campus and arresting your leadership."
Southwest has 35 MAX8s (out of a total of 755 aircraft)[0]. American has 24 MAX8s (out of a total of 962 aircraft)[1].

Not a trivial number for either fleet, but I imagine it won't significantly impact their business either.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_fleet

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_fleet
> Define anti-science literature.

Anti (preposition): opposed to, or against.

Science (noun): the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

Literature (noun): books and writings published on a particular subject.

>As we steamroll at full speed into the Brave New World, does any book, piece of art, or piece of literature that goes against current popular thought become "anti-science literature" and thus promoted for removal.

No. It is not true that any book, piece of art or literature can or will be deemed "anti-science literature". It is also not true that Amazon's ability to curate its own platform - an ability it has always had, and has always shared with every private enterprise, and has, with all other platforms, exercised before, represents a dangerous precedent towards the wholesale societal censorship of everything that "goes against current thought." Further, it is not the case that the books in question merely represent "wrongthink," making their removal an example of such. And also, we are not steamrolling into the Brave New World.

Bringing up Brave New World, 1984 or Martin Niemoller's poem in on the internet should be considered signs of pseudointellectual poserdom.

>Plenty of people could make an argument that implementing communism is just good rational (...)

no.

We live in a society. Society is run by human beings capable of perceiving nuance and applying rationality and discretion to their decisions. The fact that an equivalence can be made, does not mean that all equivalences must be made. Amazon choosing to remove these books from their platform does not lead to the slippery slope of removing all literature related to human freedom, free markets and the constitution.

>How about books on biology that clearly make a distinction between male and female genders. (...)

Again: no.
People love catastrophe and ignore larger problems all the time. During the 2017-2018 flu season, almost a million people were hospitalized and ~80,000 people died from the disease (1), a record high and a huge burdon on healthcare for everyone sick or not, yet we aren't getting 2-3 threads a day on influenza popping up on HN like we are with these 150 or so tragic deaths. Maybe part of it is who died. In the case of this flight, it was people affluent enough to afford jet travel. The news is filled with stories of their lives cut short and the tragedy of it all. In the case of deaths from the flu, it is often the old and those in poor health like the homeless who die from the disease, an invisible population for most people. We wont be seeing any articles in national news documenting the lives of those 80,000.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm
On GitHub: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view

The previous HN discussion at the time it was initially announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18662585
The use of trenches, micro of otherwise, is for running in locations that either don't have the poles or for which (most of the US) the poles aren't actually owned by the municipality and rented under FRAND terms to anyone that wants to hang a wire (by licenced and bonded independent contractors).
In other words utilitarianism.
The current telecom providers, who compete with each other? If you compare similarly dense areas in the US and Europe, we're doing pretty well on high-speed Internet access. I have multiple gigabit options in Chicago, and only got them in the last couple years. What's not working?
This isn't likely to span the divide, when you consider that urban folks probably won't like having to pay drastically higher taxes to cover not their cheap connection, but to cover the hundred thousand dollar project to trench fiber out to one dude's cabin fifty miles from civilization. And then to do that over and over for every isolated place in the country.

There's a reason rural Internet sucks: It's expensive to build and unprofitable to operate. That's why ISPs don't want to build them out.
Which method did you use to match the line in Ruby?
I noticed String[/\b\w{15}\b/] performs way better than String.match(/\b\w{15}\b/).
Modern life is complete garbage, if you can't find something you are passionate about.

Post like this tend to completely ignore problems of people that came before us. No pain meds, dying to now curable diseases, slavery and so on. Yes, I sometimes feel like I don't want to be connected, I don't want to program but do something that seems more meaningful and that I can see physically and is not so abstract.

Is the world perfect? No. Is there corruption? Yes. Do farm animals often in inhumane ways? Yes. Are people selfish? Mostly. However, there is many great things about the world we live in. I suffer from existential depression but even I can reflect on the strides we've made as a species to improve our living conditions.

Plus, living off grid is cool when you are young and not living with medical conditions.
As the leader of Facebook's products he essentially was directly responsible for the total neglect of the Facebook Developer program which caused the biggest PR disaster in FB's history; not to mention, the misuse of user data collected through the program by Cambridge Analytica.

I fail to see how he was a good leader vs riding the wave of Facebook's success. Sounds like Facebook eventually outgrew him anyway so they fired him.
This is a PR stunt, as pretty much everything FB says about data privacy.
>Has any judge ordered such material not to be sold?

You'd like judges to be able to force merchants to stock specific books?
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They leaked tens of millions of people's personal information to third parties without so much as notifying them. There were congressional hearings about their privacy violations. Facebook is very publicly pivoting to emphasize personal privacy much more than they have before. It seems like a pretty legitimate bit of context more than an attack.
That's not what my pain point is. My pain point is that Amazon has grown to the point where this is the same kind of concern as if the government did the same thing.

See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393433
> Have dedicated hardware compute a hash from the content of program ROM

How do you check the circuit of that hardware?

How do you know the ROM you are reading is the ROM the CPU is executing from?

How do you know the CPU is the architecture you think it is and the program means what you think it means?

> You have to trust the hardware to some extent.

No, you don't, and you shouldn't. You can do all of that calculation by hand. And at the very least you can check a random selection by hand.

> Just keep it as simple as possible to minimize confounding complexity that an attacker can hide in.

In other words: Don't use electronics. You can't get simpler than pen and paper.
I actually like a "skill shareware" (my made up name) model in puzzle games. When you have lots of levels, you split them into groups. You can only advance to the next one if you solve all previous ones perfectly, (3 stars / 100% / some other metric) or pay for full unlock.

I've never been on the other side, so I don't know how well that converts. But as a customer, I love the idea. "Euclidea" does this for example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hil_hk.euc... They also have IAP for dark mode.
Bing Maps Releases 12M Canadian Building Footprints as Open Data
Lying and fraud requires intent to deceive. You need to prove that.
What was the philosophical difference between the two? Short-termism vs what?
Senate Republicans revolt against Trump over border
“privacy-focused social platform”

See also:

“sobriety-focused keg party”

“health-focused donut shop”

“quality-focused downvotes”
Because we count an entire precinct and check the totals. We don't just ask it what it got for individual ballots.
Some theories:

1. Rebranding Facebook as secure and private

2. If this increases usage, more opportunity to display ads

3. Their data shows they gain more information by monitoring what people publicly share, not say in private

4. Removes all responsibility to work with law enforcement and governments for illegal activity, since it's encrypted
Wow and this content is just posted on imgur with no link to sources? Is anyone already working on posting this through a legit source? If this content is real, it seems wild that it's not even published somewhere that is searchable online.
Ha! It’s even worse on mobile, where you’re just stuck on the first slide
> And I believe even ATT only does fiber to a neighborhood and then coax to the home, right?

No, I have a fiber going right to my dmark. I watched them string it and terminate myself.
Where have I said that the government should step in and change Amazon and make them host these books? I haven't said that. All I've said is that Amazon should take a principled stance.
Doesn't matter if the devs know it's broken, if the managers decide it's not worth paying to fix.
1.) A super-intelligent mind could predict what it would do. Then we can make it tell us.

2.) Here you conflate "intelligence" with biological power structures (energy resources, territorial plotting). That is like asking where aircraft go to the toilet.
What happened to their "Blockchain" division?
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It seems obvious to me. The printing press is often regarded as the foundation of modern civilization.
Thank you, I’m sorry about that.
The Ruby code is:

IO.foreach('logs1.txt') {|x| puts x if /\b\w{15}\b/.match? x }
From that bit about Jack Horner, I can't help but be reminded of this panel[0] from a Spider-Man comic.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/lmeZ6SD.jpg
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I know "fiber to the neighborhood and coax to the home" is how both Comcast and WOW operate. Note that coax can provide some fairly decent performance, with DOCSIS 3.1, you can do gigabit down a coax cable, though the networks are still built asymmetrically, so you're only going to see 50 Mbps back up on a connection like that.
Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of keeping your analytics local to your site/service?
I think the best way to fulfill this privacy-centric vision would be to create a decentralized system--something that FB, sadly, isn't really interested in.
Can someone tldr; this please? It seems like some people "left" the company because Facebook is taking a PR hit on its bad privacy practices. Is that right?
I meant people parachutes. For full airframe .. I was wondering splitting the plane in 3 silos could allow 3 small chutes.
Unfortunately if running a startup means sacrificing or holding off on getting a mortgage, studying or establishing a family (which it often does) you will be at a major disadvantage in a place like Stockholm today. Literally hundreds of thousands of dollars behind your peers and everything that means for attaining a good quality of life.
They just spent the last 5 years drilling into their employees a culture where online privacy doesn't exist, I think it's going to be pretty steep turn of the ship. Nevertheless I hope the announcement is not merely lip-service. I'd love to see the same commitment out of Google.
If Ruby was performant enough to disrupt the web app industry ten years ago, it is performant enough today. Ruby's survival is not dependent on trivial fluctuations in benchmark numbers.

Ruby is just as shiny as it was in 2006, if not more so. If you feel happy writing log parsers in JavaScript or PHP well then all power to you, but I'd rather chew on a shoe.

I do my data processing in Ruby, if there's a performance issue I'll fork out to a little Go widget. But that's when I need a factor ten improvement or more.
It would be whatever bastardized form of it Congress passes and by the way, Social Security is already on the path to insolvency. It's still a multi-trillion dollar proposal, a huge economic experiment that could easily end in catastrophe and not be easily reversible (as people would come to depend on payments, try taking that away from them). It's batshit crazy.
If the DNC sets a policy that candidates meeting certain objective criteria can debate, they should uphold that policy. Otherwise they should be transparent about how candidates are admitted.
A corrupt human being can change one vote, or a few hundred if they're very industrious, in a paper ballot system. A corrupt human being can change every vote in an electronic ballot system. I would rather use the system where fraud is difficult and expensive and low-impact.
What is the tldr of this?
Iran pumps up “massive” offensive exercise with over 50 drones, maybe
Sure, its the Gaggia Classic. I bought it refurb a few years ago and it's been very solid. I modded the steam wand, which is done a lot and I would recommend if you go this route. Here's a tutorial:

http://www.gaggiausersgroup.com/index.php?topic=1484.0

Remember that a proper grinder is at least as important as a decent espresso machine. I've been through a few but have finally found the excellent Rancilio Rocky Doserless, which was also refurbished.

A few other accessories like a bottomless portafilter, a knock box, and a milk pitcher for steaming, some good beans and you're pretty much set.

I think my whole setup was less than $600 and I have never regretted it. It takes some time to dial in your grind but you'll be beating your local barista's shots within a few months (and at a significant discount).
I don't know that Google is well positioned to offer this type of service. Operationally their customers are homogenized through the interfaces that their bread-and-butter services offer. This is not possible with a last-mile ISP. There is, relatively speaking, a lot of overhead per-customer and they simply have very little experience operating in that way.
Where's the problem? I've been leaning towards the idea that maybe every election should have a hand count. You can get your electronic count first for the early announcements, but it should be verified by the hand count. What's the downside, just the cost? Seems likely worthwhile to me.
Give America an idea, and SOMEONE will find a way to exploit it
I switched off collapsing Gmail threads, or having them as conversations I believe Google call it. It's quite difficult as I would find myself struggling to find certain emails.
The content is a worthwhile read and I love the idea of using this for a conference.
Not so much as a reference though
Odd coincidence, I read this HN thread and when I checked my email I had an update from Starmourn. A new scifi mud from Iron Realms that launched the end of 2018. I can't say much more about it though. When I signed up to the mailing list ~3 years ago I was maybe too optimistic about the amount of future free time I would have.

I do think that it's interesting that new commercial MUDs are launching. (Well one anyway.)

https://www.starmourn.com/
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Facebook has been consistently and intentionally abusive of their users since its founding.

The media isn't being too aggressive now: they've been too lenient for the previous decade. The outrage has finally caught up with the outrageous reality.
I'm not familiar with this. Kind of a big assertion to make. What was his first day speech?
A simple secret ballot by paper is both open (anyone can observe the ballot casting and counting) and verifiable (the vote count can be repeated to confirm the totals).

Voters don't need to be able to verify their vote post-election because a) they cast their ballot, so they can just remember who they voted for, and b) they can't change their decision, so there is no need to have a record of it.
Too annoying in current format - needs better writing/delivery format...