skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sometimes I think the end-game for transportation is personal transportation pods that get docked into a self-driving-car/subway/train/ferry/airplane system. You'd load up your family pods with your favorite bedding/pillows/devices/books/toys before your trip, wheel them out to the curb, hop inside, and hail a Waymo.

No. You seem to be ignoring basic physics: this pod would be huge, compared to the space currently occupied in a modern plane by your bodies and your luggage. Your idea would work if you're willing to pay 1st-class prices for airfare, maybe.
I agree, and that's why I qualified with "most" people. It takes exceptional communication skills to reliably command other people's attention without much effort in casual conversation, unless you use some kind of trick. Uh/um is a simple tool to help less experienced communicators express their thoughts. I think of it like a temporary scaffolding on the way to becoming a great communicator.
An All-Neural On-Device Speech Recognizer
The code you received the first time you load the app should be identical to the server-rendered version with a single additional script tag that loads a small JS file asynchronously. That script then progressively enhances the page to make it a PWA with features that take advantage what your browser supports.

Not enough developers build this way yet though because it's quite hard work. In my opinion the answer is to use what browsers are capable of; it should not be to ignore the browser and do as much as possible on the server.
I lived there then. The fallen crime rates got him elected, because his campaign was extremely effective in handwaving away the fact that national crime statistics had also fallen at approximately the same rates.

It's a cautionary tale in interpreting results in a vacuum.
> Swept wings are necessary to cruise efficiently beyond ~300mph at high altitude

Layman here, but 737, 747, etc. don't have swept wings, right? So they all cruise inefficiently... but are in fact stable... which is the opposite of what you wrote earlier? Sorry, I'm just really confused.
There is everything stopping you. WKWebView runs in its own process and has very limited options for integrating native code.
Fastly has a very comparable network to CloudFlare:

https://imgur.com/a/rTyV6e5

CloudFlare’s $200/month plan is the best CDN per $ money can buy.

Once you get into “Enterprise”, then you should move somewhere else as they stop being competitive.
Dang,how in the world do you read so many comments and also maintain HN? Any tips/your workflow will be appreciated.
> First, a certain kind of person tries to make a deeply sexist argument and reaches for “science” to back it up.

Disclaimer: I've debated racists on Twitter, with moderate success.

I started by presuming that their correlational data wasn't invalid. Then I showed them this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_and_intelligence while stating that I couldn't waste time talking to any of them unless they were over 6' (for men) or 5'8" (for women) because going too far below that would be beneath my eminent intelligence as a person who towers at 6'3".

They magically shut up soon after this.

You see, there's a difference between seeing a correlation, and acting on it. Racists want to act on correlations (oppressing nonwhites), but oddly, they wouldn't think the same about oppressing short people, even though that evidence is at least as plain-as-day.

This is all besides the fact that correlational data is weak to begin with.
Pay is based on market forces, of which, skill is only one factor.

In comparison German Engineers are not paid very well, so do you assume they are lesser skilled than US engineers? [1]

1: https://www.payscale.com/research/DE/Job=Software_Engineer/S...
https://news.ycombinator.com/news
I would liken GA enforcement to be somewhat like motorcyles. Lots of people die on motorcyles and we see bad behavior all the time, but we don't look at law enforcement and say they're doing a bad job. You're simply operating a platform with a higher probability of death than a car or truck when you do screw up.
First of all, two votes is not "again and again" in any sense of the phrase. I take your point, but nobody is suggesting referendums without end.

Second of all, bringing something up for a vote more that once is not like ignoring the vote. Rejected proposals are very often brought back up, maybe with some retooling, maybe just in hopes that the passage of time has made them more palatable. For example, Quebec voted on its equivalent of Brexit twice, and though it was a bit of a joke, it wasn't generally viewed as shady.

It is possible to use additional referendums as a stalling tactic, and if you kept doing it forever, you would effectively be ignoring the vote. But again, nobody is suggesting that. Putting it up for another vote now that the public has more information would literally just be democracy.
In practice, the EU seem willing to postpone Brexit to give the UK more time to think, and it seems likely that parliament will vote to do this (which they have the power to do).
This "no-JS" movement is cool and I love CSS hacks (in production?) but I also love the component mentality these JS-frameworks provide and not having to host frontend servers (other than for static files). Are there any good "pure" solutions for that?
I understand. I'm just saying that a medical degree is one of the few degrees that are enough of a sure thing to justify six-figure loan amounts absent government backing.
Actually, no. Developers these days want open offices, and actually hate cubicles or walled offices. I know people on these forums are usually the opposite (as am I), but most of the younger devs I know actually love open offices and wouldn't have it any other way.
Imagine you have a team of rails developers and you're asked to create a simple portal. Rails as a tool may be "overkill" but what does it matter?

If you already know Rails I'd say use that. If you only knew ruby then reaching for rails would be overkill. But if your business requirements need the features of Rails, learn rails instead of rolling your own framework..
The original vote was 48% to 52%. Older people (Brexit voters) dying off would kill that advantage.

Polls that I've seen show a narrow remain majority. I don't think any specific leave option would win against it. The last vote unified all Brexit voters, so it's hard to see how a specific Brexit would command more support.
Well I don't know if they are perfect, but they are miles better than the ton of anti-Tesla propaganda that has been flooding the media for the last year or two.

By the way, I am not saying there are not important criticisms of Musk and Tesla, it's that you need to balance it with all the things that are praiseworthy, and lately that just hasn't been happening. It seems like the more Tesla succeeds, the harder the media try to prove he is either a con man or a complete idiot.
I'm in the same boat. Hardly using the site really shows how poor it has become. I'll pop in once a month to 50+ 'notifications,' only to find 48 of them will be "Josh posted a photo" or "Jake liked a post" despite that setting to turn off friend activity notifications turned off. I don't even bother with scrolling through the feed. Why should I? It is in no particular sort, I frequently scroll over the same five posts, and somehow every third post is an advertisement now. It would take hours now to 'catch up' just from all the pollution you have to sift through to see actual original content posted by your friends directly.

I used to be able to run through the news feed in like 5-10 minutes back when it was chronological and sponsored content was not passed around the site like a venereal disease. Why even bother now?
What diabetics are told to eat has generally been bullshit for good half a century. The whole low-fat craze and cholesterol horror stories I mean.
A first look at Twitter’s new prototype app, twttr
> His tweet sounds dumb but there is some truth in it.

There really isn't. Automation is part of what has made flying safer over the years. Also, compare the cockpit of an Airbus with e.g. an old B737, the 300 series for instance. The Airbus cockpit is much simpler, in the sense that there are less gauges and knobs for the pilots to be concerned about. Automation has, over all, made things simpler and safer.
@SarahTaber_bww is a really good twitter follow for people who want to learn interesting bits about agriculture & tech.
I've been working to help Medium with this. They get journalism and have an excellent internal team run by the former EIC at Time. But they don't get expert publications, i.e. pubs run by subject matter experts.

I'd put together a self-improvement publication, Better Humans, based on what I'd learned working at O'Reilly during the heyday of O'Reilly books. Those were books for programmers written by programmers and edited by programmers. As a result, you could really trust what you were reading.

In our pub, there's a prohibition around publishing any summaries. The author has to have 1st hand experience. And then there's a serious editing pass from someone else who's pretty experienced.

All of that is economically feasible because of Medium's paywall. But so far, nobody has done the equivalent Programmer version of this.

I got to talk to Medium about why and my theory was that it's twofold. Publishers don't trust that this is the final pivot and also they don't really know how to run an editorial pipeline. We were fast to figure it out because we'd spent so much time working in publishing (the other Better Humans editor is also former O'Reilly and Make).

But I know it's possible and I'm trying to help Medium get more publications like this off the ground. When I looked at the existing ecosystem, I pushed away from even looking at HackerNoon and looking more at FreeCodeCamp. What would their articles look like with tighter editing at the acquisition, article, and copy stages? I think it would be a pretty great experience.
Air pollution causes 800k extra deaths a year in EU, 8.8M worldwide
It's far too simplistic to argue that it's the average insulin intake that matters. The complex kinetics depends both on rate as well as average / basal dosages. This is a complex system that behaves differently across individuals with varying metabolisms and diets. Spikes can trigger different biological responses that respond to thresholds and equilibria. It's a differential problem, and the answer isn't easy.
> They are essentially risking their entire company over the safety of this plane

But all that profit, would someone think of stock holders please!?
It's not in the least hyperbolic. Physical books are going away. You can't buy ebooks on amazon. They have close to 90% of the us ebook market already.
As recently as one year ago [1], polls indicated that sentiment in favour of Brexit was still strong enough that another referendum might have resulted in another "leave" vote. A more recent poll [2] shows that this is now much less likely, but there's still strong support among a huge portion of the population.

As much as I agree that the Brexit leave campaign was fraudulent and the whole referendum tainted, I don't think it's as clear-cut as you want. At what point do decide a vote that was made through a legal process should be rejected? You can't run the "will of the people" through some kind of legitimacy filter to weed out the ones that have been unduly influenced by political forces.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2018/jan...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/06/britons-would-now-vote-to-st...
Amazon sells all products, Walmart only sells some. Amazon sells online, Walmart sells in retail and online.

So Amazon might preference another product, while Walmart both preferences other products and doesn't even accept most. Walmart preferences other products online as well.

Yet Amazon is a monopoly? So if Amazon greatly restricted their product offering, they are good to go?
A big problem with most of those plans is that they are sold as "everyone gets to go to college and the government pays for it" not that "government pays only for those who are qualified"
Yeah sure, if I'm a huge enterprise and I want to run something like elasticsearch in house, I have 2 choices:

1. Get elasticsearch delivered as an inscrutable binary blob

2. Get elasticsearch delivered as binary blob but with its source as well so that I can see what ES is doing underneath the hood.

In most cases of proprietary software, the big clients eventually in case #1, do end up getting the source of the proprietary software as well. Just that the source is for viewing only not for modification.

What ES did was better than that, they made source available to anyone (including the small fish). This doesn't weaken the need for ES to make money through selling their sofware, just that the purpose of releasing the source is more towards "viewing" it and less towards making modifications and reselling it.
You can put a reverse proxy in front of it to provide at least basic authentication measures and force HTTPS. Better than nothing at least.

But the main problem is that unsecured clusters by default have caused a lot of reputation loss to the brand. When every few months news hit about yet another unsecured Elasticsearch cluster that leaked huge amounts of data, it is getting harder and harder to explain to the less informed how that is the fault of those people who did not even bother running a reverse proxy, not the fault of Elasticsearch itself.
A big thing here is a huge chunk of the internet is getting content discovery from just a couple places with ulterior motives. We used to seek out people who made good content and add it to a hand managed rss feed, I used to peruse 1000 articles and posts a week from friends, people that I trusted, people that I distrusted, scientific journals, and niche hobbies. I talked to someone this week that wasy saying they wouldn't even know how to find new music without youtube. 10 years younger than me and discovery is a lost art. I'm not sure what resets this, and I fear the very idea of it will be completely lost in the near future.
One of their KPIs is: "Percent of users who have or create an FxAccount via Send, Why: representation of % of any service users who might be amenable to an upsell"

From this it seems that their moneymaker is the new Firefox account creations that will be driven by this service, to whom they can then upsell. But it doesn't state what they are trying to upsell. Anyone got any idea what that might be?
Mobile platform apps run in considerably stricter environments than do desktop apps.

I'm wondering why MS has not come out with a similar kind of Windows, wherein every app is effectively sandboxed.
I pay 25% to my property manager. The industry is crying out for optimization and a dominant player.

Scaling great customer service is difficult though.
It might be the opposite of what the people writing the provisions expect, but the quality of the updates will necessarily have at least some correlation with how long the people most-capable of investigating and fixing the problem spend explaining it to people who are less-capable of either investigating or fixing it.

I guess anyone could try to negotiate further stipulations on content of those updates, but I don't think it takes much to make the requirement so absurd that no one who knows what they're doing would agree to it.

Unless the provider is clairvoyant/crazy enough to predict when the issue will be resolved, there's very little actionable signal here beyond a list of what's down, acknowledgement that the provider knows and is working on it, and the eventual recovery notice.
>NS1 is like Fastly

Except NS1 don't actually offer any pricing.

Rage4, are they being used by any big players site? I mean KeyCDN, despite its price are actually pretty decent and have quite a few Enterprise customers.

And no mention of DNSMadeEasy?
Sheer volume of commands is a pretty good solution to the lack of discoverability - if it does enough, you're probably going to try things without knowing if it works. I got a Google Home recently and have been impressed at the complexity and range of commands it supports. Obviously there's a limit, but it's a lot "fuzzier" than a command line.
A nice way to progressively enhance something like this is to use Intercooler.js when you do want to update only part of the page. You're still just slinging HTML back to the browser but it lets you update only part of a page without using iframes or something, and since you're just adding data-attributes to links and forms, you don't write any javascript.
FWIW - my notes on how locking was done in Thredis: https://github.com/grisha/thredis/blob/master/README-THREDIS
Hollywood stars among those arrested in college admissions scam
It occurs to me that this is exactly the question that should be offered. And people should be able to express ranked preferences with the winner needing to get over 50% to avoid the issue around vote splitting.
Regarding calorie control - has it not been shown that in ketosis your basal metabolic rate and hunger are generally lower? So feeding people static amount of calories isn’t really measuring the same thing to what happens in the wild - eating until satiety?
How is the device or software supposed to deduce your wants without your expressing them? How does it know what you can and cannot hear, and that you chose to turn down the music (rather than explicitly turn it off) because it was distracting to some other activity rather than because that was the optimal setting for hearing the music while not waking a sleeping baby in your arms? And when it decides to shout the weather rather than voice it at the same level of the music which results in waking the baby, how "smart" is that?
> Layman here, but 737, 747, etc. don't have swept wings, right?

They do, in fact, have swept wings.
Because modern technology can solve all of humanity’s problems and make the world a better, progressive and more inclusive place.
iMessage is only popular because it functions exactly the same as SMS on an iphone aside from the color of your chat bubble, and the software defaults to it over SMS. If Apple separated iMessage and SMS into two apps, it would have failed.
By definition anything that solves all your problems, so subjectively there are none.

I'm sure there are examples of things that solve many problems, while not silver bullets that might be the closest approximation.

Is that more to what you're looking for with this post?
"Both parties"?
Good point, I was wondering why I was off orders of magnitude.
The more things that go out in a single deploy, the more chances that something will break and everything will have to be reverted. The goal of CI/CD is that each new feature/bug-fix/etc gets deployed independently, at least, that is our take on it. We deploy to thousands of servers sometimes multiple times a day, sometimes once a month. It just depends on the throughput of code changes and the required testing/observing that goes with it.
Since you're being downvoted: A January 2018 poll [1], showed that many areas, such as the Midlands, were still majority "leave". A recent poll [1] showed that "remain" support has increased significantly, however.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2018/jan...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/06/britons-would-now-vote-to-st...
I don't think it's a mistake. I think this is actually a trapdoor in the cryptographic sense of the term, and the security hole is the result of them using a zero-knowledge proof scheme based on these kind of trapdoor functions that relies on no-one having a copy of the trapdoor information, but incorrectly letting the untrusted party choose the trapdoor function.
While true: Bicker()

Did it in one line.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19370632
I think a postponement is pretty likely at this point.
> More production from fewer cows is good for the environment

You obviously did not read the article.

The problem with factory farming this way is manure disposal.

The article describes the environmental impact of this kind of farming in painstaking detail.

In summary, dense factory farms disposing of high volumes of manure pollutes groundwater and spreads disease.
Empiricism Alone Won't Save Us
That must be a short-term rental, which requires a whole lot more work from the property manager.
The system of government-backed loans, that cannot be forgiven through bankruptcy, given to anyone under the sun, has fallen victim to the Law of Unintended Consequences.

Vastly increasing the supply of money that can be paid to the Higher Education System has, surprise surprise, greatly increased the cost of a degree. Entire swaths of for-profit education institutions have popped up, ready to drink from the ever-full FAFSA/Pell/etc trough.

The possibility of putting yourself through a great college is lunacy now a days. You need to start saving as soon as you graduate to be able to pay for your child's education.
Can Latchel be utilized by a homeowners association with an existing list of preferred vendors?
I assume you mean something like IRV (single winner STV) with a winning threshold over 50%, not over 50% on first place preference.
You're picturing a fighter jet or something with severely swept wings. Do an image search - 737s, 747s, et al do indeed have gently swept back wings. They don't stick straight out at 90 degrees like aircraft from the piston era.
> Safari also comes with additional improvements, including better support of capture device selection, experimental support of the screen capture API, and deprecation of the WebRTC legacy API.

Looking very much forward to this. Currently my plugin-free in-browser screen-sharing tool [0] only works in FF and Chrome. The real question is will mobile browsers offer it. In general though, I am impressed with how well screen capturing over WebRTC works and so far haven't seen that many people needing a TURN server.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/myscreen.live
Those private loans are harder to get and come with significantly higher interest rates. If they became the only loans available, vast numbers of students who are already enrolled in college would be forced to drop out.
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Where did you get the impression I was suggesting implementing your own browser engine?

The whole point of the discussion surrounds what is possible in web views, not implementing your own browser engine.
Another problem with Baltimore is that the crime starts to leak out into the surrounding counties, so the effective crime rate is actually higher than what is reported for the city. Public transit was added that travels between Baltimore and some malls in the surrounding counties, causing areas that previously had little or no crime to experiencing an increase in break-ins and a couple of murders. You end up with counties trying to shut down the bus and train stations because the residents are tired of people from Baltimore riding out of the city, robbing stores and homes, then hopping back on the train to get away. It's obviously not everyone using the public transport, but it's enough that I don't go to the same malls I used to.
I just wanted to mention that this product has the capability of capturing queries and match them to a particular login session. Given this there may be other reasons why this particular query stood out after reviewing administrative queries for irregularities or using some of the analytics available in the IBM product. There's a couple of ways this could have come up and it depends on a particular security team's policy and review strategy. They may have been able to look at the rest of the queries in the session to have an immediate feel that something totally irregular was happening. Generally you get used to the application traffic/change requests/administrative surgery style of queries after monitoring a particular database for a while so when something new comes up it immediately looks weird, like a log message for a familiar daemon you've never seen before.