skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nice thing about lobbying is that you only need to spend just the minimum amount that tips the balance. Just like Trump used money and what not in his elections to win just enough votes, where it actually mattered :).

Another cool thing about lobbying is that you can explore the landscape and find the weakest link that gets you what you want. You choose your own target at your own pace and time. Unlike the democratic process that happens only now and then.

Additionally, you can apply pressure in one or multiple points.

Whoever is lobbying not only has resources as in $$$ but also has a bit more time to wait. People die, companies survive for decades or even centuries. You only need to get things 'right' once and then you are set for life.

If it wouldn't work, nobody would use it.
India seems very interested in it
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286375487_Diversifi...
Aircraft will also be banking in a turn, so aerodynamic forces will be different, which is what the AoA sensor relies on. So they are right. I'm wondering how big of a difference it is.

In other words, would a comparison with some epsilon factor be enough?
Trust implies a lack of critical thinking. When we trust something we don't think about it deeply, we just accept it.
> instant push notification

Did you consult Apple on this? I was recently investigating Apple Developer Program T&C for APNS (Apple Push Notification Service) and they seem to expressly prohibit delivering financial transaction data over push:

> You understand and agree that in order to provide the APN and make Your Push Notifications available on
iOS Products, Apple may transmit Your Push Notifications across various public networks, in
various media. You acknowledge and agree that the APN is not, and is not intended to be,
a guaranteed or secure delivery service, and You shall not use or rely upon it as such. Further,
as a condition to using the APN or delivering Local Notifications, You agree not to transmit
sensitive personal or confidential information belonging to an individual (e.g., a social
security number, financial account or transactional information, or any information where the
individual may have a reasonable expectation of secure transmission) as part of any such
Notification, and You agree to comply with any applicable notice or consent requirements with
respect to any collection, transmission, maintenance, processing or use of an end-user’s personal
information.
At an 8 year old kid I was uncontrollably laughing at one Shakespearean play. Like modern movies targeting families you don’t need to understand everything to enjoy them. They are not meant to be read, and most people are just exposed to the boring crap.
My understanding is that most commercial CDNs (Limelight, Akamai, etc) are also more cost-effective than serving directly from AWS. However, commercial CDNs don't know a-priori what files are going to be popular, and how to distribute them in different regions and on different types of storage to maximize efficiency. But that's one of the things that Netflix's CDN team can predict. See https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/distributing-content-to-...
> Ghosts story in one’s childhood was very common in Vietnam and no doubt they have contributed much to the widespread superstition and belief in supernatural things in Vietnam.

It's not limited to Vietnam: 58% of Americans believe in Hell[1]. I'd call that widespread superstition.

[1] http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/belief-in-...
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It's because it's so opaque and inconsistent. If git was a program like Microsoft Word, where every available action is easily discoverable and the current state is obvious, then it wouldn't be so bad. Something like what Nikita Tonsky wrote in an article called "Reinventing Git Interface"[0], which has a lot of good ideas.

[0] http://tonsky.me/blog/reinventing-git-interface/
I understood the concept, after he made the cow pee with his hand within 10 seconds of stroking her slowly and tenderly.
IANAL, but pretty sure that this is not true. There is not a blanket ban on prior-restraint for national security reasons, but New York Times Co. v. United States did establish limits on it.

One takeaway from that case could be that it did at least partly imply that the burden of proof is on the government, not the press. However, since all 9 justices had differing opinions, there's a lot of uncertainty over what is and isn't legal.
Patrick, just be careful calling this a bank. Evolve is the bank, you are not the bank. Saving you some headache in the future.
Your website mentions that a customer would receive 2x points on travel/dining which raises the questions of:

1. how many points are received on non travel/dining purchases?

2. what's the value of 1 point?
Disney Reinstates Director James Gunn for ‘Guardians of the Galaxy 3’
In the US, only incitement to imminent lawless action can be made illegal. I don't see how it applies now that the perpetrator is in custody.
It's only incompatible with Link Time Optimization and changes to static dispatch or structure, but anything that could have exposed as a COM object could be used.
> The more you don't want me to see it, the harder I will try to see it.

That comes into play only after you know there's something to see.
The problem with the seemingly obvious solution of blocking sites like 4chan is that the people with these hateful sentiments don't cease to exist when their gathering place gets blocked- they just move to another outlet. Does it make sense to engage in an endless game of whack-a-mole when you could, rather, recognize the intelligence value in what is essentially a honeypot?
I can definitely see where the author was coming from in terms of new code. I've been of the opinion that it's probably better to greenfield new systems alongside a GC'd runtime(which makes Go a pretty good fit, but also D, Nim, etc. - and for the very experimental stages where the type layout is minimally understood - Python, Lua, JS, etc.), and to take on external dependencies to get a result working - and then rewrite parts with manual memory and custom libraries where the spec needs tightening.

The main downside to this is that you're rewriting stuff, but the goal of the rewrite should be to express what is essentially the same functionality in more detail.

Where I think the author might have erred is in switching between three different manual memory languages in the hopes of faster development. The algorithms needed for a 3D tool have a pretty high base complexity, making it hard to bootstrap the codebase - and I suspect that C++ will ultimately frustrate him just as much as Rust and C did before.
As someone who was following Rust since its inception, i got pretty fond of the first Graydon Hoare's vision to it. It looked a lot like Swift is now, but with a different syntax and more FP dialects.

As a im a (mostly) C++ programmer, despite the fact that i liked the language, i feel that the balance between what the language was giving me, and the productivity, was not worth it when compared to C++.

I feel much more productive in C++, the language is still faster, with a low memory footprint in the majority of cases, and with modern C++, smart pointers, move, a correct understanding of the ownership model .. the bad sides of it, the ones Rust did a better job shelving us from, from my point of view are not worth paying for the lack of productivity i felt in Rust as compared to C++.

I know this is an unpopular opinion here in HN, but I decided to take a different approach .. instead of "one language to rule them all" i tend to use C++ for what's good at, and Swift for more application centered goals , because its nicer than C++ and Rust (in my opinion), release you from the burden of managing memory all around while being very fast at the same time.

Swift for me is "the better Java" we were looking for, Rust does not seem appealing in this arena (and the same goes for C++ here), while you pay for what you use in Rust in terms of productivity, even compared to C++.

The other thing that makes C++ a better option in my opinion, is the ammount of libraries and codebase you have access to, not only in C++, but in C. Very important codebases are either C or C++, even the newer ones like Tensorflow or V8, Chrome, LLVM, etc ...

I understand the importance of what Rust provides, I like its goal, but your comment sounded like the OP was either stupid or lazy / incompetent by using your anedoctical evidence. (While in the same anedoctical example you are the hidden figure who are sensitive about security while still using C++, as the 'lazy guy', enabling -Wall, using Valgrind, etc)

When I entered in the comments section here, I was just expecting the sort of comments in the spirit of "how could you even do that?"

PS: Im not the kind of guy who tends to disable -Wall -Werror to have more productivity and i would not favor C ++ in exchange for Rust, if i feel the balance were better among what i pay in terms of productivity were fair in exchange for more safety as compared to what I have now with C++.
How could they know the politics pushed by a movie they haven't seen?
I have used 4chan almost every day since 7th grade, it is an anime imageposting forum with related hobby boards.

Without it, I would not be nearly as interested in OSS development or RMS' contributions to GNU+LINUX. There are boards which tend towards topics you may consider "incitement to commit violent acts" but this is a function of a website allowing user content. HN or Reddit or any other popular website could have been used for this announcement just the same.

Removing a website will not remove the people who use it, they will find other places.
This feels like someone trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill and link connections that really don't exist.

According to the article O'Rourke left the CDC boards turned 18 and went to college. He's 46, so we are talking 1989 or 1990.

The article then talks up all the Back Orifice/Hacktavism stuff which was a solid decade after he left. It's not like Beto's helping Virus and Sir Dystic write SMBRelay...
I once told my daughter that "everything bad that has happened to you in your life is your fault". She ran away crying.

I meant this in the context of things not being inherently good or bad, its all your perspective, which is under your control.

I was trying to distill everything I have learned from meditation, Buddhism, stoicism... but I'm not great at communicating, and even if I was she isn't ready for some of the concepts.
No. They were always lower, and were strictly capped in 2012.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/regii-average-...

> The Board's Regulation II provides that an issuer subject to the interchange fee standard (a covered issuer) may not receive an interchange fee that exceeds 21 cents plus 0.05 percent multiplied by the value of the transaction, plus a 1-cent fraud-prevention adjustment, if eligible.
Ok, what do you think the right term is?
It's pretty surreal to see such publications that sold the war in Middle East all those years disavow anti-Islamic terror, are they finally admitting they were wrong all those years? Are they aware that perhaps their legitimization of the foreign occupation and demonization of the Muslim world might make them complicit in the ideology and subsequent actions of this shooter?
Playing devil's advocate is not the same thing as posting inflammatory things for fun at all.

You play devil's advocate because you want to test your convictions by making a good faith effort to argue for the other side. You attempt to present the other side's argument in the best light, and really think about your reasons for actually concluding against that side.

Trolling is the opposite of a good faith effort; you are intentionally making an argument you know is absurd, in an attempt to get someone to engage as if it were a real argument. You have no intention of trying to understand the other side or think about why people might feel differently, you are simply trying to confuse and anger people.

You can argue that you think trolling is funny, but you can't argue that you posting inflammatory things is playing devil's advocate.
> 10 minutes?

Yes. I work in a codebase that's 30GB checked out. It takes a long time to run our automated checks. That's why they happen on the server, when I make a pull request.

The upshot is the same: it doesn't go to master until checks pass. But who gives a shit about what I'm committing locally? I reserve the right to save my work even if things aren't compiling. You (my teammate) won't see it anyway, it's all locally on my machine. Why do you care?
They don't have to agree on every point to be a danger.
Wow, Beto is so cool. I will definitely vote for him when he runs for president because I read this article. Thanks for sharing this valuable and insightful content on HN.
> because we are partnered with a smaller regional bank

This here is the problem. This industry is heavily regulated and dominated by behemoths. You can't innovate when you are partnered with a whale. Sooner or later there will be an impedance mismatch.
You’re making egregious assumptions that you are only using languages that compile to executable binaries and that the way the dependencies interact with ambient details of the runtime environment aren’t problematic. This is exactly why the bazel-style build model fails so badly. In the companies where I’ve worked with this pattern, you end up with behemoth binaries, like a giant jar for all possible things you may do that interact with HDFS, for example. Somebody comes along and has a business case where they need a few sub-slices of that jar to function inside a special environment, say like a Jupyter-Scala notebook running inside a custom container that something like Databricks can’t currently support, and suddenly you’re doing insane dependency surgery, mangling build commands to build different versions of the jar for the different use cases.

So drastically much better to publish the jar / binary / package / container / whatever to an internal registry, then express the dependency on the specific artifact that’s needed.

This is genuinely a line of questioning I ask in order to reject job candidates or to reject potential employers. Your suggested way is just far too dysfunctional.

> “Android apps, webservers, and language runtimes live in the same repo without issue”

I don’t buy it. “Without issue” is entirely subjective here, and it’s clear from comments you make about Google and your own preferences regarding monorepos that you are at best unlikely to be sympathetic to the kinds of issues people may find to be unacceptably frustrating and choose to view them as non-issues, to falsely believe they would manifest with at least as much headache in a polyrepo situation, or to believe that even if they are sincere downsides of a monorepo that still they don’t rise to a level of importance to see them as distinguishing failure cases.

Companies like Google exhibit deep-seated dogmatism about such things, and given this, veteran employees in such places are almost by definition produced by a selection bias effect that reinforces the dogma: anyone with valid dissatisfaction with the monorepo steamroller most likely would have left or declined the job in the first place, just reinforcing the monoculture.
I read through all the marketing on the homepage and got to the end where it says it's currently invitation only and that one can sign up for the waitlist. Where exactly is the link to the waitlist? I tapped all over that box and didn't find any links. The contact link goes to Twitter, whereas your email address should be the main way to contact you (not everyone uses Twitter).
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Socrates was certainly a provocateur (troll?). I think what the objective of a provocateur is: (1) to get people angry or (2) to create discourse or (3) etc. -- is up for grabs. My point was that claiming it's "aggressive" is nonsense.

> Socrates surely would be called a troll by many

Exactly. I contend that he would be called a troll by the person I quoted -- which I think is wrong.
The urine is a valuable resource, actually: http://richearthinstitute.org/
Locally, a community recycling center is in the process of closing down. This after having had its pickup and processing costs approach $100 a ton now. Since the "tipping fee" at the local dump is only about a third of that, guess where all of that formerly recyclable material is now headed? I expect that our much larger municipal recycling program will soon be taking a similar path.
>Freedom of speech doesn't mean you get to do whatever you want, with no threat of consequences.

No, it means the government cannot prevent you from saying whatever you want. Its frightening how widespread opposition to free speech has become (especially among the younger generation who has been conditioned to accept authoritarianism).
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Very true. For example, we're running most of our log aggregation and time series handling on rented dedicated servers. It took more work and skill to get to work compared to something like AWS elasticsearch, but the setup is dirt-cheap for what it does including redundancy in case of hardware failures. Or, my last employer used to run a lot of their data warehousing and BI on rented physical systems for similar reasons - high IO demand, built-in redundancy.

There are many steps you can take before buying concrete to build a DC. Even before you have to buy your own rack.
> Uh, I seem to recall Apple being forced to reverse some brazenly greedy policies for their music service when a high-profile artist called them out and withheld content in protest.

I think you may want to refresh your memory on that. The subject was Apple paying artists during the trial period—when Apple itself isn't being paid. Which isn't brazenly greedy, since (a) they're not making any money during that time, and (b) that was and is still the standard. What was different about Apple was that their trial period—the period where users could subscribe to Apple Music without paying Apple anything—was 3 months, instead of the industry standard 1 month.

Swift had a legitimate complaint about not getting paid for 3 months of listening, but to describe "2 more months where listeners don't have to pay Apple a dime" as "some brazenly greedy policies" misses the mark by quite a bit.
Wow. This is incredible. Bookmarked and will be a lot interested if you could do a series of blog post, man.

This is amazing.
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It literally went from a "steam gauge" aircraft to glass panels before. There are aircraft which are much more different and are on the same type rating, for example the 757 and 767. That's literally a widebody and a narrow body.
I get what you're saying, but 55,000€ is not midrange. It's more expensive than a BMW series 5.
So, if I understand correctly, this means that by banning all pornography in the name of preventing child porn, they'll actually be harming efforts on this uncovering of child pornography networks effort.

This is unfortunate.
Nice to hear it's working well.

I found out today that X2Go version 4.1 is available on Debian Stretch via "backports"; I don't need it at the moment but if I'm bored in the future, I could play with it without much friction...
> The personal harm (To the politician) is the same.

Strictly less in the case of blackmail, since otherwise they'd turn down the blackmail.

> Is there a social harm that I'm missing?

Yes, concealing adverse information about public figures, particularly public officials, is a social harm promoted by legalized blackmail.

(For non-public figures and non-public-interest adverse facts, the tort of invasion of privacy or publication of private information applies even with blackmail being illegal, and provides a stronger backstop against the individual harms than the privilege of having to pay off those who would otherwise drag your name through the mud.)
Exciting! There’s a number of cases where this’d be handy. Can’t wait to try it out.
I’d settle for a lot more people saying what OP is saying. California has one of the most incompetent governments in the world but this is masked because it is home to tech and we’re in boom times.

Jerry Brown’s one big accomplishment was restraining the more idiotic impulses of his own caucus yet the political and media classes hail him as some sort of superlative political leader. His budget surplus is due to reneging on the “temporary” top marginal tax increase in boom times. Nothing more.
>while free speech laws might protect the content of speech they don't protect the manner of said speech or the forum in which such speech occur (except that in the US, "public" areas are open to all speech.)

4chan is public, dolt.

When the tide turns and your precious group isn't in power and your views are considered harmful, just remember to take it on the chin, sweetie. ;)
Not sure how this makes a lot of sense commercially. By way of background I work remotely from my family's small cattle farm (we have 225ish head of grass-only fed cattle).

In simple terms, cow piss has a bunch of nitrogen in it which makes the grass grow faster (especially when you have a well developed soil biome).

I watched the video and appreciate that quality engineering went into this product, I just don't get why it would make sense for any farmer who has cows in pasture to invest in this technology, even if it were available at mass-produced-in-Asia prices. More specifically, it's hard to imagine a use case for cow piss that makes it valuable enough that I'm going to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on machinery to harvest it, at an opportunity cost of less nitrogen going into my fields.

Maybe it makes more sense for feedlots? They get a bunch of nasty health issues going on with their animals living in mucky high-density conditions, so reducing the ammonia in the muck might lower the amount of sores their animals have, or something like that. But taking a step back, I guess I don't get the general wisdom of inventing technology that makes bad practices marginally better on the animals and/or environment.
With optical tracking, one can, for example, have all fingers resting on home row, with one finger tapping. But it's hard to distinguish actually touching from merely being near the surface, so one exaggerates the taps to rise above tracking noise. Which is sort of ok for taps, but is a pretty bad user experience for say finger-stroking scrolling.

So the objective is to have per-finger high-quality is-it-touching-or-not-quite touch determination, on a good keyboard. Perhaps made easier by having high-quality XY position available from the optical tracking.

A keyboard where every keycap was a multitouch touchpad would work... but seems problematic.

Monotouch pads are more feasible, but imagine home row fingers now shifted half a key to the left, so finger tips touch multiple keys, and keys are touched by multiple fingers. Now detect tapping, when the tapped key remains continuously touched, and the tapping finger may be in contact with other adjacent fingers.

One could wire together all keys, if say you have finger-tip electrodes. And wired fingers have the bonus of providing good touch determination for finger-finger contact, instead of just finger-key. But the pragmatics of electrodes on skin are messy, and gloves badly sacrifice typing experience.

Ah well. Thanks. Perhaps the Tactual PRISM keyboard will work out.
Its absolutely free speech and is the bedrock of a free society.
Current software is unreliable and crashes a lot. Operating system goes 'blue screen of death', ATMs go down, store cash registers go down, airline computer systems go down. Facebook was offline yesterday. Malware, viruses,hackers everywhere. Software quality sucks.
Now up the risk. Faulty software will be controlling a multiple ton autonomous weapon. Will it kill the passenger, the pedestrian, or both?

Oh. Don't forget snow.