skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious if how much of that has to do with the police constantly disrupting low level drug dealing. Nothing more dangerous than a bunch of desperate low level drug dealers and junkies. It’s almost better to let them operate and focus the resources on major operations and violent crime.
A lot of services won't accept an email with a plus sign as a valid email address. Part of the issue is how many companies want an email address to sign up for something. It is much easier to track your accounts using a password management application, as opposed to giving everyone your email address and phone number.
I think I fall into the category of needing a sleeper to sleep. I wouldn't plan to stay in there during the day but there's no way I'd be able to fall asleep next to someone in the open like that.

I can't even sleep in a hotel unless there's a dead lock.
As someone who also is a military researcher, I may be able to help. I have worked on things that if the USA went to war, I know that I have directly contributed to that war.

I truly hate that my research will contribute to killing. I wish that it wasn't necessary. But as events like Crimea annexation and the South China Sea shows, if the USA is not there, then other nations are very happy to use their might to boss others around. I truly do think the USA is a force for good, and I want that to be there for my following generations.
Presumably the poster is just copy/pasting an email and isn't Google.
I don't remember the moment when I first installed in the 90' on Windows 3.x "Napster" on a PC connected to my 28.8k modem, but I do remember the "oh-my-gosh-it-seems-to-really-work"-feeling while watching the download bar(s) slowly progressing towards the ultimate target of 100%.

And then the "oh-my-gosh-this-technology-is-incredible"-feeling after doubleclicking on the downloaded file and seeing/hearing Winamp playing it (not sure if I was already using Winamp right from the start).

That's when I really realized that I was connected to the whole world.

Nowadays I still usually first download songs/CDs but only to be sure that they aren't bad (in the 90' I often had to pay 30CHF for a CD which contained only 1 good song) => if they're good then I buy the CDs or the single digital files (I have to "own" the media, hehe) => many people think that I'm more or less stupid/weird doing this but personally I just try to motivate the artists to keep creating what I like (kind of similar to opensource donations) and I do not want to have dependencies towards 3rd-parties => this (that for other people it's weird that I really "buy" the CDs & songs if I have anyway already downloaded them) makes me think that "ethics" have recently been lost not only in the big/high areas (e.g. big mixed scandals like Enron/Andersen, AIG/Lehman, Madoff, Volkswagen, ...) but as well on an individual level.

On the other hand Spotify & Co. are anyway changing all the rules (except for me, as I have to "own" the song, hehe), so what I mentioned above is now probably not relevant anymore.
Thanks Danny! I think Scratch is probably the most impactful tool in getting more people into programming. We have nothing but respect for the team.

However, when we talk to some of the kids coming to Repl.it from Scratch they often say something along the lines of Scratch is an "adult's idea of what kids might like". I think some kids want to feel like hackers and like they're doing "the real thing."

To that end we're working on a framework that has similar semantics to Scratch but is actually Python: https://github.com/replit/play

BTW: a 5 year old learning Clojure is fascinating. I hope you write about that sometime.
Good call, I went through the top results on Google and edited the answers/posted a comment to signal this vulnerability.

Also as others pointed out, this is a pretty rare use of `render` (but any application large enough might have it).
someone seriously took a twitter meme reposted to instagram and made a website out of it?

mumble cringe
IMO no fault anything sounds like a recipe for abuse. That's generally how society functions -- there are consequences to actions.
"It's almost as if the article is equating less crime being prosecuted as less crime existing."

That's how they ran Baltimore for a while. Great improvement in metrics make a good show even if the real situation is not good. Or go the other way: arrest more and more people for more and more trivial offenses. Number of arrests going up that way looks good but in reality it's useless.
Kudos to you for building a company to $10mn revenues. I hope to achieve similar success in the coming years and honestly, I'd pat myself on the back of I just hit $1mn revenues with decent profits.
Does this map reflect current research? https://images.theconversation.com/files/107932/original/ima...
Yes. The language is much more stable since 1.0 (intentionally).

However some packages are still being updated.
This paper was discredited. It could not be replicated using publicly available data and it was eventually found that there were large scale computational errors: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22223190
There's a still more subtle distinction that I think is also lost on people: You can be in favor of someone being able to say something, but still be opposed to them actually saying it in a given situation.

For example, I don't think people should be barred from saying they hate me and wish ill on me. But I still am strongly opposed to them saying it, and if somebody is saying that around me, I'll either try to get them to stop, get them to go away, or extricate myself. I respect their right to independent thought, but I'm still not going to idly stand by for that.

So I don't think we should do stings to find people discussing how they think it would be cool to traumatize gay kids, but I do think we should oppose them trying to traumatize gay kids within our sphere of influence. And even with the social awareness of the modern age, people still feel pretty free to push for horrible stuff like this in public, so I'm not worried we're going too far at this exact moment.
Millennials Are Financially Trustworthy
Awesome service! I think this will become the absolute must-have for anyone launching a VC firm over the next 5 years. The only item they're missing is $25 million in liquid capital from selling a now-defunct mobile gaming company. I hope they can include that in v2 of the product!
> they more often than not assume I'm working on bombs

> I only work on mapping software

In fairness, those maps are likely used to ensure the bombs go where they should.
I thought the phase 2 was recently taken off the table? Maybe I misread something :/
GDB is very useable with the TUI mode or the Emacs integration.
So if I understand correctly, MMT says that, when the economy has slack (and therefore unemployment) in it, the government should print money to buy stuff until inflation appears, and then should collect taxes to quench inflation. I see three problems - two major and one minor.

First, spending and taxes are controlled by Congress. MMT would therefore ask Congress to manage the economy. That seems like an incredibly bad idea. If you think Congress has done a good job of running the rest of the country, it might sound reasonable. But given Congressional approval numbers, nobody actually thinks that.

Second, this assumes that following this approach will get us to full employment at the same time or before it gets us to inflation. That sounds reasonable... but what if it's wrong? What if, say, the constraint on the economy is physical stuff rather than people? We might be able to have the government hire people to do jobs that don't require any stuff... if they're watching for this kind of problem and respond appropriately. Again, though, it's Congress that's going to be controlling this. Do you really trust them not to mess it up?

Third, a minor note: When inflation starts, shut of the spending, don't just raise taxes. Otherwise, you have the economy hitting the limits, government using a lot of the output of the economy, and what's left for the non-government getting taxed. It would be better for the government to release some of the resources that it's using, and if inflation continues, then tax.
In a worst case scenario Tesla can veer into a concrete lane divider and kill you in under a second. I don't think Boeing comes anywhere close to that timescale. I don't think it's reasonable to expect a person monitoring the vehicle to be able to react in time. Calling an L2 assist 'Autopilot' is just .. evil. Just like peddling shitty statistics that 'shows' AP is safer than manual driving (it really isn't).
You can wait and check out our demo video this weekend! If you have specific domain questions feel free to contact us.
IFTTT asks for a lot of access. Most people aren’t able to make an informed decision re what that means.
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Pathway of the Birds is evidently published in both New Zealand and Hawaii. Available through Amazon too. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41112497-pathway-of-the-.... Clear, thoughtful and well illustrated with loads of maps. The full title is Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Māori and their Polynesian Ancestors
Strengthening connection between layers of FDM 3D printed objects with z-anchors
This reminds me of a time back in college when I was getting to know my future ex-wife - I was teasing her about something, and made some kind of tickle attempt and her response was to immediately punch me in the stomach. Her father had never respected the 'too much tickle' line, and her tolerance for it as a result was zero. She was in fact terrified by the threat of it. So yeah, have to make sure you're not crossing those limits...
Does Hacker News share every "trash" tweet from American tweeters with 1 million followers? yawn
You say consumers have expressed that but I'm not actually sure that is true. Sure people often buy things that are less durable but it is hard to tell the longevity of many products in advance, especially of tech for non techy people.

I used to do computer repair and the number of people who were furious to discover, years after they bought it, just how uneconomical it was to repair certain Apple products due to how unmodular those products were.

Plus say I'm buying headphones, obviously (to technologically aware people) wireless ones will break more often because they have more parts that can break and have batteries that will eventually go out. But after that I'm kind of stuck with buying a brand that has a good history, people don't write reviews of currently available products saying "I've owned these for 6 years now and they still work". And even if those reviews exist the company may have changed the internals of the product by now so that review is no longer valid.

Sure consumer purchase patterns don't reward building for longevity and I agree with that, but I disagree that consumers have necessarily expressed they don't care very much about it.
If I were to describe how I want to be treated:

I don’t want to have to ask to be touched by someone whose touch I want. Having the touch come unbidden is exciting and satisfying.

But I don’t want to be touched by someone who’s touch is repellant to me (by any degree). Having to experience or rebuff the touch is uncomfortable or disturbing.

Of course it’s tough to have it both ways! I err on the side of expecting less confirmation in exchange for more of that first example. But as for how I treat others? I err on the side of verbal confirmation, so as to avoid crossing a line someone else takes more seriously than I do.

So far it’s working alright! Is it the best system? Hard to say.
It would seem that in the case of interrogation, it would be best for a 'good' person to do the job to reduce the number of false-positives?

Or for that matter the idea that a "good" person will do less harm in a "bad" situation than someone that's outright malicious.
> Nor does ironic accurately describe the actions of an industry that touts its products’ power to cure biochemical imbalances that it no longer believes are the culprit. Plain bad faith is what’s on display, sometimes of outrageous proportion. And like all bad faith, it serves more than one master: not only the wish to help people, but also the wish to preserve and increase power and profits.

This sums up psychiatry and psychiatrists in general. Corrupt pill pushers willing to make money no matter what the outcome for the patient and what it takes. If it takes lying, so be it, as long as it's well intended. If it takes many people committing suicide after buying their bullshit chemical imbalance fiction even they don't believe, so be it. Such disregard for other human lives would usually land one in jail, but we have a whole profession built on it. At the same time, we lock up drug dealers who may potentially and inadvertently have part of the puzzle (lsd, psilocybin, mdma, ketamine). The entire existence of the field is absurd. One book, the dsm justifies these quacks pushing whatever they want and using their patients as guinea pigs in ad hoc experiments that often go wrong and lead to worse outcomes, including death. All because we refuse to believe that things like depression and anxiety might be caused by say an unhappy relationship, family problems, an unsatisfying job, lack of friends and community, and so many almost obvious deficiencies in our society. Absurd.
At 0.1c, that 40 years will just whip by for the travelers themselves. To them, it will only seem like ... 39.8 years (doh!) No help there.
To be fair, they did release the hardware specs under a good license https://github.com/facebookarchive/RiftDK2.

The source code for the optical tracking software was never released though. So instead of "trashing" it, I suggest donating it to OpenHMD, so someone else can use it for developing optical tracking.
I spent two years of my life working on a technology I really hope is never used.

I think it's very hard to think about making a technology you know is to killing someone. But at the same time, you know it is necessary. You really wish the world you live in would mean there's no reason to. But that isn't the world you live in.
These sorts of solutions are always tantalizing, especially when developing on a Mac but deploying on Linux, but the killer feature for such an application would be IDE/ST3/Atom/VSC[/etc...] support. If this sync process could be orchestrated from such a development environment directly, it would avoid many design pitfalls, such as degenerating into rapid fs polling.
You're right -- I think the reason this is so contentious is that the market for recorded music didn't collapse, to the degree it did, due to lack of demand; it collapsed due to the marginal cost of reproduction dropping to effectively nothing. I'm not making a moral argument here, lest market libertarians prepare to jump -- I'm not saying the market as it existed should have been propped up artificially. I'm just making the observation that "there is no market for recorded music" is a very different statement than "there is no market for horse-drawn carriages." People are listening to recorded music as much as ever, by some measures more so; we just don't expect to have to pay more than ten bucks a month for All The Music.
There's a paperback reprint now: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0813595835/
And firstinspires1 and firstinspires11 ... we're at the GPR which is firstinspire1
I'm aware of the trigger, `render file:` is, in my experience, extremely rare. I can't recall ever wanting to render a template file located outside the application directory.
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What the invasion of Iraq was like for an Iraqi
Please correct me if I am wrong - I am under the impression that camera-based systems were getting good enough to make lidar moot, at least for self-driving car applications.
> I doubt that would run afoul of any laws

Sure it does. If the law says that domain X is not accessible in country Y, then ICANN has to scrub domain X from the list of domains when queried from country Y. Whether country Y has the jurisdiction to demand ICANN comply with their laws is a different matter, but I believe that technically serving "blocked" domains is probably against the relevant laws.
I'm curious — is it not normal to add in-line explanatory comments in the Rails codebase?

I'm thinking if I were writing this code in an application, and it looked this cryptic, I might at least add a comment noting what it was for. Not that people shouldn't look in git. But inline is easier to notice, no?
> bad for innovation overall and our economy in the long term. It's probably the best time to be a founder looking for a quick exit though.

Aren’t these two points contradictory? When acquisition opportunities are plentiful, people are more likely to start/invest in companies, leading to more innovation and development, no?
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Better that they go where they should, than that they go where they shouldn't. The more accurate the mapping, the smaller the bomb can be, and the less collateral damage (presuming that the targeting information is correct).
It's easy enough to tell if a child actually wants to be tickled: Stop tickling and then wait and watch if they move further away from you or closer to you. (If necessary move slightly away from them first.)

Based on which direction they're moving you can tell what they really want.

Another way to tell is to do a pretend tickle motion and then backup. Do they follow you? Or do they just stay where they are?
When I checked a few years ago, unison worked but was (a) relatively slow, and (b) very picky about which versions are at which end.

almost any two rsyncs from the last 20 years speak to each other and do it rather quickly.
"It's not that software engineers are payed too much, it's that it costs too much to live here. "

One follows from the other, doesn't it...
So... I used to hate ads, and especially (real-life) billboards. I was convinced a world without public advertising would be better.

Then I spent a long weekend in São Paulo (Brazil), a mega-city which had banned all outdoor advertising a couple of years prior.

It was... a profoundly boring urban environment. Until then, I'd never imagined just how much advertising adds color, faces, humanity, and dynamism to a city.

I dunno. I still feel like I dislike ads in principle... but then in practice the world feels empty without them. Think of when you open a magazine from 80 years ago, the ads can be the most interesting part. They're part of our cultural fabric.

I still don't what to think, but I know it's more complicated than "ads are bad".
CyberChef is a powerful web app for encryption, encoding
Looking at Baltimore as a good example of how to do anything right is a bad idea. During the riots it took the then-mayor much longer than it should have to reach out to the Governor for help. Baltimore politics are an absolute disaster. I suppose this is quite possibly the case for every US city, I've never considered that before.

Say what you will about Ed Norris, but he was an incredibly effective commissioner until he was removed from office.
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> If someone said to me "hey, we can go make a lot more money, but we have an decent chance of being raped, kidnapped, robbed, or murdered", and I'd say, nah, I'll stay here.

Do you think people immigrate illegally just for extra spending money? All of those horrible things can also happen to them at home. They choose to risk everything for the hope of a decent life for themselves and their families.

If you're against illegal immigration, fine, but don't fool yourself that anyone is motivated by concern for the poor immigrants. If you really want to undercut the cartels and give immigrants a better life, make more opportunities for them to immigrate legally and become productive Americans.
There seems to be a theme here.
“If you remove ads, the prices for everything would increase massively (even after accounting for the lack of advertising costs) and even fewer people could afford it.”

This doesn’t really make sense. Why would prices go up? The only reason i could see is that without ads people would buy less stuff
Have you seen the plethora of templating engines used to generate the yaml configs out there? I am surrounded by folks that think Jinja to create yaml is a normal idea. Good, even.

Then there is the slow creep of Turing into config for the sake of dynamic config. Starts as a simple condition flag. Then add if/then logic. It is an amusing tread.

So, yes. You can get a lot of variety in how configs look. But at the end if the day, they should all work. Usually in much more explainable terms. Just look at most people's emacs config. There are good options to make those readable today. It is still not that hard to see how most people's have worked for a long time.
I use a few rsync scripts and build shortcuts, but gonna try yours honestly!
Yet pre-1970 the NRA itself was one of the staunchest advocates of licensing, gun control, and restriction of general ownership, whilst sticking to their original purpose - to improve marksmanship.

The NRA president testified to congress in 1939: “I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.”

It was only much later they started lobbying against any and all control.
> Leaded gas was in use since the 20's or 30's.

There were WAY fewer cars back then. So, you need to look at emission per car*number of cars.

A lot of pollution problems peaked in the 1970's--that's the whole reason why a raft of environmental legislation was enacted at that point.
> I can't shake the feeling that such 100% adherence to verbal (and even intended) yes/no is somehow like keeping people at arms length distance, emotionally.

Absolutely it is, in almost any context. In most of those where it isn't, that's probably by design. It might even be the right move.

Where the line falls varies on every single edge of your social graph, all the time. Consent to be touched, or whatever, or not, isn't blanket, but "transactional" is the term used in discussions around consent, and revocable or renegotiable.

But, to your point, especially in some contexts, like flirting, the expectation is to push the boundary, not probe it. There, I think, it's very much a matter of execution. But, honestly, that's pretty speculative; I tend only to flirt well accidentally.

EDIT: Phrasing.
Why does "check out premium" go to a memoir of their design career - with a call to action basically hidden at the bottom - instead of straight to the subscription page?

I read the first two sentences, then scrolled a little faster trying to figure out if they were going to post a patreon link for basically donations, and then scrolled faster like what even is this, all to find a normal expected subscriptions page. WTF?
Having been here much longer, crime seems very light to me now compared to how it was in the 90s. There is a lot of property crime because it's much more financially precarious now and rents are astronomical while housing stock has been decreasing.

I feel like we need much tougher police [...]

Maybe you would enjoy living in Singapore or some other more paternalistic and repressive society.
And it is just a standard macro. Nothing built into emacs to support it.

My point being that just having some code to configure your thing is not exactly novel. Just not commonly done. Outside of lisp communities.
Please do not be dismissive of others' hard work on HN.
I've used Chrome's JS debugger, which I agree isn't so bad (though I don't really do frontend work, and I only managed to get node-inspector working once).

I've also used the Visual Studio debugger for F#, and I think I did gdb with Eclipse a couple years ago when I did C.
Sure. I'd love a list of all the products Google has canceled (not merged into another offering) after coming out on their official Google blog and saying they are here to stay.