skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia > "Ada was originally designed by a team led by French computer scientist Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull under contract to the United States Department of Defense (DoD) from 1977 to 1983 to supersede over 450 programming languages used by the DoD at that time."

Wow, it is mind blowing to me that 450 different programming languages existed in the late 70's. Do we know what most of these were? Do most exist today or have they been lost to time?
Probably just buying it from carriers directly.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/us-cell-carriers-still-sel...
Posts are soft-deleted on SO. You can see your own recent deleted questions at

https://stackoverflow.com/users/recently-deleted-questions/[your user id]

This link is on your profile on the questions tab at the bottom.
You don't understand how important a feedback signal pain is until it's gone.

I dated a girl who had a brain tumor removed as a child. As a result of this she had an incredibly high tolerance for pain. I don't mean stub-your-toe tolerance. I mean beat-me-with-a-belt-so-I-can-feel-something tolerance. Obviously it made for some interesting fun. Eventually I had to stop dating her out of fear I was going to permanently injure her in her search for pain sensations. She literally scared me.
They could get gps traces for each unique phone within the confines of the plant but labelled by random uuid. Then you can tell if a new one shows up, but with only locations inside the refinery you can't really say more.
We did April Fool's jokes at my previous company, and we had to implement code/data changes in order to do so. We never got the time to implement the jokes correctly so it introduced technical debt. Then we never got the time to remove said jokes, so they just remained in the system. Repeat for a few years. The jokes stopped being funny after a few debug cycles and just reminded us of our work situation (which wasn't great).

At least two things sadder than not celebrating April Fool's day are having a sad April Fool's day and having every day be April Fool's day.

Maybe silly hats in the office would be better. Don't tamper with prod.
Thanks for the recommendation, I just might do that. I was relieved to see it has a glossary[0] so you're not completely at sea. I remember getting all the way through Trainspotting without realizing that there was a glossary in the back of the book, which was a facepalm moment.

[0]: https://unbound.com/books/the-wake/updates/glossary
Toxic chemicals are only one aspect of pollution. AFAIK the more serious threat is from plastic decomposing into micro/nano-sized particles, which are then consumed by plankton who then perish and/or are consumed by ever-larger creatures in the food chain. Plankton are vital for our species' survival, since they produce 50-85% of the world's oxygen supply, as well as feeding all other living things in the ocean (and eventually ending up in Human stomachs).
Didn't you know? The internet is srs buziness.
Kind of like how one of the coworker groups I used to work with had a standing "no limericks" rule, as 90% of the time the limerick would potentially be an HR violation.
This is a very cynical way to look at it. Some people may just like helping people and sharing knowledge, and maybe they've also received help themselves and want to give back to the community. I don't think this is repulsive. There's many great questions that aren't about undocumented APIs. Take this [0] for example.

As a side benefit, I'm sure the active contributions can give contributors something to show to prospective employers.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53452713/why-is-2-i-i-fa...
I'd still rather remember/type/say three words than something like 5P56+4Q. I'm really surprised that no one thinks pronounciability has value.
Targeting an ad specifically to avoid certain races indicates your intention to make such a preference. You're just telling Facebook you don't want those races rather than putting it in the actual ad text.
But it would seem to me like that is just a matter of needing more training, or maybe more processing power.

At some point with enough training data it will detect a stopped car and react much more quickly than a human would. And even if it's not perfect, all it has to do is beat a human to be worthwhile.
> Everyone hates April Fools’ Day

No they don't, they just hate harmful pranks.

There have been some splendid April Fools. How about the BBC Spaghetti harvest from 1957, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU
Computers, radio, internet, etc. all started as big government spending with eyes towards military applications.

Spending 406 billion on a program like this largely _is_ giving it back to the people: productive people who are designing and manufacturing parts, building technological know-how and innovating to meet the ambitious goals of the program. Spending money like this is the luxury we have earned by becoming a civilization - the more money we have to spare, the more we can re-invest it into learning new things instead of spending it on subsistence, making life for future generations better in an exponential sort of way. This type of spending is a huge component of how we build that human skill and expertise you're talking about.
debian stretch / i3wm

The first linux distro I used was slackware (I don't recall the version, but I think the kernel was 1.1.59). I switched to redhat as it was easier to install new packages. I switched to debian after renting my first dedicated server: the smart people at the hosting company used debian and I figured there must be a good reason.
GauGAN+Turns+Doodles+into+Stunning,+Realistic+Landscapes+|+Nvidia+Blog
It seems lots of companies feel compelled to make a very lousy effort around this time to be funny in a way that just isn't. Basically the marketing people seem to panic around the end of March to desperately try to come up with something and then mess up by being completely obvious in a desperate attempt to go 'viral' when world + dog is doing the same.

IMHO there's some great potential for the UK to do some brexit related jokes though ;-). Would be awesome if they announced the whole thing was just an elaborate April first joke.
A while back, my leftist circles kept repeating ad nauseam that Peter Thiel (who is already in a minority, being gay) is a white nationalist. I suspected bullshit and decided to look into it.

All I could find was this: Peter Thiel once spoke at a libertarian conference. Libertarians, being libertarians, permit racism (read: not the same as "support racism"). THEREFORE, PETER THIEL IS A WHITE NATIONALIST.

Are you fucking serious? I pushed back on my leftist friends with what I found. "Duhhhhh, errrrrr, ummmmm, well... everyone just knows he is!" Oh, really.

Bullshit, repeated often enough as truth, becomes evidence for itself.
Why delete because of downvotes? I'm a top 8%, and my top karma producer is an answer that is technically wrong, but is useful to some people. It's fun watching the fighting upvotes/downvotes. It's currently at +124 / -58. But an upvote is worth +10, a downvote -2, so...
I think plastic is a true miracle invention. Aviation, medicine, technology, there probably isn't an area where we haven't benefited from this great material. Used properly, it's not a problem.

What is damaging is the brute ugliness of modern materialism. We don't just use plastic to manufacture surgical tools, we use it to make plastic toy that we ship halfway round the world to give away with an equally repugnant 'happy meal' from McDonalds. Then we throw it away (hopefully into a bin) along with all its plastic wrapping.

That's not to say I don't agree with you - I massively support a ban on throw away plastic too (and more). I just think we need to be careful about demonising plastic as a material.
10 random words from a really large dictionary. Narrow down to, say words three to five letters, and 128 bits get tricky. It's easier in the sense that we have a certain active/passive vocabulary - but you'd probably need a mnemonic with words too.

[ed: input is definitely a challenge. I've considered making various alternative input methods - but in the end 128 bits is a lot of data to input without error. Especially on a phone. Of course on a phone you might have a pin protected secure enclave for example, or use an external nfc key etc.

But it then we're back to some way to remember 128 bits - and maybe even without the luxury of "practice" by way of typing it a few times a day...]
ADL defines alt right to be white supremacy to be the same: https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/alt-right-a-prim...

SPLC also say they are the same: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideo...

These orgs provide the best definition we can get right now due to Facebook relying on others to define it instead of providing clear definitions, and these orgs is an authority to Facebook. If there was ever an attempt at using power while abdicating responsibility that is it.

The reason while any action build upon this is bullshit is that these orgs doesn’t relate it to truth and evidence, use their power to slap this label onto anyone that disagree with them and punish people for things they didn’t do.
Because people arent as funny as they think they are.
>location data is usually not shared verbally but sent via some kind of text medium - you just send GPS-coordinates from another (map-)app directly through your email/messaging-app. seems simple enough.

So in one setting I have to email myself a link to get the map on another device. In the other I just type three words from one screen into my phone.

I wonder which one's more convenient.
But why? I don't see a financial motivator here

If you listen via Google they not only know what you listened to but for how long you listened, which parts you skipped over or stopped listening at, and whether you listened to the ads or not. All that information has value to them. Being able to say these people googled your product within 72 hours of hearing your ad on these podcasts is very valuable.
Indeed, it had to been obvious it was from a shipping container from day one.
Why Travel planning is so frustrating?
There might have been reasons. But then when you ask for them in the comments section, people would just answer "you don't need to provide a reason to downvote". So actually you never learn.

The other issue is, even when the reason is given, sometimes you would not agree with that. E.g. sometimes people claim it's a duplicate, although they are not deep enough into the topic to really tell, and then the question gets closed. Or people claim is subjective, while in fact objective answers are possible. Or many other things.
To be clear for those who somehow don't get these calls, telemarketers have been spoofing phone numbers with impunity for over 3 years now. At least, 3-4 years ago is when I first started getting daily telemarketing calls.

Telemarketers spoof the area code or prefix or both so at first glance it appears you're being called by someone local to you.
It depends on how you define "allowed." Gun stores are pressured out of business and zoned into extinction all the time. There's a reason people from Chicago go to Indiana to buy guns.

Also, note the "kill people" phrase in the message you're responding to, and the context of this conversation: committing crimes.
Slashdot used to (well, when I used to read them) have really excruciatingly lame fake stories in an attempt to be funny on that one day...
Yeah, as someone who has never asked a question, I can generally find what I'm looking for without much effort.

So, from a 'drive users from google search' perspective, the current moderation model must be working quite well.

I have little sympathy for questions asked by complete beginners. SO is probably not the best place for that kind of thing.
You’re drawing a false dichotomy between career training and liberal arts.

I studied pure math which is as nerdy STEM as it gets, and absolutely zero of it was job training.
They're specifically not allowed to do that because the gun manufacturing and sales industry's lobby realized it would essentially kill gun sales.
It isn't a jab specifically at Quora, it's a jab at what the entire market looked like before Stack Overflow came along – namely their arch-nemesis at the time: Experts Exchange.
I disagree, if the tool/service is by its very nature both discriminatory and a 'black box', the company who made/provides it is responsible for what it does. You can't just make millions selling an ethically questionable service and shift the blame to your customers who you kept in the dark.
On a side note, technically, this web page is compelling. Just scroll down and see its interaction with the timeline.
Six easy ways to run your Jupyter Notebook in the cloud
If you have lots of location data say in Houston, and then suddenly in a refinery that's not in their normal day-to-day location data you could assume it's a contractor being called into investigate an on-site problem. or if you detect increased activity from devices that don't have a history on-site. Not 100%, but then they're not going for 100% either.
White racists used free-speech-limiting laws against Martin Luther King, Jr.

You start limiting free speech, that's going to cut both ways, eventually.

I've had comments on Facebook get auto-censored simply by discussing racism while trying to combat it.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!
I sincerely hope that you tell that to novices because they probably don't know any better. When you're new to development, it can be extremely difficult to distill any problem down to it's root elements. That's a skill that develops with experience. I would argue that it's one of the skills that makes a good developer overall.

Sometimes, all someone needs is a rubber duck. We can help by becoming that rubber duck.
The 2 or 3 million? I think I read recently that less than 10% have a million, 2 or 3 million is 1% territory. And if someone does save that and dies early, how is that 'wasted' if it goes to support their family?

Annuities can 100% bridge the gap. The problem is most Americans are financially illiterate, this stuff (401ks, annuities, how much to save) is too complicated for them and most people are too impulsive and consumerist to save enough.

So 401ks/annuities are better on a societal level assuming prudent savvy employees, which is a completely false assumption.
I agree, being funny on Monday usually has a limited positive impact.
Yes, they would just need a visitor visa (B1/B2/VWP-ESTA). I think YC is conducting interviews in India mainly for convenience. Why force a 100 potential founders to fly to the U.S. to attend an interview -- which would probably cost for flight+hotel around $1500 per person, so that's $150,000 wasted. Not to mention besides the money, there's time wasted as well -- the time flying in airplane (34 hours -- 17 hours each way). It's simply economically, from both a monetary and time perspective, more efficient to avoid unnecessary travel for an interview.

Moreover, there's also the fact that it's practically impossible to move to the U.S. as a founder of a company (there's no visa for founders). People from a select few countries (that the US has trade treaties with) and who have $100k in savings just lying around might be able to self-sponsor a E-2, but I'm most YC-funded founders probably don't qualify for this either. Especially not founders from India, since India is not a E-2 visa treaty country.
Doc Searles subsequently wrote a good 2012 book
'The intention Economy'
https://www.amazon.com/Intention-Economy-When-Customers-Char...
'Caveat venditor—let the seller beware'
'While marketers look for more ways to get personal with customers, including new tricks with “big data,” customers are about to get personal in their own ways, with their own tools. Soon consumers will be able to:

• Control the flow and use of personal data
• Build their own loyalty programs
• Dictate their own terms of service
• Tell whole markets what they want, how they want it, where and when they should be able to get it, and how much it should cost

And they will do all of this outside of any one vendor’s silo. '

Another lap of utopian 'what the world could look like' which is a good thing IMO. The reality though is that the few big platform companies 'crushed it' a decade ago and now dominate everything from the stock market to retail, socializing, information flows etc and the earnest pre Web 2.0 philosophers seem naive and simplistic in their 20+ year old vision....
I was under the impression the "base model" only came with a single AoA sensor. Adding a second sensor and the warning light if they disagreed was an expensive upgrade that neither of the planes that crashed were equipped with.
Big cut proposed for NOAA satellite division
Was gonna post this as well, it's by no means an exaggeration.
Haha wrong
What defines a "useful" correlation?
They probably figured that she got a little too much painkiller. When something unexpected happens the human mind usually tries to attribute it to something that is already known.
Doc Searles subsequently wrote a good 2012 book
'The intention Economy'
https://www.amazon.com/Intention-Economy-When-Customers-Char...
'Caveat venditor—let the seller beware'
'While marketers look for more ways to get personal with customers, including new tricks with “big data,” customers are about to get personal in their own ways, with their own tools. Soon consumers will be able to:

• Control the flow and use of personal data
• Build their own loyalty programs
• Dictate their own terms of service
• Tell whole markets what they want, how they want it, where and when they should be able to get it, and how much it should cost

And they will do all of this outside of any one vendor’s silo. '

Another lap of utopian 'what the world could look like' which is a good thing IMO. The reality though is that the few big platform companies literally 'crushed it' a decade ago and now dominate everything from the stock market to retail, socializing, information flows etc and the earnest pre Web 2.0 philosophers seem naive and simplistic in their 20+ year old vision....
When I was looking at colleges, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

You're not supposed to. That's what a liberal arts degree is about: Exposing you to a lot of possibilities so you can choose.

I went to college for Computer Science, but half way through changed my major because I found other fields more interesting. A friend of mine went in for psychology and came out journalism. It happens all the time. I know very few people who came out of college with the degree they went in for. That's how it's supposed to work.
Only as a corollary,

Real Programmers drink Coke:

https://uranus.chrysocome.net/coke.htm
Programming Opportunities in China?
I'm an American citizen, and have been working in JS development for a little over a year. I studied Chinese for about 15 years, kindergarten through college, and have conversational speaking / understanding, but would definitely need some time in China to get fluent again.

Have any HN'ers run into programming opportunities in China that might fit my skillset? Any recommendations on how I might find those kinds of opportunities? Anyone have any experience with software engineering jobs in Asia like this?
It was net negative (1 downvote, no upvotes), and the first comment was someone "schooling" me on an account with my actual name on it, which I don't particularly want as part of my public presentation.

EDIT: Actually looking back it was just the one person with the condescending response, but the comment got two upvotes.
Might I suggest that states and localities fund local media reporting on government via tax and give it to organizations like CPB/NPR/CBS/CSPAN?
I think a lot of people don't realize how discouraging it is to receive downvotes. They're handed out like candy for any perceived flaws in a question. I'd rather have a dialog in the comments to get the questioner to fix the flaws.
This is an extensively researched post comparing most ways of running Jupyter Notebooks completely for free via a cloud service. The author had extensive discussions back and forth with developers of all of the systems (including me, for CoCalc).
The behaviour you're describing is actually supposed to be a feature. They call it "Error detection" on https://what3words.com/about, which apparently it's not.
OMG thank you so much for this, I played the game of trust and I love it !!
This is the best way today's tech can help people understand logical / mathematical facts applied to everyday life.
The startup I'm working with offers a much better solution. We call it a geohash phrase. Instead of three random words, where plurals and order matter, instead we map geohashs to 5-word tuples that easily form a phrase. Moreover, the words will only ever appear in one slot of the tuple, and pluralization and word order don't matter.

You can find more at our website: qalocate.com
No, that's pretty much what they look like under a microscope.
Yea but the ocean is full of things decomposing into small particles. Rocks for one.
> What is driving the value of a bitcoin?

No one knows, maybe some have same theory of value and that's why there is speculation? I see nothing special in bitcoin, it is just one of the numerous things that the market tries to value. If the market is only speculation the value should go to zero in the long term. If there is some value in addition to speculation, the value should be non-zero - and it is left to the markets to decide, what the actual value is.
Incitement to imminent violent action is illegal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
And what do lame jokes broadcast about the corporate culture? That it's just a bunch of nerds not creative enough to come up with pranks or stunts that are believable up to the reveal where the readers hopefully slap their foreheads in a "I can't believe I fell for that!".
> Most people just pay it out of fear of being caught

No, I'm sure a lot pay because having a good public service is important, even more in this day and age, compared to the Murdoch owned media you get in the UK.

Of course the BBC isn't perfect, but it doesn't mean there's nothing to appreciate.
"...you never know what some person you provided a service for might do."

Well, you are in the business of knowing everything inferrable about all people, everywhere.
Seemingly a contractor would be a person who is not typically at the oil field but stays for an entire work shift. Other people would be on tours or probably execs.

They are buying this data off ad providers and getting an ad id and geo coords, this is what leads me to believe they are just going off volume of users in the location
gps can't do the things the guy above asked for
Came here to say a similar story.

After ~12 years of development, StackOverflow has gone from invaluable to irrelevant.

These days my questions are either so niche nobody answers them, or like you, I get a tonne of abuse for asking in the wrong place, or at the wrong time, or not including the right info, or whatever it may be.
IBM Project Debater Speaks to the Future of AI
If you loudly have to announce your harder line /stance on something, you are showing how little internal stability your group/alliance/cartel/whatever has.

Because what you are trying to accomplish, is basically to force any strike-breakers in your alliance to be publicly shamed.

Those who really drive a hard line, are most of the time unheard of, they just come, negotiate you down into the ground and you have to smile and wave. Cause atleast the factory you have does not make minus and earn 1 cent a hour.
I can't understand how a switch this simple could fail, frankly. Wouldn't a Mercury switch with an arc'ed path and several electrical contacts work? It seems blazing simple and idiot-proof. We are not being told the entire story! STAY TUNED!