skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China carried 10 billion people by high-speed rail last year.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1149608.shtml
I read HN fairly regularly and this is the first I’ve heard of it. Not hard to imagine missing something as I don’t read every article posted on HN.
A Fast, Open and Secure Replacement Operating System for Windows and macOS
Not GP but he is serious. Look at Germany, we have essentially free university education as well as government assistance with cost of living (Bafög). Only thing you may need loans for is for cost of living not covered by Bafög (e.g. in high rent areas and you do not want to work aside of university), but that's on the low-end range - think 10k, 20k but no 100-200k like in the US.

Same for single payer healthcare - we have for most people a single payer system and still we're not a socialist country as US republicans regularly whine and cry every time someone dares to propose a fix to your clusterfucks.
>People are freaking out about CA because it maybe helped Trump target people

Huh, the article doesn't even mention Trump

>every candidate does the exact same thing

But the issue isn't that ads are being targeted. The article specifically cites data misuse. The same is true in the case of CA, they were not supposed to be selling people's data to third parties.
Non-Holographic Associative Memory (1969) [pdf]
I understand how it works but you said we can't trust anyone with magic software. I assume you count secret keys as part of that magic software. Apple has such software and keys, so we can't trust Apple. Perhaps you really meant "we can't trust anyone except Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Lenovo, etc."? If you don't count secret keys, then are you happy for governments to have their own OS update keys and use their own servers that are quietly accessed by devices?

That's not quite applicable to this story though which seems to be just observing network traffic.
Problem with both SIGNAL and TELEGRAM is it "requires" you give your personal phone number to an overseas company
I read HN fairly regularly and this is the first I’ve heard of it. Not hard to imagine missing something as I don’t read every article posted on HN.

Just speculation, but after reading about this app I would be kind of shocked if slack wasn’t at least an order of magnitude more popular, so not a very apt comparison I’d say.
Prefer T foo(void) in C because that's the declaration that actually introduces, into the scope, information about the parameter list.

T foo() is a deprecated old style from before ANSI C 1989 which declares foo in a way that is mum about how many arguments there are and what their types are.

(void) is actually an ANSI C invention. C++ adopted this for better C compatibility. (Yes, C++ did that once upon a time!) Then some C++ coders started doing silly things like myclass::myclass(void): something that would never be processed with a C compiler.

(void) is ugly; it would be a productive change in C to do away with K&R declarations and make () equivalent to (void) like C++ did some three decades ago.
China’s high-speed rail carries record 10B passengers
Did 'Whiz Kid' Wow Tim Cook with Code Copied from Ex-Apple Engineer?
Not sure doing the first two at community college impacts post-graduate admissions much?

If an applicant begins his or her undergraduate education at a community college, excels academically, transfers to a four-year institution, and continues an upward trend by maintaining an excellent GPA, scoring well on the MCAT, and demonstrating a proclivity toward patient care and research, their educational path can be seen as an asset.
When it comes to dropping the bomb twice on Japan, the people making the decisions and those advising them knew exactly what they were doing. Japan was already defeated and everyone knew it. The selection of civilian targets and especially the decision to drop the second bomb was known to be completely unnecessary with respect to Japan. It is hard to think of them as anything but atrocities perpetuated by people who know exactly what they were doing, the difficulty being that even if they were only done for political strategy they might have been entirely necessary to prevent something much more disastrous than WWII.

The reasons those bombs were dropped were to scare the fuck out of Stalin and keep his armies away from Japan. Perhaps unstated, but pretty obviously so. There are so many ways the world could have been very much worse after WWII, all in all it went very well (despite what many people think).

As for the testing there were people actively protesting it's beginning and continuation, but the effects and persistence of effects were not fully understood for some time. That is what you're getting at it seems. It wasn't so much about the world being a different place but that the consequences of radiation being unknown.
Good point, I was just echoing some of the earliest news accounts there. Those stories came out before it became apparent that the flight manuals didn't actually have much useful information on the subject.
My highest level of education is trade school (electronics). Trade school doesn't take 4 months, it's usually 2-3 years with multiple internships and apprenticeships.
Do you actually believe the profiles CA created were accurate or much more insightful over whatever demographic data FB or Goog let you target with?

I did a very similar project for a CS/stats class in 2011. They did some basic k-means clustering on likes and basic sentiment analysis on posts.
Sounds like you'd benefit from taking a first aid course. You can see if the Red Cross offer one near you, or your local mountain rescue or lifeguard station if you live near one of those. As well as RICE you can learn some more useful skills: treat injuries and burns, administer CPR, etc.

That said, for suspected broken bones an X-ray really is recommended. Depending on the nature of the fracture, you might need a cast instead of a sling and even the most experienced doctor can't tell you which until they've seen the X-ray results.
Are you going to elaborate in the specific nature of your issues or leave some bait like that? Riot.im should be trivially installable on most Linux systems, including the raspberry pi.
If Hillary had not pulled strings on the DCCC, or she actually campaigned on those states, no amount of ads could have swinged them.
I'm serious. Society can figure out how to make education free, and not put students in crazy debt for years. If you don't advocate it, you basically advocate debt profiteering.
The question is whether a Camry with that V8 engine is as different from the less powerful of a Camry variant as it is from a Ford F-150. That's what the type rating is about.

The 737-100 had 62 kN of thrust, the 737 600-900 up to 120 kN[1], that whole line (and beyond) shares the same type rating.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737#Specifications
You can download freedombox and put it on an rpi to get matrix-synapse on it. Took me an hour to get a Matrix server running which then you can use with Riot and it works perfectly.

Now if you mean to get your own local riot frontend for it, I thought there were some docker scripts that would let you do that quickly but I haven't tried those.
Yeah but you can only have one Erdős:

> Possessions meant little to Erdős; most of his belongings would fit in a suitcase, as dictated by his itinerant lifestyle. Awards and other earnings were generally donated to people in need and various worthy causes. He spent most of his life traveling between scientific conferences, universities and the homes of colleagues all over the world. He earned enough in stipends from universities as a guest lecturer, and from various mathematical awards, to fund his travels and basic needs; money left over he used to fund cash prizes for proofs of "Erdős problems" (see below). He would typically show up at a colleague's doorstep and announce "my brain is open", staying long enough to collaborate on a few papers before moving on a few days later. In many cases, he would ask the current collaborator about whom to visit next.

You can't have Erdős if you don't also have the dozens of mathemeticians with homes, families, and patient and forgiving spouses who tolerated and supported him so that he could focus on his work. Mathematicians as a profession can't really exist as an order of traveling monks, nor do most of them even want to.
Absolutely!

We been conscious to not add any messaging or "hints" in our app because it is a crutch.

We have a group of select users who get to see early new features so we can get feedback on usability. We thought we had the right design, but one of users couldn't figure it out. I asked him a few questions which lead him to the solution (I didn't just want to tell him how to do it, but see what his discovery experience would be like), and the users suggestion was to add a "?" icon which would tell people how to use it.

We knew we didn't want to do this and went back to the drawing board to find a new design solution. We found it, and everyone is SO much happier with the new design.

Feel the pain of bad design, and embrace it. It forces you to come up with better solutions.
> Are they profitable?

The goal is to go public by November 18, 2020. You can read all about it here: https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/

We have an MR open to mention our long term profitability target for Q4FY25 here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...
>But now we see that those same instruments can be used to not only change shopping decisions but also democratic decisions

Did we really not know that prior to 2016?
Nice talk! I could watch any PL talk for hours on end I think.

Unrelated to the language, but at ~41 or 42 minute mark I noticed the pronunciation of 'executable' and it made me really think. He says it in a way that highlights 'exec', which makes a lot of sense, whereas I normally would say it with emphasis on the third syllable. Now I wonder how most programmers say that word...
I can imagine cars that choose routes that are “optimized” for partners of the manufacturer. Considering a new big screen TV? Well, let’s make sure you pass by Best Buy on your way home everyday until you do. Dinner time? Why not drive right past the Carl’s Jr. drive through?

The opportunities for advertising are amazing, since you can place the consumer RIGHT at the locations they’re most likely to make an impulse purchase.

Who’d opt into something like that? lol. Most of America.
Which demonstrates what a fraud our legal system is. "Might makes right".
The Arctic includes parts of Alaska, Russia, Greenland, and Scandinavia. It’s not just ocean. Greenland’s ice cap is melting too, and China (for one) is very interested in mining there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/science/earth/arctic-reso...
I have some unproven factors for predicting certain popular low-scoring questions: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/373412/require-conf...

A lot of questions that should have a very low score get fixed by people other than the original author. This may make your modeling more difficult because not only are there multiple authors, but the expected score of a question is not time-invariant. In fact, the final score of a question is a path dependent composite score of potentially several intermediate formulations.
The kind of commercial that this might run afoul "Communications for hire or for material compensation, direct or indirect, paid or promised" or "Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be furnished alternatively through other radio services." https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/97.113
You can’t prove you did without revealing the nonce, and therefor the private key.
Thank you to this guy for not burying the lead. I hope more people put a simple conclusion at the beginning when writing such a blog post.

Also, any one else notice that the favicon is a gif (nyan cat)? I didn't know that was supported.
They tested a bunch of bombs before this; there was significant information about the blast effects and radiation available.

The truly dumb thing is attempting experimental decontamination in the middle of a major waterway in a metropolitan area.
So... What does that have to do with Bitcoin?
The problem with privacy in our age is that it's a collective harm issue (like public health, or environmental protection) so there really isn't much individuals can do, other than petition for regulatory change.

There are lots and lots of people working in this space worth following. One person in particular working on the California privacy law is Ashkan Soltani, and his twitter account (@ashk4n) is worth a follow. And I think no one thinks more deeply or incisively about these issues than Zeynep Tufekci. If you haven't read her book (Twitter and Tear Gas) it's fantastic.

I know it seems otherwise because of my fundraising work last year, but I really don't have strong connections to D.C. or any inside knowledge on what is on the regulatory agenda. Everyone I know in this space is kind of just winging it.
> Is an error in C, but surprisingly C++ is less strict here, not only allowing it but also taking the semantics of the definition. (Spooky)

Aren't these just declaring one overload of foo and defining a different overload?
I was talking about the the artificial behavior, so if it was certified then it was deemed allowable to have a stability control system maintain the necessary behavior.

If the plane must have natural behavior, then MCAS would not allow it to be certified because it's artificial control.
Spy vs recruited asset/“public interest” spokesperson/super bowl ring in human form. Not equivalent. Recruit could believe he’s helping global public.

Arrogant enough to leave breadcrumbs about how he didn’t take the “really damaging stuff” which would have increased the chance of a kinetic reaction. What can you get away with? Seem like you’re the good guy exposing weaknesses while attempting to claim no damage

Snowden handed over blueprints to global spying operations. It’s not an exaggeration to say that shtf since then. He’s a Russian operative at this point, if not premeditated

Honestly he could have just flown to “His” destination instead of HK she’ll game. He’s so careful yet he just goes public while still in HK? Haphazard disclosure like that doesn’t match his careful nature

Snowden committed treason. Act of war, full stop

You don’t credit the person who torched your imperfect building to the ground with forcing you to build a better building, placing you in some ways at a long term strategic disadvantage relative to your adversaries who are running with those blueprints
>Like it or not, JavaScript is the #1 player on the web

Are we talking frontend or backend here? Historically JS has ended up 'king' solely because it's the only language browsers support - but do you not think WebAssembly has the power to change things here?

And on the backend... I'd dispute that it's used for a majority of backend applications. Perhaps a majority of new applications?
This seems corroborated by the fact that Facebook's fine was incorporated as cost of doing business.

Putting it in another way, CA was a false flag operation to keep Facebook's stock value?
College educations don't really impart substantial knowledge. It's the ability to put it on your resume that counts.
Like I said, I'm using typed javascript (typescript) with some webassembly where it make sense, I am not trusting my own code without typings.

I have absolute no idea how to fix package management for javascript, NPM has its own problems that long fixed by other package mangers for other languages, it been years NPM still broken.
I wish electron would die a thousand deaths. Even excel, word, ppt and skyp are being reimplemented in it (or something similar) and the result is not an improvement (for the user)
The problem with this theory is that Cambridge Analytica is infamously associated with an election where the monetary underdog vastly overperformed.
That was the point of the comment.
I would be interested to know (again, assuming the article is fair) if Laucher will actually get admitted to a bar after law school. This is the sort of thing that could easily raise issues in a character and fitness examination for bar admission.
Where this consent model gets tricky is things like group chat. Who owns this exchange between us? You? Me? Hacker News?
The going rate for a student tutor at my university was between $20 and $30 per hour.

> I feel like there must be a catch I don’t see — what is it?

If you're worth several hundreds of dollars per hour as a tutor, you're probably worth more actually developing software.
I worked on the completely pacifist MMO Meadow, you can't even write something offensive to each other in that game, instead of chat it has an emote system.

One day when I was logging in to test something a player used the only sound that could be interpreted as hostile (the lynx hissing sound) and was backing away from me repeating it for as long as I stayed, I was hypnotized by the time this poor soul was going through to try and make others feel uncomfortable.

To me that was enlightening, there must be some story about something positive with working with the most violent game ever, I wish Kotaku would try and dig that story out instead.
Hi,

No, I don't know you well at all. No, I don't have any wish to control you or silence you. With that out of the way, I've read a large amount of your comments on HN and you seem to have a habit of turning basically any discussion into a discussion about you. Not only a discussion, but one framed as "attacking" you.

It's why I initially didn't respond to your comment. I was a bit confused at how to relate your anecdote with my own post and eventually gave up.

It only related with a single sentence where you disagreed, and the rest was autobiographical stuff with which you put me in a position where I would have to disregard in order to move the conversation forward. I smelled a potential argument and moved on.

Just because someone has their own opinions doesn't mean they're trying to silence your own. And when you shift the conversation away from the topic at hand and act like a victim towards every single person that replies, it really just doesn't get anywhere at all. It just leads to cyclic, inflammatory posts.

I would suggest maybe reflecting upon this for a while, before replying to me with the standard, "you have no idea who I am". It's often said we can learn quite a lot about ourselves just by spending a few minutes with a stranger and asking them their thoughts.

To quote an esteemed member of HN:

If you are not consciously aware of doing that, well, consider yourself notified that I have noticed a pattern of behavior here

You have a defensive streak that gets in the way of constructive conversation, and that doesn't make you a crappy person. I myself have a problem with getting aggressive at times when I engage in discourse. But we owe it to ourselves to consider advice from others before disregarding it.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
I believe that the argument was not against there being different abilities but about there being a much closer correlation between practice time and success in snowboarding than in mathematics.
The whole point of repossession is that he bank can sell it to recover at least some of their loss. Without that, it’s just destructive punishment. You’d be making society poorer by restricting this person’s job prospects, with no gain anywhere to offset it.
https://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Pe...
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It probably did. Just from a perspective of idle layman speculation, Erdős probably had a self-medicated, undiagnosed form of adult ADD. He routinely used amphetamines and methylphenidate (i.e. the two most widely-prescribed ADD drugs) and when he stopped using them for a month, he was incapable of focusing long enough to do his work. From the research I've done, he managed to maintain prescriptions to his stimulants based on a "depression" diagnosis, which is also consistent (adult ADD often manifests as depression).
For those who are still wondering the actual reason for the extra instruction after reading all that, it has to do with the calling convention: when calling a variadic function in SysV AMD64, AL holds the number of vector registers used for parameters. I believe the Microsoft x64 one doesn't do that.

Also, a xor r32, r32 is 2 bytes, not 1.
I'm a Brit who has been living in the US for over a decade now. Every now and then I try to introduce American friends and co-workers to the delights of Marmite, but to no avail. Luckily for me, it's relatively easy and affordable to purchase Marmite via Amazon.
> It's is a communist anthem. So it is meant to be sung by a group, ussually with instruments too.

The song was made originally as Bolsheviks' Party anthem with completely different lyrics (and author of them).
Sure, let’s block a valuable worker from contributing to society because they didn’t pay their loans. This is vindictive thinking with no gain to anyone.
I always knew it was harmful. The problem is what Cambridge ultimately did. People shouldn't be able to shutter companies and transfer wealth just to avoid civil and criminal liability.
FWIW, I have serious health issues and simply feel better sleeping on a wood floor with a couple of blankets than in a bed.

I'm actually given a very hard time by a lot of people for being willing to talk about such choices. So I think it is understandable that most frugal people don't bother to try to justify it. Most of the world isn't interested in understanding. They are only interested in treating people who aren't "like" them as freaks so as to protect their right to live "normally."
This is another of many "silver bullet" proposals to reverse the environmental damage caused by Western civilization. Most of they won't work and will have unintended consequences. As always, prevention is the best cure.
> I would apologize for putting my name on the work of an intern.

How is that any better than what she already wrote? Or in fact how is that even an apology? It seems way worse and far more willing to blame the intern than what she has right now.
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Yeah, there's nothing spooky there. C++ supports overloads and C doesn't.
But Impossible does not and has not ever claimed to be lab grown meat.
I didn't get that from the product page. Perhaps it should say "Simplify your logistics supply chain with a single SIM solution regardless of the final destination for your device".

Totally missed what market you were going after.
Everyone gets life responsibilities in their late 20's, but perhaps mathematicians operate closer to the peak of human ability, which makes any dropoff in performance more obvious.
Anyone using serverless frameworks: is it actually any cheaper, practically speaking?
> Nintendo has even used existing open source emulators themselves in commercial products.

Source? I'd love to read more about that.
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