skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend reading the book "The Hidden Life Of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben

There is an informative chapter/section called Street Kids about trees planted along the streets primarily in urban areas. How their health is impacted by having no network of close cousins nearby to communicate/ suppy nutrients via root/fungi, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Illustrated/dp/1771...
PayPal works for me, when Stripe wouldn't.
Thinkpad BIOS Update released for security vulns “to be published 05/14/19”
> A lot of the infrastructure of capitalism is oriented around generating and sustaining small- and medium-sized businesses

A lot of the infrastructure of modern mixed economies is dedicated to maintaining some space for such businesses against the natural forces of capitalism, as part of the broader purpose of modern mixed economies of providing sufficient mitigation of the clear adverse effects of capitalism to relieve pressure for more radical reform, sure.

That is not inconsistent with the fact that the basic nature of the capitalist property system is to promote the creation of productive monopolies from which monopoly rents can be extracted. Actually, that fact is why that effort is necessary.
Well you got me wondering now on what I worked with, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectDraw seems to say DirectDraw was hardware-accelerated too. I guess the point is that there are and have been for a long time GPU accelerated 2D API's in DirectX land.
The Controversy
More of a technicality than the reality, Minecraft Classic is like a crude prototype compared to the years of additions that make up the current version of Minecraft (Java or Bedrock).
Reactive Web Views
Further proves the obvious: it's dangerous to use the Internet without uBlock Origin.
UTC is not a good format for storage either. It has leap seconds, resulting in some seconds that happen twice or some seconds that happen never; you can't just subtract two times from each other and get the duration, for example.

Use TAI.
Vitamin B12 for one. I'd hazard a guess that you'd get too little iron and omega 3 as well.
I love the debate about what is or is not "nature" these days.

We try to separate humans from other organisms because our use of tools/building nests is so far advanced from say, what an ant produces, or a bird making a nest, or a monkey with a stick.

But we're no different from those organisms in terms of tools and nesting, we're just really good at what we do. You could argue humans are different in that we possess self-awareness but that's an entirely different debate.

And then there's the "but what about our effect on the planet?" debate. What about it? Some say the effect we have isn't natural. But even that only has weight depending on what you mean by "natural". It's natural for humans to terraform and move earth the way we see fit. At the moment we're at risk of going extinct because of it, but the jury isn't out that we won't use technology to once again survive.
Entity Component Systems is an FP technique now? That's new to me.

ECS is one of the bigger confusion of ideas out there. The articles about it tend to mix together at least three of the following, each in different proportions, and without realizing it: composition over inheritance, relational data model and SoA/data-local design.
> I've tried to find some research on the value of social logins[1] but it's a bit slim on user attitudes and their preferences.

You need to ask your own users, not HN or the general public. (Unless HN is your target audience). Each community may have different opinions on these kinds of questions, and like any product development, you need to directly talk to the people who will buy your product about details of how it is built.
Oh man, in my experience the problem was exactly the opposite. I would talk to biologists who would propose an utterly insane mechanism or demand a molecule with impossible properties for their analytical purposes (hey chemist can you make a thing that does exactly this under these constraints for me).

Or once there was a physicist doing biophysics that spent weeks obsessing over an interesting discovery he's made using AFM, that ordered structures appeared when he had prepped it slowly, disordered structures when he prepped it quickly.

I told him he'd forgotten to get rid of the bulk salt from the sample.

It was constantly a problem that interdisciplinary research was encouraged but interdisciplinary knowledge was not (because that is hard)
It's because cities are where the jobs are, not necessarily because people want to live in cities. But cities have more jobs precisely because of that density.
I assume it's complimentary to the Google Safe Browsing service that Chrome uses.
Perhaps, but the existence of apocryphal Seuss stories seems likely as well.
Storing Temporal Data with Tree-Like Structures in an RDBMS
> In Sociology, surely there must be some Statistics course.

I a look at my local university's requirements - I knew that Stats was a requirement for psychology (my minor), but oddly enough, it's apparently not for sociology. That's bizarre.

I do agree with you on the rest though - for the longest time "Science" was "Natural Philosophy" - arts and science were all a mishmash, and as an arts student you see that progression far better - there's a focus on the methods of thought of before and of now, as opposed to a science education, which is a progression of complexity in regards to the current state of the science. I don't know if you spend much time looking at what came before, unless those ideas or models still can hold true.
I discovered this a couple months ago and posted in an Ask HN about an apparent attempt by the same person to trademark TrueCrypt;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19311856

At the time the download links on the non-official Keepass.com site seemed to point back to the official sources, but I noted of course that could change in the future, or could even be different depending on who visits the site.

I ended up submitting an objection to the TrueCrypt trademark application to the USPTO, but I'm not sure how much good it will end up doing. I was not able to pay a lawyer the several thousand dollars they wanted to draft the letter themselves.
You can use templates to perform static polymorphism and duck-type the calls.

If you want to do things the Java or C# way, then you're correct. You'd want a pure virtual interface, which mimics what you'd get with Java or C#.
It was around 2-3 weeks for me, too. I went off sugar last year for 3 months and lost some weight. The problem I always have that eventually I had a little, then a little more, repeat, until I'm having it several times a week. It's insidious.
The city state has its own currency, monetary policy and legal system, enough for the department of state to treat HK as an independent entity as far as trade is concerned. Given the vast amount of money and good flowing through through HK I find it hard to believe any established payment processor would lack familiarity with the status of Hong Kong. It looks more like a (poorly) made up excuse to ban undesirable users.
Bitcoin has never been hacked. Exchanges have been hacked.
For those stuck on older versions of Postgres, I highly recommend paying the downtime to upgrade. Going from 9.x to 11 will get you a measurably large performance gain for free.
But the parts aren't. It simply does not make sense to go that route.
Food in the Anthropocene: Healthy diets from sustainable food systems
I've used `present` (a Go binary) for several years now. It has the bare minimum of features but it gets the job done.

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/present
There are things I would miss on iOS (e.g. widgets, dual sim, sdcard, headphone, more RAM) but for example Backup is is so much better on iOS! I fear that my android breaks at some point and I lose some data because there is no proper way to do full system backup. I have to use as much cloud services as possible and it has always been a big pain for me to upgrade to a newer android device. And I remember how straightforward it was and probably is on iOS.
I mean this is a childhood friend and co-founder talking about him.. It's obviously going to be a different tone than a whistle-blower / media etc trying to take him down ( and perhaps rightly so but that's a different discussion ).
Why not? It's an apt, succinct description of a very specific type of person with a very specific agenda, which lends credible context to the reasoning behind the situations in which they're involved. I find it difficult to believe that anyone still takes SJWs seriously.
Great that you brought up beacon.

Beacon was the way to keep privacy in check yet still make money. But when all went against it, they pulled out and then led a silent fooler's march towards tricking people into giving data and making that data available to payers. All made legal with a very broad TOS that they can do whatever they want with the data that they choose.

We should have just stuck with Beacon and marketplaces in a privacy rich world.
By ‘older’ do you mean pre-Creative Cloud?

If so, I can't imagine what Adobe could actually do to stop them? I figure the idle legal threats seen so far (I know of two people who claim to have received emails from Adobe - I'm awaiting one myself, as I still run 2014 Photoshop on this machine) is simply so they have a platform from which to deny access to older versions as provided through CC.

Anything installed from disc is beyond their practical reach.

I'm really curious to know what's underlying this - if it is a third party reason, I'm kind of flumoxed at Adobe's stance towards its presumably quite loyal userbase!
Right, and gravity can be creatively applied as well.

Short-range (100-1000m) off-grid capability, or unpowered downhill segments (relying on regenerative braking to battery storage) can further reduce infrastructure needs.

There are battery-powered truck schemes relying on empty uphill returns for quarry and forestry applications. Effectively the load itself is the potential energy source and charges batteries via regenerative braking.

Clever, but of limited application.
Probably as consequence of a mix among election of small species for small spaces,

contamination,

jailed roots

and the social pressure to constant prune and mow until killing the tree.

Good luck trying to find a sanctuary protected in the next 400 years for a fully fledged oak in the middle of a city.
Companies of a certain size are required to have data protection officers, some publish details of those on their privacy pages (though I'm not sure if that's required). That's how I actioned this instance.

Otherwise an email to wherever. The threat of ICO involvement is enough to motivate people to resolve errors quickly, because the ICO (in the UK) does take regular action at all levels (not just the big fish).

https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/
Our database host messed up their maintenance
If you're 70 years old, and you're into the beatles, you probably paid for that music at least four times. You bought a record when it came out, buying the right to listen to that music for the rest of your life. But for some reason, you paid for buying that right a second time when it came out on CD. A third time when you bought an MP3 download.

Why would you buy an MP3 download if you already had the CD? The most popular MP3 player at the time - the iPod was used with iTunes that it made it very easy to rip your own CDs. There was a way to rip CDs in Windows 2 decades ago.

A fourth time as part of a subscription package that you now have.

If you didn’t want the benefits of having access to all the music out there and just wanted your own library, you still wouldn’t need a subscription service. In the case of iOS, you could pay a one time fee of $25 for Apple Match and you would have up to a year to use it. With Apple Match, it will match all of the music in your library no matter where you obtained it and count it as purchased song that you can redownload from iTunes DRM free.

The development of the technology did not serve the interests of the users.

The user has a choice between subscription music that has DRM, purchased music that is DRM free, or easy to use software that lets you convert physical CDs.

Otherwise, a RW-medium like minidisc would have won over CDs,

CD-RWs were already backwards compatible with CDs. I was burning CDs using a parallel port CDRW in the late 90s.

allowing you to maybe record from vinyl to minidisc.

You’ve been able to take a record player, connect it to the audio in
Of a computer, record the audio and burn it to a CD. I’m sure there were standalone boxes that let you do it.
”Copy Protected" CDs would have never happened but instead ripping-friendly CDs would have been produced because this was what would have been in the user's interest.

Copy protected CDs were really never a big thing.

And streaming would have happened on the basis of making micropayments when streaming stuff you don't already own instead of turning everything into a subcription package.

People wanted subscriptions and not micropayments.
Mouse Tracking Without JavaScript
I agree with this. Kids don't need to learn math. Now we have R, which gives you a foothold. You can build your understanding of linear models, etc., by using them.
> I was taught that there were 4 tenents

> I find that people just fling around random tenants

It's tenets. TENETS.

Please do not fling around random tenants! We'll have to re-plaster the walls again!
They already are. Most trees at the nursery are carefully cultivated strains, and many are clones.

I will admit it's handy when planting on my eighth acre to know ahead of time how big a tree will get, for example.
This isn't an all-or-nothing proposition. Tracking-based advertising isn't used out of necessity any more often than negotiating a $200k TC increase is. It's about maximizing profit, not simply about sustained survival.
The article refers to Boeing and the whistleblowers from that company involved in disclosing problems with the 738 MAX, so apparently there were leaks.
That article specifically says they’re not “healthy” per se:

> Thousands of trees in the city, assessed by the contractor Amey as dying, diseased or dangerous, have been axed.
All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward
Given the amount of horror stories about PayPal, "it won't happen to me" seems like an incredibly risky stance. Of course there are many, many people using PayPal without issue, but these stories show that it can happen to anyone at any time for no reason, no matter how long they've been happily using PP.
Large parts of Physics and Astronomy are a bit more like looking for your keys under the street lamp. You study what you can measure and model as simply as possible the effects even if it's an approximation. The classic physicists response to a multi-body problem is 1,2, infinity...because those are the ones we have solutions/tools ffor. That's true for planets all the way to atoms.

Now, at the edges there are those who look at more philosophical things like Bell's Theorem or study complicated things like chaos, but even there it's about simplifying to what you can model and measure... anything else is boiling the ocean and you never get done.
Yes, but you still need to create a code generator first. If your language of choice allows to do it nicely.
> It's good that the managers care for the higher-level "business" goals, but shouldn't they care for their subordinates more?

Ideally, yes; rationally, given the incentives of the concrete eco omic system they exist in, no. Managers work for higher level managers, or at the highest level for capital owners of the business, not for their employees except to the extent that the employees are also capital owners of the business.

Managers aren't union reps for their subordinates, they are agents of capital. That's, literally, their job.
People love freedom and will come back to get more of it
Running 10.7 and 10.6 on two production applications with Heroku. Thinking about moving to 11 to ensure support for the long run as I rarely need to touch this and it's very stable but would like to minimize any headaches in the future.

Any complications or hiccups I need to worry about moving from 10 to 11?

Per Heroku Docs: By supporting at least 3 major versions, users are required to upgrade roughly once every three years. However, you can upgrade your database at any point to gain the benefits of the latest version.
The boat has conducted deterrent patrols since the accident. It is not based on Akula either, though Indian prime minister acknowledged Russian help while launching the boat. It is said that nuclear reactor was miniaturized with Russian help.
> There was a court decision ...

Out of curiosity, what was the court decision? I've been thinking about this recently from the same perspective; that once you start allowing moderation then you should lose the shield of liability, but wasn't aware that this had been articulated by the courts previously.
The rules of evidence are different for the court of public opinion.

Take the OJ Simpson criminal trial, for instance.

...or the Lori Loughlin college bribery and money-laundering scandal.

...or the Aaron Swartz travesty.
It's unclear. There was a podcast I listened to recently that featured several Boeing whistleblowers, but they focused on the 787 not the 737. Just because we haven't heard about them doesn't mean they don't exist. Whistleblowers don't necessarily contact the media, they might just be contacting the FAA.

And, the FAA, in the case of the previously mentioned 787 whistleblowers, did not take any real action against Boeing.

I can try and dig up the podcast if anyone is interested.
I remember the most famous techno club from my nearest city used that to provide a virtual room tour on their website. I was too young then to get past the bouncers and liked that feature :)
Within the financial services industry, there are significant monetary incentives for whistleblowers to come forward with evidence of malfeasance. The SEC offers something like 0.5% of recovered funds, which can amount to millions of dollars... which is important because even with the protections afforded by Dodd-Frank, it's a very real possibility that you won't work in the finance industry again.

By contrast, while it might not be a permanent career-ending event for an engineer to blow the whistle at an engineering company, it holds the significant risk of ending the engineer's career at that company. Not to mention lawsuits and the cost of finding a new job. Most every engineer I know wants to do the right thing... but those are powerful headwinds. So on the mere suspicion of misfeasance or malfeasance, the prospect of losing a job and being embroiled in a lawsuit serves as a powerful deterrent.

People will point out (correctly) that adding financial incentives will inevitably lead to a combination of malicious compliance and misreporting, so there's a line that has to be drawn. Also, protections in private sector are either toothless or come with expensive oversight, but it's clear that if the government wants more whistleblowing from the ranks of normal engineers (and that's a big 'if'), they probably need to do something more to cause it to happen besides just keep asking.
I wish we he had more adults instead of people fresh from college who think that best practices and things to avoid are obsolete and don’t apply to them :)
That raises another question: why couldn't Paypal simply say this?

I can imagine several plausible reasons, related to potential liability, but does that mean that if we're trying to outsource business functions to specialist firms that we can't expect them to be transparent in their operations?
Cheap promotion should be banned. You are only misusing this thread for propaganda. Unfair but also useless. People aren't that stupid.
The phone companies ARE able to stop the caller ID spoofing with a simple notch filter placed at the right point on the line, or packet filter on the right place on the firewall.

T-mobile already does, along with some other magic logic they have stopped almost all of the spam calls from reaching me. ...Occasionally they block my mom for a day or two, but it's worth it.
This is a great example why need ctyptocurrencies so we could just pay without relying on any 3rd party. People who run around yelling ctyptocurrencies are for drugs only should think about this.
The federal definition is essentially irrelevant unless you're traveling across state lines or live in DC. Such things are handled by the states in all other cases.
I recently launched Cardbox, an app that reimagines your address book as your definitive social network. No timeline, no posts, no ads, no data monetization; just contacts.

As an independent place to stay connected, it enables people to leave social media without losing their social network (an important distinction). It also makes it easier to discover and try out new apps (just link them to your card).

Check it out maybe :) https://cardbox.app/
That's a bummer, keepass is pretty great... but then again that's probabbly why someone targeted it.
The question seems pretty specific to one product. Have you tried https://discuss.elastic.co/ ?
People are slow to upgrade database systems, as it can take a log of regression testing to make absolutely sure your applications don't rely on unsupported/undocumented/undefined behaviours that make them compatible with the newest release (or are affected by officially acknowledged breaking changes). Especially in enterprise systems. Even if developers upgrade quickly, their clients with on-prem installations may not. That means that to be taken seriously you need to support your major and minor releases for some time to be accepted as a serious option in some arenas.

Supporting five versions is no more than MS do: currently SQL Server versions 2017, 2016sp2, 2016sp1, 2014sp3, 2014sp2, 2012sp4, 2008R2sp2 and 2008sp3. 2008sp3, 2008R2sp2, and 2016sp1 will hit their final EOL in a couple of months taking SQL Servers's supported list back down to 5 too.

I expect other significant DB maintainers have similar support life-time requirements for much the same reasons, though I'll leave researching who does[n't] as an exercise for the reader.
>>Rather, they let a specific kind flourish...

... at the expense of others.

Garlic is mentioned exactly once in the study. It is just included with a bunch of other things. Nothing to conclude here.

Garlic is, by no means, a food. Any study that recommends it as food is not a proper study.

Garlic is an extremely potent medicine.
> The most interesting thing is that we’ve moved away from PayPal in the last two years and have only been receiving some minor payments and paying for a few online services.

Albeit it would be really, really nice to do so, there is absolutely no incentive for a payment provider to have someone look into a case like this when the salary of that person (for the time spent on the case) exceeds the revenue made with the customer.
Have you looked at the who’s Hiring for this month?
not broken, don't fix
This was a very thorough rebuttal to a very ignorant statement. Thank you for taking the time to post this, or I would have had to.
The semi-anti-inheritance stance would say that inheritance from an abstract class is acceptable.

I believe this would work for you.
paypal has no business in regulating what software their customers are allowed or not allowed to sell. Even if it's spam creation software. If it's not illegal to sell, it should not be blocked by paypal. If the software is spam and is bad for society, let society introduce a law to ban the software, the same way you can't sell drugs using paypal.

This moral policing by businesses is bad for society - and lets businesses dictate more than they ought to be able to.
Thanks for pointing this out.

I can't think offhand of an example to illustrate when you would like this "call back" functionality in a way that you can't anticipate when you design the component object. Do you have a killer-app for inheritance?