skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I can imagine that. Would be surprised if there isn't SIGGRAPH papers to that effect. At least initially, it would be more of an optimization problem, but ML could help as well.
They're paying a lot more than $15k on security. Your money isn't going to them; it's going to a reputable assessment firm. I don't see the unfairness.
Yes, you will be issued a Subpoena, and the presiding judge for the case can sentence you with Contempt of Court if you fail to testify. The idea is to keep you in jail under Contempt charges until you do whatever the judge wants.

The longest sentence for contempt of court is H. Beatty Chadwick (1994 - 2009), which was over a divorce settlement.
Susan McDouglas went to jail over not answering questions about Bill Clinton in civil case, and was pardoned by him later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_McDougal
Steven Wolfram claims (credibly IMO) that none of it would have existed if it was FLOSS.
Not modern ones on decent architecture. Going down isn't the problem so much as making sure the content + app you're trying to showcase is working.

If you do a Show HN post and your app doesn't scale or has a glitch it would suck to have everyone have a poor experience.
Lead exposure in children causes permanent damage to the brain and nervous system.
They're talking about Termina and the Google provided Linux solution.

It's misleading to people who haven't been in the ChromeOs ecosystem before to compare your Crouton setup to Termina. Crouton is not an officially supported Linux on Chromebook solution and requires you to turn on developer mode on the Chromebook which warns you that you are in unsupported land and things may not go as planned.

If you know how Debian works, the new solution Google has for Linux on Chromebooks should work fine for most people. There's only a few gotchas at all anymore. Snaps even work if you know what you're doing.
Also requires WIN10 SDK to build.
That killed my brother’s English setter. Poor thing wasted away to nothing.
San Mateo and Marin have always opposed development. It has given us great open spaces up 101 down 280 and along 1. Its an odd position to defend, no development in Marin and San Mateo, but increased developement in San Francisco yet thats my view
> The blog post didn’t describe and control flow features for example.

Is there anything innovative to describe?
What's her reason to not testify?
Not a great interface, but estimated query plans can be pretty useful for getting a feel for how heavy a query will be.
Oh.. that's interesting. I noticed that FF is blocking GA by default now - or at least my configuration.

I think I'm going to inject a tracking pixel to see if you're hypothesis is correct. Just to measure the number of requests.

It would actually be really interesting to see.

Polar has about 15% FF usage right now that hit the site directly.
They can't, however, force the testimony to be useful.

I don't fully understand why she didn't testify here. The events were so long ago and so stressful. If it were me I wouldn't be able to remember much with any confidence.

But I'm glad she has been released now and I hope it did some good.
Ask HN: Cloud 9 closing for good. Any alternatives
As some feared and predicted, Amazon is closing C9 in December.I learned to code on C( reading Michael Hartl's rail book.
Can anyone recommend any alternative cloud based coding platforms ?
Absolutely one of the most fascinating articles I’ve ever read, can not thank you enough for posting this
Design and Fabrication of Gigabit Ethernet Shield
Yes. The US luxury condo market is being fueled by EB-5 visa applicants. They have to invest $450k to $1mm. That gets you a pretty nice pad.
I think most people (myself included) do not understand how much technological improvement costs.

Anecdote: I once had a conversation with a guy who worked at ITER, and he was pretty bullish (and he had no reason to bullshit me) on the prospect of fusion as a viable energy source, but frustrated with the internal politics of ITER. So I asked, "well, what would it take? If I could call up a bunch of rich people to get funding, how much would it take?" He casually said, "oh, probably 1.2 to 1.5 trillion dollars". And then I understood why it was a multinational conglomerate that was funding it, and not a bunch of rich people.
A simple thing would be macros for subqueries

A := select col_1, col_2, col_3 from table_1
B := select col_4, col_5, col_6 from table_2 where 2*col_5 > col_4 + col_6
$A left join $B on table_1.col_1 = table_2.col_5
I don't see a similar situation happening where I'd have to do that. I can buy a new Chromebook easily, so no need to worry about hardware obsolescence, and ChromeOS auto-updates.
It's a big problem in London. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34930602
> Newton coined 'Calculus,'

Minor point, but the term "calculus" was in use before Newton's "fluxions" to refer to various mathematical systems, just as we still have Lambda calculus, etc. Leibniz used the term in his approach, iirc.
Which honestly makes a ton of sense. while the HN crowd might be the biggest beneficiary of ad tech, they also are the most knowledgeable about blocking it and of course know how intrusive and annoying it is.
Sadly the unbranded builds do not have updates enabled and the developer edition is basically beta.
US raises tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods
The title makes it sound as if he has given up on humanity's future on Earth
"But I wish it was free/open/FLOSS!"

I'll take usable documentation and 30+ years of continual improvements with widespread use in both academia and industry (including supporting a number of research scientists/mathematicians/programmers) to any busted piece of FLOSS ghostware any day.
Online Form Builders
> What you actually have to do is line up every potential purchase of a home (which may be more than one per buyer) in the city by any person in the world in that order.

This is an excellent point. People who point to “basic supply and demand economics” often leave out the concept of price elasticity, also a basic economics 101 concept. It can mean that under extreme demand, building supply won’t actually move the price much.

Unlike the first dotcom boom which was spread all down the peninsula, this one is highly centered on SF in terms of where talent wants to live. It’s the heart of an industry that is creating some of the most valuable companies in the world.

Lots of people making six figures who would move to SF if only it was more affordable for them. So many companies that would open SF campus if only if was affordable, for them. That’s a ton of demand, regionally, nationally, worldwide. All that needs to be satiated before prices come down to what working class folks can afford — if developers decide to keep building, that is.
In the case of apt-get, there's a release process with signed packages and open source code that the distributions adhere to, publicly visible oversight etc. End users specifically make the choice, either to run the upgrade process themselves, or set up automated upgrades on the understanding of what processes things have gone through, and the ability to verify.

The Studies mechanism occurs silently, running private code, without specific user action, and with "extensive access to Firefox internal APIs".
Polar – an offline web browser with annotations and tagging

(in case anybody else is wondering)
That's the beginning, so this is how it works. You get some random order at your house for $5-$20 with USPS deliver confirmation.
Then you start getting billed for $90 every 30 days but nothing really shipped. When you realize it, it might have been 6 months. They fight the dispute claiming you ordered and agreed to a $5-$20 trial and subscription every 30 days. They claim they will cancel the subscription but you're liable for the other billings. They show proof that delivery was made with USPS delivery confirmation for that first order.
FFS now we have to worry about this too? I guess I'm naive but I trusted Amazon but it makes sense that they just sold whatever they wanted without testing.

They should have dedicated 10X the $700,000 and have been fined, my God I'm upset right now.
It really is well-designed and pleasant to use for the sort of programming that scientists and (real) engineers do. Not just symbolic math, but any kind of technical computing, done at least partly interactively, on a single powerful machine.

Stephen Wolfram actually is very good at designing a programming language and standard library (and he does personally oversee most of it). A lot of work has gone into picking the right set of functions to provide at the right level of abstraction.

Tools are provided to avoid a lot of bullshit; like there are just functions "Import" and "Export" which mostly work automatically and can read and write to all kinds of bizarre file formats. You don't need to go dig for an unmaintained library on pypi.

It's also probably the most visually pretty programming environment you can use, which ended up being more important to me than I would have expected.

The licensing cost doesn't seem like such a big downside to me, because it is probably worth $115/month for someone who would use it. Obviously much cheaper for academia.

The closed-source aspect is a bigger problem; if it doesn't do quite what you want, you really are out of luck, and there's no way to crack it open and make a small change or see what's happening. On the other hand, most of the target market (engineers and scientists who only write code to produce something else they want) would never do that anyway.

Support for machine learning used to be nonexistent but is now pretty good although a little more opaque to the end user than it ought to be. Somewhat separate from that, they have a set of Keras-esque neural network facilities which is extremely good in terms of design and usability.

As for the gee-whiz features, mostly they aren't that useful, unsurprisingly. The feature to translate inline natural language input to expressions of code (done with Ctrl-=) is surprisingly nice for small things, however, because it can handle dates and times really easily.
I can't figure out what he means by "computational language." It seems to only be defined in a circular way:

>So what is a computational language? It’s a language for expressing things in a computational way—and for capturing computational ways of thinking about things.

I'd love to see him explain what he means without further use of the word "computational" in his explanation.

As long as use of the language stays behind a paywall I doubt it is going to get wide adoption. But having seen some of his previously published examples of using the language, it does seem powerful.
> They should require amazon to randomly sample.

If governments cared about safety they would do the sampling and fine companies a meaningful percent of profit. That would fix these problems once and for all.

Unfortunately we’ve elected governments that cut regulations which encourages the opposite behavior from companies.
React Hooks 项目重构实战
Years ago, when one of my posts made it to #1 on Hacker News, the traffic was so much for my cheap WordPress blog hosted on DreamHost that they "moved" the blog to a more high-demand system and somehow corrupted the database in the process.

In less than 24 hours I learned how static blog sites work and somehow I was able to migrate everything using Google caches.
Think this is great information for people like me. I am a serial entrepreneur.
They don't really behave or look all that different. When was the last time you ran an Android app on ChromeOs? The original attempt that ChromeOs made at getting Android apps on ChromeOs back in 2015 or whatever was scrapped because it was buggy and had the sort of problems you describe.
Almost every processor gives out loans to small businesses. Most small businesses struggle with cash flow, so these loans are with very high interest rate. 20% etc. It's a very nice money making machine. Before they pay the merchant, they collect the interest and part of the payment from their daily transactions.
Yes, one child policy is not too bad a sloution from fixing this mess we’re in but it shouldnt be a policy but a recommendation, a way to move forward responsibly
So long as you didn't recently talk about it and don't ever plan on talking about it. You can go in and claim not to remember.
>Plus the UK has that anti-gene therapy law because of a disastrous adenovirus trial that killed six healthy volunteers.

Wait, what? Have a link for the uninformed?
Persistent State in Vue/Svelte NativeScript Apps
Why did Microsoft fork TianoCore into Project MU instead of contributing directly upstream to the TianoCore project?
Just last week I was picking my son up from school when I noticed he had a can of Xylene in his bookbag. I asked him where he got it and he said Aamazon
The state of medical care in US prisons is really horrifying. Like this one from four days ago, in which a mentally ill woman gave birth alone in her cell.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/06/us/woman-gives-birth-jail-cel...
Agreed. I don't understand how Amazon gets away with so much shady shit. How are there not more legal problems for Amazon?

There have been some high profile incidents with other big companies with big legal budgets (Mercedes or Lexus? Apple? Nike?) but it all seems to go nowhere. It seems like it takes an army of lawyers to tackle one small incidence of shady behavior for one specific client. It never seems to rise up to the level of being handled as a pattern of behavior.
Why are there so many plugs and sockets?
You cant vote them out because the process is captured. This was recognized years ago and term limits were created but it is not the individual candidate, those are interchangeable, it is the machine. The machine keeps turning. The only solution is a revolution but no one has the stomach for that. And besides most revolutionaries are hopeless utopian romantics believing in silly ideologies.
Emergency services radio system '£3.1bn over budget'
Normal update channels usually ask me (or let me set it so that they have to ask me) if I want to apply the update and I make sure to at least read the changelog if not skim through the source. In addition to that I trust the Debian team much more than I trust the Mozilla team. The studies in contrast are both for anti-user things such as telemetry and the mr robot thing, are inconvenient to disable, are not transparent (it would be difficult for me to find the source of a specific study), happen silently, and skip the Debian team's judgement.
I'm aware of how it works. It is an ozone generator likely left next to the CPAP (even in their own product literature) that leaves ozone inside the CPAP tube and machine, while polluting the area/room with increased levels.

You're essentially taking people with breathing difficulties and increasing their exposure to a substance that is known at low levels to cause breathing problems. Additionally CPAP's filter systems have no way of removing O3 from the room's air.

When properly used the device is harmful.
Lupex, a new exchange that enables betting on the price of crypto
I'm not sure what you mean by this comment but I got snaps working on the Debian Stretch Termina if you're having trouble and need help.
Julia is amazing its the language I wish I had time for too. You can literally have it print out the assembly for the code you write. I know C and such can do so. But Julia does it within its little REPL tool. It is incredible.

Unfortunately I love languages like Python and D the most: multiparadigm but not crippled by one single programming approach like OO or Functional. Just do what is best for you and as you learn the language it gets way better.

I would pay good money (if I had good money) to invest a lot more into D. It has so much more potential imho. I would love to see a UI library in raw D that comes out of the box with D in the std lib for example. Same with an out of the box web server like Go does. Lastly maybe some editor like IDLE for D. Coded fully in D with its own UI library like Racket does. I also love Racket it makes me feel like I can do anything and indeed I can.

GUI programming is not emphasized enough in new languages to the point where Electron took off cause when the UI is just HTML and CSS mostly, the sky is the limit. You can reuse skills you know! Qt even has some Electron like stuff going on which is neat.
Also a map of world plugs

https://www.iec.ch/worldplugs/map.htm

And IEC standards

https://www.iec.ch/worldplugs/iecstandards.htm
This map is wrong. Illinois is considering staying on DST year-round. http://ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=10100SB0533...
Start with the early 70s. The housing problem started around then. Some years they went up by 20-30% in value. My parents were on track to lose their relatively modest 1800 square foot house in San Jose just 6 years after moving there despite being dual income tech workers at the time.

Note that it predates prop 13, so I hope that doesn't play a central role in this enormous mountain of evidence.
Able to? Yes.

Willing to? Not as much.

Just consider the following:
1) it’s been so long since people have first hand witness of the horrors of smallpox, polio, etc. So long that anti-vax is alive and well in affluent, educated enclaves.
2) antibiotics are not profitable. Achaogen tried but the business case just wasn’t there. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-03/antibioti...

So I agree with your last statement that we at not totally helpless, but I do think (as with global climate change or deferred maintenance on levees) there has to be an immediate and pressing need for people to put their money and actions in the right place.
One interesting thing about the Raptor devices is this reverse-engineering and reimplementation project for the NIC firmware:

https://www.devever.net/~hl/ortega
https://github.com/hlandau/ortega
https://github.com/meklort/bcm5719-fw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19679640
SenseTime
SQL has been great. Relational data is greater.

I absolutely hate working with graphQL, and document stores are a non-starter for projects with any decent amount of data.
Agreed. I can't see DNS not being redesigned at some point in the future. I really hope it will end up decentralized, but it could go either way.
There is a theory that says the cheap plastic bags were reused to contain shit. Now with the bag ban the shit is on the streets.
The West was lucky enough to invent penicillin which rather limited the appeal of phage research- you don't need phages if you haven't discovered antibiotic resistance, and once you've committed to using broad-spectrum antibiotics you'll just do what we did, which is switch between them.

It sounds like the USSR was just not very good at producing its own antibiotics, so phage therapy remained popular there, as it wasn't any less effective than their poor quality antibiotics, which ended up causing resistance there before they did in the West. If you've managed to spur resistance, and you have persistent supply problems with your antibiotics, pushing forward with phage research makes a lot of sense.

http://discovermagazine.com/2017/oct/the-cold-wars--modern-r...
I don't claim to know what actually happened, but one possible cause is that the HSM (required for issuing and renewing intermediate certificates, mentioned in the post) might require a right person and right schedule to operate. The use of an HSM means that you don't normally use it to issue certificates and you should only touch it a few times a year. As a result there may have been only a few people with an effective knowledge of the HSM; when they can't be scheduled for some various reasons, well, it may be forgotten. While it of course sucks, something like this happens anywhere anytime.
The parent is saying that the council members themselves are the property owners - that they are profiting directly, not the city.
You stopped me at " Just login and enter their credentials and they’re in"
Providing credentials is at a cost. As you aptly point out in the rest of the post you will use those credentials in the future, and that's to the cost of us, the potential clients.
It's faster than the CPU if done properly.
> in principle people aren't "given' immunity and "forced" to testify, but rather they choose a deal with the prosecution that included leniency for themselves and were no longer protected by the 5th amendment as a criminal defendant.

That's not exactly true. In the US you can generally be compelled to testify if you are not the one on trial unless you claim the 5th (the law generally recognizes that court proceedings are part of the record and testimony there could be used to bring charges against you later).

There can be a series of escalations and motions before the judge, eg where the judge asks you in closed court to give more details so he/she can rule on whether the 5th applies. In theory you could refuse to give any details by claiming even the tiniest detail would put you at risk of prosecution. Ultimately if the prosecutor offers you blanket immunity you can no longer claim the 5th because the threat of prosecution has been eliminated.

Similarly if you refuse to testify for fear of your own safety the government can offer to protect you, up to and including putting you into witness protection which eliminates the objection.

The general principle seems to be you have a series of objections you can raise. Each one imposes a higher and higher cost on the government, forcing them to decide just how important your testimony really is.

This is all separate from the material witness procedures, which have been abused somewhat in recent times. The theory there is there is an imminent thread to your life _or_ you are a serious flight risk. In those cases you get jailed until trial despite not even being accused. As you can imagine prosecutors have sometimes used the threat of losing your job, house, etc while jailed awaiting trial to coerce testimony.
AFAICT, it's a confusingly aggrandizing term that does offer some new things, but should at most be considered a new subtype of programming language (rather than something different from programming languages altogether[0]—and I'd bet "new subtype" isn't even necessary). He mostly characterizes 'programming language' (as distinct from 'computational language') as telling the computer what to do, as if all previous programming languages were low-level imperative languages:

> With standard programming languages, we’ve had a way to talk about the low-level operation of computers. But with computational language, we now have a way to apply the computational paradigm directly to almost anything: we have a language and a notation for doing computational X, for basically any field “X” (from archaeology to zoology, and beyond).

From what I can tell, what actually characterizes his language is:

- It's pretty thoroughly declarative

- It offers nice ways of incorporating diverse data inputs/outputs into source code

- It seems to incorporate some very abstract notion of an entity that can be involved in a generic symbolic computation process, and maybe a way of defining collections of related entities (i.e. new 'domains')

- It seems unafraid of 'pluralism,' i.e. walking away from the elegance/mathiness of the previous item, and incorporating an encyclopedia-like collection of custom 'domains' into the language.

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[0] He pretty clearly contradicts himself on whether it's actually a programming language or not. He knows he's not going to get away with saying that it's not technically a programming language, but then... also wants to insist that the term isn't adequate to describe it:

> Yes, it’s a computer language—a programming language. And it does—in a uniquely productive way, I might add—what standard programming languages do. But that’s only a very small part of the story. And what I’ve finally come to realize is that one should actually think of the Wolfram Language as an entirely different—and new—kind of thing: what one can call a computational language.