skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. The map is sensationalist trash. Not to say that global warming won't impact the lakes: The far more likely outcome is depletion, as water diversions considered unthinkable become politically feasible, both within and without the basin. A map like that might as well show the Colorado River shores expanding with sea rise, it would make as much sense (for non-Americans, the Colorado is so heavily diverted to southwestern farms and municipalities that its riverbed is dry, or a trickle, most of the year).
Thats on purchase, not on exchange. The same way you can launder money with Tether.
iOS 13 beta prompts you to unsubscribe when uninstalling apps with paid subs
works for me :|
It's a catchy headline, but doesn't accurately reflect what happened. The question was whether a private cable operator that runs public-access channels on behalf of a municipality is acting as a private platform, or as a "state actor".

The court ruled that it is indeed acting as a private platform, and therefore "not subject to First Amendment constraints on its editorial discretion".
so that we aren't cherry picking here, from the White paper:

> To ensure that Libra is truly open and always operates in the best interest of its users, our ambition is for the Libra network to become permissionless. The challenge is that as of today we do not believe that there is a proven solution that can deliver the scale, stability, and security needed to support billions of people and transactions across the globe through a permissionless network. One of the association’s directives will be to work with the community to research and implement this transition, which will begin within five years of the public launch of the Libra Blockchain and ecosystem.
A certain startup I worked at, the CEO would give out... gift cards. Occasionally, usually after someone was severely overworked. And I’m pretty certain he got them for free/cheap in the first place.

Of course, the real red flag was starting at $10/hr 1099’d (almost definitely illegally) and being told it’s more than most people start at. For software engineering. After a good interview. I was astounded and perplexed, but it was my first software job, I was a college dropout, and I was still living with my parents, so I took it anyways. But if I knew what I know now, just a few years later, I would’ve laughed in their faces. Oh well.
Person > family > neighborhood > community > region > state > nation > > world

That's how decision making power should reign.
> - Even if all of the above were not concerns, am I able to properly secure user's data (against say state actors)

Operating a VPN isn't any different than an ISP. Should that be a concerns for ISP too?

Most traffic nowadays is over HTTPS either way, so if that was even a concern, the ISP or VPN wouldn't be the cause of it, but the actual communication in itself.
> From what we know, it looked nothing like that map.

Yes, because at that point it was a map of pangea.
There are plenty of Indians fine with steak dinners. India is a pretty diverse country.
Probably with the boot loader, and then you go from there.
You probably want someone who specializes in building the infra to collect the data. Do not have a data scientist do this, they want a job where the tools are in place, not to setup the tools.

Find someone who has built out what you need, then hire a data scientist once you have data in a usable setting.
I can't vote in the US. I am not constitutionally or legally protected for having dollars in my possession.
That the crash was intentional is basically the only plausible explanation given the information at hand though, and given nothing was heard on the radios, the most likely explanation is one of the pilots. If it had been an accident, it would make a lot more sense to have crashed much sooner or otherwise have been more like Helios Airways Flight 522. (In that flight, a technician had set the pressurisation system to manual to do a test and forgot to reset it, and then the pilots didn't properly check the switch on any of the three checks they were meant to do. As they ascended, they became confused by the various alarms that went off and didn't put on their masks. Falling unconscious the plan continued on its autopilot heading towards its destination.)

Given MH370 making multiple turns over a long period, and transponder and other electrical systems probably having been manually switched off, it's the most likely explanation. We may never know for sure though.
Developers are now measured in views and subscribers – and that's wrong
My younger sister received an award for being a promising new grad or something in her first year at one of the Big 4 accounting companies. Her prize? A public ceremony where a senior manager handed her a copy of 50 Shades of Grey.......
Replace 'bitcoin' with 'gold bars' in your first paragraph then it'd make more sense for both you and the Gold Bar only cafe, I guess.
I don't know why I expected some kind of naturally formed bridge made out of grass. Pretty cool tradition, but it is rope made out of grass.
Previous discussion two days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20193118
It's not votes. They buy the votes with money and that's what matters.
are you updating diep.io? it is showing lastModified 17th June 2019
Fastastic! This is so deliciously language/framework/editor/OS agnotic.

Nothing quite like experience to make you wish you could go back in time, with all your current knowlege, and take over the world.
They'll put them back when cars are self-driving. But for now, this is an amazing decision!
The golang gc is not tunable, at least compared to the JVM GC for example. It is tuned for latency, not throughput. So, if you're writing high-throughput code, you can't really do much. You can try to write code that reduces allocations, but so can you in Java or C# (even moreso after Java gets value types).

Not to mention that the golang gc cannot handle GBs (let alone TBs of heap space) the way the JVM routinely does.

The golang runtime cannot devirtualize interface implementations the way the JVM does[1] or .NET does.

I'm sure there are more examples to think of.

[1] https://youtu.be/lunJmMBkqLo?t=1072
Sure. This is pretty basic, but here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/travel-through...

Anyhow, we know from the geologic record of fossils that the world, at it's hottest, had vegetation in most regions. It wasn't 80% desert like the OP I responded to.
What was her explanation?
Arguably on people that were already predisposed, and those who are predisposed to schizophrenia shouldn't touch psychedelics.
Nonprofit, this is hugge difference from the title

Its clickbait

>nonprofit running public access channels isn’t bound by governmental constraints on speech.
There is no mining, coins are "minted" by approved partners
Of course we’re far from it, if ever possible. I was just being playful on the whole premise of “colonizing” another earthlike planet
I had to jump back to HN comments to see if sb pointed this out. I remember reading about them in the book "Color of Law"
How is Stellar not open?
first 20 miles for free
> Only 12ly away and that one has maybe two habitable planets? That tells me the universe is teaming with potential homes for life.

This seems like the birthday problem in statistics [0] - that if you have 30 people, it's likely that two people have the same birthday.

However, the problem that could also exist (in our corner of the galaxy) that everyone else has a birthday far away from ours, and nobody else shares a birthday on the same day with anyone else. (in other words, we happen to be the two people who share the same corner of the galaxy, but everyone else is far away and separate - i.e. no other clustering).

Not disagreeing with you, and it does give us hope, but randomness is a bch that can make everything look different from how it actually is.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
I was going the comment that I wish American suburbs (even the inner-suburbs that are dense by US standards) were laid out in such a way that "Superblock" style redevelopment was possible.

The neighborhood in which I live (Reston, VA) was originally supposed to have several walkable "town centers", but all but two of them were built as standard strip malls, and one of the two that was built to original plan was demolished for a strip mall in 1994.

By happy coincidence, I can walk to work. But, grocery shopping is still a car ride away. And even if I could walk, I'd have to cross giant asphalt wastelands filled with distracted drivers.
Meh. 200 years aro they would have called you insane for wanting to fly between continents, let alone to the moon.
Hubble solves the mystery bulge at the center of the Milky Way
I love NewPipe, it works fantastically.

I am nervous that Google will find a way to kill it if it gets big enough. It's not exactly an alternative to YouTube, it's more of a band-aid.
Differential cryptanalysis was discovered initially by IBM while working on DES.

The NSA made design alterations to DES to make it more resistant to DCA.
However they didn’t publish those design decisions because they would reveal the existence of the technique, which at the time was applicable to many other ciphers including nearly all Soviet ciphers.

The NSA didn’t backdoor DES the key shortening and the addition of parity bits was an attempt to make it more resilient to DCA while making it only slightly more susceptible to brute force attacks.

It’s also important to note that DES was a 1970’s cipher which survived long enough to be relevant, even a 1080ti would take 2 or more days to crack a single DES key and its considerably more powerful than likely all the super computers in the world combined in say 1983.

The NSA isn’t your friend for sure but they know exactly what they are doing.
> Programmers who leverage Sequences/Streams, immutability and functional programming tend to hate Go.

I dunno, applying the Reader/Writer pattern to other objects in order to get sequences & streams works pretty well in Go.

> If Go the language, didn't come with its stdlib and wasn't pushed by Google, you wouldn't have so many Go fans.

I think the latter part is very true. Go had the very good fortune to be a Pike tool put out by Google back when, ‘hey, Google are producing this!’ was a good thing.

I like Go, but I also like Plan 9 — and it never took off. Neither did Newsqueak or Alef. But Go did, in large part, I think, due to Google’s positive reputation a decade ago.
https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highlights/report-findings/...

>Surface and groundwater supplies in some regions are already stressed by increasing demand as well as declining runoff and groundwater recharge. In some regions, particularly the southern U.S. and the Caribbean and Pacific islands, climate change is increasing the likelihood of water shortages and competition for water. Water quality is diminishing in many areas, particularly due to increasing sediment and contaminant concentrations after heavy downpours.

I find that people's skepticism regarding climate change has almost nothing to do with data and evidence and nearly everything to do with their personal politics, to the extent that I draw a causative link between right-leaning politics and "climate skepticism".
I sincerely doubt David Wong will offer any rebuttals to your very valid points.
538 did some good analysis and explinations about this exact issue, but the articles that I can quickly google are from a while ago [0][1]. You can look over their analysis of different pollsters that they use and get a feeling for what 538 thinks is bias [2]. Despite some negative press in some circles, they tend to do a very good job of making sense of the maddness that is polling and they are very upfront about their own biases and issues.

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/study-excluding-cellpho...

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/polling-bias/

[2] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/
This seemed like fairly clear sarcasm to me.
so...what is the "news" here?
they control our news and social normality and they want to control our money now....
Just a nitpick, VAX/VMS was renamed to OpenVMS around version 5.5 right around when they started porting it to Alpha. It still ran on the VAX.
> And if we are going to build an underground colony....then why not start with one here on Earth?

Because if an asteroid hits Earth or if the world superpowers decide to go full nuclear, the underground colony in Mars will survive (unless superpowers decide to nuke that from here as well...)
I personally found the dialogue form amazing and made the article very understandable.
It's the content on IG that's fun, not the app itself. Take it from me, someone who half-learned JS and PHP through extremely tedious "build your own FB" tutorials that took 2 hours of setup work (VirtualBox, MAMP, MySQL DB setup, etc etc) before you even started "coding".

At best they will end up with something not much more than a static website that can accept image uploads. Forget about live video, stories and the stuff people actually use on IG.

I think a simple game would be better. Easier to see results early on, at which point you can dive deeper into the mechanics of what's happening.
Actually we do know it would work. The fundamental physics are sound.

A pusher plate can in fact transfer net positive momentum from a series of explosive shockwaves detonated aft of the pusher plate in the desired direction of travel. There’s plenty of video footage from the Hot Rod tests showing it working.
https://youtu.be/Q8Sv5y6iHUM

The hot rod test article was actually donated to the national air and space museum unfortunately it is not currently on display.
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/propulsion-tes...

And for the realities of scaling up from conventional explosives to nuclear detonations you can read a little more here http://www.spacedaily.com/news/nuclearspace-03h.html and http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns2.ph... (scroll down till you get tot project Orion and they have a pretty good summary) And the Project Rho information has links to lots of the technical details and material as well if you want to learn a lot more.
> If so, how is the entire country not panicking about this? That seems like a really serious problem.

This is simply not as emotive an issue for elections as banning cow-slaughter or defending India from the evil Muslims.

Not to mention that Indian political discourse is basically a shit-show of politicians trading 3rd grade level insults with one another, a bit like monkeys flinging excrement at each other.
You will need to construct a more targeted argument than, “All cryptocurrency is a scam” if you want others to construct more targeted arguments than “all banks bad” (the difference being you had to paraphrase GP, while I got to directly quote you).

Cryptocurrency is infrastructure, while you are arguing against it as a replacement for all players in the current financial system. I would argue that's a shortsighted and under-informed perspective.
... had they read the book? Or just heard it was popular?

I'm trying to mentally justify how this isn't the craziest, stupidest idea ever.
a screwdriver is an exemplar of an inclined plane, so seems to make sense. I mean I guess you could have asked the metallurgists to make you a perfectly angled inclined plane on the mill (since everything else associated with the core was milled to thou precision) but that would just be wasting money.
There's a difference between slow and slowly doing things that are bad for you and everyone around you because some "powers that be" who live in some far off city and have close to nothing in common with you want it done.

If it were up to me I'd make the US into ~100 states and reverse a lot of the power transfer from the states to the feds that's happened over the past 100yr.
> If people truly believed in it, you'd see much different political priorities.

A common critique I've also heard in religious contexts. I think both Jordan Peterson and Nassim Taleb have made comments on it. What people "believe" and what they believe can be very different. Belief is hard.
Incidentally, this is also why philanthropy is not a substitute for a safety net.
The ideal things to be broken are the structures that currently prevent collective long term survival. While not all VC's focus on this, I think PG does. After all, what is the alternative?
New robotic dishwasher for restaurants is taking the dirty work out of kitchen
Will Facebook Cryptocurrency Have a Long-Term Impact?
> Also, overtime is paid and billed in defense. Thus, if you do work overtime, your defense contractor wants to bill it and you get paid for it. My first year out of school I made nearly 100K on a 67K salary because of billed overtime. This was in 2003.

When I worked at Raytheon (2002 - 2012) overtime had to be pre-approved (not every contract was eligible) and you had to work at least 8 extra hours in a week to get paid overtime (the 8 hours were paid if you hit the threshold; 7.5 and you didn't get anything extra). There was also an expectation, at least on my program, that you would be working overtime if it was authorized.
> Most youtube channels don't need the recommendation engine.

This is just not true. A massive part of the views originate from recommended/up next. Ask pretty much any creator. Only the core audience of a channel will have the notification bell on for a specific channel. Many users don't check the Subscription section and either link in from an external source, know beforehand what they want to search for or just watch what pops up in recommended.
It doesn't seem to have been obvious to Apple, considering it took them two full years after the iPhone's launch to implement the feature.
React Native Community Contribution – DateTimePicker Component
How can you both say...

> Rather, my argument was that for a legal service to displace piracy, it would need to be closer to its advantages.

and

> I was not concerned with the feasibility of such a service.

in the same paragraph?

I'm arguing that it's not feasible. I'm arguing that you can't compete, thus "if a good enough service would exist" return "false" all the time. That's it.

> Right now, it’s getting farther away.

It's not getting farther, it's at the same place, you are just paying the true cost of the service.
I paid close to $2,000 in 1984 to buy my Apple //e at the Harvard Coop with the disk drive, monitor, and extended 80-column card. To put it in perspective, my private college expenses were $8,000 the same year.
Perhaps The French Revolution was illegitimate and the royal family should be ruling France right now.....
This sounds like something straight out of the TV show The Office. Goes to show that reality is often more extreme than fiction.
Update to NOAA Global Temperature Dataset Improves Data Coverage of Earth
Wavesync: A Spotify Visualizer
In a sense their language choice selects for people who learned something not taught in school.

It also tests for in the worst case the ability to convert Google'ed questions from one language to another. Or a more likely case of writing new code.
Top European technical university to open jobs exclusively to women
Copypasted code is just bad code, no?
California is drying up too.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/depleting-the-water/
Our planet's groundwater is being pumped out much faster than it can be replenished.
Crypto-currencies are likely to be banned in India or at least not officially supported by the Federal Bank. Will this also be treated in the same manner?
So Facebook is under an increasing amount of scrutiny and calls for regulatory pressure. Amidst all that, they're still brave/arrogant/oblivious enough to launch something like this.

People are going to read history books about this era and shake their heads in pure disbelief.
Well, humans are part of the environment of dogs - selecting or not.
Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/1357/
> But there's no such thing as the libertarian fantasy of "lack" of governance. Human nature dictates that if there's a power vacuum, it will be filled. If it isn't filled carefully with a system designed to serve the people, it'll be filled by whoever can take it for themselves.

Then let that power vacuum be filled on the state and local level.

West Virginia and California should be free to run their societies into the ground (or not) in their own ways without the other telling them how to do it or being on the hook for the cost.
3 Metrics to Understand and Tackle Technical Debt
As a side note, the situation is a bit better in Europe, where considerable regulation was introduced recently. With mixed but positive results. Interchange fees were capped to 0.3% for credit cards.

This is a nice summary if you are interested: https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/news-insights/insight...
The abbreviation is meant to encompass the top-performing tech stocks. It was appropriated for pay because they are also amongst the top-paying.
This is funny. A big reason people voted brexit is because they want more local governance instead of letting some bureaucrats in Brussels decide their fate.

In the grand scheme of things brexit might be a bad idea, but you're effectively saying people shouldn't govern themselves because they would vote for more self-governance...
my point is that because of fear of nuclear no further research was done. It is now super hard to even get enough material for a rector/battery such as the one on Curiosity
“My Way of Telling a Story”: Persona Based Grounded Story Generation
An opinionated beginner's guide to Haskell in mid 2019
* Use the Pareto principle to find the 80/20 in any activity and increase your leverage at every turn.
Get people to stay logged in to Google. Then when you do your regular google.com searches, Google knows exactly who you are rather than trying to figure it out for an "anonymous" searcher. I'd guess that alone is worth the cost of operating Gmail for free for everyone.
He’s providing an economics type analysis.
For chat, what about https://keybase.io ?
Dont tech companies in china hire full time cheerleaders for their male programmers?
How much commercial value does this information have?

Enough to make it worth continuing to operate the service, clearly. Do you really want to go down that road?
It should be noted:

Amazon is a defense contractor.
Google is/was a defense contractor.
Apple is a defense contractor.
Microsoft is a defense contractor.
SpaceX is a defense contractor.
IBM is a defense contractor.
...
No. Your ideas of what 'feudalism' implies are totally wack and ahistorical.

Feudalism was a time of laissez-faire, political liberty and anarchism.

"The vassal of my vassal is not my vassal" was the motto of feudalism. It was a reaction against the centralization and coercion of the old Roman Empire.

How is this anything like Facebook et al?
The "suburbs were never viable" claim is built upon a few facts about most US suburbs: 1) They are advertised partially based on the low property taxes in their municipalities. 2) They have restrictive building codes that prevent additional development from occurring. In other words, they are built all at once, to a finished state.

Then you run the math on property taxes vs. maintenance costs. If repairing the road, pipes, etc to one additional house costs more money than that house contributes via property tax (over a period of 25 years or so), then the suburb is considered insolvent. It could raise property taxes, or allow additional development, but without those actions the suburb remains insolvent.
If the salaries are public, can you post the link?
Is "taught in grade school" your standard of proof?
We solved that problem by using fossil energy to fertilize and mechanize agriculture, and non renewable fossil aquifers to irrigate.

It's not obvious the problem is solved, it may only be delayed.
Watching a real urban planner play SimCity is incredibly satisfying (2018)
Over an hour into the outage, still no word at all from Google on the status page apart from "We're investigating"