skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I definitely understand that the vast majority of touch screens are utter trash! But that's not to say that all are.

Understanding what lane I need to be in, and what the traffic conditions are up ahead around the bend; these things add to situational awareness that makes driving safer. But I'm just not going to use a shit GPS that I need to program an address by spinning a scroll wheel and individually selecting letters.

If you had a large touchscreen in your car, you wouldn't have to look down at a tiny phone screen to see these things. They would be in your peripheral vision and easily checked without losing track of the road.

Now I regularly move to the right and slow down long before approaching a traffic jam on the highway, versus the typical hard-brake when the traffic comes into view.

At an unfamiliar complex intersection (greater than 4-way), sometimes you can't figure out where the GPS wants you to go. A quick pinch-zoom before the light turns can give you the visual queue you need to avoid having to make a last minute decision as you enter the intersection. That's totally possible on the TM3 because it's instant, smooth, and fluid (and it's really great at automatically zooming back out to the right level as you start driving again).

And to give another anecdote, today on my drive home navigation was set to take me 'Home' (by the way that's two taps on the screen, and takes less than 1 second to activate as soon as you sit down in the car). I was on the highway in stop-and-go traffic with AutoPilot. My wife called and asks me to pickup takeout. I know it's too early to order, and traffic is terrible. I need to know how long to wait to order, so I tap the steering wheel control and use voice control to change the destination. Because it's internet connected, I can just speak the restaurant name and the town. It tells me the traffic-aware arrival ETA so I know when to place the order, and adjusts the route (taking an earlier exit). Unfortunately there's no single tap on screen to make the call - POIs don't have the phone numbers listed (yet)!

So I find that there are plenty of perfectly appropriate reasons to adjust navigation while driving, I just think very few people have experienced how a proper large touch-screen implementation can supplement and enhance your situational awareness and allow you to complete tasks safely and efficiently while underway. The is strictly better than the real-world alternative which is for people to try to complete these tasks using a phone-in-hand while they are also attempting to drive.
X-Seed 4000 (Tallest Building in the World)
Right—as mathematicians say, having a K_n subgraph is a sufficient but not necessary condition for having a chromatic number of at least n. Hadwiger’s conjecture goes the other way, stating that having a K_n minor is a necessary but not sufficient condition for having a chromatic number of at least n.
They should not invite spooks and CIA officials in the first place. You will never see the head of the BND speak at thr CCC congress.
Seeing how author died in 1982 it would be a miracle or some really odd circumstance if original article was from 2017.
Good points, seems using semantic tags makes a lot of sense.

Just a question, is article part of a section, or section part of an article ?
Someone literally just got shot there today

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/seattle-poli...
Same here - Unreadable on safari on iPhone.
Some blogs have scripts that hijack clicks.
Companies do that, but they shouldn't call it 2FA at that point as it is no longer a _second_ factor: it has become the primary factor.
I mean, to some degree that's true, but that's not anything the W3C can do anything about. It's just the nature of the browser market at this time.

As an example, C++, also an ISO standard, has notoriously few full implementations, and as a result C++ is largely defined by "what GCC/Clang accept" in practice.
I am arguing against bitcoin, not for something. I definitely am not arguing for fiat.
Eh, Boeing has huge scale, but they havw a worse version of Amazon's recruiting problem. Terrible work environment for most employees (unless you like knuckledragger drivel), poor quality work by other teams being swept under the rug by managers, and large relocation/sign on bonuses being dangled in front of potential employees for year long commitments post-move.
Oh cool! I didn't even know they were working on a vanilla rewrite. For those who don't know, the previous versions of JExcel were implemented as jQuery plugins. They worked great, but if you weren't used to jQuery plugins, it made hacking on it a little wonky.
I'm not saying it's a good system, but we've effectively ended up in a situation where some of the kids least in need of a leg up end up getting a huge boost, and the ones who need more help get nothing.
This is part of the reason why AvE's BOLTR series is so popular. Buy a tool for money donated on patreon, take it apart, tell us how it works and how it will break, test it a bit. Explicitly tell us "this is no fucking good at all" or "this is pretty skookum".

It seems like there is a viable business model underlying this, that shoulf translate to other product categories. The hard part is building an audience that trusts you.
Are you saying that inner city crime is by brain damage, rather than by living in desperate circumstances?
Literally all the spam calls I receive are in Mandarin. I don't speak Mandarin, but from what I've read, it's a scam targeting Mandarin speakers, telling them that they or their loved ones back in China are in some legal or immigration trouble, and demanding that money be sent to someone in China.

As I don't speak Mandarin, I can't confirm that all my calls are this specific scam, nor does that necessarily mean that the calls originate in China. The "block China" comment was more of an example. For all I know, it's a scam organized and operated from inside the US that just happens to target Mandarin speakers.

My comment was for illustrative purposes, with some assumptions backed by various news articles (a few random ones linked below). I should note that I have a NYC phone number and this specific Chinese-targeted scam is the source of basically all spam calls to New Yorkers (anecdotally, but strongly so based on everyone I know in NYC getting the same calls, and on the reporting indicating that SF and NYC are the prime targets).

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whats-behind-all-those-chinese-...

[2]: https://www.pcmag.com/news/367491/chinese-embassy-robocall-s...

[3]: https://www.npr.org/2018/05/10/609117134/chinese-robocalls-b...
> Pretend we have nicely-acting linear address space.

I feel like the prevalence of linked lists in discussions wrt pointers is proof that nobody is understanding these analogies.

At least there should be some regular pushback from beginners who conceptualize the linear addy space and say, "Hey, what is the distance between this item and the one I just inserted into the list?" Or, "Does it take time to jump around among all these links?"

Edit: And, "How does the time moving among links compare to the time iterating over an array?"
There are plenty of racing cars with stick shifts in them. Or are you thinking of a specific type of racing?
I have resisted the urge to buy a new tv for 11 years. I own the same 48" non-smart Sony I've always had. I have always felt like the grass would be greener if I were to buy one of those 65" LG OLED tvs, but thank you for setting me straight.

This old TV is 5 inches thick, but it turns on in 2 seconds. I hooked an amazon fire tv into one HDMI port. I also have a sonos "connect" hooked up to the audio-out so that I can play my TV audio through my ceiling speakers when I want.

But it's just a display, so I can plug and play the capabilities I want. I can even tell alexa to open up plex while the TV is off and the fire TV must send a signal through the hdmi port because the tv turns on and it loads plex.
Salvation army isn't a non-profit in the strict traditional sense of the word, they are a church that happens to do a lot of worthwhile charity, The church part of their mission has led to some controversy regarding how they treat members of the LGBT community. While each individual office is different there's been a consistent thread of this running through the organization in line with their belief system. If that's not a concern to you then disregard, if it is you may want to consider how your donations and purchases are being spent.

As for finding thrift store items in general, you can find some great things in need of minor tlc, especially hand tools. I tend to use my battery powered told for most things these days that are have tools so plugged tools aren't my forte but I still have a drill I bought ages ago that's lasted me numerous projects and years without failing. It's kind of remarkable how well built some tools are.
What type of power plant has 30% of nameplate rating on station service loads?

I've been to about 30 stations under 50 MW and the biggest station load might have been 300 kW if they had all the heaters, fans, pumps, crane, welders, air compressors, and gates operating at the same time.
I grew up in Bowie and was in elementary school at the time mandatory busing in PG County. It was a nice place to grow up - clean, safe, basically white collar stereotypical suburb in the positive sense.
Except this argument is an offshoot of a problem caused by a greater fault. To take this in a programming metaphor, you're attempting to make an unmaintained, old library work with new code, when there are perfectly good alternatives available with better functionality and support, and good use cases.

Instead of band-aiding the bad solution, throw it out. Get a better one.
Yeah, you're right. I was triaging and cleaning up the open issues prior to launching the new site.

Now that the guide has more editors I'm optimistic that we won't end up in a situation with that many non-triaged tickets down the road.
In Which Way Do You Position Your Bed for Good Luck? Vastu Tips
In addition, being self sufficient for maintenance can turn practically any bike into a good working bike. I ride old bikes, but have tuned them to perfection.
I know people living in $2 million+ homes in SF without AC...
Giant contract manufacturers bike frames for many brands that are considered “high end”, including Bianchi and Trek. So it’s not like they’re known for low quality.
Yes. Read the paper. All confounding factors are controlled. It is the holy grail of causality.
It was great because visual studio would auto generate clients based on the schema. Huge time saver, just import the wsdl and call the api.
Depends on the make, iiuc
Editorialised title. Will Hurd was disinvited due to his regressive voting record: "voting against funding for Planned Parenthood, programs supporting women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields, and his support on restricting late-term abortions."
There are no companies where refreshers exceed or match the initial grant.

At Google, they're between 25 and 50%, depending on a lot of stuff. My initial grant was ~150k, my first refresher was ~40k, and it's a wash if my 4th year refresh will match my first year, that will likely come down to if I make L5 or not.
Making a 7-segment number font to use with CC65 for Atari Lynx games
Hong Kong Free Post is considered to be a reputable news source
You are talking about how things should have been, not the reality. Reality was that it was explicitly policy, they weren't hiding it, they were rationalizing it. You can read much of it yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos
> this is much worse than a goopy old discarded plastic bottle

No, over time the plastic bottle will weather into cell-scale microplastic particles and play indefinite havoc with local wildlife. Glass will not.
Didn't know, but happy they have this in place now.
I swear this article was timed perfectly with a top reddit /r/aww post earlier today. Being able to deduce intent and an expression from a dog's glance.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/c1qt1x/doggos_polite_a...

https://gfycat.com/healthyfaintbilby
Funny story on the talk title. I called it Evil Toasters are Coming: The coming IoT Security Apocalypse. But nobody in China owns a toaster, so the metaphor was lost on them. #LocalizeForYourAudienceFolks
Maybe no one thought of the immense satisfaction they would get at the end when they compile their compiler to x86 code after compiling it with javac to bytecode to run it the first time.
Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim Delivers Remarks for Antitrust
Most of the plants I've worked on can't island themselves by design. It costs more to do it and sometimes requires additional or more expensive equipment, more attention to details in the design, and there is no point for a lot of generators that just get paid for MWh and they probably aren't going to generate many MWh islanded over the life time of the plant. Some generators even get paid for the energy they would have generated if the grid is down.

How many people have a manual transmission car just so they can pop the clutch if the batter is dead.
Everything I've read recently indicates that "recycled" glass is generally just crushed and used as road base instead of being melted down and re-used as containers etc.
What company are you at? I’m at a company who people consider 2nd tier among the FANGs in a senior developer role and my salary + stocks are > $300K this year in Seattle.

Also be careful what you wish for. I’m not sure if the stress and personal impact are worth it. I have constant anxiety. Some of the people I work with are really smart but manipulative and generally not great human beings.

It’s not for everyone. I’m just trying to get to $1MM in my after tax account before I leave this company for something more sustainable.
Ask HN: What method you’ve used to eliminate bad remote tech hires?
Why wouldn’t it be? These aren’t examples of how to run a company. They are examples of pitch decks from companies that successfully raised venture capital. Raising a ton of venture money is the one thing that theranos succeeded at.

In fact, even labeling some companies as failed doesn't help much. Might be more useful to see pitch decks from companies that failed to successfully raise any money.
I'm referring to an electric train powered by green energy—an ideal, not a current reality. As far as I am aware, shipping lanes are just as difficult to green as planes are, maybe even more so.
Outside of certain highly-privilege departments like high-level SREs (because their job description requires them to have root access on the boxes), individual rogue employees do not have this power. There are various access controls that prevent individual engineers from looking up data by PII, other than their own corporate GMail account or accounts they've been specifically authorized to look into by the account holder (usually for customer support reasons). In general engineers are only running aggregate analysis on a large number of anonymized records, and the logging & user info services enforce this.

Like I said, individual people are not interesting to Google.
This is something that is already easily be handled by the office PBX system. The call coming into the PBX from the phone company should be unspoofable to the extent possible.
Didn't they have a medical loss ratio requirement with obamacare that required 85% of premiums to go toward actual health care?

Could a similar requirement be imposed which specifically required some substantial percentage of the money to go toward teaching payroll, specifically excluding administrator payroll, leisure activities, athletics, and building construction?

Or rather than that, just require schools to publish the percentage of tuition spent on actual teacher/T.A. payroll by department?
It seems obvious to me that we will eventually be a lot better at recycling or the materials will be worth a lot more. If you can keep it around without it polluting the environment outside of the landfill, you should dig it up later and recycle it with superior technology and/or when there is much more demand.
This has always been my point of confusion. The ground's gotta be made of something. Rocks don't decompose. Why is it an issue if the ground's made of something that's not rock and doesn't decompose?

If it's leaking toxic breakdown byproducts out into the water table or something then that's an issue, sure, but "things going to landfill" seems to be treated as axiomatically bad by most people.
I've been driving my most recent car for 3 years now. I want to go back to analog controls. It sucks. I'm used to it but it still sucks.
The iptables commands listed in the Mitigation section of the RedHat article lists only SYN in the tcp-flags mask section:

iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN SYN -m tcpmss --mss 1:500 -j DROP

If I interpret the man page correctly, the above is more broad because it does not care about the presence or absence of other flags, whereas your rule explicitly requires the other listed flags to be unset. In fact it seems like the above might be broad enough to include incoming SYNACK response packets that are the result of outgoing connections.

Am I understanding this correctly, and if so, do you have a thought about why they suggest this?
It takes very little for the waiter to inject, "The satay contains peanuts as an essential ingredient, do you still want to order it?"
I think it's because chihuahuas and great danes have all the same bits, just with different scales/shapes. Where as entirely new muscles take a lot more work to evolve.
A lot of that will depend on where you are and where you're shopping. For example: even in the Bay Area it can be hard to find garlic grown outside of China despite Watsonville and Fresno growing a ton of garlic. American-grown ginger as well can be extremely difficult to find as well. Same with avocados and limes. The Southern Californian climate is well suited to both avocados and limes, but most I've found out here are sourced from Mexico or South America (except for the 'specialty' avocados).
I honestly never understood all my peers constantly complaining about not being able to afford $2M house, as if that's what happiness is all about. You can still rent a very fancy apartment, max out your 401k, have a top car and live a great life, but just because they don't own a house they are always unhappy.

I guess it's true that money != happiness. There's always more you could have.
One of my favorite factoids is that the human-dog symbiosis evolved twice, in two unrelated corners of the world, at around the same time. It was meant to be.
> But there's no possibility of abolishing the function of intelligence analysis and clandestine service, nor should you want there to be: net-net, the CIA might in fact prevent more armed conflicts than it contributes to, and in any case no major power will ever unilaterally disarm.

This is a very interesting perspective. Using this kind of perspective, you can argue for any bad thing, can't you? How can you possibly measure the effectiveness of the CIA?

The alternate perspective is that the CIA are meant to be a tool for the protection of American interests around the world. To create and maintain an international order that is conducive to American interests, and to quash any possibility of Another power rising. Those goals are measurable, and the people working at the CIA probably have figured this out a long time ago and are optimizing for it too.
How WhatsApp could collaborate with journalists to spread news
Pro-tip, work on personal projects, code something meaty. I learned far more from making websites and tools than I did with coding competitions.
wow this is awesome.
I get the sense some of these posts are talking about devices connected directly to the building's supply wiring (not to a receptacle downstream of the circuit breaker panel).

In the US all residential washing machines are 110V, as are gas dryers, but electric dryers take 220V.
It's worth noting that use of -A instead of -I in your example from [1] likely makes this rule ineffective, since it will be appended to the end of the INPUT chain. This has already been reported as an issue[2].

[2]: https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/issues/4
About half of my spam voice mail messages are in Mandarin but I assume they are targeting me because I have a northern California prefix (there was a huge phone scam involving elderly Chinese in San Francisco recently), and have no clue of the country of origin.
Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
Best Mobile App Ideas to Create in 2019
I'm not buying a car with no touch screen. I like to have physical buttons for AC, and quick switching between media, radio, a dial for volume, things like that. But I also need a touch screen for Google Maps, and my music apps. Often times, my passenger might navigate these.

Edit: Also, in all fairness, where the screen is relative to the dash matters, and the size of it as well. From the photos on the post, those Mazda touch screens looked pretty small and awkwardly positioned for touch controls.
I agree with some of what you say here, but do think payments is ripe for transformation and the software companies will do so, as they have so many other industries.

The goal is quite simple, to own global payments (a trillion dollar market currently owned by a cosy duopoly).

The intended method is to do an end run around regulation as they have done with privacy regulation (hence the bitcoinish cover).

I disagree it is smart for visa to invest unless they have a majority interest.
Low density, low-rise areas also offer much higher survivability in a case of nuclear bombing. Thankfully, not a pressing concern at the moment, but 1950s were a different world.
Interesting, but I don't get a lot of the author's arguments.

> And there it is. The dreaded wig shop. Flagship of retail desperation and harbinger of doom. Next stop, evangelical day care centers and government offices to fill the void.

What's wrong with any of those businesses? Wig shops seem popular in a lot of places, especially with black women. People willing to spend on beauty are usually a good draw for a mall. Day cares bring in predictable revenue per kid. I've been to mall DMVs and gone shopping afterward.

> The buses only exist because the federal government mandates them as a condition of continued highway funding. It’s pointless.

What's pointless? The photos show people waiting at the bus stop, so clearly it's useful to someone.
I'm glad you left in the originals, they add... I think texture would be the word. :)
Yes, USA has 20+ intelligence agencies.

But all you refer to can and should be done by military intelligence.
You can find heirloom veggies and less industrialized produce in American markets — but part of the reason they're not quite as popular is that they don't ship as well or have as long a season. Fuerte avocados, for instance, have a season of about six weeks. They're delicious but towards the end of the season they're not that great.

Of course, living in the Bay Area I'm spoiled by the selection. It really is better than a lot of other areas. In contrast, Portland, in particular, stood out as having consistently mediocre produce available (and New York was surprisingly good even in the middle of winter).
As pointed out by others, they vest slowly over 4-5 years, to get you to stay. If you leave you lose your stocks. Also, they are taxed quite heavily so realistically imagine half of that. At the end of all that, $120,000 stocks would look like an extra 1000$ per month, which is still pretty good.
Which is still kind of funny because I typically avoid buying bacon at Trader Joe's because it's so off the wall compared to what I'd get elsewhere.
> 'Beautiful' stopped being cool in the 1990'

Was this coincidentally around the time when your adventure through puberty came to an end?

There has been plenty of 'happy music' in the past two and a half decades. It's likely you just view as cheesy saccharine garbage because you didn't listen to it during a formative time of your life.