skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a bizarre use of the word "exploit". The government is prohibiting migrants from working, to the point where their only option is "stealing or begging on the street." So of course the NYT places the blame on people who provide an alternative, rather than go after the anti-life state policy.
I'm wondering if we could develop some kind of encryption / steganographic system that would hide the true meaning of a sentence behind somewhat sensical human-readable text to lower suspicion and automated detection.
Ask HN: JavaScript Event Tracking
We're a relatively small team, and are considering moving to Snowplow for events tracking, in conjunction with a managed ETL solution like Fivetran or Stitch.

How does your company handle website events & analytics? Did you build your own ETL or buy off the shelf, and what was the thought process behind it?
What kind of GUI do you actually __need__ on Linux? Word's and Excel's ease of day-to-day use comes not from UX, but purely from purposely made compatibility issues, literally designed to make it harder for you to work with other people using Microsoft's Word and Excel. IDEs are just preference and MS SQL is available for Linux these days.
Usually, yes. C is weird because undefined behavior is illegal, can sometimes be detected statically, and yet will not produce an error. So sometimes you get warnings for invalid yet error-free code. It’s a strange language.
Newish bike rider. Do you have a phone mount? Do you listen to music or have any sorta HUD?
Wouldn’t the « landlord » of the account be subject to a lot of taxes?
As someone who hasn't done CSS in a while, with a 4K monitor and the knowledge how old pixel-based desktop apps look on it (VERY small), what's wrong with inches?

From my own non-CSS based graphics experience, the only problem with layouts specified in absolute sizes is that small lines look really bad on standard (<100dpi) monitors if not aligned to the physical screen pixels. (Not saying that's not bad!)
> What exactly is the human bringing to the table?

He can see the big truck 200 yards in front of him, and recognize that it is indeed a truck, and not an overhead traffic sign. Apparently, Teslas don't bring that to the table.

Alternatively, the human could recognize that the truck is on fire and smoking, and that it would be a good idea to stay away from it.
Germany has actually slightly increased its gas usage - though compared to other energy sources, its currently more of a rounding error in magnitude:

2002 2018

Total 503 545

Coal+Oil 253 205
Nuclear 156 72

Gas 40 44
Biomass 4 45

Wind+Solar+Hydro 39 177

Other 10 3

https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&p...
So does this make it fine to let them live poorly in our countries? I don't think so, we can certainly do better.
Dedis/Drand: A Distributed Randomness Beacon Daemon
> We usually smoke everything we have a couple of kms before the border

So you coming rolling up smelling heavily of weed, and for some reason they insist on searching you for weed? How weird. I feel like there's a way to avoid that.
I do not know how safe I am in heavy stop-and-go because I completely zone out. Traffic is pretty light where I live now, but in other areas, I've had the subjective sense of falling asleep, only to "wake up" several miles down the road an hour later. That's really scary.
This Tesla argument is completely irrelevant. One company's managing to design a good touchscreen interface doesn't mean any other touchscreen is well-designed.

Rich people who can afford Teslas may have a safe driving experience in isolation but the vast majority (who can't afford a Tesla) are stuck with a poorly designed touch interface, making road conditions less safe for everyone (even Tesla drivers with their perfect touch interfaces), through no fault of their own.

Bring back the knobs.
Push Notifications to mobile devices from any website – No native app needed
Asciimath-formatted math can be evaluated just fine in most calculators or languages, after all mimicking the patterns used in other math systems is one of its design goals.

It's true that caou's installation is cumbersome but the idea is that most users will use caoutchouc through sharecaou, which is just a web interface (it's a fork of sharelatex/overleaf).
It doesn’t actually use 1mb. Only if the stack touches the pages will it ever allocate the physical memory. Most threads won’t use more than 16kB (the lower bound when I last tested it on x64). Still, it’s a lot larger than green threads.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/switch/
I suspect the point is that all this image processing adds latency, which is fine when you're watching a movie but not when you're doing something interactive. Same reason I understand these TVs have a "game mode" that disables the fancies to keep latency down.
What Does Peeling an Egg Have to Do with DevOps?
Distributed Randomness Beacon – Cloudflare
If expects an integer, and = produces an integer when the lhs has integer type.
If I recall, there is a plaque in the lobby of Kemeny Hall at Dartmouth about Kemeny's role in creating Basic.

New Hampshire has these green historic signs all over the place - they are particularly thick in the seacoast region, for historic buildings or places where events of any kind of significance took place. For example, in downtown Exeter, there is one by the town hall commemorating a speech that Abraham Lincoln gave during his presidential campaign, also noting that his son went to Phillips Exeter, and across the street there is another marking that Exeter was once the capital of New Hampshire, and then a couple hundred yards away there is another marking where a tavern still stands that George Washington once ate dinner.
Windows Home, but not Pro. You get a bare-minimum media consumption platform with Win Home, no dev.
Actually, British motorways are much safer than German autobahns:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thelocal.de/20190201/are-ge...
Cheers. I'm looking for info on a USB-C dock with a Thinkpad T480.
Pharma companies sue over admin policy to require drug prices in TV ads
I like autotools. So much better than cmake.
Maybe even separate long distance roads that only autonomous cars are allowed on.
> CarPlay is amazingly good

As someone who recently rode in a car with CarPlay and saw two young technology professionals try to use it, I disagree. One of them owned the system and drove it every day it still didn't seem like either one really understood it ("Why's it doing that?" "Maybe because ...").

I agree that all the built-in systems I've seen are terrible, but CarPlay seems like merely the "least bad" implementation at this point. If that's as good as we can do, I'd say we're still in the "research project" phase.

Nobody riding in my (ancient) car has ever had trouble finding the big red/blue knob to change the temperature, or understanding "Here's my 2006 iPod if you want music, or unplug it and plug in your phone if you want". This is a solved problem.
I hadn't heard about Gresham's Law. Thanks a lot for that. And I definitely hadn't heard about Rotisserie:

> The Rotisserie implements an innovative approach to online discussion that encourages measured, thoughtful discourse in a way that traditional threaded messaging systems cannot. In contrast to the completely asynchronous, broadcast-to-broadcast mode of existing threaded messaging systems, the Rotisserie adds structure to both the timing and the flow of the discussion.

Thanks for that too. That's exactly the communication platform I made/am making. For me there's also the "human" element as described in Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism [0]. Like how "human time" is not "modern life time," but we're still humans so wouldn't it be nice to have a space where we communicate in human time. But yes Gresham's Law... hmmm...

[0] https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/projects/anthropo...
> Uber Eats and competitors including Stuart, a French app, and Glovo, based in Spain, said they were aware of misconduct. “We’re concerned because these are illegal practices in which people are profiting from the vulnerability of others,” said Nicolas Breuil, global marketing manager for Stuart.

They should look inward: basically the entire gig economy is people profiting from the vulnerability of others. If these companies could cut out the middle man and pay people as little as these subcontractors are being paid, they would.
Maybe I'm giving people too much credit, and I'm sick of arguing about this because, in my mind, seeing a bunch of swastikas isn't going to make me anti-semitic.

I even sometimes find it funny (especially when people draw the arms wrong); but maybe for others it really is just a way to spread their ugly hatred, and that's not at all what I'm trying to defend.

I think the problem with this argument is that we're both actually right, but only in certain situations.
You can easily migrate to any of the browser independent password managers: 1Password, BitWarden, LastPass, etc.
Can I get our community to kindly support our app
You can turn off uMatrix for a specific site.
Biomarkers are not a clinical effect, this doesn't tell you whether this compound has any anti-aging effects. This is still an early point in the development of a drug.
Interesting. What would you say the argument or feature was that won people over?
I was suprised the degree to which selector performance is a negligible overhead in normal use these days.

Was browsing through the docs for some Vue+CSS library or another recently, and the author had done quite a lot of research into this, was interesting.

They were heavily using the square bracket html-attribute selector notation, although I'm not sure if it performs better now, or if modern processors are just that much faster.
...or we could just start eating Pomegranates?
India’s Bounce raises $72M to grow its electric scooters business
Those aren't comparable things though. Our driver training just flat-out isn't robust enough to support a similar system, and there's only one person in control of the car.

He's also leaving out checklist-driven procedure, which is a huge component of airplane safety that is entirely absent from car driving.
This question makes me angry. It's like Microsoft removing UI color customization from their office apps. Since when does someone else know what's comfortable for my eyes?
I don't even understand what this complaint means. Your grandmother doesn't take her garbage to the dump or cut her own lawn, I'm suggesting that she pay someone to handle her computer too.

What I'm not suggesting is that we should pay a little boy to run around shitting on people's lawns and turning over trash cans. In fact, I'm going to be bold and suggest that we not do that.

edit: as far as I can interpret, your argument seems to be that every company using advertising to make money, and making their televisions smart in order to help them to sell more advertising, should just stop. That's not a plan.
>See if you can relax a bit?

Sorry (to OP) if I'm jumping into conclusions, but the "I didn't want to have to relive them by listening through them again to add in the beeps." part makes me think that it might be more serious than "have you tried not being anxious?". Speaking from personal experience, a therapy for social anxiety can help a lot in such cases.
Ultimately when you boil away the other reasons why the South seceded you're left with slavery.

It's States Rights[1]! It's about new territories[2]! It's about economic imperialism[3]!

[1] To own slaves

[2] To open up new plantations with slaves

[3] Against slaveowning businesses
You do realize that China is now just going to develop its own CPUs, it's own OS's and its own devices now and China will be better suited to sell to emerging markets where the real growth is since US companies can't compete. I also know the 3rd licensee of X86 will be benefiting from these trade wars because their demand will be going up and they're not a US company.
Quite possibly pomegranate... It's unclear how much it has though.
> And you always (well, usually) have the option of lowering the shower flow rate to get a wimpier flow of much hotter water.

Don't overdo it; when I was a child, I burned a shower head by doing exactly that (lowering the flow to get hotter water).
A nicely-done video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2qqMegNKA
You snuck in a second premise to the argument: that it will increase the false positive risk. And if we accept that premise, we don’t need the other one.

Bad programmers are the ones who need the most help from our tools. Saying there’s no need for a warning because only bad programmers will benefit is like saying there’s no need for crossing guards because only stupid children get killed crossing the street.
I've had this happen quite a bit when investigating things, where I get the wrong idea from one step, and don't realize it until I've run with it for some time. This is a normal occurrence and we do it all the time. In an interview setting, with added stress of being watched and judged, the problem is magnified.

In interviews, I'll always throw in comments to help clarify if it looks like they're going off the rails, because letting them run on an incorrect assumption is only going to diminish your ability to judge their abilities. We all make mistaken assumptions all the time, about everything. The person who made no bad assumptions in an interview just got lucky.
Sure, but that's the exception that proves the rule.

The actual point was that when it comes to safety/critical functions, we still prefer those mechanical mechanisms. Unless you're flying or driving with your iPhone, I think the point still stands.

I think the fact that safety critical fly-by-wire systems could operate without the mechanical interface yet designers choose to do so anyway underscores this point.
Space Game: A Std:Variant-Based State Machine by Example
Is it carbs or is it starches? We, as a species, are not used to eating starches as a main component in our diet. We as a species are used to eating much like bonobos, chimps and utangs: thus lots of carbs but from fruits instead of starches.
The 2016 article fortunately gives some more clarity on it.
I agree with this to a large extent. A new codebase in the latest Java/whatever can be OK. But most of the time I feel like it's dealing with the same bad code, with just a smattering of nice syntax on top.

I started learning Perl in 2007; after it was no longer popular, but also around the time that the principles/practices that became 'Modern Perl' were becoming popular in the community.

I think there is a difference between the two though. Java was always a language which required a lot of ceremony and typing to get anything done at all. Perl was always focused on expressivity. Modern Perl was a case of learning from past mistakes and consciously avoiding some of the more egregious code the language easily afforded. Modern Java is more a case of Java playing catch-up to the more expressive languages out there.

One is applying constraints on your coding style, the other is trying to lift constraints. Both are trying to reach some middle point.

But! I agree that no company writes purely 'Modern Perl' - you will have to deal with some terrifying code at some point.

So. I agree with the concept of the 'Modern X' fallacy, but I would say that dealing with non-modern code is pretty normal, and people who are OK putting up with the pre-modern code may be some of your best employees. I suffer from rewrite-it-all syndrome myself sometimes, but it's something I try to avoid. Code that frustrates me, isn't necessarily bad.

(If it helps contextually, I'm - at heart - a Clojure programmer.)
Now that HaProxy uses HTX internally to quickly represent header flags, I wish they'd add that to their "Proxy Protocol". Back in the day, Apache/Tomcat used AJP to transmit parsed HTTP state to backend servers to avoid the re-parsing overhead.
I just bought a Model 3. There are a lot of great features but I simply hate the touchscreen display. I can’t reliably change the AC, etc without distractingly taking my eyes off the road. I hate it. My other cars I just reach for knobs or buttons but having to find the stupid parts of the touchscreen are really dumb and a terrible design. If the next version doesn’t have a better interface with more knobs and buttons I won’t be buying another one.
The steering wheel is where most of this stuff should be all the time. The second you force me to reposition my hand, security levels drop off a cliff, since you get involuntary movement on the other side (as proven by this post) and likely take your eyes off the road, which is bad even for a split second. I know this for a fact, having crashed a car on a motorway as I was turning down the fan (controlled by an analog button, btw).

The best car interface, imho, is something like a rotary device or arrows buttons on the steering wheel (or back thereof) which can be used to manipulate an overlay projected on (or just below) the windshield. My current VW gets close, but the screen is in the lower half of the dashboard (way too far from actual view of the road), and the system can only be partially controlled by on-wheel buttons (the main control is a touchscreen in the middle of the car).
I don't know where you get that. This is about code base size. Dynamically typed languages have always had fewer LOC than statically typed languages.

If there's a surprise, it's that Scala is able to snuggle up to Python so nicely, while being one of most strongly typed languages.
New Space Telescope Will Map the Universe in High-Energy X-Rays
I feel some of the agencies mentioned will comment here as well...

Kinda feel someone already did...
Thank you Europeans for the GDPR law. The need to click to accept cookies in each site looks like a useless bureaucracy, but now we see the real advantages of the law.
I can second this. Along with "Popup Blocker (strict)" and "HTTPS Everywhere", the web is a lot less annoying. But Firefox on Android has some basic issues: the tabs go dead/unresponsive on some JS heavy websites.
So when a police officer puts down a cone behind a broken down car in the freeway--??
Regarding the use of illegal migrants in sub-contracting work, their numbers in the construction bussiness is orders of magnitude higher than in the gig-courrier industry. They are usually employed by contractor / sub-contractor, making any kind of control complicated; even then most people are taking advantage of this so there's little incentives to change. The use of illegal workers in construction is apparently driven by a race to the bottom in the construction price, all the while prices are going up, especially in and around Paris, the difference being pocketed by land owners/promoters.

Regarding the deliveries services, I've never used them, but they are imposing externalities on everyone with their motor scooters parked in front of busy fast-food places and drivers (not all of them, though) with little regard to the traffic code (though it's in part caused by the incentives to deliver as quickly as possible).
Insight into bat sonar could lead to drones that fly like bats
AFAIK this isn't how it works; the GPS provides a reference so the skew of the crystal can be measured as it drifts.
Yes we can't have them live poorly, they must be either paid fairly or denied any money so as to leave. In other news Gig Workers create jobs for underprivileged and unemployed immigrants.
Ugh my bad, sorry!
Leaving aside the anti-western reasons for having "stay away from me" as a stance, how does it not fit that definition of "enemy"?

"Stay away from me" doesn't mean anything without a willingness to do something if the other doesn't stay away.
Will I have full access to the GPU?
Do all "we have identified a dose range that doesn’t immediately sicken people” studies make it to Nature journals ?
Target Cash Registers Back Online After Chaotic Nationwide Tech Failure
LiDAR is just one small sensor fusion component in self-driving cars. There are up to 6 LiDARs, up to 4 radars, many cameras and sonic sensors that provide a stream of data for SLAM. The algorithms we have for perception right now are sufficient for 99.9% situations already, although not in real-time with the current technology. Once we surpass 200Hz, we should be fine. On the other hand, path planning is still in the stone age and there is not much hope it'd get better anytime soon (full of NP-Hard problems).
‘Phages have evolved to become perfect predators of bacteria’
NYT recently started recognizing private mode. Wait for Chrome 76. Or jump over paywall using other means.

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/06/14/chrome-76-blocks-sites-fro...
> Should FLAG_BIT1 ^ FLAG_BIT3 really be a warning?

Nope, the warning would be for literal numbers in the source. IMO anyone who doesn't define constants for the flag bits deserves the warning.
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France doesn't control its borders. The border of the schengen zone is long and porous (like all borders). I don't want to underestimate the difficulties for refugies getting a start in France. People with no papers can enrol their kids in school and get some health care. To get expelled from the country, in addition to having no papers, you have to be a threat to public order, or be caught working illegally. So people 'employed' by gig workers would be exposing themselves to expulsion.
I'm car shopping. I like most things about the CX-5 except the terrible infotainment system. Slow to boot up, the camera quality is just rage inducing. They went so far with soft touch materials inside but skimped on a better camera.

I'm probably going to buy a santa fe because hyundai did a great job with infotainment and there is physical buttons everywhere. Plus, the ergonomics are great.
Those aren't the users who end up homeless though. I know plenty of people who use Marijuana and alcohol, but it doesn't become a problem. I even have someone in my family who got addicted to opioids because it was overprescriped for treating pain. However, even that didn't turn into a major problem.
[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17361827
>Regardless, do you think the multiple millions of additional votes Clinton received is not at least minimal evidence that the country is a bit more left-wing than right-wing?

Personally, being as how I don't consider Clinton left-wing, nor Trump right-wing, I can't say for certain.
Maybe I'm just a luddite but I can't stand any of these features in new cars. Feels more like misfeatures to me.

I rent cars fairly often for work and so I see a lot of touchscreens, a lot of bluetooth, whatnot. My car at home has a simple radio, a CD player that rarely gets used, and cruise control. I prefer that to any of this new integrated tech. The only thing about new cars that I really miss is a backup camera.
who doesn't?
They have physical controls for climate control and opted for nondescript buttons instead of knobs. Truly brilliant...
The Hebrew word, בשם (fragrant, sweet), is used to describe cinnamon earlier in the same verse...
Complain about it.
If you use DOSBox with default settings, the pixel aspect ratio will be square. Old PCs, as you remember, had non-square aspect ratios, and so the graphics will look incorrect, they will look squashed horizontally.
That's 19.2px.
I completely agree. My aim was simply to point out that Assange's case is so bad, that one really shouldn't use it as a point of superiority of this or that system.
Of course it's not user centric. It's about capturing more revenue while limited the parts in the car. Back in the day, you had modular radio mounts. Ford broke the mold with the Ford Taurus and the integrated controls that you couldn't replace.

Now, if you care about a nice radio in your car, you need to upgrade your entire car for $5k.

I have an otherwise awesome Honda Pilot with a built in, unsupported android tablet that doesn't support carplay or android auto, and is hard to replace without heavy hackery because core controls of the car are built into the tablet.
Tax driver a respectable career that earned its drivers good pay until it got exploited by billionaire capitalists, I mean disrupted.