skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are not authorized to access bug 1544386. To see this bug, you must first log in to an account with the appropriate permissions.
Humans are the most adaptable species, but we still depend on the global ecosystem. Sure, our species could probably survive a few tens of thousands of years underground after a meteor strikes, huddled around breeder reactors, but this mode of live doesn't scale to nine billion people. If critical systems like phytoplankton in the oceans get out of whack literally billions will die.
Current landowners are not the only demographic in your democracy. Minorities were banned from owning in many areas due to redlining.
I also got asked a similar question in a an interview (as a programmer) and I answered it well and they hired me. But I think it's an absolutely terrible question for judging whether a person will be a good hire.
I'm doing a book project now and thought I should try to escape LaTeX and went with HTML/CSS paged media through weasyprint. Don't do it. The technology is not quite there yet. Go with LaTeX.
There's also: The java thing you have to install before using a desktop app that is somehow still incredibly slow and laggy even though you have a top of the line computer in 2019. At least that's been my latest experience with Oracle SQL Developer (glorified text editor), despite 20 years and eleventy bajillion dollars invested in the JVM, java is still a terrible option for the desktop.
The western half of San Francisco isn't doing anything. It's a small sliver of SOMA/Downtown which is not enough.
> unless they completely re-wrote the whole calculator app (for which there seems to be no reason).

That's actually exactly what happened. The original calc.exe (in all versions up to Windows 8.1) came from Windows 1.0, in plain C, very seldomly updated over the years.

The one in Windows 10 is totally rewritten in C++ using the "Universal Windows Platform" as an API rather than classic Win32.
Visa and Mastercard are taking a 3-4% cut of every single consumer payment made in much of the world. That ends up being a very, very big number.

There are two assumptions you are making, both of which are false. The first is that handling cash isn't expensive, but it is. You have to store in various secure locations, transport it between those locations, count it multiple times... And that's true even if you're a market trader or a small shop. For those people it could easily be a significant part of their day and a significant risk, all of which goes away with cards (and the fee is nowhere near 3-4%, it's more like 1-2%).

The second is that, in a market that has demonstrated a willingness to accept the transaction fees of the major card providers, that anyone would "leave money on the table". Sure they'll undercut them initially to win market share but once they have it, the price will inexorably creep back up to the level the market will bear.
Sadly it seems like all work on it has been stopped and they recommend using Elixir instead.
> This is akin to people who say, "The problem with homelessness there has one simple cause..." and then insert their favorite boogeyman.

It's pretty obvious that the housing shortage problem is caused by those who oppose building additional houses although demand is skyrocketting. There is no way around it.
How Much Do They Suffer?
Facebook decided to reinvent the wheel and make it closed source. IMHO this is a mistake and a bad idea for any wannabe blockchain platform. I am curious about their motives for doing this. I'm guessing that it is simply that their plan is the same as that of any traditional payment solution: create a walled garden and profit through transaction fees. This requires a closed ecosystem.

In terms of design, this actually looks a lot like Ripple/Stellar. The difference being that those two are open source and anyone can run an independent validator. There's a growing number of those. And with IBM building world wire on top of Stellar together with a few dozen banks, here's now some traction for that platform at least.

It might still work for Facebook and I would not be surprised to learn that they took some of the Apache/MIT licensed code of either platform. but I'd say they'll have huge issues with people simply not trusting them with their money. They will also need links to other platforms via some exchanges. Again, Stellar comes to mind. It comes with an exchange and an ecosystem of fintech players already connected to that.

Facebook is of course not the only company planning to do their own coin. Telegram has similar plans and there are a gazillion of dapps on Ethereum and similar chains. Most of these seem to be struggling to find meaningful amounts of users. Unlocking crypto for the wider public is not something that anyone has accomplished yet. FB might pull this off given their large user base.
The article in no way says that being a good programmer is sufficient to become a billionaire. It states that there were long-shots and coincidences that led to Bill Gates's stellar rise as Microsoft's founder, beyond his programming and business skills (It's not denying that his programming and business skills didn't contribute). The article states that, in competitive contexts, many have merit (programming + business skills, in the context of Bill Gates), but few succeed. What the article is effectively trying to say and the point you seem to miss is that, the the link between merit and outcome is tenuous and indirect at best.
For those who are interested, this reply all goes into the effects of backpage's closure on sex workers.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2ho97/119-no-more-s...
>The problem with using sarcasm as a vehicle for genuine discussion is that not everybody gets the joke.

That's fine, assuming "everybody" is not the target audience.
Being able to provide services when its customers are outside of its home country?

Serious banks have been doing that for literally hundreds of years.
- Never allow any part of the computing systems you use to cache anything.

- Insist that everything in your life exist in a state of being functionally pure & stateless.

- Eliminate access to all sources of timing data.

- Make sure that all tasks are completed in a pre-determined fixed amount of time regardless of resource contention.

There are so many different side channel attacks, and the computing primitives & API choices we have been making for years make it challenging to build secure systems.

Caches are very deeply embedded in the culture of how computing is done. Making tasks take longer than strictly necessary to avoid leaking information goes against our instincts to optimize system performance.

It's going to take a lot of work and cost a lot of money to get software to a point where we aren't playing whack-a-mole with side channels.

More pragmatically, the current implementation of this technique can be dealt with by being very conscious of how much data your DNS resolver(s) are leaking & being conscious of how large the anonymity set is of the userbase of your DNS resolver(s).

If you limit DNS cache times and use blinding computation techniques to limit the identity information your DNS resolver has or retains about you, then DNS cookies can be largely mitigated. If you have faith that 1.1.1.1 is operated in the manner that Cloudflare claims, the measures they have taken go a long way to making DNS cookies unusable.

I also pointed out some additional specific mitigations when I reported this issue to the Chromium team in October 2015:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=546733
I ate it on a JUMP bike going down Rose. It was out of zone and the only explanation that I can come up with is that it locked up the back tire. I ride bikes a lot and have no clue why I went down on that thing. I lost a ton of skin on my knee. I'm never touching one of those again. Geofencing transportation devices is crazy business. I need to trust the thing I'm riding.
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Location Intelligence and Analytics – Why Businesses Need IT?
Location Intelligence is the process of analysing data with a location as a dominant factor. It allows the brands to explore simple yet important characteristics typical to a particular location. For decades now, businesses have utilized location as part of their research or analysis in its most rudimentary form. It is commonly estimated that more than 80% of data analysed by companies across the world have a location component to it.
If it casts a shadow on a park for 15 minutes, it gets denied!

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/One-housing-proj...
But ISPs have access to much less detailed data. Or do you think encryption is trivially broken by them?
SB50 would have been a good first step. Or doing something similar to Minneapolis. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/minneapolis-single-fam...
The housing shortage is real, discussion of niche exceptions is not a great use of time.
I don't live in the area, so I have no idea what the costs are. I looked it up... A 3 zone monthly pass costs $231. With that you can go from Sunnyvale to San Francisco. That's 40 miles as the crow flies, apparently. Compare that to London. I was having trouble finding a normal commute city that's 40 miles away, but let's say from Woking to London -- and since you'll get travel within Zone 1, it's probably comparable. The monthly fare is £321.50 or just over $400 US. So the London train fare is nearly double. I live in Japan and the fares are pretty similar here as they are in the UK. As you imply, I think this is the real reason that public transit in North America never really takes off. There is an assumption that it has to be very cheap, which results in systems that are severely limited.
From the readme of the project:

> Clojure is a Lisp and as such comes with all the goodies Lisps provide. Apart from these Clojure also introduces powerful abstractions such as protocols, multimethods and seqs, to name a few. [...] It is fair to say that combining the power of the Erlang VM with the expressiveness of Clojure could provide an interesting, useful result to make the lives of many programmers simpler and make the world a happier place.

Also, at this point Clojure is becoming a kind of nice foundational language with multi-host targets. So if you know Clojure, you can now leverage the JVM, various JS runtimes, the CLR, now also the BEAM, etc. So there's that too. So basically, to someone already knowing Clojure it's a nice way to have access to more platforms.
AnalyticalGraphicsInc/Cesium
> Is this actually true?

Yes, it is actually true. The speed of WiFi relative to coax is puny. There's no way WiFi can come close to taxing it.

I suppose you are using a bit more WiFi spectrum, but your neighbors do that too.
My real usercase experience is not the same. None of the modern web browsers are really usable with 512 mb.
I've met Russians, Ukranians and Belarussians on a number of occassions in the SF Bay Area who's demeanor, attitudes and sketchy backgrounds indicate they are likely spies gradually increasing their foothold through businesses, startups and contacts in American military/aerospace industrial complex.
It's also open source https://github.com/microsoft/calculator
No, I'm not aware of ever being shadowbanned and I think I would realize if I were since I often browse logged out.
Q: Regarding multi-cloud. Say if AWS has an outage will Timescale cloud fallback to use GCP or Azure?

Can something like this be provided? Not sure if the network latency between different cloud providers would allow doing a multi-master replication scheme.
You might want to have a look at the Rosetta Code wiki. They have a lot of COBOL code there. http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:COBOL

I don’t know COBOL though so I can’t say if this code is idiomatic or not.
Part of it is of course that moral panics and societal attitudes make every human blackmailable. Maybe it would be nice if we could learn to just not care.
Oxford announces unprecedented investment in the Humanities, including AI Ethics
We as software engineers aren't great at predicting what we'll have in two weeks.

I think that's because our development is supposedly agile and we iterate a lot because we don't know what we're actually building very well (that's not a bad thing). Iteration in game development is much slower and lends itself to a waterfall approach because the developer is the client most of the time. In theory the game should look like a very close approximation of the final version years before its launch.
An Introduction to Accessible Labeling
>Implied sarcasm and irony is a troll's game. Not to imply that the poster is a troll, I have no reason to think that, but that's why I never assume sarcasm if it's not explicitly stated.

Sarcasm and irony have been used in an enormous amount of major English-language texts since, well, there WERE English-language texts. Most of these texts don't take the time to spell things out to their less observant readers. Not assuming sarcasm will lead you to miss the point entirely. (This sounds terribly rude and elitist but it's true. And of course, little heed was given to those learning English as a second, or third, language, when these texts were written.)

Take the King James bible, for example. In Exodus, Moses is asked "Were there a lack of graves in Egypt, that you took us away to die in the wilderness?"

Hopefully this doesn't need to be explicitly flagged as sarcasm for you to understand its meaning.
I completely understand, but still, a 50% increase is enough to be state as is. Usually tech progresses by much less.
Tips for beginners joining a global hackathon?
Mesh wifi’s are a godsend. Happy Eero user since its Kickstarter.
Monzo does that too :| I use it all over the world because it has no fees.
The report is 53 pages, mind pointing out the damning pages?
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Listen, life has thrived on this planet for well over a billion years. It's seen carbon levels much, much higher and primates literally evolved during such periods. It's ludicrous to suggest that billions will die.
I can't believe how young girls would react to such things
Yes, having a manager just be there showing appreciation is huge. My story is trying to crack a hot, high-impact bug that got reported days before product launch. Daily 8:00AM and 5:00PM status meetings on Saturday and Sunday reporting to multiple VP's kind of hot. So the debug lab manager had little clue how to hang a logic analyzer probe any more, and no clue how to read the traces. But he brought in take-out 3 meals a day and did whatever else to keep us well-fed and caffeinated during the ordeal. And if we wanted to consult with somebody, he tracked them down and got them on the phone. Basically just hung out and said "Thanks" often.
Barriers for bike lanes are often counterproductive. There’s no way for street sweepers to clean them, so leaves and garbage accumulate, making them dangerous for bikes (and presumably impassible for skateboards).
Importance of Software Testing in 2019
Completely agree. Many people are thinking way too narrow for how big facebook is. Project libra will be the great equalizer and put everyone more or less on the same "economic playing field" so to speak. Since this community is heavily startup focused, everyone here should be thinking of how they can capitalize on this next frontier of the internet. The money isn't made by speculating on libra coin, it is made by creating innovative services/solutions.
Eviation's Electric-Propelled Commuter Airplane Debuts at Paris Air Show
This is almost the same open-ended interview questions I've used for many years, works a charm because it filters the engineers from the chaff (who just copy-pastes code from the internet w/o understanding why)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19359460
Anthem was supposed to be a destiny 2 killer (shoot, loot), instead it's become a sad joke. The Kotaku article does a good job explaining why.
Articles always miss that Bill Gates takeoff with DOS was thanks to his mother having ties with IBM CEO John Opel.

So that example has nothing to do with meritocracy.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1544386

I find it really gross that they do not allow others to access it. This behavior damages the forks.
>If I work really hard digging a giant hole in my backyard and no one pays me for it,
If I work really hard and with people with same interest and nobody pays me for it. At least I've made good friends
As far as I know it's been a really long time since the climate changed as rapidly as it's changing now. I'm not sure whether it ever warmed up as quickly before. Evolution needs time. We're already in the midst of a major extinction event. Life will most likely go on, but I see no reason to believe that we'll survive the transition at our current numbers.
> The fact that it is a _cryto_ currency is merely anecdotal

Completely agree. It's a currency.

> It's not banks or custodians that use this currency, it's just end users and the consortium

I do not agree with this

> I have much more trust in a country and a judiciary system

compared to a protocol that can be monitored for the total amount of money it holds?
Not enough power. The absolute maximum you can get from sun is around 1-1.1kw per square metre.

Thermal desalination plants on other hand, are often as powerful as powerplants.
Mainly, they said they would not connect your phone number to your FB account, but then the did.

Furthermore, metadata is super critical already. Don’t forget that WhatsApp has your location data as well (if you enable it, what most people probably do to share their location with friends occasionally).

Although I have no proof, knowing FB, I bet they extract meta data from all of your photos and send them back. I mean, why not? Maybe not all the time, or maybe not in every version, but given FB‘s track history of giving zero fucks and trying everything under the sun to gather more data, it wouldn’t surprise me (same is obviously true for Instagram).

I try to use WhatsApp less and less and I removed all permissions except contacts. If I want to send a photo, I use the Share capability of iOS and select from Photos to share with WhatsApp. The insane part is: this behavior is not doable in Android. You either grant photo access or you can’t send anything.
> I don't hold any cryptocurrency due to its impact on energy

Just to note, the impact of Libra on energy is very very light compared to the current banking system. It does not use proof of work.
The main problem with distillation is it requires a phase change, which is extremely energy intensive especially in case of water.
That's stepping on CIA's turf and I'd wager that CIA still has the bigger stick when it comes down to the physical world.
Has a family member go to a private emergency room in Austin TX. When asking the ER if they accepted his insurance they said yes, many times. After the visit he recieved an $8000 bill. When confronted, the business stated they accepted the patients insurance however the insurance company would not accept the ER. Settled the $8000 bill for $300. Pretty sketchy.
They look like configure files for a python build script:

https://github.com/zedshaw/vellum
Uh Manhattan? Chicago?
Also, scooters (and even e-bikes) have different acceleration curves than road bikes.

If you are doing less than 20-25mph when cruising at speed, you’re impeding bike traffic. Scooters are currently capped at 15mph, so they don’t belong in bike lanes.

(Not saying there shouldn’t be scooter lanes, just that they don’t mix with bikes)
Obligatory xkcd reference
https://xkcd.com/1172/
https://pypi.org/project/vellum/
https://launchpad.net/vellum
> This is basically any libertarians pipe dream.

Are you sure about this?
I thought libertarians were against all institutions such as the state with power over people.

UBI is a socialist policy. It seems in total contradiction with libertarian principles to me. How is that possible?
Excerpt:

“Transmutation of the elements,–unlimited power, ability to investigate the working of living cells by tracer atoms, the secret of photosynthesis about to be uncovered,–these and a host of other results all in 15 short years. [...]"

This is an interesting quote.

Not sure if all of those things are indeed possible, but it's an interesting quote nonetheless...
The Windows 10 UWP calculator retains the math engine from before, which actually has been rewritten. The ancient calculator used standard floating-point math, with the fun problems that entails, like 0.1 + 0.1 showing 0.19999999998. The current engine uses rational numbers as long as possible and configurable precision for trigonometry, roots, etc. It also got further upgraded over the years so that the root of a perfect square is always an integer.

As for the bug in question, it could not have happened in the old calculator, as that one didn't have the date math panel.

So for the UWP version they merely redid the UI and added a few things. The actual calculator part is still the same as before (just open-source now).
I´m pro-vaxx, but I feel the need to point out the flaw in this argument from an anti-vaxx perspective:

The same could be said about 1940s German "racial scientists", who had years of training convincing themselves about the genetic superiority of their people and the dangers coming from the "Jewish race".
A viewpoint: why we need nuclear power
Exactly. I just looked at the tape cassette of Defender for the Sinclair ZX81 (circa 1982). A nice color illustration on the cover and a black and white 64x44 pixel game inside.

However I didn't see a higher quality gameplay B/W movie of that game before buying it. They eventually tricked the ZX81 to get 256x192 pixels [1] [2] and if I saw that kind of commercial, buy the game and get the standard 64x44 I'd be pissed off too.

[1] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6134/how-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UudLLhWJGtk
oh I did not think about that !

hmm, I would rather have street sweepers adapt to bike lanes than removing them

You really don't want to share a road with cars. I did not have someone swerve at me to hurt me yet, but I see that regularly on social networks (just a local bay area user group too .. not something national).

I already had cars accelerate until they are caught up with me, and then do something dumb like klaxon loudly or yell to hope to make me trip.

And of course multiple occurences of cars that think it is ok to cut up right in front of you and brake, or that want to overtake you when there is no space and there are literally less than 10 cms between you and the car.

So I would definitely rather have a secure lane .. even if it means that we must adapt cleaning equipment.
When they have liabilities that are due?
No, they don’t and no they shouldn’t.
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In October last year, Facebook hired Nick Clegg, former UK Deputy Prime Minister and well-known Europhile, as head of Global Affairs and Communications.

So that's your years of relationship building, acquired in one go.
India’s retaliatory tariffs on 28 US products comes into effect
Oh of course, WiFi alone isn’t enough, at least probably not until the next generation of WiFi. Consider also wired traffic, though. The xfinitywifi hotspot is hosted on modem/router devices of all sorts, including Comcast Business devices.
how does this compare to druid/imply.io ?
Murray is possibly one of the most infuriating contemporary figures I've ever learned about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Murray

After one of his mines collapsed:

> The MSHA report heavily criticized Bob Murray's volatile behavior during the crisis, especially at daily briefings for family members, where he "frequently became very irate and would start yelling," even making young children cry, it said. He told family members that "the media is telling you lies" and "the union is your enemy."

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26050043/ns/us_news-life/t/year-af...
Ask HN: Which email client do you recommend for Android?
Keeping privacy and usability in mind.
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