skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! I can see how using Cosmogony can make sense if Who's on First is too complex but I'm afraid OSM doesn't have enough coverage of administrative boundaries. The boundaries are mostly not visible in the physical world and thus cannot be mapped in the traditional sense.

I wonder if there's an open catalog of boundary data analogous to https://openaddresses.io/
Yeah, it was a hardware failure! God forbid the software engineers write defensive code in the case that hardware fails................
Even more directly, "White privilege" is simply a variation of "bourgeois privilege". The whole idea of "bourgeois privilege" however rephrased and antiquated "counterrevolutionary elements" as something that should be purged wholesale from society is something that goes at least as far back as the Cultural Revolution in China; knowing that, it's incredibly scary that anyone in the West is still taking these notions at face value!
I’d like to read more about the theory behind that decision. There are so many interesting possibilities if the cables were left in place.

Also, how did the Zimmerman telegraph happen if Germany to Mexico was cut off?

The telegram was sent to the German embassy in the United States for re-transmission to Eckardt in Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram
To be fair, I am pretty sure companies that hire people who would be checking those tickets don’t attract the brightest kinds, too.

It’s a job that probably doesn’t pay too well, that also must be quite a stressful environment. You must favour the sense of power and not be able to work anywhere else.
> I may find that I have motivation for personal projects either, and live 6 months in a quiet depression in my underwear.

This. I've excercised my quitting fantasies a couple times before (I'm 38) and, without fail, after a couple months of working on a side project the excitement wears off and then it's just work - but without daily routine, coworkers and steady (and big!) pay. I find that, having the opportunity to make great money at job, I'm not passionate enough about anything to work on it for uncertain and delayed rewards. Classic golden handcuffs.

However - excercising these quitting fantasies have actually lead to a lot of personal growth, as I was able to test myself and to get to know myself better, not to mention branch out into different areas of life (my projects weren't only in software). And also somehow, after each flop, I've landed a job with similar or better pay than the one I've left. That was in Europe though, so I have no idea how likely is that in the US FAANGs.

> I suck it up and do my job. People would love this job. It's cushy and it pays very well. Just do it for 5 more years and then consider this stuff.

The tricky part here is that, in 5 years, it's likely that your pay will be amazing and you will risk even more with quitting.

If you're 25 and on the fast track to big bucks at a FAANG, the smart move seems to be just to ride it into early retirement. Most people probably cannot resist the tempation of quitting and trying out something else for a while - it's cool, we're not robots. But the default strategy should be early retirement IMO.
Of course it's in France; the Norman invasion was some lads from Normandy. William was born and died in Normandy.

Perhaps the French could gift a statue of William to the UK; they could put it next to the statue of George Washington in Trafalgar Square.

Edit: The French are not known for their tactlessness. In truth, William the Conqueror is simply not offensive to the modern British people. William is even more distant to the modern British than George Washington, and you don't have the British crying themselves to sleep over that great whupper of Britons having a statue in London.
Chimpanzee IQ Starts in the Genes
I would immediately switch from Google if I get the same integration between services, all encrypted and for free.
Are the logs of this scale and less-popular videos usually stored on SSD? I thought HDDs are still cheaper and RAID gives enough throughput given enough disks?
Many. Among which TeXmacs is a structured editor. You manipulate the structure of your document, from chapter, to sections, to environment, down to fractions and brackets all is an environment, which means that you cannot have, for example, (unwillingly) unmacthed brackets. Then TeXmacs contains the UI, the typesetter, an interface to other programs like computer algebra systems, an internal image editor, an internal versioning system, all in \sim 170MB (without other external dependencies). An is extensible via Scheme (much like Emacs is extensible).
How come you're so socially clueless?
Totally beside the point (which I agree with), but your bullet list renders horribly on mobile devices (lengthy horizontal scrolls >.<')
I've always been conflicted about that. They started down that path in response to intransigent OEMs leaving people with year old phones full of vulnerabilities, but it's turned into a justification to load all the important userspace into apps they control.

On the one hand, it's great that old phones see some updates. On the other, it's terrible that Google used it as an excuse to reject and weaken the very ecosystem that propelled them to where they are.

They've made some efforts to improve the ease of updating older phones for both OEMs and users, but they keep key components locked down.
I love js and was into it before it was cool. Only sad thing is the momentum to make it typed
That might be ok for some patents that require simple examples, but for complex patents that a working model would cost millions... Good luck getting an investor without a patent.
The civil war generals thing is different. Traitors should not be honored, and the honor was put in place reinforce the ideals and make it clear that those ideals still ruled. That is, black people need to know their place.

If someone wants to put up a statue of a confederate private soldier, who was kept poor by the exploitation of slaves in a feudal system, and answered the call and sacrificed anyway, that’s also different. And would say more about southern culture than the worship of Lee or a monster like Forrest.

The content of your politics doesn’t change whether folks are assholes or not. People pushing for eliminating challenging art are feeding their ego first.
Thanks for submitting. Unfortunately Sandstorm is basically dead at this point. I kept actively working on it for a while in my spare time after the company failed in early 2017, but I haven't found any time to do serious work on it in probably a year now. I do push monthly updates to keep dependencies fresh but that's about it.

Oasis takes in about $1800 per month, which is just about enough to cover serving costs and business expenses (e.g. annual tax preparation). For a while it was making only $800, with me making up the difference out-of-pocket. Then, last October I stopped offering a free plan. Remarkably, revenue more than doubled and has even gradually continued to increase over time -- I had expected a smaller spike followed by a drop-off.

But now it's getting to the point where it feeling really awkward to let people pay for a service that hosts a library of apps that mostly hasn't been updated in 2.5 years or more. In theory developers could still be updating their apps and submitting new ones, but basically the only app actually getting updates is Wekan. So, not sure how long long this can really continue... :(
The best Ive's product is the Magic Mouse... How could you put the charging port UNDER the mouse?
My question is, why would the US patent a secret technology? I don't think we patent the materials used on the F-35, etc... Those are top secret.
Japan apparently had their own atomic bomb project[0], but the military didn't consider it a priority so funding was scarce, and it was difficult to secure enough uranium.

[0]https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/japanese-atomic-bomb-...
BA in finance here. There are many factors that companies weigh when choosing countries to base their manufacturing from, only one of which is "stability" although there are many dimensions to this as well. Availability of labor force, costs, proximity to markets for product(s), etc. also determine where a company might base manufacturing. In the case of China, companies also might choose to place part of their supply chain there b/c it encourages the Chinese middle class to purchase their products.
Maybe it's not so much a problem related to future needs, than it is about discipline. Design an architecture for a framework, if the time comes when it doesn't work make a new framework instead of changing the architecture.

Look at jQuery. We are now in a new paradigm and jQuery hasn't changed, and should not change.
Zoho notebook might fit your bill - its basically a keep clone
Please remark the main web page at: www.texmacs.org
A fictional take on this that’s moderately entertaining is Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin. It’s a sequel to Children of Time which I liked a lot.
Morphological Irregularity Correlates with Frequency
It sounds a bit like teamwork.

The arms are part of a team. They are given orders by the head, and report to it. But other than that, they know their job and can communicate directly for simple tasks.

I can already imagine.

- Brain: prey ahead, advance!

- Tentacles: yes sir

- Tentacle 1: I'm pulling on a rock, get ready tentacle 2

- Tentacle 2: I grabbed the rock, you can let go tentacle 1, tentacle 3, get ready

- Tentacle 3: that rock feels weird, alerting brain

- Brain: not a rock, danger, I am shooting ink, let everything go and start swimming
It's a friggin high school. For people aged 14-18. They can not only deal with such content, they can actually learn from it.

(Isn't high-school curriculum full of literature that could be more disturbing anyway?)

It all sounds like a stupid exercise in virtue signalling at the cost of $600k to taxpayers + loss of a historical artifact + setting a dangerous precedent.
They recently stopped this pay per article model in favor of a subscription model for unlimited access.
To refresh your ideas on CL (I know I needed it): https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl There may be more libraries than you think. Also recently some usual complaints have been fixed:

- hard to set up environment ? -> http://portacle.github.io/ There's also Lem, and Atom is getting good. https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...

- horrible website ? http://common-lisp.net/ (they fixed it last year) Also http://lisp-lang.org/

- no cross-platform, featureful GUI library ? -> https://github.com/lispnik/iup/ (alpha) There's also Qtools for Qt4. And Ltk, but Tk lacks widgets.

- no object-oriented, generic math or equality operators ? -> https://github.com/alex-gutev/generic-cl/

- no decent library for numerical computing ? -> https://github.com/numcl/numcl

- waiting one month to publish your library into Quicklisp is too much ? -> http://ultralisp.org/

- lack of online beginner friendly documentation ? -> https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/
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This may work in France, but it’s shockingly bad in New York.

I’m unable to find addresses that it doesn’t think I mean Brooklyn or Queens instead of Manhattan. If I replace New York, NY with Manhattan, NY in the search, to try to stay out of Brooklyn or Queens, it ends up showing addresses in Europe instead.

For instance:

144 W 48th St, Manhattan, NY

Goes instead to:

144 Rue Frédéric Manhès (Champ-sur-Drac)

I haven’t deciphered how the search works to take me even to famous addresses in New York City, unless the address is in the place’s name.

If I try to find a hotel called “Grande Cloche” in Brussels, it’s the top result:

A la Grand Cloche

If I type Hilton NYC, doesn’t work, but Hilton New York does. Seems like it’s ok with literal names, not ok with addresses or geo names.

Of maps that work well for location finding, directions, and transit, in both Europe and America, Apple Maps seems relatively privacy preserving.
This article was entirely too negative, and neglected to mention some of the best outcomes from this project. Like the fact that BER is the world's most environmentally friendly airport: https://www.der-postillon.com/2019/06/ber-oeko.html

EDIT: </satire>
Let's add also:
as a software system (that is independent from TeX), TeXmacs is programmable on its own (using Scheme). Of course if you want to add functionalities to LyX you have to do it in the LyX way (and possibly in the TeX way).
Seriously, though, this pisses me off much more than 600k and appalling 1984-ishness of the act:

> And yet many of the school’s actual students seemed to disagree. Of 49 freshmen asked to write about the murals, according to The Times, only four supported their removal.

I mean, these are the only people who's opinion on the school exterior should actually count.
It has become a running joke around here.

Almost every German comedy series has a jab at it.
Might be different in the US given popularity of Apple software, but in the rest of the world, Microsoft Office suite is a fundamental tool in almost every office. I don't think it'll run on a Chromebook.

(And I mean the desktop version. O365 is dumbed down half-way to Google's Office Suite level - which is cool for an occasional document or spreadsheet, but is lacking both features and efficiency for professional use.)
What do they use to track all these faults?

Is there an issue tracker specific to physical engineering projects?
> These and other explanations from the board’s members reflected the logic of the Reflection and Action Working Group, a committee of activists, students, artists and others put together last year by the district. Arnautoff’s work, the group concluded in February, “glorifies slavery, genocide, colonization, Manifest Destiny, white supremacy, oppression, etc.” The art does not reflect “social justice,” the group said, and it “is not student-centered if it’s focused on the legacy of artists, rather than the experience of the students.”

There's enough horror in American history, and depictions of them, to keep these committees busy for a long time. Washington, Jefferson, the confederacy, westward expansion, and slavery were not very controversial historical topics just 60 years ago.

Think about all of the events/figures likely to offend at least one vocal group maybe not now, but in the future:

- Andrew Jackson (purveyor of genocide)

- Theorore Roosevelt (bloodthirsty militarist)

- WWI (unjust war)

- Transcontinental railroad (genocide's superhighway)

- Texas war of independence (slavery)

- Moon landing (cold war publicity stunt)

- The Manhattan Project (America's WMD program)

- Albert Einstein and FDR (for kickstarting the world's nuclear nightmare)

- Lyndon Johnson (genocidal maniac)

- George W Bush (bloodthirsty militarist and torturer)

- Barack Obama (architect of America's robotic warfare system)

- Donald Trump (basically everything he ever did)

- The Republican Party (for supporting Donald Trump)

Some of these events/figures seem like a stretch. Maybe they are, but a lot can change in 60 years. The point is that we now have ample evidence for very vocal groups calling for, and getting action on, suppression of vast swaths of American history in the form of artwork and symbols.
The first seems quite reasonable. The very public smokescreen would be to control the narrative. Every time someone reported seeing such a thing, the public could be told it is probably just the US working on UFO technology. Certainly I believe the average person without a science degree will not see just how impossible this patent is.

What's really odd is the reply of the patent examiner. It's almost like they are asking, "so just to make sure I understand you, this is quite impossible, right?". The military replied, "yeah of course it is, it would require more energy than could be produced by all the power stations on earth, even if the physics were sound. If it makes you feel better, we could add that we are doing this on battery power".
I don't know if it's because I've been reading and writing HTML for 20 years... but this looks very difficult to parse. I have to pay much more attention to what's going on.
What does this framework actually do?

The introduction bashes some malpractices of other frameworks, but it doesn't tell me why I would use this framework over Vanilla.js.
I've heard so many programmers tell me categorically that x way of doing things is the right and true way. I've always been skeptical of these viewpoints because they so often are wrong/baseless. It's human nature to put walls around what we know and do not know based not upon what is actually known or possible but upon how it makes us feel. Many people are naturally inclined to dismiss ideas because it makes them feel good, others to accept them and almost everyone is susceptible to group think. Negative knee jerk reactions are so frequently driven by psychology, by them vs us, that I find it very difficult to see any truth, or take anyone's opinion at face value. The older I get and the more I know about my specialities the more I see that so many people who profess expertise are merely wearing a mask and using it to score social points without any real commitment to truth and so often they are just... wrong.

But on the other hand I have been involved with some utterly clueless organisations - where the group think is so profoundly wrong and backward that it's a wonder they can get anything done...

So I would ask, can you point out a couple of things that I can fact check which are wrong with the patent? I'm no physicist, but have an msc in maths
Good to know that this exists.
I love LaTeX so much, and I've been using Overleaf for my projects.

As a student in Brazil, all my assignments have to be formatted in the ABNT norms. Doing it on Word is so annoying, so I used a LaTeX framework (abntex2) so I can only focus on the content and not on the formatting.
My point is: French folks are less interested in British social cohesion than British folks, so glorification of the invasion in France does not undermine rayiner's original argument that the British are de-emphasizing that part of their history for social cohesion's sake.
Nick Cave was asked what God's voice sounds like. His answer is beautiful
Re-posting my comment from my submission of this, here's a summary of the major changes from the last update (which was published 2.5 years ago):

- TLS 1.3 has been recommended across the board.

- The "Modern" configuration is TLS 1.3-only.

- The "Intermediate" configuration is TLS 1.3 and 1.2-only.

- The "Intermediate" configuration now only uses AEAD ciphersuites with PFS. No more 3DES, CBC, SHA-1, or static RSA key exchange.

- ECDSA certificates (using NIST P-256) are now recommended for the "Intermediate" configuration (in addition to the "Modern" configuration).

- Servers now respect the client's cipher preferences with the "Modern" and "Intermediate" configurations as all enabled ciphers should provide sufficient security. This allows clients without AES hardware acceleration to prefer AES-128 or ChaCha20 over AES-256 and vice-versa.

- The "Old" configuration drops SSLv3 and some uncommon ciphers (CAMELLIA, SEED, DSS). This loses support for IE 6 on Windows XP, bumping the minimum up to IE 8.

- X25519 is now the recommended curve for key exchange (followed by NIST P-256 and P-384). NIST P-521 is no longer recommended as it doesn't provide any major security benefit over the other curves, has less widespread support, and is slower.
Trump Says He’ll Allow China’s Huawei to Buy from U.S. Suppliers
SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack
I don’t understand this joke, why is it funny?
The leadPlayer() and chooseCaptain() example is not so good. My first instinct, as a DYNAMIC programmer, is "Why the hell is chooseCaptain() fed an empty list? You can't have a team with no players!" I think the article's proposed fix is painting over the real bug.
I live in Kansas City and the alt-right people definitely exist and I’ve had a long chat in person with at least one. It was even more bizarre because he was half Jewish and seemed really excited about an approaching race war, it was really shocking and scary to hear. It was also strange because he was convinced this coming race war would be fine for him because he “wasn’t raised Jewish”. For some reason I was convinced I could dissuade him, he stopped talking to me though. The vast majority of people I know, even the conservatives, are nothing like that though.
That's not a joke when you see the payslip every month and notice you give away 42% of your salary to the government.
Pope Francis sends German bishops 30-page letter
America’s Monopoly Crisis Hits the Military
Which services are your top 3? I am working on integration between email and calendar in my spare time :)
Social Network for Challenges Launches Beta on iOS
I’ve read that, and I helped develop and troubleshoot it. It’s a rather complex solution to the problem that POSIX is not particularly amenable to sandboxing. A good capability-based design can be sandboxed with no fuss at all.
Interesting. So what do they do with the materials afterwards? Landfill or melting or?
Just elaborating on this. One way of looking at it is that we turn the attacked program into an interpreter thus bypassing the requirement for executability.

It turns out that a lot of programs can be tricked into interpreting a family of languages called rop chains.
Ubuntu 18.04, the newest LTS, recently backported OpenSSL 1.1.1 to its stable package repository.

Because of this my personal webserver, running nginx on Ubuntu 18.04, started offering TLS 1.3 without any manual action on my part, because the server is configured to auto-apply updates from these repositories.
US students (general population as well) are way more stressed than students in other countries. Like way, way, way more stressed.

People respond to prolonged stress with aggression. Instead of doing surveillance, maybe think about ways to reduce student stress.

E.g. in Austria, the school is legally required to provide a day between two major tests (IIRC). In the US, lol, finals are crammed into like 3 days where you have major papers/projects due as well, so like 6 major things due in like 3 days is normal.

Maybe school is just supposed to prepare from being managed inefficiently.
Stuttgart 21 is another one: https://www.dw.com/en/stuttgart-21-germanys-other-engineerin...

And there's also Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie: https://www.ft.com/content/d59a5164-d41d-11e6-9341-7393bb2e1...

Basically boils down to: If politicians get to call the shots in any way, it's going to run way over budget. Pretty much every single time.

Most recent example was the bridge deconstruction in our small town. It was supposed to cost 80k Euros to completely deconstruct it. Actual cost was 150k and we have the pillars still standing around. It's just business as usual here in Germany.
Obligatory(?) "Unit testing without integration testing" pic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/5pbl2q/two...
This was being praised on NPR recently. The young host was ecstatically talking about how the CEO of some company says "we kinda gave up our rights to privacy with the digital age", and that these surveillance measures are able to spot trouble students.

The host then talked himself into making the comparison between this activity and how Russia treats surveillance, and confusedly asking his guest "wait, we're not like the Russians are we? That can't be right..." After some interaction, the host was eager to talk about the programs again.

Why are people so willing to give up their rights?
One thing I'm reminded of is the huge role of Red Hat in maintaining loads of open-source software. They get to choose what direction "linux" is taking by simply having paid developers put in a lot of time writing and maintaining software that everyone then adopts. So Wayland will get adopted by most distributions, just like SystemD because Red Hat will invest in it.