skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just give me platooning on highways and approximately 95% of my personal use cases for self driving cars are satisfactorily fulfilled. And the problem is vastly simpler to solve.
> It's not a full-time job for any OpenBSD developer, either, but they do seem to do a better job of this than on Linux;

don't blame the linux kernel, we're just waiting on the dbus interface, gnome3 applet, and systemd binary + unit files before we integrate /etc/grub.conf.d/entropy.d/randomseed.d/grub-entropy-randomseed.conf and it's good buddy systemd-enable-grub-conf-d-entropy-d-randomseed-d.target into the Loobuntitis GNU/Linux Kubernetes CloudPaaSOS 2019.07.18 'doofy nerdguy' LTS Server release.

OpenBSD guys are clearly antiquated and using old modes of thinking with such a simplistic and neanderthal like design of having a system wide library installed in a single location without a dynamic json configurable runtime rest api endpoint.
Netflix Is Losing U.S. Subscribers for the First Time in Eight Years
China has been cooking the books on their GDP for years: https://geopoliticalfutures.com/china-admits-its-statistics-...
I think I can answer #3 for you!

Preventing deforestation isn't generally (primarily) about preventing more carbon from being released. The wood probably isn't go to end up in the atmosphere any time soon regardless -- it'll go to building homes, etc. However, each tree chopped down is one less tree doing precious carbon fixing, ie, one less tree removing the atmosphere carbon that was already released.
Privacy only makes money from interchange so it's understandable that they wouldn't forego their revenue model by having to pay the interchange themselves (merchant pays interchange for each transaction). I assume this business model is also why it's not available in the EU, as they regulate Visa/MC by limiting how much interchange they can take.
Excellent point - what better way of advertising than to let some stories leak to mass tech media that you may hit a lottery, and if you do, Amazon won't take it away?
Why would one assume a stock analyst knows what makes a good truck?

Especially, when Seeking Alpha analysts have been so wrong in predicting Tesla sales so far.
Daily web dev news: Sticky table headers, Contextual Alternates OpenType feature
I agree that some stereotyping might be happening, though there are several cases of aggression that fuel it.

1. Tiananmen Square was a brutal massacre that gives a visceral reaction

2. The hunting of the Falun Gong practitioners seems insane. I had a friend in the US whose family members were disappearing and were being harassed in the US. They were getting phone calls with recordings of their wiretaps.

3. China is holding ethnocidal camps for the Uyghurs

4. China threatens war quite often, whether it be about disputed islands in the South China Sea or even whether China should get to artificially set currency exchange rates. (I understand that the US is practically speaking much more belligerent, though many US citizens may be blind to their own behaviors)
We shouldn't compare creation of languages to frameworks. If you look at back end frameworks, like web MVCs or ORMs, each language usually only has one or two major players.
Actually, most buildings constructed in the last 10 years in big cities are expected to only last 20-30 years before being razed and redone. Chinese construction technique leverages cheap surplus uneducated labor, so they overbuild on concrete to compensate, meaning the buildings will fall apart faster anyways.

The officials see this as a feature: real estate is just a huge jobs program, and the fact that they have to do it again just means more jobs on the future. Incidentally, the same construction techniques are used in India for the same reason, and hence are exported to Singapore and the Middle East so they can leverage Indian migrant construction workers
It's both a matter of perception and of tooling.

Consider the Java ecosystem. Dependency targets are specified by coordinates of both group and artifact, which satisfies the above separation fairly well, to the best of my knowledge.

Consider the NPM and rubygems ecosystems: they specify dependencies by the name of the library alone, implicitly enforcing the 'authorized artifact' model.
1. Most of the technology we work on and with is manufactured in China

2. A significant fraction of engineers, especially in the Bay Area, are of Chinese heritage at some level. By extension, users of HN.

3. Things happening in China have an effect elsewhere, like the US.

I don’t personally like China all that much as a political or cultural influence these days, but that’s just me. Given that, it’s not smart to discount what’s going on there.
Still technically "artificial" and a form of "intelligence"!
Check the Ice Tower cooler for raspberry pi https://youtu.be/RyUXC3886Ic
The top officials and the establishment of HK successfully created a bubble for themselves over the years, deceiving some people, but more worrisome, themselves as well.

That's my take of it.

When mainland affiliated media and publishers control much of the market, it's easy to be mistaken.

Not saying the British hasn't done the same thing during colonial rule, but we have the Internet now...
I’ve been seeing the same article here rehashed since I was in elementary school over 20 years ago.

I trust CCP statistics as much as I trust western reports about China. Which is to say, not at all.

China probably isn’t as rich or powerful as it projects, but it’s also clearly not as weak and fragile as American media has been hoping all these decades.
You get more aesthetic visuals from H3.

S2 cells distort quite heavily depending on which part of the globe you're mapping.
We will review that statement in 30 years!
Near imperceptible? 99% secure is 100% insecure.
Because foreign investment in real estate can massively distort prices for domestic market participants, which can lead to a variety of other negative affects for the communities affected by that investment.

One could argue the same applies to investment properties by Americans who do not live in those communities, but it seems like an acceptable line to draw I suppose.
Most Egyptologists do not think the pyramids were built by slave labor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt
Specify ways on how to avoid Motioney Review or fix the problem so that the viewers know that your business is aware of how to combat an issue that arises. Because they are following specific instructions provided by your company, offer an incentive for them. Their time and effort is just as precious as yours so be sure to incorporate something to drive them to follow through with it.

Along with the how-to video add a list of some things to avoid with the instructions. The viewers will appreciate the heads up before they embark on this task. It would be extremely helpful to relate the content to a current event or a factor that everyone will be able to recognize. Doing so will drive them even more to want to complete the task at hand. Incorporate all of these elements of multimedia, visuals, and how-to videos and you can ensure a successful blog. After these have been taken into consideration, target as many groups as possible.

If you have a knack for making great video content for your products and services than you've already won half the battle. The other half is optimizing your videos so they have a better chance of being found in YouTube's search engine, otherwise your customers will never find it. What's the point in producing quality content for your video marketing strategy if nobody is going to see it anyways.

These 8 tips will help you optimize your YouTube videos so you can get as many views as possible. Aim to make a viewer watch the video for at least the first 8 seconds. This is a crucial time to engage a viewer because if they wander off before those 8 seconds, that view doesn't count towards your total view count on YouTube. Get their attention first and save your biography for later.

https://i-review.net/motioney-review/
How would you subvert Greenspun in large codebases without Common Lisp? I once used Drools the rules engine which used a dynamic scripting language on Java objects. Python could have replaced that language, with much better tooling, errors etc.
HK will be completely integrated into the mainland by 2047, at least according to the treaty DXP signed with Thatcher.
Another easy one is asking about their favorite wine/beer, seeing if they seem interested in it's similarities and differences to other styles, and can reasonably defend why this is their choice. I usually feel like people who can talk about these things 1. In relation to food/flavor and 2. In relation to setting/mood have at least a reasonable amount of interest.
I think this is called Plumb CFB. It was invented by Colin Plumb back in the day. I first saw it in their FDE products which didn’t have a good IV generation process (kind of acting like a replacement for XTS or a wide block cipher) and no, I don’t know what it’s for.
When I try to turn it on, a dialog box pops up, telling me to go to some att website or dial 611. I think att because Cricket piggybacks off them.
In the Netherlands this also happened some times on webshops.

And everytime a judge ruled people had to bring the goods back or should pay the full amount.

The reason is that it is very clear for the buyer it is a mistake. And almost all webshops have a legal notice about wrong or false prices.
What logical reason is there to imprison 1 million Uyghurs in detention camps and to restricting travel and to separate husbands from wives and to separate young children from their parents. Where is the logic in doing what can only further alienate the Uyghur population? Where is the value in it?

That sure looks like cartoonish villainy to me.
China is a fascinating experiment of modern state capitalism. But it is also reliant on globalism, and a recession crisis will be felt globally.
Or, if they limited bandwidth to the actual expected behavior, like the previous comment suggested, everyone would get the service they pay for regardless of device. The only ones who don't want that are the providers who want plans to be as confusing as possible.
Hey, if you're feeling bad about it, I'll be happy to get it from you at $200
Sometimes credit cards are used kind of like collateral... when you stay at a hotel, for example... you give the hotel a credit card for 'incidentals', and it is basically being used as a guarantee that you will pay for things you are going to use. Car rentals are the same.

In a sense, it is your credit card limit is basically your credit card company saying "yeah, this person is good for x amount of money". That isn't much for a prepaid card.
Yeah, and trhey also run child prostitution rings out of their evil hotel pizza parlors.

Lengths to which the SV crowd would go to pretend that it is not absolutely, thoroughly, and irredeemably morally bankrupt are truly scary...
That sounds odd just because bouncing a high percentage of transactions sounds like something Visa/MC wouldn't be too happy about.
> as opposed to systematic slaughter of said minorities.

By "early Nazis"? No.

And the purpose isn't restricted to the people in them, it goes way beyond murder.

> While the separation of inmates into categories was merely a tactical-organisatory measure for the the purpose of administration of the camps, the arbitrariness of committal demonstrates the essential principle of the institution as such. The existance of a political opposition is just a pretext for the concentration camp system, and its purpose is not achieved when the population more or less voluntarily conforms as consequence of the most monstrous deterrence, that is, to give up its political rights. The arbitrariness has the purpose to deprive those under the totalitarian regime of all their rights as citizens, which finally become as outlawed [vogelfrei] in their own country as otherwise only the stateless and homeless. The deprivation of humans of their rights, the killing of the juridical person in them is just a precondition of their being totally controlled, for which even voluntary agreement is a hindrance.

-- Hannah Arendt

That was true in China even before those camps, and that people with a cartoon understanding of history, concentration camps, Nazism, just about anything related to this, roll their eyes at "making" someone a "villain" is as predictable as it's their own fault.
This is Bloomberg, the same news site that made outrageous and still-unsubstantiated claims about hardware backdoors in Supermicro's motherboards. Sadly this kind of media drives profits and with no repercussions has become par for the course with companies like Bloomberg.
> Fixing /dev/urandom to block until enough entropy is available once causes breakage like in the article.

... not to mention it is the entire point of /dev/urandom ..
if you want something to block for entropy, you use /dev/random. if you are using /dev/urandom, you are saying I want something 'randomly random' and I'm okay if I can't get something random enough..
They simply don’t have the framework to regulate those kinds of things, however. And it doesn’t really fit with the economic liberalism that has been pretty constant since it’s founding.
Yeaaaahhhhh..I found that option while searching, but I don't want to risk messing up my phone
Other US cities. According to this article Austin is the 14th most congested city in the US.

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-cities-with-most-traffic-2...
That walrus operator has given me exactly what I wanted from C. Although I'd have preferred:

if val = expr():
.. just had a not so pleasant flashback to the thoughts occurring while watching a web server log for a porn site when I worked in web hosting..
Only tangentiao related but funny story. While visiting a college campus in China in 2012 our tour guide remarked about one of the dorm buildings... "This building is very old! Built in the 1980s!". I thought that was funny after growing up in New England.
You can turn it on in the settings. I have it on a couple of servers.
Calling it a Dropbox replacement is inaccurate, it is a decentralised file synchronization system. A Dropbox replacement would be Nextcloud
Yes, but China is highly unlikely willing to start or pour in more oil into the fire considering her current economic situations.

Hong Kong is not as important as in 20 or 30 years ago, but it's not Xinjiang either.
How to resolve HK chaos in two easy steps:
1. Scrap the extradition draft
2. Resign
I've heard a lot about privacy.com for this kind of thing lately (seems similar to bank of america's "shopsafe" feature?), and I have a question: even if your card fails to process, if you've entered a contract to a pay a subscription fee to a service provider, are you not legally bound to pay up? not that most services would bother trying to collect, instead opting to shutter your account -- but, in theory, is the legal liability still there?
The “one China” philosophy is a pretty core government tenet. If Hong Kong exercises its independence it could exacerbate other territories/provinces that want independence like Tibet and Taiwan (whose residents seem to pretty explicitly consider themselves a different country)

One the other hand, military action could plausibly cause long-lasting international upset.

I don’t envy Xi Jinping’s position.
300 true random bits is a lot. Even something like 128 bits is unbreakable with available hardware.
25 cents you mean? :)
I have a lot of (my own, highly speculative and uncertified) thoughts on this, and if you'll indulge me in some cynacism I'll try to highlight what doesn't feel quite right.

If you're curious about how this is developing, try Black Desert Online. It's a really remarkably polished game that is truly unique. It's a PvP action fighting game encapsulated by an immersive RPG with a load of different ways to play the game.

It's almost terrifyingly well crafted.

There is a startlingly well designed progression system pivoted around raising your attack and defense rating to fight against other players in the various fields of battle. In every one of the sub routines within this intricate Skinner Box there is an efficiency modifier which can be metered through the use of USD,

All of these sub routines inevitably connect at the central purpose of pumping black stones, or as I'll refer to them, probability stones into your gear with a chance of either raising their rating, lowering their rating, or in certain cases destroying them completely. Sometimes the undesired outcomes can be negated through further remittance of USD, for this and certain other mini-games as well.

There is a tightly controlled exchange of goods through a central system (which collects a tax unless you pay for a buff every month), with only a small number of consumable items being transferable between players.

You are utterly economically isolated in the game.

This is not a new phenomenon, but I think it's clearly evolving.

Casinos were built on it, and so are many of these so-called "Korean MMOs".

Pearl Abyss has enjoyed massive success and, to my dismay,
has purchased CCP Games, developer of EVE Online.

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131494/behavioral_gam...

I hope these system designs are less insidious than my experience has led me to believe.

Edit: I'll add that I've read supposedly regulatory action is being taken, I read somewhere that China was or is imposing a rule for disclosure of probabilities in at least some circumstances. Not confident on veracity.

Curiously, in certain regions there are apparently varying or no limits on purchase of "cash shop" items, while in others (like NA) there are. Also worth noting that within the game, players who've paid the most into the cash shop are called "whales".

Edit2: Last I looked they boast a player base in the 2-3 million range.
The customer is always right. Doubt Amazon will do anything about the customers that already received their merchandise. Hard learned lesson for Amazon and probably sucks to be the engineers dealing with the postmortem.
Syncthing is not a Dropbox replacement, but it is an excellent file syncing system (more similar to BitTorrent Sync). I use it to sync my main source code directories and .emacs.d, and it does a tremendous job of that.

I'm looking at the practicalities of offering a hosted Syncthing service, as I've begun doing something like that just for my company. I think that if commodity Syncthing hosting becomes a reality, Syncthing is basically unbeatable.
My price-matching experience is — consistently — that a manager is called over to okay a displayed competitor's price on my phone, and the manager simply gives the okay without questioning or validating. I've never had a competitor's price cross-checked.

Based on this, I think I could cheat at least slightly if I were immoral.
FBI and FTC to Investigate FaceApp over Data Stealing
Beyond the older-than-35 reason, I think a lot of folks are used to the rate of new features because there was a 5 year period where everyone was on 2.7 while the new stuff landed in 3.x, and 3.x wasn't ready for deployment.

In reality, the 2.x releases had a lot of significant changes. Of the top of my head, context managers, a new OOP/multiple inheritance model, and division operator changes, and lots of new modules.

It sucks that one's language is on the upgrade treadmill like everything else, but language design is hard, and we keep coming up with new cool things to put in it.

I don't know about Python 3.8, but Python 3.7 is absolutely amazing. It is the result of 2 decades of slogging along, improving bit by bit, and I hope that continues.
Hallelujah! Prices are out of reach for most people. This is great news.
Every time I read about China I never know it's just western propaganda or not (true vice versa ofc)
Very good, especially for those of us in Southern California where foreigners have been purchasing a ton of property with cash. It’s tough to compete.
OP said “without”.
BMW ReachNow car-sharing service shuts down
I'm well aware of the history, thanks for the link. We are in a comment section of an article on this latest print and I was responding to a comment which says it doesn't trust the official figures.

Provided evidence to the contrary.

Do you think this GDP number is wrong and if so by how much?
i wonder if it would be possible to drop the requirement of a discovery server. i'd like syncing to work in a LAN without internet access. it should be possible to use zeroconf for the discovery.
The treaty promises that Hong Kong would keep its separate system of government until 2047, but I don't believe it specifies what happens after that. It's hard to predict what will happen, but I doubt if it will instantly become like any other Chinese city.
Which would then give them an excuse to send in the military.
I just like to thank the excellent responses here. They are food for thought and have reconsidered my view. It's a shame there's not more turnkey options for popular linux distros.
How to Decorate Your House Using Vastu Guidelines? Vastu Solution
yes, i have the yellow one. it looks awesome, but i'm really longing for some post-apocalyptic touches (think Metro rather than Fallout). don't have an airbrush though, nor do I know how to use one. So this will have to wait...
I could have sworn that hackernoon had actually interesting content a few years ago and wasn't just another hyping tool to drive up the price of crypto.
You're missing the forest for the trees. The deeper metrics are important for diagnosis. The business metrics are what you care about.

I'd phrase your advice differently as well: monitor on contact points. Monitor where rubber meets road. Monitor where two components interesect, be it between teams working on frontend and backend components, your application and it's database, or low level metrics - the system API. I've found many interesting problems and averted several potential crises because I saw that the metrics things like requests looked different between the client and server, the system metrics and my applications, etc. Contact points are what's important, and it just happens that every (Figuratively) application has a contact point with the OS.
good news is that you can remedy that now by using lambda@edge to rewrite requests - there's even an aws blog post about it: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/implementing-default-di...
China scrambles to stem manufacturing exodus as companies leave
I use whatever keyboard comes with whatever computer I sit in front of. The obvious values are flexibility and minimalism: I don't depend on a specific piece of hardware that I would have to carry around.
Taiwan is effectively a different country. Tibet used to be in a different country until China invaded in the 1950s.
what logical reason is there for violence and bloodshed?

Democracies tend to be more stable than dictatorships because there's a relief valve for massive public dissent - ie elections. Dictatorships often meet their end suddenly, because a revolution is the only mechanism they have to change things. It's therefore better to quell a rebellion violently and cover it up later, than risk the spread of discontentment.

The reason it's not being put down bloodily (as is typically the case) is because it's an issue confined to Hong Kong with a low chance of spreading. If it dud spread over the border, things would be different.
I'm talking about this figure. Asking for evidence to the contrary that it's not 6.3%. If so what do you think it is? 3%? 2%? Perhaps 6.1%?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-25/china-s-l...
> I would hate to see future generations of programmers suffer just because the current generation apparently can't be arsed to do something like write one single, short extra line of code every now and then.

Every now and then? If you look at the example in the post, you'll see it saving one line of code per branch of the if-elif ladder.

Python code is characteristically tall, and this saves a lot of lines, and it saves them all in exactly the same way.