skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP never mentioned it was a production server. Also, sometimes, things get stuck, or you haven’t set up a pipeline to gather X data but y has happened, or there’s a deadlock in your source control host, or you’ve accidentally deleted the backup and the live service is the only copy of the data... all awful reasons and yet I’m sure they happen every day to people.
> I have never seen a "soot" accumulation

You're just generalizing your individual experience and it's just plain wrong. Very few people dismantle gas burners after every spill to properly clean around and under the burner plate so eventually there will be a burnt layer of soot. The uneven surface of a gas stove doesn't make cleaning too easy either.

A perfectly flat and smooth glass surface it's a lot easier to clean. It's a matter of wiping it, especially on induction stoves that don't really heat up that much. And in case of more serious neglect you can use a cooktop blade to scrape this soot.
Sight and hearing are completely different. We have high resolution in perception of audible frequencies, but perceive color in three wide bands. This means that resonance and overtones in sound can be perceived in a way they can't with light. The whole premise seems conceptually flawed to me.

It’s like attempting to play a chord progression by passing white noise through a three band equalizer.
Agreed, I see this as a good fit for micro service APIs where the consumers are just other parts of a larger system. APIs for front end or consumer facing applications would likely not fit this model so well
I should have said almost.
pokered and its derivatives have been on github for many years. As long as it stays to a small scope Nintendo seems content to let these small projects be. That could change at any second though. Clone while you can.
Any rebuttal of the actual data in the article rather than just calling out air quotes?
Thanks for the useful links Derek. I still remember your email to me, telling me you had started learning the language. I'd love to read a future blog post about your experience :)
Still amazes me that people actually spend time on such things :D. Decompiling 100 year old software whose source code most likely didn't look much different from what the decompiler spits out. What's the point?
Because they own a multi-million dollar asset? They can, worse case, take out a reverse mortgage and live happily ever after. There are better financial options available than a reverse mortgage but anyway you look at it they are rich.

What do you mean by "is not a real gain"?
A plant based substitute...? They aren't growing meat, have never claimed to be meat, and are marketing specifically to those who don't eat meat
Yeah, I’ve visited a couple dozen Supercharger locations and never seen solar either.

I think the main purpose of the batteries is just to cut down on demand charges. Even a smallish older Supercharger can pull 500kW if a bunch of cars arrive at once, and that gets pricey. I wouldn’t be surprised if they got fancier as you describe, though. If the capability is there, might as well use it.
Was just thinking about this today after trying the Impossible Whopper at BK last week, amazing timing.
The lawsuit alleges a lot more. For instance,that Musk was aware of and didn't make known the fact the the SEC was looking at Solar City's liquidity position, and that the whole Solar Shingle reveal was a fake to sway the shareholder vote,since the product doesn't exist,two years on.
Planning for Change: A Maps and Geospatial Information Services Survey
...are you incapable of explaining your reasoning yourself in less than, what is this, 5 pages of ad-filled text? I find it very difficult to take someone seriously who responds in this fashion.
I rewrote a Logo implementation in JavaScript in order to make a map of the train network in Taiwan.

http://peterburk.github.io/tra/

Existing maps were not bilingual, which caused me to take the wrong train and miss a concert. When I decided to redraw it, I wanted the map to not only have subway-style graphics, but also make the distance between the points be proportional to the time it takes a local train to travel between those stations.

If anyone else would like to use Logo to teach kids programming, and make time-proportional subway maps for other cities, please get in touch! I think it'd be a fun learning exercise.
Analog Spring Reverb: How it works
How to Build a PowerShell GUI for Your Scripts
Summary: Learn how to build a PowerShell GUI with a little PowerShell and free Visual Studio in this step-by-step walkthrough.

https://adamtheautomator.com/build-powershell-gui?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newblogpostnotifications
DNS Records Part 6: Examining the SRV Record
That's kind of misleading though, because they're counting water and "meat" separately. Water is itself a major component of cow musculature (50-75% percent, depending on the type of muscle), so this method would conclude that a slab of steak is mostly not-meat.

From a more culinary perspective, you do probably want some fat in your burger. Depending on your tastes, I'm not sure the presence of 'plant matter' is particularly sinister either; I, for one, like a few onions in mine.
I urge anyone who's interested in that kind of stuff to read "Allure of machinic life" by John Johnston [1]. A fascinating read that touches upon all strands of natural computing (soft / hard ALife, wetware, AI, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, behavior-based robotics, 1st and 2nd order cybernetics, theory of self-reproducing automata and whatnot) with a pondering touch of Deleuzian philosophy.

There's no mention of Barricelli though, but another equally interesting book [2] recognizes his pioneering work on artifical symbiogenesis (and that was back in 1953!), and speculates on its importance in the genealogy of computer worms and viruses.

[1]: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/allure-machinic-life

[2]: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/58766
I'm not relaxed about anyone interfering with our elections either a domestic private company or a foreign power.

Both subvert Democracy.

Russia is really a non-issue. They have a pittance in terms of economy and a handful of bots and phishing attacks didn't really do anything to change the election.

The stadiums of people that still come out for Trump supports this.

We should be worried about big tech. They are altering our elections through massive censorship of opposing views and search result tampering to change the definition of the 'truth'.

If the Ceos of these companies were Republicans, there would be endless lawsuits.
I think you are missing my point. Physical phenomena are not reducible to physical laws, and cannot be explained by the laws. You cannot derive a binary adder from the laws of electricity, and that is why computer engineering is not a field of physics, but is its own domain with its own set of laws.

As for Darwin's mechanisms, I'm not speaking from personal incredulity, but from what I see reading bioinformatics textbooks and what leading biologists write, not what we are taught in high school. Darwin's mechanisms are only given lip service, and when the rubber meets the road in practice they are completely ignored.
Agreed, I do this as well.

Also, Basecamp: https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-we-never-sold-basecamp-by-the...
The copyright status of explicitly decompiled source is still unproven in the US, as far as I know. SAS vs World Programming seems to indicate that decompilation followed by reimplementation over a wall is probably not infringing, but I don't think a case has been tried around the direct output of a decompiler (i.e. OpenRCT, this SM64, etc.).
This looks nice, but when you say "you'll enjoy using" it sounds like the "you" is a salesperson. As an enterprise software PM who works with a lot of CRMs from a partnership/integration perspective, I can tell you that whether or not salespeople like it doesn't matter.

CRMs are tools for sales managers (and folks further up in the hierarchy) to know what's going on in their org. An incidental benefit is that reps have useful views of what's going on with their prospects, but ease of use for them is just not a concern of the buyer (hence the wild success of Salesforce, which just sucks to use).

In some categories of enterprise software, ease of use is a benefit. I was at Box in the early days when one of the big value props is that people would actually use it, because at the time they were using unsanctioned tools like Dropbox. The issue there was that managers didn't have an easy well of telling when people were using those tools, so the idea that good UX would entice users to stick with company-approved software was a good selling point.

With CRMs, that's not the case. As a rep, you're judged on your performance, and the way people see your performance is via the information you put in your CRM. If you're tracking a bunch of leads outside of your CRM, your manager will know (because you have to keep them in the loop on your deals). Thus, there's no reason for sales management to be concerned about ease of use - their CRM is going to get used because the alternative is that the reps are going to get fired.

My impression based on your marketing pages and this post is that you didn't really take the time to understand the CRM market and buyers before you built this. Your $49/month for a whole team pricing structure makes no sense - companies are absolutely willing to pay more (and are very willing to pay per user). Having a price point that low is more likely to scare off serious buyers than entice them. The fact that all of your messaging is directed at a rep is a huge problem. You need to focus on things that matter to your buyers (reporting, lead routing, pipeline management, etc.). "Wobaka is the CRM system that will make you smile" is a bad tagline - the folks buying this don't care if the people using it smile. They care about money. If your product doesn't make money (by improving time to close and/or likelihood of close), then they're not buying it whether people smile or not.

The good news is you've solicited this feedback early, and the fact that you have a well-designed UI definitely isn't a bad thing. If I were you, though, I would stop development and spend most of your time getting this in front of people in sales management to see what their feedback is. Find out what problems they have with their existing CRMs and try to solve those.
> "Those who write should be judged by their words."

> "Doesn’t matter if they wrote wonderful children’s novels. "

Can you see the contradiction in your argument?
Tangent: I enjoyed www.fluentu.com when I was studying french. They provide tooling around YouTube videos and sub-titles in foreign languages.
There are many existing alternatives like 401(k).
McD's fries died the day they stopped using tallow.
beyond hype
Yeah, Bethany McLean is running Tesla hating content.

Or, hear me out, there's something to what these "haters" have been saying for years. Which is more likely?
These false equivalences are not helpful at all.
Except the author of that is incorrect that Zamenhof spoke "an Eastern Polish dialect". Yes, he lived in what is now Poland, but his primary languages were Russian and Yiddish. He was a polyglot, and knew French, German, and Latin as well, but it is unclear if he actually knew Polish at all.
We never sold Basecamp by the seat
>The CIA’s hands-off practice - which hasn’t been previously reported in the media - puts the UAE on an extremely short list of other countries where the agency takes a similar approach, former intelligence officials said. They include the four other members of an intelligence coalition called “The Five Eyes”: Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Canada.

Yeah, I call BS on this. There's no way the US doesn't spy on those four (or UAE for that matter).
and yes hilariously for a couple weeks it was illegal to run software.

This simplification of the legal case is just as bad or worse than a movie saying they found America's launch code by hacking the dark web (in the movie's defense, they were focused on the fighting and explosions, IT accuracy was not on the top 100 items of their priority list.) It was never illegal for a licensee to run software they had licensed on their own computers.

The issue was whether an unlicensed repair/maintenance company, Peak, could run MAI's OS while repairing customer computers. The 9th Circuit said no. Congress subsequently changed the underlying statute so that repair companies could run computer software as part of their repair/maintenance duties.
The linked biography claims that more places are named after von Humboldt than any other person ever. I don't know how that's quantified, and am surprised that it's not some royalty or religious figure
If I turn off your computer you cannot respond to me. Does that mean you are your computer?
> Your solution is to make real estate into just a rental from the state.

What's wrong with that? I'm not really sure where this idea that we have a 'right' to property ownership of land came from, especially when that property is largely a consequence of genocide.

A better solution would be distributed cooperative ownership of property with state oversight (avoids the perverse incentives of a powerful state), but that would require massive changes to the legal frameworks surrounding property---so I'm not sure it's likely anytime soon.
Ok, we'll make the novels explosive instead of the explosives novel.
> there’s an open-source model for parsing Google Street View, classifying the car parked and making precinct-level predictions.

I tried searching for this but wasn't able to come up with anything. Does anybody know what this is referring to?

Edit: Found this in another comment https://news.stanford.edu/2017/11/28/neighborhoods-cars-indi...
You're right about the switching costs if an SaaS provider goes under. But assuming $50/month is unsustainable for the feature set and service guarantees this company provides seems, well, to assume a lot. If they were trying to provide features competitive with Salesforce, maybe, but are they? (And can we really be sure that Salesforce would collapse if they weren't charging $150/user/mo for their "most popular" plan?)
The Two Generals' Problem
You think Musk was the first to propose reusable rockets?
One thing I've always been curious about: is there any sort of clear continuity of architecture or design patterns between the games in the Super Mario series? Yes, they're probably all from-scratch rewrites of the engine, but could each successive engine be said to be a "descendant" of a previous one, on a design level?

One thing I know (and can be seen in this repo) is that SM64 emulates a version of the NES/SNES "Object Attribute Memory", as a pure-software ring-buffer. (I'd love to know whether that carries on to later titles like Galaxy, 3D World, NSMB(U), Mario Maker, etc.)
Why are they false?
I live near a place with a similar story (not in California). The owner comes from a wealthy family and doesn’t care to rent it out at the moment. It has been empty for years.
Thank you! These are indeed valid reasons to have something like EpsilonGC.
> or you take the compiler optimizations as a hint that concerning yourself with this is mostly pointless, as long as you don't start passing huge structures by-copy.

That's exactly what the author did.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
That's the ironic part. The more valuable the local market is, the more incentive there is for some people to sit on their asses.

That tells me that taxes are too low. Not necessarily taxes for used property, but vacant/unused property could be taxed more effectively to promote development.
These are the plug types common in germany: the TypeF/Schuko [0], which does not close the circuit until it has sunk into the socket and the TypeC/Europlug[1] which has partially non-conductive prongs for the same reason.

You can also step on them, the rounded prongs and its general shape means they're unlikely to pierce your soles.

I don't know what the situation in america is, but here residual current circuit breakers[2] are also common.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Schuko_p...
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Euro-Fla...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device#Purpos...
I have some bad news for you: There are developers of the Linux kernel who deploy anti-fuzzing techniques (CRCs, which is a surprisingly effective anti-fuzzing-technique) and think it's a good idea to reduce the number of people reporting fuzzing-bugs:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=152410224900838&w=2
The ingredients list (by law, in order of abundance) is available at http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutrition1/ingredientslist.pd....

> White boneless chicken, water, food starch-modified, salt, seasoning [autolyzed yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (botanical source), safflower oil,dextrose, citric acid], sodium phosphates, natural flavor (botanical source).

The only real space in that list for fillers to be found is the food starch, but it's less abundant than water, so if there were a bunch of fillers, it'd be pretty soupy. (Its typical use is as a binder, and it'd make sense for it to serve that purpose in a nugget - you're not going to manage to make a white-meat nugget without some.)

There is certainly a texture difference between a whole-chunk nugget and one made from pureed meat, but you'd see the same sort of texture difference if you ground up a filet steak, too.
My greatest regret with the rise of Amazon is the fall of used bookstores. No pastime compares to browsing a hole in the wall bookshop with creaky floors and narrow passageways where books of every variety climb the walls as far as the eye can see in all directions.

Though Amazon's policies are a mystery to me, I very much doubt they will never recommend a book to you that isn't still in print and/or available as new. I also suspect they'll downplay publishers or authors who have lost favor with them for some commercial or legal reason.

Personally, I hate having my view of the world curtailed by giant corporations whose motive is only profit.
This is why we should allow medicaid buy in.
IMO it should be illegal to differentiate between these things. What you do outside of your job is outside. Whether your chosen form of relaxation happens to make money or not shouldn't be for your employer to care about.
The keyboard keys fit the shape of your fingers.
> What's the point?

Mods! Much easier to modify source code than a compiled binary.
I’m sure the following statement will lead to my e-crucifixion, but:

As much as I love dogs (RIP to my passed, canine buddy), I think the “take your dogs everywhere” thing is out of control now. Maybe that’s not that dangerous of a sentiment, but I shouldn’t have to dodge your dog in the supermarket.

At what point do we as a society start pushing back on this?
The models and sounds aren't copyrighted? Because they are totally within the GitHub, there...
They are strongly right-leaning. Their selection of information that they present is heavily biased in its selection, but I believe that the statistics they present are true.

I don't think they would call anyone the "lower races" though. That was a quote from an 1800's biologist. They (the site editors) probably do believe that people of African descent are a bit stupider than other folks. Not sure whether they (the site editors) would believe it is genetic or cultural. It's not like anyone is surprised that an 1800's colonialist would use such language.

The statistics they present, on the whole, are still a useful bit of information to read. A lot of the information they have on gun control was both surprising and trustworthy. Just make sure they're not your only source- it would not be balanced. They are a bit malicious in their selection bias. They might be a gateway drug to the alt-right, but they also present a lot of information that other media specifically avoids because it is inflammatory and bad for business.
Thanks! Literally never heard of the other 3 you mentioned. Guess they don't get much press!!
Experience Doesn’t Predict a New Hire’s Success
It would be great if this could be done for games where the source code was lost.

Like Panzer Dragoon Saga.
It's mostly just the best supported language out of the box on the "default" distro. It comes with the Python REPL Thonny, Python libraries to control the GPIO, a version of Minecraft scriptable with Python, and a bunch of example games with Python source.

It also ships with Mathematica, Ruby (via SonicPi), and Scratch.
Not a Clojure Data Scientist, but I would imagine a functional programming language would lend itself well to data consumption and transformation.
Why should the people that saw the biggest increase it net worth be protected from the taxes everyone has to pay?

A better solution would be offering up a property lien instead of taxes. The govt collects when the property is eventually sold. People get to stay in their home and property taxes remain fair.
> When you put it that way, the solution is obvious

When it's put in an ideologically biased way that ignores practical solutions to paying taxes on an increasing property value, it implies another ideologically biased solution that favours the material interests of the rich...

Sure.
Those WERE the cheeseburgers in the photo. Those are the garbage cheeseburgers we are talking about.

If you make a burger out of lean ground chuck, a whole grain bun and real cheese that is a different discussion.

Also, the burgers pictured (McDonald's cheeseburgers) are only ~250 calories, so I don't see how that is one-quarter of your daily food intake.
The Liberator(?) Was entirely plastic I believe. Not just the lower. It may have had a metal firing pin.
perfunctory - I've read through some of your submissions and enjoy your work! How did you come across "The Thirty-Hour Week" from CQ Press?
Oh those were the days.

Related: "Installing Linux on a Dead Badger" (2004)

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/installing-l...
I haven't seen this anywhere on the scale that I see it in California. It's largely due to tax reasons. Prop 13 allows property to not ever have the property tax exceed a certain percentage of the ORIGINAL purchase price. If you bought a half acre parking lot in Hollywood for $20k in 1960 -- even though it's worth $20M today -- your tax bill is likely less than $1k a year.

You might look at these places and see wasted capital. Why not cash out? Well, what would you do when cash out? Invest the money and try to make a better return than you're currently making.

Yes, these parking lots don't make much money WRT to their value. No body would buy a half acre land today and put a parking lot on it. So why do they exist?

The little money they make is usually more than they can get as a percentage of the value invested in any other safe asset. For example, a parking lot of that size might only make $2K profit per day, but because the taxes are essentially $0, you're generating a return of 4% per year. That might not sound impressive compared to equities, but you have to remember that the land is also increasing in value -- currently at about the same rate as equities.

Further, you have to consider that profits from land sales are taxed as capital gains. The return on equities includes dividends, which are taxed as income, which is taxed at a higher rate.

I'm not as familiar with New York tax code, but it might have similar laws to appease aristocrats. Other than these areas, it's really a pretty recent phenomenon for land to be as expensive as it is and increasing in value at the rate it is. I'm sure a lot of it is just owners unsure of what to do in this strange environment.

Take Texas for example -- until very recently, land was plentiful and very cheap. If you had a poorly utilized piece of land, there wasn't a lot of reason to try to figure out what to do with it.