skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "At the outset of this investigation, it was anticipated that we would find evidence of candid discussions among [Backpage] principals about the use of the site for juvenile prostitution which could be used as admissions of criminal conduct," wrote McNeil and Swaminathan in their 2013 update. "It was also anticipated that we would find numerous instances where Backpage learned that a site user was a juvenile prostitute and Backpage callously continued to post advertisements for her. To date, the investigation has revealed neither."

So, they found no evidence for the things that Backpage was alleged to have engaged in. And they decided to bring charges anyway?

There was a similar situation up in Seattle where a group of sex workers and clients got busted. Police referred to the operation a human trafficking ring and called the women sex slaves. The was no evidence that the women had any nonconsensual sex - the police justified their allegations that these women were enslaved by pointing out that some of the women were in the US on expired visas and that it is policy to assume that sex workers on expired visas are victims of human trafficking. This eventually led to one of the clients killed himself.

It's pretty astounding how much damage people are willing to cause to keep people from selling sex.
If the postage was appropriately priced for the size and weight of his packages then the USPS didn't lose anything from his clever plan.
And god help you if that starts your autoscaler to flapping.

Too much CPU load, start some servers. Too little, kill some servers. Oops now CPU is too high, bring them back. No, it's too low...

It reminds me of the old UI bug where you get an off-by-one error for scrollbar logic and so it appears and disappears in a cycle until you resize.

Edit: I think we want something akin to a learning thermostat, but for servers. Figure out that I get a CPU spike at 5:20 on week days and spin some servers up at 5:10. Then spin em down at 8:00 when EST starts to go to bed.
They joined because they could see how harming some states in certain scenarios benefits the EU as a whole.
No. I feel fine. Just a bit hungry around dinner time.
We have been using for about 3 years now. Myself and the two other devs enjoy working in it more than the other languages we use (Ruby, Go and vanilla JS).

Upgrades have been pretty painless, and each new release brings a new level of ease of use.

We have made some architectural mistakes as we have learned the language. And since it is a newer language there are not as many established conventions for code organization – but we are figuring out.
Oh? I assume you have a source to back that up. All accounts I’ve seen (wikipedia and the timeline on iter’s website) show that it is due to global politics, namely due to the US’s withdrawal (which was not motivated by finances).

You seem like you have a strong narrative you’re sticking to. Is there something you’d like to disclose?
Nothing new under the sunset. https://gcemetery.co
In particular, Peloton's target market is overwhelmingly female. You won't find it in this S1, but this alone is why you can straight up disregard everything you will read on HN today about their business model.

No, it turns out women don't buy carbon bikes, a standalone trainer, wrench a cassette on it, put the bike on, hook up a tablet somewhere, install a power meter, ... it's the ole "rsync is superior to Dropbox".
I think it makes sense.

Not to get too "ad-speaky", but people aren't buying something like this to be entertained, they're buying it because it promises them a better life. Peloton aren't selling content, they're selling the idea of being in shape and healthy.
I've been used to eating one huge meal (or one huge meal and a snack) per day for years, but I've recently realized it's not been very good for me (other than it possibly keeping my weight low).

For one, I seem to have a much higher chance of feeling tired if I eat a lot at once, compared to spaced out smaller meals. And two, this often manifests as me working/programming all day without eating anything until nighttime, having a huge meal, and then falling asleep. This typically leads to trouble sleeping, indigestion, and a general bleh feeling the next morning.

I've started moving to 2 - 3 smaller meals per day, and I find I have a lot more energy during the day, with no grogginess after meals and no issues with sleep. Though it seems a 24-hour fast gives me the most energy out of everything. And I agree continuous snacking is probably not great.
As to why it became occult, one of my favourite versions is that phi was used for engineering and one of the easiest ways to get phi is to draw a pentagram, but this was a trade secret, so one of the first things you do when drawing plans for a new church is draw a pentagram, measure off phi, then erase it.
If you blocked all cookies, you can't establish a session on any sites at all. If can accept that,what's the problem with blocking them?
Huawei Wants to Replace Android with Russian OS ‘Aurora’
There’s a WhatsApp bridge?
There’s a couple writeups on the web. Here’s one I used:

https://www.sippingandshopping.org/my-peloton-bike-alternati...

Presumably that post has affiliate links. It’s not my page.

I guess they’ve raised the subscription price. I think I’m grandfathered in at $13/mo paid via iTunes which I preload with discounted iTunes cards to knock another 15-20% off the price paid.

I do wish I had the metrics and integrated solution. Maybe I’ll upgrade someday.
Churn rate is better than I would have guessed.

Losses going up 4x year over year to $200m on $1b in revenue is pretty insane though.
This product was fairly recent if I'm not wrong, just slightly over 2 years old
Job Demand for React vs. Angular vs. Vue
> "Banana republics" have laws, too, but I doubt most of the populace appreciates them, since they are written by dictators.

Dictators acting in the interests of the giant multinational corporations that support them. Did you look at the links I posted? I think you're imaginging some sort of firewall between "market" and "government" but no such separation exists. Buying politicians, funding armies, and bribing dictators are all simply economic activities with pros and cons that — in the absence of stern regulation prohibiting — corporations are happy to do.
What city are you in? Here in Portland, spin classes are more than double that. I think Peloton's market overlap is a combination of people who would sign up for Spin classes at a dedicated studio, people who would sign up for Spin classes at a nice gym that gives them as part of a membership, and people who think cycling is a good workout and have high disposable income, but no desire to join a real class or gym of any kind.

It's obviously not for people like me who would happily buy a set of used free weights for a few hundred bucks if I had a garage or basement.
"in theory, the microwaves can exert force against the walls of the chamber to produce enough thrust to propel a spacecraft once it’s in space"

actually no, there is no theory for how it produces thrust. theory (ie mainstream physics) says that it shouldn't. what is curious is that thrust was (apparently) measured. it is likely an error, but it sure would be cool if it wasn't. keeping an open mind :)
Death to the Carousel
Researchers Create Polymer That 'Self-Destructs' Upon Completing a Mission
Demosclerosis
Chrome also has "copy as curl command" option built in: https://i.imgur.com/Ie9Zvjd.png
Appreciate the courage. Can't speak for Jordan Peterson, but there are some of us that don't have a lot of time for or interest in browsing reddit in general and political subreddits in particular. We very rarely see a Pepe meme.
better link IMO, since it has sources instead of newsbite fluff: https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/bank-of-ver...
this is a trade off between cost and speed of delivery - shipping out of China I have the choice of many different carriers - for example I can use cheap (and slowish) China Post, or faster and $6 more PostNL who will also give me tracking - I give my customers the cheap China Post for free and charge $6 for PostNL

(in the near future if US mail prices go up I may be forced to charge US customers more, I may also have to raise prices to US customers if I find that Trump's sanctions start to apply to small packages and I'm stuck paying from my end)
Change of Maintainers of the Linux LTS Kernel Trees
Will check those out, thank you.

I can't fathom the odds of a sudden abiogenesis event. If that truly is the source, this can't have been the first cycle of the universe and we are almost certainly the only germline that exists.

It would have to be an undisturbed progression of natural reactions that culminate in what we know as life. It likewise seems very unlikely, but if that happens life is probably all over the universe and still looks a lot like us.
This is really hard to do because it involves a myriad of ad networks and payment systems. Others have tried to solve it but maybe Brave can? Dunno.
Companies are going to avoid new Google offerings given this behavior.

They marketed Hire by Google hard. Glad we didn't sign up and waste integration effort on this.
I think for that you might want to research Protein sparing modified fasting, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein-sparing_modified_fas...

Gist of it is you still cut significant calories only eating like 500-800 a day in mostly low fat protien rich foods. Targeting only enough protien to avoid muscle wasting.

While I'm no doctor or nutritionist, my understanding is that it's for that case, you want some of the benefits of fasting like going into ketosis while maintaining lean mass.

Unfortunately I'm on my phone only this week so I can't try and find any studies about it, but I came across it first in connection with type 2 Diabetes. So you might have some luck googling those topics for more info.
What's "and friends" here? Not everywhere WhatsApp is unavoidably strong, and many competitors can be used on "weird" devices like this.
You want high temperature superconductors because they can stand larger magnetic fields. So, it is certainly easier to keep them cool than pressurized, but the cold ones are much less useful.
Politics and lobbying mostly I'd guess. Resources sector are the major donors to the two major parties. Resources supported boom growth through the 2000s but we didn't do a great job transitioning to "new technology industries".

There is a national debate on the outcome of the Adani coal mine which in oversimplified terms is willing to risk X0,000 tourism industry jobs to save X00 resources jobs.

"Australians are good at two things, digging things up out of the ground and selling property to each other"
It actually uses more energy for most people's display devices to show black. It's because the screens are back-lit and it costs energy to block out the light rather than let it pass through.

Blackle was only really useful when CRT screens were around. It could be useful on OLEDs which are not back-lit but they have shorter life spans due to burn-in.
Doesn't every single website have to opt in for this to receive any payment?
I wonder if Apple is reluctant to do something like these because a website will use it to stay in the background (as the Facebook app did a while back) but in this case there is no App Store Review to force websites to behave.
It greatly depends on what you do. For example, I have spent last hour reading HN, and visited dozens of different websites. None of them needed cookies at all, except HN itself (for user login).
Well, at least for OSX, you can technically run VMs, I've been doing it for a few years now (I needed one to troubleshoot CMake issues specific to OSX).

For iOS, I would grant that.

One last point is that OS X is partially Open Source (at least Darwin is) even if in actuality, nobody really cares about it (like building something on top of Darwin).

In the end, neither of MS or Apple is my preferred choice anyway. I much prefer an OS I roughly understand (at least to some degree) each pieces and on wihch I could generally troubleshoot things (Linux, *BSD), even if I do acknowledge I'm far from your typical user being a "dev/sysadmin/devops/whatever it's called these days".
Turning the periodic table upside down
>It's hard to get tight spatial resolution with a beam that looks like a balloon animal.

Would compressed sensing help? It doesn't need the focus to be precise to reconstruct the scene from a single pixel detector.
Every time there's a post about a Google service being shut down, there are the usual remarks. I'm not saying they aren't deserved, but I'm curious if there's an alternate perspective here? Perhaps sunsetting these services ultimately leads to a more trim and lean Google, and better profit margins? Put another way, is it just the HN circle that is so put off by this?
Of course. But "remember where you placed the file in this filesystem hierarchy" isn't the only way to accomplish that.
Acid oceans are shrinking plankton, fuelling faster climate change
I use RSS for everything and anything which isn't an RSS feed gets ignored. Life is too short.
> The author of the comment said web-app. That probably means a progressive web-app. This means there is an icon for the web-app on the home screen (like a normal app) and the user interacts with it, like a normal app, although in reality, everything is being handled by the browser behind the scenes.

Presumably the issue here is that there is no special case where a progressive web app can let the OS know that the content it's playing should count as background audio.
He was incredibly skilled at "managing up" - which in this case meant telling Larry and Travis what they wanted to hear.
What a strong read. Thank you fellow hacker.
Exercising, reading, volunteering, traveling, writing, hiking/boating/skiing and other outdoor activities, photography, studying a language, playing an instrument.
One great use of curl:

Most web browsers have a "Copy as cURL" function in the web developer menus.

in Firefox it is: tools -> Web Developer -> Network

Under this tab, you will see all the requests used to construct a web page.

You can right click on an item and do "Copy as cURL"

If a web page has some API you want to explore or use in a program, you can recreate it this way.
That was glorious. I love the chrome
Wikipedia says "Initial release: July 18, 2017"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hire
Love Inoreader as it's the closet to Google Reader IMO.
While I appreciate the stoicism, this isn't just about delusions of grandeur.

Examples:

* I'm too old to learn how to surf

* My relationship with my child is too far gone to improve

* It's pointless for me to save for retirement at my age

* The environment is fucked no matter what I do

These are all time anxiety type dilemmas that real people get hung up on that have nothing to do with impressing the world or building the next big thing.
The two positions don't seem to be in any conflict: I'm sure it is good for Google to shut these services down. I'm sure it does result in a leaner and more profitable company. The end result is still that Google cannot be trusted to keep any service running that isn't extremely profitable, and people who come to depend on these less-profitable services still end up orphaned.
On the other hand I wonder what effect easily accessible credit cards have on overall sales for products like this.

On a personal level it would be a stretch for me to spend $2200 when I could get a used airdyne and an ipad for less than half.
I wonder if Google has unintentionally created a self-reinforcing feedback loop where potential customers don’t trust the products will be supported for more than 24 months which leads to limited adoption which in turn leads to the products being canceled before 24 months. Pair that with other HN comments that have described a situation where it’s easier to get promoted from launching a product vs maintaining an existing product. I understand the startup-like culture where they are looking for huge successes but I think they abandon these products before they’ve had enough time or exposure.
> Also, in my exp your manager, boss, lead has alot to do with the amount of stress.

To explicate a little, I've found stress mostly relates to the expectations of people around me, and has very little to do with the difficulty of what I'm being asked to do.
Did you sincerely think that the crux of my message was that Twitter links are a prerequisite for having the opportunity to discuss something here?
In Canada, where sex work is legal, I was granted a work permit that forbade sex work (and related employment). This is, presumably, justified by its impact on "sex trafficking" but all it does is further criminalize the sex workers.

I have a few friends who used backpage. Their favorite feature was a listing of "bad dates" so they could vet new potential customers. Sex work without backpage is scarier, riskier -- yet again, efforts pitched as "for wellbeing of women and children" have the opposite impact.
People often find themselves entering cycles which they're not really happy about, though. They may become especially unhappy long after the fact when they reflect back on how they spent so much of their time. For example, someone may intend to work on a startup, but instead they spend a whole year basically smoking weed and watching Netflix every day, or whatever, with no startup and almost no work to show for it by year's end. They may feel quite bad and ashamed about how they spent their time during the past year.

Not to say there aren't people who do truly want to do that and find that a good use of their time (like if they work a stressful job and only want to relax and zone out during their free time). But a lot of people find themselves endlessly procrastinating or doing things which brings them very little joy and yet which they can't seem to break away from. Same goes for drug addiction, and any other addiction, really.
I did not know that this was a product, but it kindof makes sense, especially if you can leverage existing G Suite offerings.

I don't know how many companies were using it, which probably explains why it is being sunsetted. And they're giving it a year before turning it off.
Which side are you arguing for ;) couldn’t resist
Obviously: we don’t care. Apple and Microsoft do roughly an equal amount of telemetry. Ubuntu has telemetry.

Obviously most people are fine with telemetry.

Apple charges WAY more for its OS than Microsoft does for Windows 10 Home Edition. Don’t want adds? Buy the Pro version.

This “apples are better than oranges” indignation about Windows 10 is getting old. Don’t like it? Fine. Let other people enjoy things they like.
Not all Postgres connection pooling is equal
> TV shows, super hero movies, sci fi books, video games

Aw, come on, one of those is not like the others.
Is this not the same situation if someone were to plagiarise a public domain (i.e. no copyright) work now?
A novel data processing library published
I'm using NetNewsWire, they recently shipped 5.0. RSS is slowing getting back. https://inessential.com/2018/08/31/netnewswire_comes_home
Yours is far more straight forward. Which can be great.

Mine is intentionally convoluted. It works for two things:
1- Easy to spot people who really aren't paying attention to what you say.
2- It takes a second to understand the point, people remember better when they have to 'figure it out' so to speak.
3- I get a smile from some people if they pause, think it, then understand.

I might be wrong in my assumptions though.
Does anyone have recommendations for good alternatives? We were sure this would be a good idea when moving to it. :(
The problem is that people try to use autoscaling to handle a spiking load, and it fails abysmally.

In my opinion for those with a spiking load profile, autoscaling should be considered harmful.
One step closer to the mars.
macOS is way more expensive as well. Compare it with Windows 10 Pro for a fairer price point and ads are not a problem all of a sudden.
Can we just combine all services Google cuts in the last month into a mega post on the say 14th of every month?
X-post r/Golang: Go Testing – An introduction to testing Go Kit microserices
DaPy is a data analysis library designed with ease of use in mind, which lets you smoothly implement your thoughts by providing well-designed data structures and abundant professional ML models. There has been a lot of famous data operation modules like Pandas already, but there is no module, which
1) can write the codes in Chain Programming;
2) can quickly do simple feature engineering with simple APIs;
3) can easily operate the data row by row;
4) can show the log of each steps on console like MySQL.
> I've seen plenty of anti-renewable and pro-nuclear (and often pro-fossil fuel, from the same source) advocacy from people in the US Right.

I've seen this from politicians but not people. The people are really just against the subsidies, at least that I've seen. Which is fair, but I'd still consider dumb.

I'll also add, like I said I would, that I'll call those people anti-scientific as well. Because they are ignoring the expert advice on an extremely nuanced and complicated problem.

> When it comes to resource allocation, it absolutely is. There aren't infinite resources to allocate.

I think both camps can agree that we need to spend more. That's a big part to the argument. You can't say "this is a catastrophy happening, we have only so many resources" when we clearly do have more. They need to be reallocated to the high importance problems at hand (I'd argue climate is in fact a military issue, and there have been plenty of high ranking generals that agree. So let's allocate some of those funds). So I get the argument, but I don't think it's the right argument to make. Because the resources are there to do both, just not currently. Shifting the argument to the zero sum argument doesn't address the underlying issues. (We have enough resources that we'd run into problems of how to effectively spend them long before we ran out).
Same here. We met and dated for a year, it was lovely. Then I took a job 1 hour away, 50% higher pay and a promotion, but the relationship does suffer a bit from that 1 hour drive.
IIRC, it was an acquihire situation. The founder sold their company to Google, presumably as a condition of accepting a role as the head of Google Cloud. She's no longer at Google, so it makes some sense that they're not running her service at a loss.
the other alternative is always to collect taxes in a straight-forward manner and hand out subsidies rather than tax breaks. Not that subsidies are not potentially also subject to abuse, but they seem at least somewhat more robust and controllable than the labyrinth that is the modern tax code.
For me: Running, Cycling (around different places), sailing, creating apps, creating games, creating AI models.
> All they needed to do was get a few popular apps available and people would get used to using the store.

Maybe. But personally, if the store was successful then it would make Windows even more painful than it is now, because inevitably applications would just release to the store and not supply standalone installers. And I really, really want standalone installers.
We use Lever and have been pretty happy with it. Easy to use and good integrations.
I did exactly that for over a year, at which point I felt I had contributed my fair bit to their operation. Now I have about twenty classes ripped to my device that I select at random and use on an excellent spin bike at my gym.
Um...hasn't this been known for at least a century? I'm confused.
Amazon FC Ambassadors
If your password starts with a space, then you have to either tap an extra space, or hit escape as you mentioned.
OK, that was the worst headline ever. It's not "grasshopper" (a previous test rocket for SpaceX), it's "Starhopper" (a test device for their newest rocket). And it's not 500 feet, it's 500 meters, or about 3 times that high. Awesome video!