skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3-4 years ago the town in this article got tired of the tearing up of its main street, and refinished that street, after telling the likely suspects that they'd better put down extra capacity now if they were going to need it, because future digs would require the diggers to completely redo the road rather than just trench and fill.
According to the fine article, twice in three days.
Los Angeles is the smoggiest city in the USA. The same reason to get the waiver in the first place still exists.
That's a good point.
Our app is validated by Apple on MacOS and the Windows version will be soon. Also, we have thousands of users and you can google us : no claim for spam at all =)

Note : FyI, we worked on a SaaS version but the user experience was not slick enough in our point of view (e.g. iframe of the websites).
Could we not do this, please?
>privacy implications

I think you voluntarily giving up a certain amount of privacy when you choose to drive on the road. Sure yes you can argue most places you don't really have a choice since you need a car. But then I could argue back- if you value that type of privacy SO MUCH then you can choose to move to an area where you can walk or use public transportation.

I just think this is one of those times where the pros heavily outweigh the cons. Criminals and people who should not be on the road can be way more easily tracked with license plates. I can't really think of a situation where I would care that someone is passively recording my plate location as I drive by?

Also what if you are illegally parked somewhere. How is an officer supposed to issue you a ticket without your plates?
...and math.

It's easy to learn those topics independently with self-study. But learning linear algebra or stats on your own is much more difficult. People might claim that this isn't useful for most programmers, but it is absolutely is for a growing subset of them.
This is tricky. California cars generally emit more CO2, but less of other things. The right choice for a rural area (has to drive a lot, and air quality isn't a problem) is different for dense areas (air quality is a problem)
Sonic fiber is great. It's been over a year, and zero service interruptions or degradations since the day it was installed.

Any network issues I now automatically assume are due to my home network or the server I'm trying to access.
Is it legal to hide your car's license plate while the car is not in motion? Seems like a 'privacy shutter' that deploys when the car is turned off could be a useful feature.
I just came across a line in Bushnell's reflection (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21006252):

> RMS’s mere presence on the scene in this way has served to make it harder to deal with other cases of bad leaders’ bad behavior.

which echoes what you said:

> his pro-pedophilia views have probably helped normalize a general lack of concern over pedophilia and sexual abuse in programming and internet culture
Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking information
I use Fi on an iPhone, you don't have to switch if you don't want to - I certainly wouldn't.
> If California regulation de facto prohibits out-of-state cars from being sold or operating inside of it the rules may run afoul of the interstate commerce clause.

Right, but in our scenario they're not prohibiting them, they're prohibiting registering them. That's different than the mud-flaps issue, which does actually seem problematic in my opinion for exactly that reason: it inhibits inter-state commerce.
DeepMind's health team joins Google Health
Whatever works man, whatever works.
But Tmobile family plan costs you $30/month with unlimited data. I think it is crazy that we have to pay $10/ GB for data specially when I am traveling around the country with no wifi.
Just to be clear, the data doesn't seem to be deleted -- it only becomes inaccessible once the site opts out; all the data can come back if the site changes its mind.
Google fi user here: when they throttle in areas with weak cell signal, the throttling is aggressive and internet practically doesn't work. It's very frustrating. "Throttling" isn't the right word.. maybe "crippling" is better.
It's the same value-add as any other niche job board.
> Well to start with, if you format a table in excel and copy-paste it to powerpoint, the formatting now disappears. The only way seems to paste it as an image which is pretty bad.

Paste it as an EMF and it works perfectly. EMF is the Microsoft alternative to an SVG.

Some professional third-party tools append metadata to that EMF to allow for easy tracking of the original source file. So the user can customize formatting in Excel and use PPT just to build the output
Seems like a misogynist stereotype used to unthinkingly dismiss an argument.
Why shouldn't law enforcement be able to use it?

I mean.. wouldn't it be great to know if people are driving without valid registrations? Or if a criminal is trying to get somewhere, and you have their plates?

Not sure I see a downside here...
shrug I average $30/mo on Fi, my phone is almost always on wifi. YMMV
Edited for pedantry. :)
In defense of agile as I perceive it:

As far as I am concerned, everything you need to know about agile is on this page: https://agilemanifesto.org/

So looking at this:

> After spending more than a decade wrestling with it - I still haven't figured out how quality assurance and test fits into the same iteration in Agile. Most teams I inherit have non-technical QA resources. Most projects I inherit have complex business logic and integration needs that aren't easily testable until some state of development "done" has been achieved. And time and time again I find myself staggering their effort slightly behind development so that test and development resources aren't taking turns sitting on their asses waiting for the other side.

That sounds like you're following "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" and "Responding to change over following a plan" quite well. The "QA while you develop" process wasn't working for the skillset of the individuals on your team, and so you prioritized the individuals over the process, and responded to the change of understanding instead of following the plan you now knew was bad.

So, public admonishment of Agile Manifesto signatories be damned, you were doing agile, and anyone (including Agile Manifesto signatories) who tells you otherwise can be told to go read the Agile Manifesto as many times as they need to in order to reach enlightenment.

The problem is, money ruins everything.

Once you sign your name to the Agile Manifesto and the Agile Manifesto becomes famous, the tendency is to try to capitalize on that. And the ways you capitalize on it is by pretending you hold some special knowledge that you can teach in a workshop or give a certificate in it.

However, the Agile Manifesto isn't some special knowledge. It's admirable because it articulated an important set of ideals succinctly and clearly, but it's really not anything that a moderately intelligent developer doesn't intuit with enough experience, even if they can't so clearly articulate it. And you can't really teach it in a workshop or give a certificate in it, because the application is different for every team. The way you apply agile is by getting intimately familiar with the individuals involved in the team and slowly adapting the process to fit their needs: you can't choose individuals and interactions over processes and tools if you don't know what the individuals and interactions are. The agile manifesto may be about individuals and interactions over processes and tools, but processes and tools are a lot easier to sell.

This means that even if you came across the Agile Manifesto and really grokked it, and maybe even signed your name to it, you've got a powerful incentive to then go forget everything you've learned.

In a broader sense, this is why ideas have to be evaluated on their own, irrespective of who those ideas came from. Ideas can be perfect--humans can't.
To stress the benefit of unlimited international calls, I recently got parents on a 'senior' plan with unlimited text/data. The catch though was $3/minute international calls even when the call is placed while on a wifi connection - their bill essentially doubled after a couple accidental international calls.

Can see the benefit of Fi for people that have to do international calls regularly and don't want to futz with switching between their cellphone and a voip service.
They are not a fireable offense in my book either, but they sure as hell wouldn't pass my code review. I've had to deal with too much crap like this in the past. Self-proclaimed senior devs that micro-optimize everything and leave a mess, then leave. Love them.

One should always optimize for easy maintenance. Performance is always a secondary goal, because it doesn't matter how fast (you think) your code is if you can't understand it.
Why are gravitational waves better for long distance communication than EM waves?
I don't think this is purely out of spite. It's a calculated move to get/keep support of automotive execs and investors. California is a huge market. Any emissions standards they set is basically the entire country's, because no manufacturer is not going to sell in the California market.

This move will probably result in money for Trump's 2020 campaign, because he's saving the automotive industry money.
Though, if the goal is communication, wouldn't it be clearer still to use typedefs to clean up more complex declarations a bit? Or does that end up making things worse?
Sadly, it's hard to live outside the iMessage ecosystem. Android has much nicer and affordable hardware
The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook - is arguably the best C programming book nowadays if you code in Linux/Unix, the rest C books are most for ANSI C, that might be more useful for bare metal embedded system that does not run a full multi-task POSIX OS?
What do you mean by real engineering problems? Is datadog for example real engineering?
> That's assuming you can prove it.

Once you tell them some transaction wasn't authorized, it's up to them to prove otherwise.

All the suggestions you make are great if your goal is to minimize fraud. If you are trying to maximize profit then you don't tighten security if the cost to do so exceeds losses due to fraud.
I’ve worked at 2 of the 4 major banks here in Australia and I’m calling bull on that last statement.

The entire company had read-only access to everything? Yeah nah. Who put the Siebel client on Janice the HR lady’s laptop? Who created an account on the mainframe for Barry the bloke who re-stocks the milk in the fridge?

You get my point.
I’m guessing you don’t do a lot of work in games or media. o.o

Geez, how about even a network call that doesn’t interrupt a UI thread?
I was lucky enough to visit Dynamicland at one point. The computing environment they had set up there was interesting. Programs are stored on a central server, but are executed by putting a printout of the code (with colored dots around the edges serving as a barcode) on a tabletop that has a camera and a projector above it. I/O between programs happens by putting cards next to each other. The programs also affect what the projector displays on the board, but the only persistent state is the presence and position of cards on the table.
The funnest school computer exploit I figured out was how to run a game from a USB drive (circa 2007).

I was in an accounting class (using excel) and I tended to finish the earliest with our in-class work because of judicious use of formulas and copy-paste (instead of entering data twice for the two-ledger stuff).

The computers were set to disallow running unapproved programs, but I figured out that you could launch an executable from within a zip file (the computers ran XP IIRC). The only thing left to do was to configure the game at home (before zipping it up) to save files, look for other config, etc. from the the drive letter the thumbdrive would be mounted at at school because it of course couldn't save the updated settings to the zip file.

I had a good teacher - he let me sit at the back, and I just kept the volume down :)
> Sure, but that's purely a political constraint, not a legal one

There is considerable debate on whether it is legal to criminally prosecute a sitting President, for different reasons applying to state vs. federal charges. At best, it would involve getting courts to resolve novel questions of Constitutional law about which the legal community has no consensus and which there is no direct on-point precedent.

So, no, it's a legal constraint.

> There doesn't appear to be any will in the democratic or republican leadership to advance motions to remove him from power.

The Democratic leadership is fully behind efforts to removw him from power shortly after the next Congress opens. They also aren't standing in the way of efforts to do sooner (impeachment hearings in the House begin in less than a week).

The Republican leadership, sure, fits your description.
I would argue that under the constitution the EPA is only there to enforce the rules congress sets up, but not make the rules. Thus Trump (the executive) cannot do this, only congress can.

The above is not an argument that has seen much success though.
"If ads are too intrusive, I will 'vote with my clicks' and avoid that particular website in the future."

They'll never even notice, and in the meantime you're at risk of all sorts of trackers, malware etc. Plus...you're seeing adverts all the time. I used chrome on android the other day and I couldn't believe how many there were, or how annoying. If you're not clicking on them it means nothing anyway, as far as I can tell. I remember back in the day sites saying "click on the ads - it helps us" but I don't think that's a thing any more. Perhaps I should knock up a script to visit random sites with ads and maybe click on a few, in a container/vm. Would that help?
What are the advantages of using gravitational waves for communication? They seem incredibly difficult to produce or detect, and don't travel any faster in a vacuum than electromagnetic waves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

Newton got hit hard by this I think.

I’m also always reminded of Rainman trying to predict the Wonder Wheel in Vegas and not realizing it plays by very different rules than blackjack, where you can count the cards and make predictions.
That's fine, someone else will find a way to profit from the situation you won't consider.
>High-speed data up to 22 GB/person & slower after

That's not really unlimited.
I would guess that's all of it. Streaming video, music, even apps like instagram I imagine make up for the largest chunk of data.
The only service that I know of that has millions of users on one instance is whatsapp. Everything else you're looking at 1% of a cpu, so 1% of ~40-80watts per connection. More if its active.
Just switched from googleFi to xinfinty. They offer unlimited for $50 for a single line.

I was a bit worried about leaving Fi since I had an upcoming trip to Europe since they offer the "built in roaming" but it really wasnt an issue
Don't forget the new addition:
"Oh man, what did you do?"
There's also aboynamed.su,
that is a reference to the Jhonny Cash song [1]

The domain description is actually some part of the lyrics of the song [2]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4

[2]: https://www.whois.com/whois/aboynamed.su
> Probably would have had a different experience if I went to whatever crappy state school was nearby.

I went to a bottom-ranked state school and loved it.
Still that assert has to be checked at some point right? I would assume that maybe the compiler could do this optimization without having to be told.
> the huge chip on people's shoulders about "not having a degree"

Glad to see I’m not the only one who winces at this. As bad as intellectual snobbery is, reverse/anti-intellectual snobbery is worse: “we don’t take to all yer fancy book learnin’ in these here parts!” It often seems to be lost that the difference isn’t between somebody with a four-year-degree and somebody with 10 years of experience, but between somebody with a four-year-degree AND ten years of experience and somebody with ten (or even fourteen) years of experience and no degree at all. With machine learning finally coming into its own, software development is getting to be more mathematical, and what you learn in college actually is pretty useful.
New report on the 737 Max blames 'inexperienced pilots' not Boeing
Would like to know this aswell.

I know using spread

const clone = {...source};

Is faster than

object.assign({},source)

And seeing as in this case the source is already a js object it would probably be slow to string and the parse.
Would be cool if their website was programmable by using a similar scheme to the real building -- drawing on some kind of whiteboard-esque interface to change settings on the app
The "Neonazi" country you refer to simultaneously had a head of state and a head of government who were Jewish until a couple of months back.
If you stream Pandora, Spotify, or a few podcasts in your daily commute, you'll eat up 3GB pretty easily.
Perhaps there are people who want to voice unpopular opinions anonymously in order to avoid social backlashes? We at HN frequently celebrate anonymity as a means of free speech.
I think this is exactly right. My bank has predictable account numbers too, and if they had one of these 4 or 5 digit password limitations, they would be a very ripe target for someone using a botnet to just go through all the accounts. The risk isn't that someone will target you personally, the risk is that someone will happen to hit you while attempting the profitable activity of hacking every account. (Plus, at least with a bank, if they manage to hack in and steal the database, one of the most profitable ways to use it would just be to log in and steal money. No effective hashing on a 5 char password.)

I also completely distrust the "advanced security measures" claim. I have no trouble logging into my bank via curl, including from remote IP addresses. (They finally rolled out 2FA, but I can still type the text code into my script.)

A couple years ago I discovered a number of vulnerabilities in their account site, too (including some many years old software with vulnerabilities with a CVSS of 10). After I reported this to them, the response from the guy who worked there was basically "Yeah, that's from the crappy vendor who supplies us with this software. Please don't say anything about this because we're replacing it with a new in-house backend in a couple months."
The word "meaningless" is defined as "lacking any significance". The claim that data lacks any significance until someone extracts meaning from it seems most useful, apart from philosophical discussions, as a rhetorical attempt to make data secondary to interpretation and ergo something that can be waved away by belief systems.
A ripple of water traveling along the surface of a vortex still experiences the curvature of the vortex, even though both are disturbances. (this is a terrible analogy, please take with a ladle of salt)
What about the rpi4, though?

From the benchmarks I've seen it looks more than enough for most "home serving" uses.

In addition, if you use it as public server (as done here) then the bottleneck is likely your broadband's uplink.
Where 40mbps isn't sufficient you mean? A family of 4 with a hell of a lot of video streaming being the primary one, but also not wanting my own Youtube videos to take 3-4 hours to upload 20 minutes. :-)
I think it varies by jurisdiction. For example, Oregon requires plates to be visible on any vehicle being operated on public roads, which might be interpreted as excluding parked cars (assuming that taking up parking space does not constitute operation). But the city of Portland has an ordinance specifically requiring parked cars to have visible plates.
From what I can tell, it's Stallman who lacks empathy here. If he had ever thought about the impact of his behavior on the people around him, maybe he wouldn't have driven them all away.
Indeed. The do-not-call rules improved matters for a while, but the rate is back up, now commonly with spoofed numbers.
I am a complete neophyte regarding these topics. I did notice that the detected events (black holes merging, neutron stars merging) seem really exotic, while I assume gravitational waves are all around us all the time. Is our instrumentation for detecting gravitational waves simply very insensitive compared to the instrumentation used to detect electromagnetic waves? Or are they harder to detect for some more fundamental reason?
Guessing "crunchy" means something like "prone to like questionable homeopathic practices"

Think long hair, sundresses, sandals, cracked wheat bread, flax seed extract, colonic cleanses, healing crystals, etc.

The story, though, might validate this particular practice.
People do that if such a type is used a lot but probably not if it's just a one-off, just like when they write a function instead of using the same snippet a lot but don't if it isn't.
We don't use sophisticated methods for now, we just use a serverless architecture, so IP changes at each invocation. Feel free to contact us at hello@dashblock.com if it doesn't work for your use-case :)
Fed Makes Second Straight Rate Cut, Splits on Further Action
This makes me smile so much. As I have commented before no one can actually agree what Agile is. someone always says it doesn't work for them. Someone always replies with "your doing it wrong" with absolutely no indication of how to do it right.

Thankfully the agile trend seems to be left out of interview questions these days.

"Do you do Agile?"

- "What do you define as Agile?"

-"Does anyone NOT do agile?"

-"Do you think it actually makes a difference?"

would be the responses that cam to mind. Apparently I didn't get a job based on a variation of the last one. They thought I would be difficult to work with.
Trump is just an asshole
my understanding is they have exclusivity to the polls, only AT&T can string the polls on my island only Comcast can string the polls on the next island over. I could be mistaken but that was the way it was represented to me by AT&T and Comcast when I talked to both of them, AT&T was willing to string the poll, Comcast said they could not because they where AT&T polls. They may have been wrong or mistaken, but that was the info I was given. I ended up going with a line of site, microwave internet connection (that ended my investigation into getting the polls strung), which was decent (I believe due to everything being on pillars above the tree-lines down here). That is, until after the storm which changed everything.
Yes they have. You are spreading lies and FUD:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2016-03-quantum-f...

I was referring to the quantum annealing example, because no 97 qubit quantum computer exists yet.
I use google maps a lot. When I walk around, when I drive (1hour commute/day). Also use spotify (but most of the time offline-saved tracks). Twitter/internet browsing in waiting rooms. I consume on average 3 to 4 gigs a month.
> regulatory differences

Interesting way of saying "corporate exclusivity agreements", which is what this ends up being in 99 out of 100 cases.
Lacking empathy isn't exclusive; it's possible for multiple parties to the same issue to do that.
> Requiring a degree is an easy one to apply

It’s also a safe one in terms of low rate of false positives and low rate of false negatives. There are a few, of course (if there weren’t any, there’d be no need to meet the candidates), but ability to complete a four-year-degree correlates highly with ability to complete software projects.
I'm supposing template literals take care of that. actually there might be advantages.
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