skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly: the Java environment is exceedingly good at that. Backwards incompatible changes are truly minimal, and only those that are strictly necessary are added.

And since Java 8 the language is pretty nice and offers good functional idioms.

Of course, major versions of libraries still change. But there's no match with the JS approach.
I wonder if it's because, if one needs an expressive language, for vector graphics or whatever, then redundant things like XML and JSON are horribly non-concise choices, whereas Flash didn't suffer such problems, along with having excellent authoring tools.
It's a little early to call the cover-up "successful." The fact that Baden is on nationwide news media questioning the official suicide narrative probably means a few loose threads haven't been snipped yet.
Sparta was like North Korea of Ancient Greece.

- Isolationist country.

- Young are indoctrinated in rigid militant ideology (agoge).

- Weak economy. Little to no valuable goods were produced. People not allowed to have valuable money, just worthless tokens.

- The main job of the spartan army was to suppress helots and protect the old rulers. People serve the military and the state, not the other way around.

- No creativity in warfare. Incompetents and arrogant leaders just attack with hoplites until they run out of food and have to retreat.
Tripped over the CSR acronym in the second paragraph ("Austria was weak, Poland cool toward the CSR, and Hungary antagonistic.")

From the context, must be Czecho-Slovak Republic. Wiki agrees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia
IANAL, but it is generally illegal to volunteer for a for-profit organization federally. See the Fair Labor Standards Act and Dept of Labor site [1].

The most relevant recent test I can find resulted in a settlement, when AOL paid people who contributed articles without payment[2]. There's been some conflicting decisions in other related cases and many are still in progress.

1.https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/whd/flsa/docs/volunteers.asp
2. https://archives.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/aol_settled_with_...
How did you do this? Does your bank have APIs you can code against? Did you use other (Paypal?) APIs?
Is it so outlandish to have a professional LinkedIn account?
The cities designing playgrounds for the elderly
I agree. I got myself somewhat addicted to nicotine gum. I used it to help focus when coding. It got to the point where I was chewing it constantly, so I stopped. I had to switch to regular gum to successfully stop.

Apparently, there's evidence that nicotine reinforces habit formation, so that could be why.

https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
You have to know the context. The bonuses weren't to the PG&E workers that maintained the lines. The bonuses were to the higher managers who made the "clever" cost-cutting decisions.
The funny party is many people here reported being banned because of „automated clicks“. When we used adsense for advertising purpose we paid for many clicks which lasted less than 50 milliseconds.

So google is letting advertiser pay for fake clicks, but website owners will not get this money, google keeps it by blocking their accounts.
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Or that they'll have more than one launch site in 20 years.
It would seem if someone were to murder him, it would be prudent to take him off suicide watch first.
I'm only hooked in to the Democratic technology side, but there is https://thedemlabs.org/ that collates (and creates) a bunch of technological solutions for campaigns problems.

I'm also personally affiliated with https://ragtag.org/ which is a bunch of volunteers trying to make said resources and tools.
Then my argument is that 'look' of supporting Maduro does not matter. I will add that I did not find proof of that support of that support in the text. Unless just not reporting in line with established narrative is considered support.

Edit: added "add"
Should he have been?
Surely there is a difference between a 19 year old and a 40 or 50 year old saying something.
He was taken off of suicide watch, so he had all the materials he needed to kill himself. Also...every person I've read with working knowledge of that prison has stressed the gross negligence and incompetence there.
Yeah I’m also skeptical of improbable theories... but this one looks, I mean looks, too convenient. Cameras go offline, taken off suicide watch... even if it wasn’t someone physically doing him in, they can drive him to do it by psychological means.

This was one of the highest profile cases in the last decade. That they didn’t have him watched 24x7 is incredible gross negligence or more.

I mean you have low level criminals get more attention when they signal possible self harm than this guy.

PS toilet paper: can’t they get prison safe bidets?
There's a popular saying "rocket science is not rocket science". There could be other people, instead of Mueller or Shotwell, which could do similarly well. SpaceX is just a first company which succeeded - not that nobody's tried; at some point that was bound to happen.
Is there any technical reason why an APK cannot be hosted on IPFS? I've read so many discussions where the big problem with IPFS is that content does not get distributed across the nodes fully and is unavailable. This event seems like a situation where the usage would support and guarantee availability.

Is Dat another option?
Relativity Space is one of the aerospace companies I'm most excited about (especially in regards to whatever they pull off in the 3D printed launch vehicle space)!
Arrested for expressing support for the Hong Kong democracy movement
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The "addicts" (as you call them) wanted a safer way to ingest the active ingredient in tobacco. Nicotine on its own isn't much worse for your health than caffeine, but having to inhale burning tobacco leaves to ingest it leads to all sorts of health problems.

People figured out that you could heat up a solution of pure nicotine and glycerins to create a mist that is easily absorbed when inhaled (but didn't include the tars, carbon monoxide, or the host of other byproducts of combustion that lead to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases).

Obviously it's not as ideal as breathing nothing but pure, Spaceballs-style "Perri-air" but it's like telling someone not to bother with a massive harm reduction because it doesn't eliminate 100% of potential health risks.

So while the nicotine is likely derived from tobacco (just because it's the easiest source), using a nicotine mist inhaler is hardly the same as inhaling the smoke of burning tobacco.

What started out mainly in the realm of tinkerers and curious people looking for a better way to wean off nicotine or minimize the health risks of smoking has been co-opted (at least as far as the mainstream discussion goes) by cig companies and those who would seek to become their successors.
Or just publish the signatures in the newspaper and let various sketchy hosts do their thing.
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It is always questionable if the state enacting control on media is the correct conclusion from the Nazi era where content control was common and a pillar of the regime.
So it's in the "quite difficult, but not impossible" category. The question then is, who would want him dead that badly, and have the resources to carry it out? Given the circles he ran in and the dirt he might have had on people, a surprising number of people might have had both the means and the motive.

Mind you, I'm not saying that it was murder. I'm just saying that the degree of difficulty isn't as big a barrier as it would seem.
Yes, but there's also no need. When 2008 happened, not only was it in the news 24/7, anyone looking at the chart understood they were getting a 30% discount on an index of the US economy.
In an alienated society where everyone lives in his own bubble, biking and not having a car is an easy proposition. No need to drive your sick parents to the hospital, no need to help a friend with moving the furniture, putting your child on the backseat of a bike on a rainy day is not frowned upon. Almost every aspect of social life is handled by a company in the private sector or by a public institution.

The majority of people in the world do not share those views of the Dutch and the Scandinavians, so it might not work elsewhere.
It's a pity the ios version (coming soon). I wanted to try it.
Probably a lot less expensive than multiple major fires per year + rolling multi-day blackouts for millions of households.
I’ve been told by many many candidates that all work they ever did was under an NDA and so they have no Github profile and not even any code samples. Somehow they never did a single shareable thing in their lives - not at school, not a hobby project, not at work.

Potential employers use all the signals available to make decisions and this is an important one. Many of the other applicants will have solid material. It may not at all be your fault, and yet also be a serious disadvantage.
The lesson to me is to be a racially uniform and natural resource rich nation.
What happens if you don't comply is that the court would then order all the ISPs to cut the lines to you. All of them.

Also, GitHub happily accepts money from companies in Spain. This mean they have economical activity there and fall under Spanish jurisdiction.
As an aside and I truly believe you in your case but I really want to do a Twitter / social media bot which counts the number of times people say "I'm unsubscribing" (from e.g. GitHub, Blizzard, Netflix, political party, media outlet) and compares them to the actual number of subscribers.

I suspect that any patterns wouldn't be that visible as people can be dissatisfied for many reasons but for major events it might be interesting.

I also want to do a bot that counts on "why am I being downvoted" "not sure why you are being downvoted" comments here and on Reddit! The bot could reply based on analysis of the user, if they are newbies, if they are troll, if they do actually know why but are just registering support etc ...
The criminal justice / mental health field being what it is, I do not find it surprising in the least that a reviled kiddie-fucker would be allowed, by several levels of people involved, 15 minutes alone, along with plausibly accidental access to a means to kill themselves.

The breaking of the hyoid bone is, in fact, not uncommon in hangings. Nor is the breaking of the cartilage. Nor is hemorrhaging in the face or eyes. Nor is blatant disregard for the fate of a paedophile, who in nobody's right mind could conceivably be innocent.
I agree with all of this. I'm an online ghost and and my online profiles are locked down and private.
Fortran from the 1980s is still supported...
And where would you store the output?

R uses markdown + a separate file with the output cached and while the non-rendered file is easier to version the whole thing is a lot more difficult to handle.
This was the same prison that somehow held El Chapo, a serial jailbreaker, in custody throughout his trial. They can be competent when actually motivated to do so.
Human sources are about 85% of wildfire ignitions in California.

That still leaves 15% of ignitions from natural sources.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-29/how-do-w...

Removing the human ignition would likely mean that the blazes from natural sources would take up the slack, and become larger.

Another fact that I'm reminded of was that native Americans would themselves set deliberate blazes which would burn over lands fairly frequently. This would mean that there was a history dating back over centuries, possibly several thousands of years, in which large-scale burns were relatively frequent. This would have phased out beginning with the first European settlements in 1769. By 1900, there had been up to 130 years of diminished fire activity already, not from suppression, but from reduced ignition (though intentional burns by early Europeans were also practiced).
Reference with multiple further citations:
http://www.californiachaparral.com/enativeamericans.html

The big change seems to be with the 20th century belief that fire is an invader, undesirable, and should be massively suppressed.
FWIW, I use Python because it’s necessary. I’m not overly fond of it. Give me Erlang, please.

And I’d still call your statements condescending.
Surprisingly enough, PHP is a good example of environment that doesn't break backward compatibility much.

About the only change that had a significant impact on projects I worked on was removal of the 'mysql' DB extension (replaced by 'mysqli' and 'PDO'). For an older project I created a few shim functions and it still works just fine.

While frameworks come and go, the core of the language is highly backward compatible. The choices made early on were in the UNIX style, so they were right.

To quote an earlier post[1],

--

There is something to be said about PHP's staying power. The early versions of the language weren't considered "right". Except maybe they were right for the problem at hand.

The way I see it was PHP captured the vector of change, and left ample room for future developments. Both internal changes (hello, bytecode; hello, JIT), language level features (hi there, namespaces), and runtime level features (oh hai, countless built in classes and functions).

Moreover, unlike many framework that shone brightly and burned out quickly (Rails?), PHP captured the essence of the environment: HTTP is stateless, and URLs aren't uniformly routable from either end, and well-formed HTML/XML/JSON is just a subset of tag soup.

Worse is better.

--

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19536132
Well, this is pretty normal I'd say. It happens all the time with many different crime investigations...

I wouldn't attack a country's justice system that gratuitously.
I would think anyone privy to the situation would be handled the same way, by threat of death to them or loved ones. Maybe a little cash to ease the mental burden.

I'd like to think I could withstand such a threat like a fictional hero, but I have my doubts. I hope to never know for sure.
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Hi,

I'm looking for a smaller, VPS-size, lighter alternative to ELK stack. I found vector[1] and sonic[2] as a replacement for LogStash and ElasticSearch, but I can't find any good Kibana replacement. Please, upvote, maybe some HN reader know it :)

1: https://github.com/timberio/vector
2: https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic
> killed himself in a cell and unit where suicide is made a practical impossibility

Ken White (famous-ish lawyer and notable internet personality) puts it this way: "But your assessment of plausibility is based on your assumptions about how the system works. Those assumptions are, mostly, wrong — naive Dick-Wolf-level law-enforcement-are-competent-good-guys stuff".

Prisons, particularly american prisons, are full of incompetence and casual disregard to human life and dignity. The prison where Epstein died was understaffed, and the guards tasked with watching him had next-to-no training. Epstein had also been taken off suicide watch nine days earlier.

Ken White put together 32 other cases where people died, or almost died in jail because the administration was too incompetent or too indifferent to do anything: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/thirty-two...
Hi I’m Bilal, cofounder at https://www.clearbrain.com . ClearBrain is a new analytics platform that helps you rank which product behaviors cause vs correlate to conversion. Think Google PageRank, but for Analytics.

Our founding team worked on this problem for quite a few years while at Google and Optimizely. We contributed to Google Analytics to analyze historical behaviors in seconds, but observing historical trends merely produced noisy correlations. We built Optimizely to measure true cause and effect through A/B testing, but tests took 4-6 weeks on avg to reach significance, and so it would take years to measure the impact of every single page or feature in an app.

So we asked ourselves, could we estimate which in-app behaviors cause conversion, to complement (not replace) a traditional A/B test? We spent a year in R&D, and built ClearBrain as a self-serve “causal analytics” platform. All you have to do is specify a goal - signup, engagement, purchase - and ClearBrain ranks which behaviors are most likely to cause conversion.

Building this required a mix of real-time processing + auto ML + algorithm work. We connect to a company’s app data via Segment, and ingest their app events in real-time via Cloud Dataflow into a BigQuery backend. When a customer uses the ClearBrain UI to select a specific app event as their conversion goal, our backend will automatically run multiple observational studies to analyze how every other app event may cause that goal. This is done in parallel using SparkML, to analyze thousands of different events in minutes. (more on our algorithm here: https://blog.clearbrain.com/posts/introducing-causal-analyti...)

We’ve had beta customers like Chime Bank, InVision, and TravelBank use ClearBrain to estimate which behaviors and landing pages cause their users to convert, and in turn prioritize their actual growth and A/B testing efforts there.

We’re now releasing the product into general availability in partnership with Segment - available on a free self-serve basis today! We look forward to feedback from the HN community. :)
It doesn't sound stupid. Readability declines as line length increases.
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Totally agree with all your points.

> There might be developers that just does not want to commit to public projects.

Some of my best work has been for private businesses, with a lot of that code being wrapped up into private repo's on my Github account. I was told a few years ago to put together some POC's on my Github repo so people don't think I'm not doing anything. The general perception is if you don't have a ton of public work out on Github, you're not keeping up with the industry.

> I intentionally make effort to remain as much of an online ghost as I can.

I'm the same way. I've told interviewers when they ask about my social media accounts that I have a few, but you'll never find them. You're only going to find a very minimal amount of "real" data on me. I feel more comfortable when I can control the conversation since social media is such a huge mine field. Companies and recruiters want to dig up as much as possible on you as soon as they meet you. What are you trying to hide? What are we going to find out about your past? It's 2019, it's just the smart thing to do to be as anonymous as possible.
If you want the tories to win you don't need a website to tell you how to vote.
Someone out there just really wants California to burn.

To be fair, Cal fire and emergency agencies are well-equipped with two-way radios and repeaters. Ham radio operators don't actually do any direct activities with fire management, they might - a rare might - be in the right place at the right time to report a new fire, a structure or people under threat, but typically they don't. They do enhance the public's awareness of a fire's presence but I don't have knowledge of what else hams actually do for a fire.
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probably would help if he added static typing from the get go.
In a similar vein does anyone know a way to load all of say Simple Wikipedia onto a Kindle? I have plenty of space and I'd love to have a simple offline backup on a relatively energy efficient device.
The `SRCS = foo.cpp bar.cpp baz.cpp` was my fav part. I like to put every file used into a Makefile instead of using globs, but my example also showed how without editing the file someone can build with globs instead ;) Similar approach if you need the program to be named winApp.exe instead... That's another 'beauty' of make, you don't have to edit the Makefile.

There's really not much cargo cult in my example. Everything would be in the most rudimentary doc or tutorial, certainly less reading than if you needed to use git for the first time.

And yes there is supposed to be a tab there, some copy-paste thing munged that.
I think a lot of people are going to read: "they're not going to be able to build there anymore" but the reality is - the same land will be used, but it will be massively terraformed. It won't change where we're allowed to build, it will change how many changes we need to make before the build can start.
Ever worked for Federal Govt?
This makes me feel even better about my decision to abandon GitHub.
I can hold both thoughts in my head at the same time!
How about just a GitLab instance in a neutral country that is accessible by Tor? The perfect doesn't haven't to be the enemy of the good.
Of course there are scenarios where you can't choose your favorite language, I'm not going to write an Xbox game client in Python.

To the extent I have a choice, I'll go out of my way to use Python and I'll be a little creative to fit it into certain uses cases where it's not a perfect fit, consciously accepting a reasonable penalty. But yeah, sometimes it won't fit at all.

The point is more that I'd go so far as to avoid taking a job or gravitating towards a project where the development would not be enjoyable based on the tools I'd have to use.
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This is not the head pathologist who performed the autopsy or anything. This is an pathologist hired by Epstein's family who is notable for saying dramatic things in an apparent attempt to get news time:

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/who...

Furthermore, there's nothing new here - all of this was known months ago. The damage in question - Baden's smoking gun - is not uncommon in suicides either.

(Edit: this comment formerly claimed that Baden wasn't at the autopsy. This appears to be incorrect - he was there, but not on the medical team.)
The fact that Baden, one of the only two MEs assigned to examine the body, believes it was a homicide is certainly news. So is the fact that the NYC ME listed cause of death as "pending" initially and then it was later amended to "suicide" for reasons unknown.
Not sure how they start but sure look generic when they end like this:

There's ways I'll insist that Python is the best at [x], and ways I'll concede some other language is better at [y]. But it never amounts to anything close to a debate about what language I should use

Anyways I should know better then discuss Python
Wish I "got" poetry. Spent 4 years studying literature and got a degree in writing, and throughout it all poetry just annoyed me. I think I made a genuine effort but I couldn't get over feelings of "get to the point" or "so what?" Everything from Byron to Billy Collins. Doesn't do anything for me.
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Some people, when confronted

with a problem, think “I know —

I’ll write a poem.”

Now they have two problems.

Some poets, when stuck

writer-blocking, think “I know —

I’ll write a poem.”

Now they do not have two poems.
Humans and human societies are the most complex systems we know of, and are full of people who will exploit any edge cases or loopholes.

I think that this greatly limits how much simplification you can have in a legal system and still have it be effective.
> The judge at their bankruptcy hearing described them as doing exactly that.

I went looking for a source here. You're right; Judge Alsup, overseeing the bankruptcy hearings, had some pretty damning words for PG&E: https://www.kqed.org/news/11737336/judge-pge-paid-out-stock-...

The arguments upthread pointing the finger at CPUC were somewhat persuasive to me before seeing this, but after reading these words from Alsup—a reasonable judge from what I've seen of him—what the California politicians are saying make a lot more sense to me. Sounds like PG&E does need to shoulder a good deal of the blame here.