skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Spying' suggests something much more targeted than across-the-board data collection. The odds that the NSA keeps track of everyone's online footprint to a large extent is high. The odds that anyone is singled out for close personal scrutiny are very low.

Of course the former makes the latter trivially easy to do, but privacy advocates have failed in two ways: bridging that cognitive gap between passive and active surveillance, and explaining why/how government can reasonably be expected to have worse capabilities than exist in the private sector.

We certainly need stronger privacy laws, but the solution is not for everyone to become a security expert or accept total compromise. That just leads to neighborhoods where every house is barricaded like a prison and the main profit makers are security firms and locksmiths, a condition which already afflicts us: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bowles/GarrisonAmerica2007.pdf
Or _for_ something. All electoral systems have flaws, all the ones that would be practical for this purpose (election of individual candidate representatives from a list by the general population) are subject to tactical voting of some sort.

In this case - FPTP - the tactics are to identify the (usually two) candidates that most plausibly could win in your district and pick from those, ignoring all other candidates. If Apples win with 310 votes and Bears had 290 votes, those Apple-haters who gave Cheese 60 votes to come in a distant third are kicking themselves.

For many (millions of?) voters in the UK the idea is to achieve a specific outcome on a single issue (Brexit) which is not actually on the ballot at all, so tactics come into deciding how to vote so as to make your preferred outcome more likely to occur.
I spent $100 on subscriptions a couple Christmases ago. Never received any product nor was I able to get in contact with anyone at the company.

Really turned me off since I was a big fan of their content and already had a yearly subscription.
Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die
http://archive.is/L6ViA
This is different. Tech debt is a factor of letting things get slowly worse. Those things can be improved if you just work on your tech debt.

What I'm talking about can't be improved or fixed, or higher-ups refuse to improve or fix it. Instead, it has to be completely replaced. It's like a Replicant with a four-year lifespan. You literally know it's going to die in four years, and nobody orders a new one until the old one is practically dead, and everyone has to rush to replace it.
There are gradients of force, they could have done this without destroying this person's house, it's not like he had hostages that were in immediate danger, he was hiding in a house..

Just because some force is reasonable doesn't mean all force is immediately reasonable and it's not stuck at higher levels as the situation changes. While he's being chased and posing a higher threat more force is reasonable but once he was barricaded in the house the danger posed to the public is reduced.
This is certainly a case where the small size and compact nature of European cities give them advantages over American ones. Forget four miles, I have drive forty each way for prior commutes. Biking is great if you're a yuppie making six figures a year at a cushy, white-collar tech job. Not so much if you have to go to a client, have to do something physical, or even work in an office in the rest of the world. Let alone if you are a blue-collar worker, and possibly have to bring tools, equipment, etc.

Telecommuting may mitigate this problem, but only for a small sub-set of workers for now, and even long term the fact remains that people still need to go into an office at least occasionally, and a good number of people can't get to work feasibly by bike. Plus, most people want to go somewhere after work, to the store and to church once a week, etc. This is orders of magnitude larger than a mile and a half (apparently the dutch average).

I don't see why electric cars can't accomplish sustainability goals without trying to force a demographic shift of that scale (which is very unlikely to happen).
Setting aside the economic infeasibility of a 2000 foot hole, the rocket's gonna have to fly out of it at some point.
This article really seems to view China through rose-tinted glasses.
Yeah that seems to make the most sense. I had to actually work it out before I saw it. I was looking for some further separation beyond indices but I just ended up over-thinking it.
Cool, thanks! I'm actually still keeping my dual monitor setup at work and similar to you, at times I move the mount so I can show co-workers some code or UI.

I'm looking to update my setup at home to maximize productivity. Interesting points you brought up!
Great library!

Although choice and experimentation certainly has its value, I'm curious to hear if there was any attempt to build the missing features into any of the existing libraries? (for example excon or http.rb which this is based on)
Right so I was wrong here, but also the length reduction. isn’t exactly 1:1. The nm process is regarding to the certain criteria of the transistor length, could be channel length. So the width could stay the same and you wouldn’t be able to calculate exactly how much more chips you’d get unless you see the specs of how they are measured.
AT&T will slash $3B off its capital investments next year
I probably bike around 2.5km a day as well. I live in the Netherlands, and I don't even own a car. My bike gets me to most of my regular and daily destinations faster than a car would. Partially because I can take faster routes as a cyclists, and partially because in a car I would have to wait for traffic lights more often and be stuck in busy traffic during peak hours.

The only reason why I would use a car, is to get to family that lives further away. But even that stays within 50km. So the dutch public transport system fully satisfies that need for me as well.
I Agree about usability regressing. One of the biggest I've seen is this trend towards two part login screens. Now rather than hitting my password manager button once, I have to do it twice, for no good reason. The "best" theory I heard was that the site is checking if you're SSO or not, but you can do that without two steps, just ignore the password and pas to SSO if they are, or use the password if the SSO check fails.
He was present at the autopsy. That said, whether he examined the body directly or not is irrelevant. Coroner's reports are evidence and as such they are constructed to be examined at a later time.

Please stop talking until you know what you're talking about.
They were sleeping through their shift because that's just what prison guards frequently do. They were doing a lot of overtime, partly because the prison is understaffed and partly because you make a lot of money signing up for overtime. They were tired, and nobody watches the watchers.

Why do you think that sleeping through overtime would be a case of the guards risking their life? I doubt they've even been fired.
> If you run the tag, go to the registered house at 1:30am, find the warm vehicle in the driveway,

More likely, the car was stolen.
Also, it's only partly about density in terms of population but also how far you have to go to get to stuff. Which is to say, mixed-use neighborhoods with shops and restaurants nearby are going to be more ped/bike friendly than 'bedroom communities' where everything else is far away.
One thing that bothers me is that indeed it has been resolving inconsistencies that often lead to progress, as the author points out. What would you say to that? What are the still unresolved inconsistencies in physics? To me it feels more like that we just mostly ran out of the obvious inconsistencies to resolve.
Congratulations, you just described what the article found, which is that biking is preferred for trips of a certain moderate distance (roughly 0.5-2 miles).
4 miles is not much on a bike if you have a safe bike way. If you need to do it on the street with cars it's a different story. It's less than 30 minutes ride for the average cyclist. (assuming it's pretty flat)
Not only disposing of those individuals who become a problem.

Disposing of entire groups and social movements. Example, occupy wallstreet.

As in, stealing, literal, bloody, stealing of an entire generations wealth, and transfering it to those who cause poverty and suffering... and yeah, all the masses can do is "well at least I got a new shiny iphone".

Wake up people, you americans especially are living in worse conditions than people under Stalin lived. Thats not a joke or har har, hard reality.
I always thought the Spartans came to prominence in this war - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Persian_Wars
I wish the site had a way for us to listen to the samples.
Personally, I was never able to just pick something and contribute to it. The few times I have contributed to an OSS project have been when I've been working on something and uncover a problem that I think I can fix.
Martin Luther King Jr. was almost certainly more important. He was jailed many times, and wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail from one.
Despite the censoring/manipulation in the results, it does seem to return the most relevant results for a search query more often than something like DDG.
And often if it just kills you slowly.
imagine the profits if you can get users to pay per file opened
In no way those non binding events had significant participation from the side that does not want to split from Spain.

Plus there was no active voting census and people could vote multiple times, you can't seriously consider the turnout from those events as valid in any way.
The OP asked 150 experts if Google has achieved quantum supremacy. Their answers are... inconclusive.

One could say the answer is in a quantum state, with some probability of yes and some probability of no. Fitting.
Agreed. The author is a profoundly unaware person. I get the sense that he tried meditation for a while, didn’t succeed (perhaps due to this angry “radical” mindset) and then decided to monetize the failure by writing a book critical of the practice. Well at least it injects some variety into the conversation. It’s not everyday that you find someone actively disparaging mindfulness.
You can easily have a commute that short in Denver if it's important to you. Mine is just fifteen minutes on foot from Uptown to CBD, too short for even a bike to be worth the effort most days. It's probably one of the most bike-commute-friendly cities in America.
yes but expressif's big plus is low-cost wifi/bluetooth integrated with a CPU/flash/ram
Have you take a look at the building toolset? Javascript is nothing.
Cyclist here. I've told people that this can be true in the US as well (taking the exact same route even). I picked my current apartment because it has a relatively short bike commute. Going from my current apartment to where I work takes about the same amount of time by bike or car because the car is at best 5 minutes faster to the general area but that advantage is quickly lost when one has to park and walk to the building. With my bike I park 100 feet from the door.

Some drivers might say that counting time to park is "cheating", but I strongly disagree. Time from door-to-door is what matters.
Ban Stack Exchange in NY state. Problem solved.

On serious note (and to avoid pitchfork holding HN mods) : May be it violates NY labour law under some interpretation, but that is an indication that the law is not well thought through and kills innovation.
When people complain that a labour law will kill innovation most people tend to dismiss those suggestions. Well here it is now.
Internet is becoming a staple commodity, vital to modern life. If it isn't available somewhere, people don't move there. Cities abound now in growing part because that's where high-speed low-latency reliable connectivity exists; if a location doesn't have it, people don't stay there long at all. Expanding "broadband" coverage is a serious factor in alleviating overcrowding, and opening paths toward first-world development.

It's currently a deciding factor in my location. I want to move, but can't go where I want because there isn't reliable >25Mbps there.

Couple with that the popular opinion of internet providers in general. People will stampede to a new platform.

This summer I toured the US midwest. So much wonderful open space, growth hindered mostly by "no wires and no bars". Make worldwide telecom cheap fast & reliable, and methinks numerous new centers of productivity will spring up almost overnight.
The statement balance is never due but I always make sure to pay it off before the 0% APR ends. Each month a small minimum balance (around 1%) is due.
> History has been awful and brutal every year since we began writing it down, and well before that, too. I think it's wrong that this means we shouldn't admire the more interesting parts of history.

But if you only admire the interesting parts, you get a horribly inaccurate picture. Indeed, because the study of history traditionally relied on the surviving written accounts, and there was little, if any, consideration of their potential bias, we have a rather jaundiced view of most of history that is passed into popular culture and knowledge. It is only quite recently--late 20th century--that the field itself has started to point out that, for example, given that all we know of Caligula is written by his enemies, maybe the accounts of his sex orgies is about as accurate as discussions of Clinton's pizza parlor sex ring (which is to say, a complete and utter fabrication).

For writers targeting a popular audience, there is generally a greater tendency to balance the horrible inaccuracies that circulate in popular thought (partially driven, sadly, by school curricula which are very slow to accept that "traditional" history is often completely and totally wrong) by focusing on the aspects that most directly contradict what the audience assumes. And that's what the author here is doing.
I was going to make the same post, upvoted you instead!

What's nice about JSON is that there's very little ambiguity in how to serialize / deserialize data structures. That's what's so powerful about it. As a result, using "magic" serializers with language-native data structures often works well and has little gotchas.

In general, I think a lot of people hopped onto the XML bandwagon assuming that it would always sanely translate back and forth between XML and native data structures. This is not the case. When XML is the (cough) "best" format, the underlying data structures of different programs operating on the XML will look extremely different. Furthermore, XML terminology will end up leaking into business logic, because the semantics of the document are inseparable from handling it.

In general, I think the biggest sign that XML is the wrong choice is when someone's using a "magic" serializer, or when the data structures very closely follow the document structure. In those cases, JSON was probably a better choice.
I, for one, am a huge fan of their gym equipment. No wonder they got aquired
What in your views would you say are valid grounds to seek independence?

If you are going to say Catalonia shouldn't seek independence, perhaps you can enlighten the rest of us on the ethical criteria to seek independence?
I feel like an old man, when I say this (and maybe I am), but I'm starting to feel increasingly annoyed by drones in public. You hear the whirring of drones on a nice day by the lake, and sometimes even on some more popular mountain peaks here in Switzerland. For me it's almost as annoying as a mosquito in your bedroom.
Why would you think your user is not capable of resizing their rendering window? This seems to be a wide-spread notion in the ranks of the "responsive" design lads (where "responsive" means: choose one of those four fixed designs which do not react graciously on window resizes).
Tiled window managers make usually halving (or doubling) one dimension of your browser window just one key(combination-)press away...
You do realize that police keep investigating crimes and tracking down suspects afterwards, right? Showing up at his home the next day while he's eating dinner and less likely to act as a scared animal is not letting "a criminal go free".
It is a suicide, just a complex and prolonged one.

(1) Blackmail a whole lot of extremely powerful people.

(2) Get busted and go to prison.

(3) Wait for a hit man to come kill you.

I guess it worked though.
Many PR firms offer “crisis management.”
Wasn't clear to me from the article, but taking an average of "bicycle miles per day" is always going to be greatly skewed toward 0 if it includes people who never or rarely bike.

Would be much more interested in the average bicycle miles per day of only people who take at least, say, 3 or 4 trip a week by bike.
He did the same after terrorist attacks in Paris.
Ignorance About Vaping Is Killing People
Honestly if you just get out and do it every day a 4 mile commute on a bike is a breeze. I'm not a Lycra clad sports fanatic - I just started riding to work and got into a routine.
Google stops indexing Flash content
Using commits for staging needs fewer different commands and prevents accidentally resetting or discarding changes.
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 95
Speaking of kids, the distribution and location of schools is a huge factor in where people choose to live in the US, relative to where they work. It would be interesting to also look at statistics on school sizes and locations relative to other countries.
Austin cyclist here. My daily commute is about 4-5 km in total. When I get groceries I'd probably travel about twice that distance in a day.
That may be the plan but the fact that the leading proponents of this policy assiduously avoid addressing this is more governing by mass cognitive dissonance, and that's not credible. It's simply evidence that these people are afraid of goring the necessary oxen.
In the case of Epstein, it appears that NY Dept of Corrections and the coroner must both be colluding to make the suicide narrative plausible.

There must be some level of coordinated pressure exerted on both of these offices for neither to highlight the inconsistencies.

What would be more concerning: a governmental agency or a non-governmental organization having this kind of power?
I thought electric bikes and scooters was going to be the "secret". They are abundant in Netherlands bike lanes and apparently controversial.

It's a good thing since smaller vehicles are replacing cars in many places, to make it more accessible to people who can't ride a regular bike, but has some safety and regulation issues to iron out.
The main driver of my suicidality is the mate prospects. Seems like I'll only be able to end up marrying a divorcee with two kids who doesn't want any more children ... :(
I recently hand wrote a poem for my fiancée with 12 stanzas (3 verses each with a rhyme scheme ABB) on a paper that I doused in coffee and baked to make it look ancient. I sent it using regular post with 'love' stamps. The outcome was far better than I had expected; she was overjoyed :)
It's similar to what keeps financial bubbles and Ponzi schemes going: when the money is flowing, nobody asks questions. Epstein threw a lot of money around.

The UK had Jimmy Saville and a similar story. He raised a lot of money for various important people and charities so nobody paid attention to the fact that he appears to have been a serial rapist for decades.
How they manage to persuade the completely trustworthy and independent media to modify their reporting would be an interesting thing to know.
It might be more complicated than you realise, depending on where the voter lives.

There are plenty of places where voting Tory stands essentially no chance of resulting in a Tory being elected, especially in this election. So then you need to figure out who could win, and what the effect on prospects for a future Tory government would be for those options - and vote for the one most likely to lead to overall Tory victory, not for the Tory on the ballot.
The amount of people I work with who use Access who do not understand even the very basics of computing is shocking.

And half my help tickets now are fixing Access files from multiple users trying to use them at once...
I'm still optimistic and patient. But the democracy won't be in the exact form as the ones stemmed from Greek traditions.
The analog parts of PCIe interfaces are not programmable. The artificially black boxes we are talking about are purely digital. They use fixed resources but we are not asking for the design of those parts.
So basically the english 'keep the information'. You can keep it as in not give it to someone else, or keep it as in preserve it. For physical objects this makes no difference.
Yes, the article discusses this:

>The rise of the sexy Halloween costume probably began sometime after the 1960s, but its biggest pop culture moment came in the 2004 movie "Mean Girls." Cady, the naive heroine, arrives at a Halloween party dressed as a gory bride of Frankenstein only to find the popular girls dolled up as a sexy bunny, sexy cat and sexy mouse. Oct. 31, she realizes, "is the one day a year when a girl can dress up like a total slut and no other girls can say anything else about it." Sex-advice columnist Dan Savage once called the yearly display of flesh a "Straight Pride Parade." "Halloween is now the big public celebration of straight sexuality, of heterosexual desire," he wrote in 2009.
Fast forward reading view?
It's a great reason to exercise caution when setting up rules and definitions. Whatever distinction gets established, however arbitrary, casts a tint on everything else on either side of it, for better or worse.

This is true even in things as routine daily chit-chat and conversation. Think about how often tacitly express your opinion through the way you frame a discussion and how often those environmental cues bias other parties to respond in particular ways. Then, consider how often marketers, salespeople, and other manipulators intentionally frame interactions to provoke a specific biased response.

The light touch and the small nudge are grossly undervalued.
They are heavily using GO
I mean, yes, we should do that, but we also need medical advances. Right now, if you get Alzheimer's disease, it doesn't matter how much money you have: you will suffer a long cognitive decline until you are no longer recognizable, at which point you will die. The entire process places an enormous social and financial burden on society. We need to fix that.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1605/
It was a holding action that gave the Greeks time to consolidate further back, no? And really, quite number of holding actions and retreats have achieved considerable fame. Among the retreats I'd mention the Anabasis, Sir John Moore's retreat on Corunna, the Long March, Dunkirk, and Stillwell's retreat to Burma.
I don't believe I said that Sparta wasn't important in pre-Macedonian conquest greek politics or even that Sparta wasn't important as an idea in later philosophy and in the idea of governing.

Idealized and fetishized, yes, by those that see in Sparta something that they want in their own society. Even if most of it is dismally misguided. Plato, of course, loved spartan society and based his own utopian ideal state on it and Plato has an outsized reputation in history by his writings and his characterization of his teacher, Socrates (who wrote nothing).
>This level of urban development isn’t just unusual in almost all of the United States. It’s illegal.

Bang. In much of America, it is against the law to build dense cities where people are statistically close to work and the grocery store.

Why do we have low density residential zoning in the first place? Preferring a large yard is one thing, but how did it come to be that America legally required houses to have yards?
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