skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried NodeJS because of the appeal of JavaScript on both the client & server. That side didn't really work out because client Side JavaScript is just so different.

As a web server it worked well. I put Nodejs behind HAProxy & Varnish and ended up with something reasonably robust; good for both dynamic & static content. These days I use if more for server side data handling and it is surprising what you can throw at it really - data collection and even some processing.

As you said its really good for getting stuff done.
This is pure blog spam with nothing new. Please don’t post this here
it was never about principles or good intentions it was always a tax because the various governments felt they had missed the boat on making money from their subject's data.
Companies don't innovate, people do. The patent may be filed by a company but the discovery must have been made by one or more human beings. So you might as well argue that it shouldn't be possible for legal entities to hold patents if patents can't be transferred.

That said, the obvious flaw with that point in isolation is that it would still be possible to license a non-practicing entity to sue people on your behalf and then have a revenue sharing agreement between the holder and their employer at the time where the employer reimburses the holder for all expenses related to filing and in return receives all licensing revenue -- effectively recreating the current system but with more layers of bureaucratic indirection.

The problem is patents. If you try to fix them, the market will simply adjust to work around those fixes. Much like with actual nuclear weapons, we need to get rid of them, not just write more laws about when it is okay to use them. But unlike actual nuclear weapons, we can get rid of patents without changing the laws of physics -- we can just ban new applications and let the existing patents run out.
maybe it was defragging?
He already posted an update that he's allowed to continue and the company is supporting him: https://www.facebook.com/KrispyKremeRunMinnesota/posts/44923...

"Hi everyone, here is the next important update! I am pumped to announce that I will be able to continue the business soon, and have the support of Krispy Kreme. They want to ensure I become an independent operator and make sure the brand is represented well. On both ends, there are things that are being worked on right now to achieve that as this is being made as a special exception. But nonetheless, we can get started up again soon once certain things are in place."

Seems like confirmation that this was most likely about trademarks and representation.
Why in the world do people cite non-normalized emissions? If you cut a country's size in half wouldn't you expect half the emissions, reductions, etc.? Does that mean suddenly half of your country is suddenly not putting in its fair share compared to your full country?? How does that make any sense?!
But it's also true and good.
> For a company that sells a utility (...) rather than an experience (...), I will always pick the cheapest option.

That's exactly how they built their business. They should not be surprised of the consequences!
It's more "fend it off, then crowd source enough ammunition to hunt it down and murder it", though. Everyone can expose trolls to sunlight, it just doesn't do all that much if you don't have the resources to fight them.
This is amazing. A not-hotdog for pain would definitely be useful!
We (still) have the same thing in Poland.

Interestingly, people actually graduate from these schools and sometimes go to college afterwards.

I think it's a better system - why make the victim switch schools when obviously they aren't the problem here?
> Another example of technology making the world better.

Surely this is sarcasm?
Bye to both facebooks
OSM is data, not servers, which is why a number of companies use OSM data and give you the ability to pay them to use their servers. Thunderforest, for instance.

But the point is that you can use the same data they use to make your own tile server if you like. And if you update the OSM data we will all benefit
>patents, which often intentionally omit important details

These are invalid. That might not help against a troll of course.

>The only form of "knowledge sharing" patents seem to encourage is filing patents, which only becomes "knowledge sharing" when they expire many years later. //

I'd have to check for USA, but in Europe you can use a patent for research, that's the whole point really of having them. You can even make the invention for yourself, you can't sell it though without a license. When you make an improvement and the original inventor won't license then in UK they can be forced to license it.
ARM (both 32-bit and 64-bit) does have an access bit, which, like RISC-V, can be either hardware managed or treated as an extra 'valid' bit.
I don't understand, could you elaborate briefly?
Voyager snapped a picture of our Earch (sorry I thought it was the Sun) in 1990. It's the famous Pale Blue Dot picture. It's the small blue-white speck (or almost pixel) halfway down the brown band on the right.
https://en.es-static.us/upl/2012/07/Pale_Blue_Dot.png

EDIT: Ooops, sorry - this is Earth and not Sun :-(.
The Paris and Iran agreements were not submitted to Congress for the good reason that they had insufficient support there. Agreement by only one branch of a divided government was a pretty clear sign that the US was not a reliable counterparty to them. The agreements were honored by the entity that made them -- the Obama administration -- whose power had a clear expiration date. Given the political configuration, relying on more than that was unsupported. Although Trump was hard to predict, several of the other GOP candidates may well have done the same.

I would not expect a Biden or Warren administration to feel bound by a unilateral Trump agreement, and any counterparties aren't doing due diligence if they don't understand that.
Technical Writing Communities
How many dollars do you have behind that guarantee?
How about starting medium? Houston to Dallas.

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/05/15/texas-bullet-train-a...

I don't know the full list of requirements, but a route has been chosen, some number of federal approvals have been granted, some regulatory hurdles passed, and supposedly two federal approvals remain.

The route is easier (engineering and cost-wise), due to geography, than the California rail, or anything in the Eastern corridor, and to keep it even easier they're running it along existing utility corridors where possible to further reduce the amount of private land access they have to contend with:

https://www.texascentral.com/alignment-maps/
Well, at least it makes a good epitaph.
She does absolutely nothing to dispute the points they made about her actual research. It’s ad hominem attacks on her critics and pointing out her own credentials. She’s never refuted any of their attacks on her work itself, because she knows her work can never be replicated.
If your European friend tells you their phone number and you write it down on your refrigerator (or your public blog for that matter), the French government isn’t going to come fine you for violating GDPR.
Then the mainstream media platform a climate denialist that believes dinosaurs never existed for "debate" and then says "these opinions are equal"
In my experience, the more time the word "clarity" is used, the less there is.
They managed 491 mph this morning, but again some minor damage:
https://twitter.com/Bloodhound_LSR/status/119162873835993907...

This year's campaign is not trying to set any records, but just prove out much of the technology using just the jet engine. Next year, all being well, they'll add the rocket and aim towards 1000 mph.

For those interested in the technology, there's an interesting writeup by Ron Ayers (Bloodhound aerodynamicist) and Andy Green on the stability of transonic and supersonic cars here: https://www.bloodhoundlsr.com/the-stability-of-transonic-and...

Wishing them luck: my sons' names are on the fin!
I had the same issue with Gluu a few years ago. Never did get it working.
The semantics are different.
After the withdrawal it is up to individual states to try to keep pace with Paris accord. California is mentioned a lot and gives hope that US will not become a hopeless laggard in renewable energy & climate innovation. I wonder where other states stand on this, and how their efforts will be hampered by a federal government not being on their side.
I think they also need to:

1. Remove Vue.js from the Gitlab Production becuase:

- The founder&writer of Vue.js is Chinese and currently in China.

- Other than the funder and it's bot, the Top 3 contributors of it are Chinese and live in China

2. Remove vuex from the Gitlab Production becuase:

- The founder&writer of vuex is Chinese and currently in China.

- Other than the funder, there's still 5 contributors in Top20 that are Chinese and live in China

3. Remove Sizzle from the Gitlab Product becuase:

- the #19 contributor is from Russia and he committed twice and 4000+ lines of code

The security breach is HUGE, they need to fix it RIGHT NOW! What if there's spy code in those js libs!

If they passed the issue but keep those libs they're simply idiotic hypocrites
How is that ageism? the older you are the more experience one would expect you to have. If you are over 40 and you learned nothing then what did you do? Younger people that have no experience... well that's to be expected.
> Not true in many countries where cash is supported in Uber.

I've taken Ubers in at least 7 countries, many of which have had a cash option (India and Vietnam), neither of which I took up. The average uber driver will have considerably less cash on them then the average cabbie.

> No payment is made in the vehicle, so faster exit times.

Only if you pay in cash.

> Uber uses any credit card, so your boss can pay for your ride without the need for separate expensing.

Uber supports having both a business and personal profile, which you can change before or during a ride. Every business uber I take has the receipt sent directly to my work email, and charged to my work CC.
Ubiquiti and GPL: When companies use GPL against each other, our community loses
I still wasn't a bad idea to kill nuclear in Germany. It is pretty expensive, admittably partly due to regulation, but also because of unsolved problems. Additionally we would have to ask Plutonium-Putin (No, we do not use plutonium-reactors)for all his good stuff and people would have cried again. There are still active NPP in Germany, but overall you cannot really say the decision was bad.

Yes, there are new coal powered plants being build, but mostly to replace inefficient older ones. There might be an argument that a new NPP would have been a better solution, but it wouldn't have worked out economically. Maybe with taxes on carbon dioxides if that would have been implemented.

I think subsidies for renewables are a far better investment compared to NPP.
I have a feeling I know exactly what clock he's talking about. Costco sold a La Crosse wifi projection alarm clock where you can only set the time with the app, and the app has a hamburger-menu-icon-but-actually-a-handle gesture to delete whatever device you're having an issue with. Strangely, I'm having the same issue he did, where the wifi stops working and it loses the plot. I took it apart to see if the antenna broke, but it's got an ESP8266 module so that's not it.
What is really bad about MCU is that it displaced other movies from the big budget sci-fi niche. For every Ad Astra or Gravity we have 5 comic book films.
> The same goes for any other kind of regulatory compliance.

I don't think anybody disagrees with that. All regulatory burdens harm small businesses -- which is why they should all be minimized to the greatest extent possible.

> No small company has to pay lawyers to validate that they are complying with GDPR. It’s just that if it turns out they weren’t, the fines for violations can be quite steep, so a risk-averse company is going to be proactive about it.

And investors are risk-averse, so investors want to see compliance, so they're forced into the choice between going out of business due to the compliance burden or going out of business as a result of an inability to get investment without showing compliance.

> There are many types of regulations which are much stricter with more up-front costs than GDPR, which companies of every size manage to cope with (or sometimes don’t, and go out of business).

Two wrongs don't make a right. Nor do a hundred.

> The technology industry has just gotten used to not being held accountable when it harms people, so now that some sensible consumer protection regulation comes down (some) people are freaking out.

The technology industry is Intel and Samsung. Chips rather than bits. Plenty of regulation there -- environmental, patents, government contracts, etc.

But now we're talking about regulating information. It's not a particular industry, it's a thing all people do all day long. It's regulating people talking and writing stuff down. The number of people subject to whatever burden you impose is effectively everybody, so the burden inherently has to be small or when you multiply it by everybody everywhere it becomes an absurdity. If it's too complicated then either nobody complies with it and it's useless (and dangerous) or you crash the world by making everybody try to.
Ready for RS Double XP Weekend with 6% Off Rsorder Runescape Gold
Are you ready for RS Double XP Weekend coming this month? This time players will enjoy Double XP Weekend: Extended with 36 hours of Double XP boost, which will make the DXP event more relaxing than before.

To celebrate the release of RS Mobile Early Access, RSorder offers 6% off (code "MEA6") for RS gold for sale, cheap OSRS gold and more for everyone and double Loyalty Points (every 100 loyal points can be used as $1) for RSorder members from Nov.8 to Nov.14, 2019.

Schedule for RS Double XP Weekend in Nov

It has been confirmed that RuneScape Double XP Weekend comes again at 12:00 (game time) on November 22, 2019. During the DXP weekend, members will have a chance to enjoy a 100% XP boost. Any unused Double XP time will be removed on December 2nd (12:00 game time).

What’s new in Double XP Weekend Extended?

There is something different in RuneScape Double XP Weekend Extended this time. Double XP Weekend Extended will offer 36 hours of Double XP boost, spread over the course of 10 days. To enjoy the XP boost, you just need to log in between November 22nd (12:00 game time) and December 2nd (12:00 game time). Your XP timer will start ticking once you have logged in the game, and you can see how much Double XP time you have left via the interface.
According to the official news post, Double XP Weekend Extended is designed to be more relaxing than before. You don’t need to worry of cramming it all into a single weekend, but maximise every one of the precious Double XP hours. There is no need to be afraid of missing out on XP when you have to stop for meals, pet the dog or hang out with friends and family.

What do you think about RuneScape DXP weekend with the adjustment?

Anyway, 5% off code "RSYK5" is also offered for Runescape 3 Gold / Osrs gold and all other products. Buy from https://www.rsorder.com/rs-gold at anytime.
Nope. (Manufacturer is German, and extremely uptight about GDPR. A redeeming mark in their favour.)
The upside is that they keep 100% of fares, benefit from the economies of scale of having a large fleet, and can run the cars 24/7.

Cars can be leased, reducing capex, and maintenance can be handled by specialised companies.

Overall it seems that this upside far outweighs the downside.
I wasn't aware that the project was bought out of the skip!

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/meet-man-who-saved-1000mph-...
> At least in the US, the fracking companies don't have to tell anybody (including the government) what chemicals they are using.

This is utterly terrifying. Private companies can pump unspecified junk in to the ground with ZERO oversight? That cannot be right! This is why British people are always worried when we hear talk of closer alignment with US environmental "protections".
> It is only practical to run one system initialisation daemon on one system image at a time

Sure, just as it's only possible to run one desktop environment at a time. But just as it's good form to write programs that will run correctly under any desktop environment (by keeping everything loosely coupled and ensuring any interfaces are stable and documented), it's good form to write programs that will run under any initialisation daemon. I don't mind systemd being what gets installed by default. I mind very much when systemd is the only option because other components have been encouraged to use systemd-only interfaces. (and realistically that's the only reason systemd "won" - many of the competing options were much nicer technically, but that doesn't matter when gnome requires you to be running systemd).

> When tight coupling is done by the BSDs, it is considered a good thing

I wouldn't say that. Tight coupling in and of itself is always a negative. If there's clear value gained (e.g. useful features) then that might be enough to outweigh the negative.
1.2 million ride LA metro a day.
As far as I know, GeoNames has been surpassed by Who's On First that e.g. Pelias employs: https://www.whosonfirst.org/
Is that what it says, or are you just saying they're not likely to enforce it in that way, and now we have a rarely enforced law that everybody violates and therefore the government can use it as a pretext to undemocratically destroy anybody that government officials don't like?
OWASP API Security Top RC
Apple’s great GPL purge (2012)
I guess it's the same with Mac OS. Some years back, migrating Mail data would always fail on my Mac Mini, but would succeed quite happily on my MacBook Air. I always suspected the HDDs. Moved to SSDs and everything was better.
Not sure it could be classified as a loophole really. Unless your an employee or affiliate of the newspaper itself in which case it likely verges on fraud.

It's more like a government-led incentive scheme to support.
Interesting, at what point do we let AI contribute new words to the lexicon, Shakespeare managed 15...
Zola: A static site generator written in Rust
Unicode encodes symbols rather than glyphs. That is why there are different code points for say latin o and greek omicron even though they look the same. It also distinguishes between punctuation symbols and mathematical operators, like between dash and minus, even though they look similar.

As for the "presentation forms" they are not semantically different and are mostly a compatibility thing:

A: Presentation forms are ligatures or glyph variants that are normally not encoded but are forms that show up during presentation of text, normally selected automatically by the layout software. A typical example are the positional forms for Arabic letters. These don't need to be encoded, because the layout software determines the correct form from context.

For historical reasons, a substantial number of presentation forms were encoded in Unicode as compatibility characters, because legacy software or data included them.

Unicode FAQ, https://unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html#Pf1
In the Netherlands, high schools are separated in three cohorts: practical education, higher education and academically oriented education. The latter are further divided in liberal arts tracks called 'Gymnasium' (notable for having Greek and Latin in the curriculum) and somewhat more practically oriented Atheneum. This has been the case since 1968.
The difference is obvious, niggers.
Ehh not really XP was a great Windows OS for the time it came out.

For the entreprise users it was mostly the same as Windows 2000, a great OS released just a few months before that was much better than NT 4.

For the home users it was a move away from the old 9x kernel line and into the NT kernel line, which was infinitely better.

XP's problem was that with Longhorn's delays and then Vista sucking so much, it took until mid-2009 for a suitable replacement to appear, and by then XP was really outdated. But at the time it came out ? It was great.
Public Key Cryptography for Non-Geeks
Accessing the documentation is more like a one time thing. I could always copy it somewhere else for later reference.
Netflix Optimized FreeBSD's Network Stack More Than Doubled AMD EPYC Performance
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17310690

additional context (which the OP didn't reference):

https://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-when-to-use-utf8mb3-ov...

https://mysqlserverteam.com/sushi-beer-an-introduction-of-ut...

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/charset-unicode-utf8...

hint: "Exactly the same set of characters is available in utf8mb3 and ucs2."
Authority doesn't really work on the net. The information will be discarded anyway if people just want to.
So internet's got rid of nicknames and switched to real names to avoid anonymounity... yeah... right...
I always enjoyed slipstreaming the drivers onto an XP disk, and then going through the install process at 1280x1024 with full graphics/sound/network support.
I never heard about a Longhorn leak, what was amazing about it?
any source for that claim ?
Too bad about the quality of those conversions. I'm assuming you don't have the original 8mm film anymore, as depending on the grain size (more-or-less directly related to the film "speed" or ISO value) and whether it's black and white or color film you should be able to get anywhere from a crisp 720p to a 1080p resolution when scanning it, it'd avoid a lot of the loss of midtones you see in the video you linked.

If all you have are the VHS tapes you could try getting them converted by a different company, or doing it yourself. The flickering looks a lot like a VHS player not doing brightness correction correctly to me. The original film wouldn't have flicker, The film scanner would be unlikely to introduce it. A VHS player needs to do brightness correction on the signal it reads from the tape in any case since the signal strength may vary with tape age or wear, or even the signal strength at time of recording. A VHS player would normally use the sync pulse to detect how much it needs to amplify the signal, if that mechanism gets out of whack you can get wild brightness fluctuations. Some of the color could probably also be rescued if the VHS conversion was done more carefully.

If you don't have the VHS tapes anymore either (which is a perfectly reasonable thing after having them converted) you could still probably get a lot of the brightness fluctuations out by editing the avi files. I don't know of the top of my head any tool that'll do brightness equalisation like that automatically but I'm sure it exists, it's computationally not a hard problem. You'll probably not be able to recover much color from this stage though, the signal is thoroughly quantized once it hits the digital realm and no amount of fiddling will get you any more color resolution though you might be able to correct it a small amount with some color correction.

In all cases you're best off getting as close to the source material as possible, but I'm sure that even if the digital copies are all you have you can get it to a place where it's at least watchable.