skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was ~10 years old, I found a fake decorative crow (Halloween stuff) and I figured out that I could jump up and down with the fake crow and it would only be a matter of time before a few real crows would start circling... 15 minutes later there would be 100 circling, then thousands. It became a party trick that I'd show friends every now and then.
Top Upcoming Range Shooting Games for 2020
The same author Jamis Buck also recently came out with a book called The Ray Tracer Challenge [1]. He came to my University’s Game Dev class while I was there and he showed us all about maze algorithms and such. I thought one of the more interesting applications he brought up was over world (a.k.a. map/game world) generation using a maze algorithm. Which is awesome, because maze algorithms primarily try and create a single path between any two points which seems like a great property to have in a traversable game world. You could then choose to open up additional paths to your liking.

[1]: https://pragprog.com/book/jbtracer/the-ray-tracer-challenge
yes - but as a Z80 programmer it was hard to use the 8080-oriented tooling on the MP/M machines. I mean there was a direct correspondence from 8080 to Z80 but man... 8080 was ugly.
Country folk assure me that crows can also not only tell the difference between a gun and a stick, but they also have a pretty good idea of what the effective range of the gun is.
Why do you think they were interested?
Hmmm, interesting, thanks for this, I will have to think about this, how to do login and security correctly. Any good web links you have on this please share so that I can research it, thanks!
I subscribe to this, would also be interested to hear more!
The next step would be writing a program to modify intersections, monitor how long cars take to get a journey done and optimize the streets for total transit time, or emissions, or whatever. That's probably faster than letting people discover optima along their usual routes.
Well, yes: if you design something badly, users don’t want it. So let’s add “thoughtful design” to the list of things that users want, but which programmers don’t care about.

And before anyone says it: there’s nothing on the list that is unreasonable to implement, or that requires a messy/confusing control panel. Apple software has most/all of these features, and more.

You have to be willing to iterate on the interaction design of features. If your first instinct is to cram it all into a single config to close the ticket, that’s an okay starting point, but it isn’t where you want to end up.
Hah! Thank you for the correction.
Earn credits for Stadia - solve these realtime truck simulator captcha!
They've got electronically controlled clutches, no torque converter.

Yeah, probably more expensive than a manual but they save gas which will cost much more long term.

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/manual-transmissions-rapidly...
One wonders how hard it would be to create a plausible but fake sample for them to run.
I wonder if this car had an after-market remote start system installed? I can't imagine that an official Lexus system would behave like this. I suppose there could be a defective sensor or something involved, but you'd think it would have sufficiently-tested failsafes.
The right language can heighten the atmosphere, but otherwise a skilled director working closely with the rest of the crew can make it work. Remove the control of the director by using voice actors who were not directed by the director and it will take away from that work.

Reduction of atmosphere is just one of the reasons I don't like dubbing, the fact that it robs the actor of his or her oral performance is the major one. But there are more reasons, many of them I've already mentioned such as mismatch in grammar leading to changes in the dramatic pacing.
I always assumed it was because they thought I was attacking one of their flock, like they were trying to intimidate me. They never came close or swooped down or anything. Just circled hundreds of feet above.
when i log in to gitpod I get the message:

We have trouble parsing your context
Error: Couldn't parse context '%22'.
Please file an issue if you think this is a bug.
What are in your opinion the worst case scenarios when it comes to sharing your DNA?
No, he is pointing out that 'there is a market for it therefore it is not a sin' is a shitty argument because there is a a market for blatantly amoral things. You don't understand how analogies work.
Is Blazor anything like TurboLinks or Phoenix LiveView?
Tech companies face bipartisan congressional uproar over encryption
Thanks for all the nice comments that are intended with good karma. What other feature can I add to this password generator that is useful? I agree that using linux is more secure but for passwords that are not as important I think this tool works fine, also you don't need to remember a big line of code and you can execute it on your mobile phone
PSD2 and Open Banking Bring About New Security ThreatsP
Or maybe many creatures feel relatable emotions, because of its value to survival.
Didn't he sell the tweetjobs.dev and not the API app?
I saw a crow steal a credit card off an outdoor table in Seattle once. They really are remarkable animals. Also I swear they have regional accents to their calls.
> Bikes can be fitted (for the most part) with different tires/wheels

Maybe there's a level of sensitive to being a bicyclist that I realize, but not that's something I've ever needed to consider mid-day at the office for my commute home. It's not like a hilly mountain bike trail suddenly grew out of the ground while I was on my lunch break that I unexpectedly need to cross in order to get home. (A planned detour the long way home is a different story.)

Personal transport evolves as technology changes. From the original iron and wood bone-shakers during the Victorian era followed by the later penny-farthings, to the chain and derailleur drive-trains that are popular today. Bicycles assume that the locomotive energy comes from a person, and are designed around that.

A useful amount of energy can now be stored in on-board batteries, with motors powerful enough to propel a person forwards, some are more powerful than a person can pedal. Some are even powerful enough for cars (requires a lot more batteries though). Electric motors are quieter and don't have exhaust like gasoline engines, either. (We also have self-balancing technology that lowers the learning curve for single-axle designs.)

Henry Ford, possibly apocryphally, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Shoving an electric motor on a bicycle's a faster horse. Maybe with some imagination we can do better than that.
> ...achieving up to "5 compression ratios."

This is gold
Would love to see a device that I can locally analyse the results without sharing the data to any company.

On the other hand, the way I understood it, is that the more data available, the more accurate are the analysis results.
Bernie or Warren ?
This sounds like someone installed an auto start system in their manual transmission car and bypassed the neutral sensor.
Early humans didn't have poetry. Were they not intelligent?
Original article: https://www.livescience.com/plants-squeal-when-stressed.html
The latter doesn't contradict the former. What the market will bear results from all the individual subjective value assessments of every individual.

Indeed the market is made of all people, each with their personal and subjective assessment of value based on their own personal/subjective needs, criteria etc. What a product is worth TO YOU is your decision alone… and totally subjective, and… statistically irrelevant to the market at large.

The objective value measure though that matters to the market at large is: for what price can you be certain to find a buyer (in other words: "what the market will bear").
And you can read it on the website too. The title doesn’t tell you anything because if I linked the paper it’s referencing it’d spoil the story too.
If it’s done quiet easily as you claim, then why hasn’t it been done already?
Five years later, Heartbleed vulnerability still unpatched
Yes that is true. But birds feel less than cats and dogs. They have less neurons. This is a stupid article but god knows people on this site love to read articles and then parrot them as fact immediately after
Honestly, I think most want an honest wage, or as much as they can get, and then having work that doesn't interfere with their lives outside of 9-5 too much.
Model year 2002 for both cars. There’s more to the story.
The police might enforce the legal code of a system the funnels economic gains to fewer and fewer people, but they don’t come up with the ideas on which that system is based.
"High Speed Digital Design" generally refers to PCB level design. The Black Magic books are pretty old, covering ancient stuff like DIP packages on manhattan-routed boards. These days the keyword is SI/PI (Signal Integrity, Power Integrity).
Reassuring, old skool simple web page. It does exactly what it said in the label.

Where did this kind of informative lightweight fast to load web go? I miss it.

Thanks for posting this.
I'd agree with only some of the suggestions.

> [all things color scheme]

A decent color scheme is enough. People don't change it much, if at all, unless they're bored, so I wouldn't go out of my way to support it. Main use cases are, arguably, light and dark mode, and supporting an OS-global switch if one exists. Tips about assigning colors to things are spot-on, though; consistency and discernibility turns color into a powerful communication tool.

> WYSIWYG editor that behaves like Word

Yes please. In some ways, I'm sad that ActiveX/whatever the way to embed Word on your webpage was died. People really shouldn't keep reinventing their own WYSIWYGs on pages, each with slightly different behavior or interface. That said, this would probably be handled best by a set of guidelines or a library from Microsoft, instead of having to connect to actual Word.

> Number/date formatting to the right locale

In my personal opinion, locales should die, and everyone should switch to dot as decimal separator and ISO-8601, respectively. But I'm fully aware the general consensus seem to be different :/.

> Tell me what this does before I click on it

That's what tooltips are for. Harder on mobile, but there's no excuse for web developers who don't include them.

> Support touch gestures and mouse

Support touch gestures and mouse and a stylus, simultaneously, as separate things. Because they are separate. A pen/stylus on a 2-in-one computer (e.g. Microsoft Surface or Dell Latitude lines) is a huge productivity booster if it's supported. It rarely is. I'm constantly hunting for software that does it right, but there's very little of it, and I have not yet seen a single web application capable of handling a stylus (even though technically, the APIs for that are there).

Examples of correctly handling a pen vs. other modalities: without having to switch modes or active tools, allow me to draw with a pen, select with one finger, pan with two fingers, and select with a mouse.

> UX

The entire section is spot-on.
What is the point of remote start anyway? Heating up the engine? That is wasteful. Cooling down via airco? Open the Windows and wait 30 seconds or disconnect the airco system from the engine altogether as a design choice and add a bit beefier accumulator. I seriously do not get why you need it. Maybe someone can enlighten me

Edit: completely forgot about really cold winters...
I'm a fan of the apg linux command because it generates somewhat phonetically prounceable passwords and of course runs locally. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/StrongPasswords#APG
It's funny how things have turned. They had an open API with several 3rd party clients, and they killed them. Now they want to go even more open... Strange
Exact thing happened to me one or two days ago. I was driving home and on a small street near my apartment a crow flew out of the bushes and dropped something right in front of the car and then it landed on the other side of the street. When I looked back in the mirror, the crow had gone back to collect what looked like a walnut.

On a semi-related note, magpies are also doing really well in that race. End of last year I started leaving oatmeal in a bottle cap on my terrace and every morning a magpie came to eat it every single day over the course of 2 months. And every evening when I came back home I had a handful of sticks, stones and berries left somewhere. No idea what I was supposed to do with them but thanks magpie I guess...
It's an accident caused by something getting turned on at the wrong time. Is it any different than, for example, someone turning on the power without knowing that an electrician is currently doing some work, thereby causing him to get electrocuted?
> that's a strong signal that the developers don't care about what the users need.

No, I can guarantee that if I went and asked any of the clients at my current company whether they wanted universal undo or the next core feature that we're working on, none of them would choose universal undo.

That's the point that the original commenter was getting at:

> I've contracted for a small dev contracting shop, and it's amazing how, when customers come with a long wishlist of things they want a piece of software to do, these customers quickly "stop caring" about most of these features when they see actual dollar amounts next to each line item.

Of course users want this stuff when they think it's free, but it's not free. Once they realize that it's not free, they very quickly come up with very different priority lists. Being honest about which features are hard, and which features will result in delays, is an unpleasant but important part of caring about users.
This is universally true of all upper management. See the SNAFU principle[1]

[1] http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/s/SNAFUprinciple.html
That's what I am curious about to. From reading the blog, I csn't tell which one did he sell. He says it's the same buyer but was it for the new site?
Damore is the extreme case. There's a small clique of people there that do "social justice" activism on internal forums and little else. Damore pissed right into their punchbowl.

I'm not 100% sure why Google keeps those people around, but they are fairly easy to avoid: just don't engage, no matter how insane their ramblings are on any given week.
Open Source at Companies
For people discussing automated tools and noise, prediction: we will start seeing automated tools flagging "missing security.txt" as some sort of vulnerability and I will end up implementing it just to stop the noise. It feels like a lose-lose situation.
False. Truck driving is one of the few steady jobs that remain middle class https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/m...
>How's about we allow a little local flavor while people tell their stories?

>PS: Davis CA has zillions of crows
Buybacks get you a higher EPS number, I don’t see why would you expect the multiple to increase. But it’s true that there are many effects in play: signaling, offer/demand of shares, apparent improvement in ratios vs peers...
I read an article about crows in Australia killing a very poisonous frog. They are able to teach each other was the conclusion of that article. I don't have time atm to find the article.
Just goes to show C++ failed the zero overhead principle.
I'm fact they don't share the future, they only share a starting point, after which they diverge immediately based on influences of the external world, like in this thought experiment the room the particular instance of the clone happens to wake up in.

The sequence of thoughts from the moment each clone realizes it woke up in room X, depends on the value of X, which potentially has lasting psychological effects that boost the divergence of the two clones. For example: imagine you've been told that cloning doesn't "split" you in two equally "genuine" clones, buy instead that the first one is the "original" whole the one in room 1 is the "clone". When you wake up and realize you are the clone, your thought process will probably diverge from the original.
> It's a miracle that a species like ours could combine all the necessary, quite fragile, ingredients to develop intelligence.

The Anthropic Principle says this combination must have happened with probability 1, otherwise there would be noone to observe it not happening.
Crows never attack bigger animals unless provoked (and they have a long and good memory on who provokes them)
This might sound like a non-answer, but there is no singular technique. I learned to solder when I was a tween. I am sure that the work I did was more on the terrible side when I started out. But I got good at it simply by looking at professional solder connections and trying to replicate the look. I even ended up learning how to avoid cold solder joints just by the colour and texture of the melting solder before I knew cold solder joints were a thing. And I thought I was quite clever tinning my leads before soldering them to the board, until I found out that's what you're supposed to do anyway.

So the answer is merely - practice. Everything there is to know about soldering can be taught in about 5 minutes. But getting good at it requires simply... doing it. It is intuitive enough that if you try to make it look professional, you'll fall into good practice fairly quickly.

Recently I saw a video of a guy soldering GPIO headers on a Raspberry Pi Zero, and I was surprised at how different his technique is than mine. But we both solder super cleanly.

It made me realize something: Ever watch people writing something on paper? You easily notice there are so many ways people hold and maneuver a pencil it isn't funny, but the end result is pretty much the same. You really just develop your own method, and chances are your first guess will be really close to the way you'll settle into it.

Soldering cleanly is easier than writing cleanly. I'm a lefty, so your mileage may vary on that one.

As for removing soldered things, I always took great glee in the fact that the device you need for doing that is called a Solder Sucker. There are at least 2 types - a rubber bulb form that sucks solder up in exactly the way you'd expect, and the other is more of a spring loaded cylinder that you load with your thumb, and fire with your index finger.
I'm more confused as to why use .PHONY in so many places. Golang builds from .go files whos modification times are changed when written to, same as .c and .cpp files, so make is able to know when the go compiler needs to be called, or not.
The point is heating up the car so it's warm when you get inside. I don't have this feature and I live in the northern US. In the winter the car is freezing for the first 3 minutes as there is no heat until the engine warms up. Being able to start the car from the other side of the parking lot would increase my comfort by a large amount.
I was recently reading the Wikipedia page about comparative neuron counts in the brains of various animals. The most notable observation to me at the time was that ravens have a similar neuron count that of to pigs and dogs--far more than cats, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...
You can also just disable javascript for the website.
cephlapods, primates, crows. I wonder if someone studied all three.
Form and Quiz Builder
I use

</dev/urandom tr -dc 23456789~*@#$%_+-=qwertQWERTasdfgASDFGzxcvbZXCVB | head -c13; echo ""
I just tried to run zubairq/pilot from the github importer on repl.it, and after I ran:

npm install
node src/electron.js

...
* Loading driver: * : demo_timer
* Loading driver: * : quicksort
* Loading driver: * : bubblesort
* Loading driver: * : new
* Loading driver: * : new_microservice
add_rest_api called
Loaded all apps (may use already loaded drivers)

Yazz Pilot started on:
http://172.18.0.154:3000

It starts up alot slower than running on a desktop machine, but when I go to http://172.18.0.154:3000 it never seems to connect from a browser. What am I doing wrong here?
If you don't have virtual functions, a C++ object is just an struct associated with static function links.
I mean, there are pretty objective things to test for.

Object permanence.

How many things can they keep in working memory?

How many steps can they work through linearly to an objective?

How many dependent elements of a puzzle can be branched off for a single step?

Can they understand symbols as being representative of objects? Of verbs? Adjectives?

Can they understand counting, grouping?

Can they extrapolate solutions from one puzzle to another? How dissimilar can they appear for them to still recognize patterns?

Are they creative? Are they social?
I'm not sure if the first offer was really for the startup or rather just for the domain.
If you want your reports to learn on the job:

1. Make it part of their annual goals (e.g. attend a conference, get a certification, compete in a competition).

2. Throw them in the deep end, a little beyond their edge, and be okay if they fumble around a bit.

3. Make them teach. Give them stuff to understand and present to your team or other teams. That forcing function will give them a mechanism to immediately exercise their newfound knowledge/skill.

4. Make room in your project schedules for it. They'll learn on their own if they have the time, or they'll invent something. The ones that don't are your bottom tier.

My first boss sent me to Siggraph my first year to drink from the fire hose. He also asked me, on my first day, what I was worst at of all the areas of programming I was aware of (Windows UI) and assigned me three months of work writing custom controls... I did it in six months, and I've never been able to thank him enough for teaching me, right off the bat, that your people are your greatest investment, that optimizing for the project is rarely the right choice.
yea thanks. Got my wires crossed there
I should have taken picture of my Chrysler today before I used remote start. The windows are all frozen and white, you cannot even see through them before either car gets warm or I scrap it with plastic tool.

Sometimes it's even challenging to open the doors, because they are all frozen.

I get that not everyone gets the white snow christmas, but some do :)
>Early humans didn't have poetry.

[Citation Needed]
That's not what I want though. I want an ex-industry insider with an axe to grind to tear them a new one, without mincing words, and with abundant evidence presented, similarly to how it's done in this article. It just blows my mind when some women who wouldn't eat non-organic food if their life depended on it turn around and rub petroleum byproducts into their faces every evening. Food colorings are "poison" but lipstick and hair dye are A-ok. :-)
It is, because there are always pedestrians and other cars around the streets. They are more difficult to control especially if you're not looking. I'm pretty confident that I don't kill anybody if I turn on a light switch now. I'm pretty sure something bad would happen if I'd start my car remotely in gear and with no handbrake.
Isn't this why they invented preheaters? My old car blew out warm air after 10 seconds.
I think it is best to characterize it as being an opportunity for shareholders to part ways with the company, taking their share of ownership as cash and moving on.

Of course, all of these characterizations are the same and describe the same event, but I find this one the least inflammatory. It makes it clear that no transfer of wealth is happening, that buybacks don't meaningfully effect share price, etc.
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