skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was an one-two punch because either one by itself unlikely would have produced the disaster: the earthquake not only produced the tsunami, it also sunk the coastline about 4 feet rendering tsunami barriers useless.

I read somewhere their tsunami barriers where just high enough to stop the tsunami but the coastline sinked. No engineer could have predicted that.
Anecdotal evidence from many people, myself included, suggests that they are far more effective.
It suggests that this is not the ideal sort of question for the site, and that any future attempts at similar questions may be met with greater resistance.

Additionally, if the relevant information ever changes, no new answers can be submitted.
Thanks for the talk as it was interesting! A friend who pushes Go on other forums talked about how it reminded him of programming in his favorite, Wirth-style languages. Interesting that re-creating that experience was an explicit design goal with them drawing on good features of Wirth languages, ALGOL60 (not ALGOL68), and others. The ALGOL60 quote was similarly impressive:

"Hoare said of it, 'Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also nearly all its successors.'"

Quite an achievement. It was had by using only experienced language designers on the committee. Modern committee-driven actions could learn from this technique of using people with brains and experience.

One of their smartest moves was how they marketed it. Many nice language designs happen but don't get any traction. Their design choices, tooling efforts, and big company support have been much better than the Java rollout and many minor attempts. My hope for the language is that it replaces the use of C# and Java in as many places as possible so people don't have to learn all that mess in maintenance phase. The simpler language should make for nice legacy code work, I think.

Bookmarking the article.
>No, rich people have access to lawyers.

I agree with this, and I think we are generally in agreement.

Rich people are mostly white males. For example, check your favourite image search for "rich people". Correlation is not causation but correlation is correlation.

>The root cause is the lack of access to education, and ignorance of others.

I would prefer to say that the root causes are exactly what you said: "here, have the shit jobs", "us being actively hostile to you", "we are going to bully you".

Those problems are not being solved through education: schools, as they exist today, foster this type of behaviour. And so, well-educated adults are no less likely to exhibit this type of behaviour and are more likely to be in a position where it's a serious problem.
I usually get closed questions but the answers are often useful.

I don't see why "closed" as such is problem. I could interpret it as "someone asked this question and it's been answer, we're moving on".

Sometimes I find an answer on a random web forum - if the forum still permits answers, there will 20 or 100 pages to look through and the usually the only good things will be right after the question.

The web at scale is just messy and cruel.
Highly suggest using Siri on a mounted device where you can say "Hey Siri" without taking your eyes from the road and speak your command. I am not sure if it is compatible with Spotify playlists but can give you a lot of power behind the wheel without compromising on safety.
This discussion is currently on the front page and might have triggered this question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9869886
Bringing us back to the line from Newton about standing on the shoulders of giants.

While i am not much of a gun person, i find it "hilarious" that Smith and Weston was sitting on refinements for Colts revolver for 20 years (the duration of the Colt patent) before going into production.
I was gonna say that at least in the tech world if you don't like a company you can just not use their products. But then it occurred to me that if you don't like a country you can just move...
I don't think it is puzzling when you recall that these concepts are larger than the US view of them and that particular encoding in the US constitution.

Particular implementation details are interesting in their own right, but they are not the conversation.
He didn't mention the constitution, you did. These are philosophical ideas, not summaries of the legislation of a particular locality at a particular time. The fact that in the US, freedom of speech is mentioned in the Constitution (though subsequently abridged in any number of ways), the right to privacy came into existence through many court decisions, and freedom of the press doesn't exist at all in US law doesn't make them fundamentally different types of ideas.

>The supreme court refuses to protect privacy beyond those issues which are directly related to the Bill of Rights

This is simply wrong.
Same here but in the US. I can actually spot them as they drive like faux drunk drivers. Driving at weird speeds, swerving a bit, etc. and then when they get close enough, "yep, just texting!".

I hope in 10 years people using their phones while driving will be seen on the same scale as drunk driving. At least drunk drivers keep their eyes on the road...
>Parent wasn't talking about answering calls while on the road. Parent was referring to missing a call.

Yeah, because they're gonna pull over on the side on the road to answer it.

In a world where people are even TEXTing while driving, pulling over to answer a phone is what most people would do, right?
As a cyclist, I definitely agree with you - but this applies to other cyclists too. One of the most ridiculously dangerous things I regularly see is someone I'm cycling behind in a narrow cycle lane suddenly slowing to walking pace to answer their phone like an idiot. Most of these cycle lanes don't really have enough room to safely overtake if the road alongside is busy (at least without probably panicking a driver and causing issues there) so it's really annoying and stupid.

That said, yea - anyone in a car not paying attention are lethal, it's not easy to predict what someone is going to do even at 30mph if they act like they have the whole road to themselves.
Futureme – Write a letter to the future
SO incentivises some stuff. You ask a question and you get points if other people upvote your question. You answer a question and you get points if someone upvotes your answer.

You can't vote on closed questions or answers to closed questions.

A question can't just be closed. There needs to be a reason to close it. "This question is a duplicate of this other question" is frequently used. Often the questions are similar but different enough to need a new question. You can't ask a broad question to capture all the variation - that'll get closed as too broad. You can't focus in on your exact problem -that'll get closed as too narrow. The gap in the middle is full of dupes. It's pretty demoralising to have people picking over your question and closing it for (seemingly bogus) reasons or asking for pointless clarification.
That's golden. It's like social engineering SQL injection. Fun stuff!

I wonder if there's any sort of sentence you can make that isn't actually "xbox shut off" but is interpreted by the xbox as such.
Makes me think of my musings on corners cases in computer programming. As of late it feels like whenever a corner case is "fixed", a couple of new ones sprout at the edge of said fix. End result is something akin to zooming in on a fractal, and finding ever new ones.
Sounds pretty dangerous, using a benzo instead of alcohol. Why not just drink a lot of water before bed?
Yet, it's easier to predict the future value of any contract in fiat currency governed by central bank than it's to predict it's value in gold standard.
Totally agree. Recently I asked a specific question on ServerFault, mentioning only that I run a SaaS monitoring service to give context. My question was closed, and I was accused spam. My question didn't include a link nor even the name of the business. I was offended but mostly just disappointed I couldn't find the help I needed.
Does that HDD fit in your VR headset? Phone? Tablet? Their constraints are why streaming will matter. That and multi-day download time vs on-demand.
Socrates explains hashes salts and why you should have a good password
What about religious hymns of Hinduism and Zoroastrianism which were composed before 200BC and are still in use today? Are they not melodies?
First off, I asked a question about what the tipping point was in regards to "persecution", a question neither you nor vezzy-fnord have answered. Instead, you both thigh-slap about how silly it is for Christians to feel persecuted. My question still stands.

Secondly, I am no Christian. Indeed, I personally feel that religious beliefs of any flavor are a mental illness.

Thirdly, I am agun owner. I advocate the ownership of guns as a check/balance on the central government. I accept the gun deaths that accompany ownership (accidents, suicide, murders) as I believe the benefit far out ways the cost. I believe this because of what I have seen in countries where there are severe limitations on personal gun ownership. For me it comes down to this: when weapons enter the equation, you are either a Player or you are Furniture. I choose to be a Player.

Fourth and finally, I believe in complete free speech, no exceptions, and as such I in no way wish to limit you, or any person's expression. Still, any time people choose to scoff instead of respond, I can't help but feel they need to return to their seat and pay better attention in class before raising their hands.
I have a question on SO with nearly 80000 views and it has been closed and reopened at least six times.
Occasionally I check if it is still there.

I'm still convinced that the answers are interesting and useful. At the moment it's locked because of "historical significance" which makes me little proud even.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/961942/what-is-the-worst-...
>> you are implying that, for example, black people think differently from white people for the sole reason that they are black and other people are white.

Not at all. Instead, different people coming from different backgrounds tend to have different life experiences and perspectives, which influence how they approach the world and how they solve problems. It's not inherent to their race or gender, but merely a fact of having lived different lives.

If you get a bunch of people from different backgrounds and cultures then you'll have a better pool to draw new ideas and creative thinking from. Much better than a room full of ~22yo middle-class white guys.
I don't care whether you quit smoking. Just quit throwing cigarette butts on the ground. Quit smoking in and around buildings where non-smokers live and work. Quit smoking in waiting areas. Quit walking and smoking in busy urban pedestrian corridors; others are walking in the same direction. Quit smoking upwind from the picnic table where I'm having lunch. Quit smoking on park trails, at least when the risk of forest fire is high, for crying out loud.

Other than that, knock yourself out.
>...and to refuse access to people who post things they find distasteful on platforms they operate.

I tend to agree with what I think you're saying but I wonder if you realize what a controversial opinion that can be to some people. Consider the reaction to Rand Paul's criticism of the Civil Rights Act. Should one be able to operate a restaurant/business/country club that won't serve [blacks, LGBT, Muslims, whites, hispanics, cops, etc]?
Please reread GP's scenario (from "have to divert attention") - you have misunderstood me.
> Even if various identities are all elevated to an equal level of acceptance, the term "privilege" will simply be shifted to more nebulous concepts.

Let's cross that bridge when we come to it.

> Finally, the conclusion that reaching post-privilege will result in a feasible post-privacy does not follow at all.

From the claim that a post-privacy society would have to be post-privilege does not follow that all post privilege societes have to be post-privacy.

Right now, when people say "no privacy", that in practice means zero privacy for some or most people, and total opaqueness for others (e.g. the NSA, or people who can make things go away with bribes, etc.). It doesn't actually mean "no privacy for anyone". For that to be the case, society would have to be actually egalitarian, e.g. post-privilege.

> What, is the implication here that white men "on stages" have nothing to hide?

They don't get killed by drones for starters. Appelbaum lives in Berlin because he feels safer there than in the US IIRC, it's not like he doesn't have spook pressure in his life; but he still considers himself privileged, imagine that.

If someone says homeless alcoholics should be rounded up and put into camps, then the fact that they aren't that, and don't have a friend in that situation, is their "privilege" they may not be aware of. That has nothing to do with "identitiy politics" to me. And I don't see how that is nebulous either? "Privilege" is not a complicated word, it means what it means in context and is perfectly fine to use.
If the reason for closing the question is that it's already been answered then why not simply redirect to the answer? What is the point of having a dead-end?
The question may have been better phrased as "What was the motivation for Unsafe? How is it intended to be used in real code?"
Not sure if the Korean peninsula is the best example, given the massive trade embargo going on.

Frankly we may be looking at a variant of learned helplessness on a national scale, in that if NK leadership is faced with a dilemma they can throw a proverbial tantrum and get the rest of the world to step in to calm them down "before the nukes start flying".

That is, the peninsula did not develop in a vacuum. they were part of a larger power struggle between ideologies.
Oh like when you mouth "olive juice" to someone it looks like "I love you".

Perhaps something like "Ex Blocks Shout Ov".
The one time I dumped a £3 donation via SMS my number was basically call bombed afterwards. After the 15th call in under 24 hours, some at unsociable hours, I took the SIM out and threw it away and signed up for another giffgaff account (I have a few SIMs lying around). This was for one of those "international crisis" ones.

I tend to tell them all to bugger off now. If you're going to shit on me for being nice, I don't want to know.

My mother was a victim as well. Had someone call her all sorts of names for cancelling a direct debit that they'd "miscalculated" on purpose. I managed to get the caller's identity and company and sent a nasty email to their directors. Got a cheque back for the lot. Sod the charity.
itch.io uses paypal

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I need to pay 25$ registration fee for join the google developer console I need credit card

I have no mac devices
What is SO "noise" for you? E.g. would the question debated here be "noise", and why? (To me, it appears to be clear what information the person asking wants, and it isn't already answered elsewhere)

I don't think many people are arguing against moderation of questions in general.
Where sharing is caring, right?
They are a hazard because drivers need to take actions to avoid them. It turns the road into an obstacle course, except with unpredictable obstacles that rarely follow traffic rules like red lights.
Lichess, and some messengers like telegram and whatsapp web clients.
> The winning strategy is

That's true, if you care about the points, badges, etc.
It turns out that the 89% relates to the total of taxes uncollected
over previous years, which most other countries would have written
off as uncollectable debt.

As of 2010, Greece collected annual taxes equal to about "34% of the
country's total gross domestic product (GDP) - slightly below the EU
average of 38.5%." from: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33479946
Can we have some way to block people?
By that logic, the fact that heating with wood is cheap means that converting to oil or gas was not a good thing at the time.

Oil might stay cheap, or it might not, depending on supply. That should have little impact on a shift to sustainable energy.
Dear Mr/Mrs Birch.

Please STOP this pollen nonsense immediately.
I don't understand all these posts worrying about "What would a person do without a job." What do retired people do? What do kids do during summer vacation? They live a relaxing and enjoyable life, spending time with friends and family, and pursuing their interests. Sounds good to me!
I've always applied a certain amount of research to the other fields. Usually it gets results. That everyone studying this topic is saying different things tells me more about the field of psychology than my own research methods. That's not surprising given that it doesn't even count as science in some places.

Back to the topic. Sure non-criminal, adults forgo emotions on the job after essentially being trained to do so. Probably learned it over time with other life experiences requiring the same thing. Yet, how did the younger one's learn to have no empathy or feelings? What exact path leads to other people's suffering exciting them or causing sexual arousal? What individual experience lead people to compulsively commit harm or deception against their own intentions?

Most of this stuff doesn't seem like it should pop out of nowhere. If it does, it was probably innate. Otherwise, it was learned through some kind of experience and what experiences cause these things to become habits? Quite debatable. There's too little, hard evidence presented on most sides of these things. People in my position could do better if we had some.

"Anyway, not sure why you would want to dabble in some other fields and expect the same results without equal level of efforts."

Nice fallacy and troll tactic given nobody said that. Unsurprising that this is also your first post. Goodbye, troll.
I've found the baduk is the new preffered search term for the game.
We really need a case in which a corporate executive goes to jail for something like that.
True, except that the 'right' answer to that question is 'it's not intended for use'.
l() { tree -L 1 -CDFha --du --dirsfirst $@; }
ll() { l -L 2 $@; }
lll() { l -L 3 $@; }
md() { open -F -a /Applications/Marked\ 2.app/ $@; }
st() { open -F -a /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/ $@; }
Where would you find these email addresses? Were they on the tree? Or some website that would need to be looked up?
Moving to a different country is an expensive luxury that's not available to some people. Also, US politics has a clear role in world politics, and these policies will be universal if we don't make it clear that they are not okay.
The bandwidth is that bad. It will take months to retrieve the data from closest approach.
As if businesses aren't just groups of individuals... As if people don't need general purpose computing to do business... As if there were another general purpose OS that is going to beat Windows...

iOS and Android are basically toys compared to Windows and next to nobody is using OS X, so what's your prediction?
Open letter to Hacking Team
It may not be in the constitution, but it is a human right. As far as I'm concerned, that's even more important than the constitution.
What a horrible reason for deciding a question is bad. If you are simply exploring the java library and see something you don't understand it is perfectly valid to ask why the hell something exists.

Also you give no reasons as to why your preferred way of asking questions is superior other than stating as a fact that "SO would be better served" by it.
WhatsApp+Web+get+more+controls+like+mobile+app
> Just post it on your own blog and link to it instead.

Doesn't this ignore the power of having a common place to go for questions and answers, back and forth, etc.? I visit a couple of sites almost every day, and (I hope) help as well as be one of the people helped. But I'm not googling extensively for newly-posted things every day.
New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Journalism
Why is it so much healthier than chewing tobacco?
After Moore's Law: how phones are becoming open-source
It's especially frustrating with questions about browser quirks or incompatibility, as these change from year to year. More than a few times I've searched Google for some obscure JavaScript thing and gotten a stale Stack Overflow answer with completely misleading info.
Who will watch the watchers? And who will watch them? How can the stringent, transparent oversight also be reliable? How can the watcher's results be reliable even when we do not trust them.
First off, I asked a question about what the tipping point was in regards to "persecution", a question neither you nor vezzy-fnord have answered.

I did below.
just like most adword ads for software, the only sane solution is adblock
I wish that StackOverflow rewarded unanswered questions. Most of my questions are open-ended without satisfactory answers because they hint at oversights or weaknesses in methodologies. I've had people comment that they refuse to answer my new questions because my answer selection rate is so low.
The parts you generally use and the length of the spec are entirely different things. This argument is always silly.
I think the whole parking sensor systems moving to the mid-range has probably happened too recently to be widespread at this point, but I imagine that depends enormously on affluence. There's a big difference between people who buy a mid-range/family car, and the people who replace it every few years.

It's a neat idea though, and if it is already on higher end models it'll probably trickle down eventually. Eliminating blind spots seems obvious - I imagine check the blind spot before moving is one of the first behaviours people lose after passing their test. I very rarely see drivers do it.

> I think it should be a legal requirement on all busses and HGVs - the single largest cause of accidents between cyclists and vehicles.

Do you have a link for this? It seems hard to believe given how relatively low the numbers of those vehicles are. Rospa [0] say it's cars or taxis which I'd have expected, although they do point out 20% of fatalities in London involve an HGV - and say one quarter of serious injuries are a bus/HGV (as you'd expect, performing a left turn). So more than I'd have guessed, but I'm not sure about the single largest?

For what it's worth they also say 75% of accidents happen at or near a junction which matches pretty well to your observation of lights/slow moving traffic.

[0] http://www.rospa.com/road-safety/advice/pedal-cyclists/facts...
>I imagine the investigation would be over very quickly

You're most likely correct. I'd add that even with the agents being human beings, there may still be some protocol that they are compelled to follow in vetting the host. I'd want to know that going in.

That's still not to say that this would end badly for the host. It's just that, given that the tone of the response is correct (even if shortened) , there is clearly more involved. And, when you have a representative of an agency with pretty broad powers, deep resources, and potential mandates soft-pedaling what's at stake, it can have a pretty ominous feel to it.
Well sure, one can argue with the goals of the policy (or if it is effective, or what the unintended consequences are), but these things are not "arbitrary", and tax codes are full of them.
Decoupling does not reduce the overall bill for ratepayers. It keeps the utility whole when they sell less electricity. The reasons that CA has lower bills, even though rates are high is the weather (how much air conditioning is used on the coast?), the high number of people that live together in a single dwelling, and little high energy industry.
yeah, it gets frustrating when you're bombarded with calls by them as well as those PPI/whatever robocalls.

I've cancelled my donations to several charities because of their harassment and their pushiness makes me wonder if they are actually using their money on the people they're claiming to help :/