jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think removing many of these housing discounts would only partially impact housing costs, since these affect the majority of buyers and most home purchasing decisions are made on the basis of the monthly payment. That is, after removing some of these policies, people would probably still end up paying the same monthly payment, just with lower nominal housing costs.

The bigger issue to me is the constriction of supply. The suburban development pattern in many areas is simply unable to support the densities needed to manage regional issues well, causing traffic issues and forcing people to live very far from their places of work. I also have more unpopular opinions that there is too much "protected" land in areas like the bay area (specifically in the North Bay). Regardless of that, California needs to do better to fix the supply problem, because these housing policy failures are slowly beginning to affect more and more areas outside of just the bay area and SoCal, and the measures passed so far just don't cut it.

Also, prop 13 has essentially removed much of the "carrying costs" which penalize undeveloped land usage (prop 13 isn't the only thing here, IIRC there are also lots of state/federal tax deductions you can get from not using land, oddly enough). And the low property tax rates across the board really penalize young high earners since the low taxes are made up for with income/sales taxes.
I'm not stopping until we reach FANDANGO.
That’s a logical enough deduction to file under “accept as scientifically valid unless and until proven otherwise,” at least as far as I’m concerned!
But on radio, 1 play is listened to by many people. That's equivalent to many streams.
I appreciate what Watsi does, but I'm mostly buying a shirt because of the great speech Chase gave at Startup School [1]. It was of the most value to me at that event. Thanks.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlT3UhC7NwQ
> The idea that MACs should be somehow private because someone found a novel use for them doesn't even pass the laugh test. IP addresses are not "private". Your face out in a public area is not "private"

I think you might be misunderstanding the part of this I have a problem with, or perhaps my language wasn't explanatory enough. I have a problem with the company linking back this info to a specific person, not the information itself.

MACs shouldn't be "somehow" private. MACs are not private. But when you use them to tie back to a specific person who is in your shop (with the credit card purchase info), you are essentially tracking a person. I think this activity should be regulated and should be an opt-in thing for users. (Enforcing this regulation could be admittedly a challenge, but it will at least be a step in the direction of strongly discouraging businesses to implement such 'features'.)

Similarly, your face out in a public place is not private. But if I have a startup that sets up CCTVs in participating businesses' premises and then track the movement of specific customers from shop to shop and generate data like "Okay -- the same face that was tracked shopping at Nordstrom then went on to have lunch at the Whole Foods next door; and from the credit card that was used, we can see that it was Mr. Karunamon", it's going to run up against major privacy concerns. I think this is very similar, but not that controversial because it is not so visible.
A sensible compromise to me is that runtime meta-programming should be used to accomplish something sufficiently generic that it can be confined to a library.

Said library can then document (and test) the interface and implementation sufficiently to add a minimal amount of complexity to the application code.

The big red flag is using this stuff in application code to hack around bad design decisions or save on a small amount of typing (there's also no barrier to its expanding and engulfing the entire codebase).
It's already being done. Horizon organic milk has DHA and Omega-3 added from algae products. "While some DHA is derived from fish, we use only plant-based, water-extracted DHA": http://www.horizondairy.com/products/milk-plus-dha-omega-3/w...
This is when I'm especially thankful for open source licenses. The OpenNI2 repository on github currently has 148 forks:

https://github.com/OpenNI/OpenNI2

I've been using OpenNI2 with ROS and an ASUS Xtion Pro Live for object detection and avoidance. What I think the community is missing is missing right now isn't really on the software side, but is good, cheap, hardware. I'd be thrilled if I could buy a Carmine or something like it from Apple, but I don't see how it makes any business sense.
(Texas Appeals Court) Rules (((Phone Search) After Arrest) Violates (4th Amendment))
I have always found a coffeeshop to be very hard to get in the zone with unless there's some sort of good band playing to help me make the zone shift.

I'm too distractable, and the chairs are not comfortable for serious thinking.
Thank you, that looks like a great place to start.
I'm not a libertarian, yet I like BitCoin better than fiat currencies and centrally manipulated monetary systems.

If other people are happy with whatever features of BitCoin remain under centralized control, more power to them. I see no problem.

But you're saying we have to fear that someone will start effectively issuing p2p dollars. I think it kind of defeats the purpose, but I can't see why that's a more of a threat to the principles of Bitcoin than plain old USD.
The fact that developers add languages to their resumes that they have only touched on is a result of job postings that list incredible numbers of skills which are probably only touched on in the job itself. It took me 10 seconds to find a job posting on Craigslist, titled "Web Applications Programmer". Here are only a few lines from the "Position Requirements"

Fluent with PHP, Python, JavaScript, MySQL, HTML, XML, CSS, web services (SOAP, XML – RPC…)
Knowledge of java, ActionScript, Flex and C# is an asset
Experienced with AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Inventor, 3D Studio Max, Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator

The list goes on to include a bunch of other stuff, plus an array of other non-technical skills.

What do companies expect? Just to get an interview one might need to add something they've only touched on.
This is a really nice idea (and one, as a part-time writer with a very unfinished novel, I have been thinking about). My worry is that it would be hard to raise the ~$50,000 many authors would need to be able to be able to give up work and complete the tome.
Sure. besides iOS stuff there is graphic design, normal business/productivity stuff, web development, Mac/Windows/Linux development, almost any task you can think of.

The hardware is definitely up there in quality. I have never had a motherboard just "go south". The only issues I have ever had in 15 years is hard drives and one Superdrive...
Take a look at Mappiness: http://www.mappiness.org.uk/ It's a UK university research project to measure happiness across different settings. It would ping you with some quick questions a few times a day.

Functionality is similar; it it may offer learnings.
I've long desired the functionality that the Echo & Echo Show provide when it comes to audio playback and intercom/video chat functionality. Unfortunately, I'm too suspicious of Amazon (and Google, for that matter) using me and my data for their own purposes. I hope to find an off-the-shelf solution some day.
Amazon has been priced at 100p/e for like 20 years. Tesla is at 1000+ but markets can price things at high ratios for a while.
Me too! I ran AmigaUUCP on my Amiga, dialed up at 9600 baud to my upstream. This was around 1992 or so. I had Internet email and a Usenet feed of maybe 15 groups or so. Fun times.
Well, what is not fine though, is the fact, that Apple neither allows other browsers on iOS nor implements the 'Push API' for Safari. This combination makes it impossible to build a chat apps using web technologies (which would lower the effort for building a client quite a lot).
Congrats to Elon for finally learning from the Steve Jobs handbook. Make a cult of your followers, and they will literally take in everything you throw at them.

I cannot describe how many times I have heard the infamous "iT'S mOrE tHaN a cAr cOmPaNy"... All bark no bite, they sure as hell are not a major car company since they didn't manage to even deliver 500 000 vehicles this year ( "almost" 500 is not 500, especially since you have been promising 500 000 delivered cars for the last 6 years).

Still waiting to see how their "revolutionary" battery technology is going to look like, SolarCity was almost bankrupt, which is the reason Tesla had to buy them to save Elon's cousins...

They do got a shot at driverless technology, but the question is how big of a market is that, and how much are they going to own..
Waymo is also a danger in that field...
"It has not escaped my attention that the day social media companies decided there actually IS more they could do to police Trump’s destructive behavior was the same day they learned Democrats would chair all the congressional committees that oversee them."

https://twitter.com/jmpalmieri/status/1347064818944118784?s=...
Anyway it's more likely Putin at around $200b. You can be pretty sure his is not as heavily based on some bubble market cap.

https://foreignpolicyi.org/vladimir-putins-net-worth/
> In Argentina it was not until the lates nineties that most people have access to a phone at home. Now everyone has a mobile phone. The power of technology evolving at exponential rate I guess!

And there are places elsewhere in the world (for example, some African countries) that skipped completely landlines because mobile phones require much less pervasive infrastructure to work properly.
I forget the exact details, but as a kid, I'd tap the switch and hang up the phone I think and then that would cause the phone to ring in the house so that you could "call" somebody.
The Chromebit is actually the part that caught my eye. If the USB 2.0 hub can connect to high-capacity external hard-drives rather than just thumb-drives, I might be looking at my new Kodi/XBMC machine. The RPi is getting a little long in the tooth.

I'm also curious if the Chromebit will include Chromecast-like functionality as far as screencasting goes.
> 256 bit

but, why? do we need more than 16 exabytes of memory?
Is salary negation a common thing in Europe? Because in the US, it’s pervasive if you’re salaried (not hourly). The problem then becomes: if I negotiated, say, $75k/year, but my equally skilled coworker negotiated $85k/year, it doesn’t look good on the company. So the company just pushes you to not share at all. And it’s worked.
Perhaps you'd like to point out an actual bug you've found...?

This sort of dogmatic cargo-culting paranoia-rant is exactly why people are getting sick of hearing about the "modern" BS.
That's assuming the NSA is interested in playing politics. General Alexander may be well-versed in public speaking but I'd be hard-pressed to think managing political allegiances is of interest to him.

Also, the various federal executive agencies (Justice Department, State Department, et al) may very well be tapping into NSA data as much as possible for exactly what you're describing, especially since the recent DEA (Justice) and IRS (Treasury) revelations have shed some light on this.

The NSA's dam for controlling information dissemination has cracks in it, and I'm betting it'll be wedged wide open for the federal executive agencies to use at their convenience.
> I don't know if real pianos are tunable/adjustable, but the electronic one we have at home certainly isn't (except in its ability to sounds as different instruments).

An acoustic piano cannot be easily tuned (it takes a couple of hours to a trained specialist, because there are more than 200 strings to adjust). However "serious" electronic keyboards have been fine-tunable for more than 20 years. Many of them can play any microtonal scale you may imagine, and many different classic temperaments are pre-programmed.
Thanks for the interesting article.

I couldn't help notice the Google Doc pop-up message "This doc is read only because too many people are editing it"
The Linux kernel still has memory safety issues to this day.

The C++ approach is to offer a feature-rich language so the programmer doesn't have to reinvent common abstractions. The C approach is to offer a minimal and stable language and let the programmer take it from there. It's not obvious a priori which approach should result in fewer memory safety issues. If I had to guess my money would be on C++ being the better choice, as it has smart pointers.
Yes! We do on premise deployments for enterprise. But even with our cloud solution, our philosophy and terms of services is that all your data and any models you build through the platform are 100% yours. There are some companies that are squirrely around this point, but we don’t use any client data for other models. Also, even if you don't want to go for an enterprise on-prem deployment, you can connect your cloud buckets with the software -- so no need to upload anything.
Not to be a bit evasive, but...both?

Part of it is very abstract and arbitrarily associative. As well, it can certainly morph. I wouldn't say there's any specific rhyme or reason to it.

If you ever watched the movie Soul—that spoke to me pretty well, even though they didn't focus specifically on synesthesia, per se.
It is expensive to increase entropy of a random source. So for randomised algorithms you might not get the performance that merited the algorithms in the first place.
Ben, regardless of the product (I have not checked it out yet), kudos on the pitch. At least for me it sounded genuine, and hit a few sore spots right in the stomach as it should.

Best of luck.
I've never claimed that it does not filter, just that it is a fraction as effective as the alternative at 5x the price. We heat with wood in the winter and some smoke escapes when you open the door to tend the fire. My $100 unit filters the living room back down to the baseline in ~15 min.
I read an article raving about how beautiful Deepin is -- so I'm eager to eventually give it a try:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/12/10/meet-...
Why is this focused at Apple and not at smartphone operating systems in general? I am not sure what integration Windows phone has, but Google Hangouts could at least go across it's messenger system and SMS - might be more widely spread.
I would say that the statement easily disproven by a single counterexample is more ignorant, but suit yourself.
One has much bigger profit margins, better automation, and responds better to scale. This is extra true if you can get people to pay a premium for plant-based meat or oat milk.

Just make sure they know they're making the world a better place at your 32.30% gross margin (Beyond Meat). Compare to the gross margins of even big meat players like Pilgrims Pride or Sanderson Farms at 5-6%.
"Works for Me" (TM)

But then, luckily, I've never had to use Windows as my personal daily desktop. I used UNIX from 1991 to 2001, then have used Linux ever since.

Also, I pick Lenovo hardware, with Intel peripherals.
Are you doubting COVID19 is real? How do you explain the unusual few extra millions of deads this past year?

Or do you not even have friends and friends of friends that have lost someone and you doubt those deads are real?
Pray that this mindset does not infect your ISPs and tempt them to introduce traffic caps.

Having your users be paranoid that they're going to go over their cap and get absolutely reamed for overage charges is not exactly how you build an advanced, high-bandwidth content delivery system.

Even less are going to be "data pigs" that use a trivial 1.5GB after such a change, high prices guarantee that.

Silly buggers.
i asked that exact question, if most users use only a few hundred megs... why is tethering another option. Why can't that be built in... surely the network can handle all iphone users using a few hundred megs to a gig of bandwidth a month...
@EzGraphs Thanks! Never know World Bank open up so much APIs (http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog) and with a bit of visualization and charts, it could give a good macro view of economy of the world.
I am in CA, and trying to incorporate in NV. So I need to get a registered agent in NV. Also, my cofounders are in different states and we're not paying straight dividends for other reasons. Then there are the pains of having a lawyer to craft our T&C.
Take .Net for another instance, totally new thing, very few bet on it but is a good success for Microsoft.

Also consider S&T (server & Tools) in the last decade, MS has been able to grow huge profits from that division, Very few people in 2000 would use Windows as a server platform.

The xbox story strikes me as relatively similar to Bing (OSD) story... They are pouring a lot of resources there. Hopefully, the end result will be similar or better.
And the speculating goes on:
http://californiawatch.org/watchblog/web-squatters-have-fing...
Install chef-client: https://www.chef.io/download-chef-client/ which actually generates the same one-liner scirpt I used, except for opscode.com domain instead of chef.io, if you run `diff` on both script they are identical with only different domain name.

Please submit your pull req and i will be happy to add your changes.
Thanks! Yea I was trying to use Google Spreadsheet, getting annoyed with the JSONP and the goofy way they returned their JSON, so figured I'd just wrap it in something easier to use...

What "availability issues" did you run into? I haven't noticed any with my sheets yet
I think the ideal setup would be to have your laptop boot into a decoy "usable" install boot by default (autologin to admin, adjustable network settings), and have your actual install encrypted and completely locked down (i.e, have GRUB boot the decoy install without showing the menu, so you'd have to press Esc to show your other install).

That way, the tunnel wouldn't be running all the time, but if someone were to steal your computer, it would be available right away. For travelers, it'd also be useful at customs, since you could just show them your decoy install without raising any suspicion.

And of course, having regular offsite backups is a necessity regardless of what approach you take. This should only be a method of getting your hardware back, not your data.
The hardware is not what's unique about this project. Look at the overview:

http://theplugbot.com/assets/PlugBot_Overview.pdf

This involves a web server component with a reporting interface and some method of proxying "command packages" between the operator and the plug, which resides behind a firewall.
There are yes. I'll try to dig them up shortly.

IMHO it will never happen in the sense you imagine it but we'll see.

In the meantime you may want to check out emscripten (http://code.google.com/p/emscripten/). It is a JavaScript backend for LLVM which ultimately leads to the same functionality as having other languages on the client.
Well, their intent is to GPL the code. Everybody has to pay their bills, and asking for donations isn't exactly the cardinal sin of open source development.

The fact that it is a SheevaPlug is probably the least remarkable thing about this project. What appears to be unique is that they're looking at this from a high level. They're asking the question: "What moving parts are required for a robust, remote-access penetration tool." The "Drop Zone" concept is probably the most intriguing.

Installing Linux plus a few security tools on a SheevaPlug is really simple. But that's not what this project appears to be. Have a look at the overview document:

http://theplugbot.com/assets/PlugBot_Overview.pdf

It's going to take more than writing a few bash scripts to have a robust framework for uploading results to a drop zone, and retrieving new command packages.

This reminds me a little bit of worms like Stuxnet, which reach out to outside sources for new information. They're more than a monitor. They're an agent.
It's unclear what this has to do with A.I. Even humans are limited by the halting problem or other undecidable questions.

So why is this called a "theorem"? There is yet no proof that there are classes of problems inherently better solvable by the human mind. Or otherwise, that the human is something extra, computationally-wise, than a Turing machine.
That is true only to some extent. Information can be valid or invalid independently from it's source.

If you have an idea in your dream, does that mean it won't apply in the real world? Even though the dream is nothing like reality, it doesn't inherently mean that the idea is wrong, it just means that it's not 100% right.
Warms my cold leftist heart.
Well, disabling passwordless accounts is one of the first things I do with my computer.

I wonder if there are scripts that will connect to unsecured networks, whether it's a good idea and how good electronics thieves are at countermeasuring such tools (which is pretty trivial).
Let me add a few more:

Bilibili Manhua (哔哩哔哩漫画): webcomic site adjacent to the Bilibili video platform https://manga.bilibili.com/

Qidian (起点): webnovels https://qidian.com/

Zhanse Nileyuan (战色逆乐园): discussion forum attached to another webnovel site with female-skewing readership, maybe slightly similar to r/twoXchromosomes https://bbs.jjwxc.net/board.php?board=20&page=1

SegmentFault: StackOverflow-like https://segmentfault.com/questions

V2EX: the closest thing to HN, except more like a traditional forum https://v2ex.com/
> That is precisely why they initiate the transfer while they are alive by making a will.

A will is not a transfer. The law is very clear on this. The government gets the property, then redistributes it to the rich kids via a nanny state program called "inheritance law".

> What’s your justification for changing the law on property?

To increase fairness and justice. What's your justification for not?

> this amounts to people enforcing their view of property on everyone else

Every possible political system does this, except the "grab what you can" world where there is no property at all. So why is yours "voluntary" and mine isn't.

> people own what they own and obtain through voluntary exchange

Property isn't voluntary. It is coercively enforced by the state.

> we prohibit taking people’s stuff

It's literally not their stuff. Tax law is very clear on this.

Me: This stuff rightfully belongs to A, because of egalitarianism.
You: This stuff rightfully belongs to B, because it belongs to B.

You're doing a basic circular argument.

This is the thing with libertarianism - it's just pure status quo bias. "This person rightfully owns it because they own it". Nothing to do with freedom, because property is coercive, nothing to do with anti state because property is run by the state - just allegiance to existing property owners.
That is exactly what happened -- governments around the world paid for pre-approval manufacturing and the pharma industry has spent the last 6-8 months ramping up production. That's the reason we have any supplies at the moment.

The truth is just that mass-manufacturing of a brand new vaccine is a hard problem. The fact that we're only a couple months from the very start of vaccinations and the world is already nearing 200 million doses delivered is, frankly, amazing. The only problem is that due to the severity of the crisis we wish we had a magic wand that gave us 10x the supply right this instant.

The good news is that manufacturing continues to ramp up dramatically. It just feels like it's slow because we're all so eager for it to improve. If you look at the month-on-month growth, though, it's clearly ramping up fast: https://covidvax.live/
how sophisticated is the penetration testing of government infrastructure? It seems to me like one should invest roughly as much in defensive (so penetration testing etc.) as in offensive capabilities. Maybe even more, because the attack surface is so big.
How's that reliable solar and wind working out for ya?
Well, really owning up to a mistake that will cost a few tens of thousands of lives would at least be a resignation.