skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always more complex than most on HN think. I've seen it firsthand after AWS outages and the laughably simplistic solutions or complaints offered up here.

So they respond immediately that they are looking into it. Then this post would be raging that it has been 30 days without any updates.

So they should reprioritize everyone who needs to be involved and sideline their current work, move to this project and start tossing updates over the wall to satisfy the mob? There are a lot more people involved with big websites/infrastructure when you have millions of customers and everyone here seems to happily ignore that fact when it is something they believe they are entitled to have because "its easy". They shouldn't be responding w/ hand-wavy answers just to get the enraged masses something to chew on, what happens if they don't come through?

Everyone should just calm down and stop whining. They've responded that they are working on a solution, it will take a while to implement.
Pretty long delay on the email verification email. Very excited to check it out, though!
I'm still upset about Google Reader...
it's all crap, built to milk single guys out of money.
I don't think we have a lot of transparency on the how often the tenants and owners of luxury apartments are actually inhabiting them.
My friends don't use twitter so I don't think I've seen a tweet on Facebook in the last month. It's all who you and your friends are
Hmmm. The word "equanimity" is a noun, so it makes it sound like it's some treasure you can possess and somehow, everything will be magically in equanimity. It's not like that because you enter a state of present moment awareness, which can start surfacing up a lot of crap. It's being OK with the crap -- being OK with being disturbed and uncertain and in anguish and in bliss and a lot of things. For me, it's more that ... things arise and passes, and whatever they are, I see them for what it is. And don't get me wrong, there's still a lot of crap I am working through. Sometimes, I feel like a sewage worker mucking out the endless sewage.

Vipassana is one path to work with this. If you are familiar with it, and you have some combination of curiosity and doubt about it, I highly suggest going with it. For others, their path to this will be different.

From a Taoist alchemy point of view, there is an excessive, energetic toxin directed related to existential misery. It results from our tech. I say this as a person who makes a living writing software tech. So on the side, I've been exploring that to figure out how to reduce the the anguish specifically related to excessive, toxic tech. From a Vipassana perspective, it doesn't matter if it is out of balance. It's seeing that dukkha (existential anguish) Just Is.
Cocoapods, GoogleMaps and GitHub restrictions
> Coders seem to have an irrational hatred of suits and ties for some reason. The conservative choice would be to wear a polo shirt and slacks to my interviews.

Want to hear a funny thing regarding this? From _The Big Short_ by Michael Lewis:

> The guys who ran money dressed as if they were going to a Yankees game. Their financial performance was supposed to be all that mattered about them, and so it caused suspicion if they dressed too well. If you saw a buy-side guy in a suit, it usually meant that he was in trouble, or scheduled to meet someone who had given him money, or both.
If you move to Canada and maintain residency for X number of years.
From the OP >> ...absentee foreign ownership and empty condos, which are said to account for nearly 25 per cent of units in certain neighbourhoods.

There are parts of Vancouver that are just dead. Rush hour now sees more carpenters and real estate agents commuting into these residential areas each morning than commute out. Places like the North Shore are essentially industrial zones manufacturing real estate prices. The people who live there (me) talk of empty neighborhoods populated only by retirees, every other house either under construction or sitting empty.
Sam Altman (Y Combinator) on the Potential of AI
For what it's worth, I could be mistaken. The storebought deionized water I get could be contaminated with carbonic acid, which would explain the burning.
Adapt or Die: Why the Cloud Computing Revolution Is Far from Over
A "nice scroll experience" is no scroll experience, don't even think about the scrollbar, it's the concern of the browser.

Good design is unobtrusive. [5]

Good design is as little design as possible. [10]

[5, 10]: https://www.vitsoe.com/us/about/good-design
Teen Accused of Hacking CIA, DHS Chiefs' Info Arrested
I agree and disagree. As a general rule, you shouldn't be screwing with the scrolling behavior, but in case like this (with a slider-type of interaction), it is a bit more understandable. What I can't stand is when people do it just to affect the acceleration/whatever of scrolling as a gimmick. This has some usefulness at least and doesn't affect my experience negatively at all.
Many people believe the homeless are, by and large possessed of intrinsically low intelligence and/or ethical character, and generally have only themselves to blame for their situation.

So (this reasoning goes) when approached by a pollster, why wouldn't they lie?
> What historically have been the exceptions to what the government can seize with authorization from a judicial warrant?

I don't know that there are many exceptions once you have a warrant, but there is definitely a preference to use subpoenas when possible.

(I'll note though that I probably don't know more about this, most of my knowledge just comes from reading Jeffrey Rosen books on privacy law.)
The safety council is not likely to achieve much, but it's a very necessary step in the right direction. Otherwise the threat of driveby harrasment flashmobs is going to start driving people (especially women) off twitter.
And accordingly, the FDA has taken a lighter touch with them....
Title is a bit misleading, should be more like "Pinterest announces intent to open-source Teletraan, a tool for code deployments"

EDIT: Xeroday helpfully pointed out that there IS a link to code in another blog post in the same series.
The old URLs redirect as far as I can tell.
Actually, Chrome does process-per-domain. Almost always several tabs of the same domain will share a process. You can check this by killing one process and seeing lots of tabs go away.
That's why basic rights like freedom of speech exist, to protect us from such "well-intended" attacks in favor of an alleged "vast majority". "Harassment" as in that policy or other "codes of conduct" can be pretty much anything, in particular now that it has become standard mode of operation to claim victimhood for just about anything to silence other people.
Time to move on.

I mainly used Picasa Web Albums because of its seamless integration with the Picasa Desktop Application. I guess the integration will not work with Photos.

Photos is mobile-oriented to the point that is almost useless on desktop. My photos were moved, but I have no idea if the permissions were kept. All the albums moved to "collections" have a "shared" label in the list, but then when I go to the specific collection and press "Sharing options" the "anyone with the link" is not selected; does this means they made all my photos public? Also, I have no idea how to give somebody a link to my "Photos" page (all collections).

Also seems that having the link to the "shared" collection empowers anyone to download the full photos at the uploaded resolution. This was available in Picasa only as a per-album option (and the user needed to have the Picasa browser extension to do so).

Well, this means I don't have to pay Google for storage anymore. Also that I have to find a new place for my photos and a way to integrate it with (a) desktop application.
My main feature request would be a way to enforce a PR must be a fast-forward merge.

I tend to have a small set of words I prefix each git commit summary with (Add, Remove, Fix, etc). If I could verify summaries match that pattern that would be awesome.

Also, if it is possible to enforce the guidelines specified in http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa... I'd be so happy.
Likely because they first encountered it on PBS, some Americans are unaware Connections was a BBC production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)

Even less known these days (by Americans, at least) is that Connections was but one of many extraordinary educational science series that the BBC produced in the 1970's.

Original footage of one of the best of these was recently rediscovered and finally made available on the web: Look Around You: Season 1 Pilot - Calcium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBaVwwuErmU

Watching it again today, it's hard to understate the positive impact this series had on British science education, and the obvious "leg up" it gave for Britain's technological prowess.
"LABOUR markets are hotbeds of inequality. For every dollar a white American man in full-time work earns, the average white woman earns 78 cents and the average Latina only 56 cents."

Study after study has proven this statement false when accounting for the type of work done.
We have a small agency, and have these issues too. Most of the time it is just the occasional slow payed invoice. If they get past two weeks we shoot them an email.

Things we do to lower the risk as much as we can. #1 we get paid upfront for the month. #2 We always ask for a credit card or ACH as part of the contract, we still do get checks because for some that is the preferred method for them, but we try to get the CC / ACH.

For us, if it's becoming an issue over 1-2 months, I'll personally make the ask and find out if something is wrong. I try to give them the benefit of the doubt that the invoice isn't getting to them or was missed.

Something people have suggested is when the payment is late, a nice notification email that just says that you haven't received payment for this month and according to policy, work is suspended until payment is received.

The reason we don't do this is because for us 100% of the time it has been a missed invoice, not an intentional stoppage of payment.
Unfortunately all the money is in leadership. Servants get paid as little as possible.
What's great about merely preserving is that as long as we can preserve "indefinitely", the probability of future tech being able to recover the brain approaches 1.
I understand what you're saying, but it's sort of reductive and begging the question to say it's only journalistically-influential people, because in fact Twitter has minted a new class of influential people. Plus, it has also decreased the distance between celebrities and their followers to an unprecedented level.

Sure, "important" is a loaded term, and if you define it as Wall Street does (money), or in terms of Facebook's own KPI (daily active users), then Facebook is far more important. However if you presented the top 1% of viral Facebook posts against the top 1% of viral Tweets, I think you would be hard-pressed to find many people that thought the Facebook posts were more "important". Twitter's problem is that this is very very difficult to quantify, and therefore they get judged by Facebook's chosen KPI, which is frankly nothing but a race to the bottom, because Facebook is taking an unreasonable amount of people's time right now, and there's a way in which the product drives an addictive loop rather than adding any real value.
You are correct. PRs must be in Canada for 2 of every 5 years, unless they obtain citizenship. I apologize for the error.
This is just anecdotal, but that price point at the quality you want is possible in downtown San Jose.
The point is that they're not showing you what you wanted - if you search for Firefox, I'm pretty sure you don't want a malware-infested version. You want plain old regular malware-free Firefox.

So Google isn't showing you what you searched for.

If you search for torrents or illegal downloads well that's different, isn't it?
this is important. The billing style of large ISPs is set up to confuse consumers into thinking parts of their bill are actually just taxes when in fact they are fees. This gimmick needs to stop.

I once argued with AT&T when they raised my bill by issuing a fee (which violated the contract and meant I wasn't responsible for an ETF if I canceled). The CSR was convinced it was a tax, their manager also convinced it was a tax that they had nothing to do with. I kept kept saying over and over that private companies cannot levy a tax. I swear nobody understood this. This speaks to how successful these large companies have been at confusing everyone with their billing practices.
This isn't capitalism, it's rent-seeking.
if your news feed was the most important in the world, maybe...
And I've showed one way to do the matching in an automated way.

How you wrap those implementation things, is up to you. I agree, overloading might have problems.
Google Bets on Health
I think the difference between the two is best illustrated by how each approach incorporates experimental or sample data.

So in this example, what does each say when the coin were flipped 10 times, and it came up heads 6 times?
Prop 13 has nothing to do with real estate price inflation. If anything, shifting of property tax burdens from long-time homeowners to new homeowners would tend to suppress prices. Shifting that burden evenly across the population would tend to cause more churn as long-time homeowners get pushed out, but would do nothing to increase aggregate housing or lower aggregate prices.

Although, you can get pretty far into the weeds trying to evaluate the effect of housing stability on political economy - NIMBYism would be expected to be stronger in longer-tenure populations, for instance.

Stability of tax policy is a fantastic thing for encouraging long-term investment.
Maybe I'm a bit jaded, but simple putting something online is not providing access nor for that matter is it free, since taxes pay for it. Beyond that, huge, and often the most meaningful legal information is not pulled from the written laws, but case law that's resulted from past cases. More to the point, legal system as it is now has no responsibility to provided legal advice and clearly looks down on those who represent themselves. Beyond that, most law is not in Plain English, and as a result, not accessible.
did anyone get this working? I have been trying to get either eth or this client working for some time with no luck. It's failing for me (parity) when I run `cargo run --release`, permissions problems. Haven't had more time to debug.
Boah, I don't even know how long hash tables are in Lisp now. Hash tables became popular when the implementations used them for their symbol tables.

The MIT Lisp Machine from the late 70s implemented hash tables and used them widely:

http://lispm.de/source/lispm-system-78-48/lispm2/hash.lisp
Yes, it taxes people proportional to the benefit they receive rather than proportional to the value they create. Low/no income people tend to consume far more than they produce. Such a tax will stop penalizing investment which is a good thing.

Why would we want rich people to throw lavish parties rather than creating future productive capacity?
I meant to clarify. I volunteered at a hostel this summer doing activities. So every morning I had to talk to girls at breakfast and invite them to hikes or beer pong.

I also met a dozen girls or so girls a week out in LA. I was going out almost every day and night though.

I also had a friend with a ridiculously amazing condo so I'd bring girls there. The condo didn't help that much but the confidence probably did.

Even with all this, it was exhausting and annoying to meet girls. 99% seem uninteresting and mean; only text me to invite them somewhere. And I was just friends with most.

I'm somewhat of a misanthrope. People in general are selfish and weird. Accepting people as flawed creatures and focusing on the positives have helped a lot.

Edit- Travelling and staying in hostels rejuvenated my faith in others. I highly recommend it.
It's the latter. We do try to privilege the original submission when we can, but that's not always easy.

It's a bit of a lottery who gets the karma in any individual case, but in the long run it evens out. We would like to make the duplicate detection system give more credit to original submitters. I used to think that didn't matter, but have changed my mind, because doing that would incentivize users to find good stories that no one has submitted yet, and that seems like it would be in the community's interest.
Well, if the government actually can get the evidence when they have legally-valid reason to do so, then they don't have to violate everyone's privacy all the time in order to get evidence for when they might need it. So there's a basis for a truce here.

Unfortunately, you'd have to trust the government to keep their end of the deal...
Looks like a nice project. I'm currently searching for a Unicode library and it appears to me that ICU is the de-facto standard here, which has the benefit of comming pre-installed on pretty much any Linux distribution. Any reason why I should use Unicorn instead? I couldn't find information on how it compares to ICU in the documentation (well, except for the most welcome usage of modern C++).
Great job! While I believe in-browser solution will have more usage.
The unicode portion looks reasonable, but why is it necessary for it to include its own flags, file io, file management, and environment classes?

Why is it so many C++ libraries fall into this habit of trying to build one big framework. I'm perfectly happy with gflags -- a unicode library would be nice for my project, but now I won't consider this library.
The only thing keeping Blogger alive is probably that Google uses it for their own blogs.
In the west end, it really is "yellow peril". I am asian myself, but I contribute to the economy as a job provider. Speculators are the reason for the impending ghost town that is Vancouver.

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=news.nationalpo...
The overhead involved in piling on encryption management in an environment that doesn't specifically warrant it is a waste of resources.
> Some people (probably most people) don't wear clothes just to get a reaction from others.

The clothes people choose to wear becomes a part of their identity. They are choosing for a reason, that reason comes from them. Unless you're a kid and your parents are picking out your clothes for you, what you wear is a reflection of who you are.

Nobody deserves to receive negative attention from others based on how they dress, but it's a bit of wishful thinking to claim that there should be no consequences to how you look. People get what they work towards, not what they deserve. And two people can receive the same attention, one person can receive it positively, the other negatively. Without reading a person's mind, it's impossible to know how to 'safely' interact with them.

> he "real answer" of "what should I do" about being treated this way is to fight this misconception

Need to stop you right there. You can't demand that someone get political just to change their personal situation. Fighting for social justice is a privilege afforded to those who have managed to reach a point in their lives where they can afford to spend great deals of their time persuading others to change the way they think.

You and I have this privilege, most people do not. Many people, if they start trying to fight the "way things are", it will get them fired.

> While you are welcome to have your own opinion, lumping your own experiences in with theirs and expressing an opinion about both as if they were one experience is not only factually inaccurate, it prevents discussion about the issue at hand, which is women receive unfair and undesireable treatment from men.

Nobody is doing this. I expressed an experience I had that I felt had parallels to her experience. Both experiences had parallels to the ordinary one. I shared them because I felt they'd help illustrate what goes on under their noses. It's not quite as overt as in my case, but it still happens, more subtly.

I'm not trying to conflate, but to raise awareness.
Instead of rules, look at what's being censored and tell us if you agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Twitter

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/censoring-...

And so on.
Only up to a point; unless you are rich you are in effect required to take a job in most countries, and there is often not any choice available in employment. Compare that to the state where the relationship is not optional but you do get a vote in how it is run. Plus you potentially have the option of moving to another country.
> “If you make the altered task too different, people do not get the gain we observed during reconsolidation. The modification between sessions needs to be subtle”

I saw that quote but I have no idea what the researcher is basing it on. As described, the study can only show that blocking/interleaving is superior to massed practice:

> The volunteers were split into three groups, and each spent 45 minutes practising this. Six hours later, one of the groups was asked to repeat the same training exercise again, while another group performed a slightly different version that required different squeezing force to move the cursor. The third group only completed the first training session, so they could act as a control.

That is, as described, there is no 'interleaved subtle-difference' vs 'interleaved gross-difference' comparison, because they only compared 'near-zero-practice' vs 'massed-practice' vs 'interleaved-practice'. They seem to be wildly extrapolating from there, in ignorance of a good deal of prior work.
http://jalopnik.com/yes-warm-your-damn-car-up-if-its-cold-16...
I believe I proved that 20 years ago already. At least that's what the relevant art historians write in their books. ArsDoom 1995. https://www.google.de/search?q=ArsDoom+game+art
ISIS used chemical weapons, may have more – CIA chief
Except I'm not - there already exist squatters rights to occupy someones elses property and eventually claim it their own if they can avoid detection long enough.

All that takes is the minimum effort to police the property you own to insure nobody is squatting. What I'm saying is that unconditionally whether or not someone is illegally occupying your property you only have a fixed amount of time to make use of it before it effectively becomes unclaimed land again.
I agree that laws don't exist in a vacuum. What about what I wrote made you think I didn't?

One problem with reframing this in terms of the goal of encouraging recycling is that I don't think that's a worthy goal, in and of itself. I'm pretty sure that some things, like glass, are probably best not recycled.

What I wrote was that, if people decided, e.g. that they really wanted to cleanup all of the waste plastic that wasn't already in landfills, then they should cover that cost. If the costs were really minimal (for whatever reason) that would mean recovering them from specific people or organizations less important. So you're right that it's not always possible, or even desirable, to exactly match costs to those imposing them.

> It's economically infeasible to track down who threw that oil can in the curbside bin.

Sure; but is that because the cost of throwing an oil can in the curbside bin is really small? If the cost of that behavior is itself small, then it can be covered inefficiently, e.g. by taxing the manufacturers of the oil cans or the oil. If the cost tho is large, then maybe individuals shouldn't retain the same latitude they have now to buy oil cans or oil without closer supervision or regulation.
> Rent control. This is often unfair and inflates price of non-rent controlled apartments.

There's the rub. Virtually all rent control schemes in North America only apply to a subset of properties (usually the shitty ones), which isn't fair and often doesn't work. Meanwhile, Germany has a long history of successful rent control, perhaps not coincidentally because it applies universally.