skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe now we'll finally get eurozone-wide mutualised deposit insurance.
Heh. Well, yeah, abstract opinions are always suspicious. In your case, making a facade around standard POSIX functions does seem weird, especially if the facade is itself buggy! For something that needs to be portable across many platforms, such a facade could be very useful though.
There is issues of locals being 'displaced' in places like NYC because it often is more profitable for landlords to rent on Airbnb rather than rent traditionally. The real big deal is tenants have lots of rights whereas transients do not, so it creates even more incentives to ditch the locals in favor of Airbnb guests.

Then you can argue "why shouldn't NYC turn into a city of transients?" Which is probably more of a personal opinion if that is "wrong" or not.

To the GP:

The other thing to mention is in the US housing regulations are incredibly local so you're going to find a huge difference in different cities in how regulated rentals are. You will read online mostly about NYC of SF which have their unique problems.
Feminists deplatform Richard Dawkins from science conference [video]
Aren't you afraid of anti-anti-anti-Adblock killers?
From reading the comments a lot of people take a really negative spin on this for some reason. I only see it as trying to explain that if you rely on vacations alone then you could still be overworked and stressed. They only dim the symptom but does not cure the disease. If you are overworked and stressed a vacation might help in the short run but if you go back into the same routines, then of course you'll end back where you were before taking the vacation.

What they do advise instead is working on the disease itself and try to manage your day-to-day better instead of ONLY relying on annual holidays. They aren't saying you shouldn't take holidays only that they won't cure all your stress permanently.

I think this is good advice. Not groundbreaking or new knowledge, but still - good advice!
The rootless mood was only a huge pain in the ass because everyone was used to pathing usr/local/bin and brew, probably one of the most popular package managers, relies on a rootful env. Brew was definitely playing with fire and even though it was tricky getting shit to work again, I for one am glad they opted to go rootless at the behest of user convenience. Sometimes foul medicine is the best kind.
This is the sort of thing that makes me proud to be human.
Netflix would have to be pretty good at negotiating content licensing to have their costs dominated by bit shovelling.
Wrong optimization with aliasing
The Netflix Simian Army
Cplint on SWISH: Probabilistic Logic Programming in the Browser
My take on this is easy: if you have the occasional overtime, sure I'll pitch in. If it's however a structural imbalance, I will not sacrifice myself for it. The tricky part is stopping to care to get things done in time, when it's a structural problem.
If you don't, it will eat you (eventually).
I was watching Michael Clayton last night and it was a strange experience seeing Tilda Swinton playing an exec out of her depth hiring hitmen to kill a whistle-blower... knowing that another exec with a bizarrely military board was probably freaking out in a similar way... gave me some shivers.
And it would have been such as easy problem to solve if someone had thought of it at the time. Plenty of open source projects have had to relearn this the hard way too. You need to insist on copyright assignment!
Wow, never really thought a barcode as another attack vector. I might dig a bit deeper and do my master's thesis about it. Sounds really interesting.
It should just work. I'm not asking someone to learn infosec to use their computer. That should be the last resort.
Write NGINX modules in MRuby
I remember getting involved in this when I was at school. It was part of the inspiration behind http://www.geograph.org.uk/ where we set up a free archive of geographical-themed pictures of the UK.

Back in around 2005 I contacted the original project leader to see if we could somehow help with the preservation, but at that time it was thought sorting through the copyright issues would make it impossible. I was happy to see it was eventually released online!

Long term archival was a concern for Geograph - aside from adopting a cc-by-sa licence on image submissions, we also worked with the National Archives to ensure a digital copy of the image archive is preserved.

The Domesday project occupies what seems now - the briefest window of opportunity - to create something that would become obsolescent so quickly! But I think its true value lies in acting as a warning to others...
Other startups seem like a natural starting point to sell B2B software to. At least if you take the Crossing the Chasm point of view (which can be argued against for B2B I suppose).
I'd say Innovators or Early Adopters in the B2B domain are very likely to be other startups a fact that is somewhat ignored in the post.
At least it might be a bit dangerous to assume that you can simply sell to more established companies instead.
this changed recently! :) I believe your information is now out of date.
Maybe ad-malware?
You need to insist that contributions are licensed under some open source license, which is different from copyright assignment. You may or may not do copyright assignment as well, but many projects do not since it gives the assignee powers to relicense the work including taking it proprietary.

Then there are "moral rights" which complicate things in some countries.
I make 6 figures in the Western US.
Not a doctor, just frustrated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11085519
Just a quick correction (because it is a very common mistake). I think you are referring to "spaced learning" or "spacing", not "spaced repetition".

Every time you reinforce your memory, the amount of time it takes to forget it lengthens. Or, more properly, the slope of the curve that describes the probability of forgetting it decreases. That curve is known as the "forgetting curve". In spaced repetition, you are trying to time the repetition so that you still have a low percentage chance of forgetting.

"Spaced learning" or "spacing" is almost the opposite effect. What it says is that inserting a space in learning such that you forget something makes the material stronger when you subsequently relearn it. Although I am not aware of research that actually links spacing to the forgetting curve, you can probably imagine that if you learn something once, the forgetting curve is fairly steep (i.e., the probability of you forgetting it grows fairly quickly with time). With spacing, if you wait until you forget something and then relearn it, the forgetting curve is much shallower the second time (i.e. the probability of you forgetting it grows fairly slowly with time). In fact, it is apparently much shallower than if you had done spaced repetition (i.e. timed a reinforcement so that that allowed you to remember the item rather than forgetting it). Forgetting an relearning is rather an annoying and difficult way of learning, but some research suggest that it is dramatically more effective. This has been called "desired difficulty".

Also, there is a slightly nuanced difference between "blocking" and "interleaving". In interleaving, you fairly rapidly change topics and then loop back to the first again. So, if you have to learn 5 tasks, (A, B, C, D and E) you could spend 10 minutes on each and then loop back to the beginning. If you did that 6 times, you would have spent 1 hour on each task. Blocking would be spending 1 hour on each task, in blocks and then going back to it the next day. These are both different from the approach of training A until you learned it, then moving on to B, etc, etc.

In schools you can talk about "blocked" schedules (i.e. you try to fit in every subject every day -- not to be confused with the opposite of cramming a single subject into 3 or 4 periods, annoyingly also called a "blocked schedule"). Inside each subject they often don't interleave the material, though. There are some textbooks available that try to interleave the material within a subject. I have also read papers of some experiments where they actually tried to interleave all of the subjects (i.e., in each period you would have 10 minutes of each subject) with some success.

Anyway, I hope that helps. I spent a huge amount of time reading about this a few years ago, but have neglected it for about 3 years, so I hope I have not made any mistakes myself ;-)
It won't. They'll simply shift to another job. It's not like they're absolute idiots, they can learn a new trade.
Since QR codes became ubiquitous in public places, I started thinking about someone planting fake ones, on top of the original ones, that would redirect to shady websites. If the website is similar enough to the one it impersonates, it would be hard for the user to distinguish.
If you're visiting London, head north on the train for about 30 minutes and visit the museums at Bletchley: Bletchley Park itself, which documents the British WW2 codebreaking effort, and is amazing, and next door to it the National Museum of Computing, which has samples of basically every computer ever made, most of which you can play with, and which is amazing. (They have a working decatron decimal-based computer! Which you can play with! https://goo.gl/photos/FiTQAM8VkPknCAJR7)

But they also have a BBC Micro lab, complete with a Domesday Disc setup. Which you can play with. It's surprisingly usable.
We're close to post industrial, at least in the 1st world.

We're close.

We certainly don't need to live in a world where millions die for lack of will, or failing that, where trillions of dollars of value are siphoned off of the working class in an upwards waterfall.
While this is ok as an idea, I prefer Privoxy [1] to get my ad blocking outside of the browser. It has the benefit that I can turn it on and off (I use a proxy switcher). It also means that I can have other devices use it either via LAN or SSH tunnel or whatever).

[1] http://www.privoxy.org/
Here in Austria its 38.5hrs, 5 weeks vacation, and in June and December employees receive a doubled monthly salary ("vacation money" and "christmas money").
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It's all shipping fees.

It's so bad that "Reshippers" are increadibly popular here (in Australia). They have a US address so you can ship Amazon stuff there, and then either do a bulk shipment of multiple orders to Australia, or else just accept their shipping charges (which are usually 50% of what Amazon charges).
The issue is very simple IMHO: The low number of maintainers per user. To solve this, you can start ignoring issues, recruit more maintainers or make maintainers more effective. They are trying the latter, which seems like a good compromise.
The problem is that installs are all TL;DR. I'm quite happy that Windows finally has an app store, which gives them some control about what can be installed on people's computers while at the same time simplifying the install process. Of course, Microsoft can't force all windows applications to only be offered via the Store, but, it was adopted quickly by OSX app builders. I think people will be more inclined to spend a bit of money on apps too if they know they're safe and you don't have to dodge a dozen 'download' buttons or convoluted install processes that ask you to install crapware. But, that's just a theory; one problem is that there's a nontrivial amount of people that go to download.com on a regular basis to install c00l n3w appz. At one point, I did too - iirc back then the computer magazines would often point to download.com. Bet some still do.
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install this https://www.malwarebytes.org/antiexploit/

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I've always been fascinated by his follow up series "the day the universe changed". He points out that as our beliefs and understandings shift, our universally perceived reality changes.

He demonstrates this with a witch burning three hundred years ago. Those people believed that everything the felt and did was absolutely justified - if not required - by the universe they inhabited.

It has always made me wonder what a future society will not be able to relate to how we live now. Personally, I suspect eating meat will be off the table, as it were. (And I say this as a carnivore with a tin of bacon fat in the fridge.)

When informing people whom they should vote for (I can be annoying like that) I try to get them to vote for someone that can inch us to the future they want to see.

Not surprisingly, universal healthcare, decreased poverty and things that taste like bacon but aren't really bacon are all things people seem to expect in 1000 years.
There aren't as far as I'm aware any open source licences that would allow the copyright holders to take existing work proprietary. Once it's released it can't be revoked. They'd only be able to do that to future work.
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GGV capital is raising a giant new fund
https://ninite.com/ is along those lines for MS Windows.
I think he just about says this in his talk when he discuses developing "novelty search". The applications to AI seemed more straightforward (don't blindly run up to a local maxima if your search space isn't monotonic), but the application to life is less straightforward but more interesting.
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Is up for iot devices
We decades down the line. Education users won't work. Regular people just aren't gonna learn.

It's time for us techies to build better software, to get laws passed that stop this sort of thing, to get websites like CNET download.com and manufactors like Lenovo blacklisted.
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Debian, that well known walled garden.
Some security products (like Windows Defender) as well as some VPN applications are known to modify the hosts file. Might be worth checking out.

Also see: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6883/something-i...
To be honest, it's not just a problem for a "normal person". I can easily admit that I could easily be bitten by something like this if one of my top 10 most used installers implemented an adware addition step.

Sure, it's common sense to read what you are agreeing to and sometimes the installers are just made to deceive the end-user (I am looking at you, Flash updater). But generally you just don't have the time or don't want to read through the 7-8 pages of an installer for a program that you have already installed hundreds or thousands of times. It requires certain amount of trust and when the chain of trust is broken, I get bitten once, sure, but the program loses an user forever. The sad thing is that this isn't the case for the Grampa with 12 Ask.com toolbars installed.
Right - but consider that you are an outlier.

I've spent 15 years buying stuff off amazon.com (coming from California), and have recently moved to Singapore. The closest version of Amazon (with *insanely good local shipping - sometimes same day by bike courier) is http://www.qoo10.sg. I've been fully satisfied with prices, and delivery on everything there - but, it's still a bit of a culture shock for your average western shopper.

We'll see if I still feel the same way a year from now - but (even ignoring the discovery issue) I can imagine how having Amazon provide an interface for my purchases would have made this way more seamless.
I love this series, along with The Day the Universe Changed.
I don't understand how the point you're trying to make is important. A more inclusive workplace for white-collar employees is a small step towards decoupling income status from race and sex, and crushing racial and sexual prejudice. Regardless of how you imagine Slack's execs perceive or use this event, the message of ability it sends to the audiences that need it/benefit from it is salient, important and useful.
Which one of the apps on download.com (that bundle crapware) would not be considered acceptable in a store? What crazy apps wouldn't conform to those rules? And how many people would actually be interested in those apps?

I've jailbroken an iOS device once just to check out what amazing things apple doesn't want in the store. I wasn't impressed; cydia looked like crap, iOS <7 looks bolted in an ipad app, tacky icons everywhere, and the top X downloads were all tacky looking mods for things like the lock screen. That was back when though, I've looked up some lists of stuff and I'll admit some of the available things can be convenient if you're into that sort of thing.
First request was Error 500. Then it worked nice!

Any rules for using? Description is a little bare bone right now ;)
That is 10 megabytes per ruby application per server. I don't know how many ruby instances there are in the world, but the total memory reduction across the world could easily be in the order of petabytes. Small change with large impact.
Is it smart using an OS whose end-of-life was just announced?
Steve jobs said something like: You can only connect the dots looking backwards. I've found that to be true in many ways. If you look at any success story, it usually involves many degrees of luck, chance, crazy coincidence, etc. From business stories, to how you met your closest friends, or even your significant other.

Of course, this is survivorship bias, and we're constantly missing great opportunities every day.. but it's still interesting how things turn out.
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It takes about a minute, as opposed to 10 seconds, to install something if you skim each page for check boxes, as opposed to spamming next. If you can't spare that amount of time, then there's not much that anyone can do to help you.
I found flights to Gothenburg on fly checker at € 46
...Mint?
The Influence of Emoji on Car Dealership Texting
German media makes a point that Deutsche Bank has been hit hard with the fines from their (past) crimes. Investment bankers and CEOs took their bonuses and moved on. Spiegel reports Deutsche Bank used $15 billions since 2012 for	legal disputes.
I have a computer illiterate family member on Ubuntu. He's easily able to install software outside the repo as long as the process is spelled out. See google earth's install process on Ubuntu.
Again that's a different meaning of bilingualism, the article is about people fluent in multiple languages. I assume most Quebeckers are bilingual as is.
I do, it was a nice site. libgen.io has taken it's place I guess.
Yes, that's true. And appalling.
Indeed, theoretically the fault is that no one (including me) posted one of the earlier articles about the news.

But, from a quality focus, yes, I think if there clearly are better and earlier posts about the same news, with the same (or in that case, more comprehensive information, like e.g. Music Ally's post), HN would benefit from actually not surfacing the clickbaity, dramatic rewrite that was published 2 days later.

It is also clearly stated in the submission guidelines:
"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. "

In that case, this rule was broken, and that behavior was rewarded.
I'm saying this in a comment that explains this point. The world is bigger than this one study.

I'm explaining how hostility to women can result in a higher acceptance rate of their pull requests. As you could have seen from the numbers in this study, women do far, far fewer pull requests than men. Why? Perhaps, because only the best women remain, and they only submit their best pull requests. That drives the average for women up, while driving the total number down.

And I don't think the acceptance rate of pull requests is a likely vector of discrimination anyway; they're fairly anonymous and focus on the code. But the hostility absolutely does exist in other areas: small talk, jokes, hiring practices, sexual harassment, etc.
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hi,
thank you.
I see one 500 response. Could you try again :)

no rules, http://google.com:80 google.com bla bla
Proper package management is the only solution... I still manage to screw up and forget a checkbox here or there once in a while and next thing you know, I spend half an hour cleaning it up.

Well, it seems to be the way Microsoft wants to go at it anyway what with the atrocious Windows store.

As a sidenote, I really wish we'd get generic package management. A proper package management server and protocol that is. Something that can be used and picked up by Windows and linux distros but also by domain-specific packages (pypi, etc), browser extensions, games with addon repositories and so on.

It's sad that right now we can't answer "and now we need package management" by "sure, let me fire up pkgserve.d" or something.
I used to block various domains that served TV ads for UK Channel 4, but they hosted the client and that not detect ad loading. Seems you could probably truncate the video stream, maybe o using iptables, but their ad-load has reduced so I'm not motivated to try right now.
The solution to this is Certificate Transparency[0], a distributed public log of certificate timestamps that are submitted by CA's and checked by browsers.

CT has been required for EV certificates in Chrome for a year now[1], and eventually will be required for all certificates otherwise they will error out on connection.

A certificate signed by a root cert that is not the original CA will not validate.

[0] https://www.certificate-transparency.org/

[1] https://blog.digicert.com/certificate-transparency-required-...
Slightly off-topic: a lot of Vanguard's ETFs are synthetic. Is there anyone who can say something about the risk involved in this in contrast to non-synthetic ETFs?

Edit: As it turns out most or all of Vanguard's ETFs are physical.
Of course. But there is no need to write ugly macros. Any macro of any complexity can be written in a nice and clean way.
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I'm typing words in a comment. I want to underline one of them, but HN doesn't support that. So, I surround the word with _underscores_ and hope that you understand what I meant. Same for /slashes/ to indicate an italicized word.
Deja vu [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10729068
Cats for ads. Has a nice ring to it. I'm surprised no one built it yet.
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I bet your devs love you for this
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The VMware GPL case (2015)
Snapchat is not, but does the iOS camera app that takes the picture do the backup?
It's interesting that the word "photoshopped" is being used for this kind of manipulation as well.
"They charged less than their competition. That's potential tax revenue lost. They are therefore thieves." is the dumbest argument I've ever heard.

How is this even an issue, let alone the basis for a legal case?
Looks isomorphic to what you can do with matrices (including some heuristics to what rows to go for first). Of course, that doesn't make it better.
Spicedup my linkedin headline with matrix theme