skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm slightly confused how the Internet is fundamentally a different type of thing than a utility (I get taxed on my gas bill -- even on "delivery" -- pay to play, not even any of the goods). Or an information service -- I also get taxed on my TV access. Do these lawmakers just find it sexier to say "we kept the Internet free!"
It's probably because that's the only data they have that can serve as a proxy for fitness.
Every time this happens, people act surprised. Every single time. It happens like clockwork, every 3 months.

People should realize by now that Google is a company that makes money through surveillance advertising, and _every single other thing they do_ is basically part of a PR campaign.

If you don't want this to happen to you, don't use Google. Use something that you have control over.
I'm pretty sure someone has just released something like this. A handheld scanner that will tell you the calories/macros for your plate of food.

It was a one off cost of circa £150, then £15 or so a month ongoing.

Apologies but can't be arsed to find the link on mobile.
> 2. Nobody in vancouver makes an income over six figures unless you're in the standard professions that make that much, such as doctors, high level managers and successful business owners

Intermediate Software Developers these days made that much for a select few companies (thankfully large ones that hire more and more people).
You just need to make it look like you actually are resident.
Then there's people who just want existing regulations to be enforced in their current scope.

Which, BTW, isn't an "anti"-AirBnB position at all.
When HK was getting turned back over to China, there was a lot of concern and Canada (Vancouver, Toronto etc.) became destinations of choice for many people.

This obviously isn't the only contributing factor but I know lots of people that have gone through this migration pattern.
Cutting overall spending is important. Cutting overall taxes just destabilizes the system by increasing debt, which is a terrible idea.

It's like people talking about the laffer curve, forgetting that when you sit on the left side cutting taxes reduces revenue.
I think they are talking about different services though.
I've noticed something like this in Chrome on my Mac anytime I switch tabs... If I come back to a tab, it is just a blank white page and I need to refresh to bring the page back up.

I recently did a clean install of El Capitan and the problem persisted.

Is what's happening to me kind of the same thing?
It's also backed by Y Combinator.
No, I don't think the telephone has ever been as important as access to the internet. In my estimation, it's not even close.
Dem Debate: How Kissinger Laid the Groundwork for the Crisis in the Middle East
From wikipedia: Al-Waleed is considered a proponent for female emancipation in the Saudi world. He has financed the training of Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi to become the first Saudi woman commercial airline pilot and has stated on her graduation that he is "in full support of Saudi ladies working in all fields". Al-Hindi became certified to fly within Saudi Arabia in 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Waleed_bin_Talal#First_Saud...

Do you assume he's a misogynist and a human rights violater because he is from Saudi Arabia?
OK, but if the user disables the sandbox they're vulnerable to malware, and we're back at square 1.

(The goalposts seem to be very mobile here...)
>It has nothing to do with the dominating gender.

If ${group} is valued less in society then it isn't a stretch that ${activities group does} becomes less valued in society.

Many here are quick to point out that weed was outlawed because it was an activity that minorities enjoyed.

I'm not saying that this is the case (idk) but its not an outlandish idea.
From that article:

>A spokesman for the OQLF said the letter is only for information purposes, and there are no penalties involved. The agency's goal, Jean-Pierre Le Blanc said, is to let business owners know that French-language versions of such promotional stickers exist.

>"This is one of about 300 to 400 letters we sent this month to businesses," said Le Blanc. "It's not an investigation. It's not a complaint. It's an incentive."

I suspect that the keyboard anecdote is inflated.

However, the official work language is French, but that is only because we don't want the majority to become second-class citizens..
Streetmap Loses Google High Court Challenge
ROOTS – the debut EP is out Check it today guys :) #OliK
> You are vastly overestimating how many children people have.

Right, my post was complaining about how few children people are having. For the sake of contrast, I supposed an idealized situation where our fertility rates are comfortably above mere replacement, say 3 to 4 per woman. In such case, a woman with 4 children, each having 4 children, each having 4 children, will indeed have >100 descendants.

> The way forward is not to lean on women to do huge amounts of uncompensated labour, the return of which flows to someone else.

Over the past 10,000 years, we've determined a set of social constructs that solve this problem really well in the context of agrarian society: marriage (monogamous, enduring partnership between provider and carer), and religion (commitment to a purpose higher than yourself, because a world of individuals pursuing their own interests can only fail).

Anyway, note my quotes on "equality": try as we might, women are not men, and nobody wins by getting women to be more like men. The ideal of equality is like communism: inspiring, misleading, and impossible. No one is equal, nor should they be.
Thanks! We changed the URL to that from https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/under-hood-teletraan-....
My recollection of squatter's rights is that the owner has to know you are there, and do nothing for <X> years. If you are hiding, you can't lay claim.
It says the API will be open source, so maybe the tool itself won't. We'll see...
"Develop a great little application/product that pulls you in and develops a decent user base only to have it disappear"

The worst part is when they do this with acquisitions (which Picasa was, though admittedly it was acquired quite a long time ago).

Also, even when they don't outright kill apps/services, it is painful when they basically let them wither on the vine (see: Google Voice, another acquisition of a promising product that Google snapped up and then basically put into hibernation soon after).
Or the convenience of programmers.
Sure, differences matter, but the point is that there will be consequences. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that they should never be violent or threatening, but it is unreasonable to expect that there will not be any. That's just selfish entitlement: "the world should work this way because it pleases me so, regardless of facts".
Okay everyone took this a bit too literally. Obviously I don't mean he was literally silenced. But I would bet he's self-censoring a bit more: "I now withdraw from all future discussions of Indian economics and politics, and leave them to people with more knowledge and experience!" which was then followed by five tweets to explain the original tweet. That kind of reaction has to influence his willingness to speak on other topics not directly related to tech.
You can't view or create "specific content", such as tags, captions or comments in Google Photos. If you find them important for your photo organization, all your work to date will be lost.

Hope they will allow 3rd party apps to upload to Google Photos.

Hope they will someday publish an uploader for Linux desktops. Even Google Music has one.
If coding is intellectual in nature and the primary biological resource it draws on is our brain, and female and male brains are the same, how could this be true?

Brains are the same source: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/brains-men-and-women-...
Well that's good to know. I literally can't get to 10,000 steps during a normal day unless I make it a goal during my lunch break to run down to the gym and walk around 4 miles on the treadmill. Since my walking speed is 3.2/3.5 mph, this can't be done leisurely. My only hope for getting to 10,000 is that I'll do the 3.5 or so at the gym and then hopefully be required to run to the grocery store later in the evening so that I can be forced to walk more.

The fitness tracker is supposed to be a motivator, but instead when I see that I'm only at 7-8k per day even after an hour-long walk, it feels more like a fat shamer.
> Chinese people don't grow up thinking about democracy and decentralization and individual freedom and liberty."
> He says while the West wrings its hands over how to upgrade the network, the Chinese Bitcoin community's attitude is, "Don't bother me, I'm trying to make my money here."

It's interesting. The Chinese merchants, users, and hashers all have inputs here. Ultimately if they want to make money they should consider how the global marketplace reacts to the blockchain debate. So, really, it's shortsighted to not consider the "western handwringing."
Looks like unicorn is just using PCRE for regex to me.
Listen closely to anything new team members have to say. From the inside, it all makes sense, but from the outside, it's often obvious insanity ;-)
When your "medium-sized test server" has 128 GB RAM and half a TB worth of SSDs... in 2008! Damn.
DC also has height restrictions due to the 1899 Height of Buildings Act (amended in 1910 to effectively restrict buildings to no taller than 13 stories - http://www.welovedc.com/2009/05/19/dc-mythbusting-the-height...).
Check my other reply. Not a literal silence but a pressure from the masses to self censor a bit more if your opinions aren't always PC.
Can you explain your analysis, "going about it by supporting exactly the wrong lines"?
This will make for an excellent HN post once people can actually try it. Landing pages with email signups aren't a great fit for this site, though this is an impressive one.
Those houses are lived in though (ignoring the whole issue of unoccupied investment properties). You can have an illiquid market with a ton of housing stock. The Bay Area has a problem with insufficient total housing stock, not with tax policy. You can see this via rental market prices, which are not locked-in like property taxes are.

Imagine a Soviet grey-concrete apartment block. You get on the list when you're 18, and get your "free" apartment five years later, in which you are effectively stuck for the next 50 years. It's illiquid, there is high supply, there are low prices.

Now imagine you can swap apartments by paying a huge bribe. It's still illiquid, there is high supply, there are low average prices, there are high marginal prices.
I think what you're asking for is the special treatment of 'right to misrepresent someone's views because you don't agree with them' and then being a jerk about it. That's what I read in the thread.
So you can export as GIFs? That would be cool, but I am skeptic.

LE: I say this because the animations on the site are gifs, and I assumed that they were made with spiritjs itself.
Many jurisdictions have worked around this by allowing elderly homeowners to defer property taxes on their residence until they move/sell/die. It's a great concept, but can cause a liquidity issue should a large percentage of total property taxes be deferred for years or decades.

Where I live, you have to be 65+ and own 60+% equity in the home. The problem is that some old rich people are moving in, paying cash for property, and then deferring. They aren't exactly the intended beneficiaries of the scheme.
Doing more with less: the economic lesson of Peak Paper and Steel
Just 911 on it's own is more important for most people than the internet.
I would argue the opposite, SF is expensive in spite of the incomes (consider across the board instead of just programmers).

I'm willing to bet if you were to map the relative rate of increase of income vs. property values over time that you would see that property values are increasing at a much higher rate than income.

I earn what could be considered a good salary, there's less than zero chance in hell that I could afford property in Marin today short of winning the lottery or massive liquidity event.
Imagine being in a situation where doing anything that benefits both yourself and others is used as evidence of your selfishness because it will benefit you.

When did win/win become a bad thing? Would you rather these rich people were building bigger mansions instead?
Massive Valentines Day DXRacer Chair Sale in Canada
No. We currently mostly do process-per-tab, but it gets complicated depending on how exactly a given window/tab was opened and certain resource heuristics. We're moving to process-per-origin[1], largely for the security improvement. But, that's been a huge, multi-year engineering effort that's only now approaching fruition.

[1] https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/site-is...
I live in Vancouver. Well, Burnaby.

Like many Vancouverites on HN I am studying for a comp sci degree, and want to work as a developer.

I accept that I have to make sacrifices to keep living in Vancouver, such as:

-Living in a suburb (like Burnaby)
-Getting roommates/a shared room
-Living on a bus route instead of being a 5 minute walk from Skytrain

With those sacrifices, I can find rents for $750-1000/month. $750 is the lowest one will get for a place relatively close to Skytrain, not too far from downtown (e.g. Burnaby/New West), and in a clean, low property crime area.

More and more companies are paying $70K+ for new grads (something I wouldn't have admitted in say 2012), which is about $45-50K take home assuming you max out your RRSPs. Assuming a "35% of take home salary on housing" rule, you can afford rent of $1350-1450/month (higher if you gross more).

You can get a lot for that kind of money, like a big 1 bedroom (full lease) that's 15 minutes to downtown by transit. I dare you to find something similar in the Bay Area or Seattle, especially with commutes as short and crime rates as low as Vancouver's.

If you absolutely must live in the downtown core, studios start at $1000-1200/month in the West End. There is lots of shared accommodation in Yaletown for <$1000.

I was watching CBS This Morning on Wednesday on the Seattle channel (KIRO), and there was a story about the nuns having the rent on their soup kitchen in San Francisco increased by 50%. In BC, the provincial government restricts annual increases to 2.7% (for 2016) and Vancouver does not have a ward-based system of city councillors, limiting the influence of NIMBYs far more than in SF.
Software development the way it should be with Cloud Foundry – told in emoticons
No (Pass) Interference at Super Bowl 50
> If the costs of cleaning up people throwing plastic away are being met by a tax, why would one care whether plastic continues to be used for new items and people continue to throw it away?

Because it's possible that the costs are not entirely monetary. I agree that there is more nuance to this debate, though. In my opinion one-time use objects made of plastic are appropriate in some contexts (medical care, for instance) and less appropriate in others (plastic silverware).
Nobody is saying not to allow payday loans. What's being said is to stop the unethical and usurious lending practices. I'm sorry, but being a "useful tool" is NO EXCUSE for what's being done.
On an individual level, perhaps, but how would individual negotiations explain the difference in pay between whole professions (where most of the pay gap is)?
Weekly Top 10: QA, Microservices, and Where’s the Heat in DevOps
No, that is not true at all.
GraphQL/Relay and React: Why This Matters
Say we get the announcement that GV is going away tomorrow... anyone know of a decent alternative?
Chat App Tango Lays Off Another 20% of Its Workforce
Do people read the Wall Street Journal simply publish the same story 3 weeks later?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-counting-10-000-steps-check...
Give that another read. Even if Google is supporting the wrong lines of R&D, money is going into the problem, and that's attractive to further development.
Did AH exit completely, or are they just getting some liquidity for other early-stage investments?
Furthermore, Google Earth only existed on the desktop because Google bought Keyhole who made the app. Google would not have made it if it couldn't be on the web.
Creators, Builders, and Producers: The New Maker Economy
AWS Lambda Can Finally Access VPC Resources
Which consumer Google product has a kind of support different than a volunteer forum?

Try to get help for Google Music, or Google+, or an Android software.

They should at least sponsor and monitor some tags in the stack exchange forums like Microsoft does.
Strange that all of the animations under "Features" are gifs, and not actually animated by spirit.js.
That's what will happen until there's a defacto/standard library for this stuff. Languages like Python and Go have a wider base in the standard library. C++14 still only gives you platform dependent 'wide' strings, UTF-8 string literals, and UTF-8 conversion... which makes things awkward.
Does the fixed price-to-income ratio actually hold meaning across a wide range of mortgage interest rates?
What I would very much like is a program that allows me to run a Windows program like Photoshop on Linux through something like Docker. I know I can run PS for instance with Wine and CS2, but due to professional needs I need CC .. Gimp won't cut it. This would free me up to great extend from Microsoft and Apple.

I understand this is solely for Linux programs?
Tested it in private browsing mode and can confirm. The problem then is just the number of high profile projects on Github vs Gitlab.
Glad someone else acknowledges this.. the number of times I've had to answer questions about how to get automake to work, etc., from people who should be just downloading the tar and running `./configure`. People are starting to get this tendency to check out the whole repository just to use the software. (I've been guilty of this too! There is something about it..) But people: If you're not going to work on the software, use the release distributions!

In one project I went as far as making a "releases" branch, and actually putting the "make dist" output there, in full, and tagging that instead of the master branch. This was a pretty good compromise, since the github download link now points at the actual release tarball, and you can easily see from `gitk` which commit from the development branch each releases branches from.

However, it's annoying not to be able to use tags as a way of navigating the development branch, and since I wasn't the one officially putting together final releases, eventually it was found that this was just too complicated to keep doing for each release. And it's just a dumb trick to satisfy github's weird releases interface anyway, so I couldn't justify the complexity.
That's not fair. It's pretty well known that Github uses JS to hijack page navigation and make it "smoother" for people. And of course that's going to be faulty, and I emailed them years ago when they made the switch, and asked them to make it an optional behavior because I hate it. But that has nothing to do with OP or OP's link or content. It's like judging a book by the book store.
Learning to escape is part of the mental chess, what jiu jitsu is.
Many people bring a bunch of sacrifices for the love the gentle art. :)
There was a moment of beautiful karma a couple years ago when I was at a museum conference where the Google Cultural Institute (https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/) team was trying to sign up partners but people kept asking how they could trust that it wouldn't turn into the next Reader and how they could get their data out or have permanent redirects when (not if) Google decided to shut the service down.
Bug in Adobe Creative Cloud deletes Mac user data without warning
>not everything needs to be, nor should be, a pure webapp

google thinks you're wrong. me too.
AWS Service Terms now with a zombie apocalypse reference
"57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat. However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization."
I prefer the horse head in bed route. Seems to work about 92% of the time.
And Match.com owns these places. :)
Really hoping they'll open source the Picasa application or something, it was really the best in the business - I still recommend it to people regularly. Managing digital photos any other way I've seen is just too complicated for average users.

Other than that I can only recommend they go to Lightroom or one of several open source applications which are at varying stages of completion and usability (I haven't played with any recently so if anyone knows a particularly polished one that runs on Windows let me know). All of the alternatives are more difficult to use than Picasa. This really sucks.
Try the UK: https://www.gov.uk/squatting-law/squatters-rights-to-propert...

I suspect several other European countries have similar rights.
$80k AUD is €50k, sounds pretty close to me.
8 Year Old Cupid Writes Valentine Day Card to Aunt and Uncle, Posing as Them
How I Start Haskell
Thanks. You just put me in the old category. :) I am "only" 38, turning 39 next month.
Yes, it's not worth the money. If you are interested in liberal arts, study it in your own time and don't put yourself in so much debt, that there will no way to pay it back.
Clojure has syntax for sets. I really like Clojure's data literals. I even think there's a Common Lisp package (or two) out there implementing reader macros to allow Clojure's syntax, but I don't think it's popular among Lispers.
Yeah, that's what I said. Maybe the tool has an export as GIF feature, which would make it awesome :)
Looks pretty sweet. I can't see much use case for it though to be honest. Animation's while reading is distracting, but maybe it could be useful for some interactive tutorial.
Learning Me a Haskell FRP Game Infrastructure
However, if there's an incentive to lie, the lies will trend towards the incented direction
It's just sinit translated to OCaml. Given that it all boils down to POSIX libc, I'm not sure what the advantage of OCaml is here.

EDIT: Appears to be a component of a larger "Prismriver" project, but still completely tentative.
Clear thinking about taxes
I've created a github repo where we can rewrite all of the games in the "type it yourself" books in many different languages: https://github.com/rcraggs/Usborne-1980-Programming-Polyglot

Please go ahead and start to rewrite them in your favourite language or one that you want to learn.

The one I rewrote in python was surprisingly fun to play.