skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just like the fishing net used as a hammock instead of catching fish. A house used for housing is a productive purpose. It is generating value to the economy every minute that it is being used as shelter for humans. That value diffuses out to more people through trade. When used for speculation, it is not producing value, but simply storing it for later use. Meanwhile, those who would otherwise produce value from it are producing less value in aggregate because they are denied access to at least one house.

If you put gold in a vault, it retains its value. But it cannot be used productively. If you instead loan the same gold out, you can charge interest, and some of the value generated by the gold performing its productive function as money will diffuse back to you via trade.

As a whole, the entire economy would prefer that all tools be put to productive use 24 hours a day. But the individual Nash equilibrium strategy is to selectively employ or withhold the use of those tools for greater personal benefit to the tool owner.

In the government's role as cartel enforcer, it would be in the interest of the whole cartel for the enforcer to levy a vacancy tax on investment properties. That reduces the personal benefit of idling the productive tool, but the enforcer then also has the burden of returning that value to the economy in a productive way.
> I hope the people responsible for this disaster, their managers and the QA team were fired. In my business, this sort of mess can sink our company.

I hope something very different: I hope they're required to write a thorough post-mortem analysis of what went wrong, and what in their development & testing process led to the failure. And then required to implement improvements to both that would prevent this class of bugs from happening again.

Firing people for a mistake is rarely a good idea. It makes them not want to admit mistakes. Firing them for making the same mistake several times and not learning for it -- fire away.

c.f., http://itrevolution.com/uncovering-the-devops-improvement-pr... and the "blameless post-mortem"
Or oil prices are low because the supply of oil has increased.
No, not that. I agree with you on structural typing.

What I mean is what the Scala doc calls "context bounds": http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/FAQ/context-and-view-bo... (bit outdated: view bounds are deprecated)

You could think of it as "abstracting over the adapter pattern", i.e. being able to write methods that take as parameter things that can be adapted to an interface.

(And of course the main point of the Adapter pattern is retroactive implementation of interfaces.)

But, and this is important, you get to pass the actual object instead of the adapter. This matters when you need to required multiple adapters, or when you work with object equality. The object type can also flow through the type parameters (although that's sort of doable with adapters only).

Finally, because a typeclass instance is actually a single object per type satisfying an interface, you can use it for things like factory methods (what they call constructor classes in Haskell).

It's close to what I propose here: https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/kotlin-and-the-expression-p...

but there are differences. Scala typeclasses are based on implicits, this gives you more control to select the adapter you want depending on where the code runs. But, unlike what I propose, it's dependent on static typing, so it's not possible to select the adapter depending on the run-time type.
Having grown up with various levels of automated speech, today's speech synth is really good. At times it takes a few seconds of listening to find a "tell" that lets you know it's not a person or a pre-recording of a person.

Here's some examples of what I grew up with for comparison:

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ccKPSVQcFk

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR0Ofu0M53g

-https://youtu.be/4S3G3veop2w?t=102

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ginShVeGpGY

and then suddenly in the last few years you get Siri.

With a few more rules, I wouldn't even mind if modern voices read entire books to me. They need to make more pauses, take breaths for example, or they can be exhausting to listen to...but I have the sense that we're pretty close.
The scarcity of college graduates with FOSS experience
Why the heck do they make it so hard to figure out what's in the release?
Note what is required to do something like this:

You need to solve a 5-dimensional (+ time) nonlinear integro-differential equation. Not only that, but you need to keep it going for a long enough time for turbulent fluctuations to average out, and cover both ion and electron scales (that last bit is the big new contribution here).

And once you're done with that, you need to repeat it at even higher resolution as evidence that what you're seeing is physical.

Bravo!
Glad to hear :) We will be adding more sources soon. Any sources that you would recommend?
kinto works like a charm for me and i prefer hosting everything myself

AFAIK, facebook open sourced parse server
Sports cars have terrible fuel efficiency and are a crime against the climate. Electronics create massive toxic pollution in third world countries. A nice seafood dinner is the product of deforestation and overfishing.

Almost all the luxuries you enjoy in the first world are paid for by pillaging the earth and poisoning children in China and Bangladesh.
How is it possible that there are enough people buying powerful lasers and shining them at planes that they are hitting them often enough for this to be a problem? There must be either a lot of dumb people or a few very smart, vicious ones. Which is it? How did "Craig Ryan" do it?
Thats because you have a well manicured timeline. Tumblr politics are LOUD, ANGRY and tend to show up where you least expect it. Especially the fandoms.
Treated windshields can block chosen wavelengths. But it's mutually exclusive, what blocks blue and green doesn't block red, etc. Unless you replace the glass with steel sheet and switch to camera optics.
The richest person ever was from Africa
>> The ID thing is not difficult and keeping it anonymous is also pretty easy, but I don't think anonymity should be required. It should be an option.

The ID thing does not exist. I've said this before, the internet needs strong identity to resolve a lot of problems. You can always strip identity away in places that require anonymity. The problem here is that if you go to the online newspaper, there is no way for them to know who you are to verify the prior payment. I guess that line of thought narrows the problem - they don't need to know who you are, only that you've paid, but that's very close to the same thing.
Either Python, Java, C#, or Ruby. If you are a Windows guy I'd go with C# over Java. None of these are what I prefer to code in, but my career options are extremely limited if I chose the language that I think is the "best".
Chrome dev tools deep dive: Console
Victory.js – Data viz for regular horses
Daily, curated, remote jobs for people willing to work from anywhere
I think that quote is a myth. It's attributed to multiple people.
You mean like OpenRent [1]?

OpenRent is the largest agency in the UK. Why? Because it solves these pain points, and does so at scale.

There a few steps you've missed out, like giving tenants protection against bad data and rogues (not solved by typical classifieds) - and fulfilling the other legal requirements for landlords (gas safety certs, etc). So whilst perhaps not an easy problem to solve (many have tried and failed), there is a solution already in the market.

What is the number 1 tenant complaint? Admin fees. Something also solved by OpenRent, along with removing dead listings and providing a transparent process.

[1] - https://www.openrent.co.uk
What a bunch of yahoos...
So true. Good engineering is making the right tradeoffs, nothing is ever fully black or white. Whenever something is "pure", it usually sucks - not from a philosophical, but from a practical, real world standpoint.

Why is it that we tend to fall into the simplifying pureness trap? Is it the brain trying to reduce its energy consumption by not thinking too much?
Ludicrous authoritarianism masquerading as a solution to a problem.

Given that all laser pointers fall into a couple of very narrow bandwidths, surely it would be more practicable to filter these at the cockpit window. That way you solve the problem in every country where you fly your plane and also deal with the billions of laser diodes already in circulation that are essential most aspects of our modern existence. But that would cost air carriers directly, not the public, so I guess it's unacceptable to them.
Reddit's search is next to useless. Sometimes you can't even use it to find something you know you saw just a few days ago, or even your own comments!

Using Google with "site:reddit.com" is way more effective.

It's one of those things which everybody knows that it sucks, but as soon as you bring it up in an official feedback forum, you basically get tut-tut'ed by other users into accepting it's somehow good enough and we shouldn't ask the developers for something that'd be "hard to code."
"If you're going to make an irrational decision, do it out of love, not hate."
:) This is awesome advice, specially for seemingly crucial decision points.
I don't necessarily disagree with you.

Burning karma here but, imo, if someone can't find New York on a map they probably shouldn't even be allowed to vote for the President.
Emacs has a pretty good "transparent" encryption mode too, for those interested. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EasyPG

There are some potential issues I'm sure, but so far it has worked perfectly for me without any problems.
This is mostly true, but you're confusing because there are two different levels: corporations are registered and regulated at the state level, of which LLC is one category. The IRS then categorizes registered corporations as either S-corps or C-corps for the purpose of federal taxes. There's not a one-to-one mapping between the two levels, especially since there's 50 different states, but usually LLCs implies S corp.
I'll just leave these here.

July 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuWN5AxlgxU

http://www.skype.com/en/translator-preview/
You are actually right, historically speaking. After the United States victory in the Mexican-American War, there was a movement to annex all of Mexico.[1] The decision to not do so was based on racial concerns. Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina who opposed the annexation of Mexico, made this speech to Congress:

We have never dreamt of incorporating into our Union any but the Caucasian race—the free white race. To incorporate Mexico, would be the very first instance of the kind, of incorporating an Indian race; for more than half of the Mexicans are Indians, and the other is composed chiefly of mixed tribes. I protest against such a union as that! Ours, sir, is the Government of a white race....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_of_Mexico_Movement
> Ruby allows for nicer looking code and readability

Have you ever actually used Ruby?

Here's what FizzBuzz looks like in Python:

def fizz_buzz(number):
if number%3 == 0:
return "fizz"
if number%5 == 0:
return "buzz"
return str(number)

for num in range(1,101):
print(fizz_buzz(num))

Compare that to the hideous mess of fizz buzz in Ruby [1] -- there's a lot of magic going on there. Many unfamiliar operators, line #2 is a magic string interpolation thing with tons of weird escaping going on (the #{} seems to be some kind of template which makes stuff inside the "" string actually be interpreted as code which itself contains '' strings, and I don't want to think about the potential injection vectors that could be introduced by this), the ternary operator, absolute value bars, an anonymous function, and defining a function by binding an anonymous function created with -> function call syntax to a name.

People on HN keep saying Ruby is intuitive and easy to learn -- no it isn't. The Python code by contrast is basically the same as the pseudo code you would write on a napkin in "not-any-particular-language-I-just-want-to-describe-an-algorithm-without-language-specific-issues-to-get-in-my-way".

[1] http://hostiledeveloper.com/2014/04/26/on-why-learning-to-pr...
EU finance ministers call for restrictions on €500 note over crime fears
Hello gang! Yev from Backblaze here to answer any questions. Sorry, just woke up. Who posted this? Australians? :D
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Have You Ever Tried to Sell A Diamond?

Being on the buy side of that is great, however - got engaged last year and bought a beautiful 250 year old ring with about 30ct of stones in it, biggest about 6ct. Was probably originally some obese Georgian duke's, but whatever. Shrinking a band is easy. Silver, so the thing was black and grotty in a dusty display case in an antiques centre. Would've been tens or hundreds of thousands retail and new, just for the stones, but was instead nearer a thousand, and yes, got it assayed for insurable value.

Buy things because they're nice, not because they're expensive.
If you happen to use - or plan on using - Owncloud, you might want to have a look at a few apps I made just for that purpose:

Reader [1] is an epub reader based on the Futurepress epub.js renderer. It looks close to 'native', especially when used full-screen.

OPDS catalog [2] is, as the name implies, an OPDS catalog which you can use to access publications (not limited to epub) hosted on an Owncloud instance. It allows you to access your library from any OPDS compliant client, examples of which are FBReader (Android), CoolReader (Android), Moon+ Reader (Android), Aldiko (Android), KyBook (iOS) and Marvin (iOS).

[1] https://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/Reader+%28ebook+r...
[2] https://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/OPDS+catalog?cont...
I don't know about that. It's harder to do it right, but they probably didn't bother with doing it right.

For example:

ls / | head -n 1 | xargs rm -rf
There is no straw man. The person did not differentiate any laws, so I pulled up a set of laws that I guess them to at least consider making an example for.

If they did mean to create different laws they felt differently about, I left them an opening to do such in my last question.
Probably half a dozen people would be enough to cause all of the cases that are currently being reported. The chart in the article says there's been around 40 incidents at Heathrow in the first half of 2015. One person could cause all of those in 20 minutes.
I don't do plasma physics but other sorts of HPC numerical physics. The answer is a myriad of ways:

Check small numerical cases on an already-validated code.

Check problems for which you have an analytic solution (in this case, maybe many laminar flow scenarios).

Check problems where the 'weird part' (ie the turbulence in this case) is limited to one small part of the simulation.

Compare only moderately complicated simulations to experiments that are already entirely understood.
i've already ditched EOT and the performance improvement is quite significant
I thought the jury was still out on HP and Autonomy.
That's a great original idea, but it's still predicated on the assumption that more money = more love, that the purpose of the ring is to impress others, and that there's reason to be ashamed of a $500 ring.

It's sad that American culture assumes that the man who spends $10K on a ring loves his fiancée more than the man who spends $500.

Several companies that produce diamond alternatives, such as lab-grown diamonds and silicon carbide stones, are growing and rapidly expanding their product lines. I think the reason for this is that people are questioning the wisdom of spending a ton of money because marketing campaign have told them they must if they love their partners.
I think that was and always was gross overoptimism, though. Even today a moon base would be massively ambitious, and it would not even remotely be self-sustaining. We are, presumably, 30 years closer to a self-sustaining moon base, but it is still not very clear how we'd build one, let alone build a moon base that could grow without external resources.

The fact that it feels farther away than it did back then may be little more than the fact that we have a much better understanding of the difficulty of the problem than they did.
Flicker has a relatively low free tier and is targeted at people who are amature or professional photographers, ie people who can afford at least 2k of entry gear.

Tumblr has no paid tier and is targeted at (or mostly used by) teens and early twenty-somethings.

So I would question any direct comparision between the two.
Apple Pay is launching in China on Thursday says leak
I love FFmpeg. I first used it to help with uploading 700 audio files to youtube years ago. Of course youtube is video only, so I used ffmpeg to reencode the audio with an image slideshow as video and then uploaded the "videos" using some web scrapping with perl.

More recently I have been downloading programming framework tutorials (android development, django, angular,ect) from youtube to my plex media server. I then go back with ffmpeg to reencode the vids to playback 50% faster. So now I can blast through tutorials on my TV while I eat lunch (I work from home mostly)

Edit: The release mentioned hardware acceleration improvements. I never knew ffmpeg even supported any HW accel: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro
Has anyone figured out the reason for this bug? What was this "delete the first directory" code actually supposed to do, and how did it fail? I can't figure out any plausible scenario.
Hmm, interesting. No I didn't... I'll poke with this and maybe open a Premier ticket on it.
How do you feel about thinkpenguin? Specifically the build quality and hardware features (USB ports; display ports; touch pad quality; etc). I'm potentially on the market for a new laptop, and Lenovo's behavior recently has me considering other options. I will sorely miss the track point, though.
>and have you black listed, socially ostracised or even far worse.

Say by giving you a virus that begins to download certain photos in a pattern to make it look like a person doing such. Photos that would, when discovered, destroy any and all credibility to the point that even if you proved in a court of law that they got there by means of a virus, your social reputation is still dead.
People have demonstrated that oil prices (especially in the short term) do not simply reflect supply and demand. It's a naive view. Especially as more "pure" speculators enter the market.

They call this more "fast money" in the mkt. More highly leveraged participants, etc.. Those speculators impact price and generally speaking selling begets more selling and vice-versa - and you get a more volatile market.

It has only been established a recent correlation between equities and oil. There could very well be factors driving both markets in the same direction, or it could be (and most people don't like to accept the concept) a good old-fashioned coincidence.
Brain’s mistakes provide insight for human and machine learning
> What's the gain?

You can prove that you won't have a stack overflow. You can calculate the maximum depth of the stack at compile time, not runtime.
Cheap gas + cheap stocks. Sounds like this is a good thing unless you're either a) a full-time investor, or b) retired or planning to retire very soon.

If you're working a job and putting money into an index fund for retirement, then news like this should make you smile and maybe put a little extra into your IRA/401k/etc. next paycheck.
CMU team aims to unlock brain’s algorithms
Ruler of zamunda??
IMHO the hostile takeover of the ffmpeg project by the libav guys (Fabrice Bellard had to wield trademark to force them to rename the fork) and intense FUD campaign were much bigger issues.
I know some of those words. Anyone have a ELI5?
How Tech Is Catching Up to Facebook, Google in Artificial Intelligence
Masquerade App: Live Filters for Selfies
Sounds like a fun OpenCV type project to use a camera onboard in conjunction with the airplane's gps position,altitude, and camera's orientation to locate the source of the laser and prosecute accordingly.
I do not agree lasers are offensive weapons, but blocking out green light is pretty challenging, and these are the one of the most frustrating lasers for human vision.
Can you more clearly define "common" for me?
It is us vs them mentality. Very few evil people think themselves evil. In the same way, very few people think the us are evil. Evil is something that only belongs to the them.
Ask HN: What are your favorite mailing lists?
This is the only similar thread I can find and it's from a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5892712
Memory Athletes
did everyone miss the big-ass "NOT PEER REVIEWED" disclaimer on every page of that report?

Like, seriously, read the damn paper people
https://peerj.com/preprints/1733.pdf
Strong Dollar Blues
I'm a complete layman in this field - but looking at the oil price charts it seems that its never been lower. Even from production/export cost from various countries - it doesn't seem like this price can go on for prolonged periods. I.e. it seems to me that it has to go up...

Any experts here - would this be a sound assessment?

Also (again as a layman) - what would be a good way to bet on this? I.e. can I buy crude oil options virtually, hold them for 1-3 years and sell them as easily as I could stock online? What would be the best way to do this + any lowdowns (except that my bet might be wrong)?
mplayer and mpv and vlc and most native players can speed videos up on the fly, tempo-shifting or pitch shifting the audio based on preferences.

Usually the [ and ] keys.
Not 100% sure this is a work from home-job:

https://workremotely.io/details/127-remote-science-technolog...
Slightly more information here, with the name of the third party: http://theweek.com/speedreads/538379/samsung-warns-customers....

And part of the policy highlighted here: https://twitter.com/xor/status/564356757007261696/photo/1
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I was not. My kids are 4 and 6; they absolutely depend on me to make good choices on their behalf. I know that they will benefit from or suffer the consequences of many of my choices.
In addition to @akjj's reply, I also want to point out that it's not entirely true to say that S-Corps/LLCs do not pay taxes. The short version is that a C corp pays taxes a corporate level and individual employees pay taxes on their income, where in an S corp the profits of the business must be either dispersed to the shareholders/owners or reinvested in the business, any profits which are dispersed are taxed as normal income rather than capital gains like dividends would be in a C corp, so depending on the relative size, an S-corp effectively pays a higher tax rate than a C-corp, just obfuscated through its owners.
Yev from Backblaze -> no idea really, we initially thought that it was "on update", but then when we dug further it appeared that it would fire any time a sign-in occurred on the broken version. Not sure what the exact code was though, or what the intent there was.
> For example, coding standard says every "switch" statement has to have a "default" case. grep "switch", grep "default", and you get wildly different numbers! Standards were not being followed.

Are they implying that MSL is the first time they used automated code checks?
Ah, turns out it only uses TeX fonts and implements its own typesetter.
I'd point out that C only got to this stage of tooling maturity by being around a while -- it's not like less than a year after its first "stable" release it was in that state (which is the current age of the Rust stable releases). If Rust manages enough staying power to be here in 20/30/40 years, who knows. Every grizzled and battle-hardened language ecosystem needs to start out young and a bit wild-west-ish before it can gain legitimacy and rock solid tooling.