skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just playing devil's advocate here but since when do you NEED to spend less than 30% of your take home on rent to survive?

That seems to be one of the common and very popular requirements to even have your lease application put aside for consideration, that being income must be 3x the ask for rent. At least this was the case in Austin proper (i.e. inside the city limits, and inside the I-35, Mopac, 183 and Hwy 71 box), I saw similar requirements when helping a friend scout for a place in SFO.

When I was looking for a place I found a landlord willing to negotiate and haggle on the deposit since my income wasn't 3x the rent ask. They took a larger deposit, I signed a lease, wasn't late once.

As with everything, YMMV.
Not Uber Austin
Respect! This and Fabrice Bellard's emulator have me in awe.
http://www.bellard.org/jslinux/
It's even more painful when I know that technically I should be able to do the same, but have not yet done it ...
One tweak that made my G2 feel much more responsive is simply turning down the UI animation length in Dev Settings.
That's not to say that app developers don't love their non-native webview apps crammed to the brim with ads, though...
And I am saying that your (1) is so broad and encompassing as to be a useless basis for argument.

As I said, ANFO also fits into category (1), which is why (2) it's not surprising that many people want restrictions on ANFO. Are you (3) equally surprised when people who want strong public strong crypto also want people to have explosives training and even a license to work with ANFO?

Do you think ANFO fits into the category? Why or why not?
I generally don't hear a voice when I read and find that when I do intentionally, it slows me down. I've found that I often miss puns and other plays on the sounds of words in written text due to not sounding out the words.
Did you try the lock cursor button? A lot of times in Windows VMs I have to go disable mouse acceleration, but it doesn't seem this version of Windows 98 has that option.
Do Not Use Amazon Linux (2014)
>Ideally, the dependence on Google goes down over time.

I know that you're referring to development but just wanted to point out to anyone that might think you're referring to their cloud service that you're not.
iOS engineer who worked on the Fabric app here :) I gave a talk about this topic at a Swift conference last year, if you wanna check that out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ent6LJDIB3I
Edibles tend to be popular with inexperienced users who don't want to smoke, it's impossible to know exactly what dose you're eating, and you won't feel the effect until it's too late. Ergo, it's very easy to overdose with them.
To be fair, this letter was targeted at companies in the current YC batch. They've already explicitly opted-in to going the venture route, at least in some capacity.

Bootstrapped businesses can be awesome; I've built a couple myself. But the time to be asking these sorts of existential questions would be before you take VC money, not after.
I use the lowest level of paid support, I think it is the silver plan, and have observed similarly high quality levels of support. Sometimes you get a lower level support dude and have to convince him that your issue is real, but overall the support is good.
> "I believe a lot of people would quit the luxurious flesh eating habits if someone as Bill Gates says he's a vegan and just states his reasons."

I don't think you've understood Bill Gates' position in our culture. He's clearly admired as a businessman and as a philanthropist, but I don't see much evidence that people are seeking to emulate his lifestyle choices.

Instead of waiting for Bill Gates to become a vegan, focus your energy on positive changes you can make. For example, want to encourage people to eat more vegetables? Why not start a cookery channel on YouTube that you can use to promote vegan food?
Good job, I wonder what you'll copy-paste to this one: The bus network of a city is usually organised by a company or the council. But the hazards for the bikers are usually created by the drivers. Thus people's mindset is also involved in this problem, the council does not organise the harassment of bikers. So in this context, education of the drivers and empathy are better tools. Sure, council should be involved, but it's not the mere destination here. Go try your laconicism somewhere else, come back when you actually improve it.
Speed reading techniques often try to break written word streams down into visual chunks and let the wetware do the rest. Unsurprisingly, results vary widely. Ironically though, this sounds a bit like a very high level description of segmentation as in computer vision
> Its the heart of their core competency.

For "Google Scale" computing tasks. Not someone with tens or hundreds of virtual machines.
It wasn't at the front page until hours after submission.

Ask posts are stuck in the same purgatory too.
How policy would have prevented Target’s data breach
Ask HN: Sources for study of intermediate statistics?
Typically, an education in science or technology includes one or two courses in probability or statistics. I am interested in things that are a bit beyond that, and would typically be taught in departments of statistics, or something similar.

Based on available curricula, this material tends to include statistical theory, advanced probability, multivariate data analysis, stochastic processes, and such topics.

Are there good published text books for these topics? Online courses? Lecture notes?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11161782
Pre check, and the TSA experience in general, depends a lot on the airport. Some are run quite well and others are a total train wreck.

At some airports pre check is fantastic. At others they have a bad habit of sending "normal" travelers over to the pre check lane which just slows everything down. Infrequent travelers don't understand what's going on and start dumping their bags and stripping down then get all confused when they're told to put everything back in the bag.
> Work-related travel means seeing the world on someone else's dime, and getting paid to do it.

LOL I once went to Nairobi, Kenya for work... Didn't see one god damn animal. No time. Who goes to Kenya and doesn't see ANY animals? This guy on a work trip.
Dotfiles to back up configs/automate installation. Conda and Emacs workflow
The word 'corn' has Germanic roots (German still has 'Korn' and Dutch 'koren'; see http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=corn, which also claims the American 'corn' is shorthand for 'Indian corn')

So yes, corn existed in Europe long before Columbus.

Romans would not have gone out for corn, though. They had the word 'granum', from which we derived 'grain'.
With oneworld airlines (BA and AA, amongst many others) mileage doesn't affect status, it works on a different point system (tier points) that doesn't depend in cost, but largely can be gamed by breaking up a direct flight into a few stops in different "zones".

For instance, I flew LHR-CDG-DOH-KUL-PEN last year, business class, for less money that I would have spent in a more direct flight, but I got a lot of tier points for it.

Then I realised I was addicted to my BA gold status, and that I wasn't getting that many perks anyway. This year I'm opening myself up to other airlines.
Leaving the Cloud
People who support the right to have a gun are so inconsistent on this issue, including Donald Trump (who is mentioned in the article).

So let me get this straight, you think that people should have the right to carry a human-killing weapon to "protect themselves", but you don't think they should use strong encryption to protect themselves and their communications?

Another point of inconsistency is in regards to the argument that "even if you ban guns, criminals will still use them" (just like they did in Paris - twice). So if guns can be smuggled into a country where personal weapons are banned, you believe that the government will be able to stop code from passing the border?

The 2nd amendment defenders, or at least the people claiming they are 2nd amendment defenders, should be just as fanatical about defending encryption and privacy as they are about guns, because both can use the exact same arguments.

You can't just defend one and attack the other. Yet, what I'm noticing is exactly that. Most of the "right to own a gun" defenders seem to support attacks on privacy, mass surveillance, and so on.

And that's not even going into the issue that guns' sole purpose is to "kill stuff" (whether as the aggressor or the defender), while encryption is used much more for actually good or neutral stuff, not just to protect criminals. That's only a small part of its use.

So guns, and weapons in general, are much more dangerous than encryption is. So if you actually defend those human-killing tools (yes, I know, it's "only for protection"), then surely you should have many more reasons to defend encryption, not fewer.
Claude Shannon has died
Adobe passed on that space and surely regretted it when they started growing again. Adobe would surely be interested in it - if Zynga were to vacate.
Remember MySpace? That's why. When they allow styling of the content by users, it turns into a style war and horrible horrendous terribly bad user experience
In praise of pdftk and inkscape
While Google could potentially abandon App Engine, it's much more likely it will simply remain unchanged for a number of years (as indeed it has roughly been for the past few years, save for Managed VMs).

GCP is now offering an increasingly larger percentage of what App Engine used to offer, so really the future may look a lot more like just build your apps on GCE + PubSub + Cloud Datastore and don't even mess with App Engine at all.
That works. Chromium 47 here
Ok this is very strange. When I read I hear the same inner voice or steady stream of consciousness I hear all the time. It's my own voice. The article says some people find it scary or distracting? So when they have normal thoughts and are not reading does that mean they don't hear their own voice like me? Is it scary and distracting when just having normal thoughts and not reading? This is amazing if this hasn't really been discussed much and studied before.

I'm really curious to hear other people's answers to this.
thank you for the feedback! i just had the interview today and it went very well. at the end, he went over compensation and benefits and said he'd be sending me an offer letter asap :)

>This is what makes you the best candidate. Show them you're really interested. Don't falter.

i hit this one hard. he asked me, "why are you looking to leave [current job]?" and i said, "i'm not looking to leave [current job]. i'm looking to join [his organization]." that got his attention!
Nuclear Fission? Safe?

As long as for-profit companies are running the reactors, they’ll end up saving everywhere, and, like we’ve seen before and before, it ends up in meltdowns (for example, due to refusing to maintain the emergency generators properly, see fukushima).

Any way you try to handle this issue, someone will abuse it. Make it a governmentally funded operation, people will end up corrupt and use money for themselves. Make it a for-profit company, they’ll try to get around every regulation and save money.

No matter what you do, you end up with a potential disaster.
I don't miss scrolling past a page of ads before getting to search results.

You are right that Google deciding to 'helpfully' remove terms from my search query is frustrating.
It does recurse on itself, if you were curious

http://design.google.com/resizer/#url=http%3A%2F%2Fdesign.go...
What about China?
There are still pathological cases for NFAs: they are just quadratic in runtime and linear in (additional) storage, instead of exponential in runtime. That's frequently good enough, but sometimes you really want the linear runtime and constant memory usage of a DFA.
Sorry, yes, that's what I meant.
So you want to be a product manager? Make yourself the product
> On a side note, pot is the #1 thing that people want to talk about when I tell them where I'm from. In their eyes, CO == pot.

Haha, i sympathise: i lived near Amsterdam for many years (i'm a non-smoker), and almost anyone non-Dutch i ever met outside of the Netherlands would immediately mime smoking when it became clear where i lived. Conversely, this was usually relatively strongly negatively correlated with how cool i was likely to find the person in general, so i tried to see it as a useful people-filter :p.
thank you, this helped my anxiety quite a bit! the interview went well and it looks like an offer is heading my way :)
Yeah. Reverse engineering a grammar you can give to a parser generator from a hand crafted parser is a fun and occasionally horrifying experience. There's nothing quite like discovering that

loop @a
...
endloop

means start the loop labeled a but

loop
@a
...
endloop

means start a loop, the first statement of which refers to attribute a, but that this is the only use of labels in the language where these two cases are parsed differently...
I agree with the above. This seems like a "neat to have", but not a huge productivity enhancer.

I'm seeing more and more apps like this. It's telling me that a lot of the low-hanging fruit has been picked in this technology cycle and entrepreneurs are looking desperately for unoccupied niches to fill.
I'd recommend Elements of / An Introduction to Statistical Learning. Both books are written well and by experts in the field, and cover relevant topics like linear and non-linear methods of today and yesteryear.
It's almost as though abstracts were meant to be a brief summary of the claims that will be explored in depth in the body of the paper.
It must be designed to quietly prevent winception.
Ah, thanks, I didn't know price was inversely proportional to CTR.
Seems like a red herring to me. It's not like "corporations" turn otherwise acceptable people into raving power brokers.
DHL Global Forwarding Failed on Software, and That’s Why It’s Being Sold Cheaply
UI animations have a lot to do with it, but I'm more referring to UI jank over simple stuff like 'enumerating a list of sharing targets' or 'swiping to the next page of the launchboard' when the phone is otherwise idle. Or, my favorites: the multi-second pause from unlocking my phone during a phone/skype call, or the taking of an actual eternity just to answer said fucking Skype call, of which half the time the call has already hung up once my phone is finally responding...
[2001]. This post is celebrating the 15th anniversary of his death.
Look How Much Better a City Can Be When It Designs for People Not Cars
The match between this rhetorical question and your username is awesome.
Yours is such a tangential comment, it doesn't remotely relate to anything in the Gates's letter. You have just repeated the same old blah about corruption, safety, and infrastructure. All that Bill and Melinda are saying is that solving the problems they classify as energy and time will make the world a better place.

> In general, the problem in 3rd world countries isn't education, or sanitation, or lack of capital, or mosquito nets, etc...

I don't even know where you pulled that out of. It would be more credible if you could cite some evidence.
> "Beef and Corn" Really? Corn wasn't in Europe until after the Americas were discovered.

The use of the word "corn" to refer exclusively to maize and not other cereal grains is a quirk of North American English that apparently has also spread to Oceania, but is not shared by much of the rest of the English-speaking world.
Awesome! I don't use Windows except for gaming, but its good to know something like this exist. Just to fill up last information gap, is there any good terminal emulator on windows? I remember using something that came with Cygwin long time ago, and it was slow (I think I used Vim on that).
Please don't rewrite titles to make them misleading.
Spark or Hadoop – Which Is the Best Big Data Framework?
How bad is it that Windows 98, running in a ^%%^@#!ing emulator, in my browser no less, runs better than the latest versions of Android OR iOS?
Keep in mind the "tech startup slowdown" that the media is talking about right now is pretty much concentrated in the late stage: Series A and later. There are still tons of angel investors out there.
Barebone Twitter client sample app
Turbocharging Squarespace's UI Tests
The problem is that the "constant" memory usage of a DFA may well be exponential in the size of the corresponding NFA/pattern.
Agreed, it's nuts! I happen to think that both the 2nd and the 4th amendment are important. Why the hell does this put me in a tiny minority?! Ugh.
There could be a "feed forward" mechanism in language processing, which gets involved in reading also. That is to say, when you hear speech, perhaps that same "reading voice" is also there: perhaps the speech that you're hearing is synthesized into a voice, and those voices are compared, which reinforces whether or not you "heard it right", and perhaps this takes place in a loop which clarifies the speech.
Part of it is that there's a huge delta between international economy and international business/first while the difference in domestic is mostly wider seats, free drinks, and maybe a meal. Hey, I'll take the domestic upgrade but it's not as big a deal as on a long international flight.
https://bugcrowd.com/
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Germany’s coming for all those euros stuffed in your mattress
It's also the name of a rad nightclub in London. http://www.fabriclondon.com/
The inclusion of eSheep is an absolute stroke of genius.
Me? I have my normal internal thoughts. I don't think I can hear it in their voice, no.
If This Skier Was Any Less Talented, He'd Probably Be Dead
Good article on those wondering about Spark vs. Hadoop. Bottom line: Spark may not be as mature as Hadoop yet, it is probably the way to go. One big advantage is that Spark runs in-memory and the performance can be up to 100x of Hadoop.
Taleb probably looked into Bailey's earlier background, in particular his books Ecoscam and "The True State of the Planet, and his CEI connections came to the conclusion that at the time he was clearly ideology-driven, if not perhaps a bit of kook (I'm not saying that's what he is -- but his language at the time was quite strident, and one can't be blamed for coming away from this impression).

He definitely seems to have sobered up a bit over the years (he's taken up a much more reasonable stance on global warming, for example), but I don't blame Taleb for applying the "cautionary principle" and walking a way from a situation that he suspected might have been something of a theatrical ambush (by being asked to debate someone who was perhaps rhetorically very well skilled, but somehow also caught up in a web of ideological, pseudo-rational thinking).
As a grown adult, having roommates is not really an acceptable situation.
Empirically, nuclear is the safest form of energy generation we have. I don't doubt that we have government regulation to thank for that, but the system as a whole currently working better than all the alternatives.
I don't know, I'm BA gold and I've honestly seen the quality of service go way down as my status rose.

You can't make free changes anymore, their new point redeem costs are too high, I only got an INVOL upgrade once and honestly haven't had one single flight experience with them that warranted handing my golden ticket to a crew member in the last year.

In fact, just a few months ago we were neglected pretty badly in their flagship A380 LHR-MIA in club world (business).

The lounges are still pretty good, plus I get to go to the Japan Airlines lounges in some airports, those toilets are a palace.
This rings very true to me.

My wife is also from a so-called third-world country. A stunningly beautiful one at that. Every time I visit I dream of moving there.

Once I found a Swiss guy, in the middle of absolutely nowhere, who had started a small farm and an operation dealing in a very specific kind of beef cattle, and esp. breeding. He even had an awesome little restaurant serving schnitzel and beer. I think he moved there for a woman, and had to figure out how to make a buck. He was living the dream!

A couple years later he was out on his ass, because as soon as his business was successful, local folks stole his cattle. I found a lawsuit he filed in which he explained that he could actually see the stolen cattle from his land. But the proper palms had been greased, and he was completely up shit creek. He made a pretty big stink, right up to the point where he'd be risking life and limb to go any further. But nothing was done, nobody was arrested, and he never got his cattle back.

And therein lies the rub: nobody feels safe enough to endure success.

> You fix corruption and safety issues, and the third world is the new first world

I like the sentiment, but in many countries, corruption and safety issues won't even begin to be addressed as long as the business of making/selling drugs for Americans is as lucrative as it is.
I don't think it's that tiny.
> Nuclear Fission? Safe?

Nuclear power and uranium mining is far cleaner and safer than coal, oil/gas, even hydro. Coal mining, hydro accidents, and the various deaths from oil/gas extraction, power plant accidents, etc..., far outstrip deaths from nuclear power plant accidents. Not to mention the health costs that coal has inflicted on the world, the amount of people displaced and ecosystems destroyed by hydro, and so on. Nuclear power gets a bad rap, but statistically speaking, is rather safe.
I run a couple of short URL websites and this kind of short URLs along with links to phishing and spam sites is what you'll get on a very regular basis in this business.

Those short URLs are often being used in mass mailings, guestbooks, comment forms etc. and they'll get reported pretty quickly to URL blacklists. That gives you the chance to disable the shady short URls before too many people come across them.

Here is a list of URL blacklist providers that you should check each URL against, both before accepting it into your database and again before you deliver it to the user:

multi.surbl.org,
uribl.swinog.ch,
dbl.spamhaus.org,
url.rbl.jp,
uribl.spameatingmonkey.net,
iadb.isipp.com,
dnsbl.sorbs.net

You can find out more about this stuff on http://www.surbl.org/

Since I've implemented these checks I only receive complaint emails every other month and no contact from the authorities so far (in contrast to the disposable email services I run).

When you get a complaint about a URL, your software should allow you to disable all the URLs of the reported domain. There are times when the spammers have taken over a forum (or any site really) and created a large amount of spammy content.

Hope this helps.
Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 Released
In many cases trading in non-deterministic choice for deterministic choice (ie, parsing expression grammars) makes reasoning about and writing grammars much easier. For example, in the case of the arithmetic expressions grammar the rules should work as-is to get precedence.

Oddly you would think that sacrificing non-determinism would really hurt the power of PEGs to express languages but there are languages that are not context free (eg, `a^nb^nc^n`) that can be written as a PEG.
That lines up with what I assumed, and the last paragraph is specifically what I was asking about (not the IANAL case so much as the opposite). Thanks!
Good news, Everyone! I'm sending you all on a mission into your inner subconscious. While there, you can read the rest of this comment in my voice.
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