skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've travelled to a LOT of countries and here is my experience using Airbnb and Couchsurfing.

The places that I used couchsurfing are the most memorable. I travelled for a whole year in 09-10 and the 5 times that we used couchsurfing to stay at someone's place was incredible and I'm still in contact with 2/5 of those stays. 40% hit rate I guess. Back then Airbnb wasn't a thing (or wasn't a big thing, can't think at the top of my head when they started) so it was either hostels or couchsurfing. You get different flavours of travel between those two. You meet more travellers in hostels which is a very different trip and experience vs staying with a local and hanging with them. It's interesting to see the perspective change between just the accommodation choice.

This year I travelled for 3 months and since I was working remotely I wanted to make sure I was productive and had my own space to think and do work with good wifi. So that meant NO hostels really. Horrible wifi in them, they're loud and usually dorms meant not a lot of me space. When looking at private hostels compared to Airbnb rentals the price wasn't that much more for a full studio in most cities so I stayed only 3 nights in hostels the whole trip.

Airbnb is great for feeling at home (full kitchen, couches, etc) and having everything you need to be productive and I made sure the wifi was great in each place before booking. But when grabbing the whole place I never interacted with my hosts since they weren't there. I never did stay in a private room so I can't comment on that experience and getting to meet the hosts that way which would probably feel more couchsurfing like.

But I did a hybrid take on my travels. I stayed in Airbnb places but would reach out to couchsurfers to meet up. And the response was so much better when you don't need accommodation since a lot of hosts just get bombarded with automated messages begging for 'free' places to stay. It helped me meet a lot of individuals in every city we stayed and it was the same great feeling when I stayed at people's places on the last trip.

The hybrid approach was pretty awesome and made me not feel lonely since the couchsurfers were a great source of information on what to do and explore and much of the time they did those activities with me.

I am still in contact with many of those couchsurfers from this past trip as well. I've hosted in my place and found that hosting helped connect also. I've never rented out on Airbnb so I can't comment on the other side of that.
Ha, I'd love to but unlikely I'll be around NYC any time soon.
Every time I hear a story like this I am amazed. The cause of this is not complex or difficult. It's basic stuff.
Indonesia's the most well-known example.
You were the one derailing this thread (insofar there is anything to derail: IP threads on HN are worthless and only good for entertainment).
Do's and Don'ts of Link Building
Surprised http://druid.io/ wasn't mentioned. This db was made specifically for both real time analytics and batch analytics. It even has a nice front end http://imply.io/
Garry Shandling Died from Heart Attack Despite Health
Thanks.

I would say I've updated this to state that I am out of the house around 8:30 am now spending even more time with my kids.

I still get up around ~5:30 - 6:00 am, but don't bounce out of the house as early.

Also, my kids are sleeping better now that they are older (and sleeping in) so I need to stay home later to spend quality time with them each morning.
Design isn't an advantage – design teams are (Mailbox postmortem)
Windows PCs (especially enterprise laptops) are a commodity at this point. One brand doesn't offer a significantly better/worse product than another outside of build quality (which even then is usually just a factor of price). You just look for one that makes the tradeoffs (extra ports, bigger battery, etc) that fit with how you plan to use it.
In Federal Prisons, Solitary Confinement Actually Means Sharing
Thanks. That wasn't clear to me. Good advice as well that I think I should be applying better.
Currently, custom web components don't have a way to add styling hooks specific to the component, so solutions include hacks to pipe styles into the guts of the web component, or use pre-defined attributes to style the component, just like the late 90s. Perhaps Houdini would provide a way to give custom web components first class css styling.
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/1...
Helping Netflix Members Get More from Their Mobile Data Plans
> going in to Walmart.

Oh my god, the horror! You might be mistaken for a filthy peasant!
You make a good point with that, but it's not even remotely the same thing. Just because the third party doctrine exists does not mean our activity is a "public broadcast," nor does it somehow mean that we're not allowed to be upset at these activities.

Your original post basically said that we shouldn't be upset when the government collects our data because we're just shouting it to the world anyway.

With the new post, you're saying that the government can legally collect our data without a warrant if we first give it to someone else. That's a very different point to make!
We all agree that sexual reproduction is advantageous over a long time scale. The question is what about a short time scale. Even with selective breeding, it'll be at least two (and more likely 3-5) generations before you could get all three advantageous traits in the same plant. With random partnering as would happen in the wild it could easily take an order of magnitude longer.

This paper presents a hypothesis that explains how sexual reproduction could be more advantageous than asexual reproduction after one generation. This is what makes it novel and new.
I would suspect this is because when 99% of users hear of an upgraded gmail service that costs money, they will start asking questions as to what's wrong with their current gmail service. They get so much synergy across products from users data it's probably not worth it to point out current gmail drawbacks to 100% of customers: even if x% switch to premium, 1-x are now aware of drawbacks of using google across all products and could unpredictably hurt top line rev.
> As someone who goes by a nickname, I find this to be a feature.

Oh, that's definitely a perk. "Hi, um, may I speak to... Firstname?" "No, but I can take a message."

As a bonus, my first name is ridiculously pronounceable but cold callers act like they've never seen that arrangement of letters before. Imagine being Robert Joe Smith and they ask, "is... Row... Bort... there?" If you can't even say my first name, I have no prior business with you (and almost certainly no future dealings).
Woman's home demolished after Google Maps error
Sorry, but are you familiar with fpm? All of what you mention is supported with fpm (you can have multiple post install files added...etc).
When inputting day of month in range [1,31] and month in range [1,12] the function seems to work fine. Verified here from 1900-01-01 through 2020-01-01:

http://ideone.com/te3ywm
Don't let that put you off. My experience was that I had to try several therapists before I found one that I connected well with. (The same was true with my normal medical doctor and my business lawyer; it's just hard to find good professionals that you can work well with.)

I should also add that the psychiatrist could be wrong about the thoughts, but still might be correct about the feelings that flow from the thoughts.

As I progressed in my treatment for social anxiety, I realized the more appropriate emotional reaction to generalized government data collection was not personal anxiety, in that nobody was actually likely to look at my data or use it against me. I still have my recognition that it's a political danger and my anger about government overreach, but in retrospect I see my anxiety about surveillance as inappropriate, and related to my generally excessive anxiety reactions.
> "I think elegant abstractions are more important than readable code”

Typically, that is not the argument. Typically, the argument is that the "elegant abstraction" is just as readable, just in a different way. And further, the typical argument for elegant abstractions is that the “readable code” option is usually most readable for a specific, narrow problem to solve, and that it breaks down when you try to do more complicated things.

So if you buy the argument in favour of elegant abstractions, you are trying to make “simple things simple, and complicated things possible.” Whereas the argument in favour of special keywords and other special-purpose constructions is that they also make simple things simple, but do little to make complicated things possible.

The argument in favour of languages having these “readability” constructs is actually that they foster standardization, which makes them readable by virtue of the fact that everyone settles on doing them the same way. Which means in fact that they aren’t more readable in an isolated, objective sense. They’re actually more familiar.

That has value in its own right, of course. But I don’t think the author--or anyone else who isn’t thrilled by some of the TC-39 choices--is arguing that there is an elegance vs. readability dichotomy.

In actual fact, the argument is between elegance and familiarity by fiat.
You're glossing over that what's being disputed is whether you are hiding the ship, or attributes of the ship. In one case, the purpose to prevent detection, in the other, it's to prevent useful action after detection.
The problem of pool is not that bad for the search (range searches such as R trees work), but then you end up with a variant of packing problem to pick optimal options and order. That alone is NP-complete.

But the real hard problem is evaluation of moves. Even for simple games encoding of positional and temporal advantage is hard. This is really important for things such as build and research orders. Once weights are known, you may use any number of asymptotically optimal scheduling algorithms.
Yes! The Thing was actually the first instance of this kind of device, well ahead of its time. There was an article some time ago on HN about the Dutch company which had an opportunity to examine it and reverse engineer it. Something like "Project Easy Chair" I think.
Other things I've added is putting my phone on a shelf when I come home and only answering emails after my kids have gone to bed and my wife and I have had some time to hang out.

I also take two lunches a week where I hit the gym and go two additional times (in the evening and once in the morning on the weekends).

My point being, the business I help run is thriving, dates/goals are being met, people are happy, and the world kept turning.

Making my career priority #4 has ultimately made me better at my career. No burnout, better focus and creativity, etc.

I honestly wish I did this when I got into the startup space back in 2004 where if you didn't work ~80 hours a week you were a freak.
Why do you need to nest things? The 'C' in CSS stands for 'cascading'.

Don't fear the cascade!
I just checked, NULL is not available in California, but this one is ("INVALID"):
http://imgur.com/1KhRws2

But, I wonder how much more frequently you'd get pulled over with a plate like that.

the CA DMV lets you check for custom plates online:
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/ipp2/initPers.do
Thanks--this was a very clear explanation. I'm familiar with the concept of kikokushijo from some Japanese friends in college--there really are some ways of thinking that are completely foreign culturally and your example is a great way of highlighting that.

I've read that Japan's younger generations are starting to break free from the mold of "lifetime employment" and similar concepts as corporations have begun to show less and less loyalty to their employees as they become more competitive globally, and as Japan becomes more Westernized. Have you seen signs of that? Are the days of the traditional salaryman numbered?

The whole concept of the salaryman has always been fascinating to me. On the one hand, you have Japan, which is probably up there with Germany when one looks up the definition of "efficiency" in the dictionary. On the other, you have this concept of people working insane hours which have been proven to be less productive than when people actually get solid rest, have good work/life balance, etc. in terms of actual output, reduction in errors, and things that generally align with the concept of kaizen.

I have this notion in my head that Japanese corporate culture is extremely inefficient, with people essentially just creating endless bureaucracy and shuffling paper back and forth. Can you comment on any of these things?
I feel like the ways humans and AI are trained is analogous to vertical / horizontal integration, respectively. I can't quite describe why I feel this.
I don't think you'd have many customers, but I'm sure there are at least a few white supremacist periodicals making money in the US.
People from Boulder can't handle other people's ideas, shocking.
Behold the inexorable advance of the Atwood Law.

Next step would be having an ability to entirely reprogram the layout engine in newly-performant JS. And then more and more, until we have built an entire OS (again).
That's not strictly true. Amazon pays affiliate fees, not for being listed.

I can't disclose details, but Amazon apparently has no issues with big CSEs (Idealo.de, billiger.de) but obviously they don't like sites that focus on deal "sniping" (like PriceZombie and "deal" sites) as much, since that cuts into their margins (people buy mostly temporarily low-margin offers through such sites and affiliate fees are too expensive there).
Well, PriceZombie was around for a long time too and they 'hadn't been caught' until recently. So maybe it's not unlikely
isn't this what happens when you make something free? people use it to the maximum extent. this is the beauty of pricing. it allows supply to meet demand. imagine if "zero" turned into some reasonable multiple (say, the equivalent of one gigabyte of wikipedia for 1/1000th of an Angolan's annual salary). How many Angolans would chose to pay for this? To continue thinking down this road is to begin thinking along the lines of introductory economics. And interesting things happen. Imagine if Wikipedia were to show that this is a sustainable business model? If one million Angolans were to pay USD$1 for this annually, it would generate (hard math here, I know) a million dollars of revenue. That could do any number of things. Pay for a full-time staffer to work in the Angolan patois of Portuguese perhaps. Or even go to pay for building out basic infrastructure. Or it could serve as the seed funding of an MNVO that would provide greater services, at a reasonable cost, to Angolans. Just a thought.
Verizon data breach results to 1.5M stolen records of enterprise customers
I think that's basically what their algorithm does:

> We use an evolutionary algorithm to evolve sequences of actions that could make up a single turn. The fitness function is the quality of the board state of the end of the turn, as measured by some straightforward metrics.

My interpretation of this (and your suggestion) is that they take the number of possible actions in one turn, and prune them according to how they affect the board state. That seems to be what you're describing.

Evaluating those pruned action sets across multiple turns seems like the next logical state.
The insight was to use CNNs to prune the search space. In a sense, the AlphaGo algorithm is to MCTS as importance sampling is to regular Monte Carlo. However, even without the search part, AlphaGo crushes MCTS-based Go algorithms (see https://www.tastehit.com/blog/google-deepmind-alphago-how-it...). That in and of itself is quite extraordinary.
I think the branching factor is somewhat higher given that the order of actions makes a big difference. Also remember that when playing a card you have to choose where to place it, which can multiply the branching factor by up to 7.

If both of you have 3 minions on the board, each of your minions has a choice of 4 targets, which is already up to 4^3=64 choices. Then considering each order of attacks, and the fact that you can play any card of your hand before or after attacks, and the branching factor has the potential to explode.
So.... Change your first name. It's called your legal name for a reason. Can you get away with your nickname in a number of systems? Sure, but when you run into issues you really don't have anyone to blame but yourself. Your complaint boils down to "I want to abuse the legal name system and everything should just work for me"

> And yet, so many institutions are incapable of handling the situation and insist on calling me by my first name, which is not who I am.

False, you may not consider that your first name but it IS your legal name and at the end of the day that's really the only thing that matters. We all have to conform to some system and it can't be "kstrauser's system" or "joshstrange's system". I feel for people with drop/user/select/null/etc in their name as they've done nothing wrong, but people not using their real first name and complaining when they have is just annoying.
Oh yeah - lol - email clients. I remember them. No, the solution has to work seamlessly with gmail, yahoo, hotmail, outlook, whatever clients people are using. It needs to be everywhere or it might as well require a different protocol/client altogether.
For over a decade I've felt that Visual Studio is consistently the best product that Microsoft has released. Which makes sense since many if not most of their developers rely on it to make other product.
There's supposedly a test to determine if you have a high probability of a heart attack.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/calcium-scan-may-predict-prematu...

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/cscan

Watch this movie:
http://widowmakerthemovie.com
What is the correct interpretation of the "doomsday" but the point at which our population growth becomes statistically likely to stop. If we have any other model for population growth, the ability to finger a likely date for maximum population tends towards zero. What am I misunderstanding?
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Currently, it's more along the lines of physics, math, trust issues, and malicious insiders threatening safe escrow or backdoors. A recent paper by top cryptographers, breakers, and policy makers showing there's no known method to apply to digital devices what we have with physical:

https://www.schneier.com/cryptography/paperfiles/paper-keys-...

Note that all the techniques they have allow stealthy, persistent access with ability to forge evidence with write access. I don't have to be libertarian to be concerned about that given all the corruption cases of local and federal law enforcement. Just know human nature & scope of technical problem.
Medicine as practiced now has both scientific and non-scientific parts. Original research, as in bioinformatics, drug discovery, etc. constitutes the scientific part as it uses systematic experimentation, logic, statistics, etc. to deduce universal laws that can be independently verified.

However, the application of this knowledge to actual individuals in an doctor's office or hospital is an inherently subjective and non-scientific process, involving subjective inputs such as 'Rate your pain on a scale of 1-10.', 'How are you feeling after we upped your dose?', 'Is this treatment plan allowing you to get back on the job?' etc. The value a doctor provides is taking the vast corpus of medical knowledge (both scientific and not) and applying it to a single individual. This is not science, but is critical for the medical treatment process.
I see the word "unfair" has been used at least 11 times in this HN discussion so far. I can somewhat understand the sentiment, but I can't also help but wonder if it could ever be unfair that the density of ruthenium is 12.2 g/cm^3, and not some other more convenient value.
Definitely. If people talked about physical illness the same way we did about mental illness, we'd diagnose anybody below than the 30th percentile in height with High Shelf Access Disorder and try giving them growth hormones. Mismatch to an artificial environment is not necessarily a disease.

This Philosophy Bites episode on "Categorizing Mental Disorders" has some good material on the topic: http://philosophybites.com/2016/01/steven-hyman-on-categoris...

And there's a lot of good work under the label "medicalization of deviance".
For a foreigner, yes absolutely. In most of Asia it's still easy to find people who would be interested to meet you.

I can imagine it being difficult for locals to meet other locals though (if they're shy and socially awkward).
I thought kubernetes was created by the Google cloud team and that a combined Borg and Omega is what's used internally?
As a fellow third party seller on Amazon - I am astonished by how dysfunctional and unreliable Amazon is. I cant imagine relying on FBA for my main source of income because Amazon is so fickle. For example - I have had an item in reserve [1] in their warehouse since Jan 18th!! I opened a case about it on March 4th (for those following along, that's three full weeks ago...). They just keep saying "we've contacted the warehouse and will get back to you if they can find it or not." Apparently I'm supposed to accept that items I send them are unable to be purchased for over 2 months?

It wouldn't be a big deal if this was an isolated incident but it's not.

But people continue to sell on Amazon because that is where the customers are.

[1] Reserve means an item is unable to be bought, either because it's in reserve for a customer order that hasn't shipped or its being transferred to another warehouse.
Well ... while trolling is an art-form, there's no denying that a large portion of it could be emulated by simple pattern-matching.

What is seen here, done by the bot, is only trolling (in the net.art sense) by virtue of the groundwork already done by many (legions) human trolls. Once this groundwork has been done, it's band wagon time, foot soldiers, running the joke into the ground. Of course that part can be done by modern AI bots. It could even be done by much simpler bots (see: twat-o-tron). It's also the part where sometimes the early, more skilled trolls check out and start complaining it's all gone to shit and not like it used to be, etc. (IMVHO it's just part of a natural cycle, but I can appreciate that some individuals prefer to join different parts of that cycle)
I wrote these posts recently about stateless Jenkins deployments:

https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/ci-as-code-sta...

https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/ci-as-code-par...

https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2016/02/25/922/

Does anyone know if any effort has been put in to make Jenkins more 'programmable' in 2.0? I had a quick look at the bumph recently but couldn't see anything pertinent.
I've been using Jenkins for years, and have been overwhelmingly happy. 2.0 is a big step for the project, congrats!

The flexibility Jenkins provides as build system is enormous. The plugin community is also a huge benefit -- chances are, if you have a need, there's a plugin for it.
I've been depressed before. And I worked through it - to the extent a person can when some parts of life are outside our control. But if I could go back in time- this is what I would say to my angsty young self:

There is nothing wrong with you.

You are not a broken toy.

You are not a tragic mistake.

You are not a deformed figure.

You are, and you could ever only be, this person who you are. This is who you are supposed to be. Forgive yourself. You did your best. Keep trying. Things will get better.
Crawling Amazon is no longer feasible if you want up-to-date prices. There's 10s of millions of pages to crawl, it takes too long. I believe they also added captchas against excessive crawling (perhaps via Tor only).