skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all a part of this baby boomer generation narrative glorifying owning a house. I've got one kid and we're thinking about number two. We rent in the city so we can be close to friends and work. Meanwhile, my parents and their friends are leveraged to the hilt in housing, carrying mortgages that they will definitely not be able to pay off before retirement. And leverage is the name of the game. Housing here in the DC area is subject to their weird island effect driven by what two people on GS-scale salaries can qualify for. Just under a million and you're looking at cramped fixer-uppers. At just under two million, you're looking at mansions in Georgetown.
Link is to a "private photo sharing" website.

I'm curious naskwo, it says in the tour "We don’t synchronise any content to any external sites or social networks." - this implies you don't have off-site backups?

Second, for the birthdays calendar do you do anything like attempting to recognise photos of birthdays and log them, or use image meta-data to do the same?
Not in go. You're allowed to in go. Because some googlers reckon that's cool.
That's a fair point, didn't even occur to me!
Hosting malicious pages on Google.com
Which part of the UK can you rent for £1,700 but mortgage for £800? The housing market varies greatly in the UK, e.g. London is an extreme outlier. It's usually only useful to talk about specific locations
I think activism against it will matter a great deal. It should be close to SOPA-levels or even greater to be sure we can stop it.

That said, as it is, I think things are like this:

- House majority will not support it, unless it's dramatically watered down (The House has been quite privacy-friendly/anti-backdoors lately). However, that could still be bad news for us, if say they only demand large companies to never use end-to-end encryption for any of their products, and to only make local disk encryption optional on smartphones (but no backdoor). Apple would have to sell iPhones unencrypted, Whatsapp would have to go back to Hangouts-style encryption, and Google will never implement its End-to-End tool for Gmail. You can forget about research for homomorphic encryption for healthcare or other services (which I think Microsoft, for one, is doing right now).

- Senate majority will likely support it as is.

Edit: Senator Ron Wyden promises to filibuster it, so we have that going for us as well, although I'm not sure if this can guarantee it's dead. I think he threatened a filibuster with the USA Freedom Act as well, but didn't go through with it at the last moment, when they compromised on something else (I may not be remembering this exactly):

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-state...

- Obama wants to look "neutral" right now, but I don't think he is. I think he wants the Senate version passed as well. But he would probably accept a watered down version as well.

Bottom line, if we want to stop it completely, as we did for SOPA, then we need to organize, and we need companies to do what they did for SOPA, too, and alert the public about it en masse.
Wow, now that's the major difference from NYC. A mortgage payment for anything decent anywhere in Manhattan is far beyond my current means, yet I afford the rent easily enough. I wonder why the UK is so different? Are landlords simply profiteering off a bad situation?
you could build CM or AOSP from source if you want
While rental can be above mortgage repayments in the UK (particularly London), 2x is unusually high. It sounds like the mortgage in question is only for a small part of the total value of the flat.
I think I’m using GitHub wrong
Labor from machines and energy from the Sun. Seems imminently doable with the tech of today.
The downsides are enormous.

You can use the 'javapackager' tool in Java 8 to make a tarball that contains a JRE. It's not small, but that's a result of the age of the platform; it just has a lot of features (in Java 9 there is a tool that can make a bundled but stripped and optimised package).

Go binaries are getting larger and the compiler is getting slower over time, as they add features. They don't have any magical solution for bloat: eventually, they'll add the ability to break the runtime out into a dynamic library as it gets fatter and fatter.

Or of course they can just refuse to add features and doom their users to a mediocre, frustrating experience forever.
Ask HN: Single or part-time entrepreneurs?
Looking to connect with single/part-time entrepreneurs who'd be interested in working together to grow our businesses. The odds are stacked against us so let's see how we can help each other.
I tend to write applications such that spaces and dashes are removed on input from long strings of digits and then optionally re-added on display. But I've come across case where dashes and spaces (in this case in product's serial number) were significant.
Billions of IOT devices shouldn’t mean billions of batteries
Homeownership has been glorified because, over the past few decades at least, it's been an unbeatable investment.

There is no need to pay off a mortgage before retirement. You can sell up (likely for a huge profit) and use the proceeds to buy a smaller property, rent, or retire to somewhere with significantly lower living costs.
Heh, I remember this technique from the OpenGL Red Book, at least 15-20 years ago.

http://www.glprogramming.com/red/chapter14.html#name19
Nope, there's a note at the bottom:

Note: [...] This chart does not include free throws.
Salting and hashing isn't going to help you much if you're prone to using one-character passwords. Unfortunately, people will use one-character passwords if they are allowed to, so systems should require strong passwords to protect users.

That's not to say there aren't problems with password restrictions, but they are mostly at the other end of the spectrum. For example, I have seen far too many systems requiring that passwords must be no longer than ten characters long, or only allowing a very small subset of characters.
The infinality patches make fonts look awesome on any distro, can be a bit of a pain to get working properly but I find it worth it.
>Japanese in the US show pathologies like obesity at elevated levels compared to the ones in Japan. The American diet is a pretty recent phenomenon and hasn't settled. //

Are countries with a higher degree of capitalism in general or a greater profit motive in their food production more likely to have diet that leads to poor outcomes?
You can only drive at speeds dictated by the government in directions dictated by the government, turn in ways prescribed by the government

Sure... so you're saying that your steering wheel blocks when you're trying to make an uncharted turn? Or that your throttle has a variable hard limit, depending on the road you're on?

Where do you live, if I may ask?
The weasel words here are "A large number" because the spin statement is intended to portray an image to the reader that is absent in actual fact. If there were a majority, or a high percentage, they surely would have trumpted said high percentage. Instead, the ambiguous "a large number" is used, which could mean "999"
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/12/operation_vul...
Agreed they don't have a solution in place that can do the calculations by mid-April. They do have a solution in place that could do it by late summer, so if people just opted-in (even online), the IRS could take it from there, and send a refund or a bill by Labor Day. For people with simple tax situations (not me, alas), that would be a boon to people.

I worry more about the tax law changes that might come if people started paying EVEN LESS attention than today about how their taxes are calculated than I do about the IRS ability to execute this.

Clicking a webform and getting a bill or direct deposit divorces people from the fact that this is real money in play.
Thanks, that bit of text is not showing up in my browser.
I'd be surprised too. But right now it's an unknown, right? Also, there are multiple EU-related programs for scholarships which could go away for the UK people. Work... we'll see.
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In the UK at least a mortgage tends to work out about half the price of renting in my experience. Also add in the extra security ownership provides which I would much prefer if I had a family. If I had a family, lost my job, and was renting instead of owning/paying a mortgage, I would be on the street much, much quicker. Also, outside of London I don't think commuting is as big of a thing here. At least when I lived in Northern Ireland I didn't know anyone who commuted more than 60 mins to work and these people also owned houses in the suburbs. Looking at it from the perspective of a well paid tech worker who can find a new job very easily renting isn't a big deal but for most people finding a new job can be a long and difficult process so renting can be a huge risk with a family.
My mortgage is £350/month but the house next door is rented out at £750/month so it does happen, but then I had a reasonable deposit and got a low rate.
For printing code, obviously. Personally, I do that when doing big refactors on some module I didn't write (or wrote it so long ago I don't remember much), or basically when I can't focus. I actually learned that from 'edw519, who summed up my worries about paper use with "Paper is cheap. Focus is golden.".
Key for me is to identify certain dangerous provisions that has a high chance of sneaking through and becoming law.

I'm sure the senators involved put in as much outrageous stuff knowing it'll be watered down. This with the hopes a few key provisions are not watered down.

That's why in my opinion that bills like these should not be put up for discussions, amendments, and vote. I fear the worst though.
You can require biometrics and still not record them. Just use them as a hash lookup into a keystore. The biometric itself would only exist on the server for a few cycles while the key was being looked up. (Very similar to the way credit cards are done)
> investment and speculative assets have increased wildly in value

I would say that is only true for real estate and government bonds[1]. Most other asset classes are only only slightly overvalued. For example, on a PE basis, the SP500 is only slightly rich. I am not commenting on pre-IPO start-ups because I cannot make heads or tails of them and saying they are rich feels knee-jerk to me even though most of them to me seem like pie in the sky valuations.

[1] non-government bonds have been under pressure since Q4 of last year and many of them are at attractive yield spreads (certainly when you consider defaults in the US are largely negligible outside of out and gas)
I find the inverse to be strange, i.e. the notion that the rental value of a property should be less than the cost of a mortgage.

Not least because landlords incur overheads over and above those an owner-occupier does.

There is a large 'buy-to-let' industry in the UK, whereby millions have taken out mortgages to buy properties for the sole purpose of renting them out.

The rental income pays the mortgage, and usually provides some profit on top, all while the value of the property itself continues to appreciate.
Agreed. I save and invest aggressively and my housing returns for the last 9 years are greater than my total 401K and IRA balances (and I've been working and investing heavily into 401K and/or IRAs for 22 years).
>> "I wonder why the UK is so different? Are landlords simply profiteering off a bad situation?"

In my experience landlords tend to buy property and then use renters to pay for their mortgage. And then they add more on top of that so not only is their mortgage being paid but they're earning money too. I know some people for example who are buying a 2 bedroom apartment (they only need a 1 bed) and are renting the second room at a price high enough to cover their mortgage. So basically they're not paying a penny for their accommodation.
Already submitted : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11463272
CRISPR: Pursuit of profit poisons collaboration
The lesson Go seems to have learned is that, since C++ and Java burned their fingers, clearly fire is too dangerous for humans.

The thing that makes it painfully obvious to me that Rob Pike hasn't bothered to learn anything from the PL community is that Go has nil. That just shouldn't happen in a modern language.
It will be interesting to compare this shot chart, of the greatest scorer of his generation, to what Steph Curry's, who may be the greatest scorer of his generation, career shot chart ends up being.

Where Curry's game is extremely efficient, with most points coming from behind the line or near the basket, Kobe was shooting all over the place. Kobe's game was also much more reliant on getting to the foul line.

They were/are both prolific scorers but do it in completely ways.
This thread is about sort interface implementations. Their general form will never change, and the only specifics unique to any given copy are those specific to their type. It is obvious to any Go programmer what can and cannot be changed in this situation.
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No, it's the opposite. It would appeal to people who built large Go codebases and eventually realised that they were tied to a toolchain that was years behind the state of the art.

A Go for the JVM would immediately give Go developers much better optimising compilers, high quality cross platform IDE-integrated debugging and profiling, much stronger garbage collectors, ability to access the large quantity of Java libraries that are out there, ability to mix in other non-Java languages too (javascript, ruby, R ...), code hotswap, better monitoring tools, a vastly larger standard library, better code synthesis tools and so on.

The JVM is hardly a liability. It adds features and carries a cost, but Go is substantially similar to Java in many ways and getting closer with time. I do not see any credible plan from the Go developers to beat the JVM developers in terms of GC or compiler quality, for instance.
Are there any women in your team?
The irony is delicious when you demand data to back up the negative assumptions I make about your motives and mental faculties. I’d provide more evidence, but it is expensive. I don't have a gender studies grant or anything to pay for it.
I think the best apples-to-apples comparison would be to compare the mortgage payment, property taxes, and insurance calculated as if the full market value of the property was mortgaged. That takes out the variance from deposit variances and purchases made many years ago.
Yes, otherwise you end up with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39D4529FM4 ;)

(I'm well aware it's not a realistic experiment, but it's a fun demonstration nonetheless.)
> If that facts are true the person doing this should be ashamed.

Sure, but we don't know whether they are true, so we can him the benefit of the doubt. Sam Altman's behavior here is shameful in any case.
> The solution to the housing crisis is lower prices ... many people’s wealth is dependent on the value of their home

This 30-minute video [1] describes the factors in the economy in simple terms. I understand fractional reserve 'n all that but the interesting part I learned was about the long/short term debt cycles. If we're entering a transition on the long term debt cycle, it would be marked by unrest/wars.

[1] http://www.economicprinciples.org/
Not untrue in the states either, it's common for the rental price on a house to be 1.5-2x the mortgage payment or more, especially with rates the way they are.

I'm not talking about major, top ten city, I'm not familiar with the pricing there. I'm speaking from experience in 2 "B" tier cities.

Rents in our neighborhood are around 2-2.2x our payment of mortage+insurance+taxes, though we put 20% down so the payment is a little lower. In our previous location it was around 1.5x and rents are rising.
To recreate the surface air pressure of Mars, this experiment should be taking place at an altitude roughly five times the height of Everest or a similarly evacuated chamber. Mars is harsh. (Edit: i.e. yes, all agriculture will likely need to take place under the sort of structures you see on the cover of sci-fi novels from 60s and 70s).
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That only works if you work on apps that you actually use, and more importantly use in the same way that your end users use it.

Having worked on specialized engineering applications where I'm not the end user, I'll admit to on more than one occasion making some really stupid UX decisions since it turns out that the engineers actually working with the app on real projects where using it very differently than I was when testing it on a tiny made up toy project.

Spending just 20 minutes sitting next to someone trying to get real work done can be a real eye opener some times.
Three years ago, Uber X was born with a policy manifesto
A 14 foot dunk[1]? That'd be a pretty impressive jump.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/H81YlNl.png
As an outsider, I've been following Go for a while, and given the lack of common high productive language features such as Generics and optional function arguments with default values, to me, it seems like right now Go is much better than C, and in some dimensions better than Java and in others worse.

If it just adds a few things, and then when you account for portability and speed, it could be better than the dynamic languages that people often compare it to.
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They care very little about your emails. They care slightly more about your phone calls and snail mails, and still slightly more about your office visits. Each increment is tiny, but enough of them add up.
Great project! Would also love to see a video of this.
> somehow, last week’s news that 55 million Filipino voters’ data was now out in the wild went largely unnoticed

> ...

> There’s voting history against names (it appears to just be dates rather than the candidate voted for).

So, the data leaked was voter registration info. Actual votes were not in this database.

Other headlines would lead a reader to believe actual votes were leaked. For example, "Megabreach: 55 MILLION voters' details leaked in Philippines". Leaking votes alongside emails would be far more injurious than email addresses and family names.
Unfortunately, that's not how governments around the world require it right now. Estonia for its e-citizenship program, as well as pretty much all countries requiring a fingerprint for passports store the fingerprints in their own centralized database (that also get shared with other nations).

I switched my phone fingerprint to another finger for my phone as soon as I signed-up for a passport.
True, GPL is significantly more complex, as it makes a difference between usage and distribution, not to mention it tries to prevent loopholes, like Tivoization and patent threats. Complex is not necessarily worse, of course it depends on context. I prefer APL 2 if you ask me.

But what matters in this case are that both correspond to the open source and free software definitions. For such licenses it means that there are things you can rely on. Like you know usage is OK for any purpose, including commercial ones. You know that you can share it with anybody, you know that derivate works are OK, again for any purpose, even though you can have restrictions on distribution. Etc.

For me clear definitions are important because then you immediately know what you can rely on and ambiguous language is bad because then we can't have a meaningful conversation. Are generics complicated? No. Are Java's generics complicated? Yes, but that's only because it was added later ;-)
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence: The Moral Compass of a Machine
The title seems to intentionally misrepresent the retraction to push an agenda (or the author has some issues with basic logic)

The retraction is that the strong/definitive proof that "the camel has two humps" was fabricated/exaggerated.

The converse - that it has one hump hasn't been proven. From the quote, Richard Bornat doesn't say that they re-crunched the numbers and now there is proof of one hump.

The camel has gone back to having an unknown number of humps
Your comment is extremely misleading. Firstly, the "couple of seconds warning" does not seem accurate. The actual report states:

"Our test drivers are trained and prepared for these events and the average driver response time of all
measurable events was 0.84 seconds."

Secondly, you fail to mention:

"“Immediate manual control” disengage thresholds are set conservatively. Our objective is not
to minimize disengages; rather, it is to gather as much data as possible to enable us to improve our
self-driving system."

Thirdly, you fail to mention that the rate has dropped significantly:

"The rate of this type of disengagement has dropped significantly from
785 miles per disengagement in the fourth quarter of 2014 to 5318 miles per disengagement in the
fourth quarter of 2015. "

On the contact events, you fail to mention:

"From April 2015 to November 2015, our cars self-drove more than 230,000
miles without a single such event."

Lastly, your comparison with human drivers fails to take into account the environment:

"The setting in which our SDCs and our drivers operate most frequently is important. Mastering
autonomous driving on city streets -- rather than freeways, interstates or highways -- requires us to
navigate complex road environments such as multi-lane intersections or unprotected left-hand turns, a
larger variety of road users including cyclists and pedestrians, and more unpredictable behavior from
other road users. This differs from the driving undertaken by an average American driver who will
spend a larger proportion of their driving miles on less complex roads such as freeways. Not
surprisingly, 89 percent of our reportable disengagements have occurred in this complex street
environment"

I don't think self-driving cars are quite ready yet, but you are not representing the state of the art accurately by making out it is as bad as you say.
Down for me, but Google's cache caught it:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Aretra...
Couldn't you create a common interface that you could use for the sort?
For what it's worth, I have a Dell XPS 15 bought in January 2016, with i7-6700HQ Skylake CPU, and I think it has an NVMe drive (at least the drive ID says so). It's the basic model without a touch screen.

I run Debian-testing (aka Stretch), which ships with linux 4.4 and Wayland. I had weird issues with X11, but I had blamed that on the NVidia/dual-card setup which I did not bother investigating.

Besides that, I've had no issues at all with the laptop. I haven't even run the BIOS update yet. Only annoyance was the lack of select-to-copy in Wayland/Gnome, which apparently is fixed in the new version. :-)
Prototyping just went to the next level with Framer
Not only rich people. 8 people from my first university class did a year abroad on EU programs. (some couldn't afford it otherwise) At my last university, most of the year was not from the UK, which was funny when a GCHQ guy tried to recruit people - most of them not the right nationality to hire.

Or from another side, I expect most people from Poland are not going to work in the UK because they're rich and can afford it. They move where the work is and suddenly two parts of the family have a reason to travel internationally. Exactly because they're not rich.
This is so motivational. These guys could be anyone.

Stay humble, build something someone needs, and don't take yourself too seriously.
How arrogant to assume you'd take the job. Implied by 'ive found our..."
AWS S3 vs. HDFS with 1B NYC Taxi Rides