skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that's really missing from the OSS world is a CMS that builds static content. We've got Jekyll, Hugo, Middleman and others that are really only targeted at developers.

I'll admit, it's not easy. This is why CQ, Teamsite, et. al. cost a lot of money (insane amounts of money, oh and they're both terrible. CQ is good for end users, terrible for devs. Teamsite is just terrible, and cost $11k per website).
In a lot of chromebooks, the storage is replaceable. It's just a normal-sized SSD that happens to have a very low capacity.
Economically, can such a life exist anymore? Two masters degrees, a pure R&D job at Bell Labs, earned enough for a nice house in Cambridge, MA, to raise a family. Are there any young men (or women) on a similar path? And if so, what are the organizations involved? (The closest analog would be the startup scene, but the primary "R&D" for startups is usually either done or just needing to be tweaked for market fit.)
How to setup revenue sharing from ads with content contributors for my web app?
How can I setup revenue sharing from ads with content contributors for my web app?
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Most people I know tried uber and moved back to more reliable black cabs and minicabs in London.
Uber often seems to have 'ghost cars' on the map - never seem to be real or reachable - maybe trying to inflate the perception of availability of cars?

The large number of drivers who refuse dogs, especially guide dogs for registered blind people is appalling.

The London transport regulator wanted to bring uber under reasonable regulation, uber bugged their users to go and annoy the regulator to back off.
> Young fool, only now, at the end, do you understand... code is data.

And clearly storing C in strings is a saner way to handle code than as Lisp stored in S-expressions. Who could possibly doubt it?
> My anecdotal experience is the opposite where the liberals I know believe increasing the minimum wage is that "next big step forward." They won't even give the idea of Basic Income a chance.

UBI proponents have a lot of work to do putting together and coherently articulating a realistic, plausible route from where we are to where UBI hopes to get us. Most have been good at articulating a great picture of why a mature UBI system would be great, but much less good at painting a picture of how you get from here to there in a believable way.
Personally I think the opposite is true to some degree. Age does not guarantee that you are a rational and well informed citizen. I've also read numerous articles about how young people are more tolerant (gay marriage is a good example), moving back into dense urban areas (causing less sprawl and a renewed interest in better public transport and urban planning), and willing to at least admit that major challenges like anthropogenic climate change are real. Society can learn from people of all ages, but often the enthusiasm and free time of youth is what is needed to drive real societal change.
>more pixels requires more light

[citation needed]?
This is true, it lasted 7 years. 1 million died, 1 million forced to emigrate, 25% of Ireland's population

There was a potato blight, potatoes were grown by the Irish folk for sustenance.

Many Irish peasants & farmers starved to death on Absentee Estate Farms which were exporting food crops to be sold - worse aid from England was withheld for considerable time.

It is a shameful episode in the History between Ireland and England.

In those times many viewed the lower classes and other nationalities as somehow less human than themselves.
The "acceptable ads" initiative is how the company behind ABP makes money. It is their primary revenue driver and is the primary differentiator from other products on the market.

Yet, they choose to name their product in a misleading way, suggesting they do something which, by default, their product does not do.

If ABP was a drug, what would the FDA say? :)

We all know that outside tech circles most people don't even know what "acceptable ads" are, assume ABP does what it says on the label, and don't bother changing defaults. That's why ABP's business is so shady.
You can now call Fortran code through cgo, from Go.
Does "rest of our team" mean management or all of the employees?
Your account is seven hours old and has only commented on this thread.

0. Medieval laborers were middle class so it's important we compare medieval laborers to the modern middle class, not to modern laborers.

1. A property cost 2.5x gross yearly income for a laborer. They could obviously not afford to buy it in 2.5 years. Furthermore, I don't know what the access to financing was like in the 14th-16th centuries, but I'm willing to bet it's better today.

2. The definition of "good" property is pretty subjective, can we assume that means median? Google tells me[0] that the median price seems to be approximately a quarter million pounds. Raw salary data for York[1] (again just a single result from a single Google search) gives us £24,323.76. So £25k give or take. This is just for York proper obviously. If England is anything like the US including the outlying areas will increase median income by quite a bit.

So a "good" property in York is about 10x the gross yearly salary of the middle class. On it's face that's obviously terrible! It's 4x harder for the middle class to own their home now than in the middle ages!

That is, unless you want to look at all the things the middle class has access to that medieval laborer does not. All these things cost money, whether you like it or not. Even if you want to exclude the things that were a technological impossibility in the 14th century, you've still got access to representation in government and access to healthcare just to name two things that dramatically increase quality of life.

[0] http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property/York.html

[1] http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Location=York-England%3a...
The crisp display is truly great.

What sucks is that a dual-monitor setup of a low-res monitor and my hiDPI laptop monitor is not that great. I have to upscale my monitor a bit, which makes the monitor look even worse than it already is (1920x1080). The monitor has a lot of room, but I naturally want to leave most windows on the small hiDPI laptop screen.

HiDPI monitors cost waaaay too much for me to get one. So for now, I just have to wait until the price starts going down.
Because you're leaving money on the table. For a profitable company, the employer isn't going to hire your services for more than they can sell it. But as an individual, obviously it's advantageous for you to capture as much of that value as possible.

Answer this: which makes you angrier? 1) You're making 100K when the product that you're the senior engineer for brings in 20 million for the company? OR 2) You're making 100K and Data Dan one desk over is making 110K?

It's all about what you anchor yourself to. Anchor yourself to everyone's else's salary, and awesome, you're making an average salary..
So, what happened (slight oversimplification, but you can read up on it) was:

* English people owned the land and the produce of the land in Ireland.

* Irish people had little choice but to work for English people, and were allowed tiny plots of often-horrendous land on which to grow their own food.

Potatoes were one of the few things that could grow on the land the Irish were allowed to use. When disease affected the potato crops, the English simply shrugged, kept exporting their own produce, and let the Irish die (and notably took steps to try to prevent foreign aid reaching Ireland, on the theory that it would be shameful for foreigners to do more for the Irish than the English were doing).

There are strong arguments to be made, especially given the historical English attitude toward Ireland and the Irish, that it turned into an opportunistic genocide: the English didn't set out at first to kill so many Irish, but given the opportunity to simply sit back and let the Irish die off, they took it.
There is an expression "voting-booth candidate", meaning someone that people don't feel comfortable telling the pollsters they'll vote for, even when they will. Jesse Helms polled as losing his senate seat a couple of times when he won. And Marion Barry's comeback bid as mayor of Washington, DC, looked dead: he won by a solid margin.
I think that's a bit cynical. There is the very reasonable idea that your compensation should reflect your skills, abilities, and worth to the company, rather than how good you are at negotiation.

I'm not sure if there's any reasonable way to remedy that problem though.
> I mean, such "populist" rulings are ultimately antithetical to democracy based society.

I find that an utterly ludicrous claim given that the court was applying the law, and that parliament is free to change the law if they believe it is being misinterpreted.

Others would find it ultimately antithetical to society overall to threaten people with prison for a theft like in this case. I certainly would.

> Tomorrow if a thousand "hungry" people stole "small quantities of food to satisfy a vital need for food" then what?

Then society would need to decide whether to deal with that by tightening up this law, or find other ways of treating the poor with some degree of dignity.

Consider such laws a recognition that life has greater value than property, and an incentive to ensure society keeps that in mind when deciding how to structure itself.
A point of clarification regarding the pass/come-line in line in craps. , pass-line bet by it's self is not that great of a bet. With a house edge of 1.41% which while good is not the best in the casino. What makes pass line bet so good is that when a point is set, if you made a bet on the pass line you are allowed to make the "odds" bet which is a bet with 0% house edge. (Yes that's right 0%, but remember to make this bet we have to have already made a bet with a house edge.) If the table allows you to make a 100x(the pass line bet on the odds) you can push the overall house edge down to 0.02%. However on the cheap $10 min table this would require a min bet of ~$1015 every point. So not for the faint of heart.
Why does grid electricity usage peak on hot summer afternoons? If it's because of air conditioning, it's probably not universal.

I imagine hot summer afternoons are a time when factories operate below capacity (or not at all), and people heat their homes less and spend more time outside away from TV, etc.
Frankly, if yer looking for a portable way to play emulated games and old computer stuff, the nVidia Shield Portable is amazing. It's like someone at nVidia saw all these GP32's and weird handheld emulation devices and said," geez, we could make that actually work."

Alternately, an Intel NUC or a compute stick works, too. As do Raspberry Pi. I would caution against making this kinda device into an emulator box. You want generic hardware.
"Read these 3 tips to boost your solar efficiency! Energy companies hate them!"
In some states, the utilities don't let you sell back I think (Florida being one. we have a super friendly power lobby here. /sarcasm). But I am curious about the cost and hurricane proofing of a set of panels + battery backup. My parents would totally buy a combo for their house if they knew it wouldn't get ripped off in a storm.
London has definitely not been conquered by Uber. YMMV, but I've had nothing but bad experiences in London (multiple driver cancellations, slow pickup times, etc.) especially compared with Paris and many cities in the US.
>I've never understood the backlash against the acceptable ads program.

Simply put, many people believe there is no such thing as an acceptable ad on the web, and that any ad blocker which allows advertising to be shown is by definition malicious, broken software. No advertising, anywhere, at any time, under any circumstances, regardless of the content, or how badly a site depends on it, is acceptable to users of ad blockers. They expect it to block ads, period.
It's probably going to be in the next Screamers movie. Jokes aside, a fully autonomous cruiser is a very cool weapon.
A coder, a growth hacker and a writer/designer.
Exploitation of some of those issues can be prevented using the new RAP GCC plugin by grsecurity. Unfortunately, it is only available to paying customers.

https://grsecurity.net/rap_announce.php
https://grsecurity.net/rap_faq.php
https://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/PaXTeam-H2HC15-RAP-RIP-ROP.p...
This might be of interest to your temperature question. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18592898
On... Amazon? Using Stripe? Using Paypal?

It would be up to the developers to determine the actual action of that checkbox or button but I'd assume, they just use the CC info for the transaction and not store it in a DB.

Now a days, I think most would advise not to implement such a feature or or use such a feature. It's just to risky to store CC info.
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I would guess it probably hashes it for later comparison and there by actually remembers it.
Core M? That's 2015 tech, using selling points such as 16gb of ram is weak as 16 Gb is so common these days, why are they talking about '3k' rather than PPI or another volumetric measurement of density. Just feels a bit old news?
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They're basically right. Ireland grew lots of crops, but the only one affected was potatoes. Unfortunately the only crop the vast majority of the population could afford was potatoes, as all the other crops were exported.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Irish_f...
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They could just as way say: "Scientists say the evolution of the natural landscape is no longer stoppable"
Curious… does it ever get low enough that electric heat becomes desirable? We moved into a place that had electric heat on the ground floor, ran it the first cold month, saw the bill, then made it a purely "on demand" heating solution. The rest of the apartment was gas forced hot air, which was on a normal schedule.

To heat a whole home in a Boston winter seems like it might cost $1000 or so. Is it reasonable to expect rooftop solar to ever generate that much electricity?
It has not been reproduced because society collapses every last time we attempt to get anywhere near it.

See socialism. Chavez made all these same promises for free stuff, etc. It didn't work. It never works. Venezuela is now beyond doomed and are weeks if not days from total devastation.

Reproducing the 1972 study in a field environment on humans would take too long, but I'm confident that if you had a similar utopian tribe of 60 men and 60 women, the experiment would have to be terminated in less than a year due to whatever mularkey broke out. Scale that up and you have pure Venezuelan chaos on your hands.
So, if I may summarize, you're saying that there's a lot of demand for safe-haven assets by investors whose priority is capital preservation?

I don't see the math on this working out. Have you been in a house that hasn't been occupied? Things depreciate: roofs leak, water pipes break, floors rot, bugs get in, etc.

Given a sane property rights regime (something notably absent from San Francisco), I would vastly prefer real estate I own for investment purposes to be occupied. Tenants make sure the place is at least habitable, pay rent, and you can feel good as an owner about giving someone a place to live. I get that the market may not view it that way, but I think the market is wrong, and maybe that's an opportunity in and of itself.

Honest question: do Chinese people understand capitalism? Even poor people in the US have some inkling of understanding about the stock market -- it's on TV, in the newspaper, the presidential primaries, etc. I get that the main motivation might be just getting capital out of China and into the US, but I really don't understand the investment thesis of holding empty real estate, at all.
You're comparing the average medieval laborer, who was pretty solidly middle class, to a modern laborer, who is at best working class if not working poor. As another poster points out, a strong, healthy 18-20 year old male trained in a skill is a lot more useful in 1350 than the same person with the same training/education.
The grass under/behind the panels would grow using what light source? I have a hard time growing grass under some shade trees that are far from opaque and along a [solid, south-facing] fence line.
Seems like the "democractic" solution here is effectively mutiny. Or maybe a better analogy would be to form a union and threaten strike.
Rather: it's because the companies building the hardware have jealously guarded their machine languages, treating their drivers as a source of competitive advantage. We'd have fixed the problems ourselves years ago if we could, but GPU manufacturers like to keep it all locked up tight and secret, so we can't.
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Both the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Ghostery accused ABP of extortion due to their business practices.

A program that labels itself as an "ad blocker" yet allows, by default, ads from companies who pay money, is part of the dark side.
> I wouldn't even know where to buy [an electric scooter] in the west.

I just ordered the parts to convert a bicycle to electric / electric assist. This is essentially a replacement wheel (either front or back) with a hub motor built in; plus motor controller and battery pack. They work great on mountain bike frames, but in my case I'm adding a light weight geared motor to a road bike. Prices are from about $400 to $1000 depending on what kit you get, plus $300 - $700 for a battery (again depending on capacity) -- a $700 battery gets you about 50 miles range or so if you keep it under 20mph.

Check out the wiki on reddit.com/r/ebikes for a list of vendors of parts.
I'm mostly lamenting the overall lack of progress in creating reliable, bug-free software.

You would never let a software engineer build a house, would you?
For some reason, the discipline of architecting and building houses is far more advanced than building software.

Why is that?
We keep inventing new programming languages to tackle various aspects of making software better (safe concurrency, preventing memory leaks, etc. etc.),
but we keep introducing 5 bugs per Function Point and the rate of finding and removing bugs has stayed pretty much the same the last 20 years.

There needs to be a fundamental change in how we create software.
as far as i remember reading somewhere, i think one of the main problems is that we don't really know what Alzheimer's disease is. We know the symptoms and we know what the brain looks like after the disease comes (in an autopsy once the person is dead) which makes diagnosing very difficult as well. But mainly we don't really know how and why or what it is.
Feynman would have loved to see this. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McLellan_(nanotechnolo...

Feynman was quoted as saying he was disappointed with the winning motor as he had hoped it would spur new fabrication methods, for which this motor certainly qualifies!
I agree, I can't use 1920x1080 or lower. Plugging my MacBook into a TV is horrible for anything but watching TV from a distance.

I think 2560x1440 is probably the ideal resolution for the time being, looks good enough, no need for a graphics card, cheap monitors, etc.
That's partly correct and partly incorrect. It's incorrect in the claim that the government withheld the potato supply. The potato crop massively failed due to potato blight. The government had nothing to do with the potato shortage. This was not just in Ireland, but also through Europe. It was more significant in Ireland, though, because something like 40% of the population depended on potatoes for most of their nutrition.

It is correct that there were plenty of crops, but these were grain crops, not potatoes, which were raised largely for export. In earlier famines the government had banned exports and made those non-potato crops go to feeding the Irish. That was very unpopular with businesses. In the Great Famine the government did not curb exports, and so even though Ireland was producing enough non-potato food to feed those who had been depending almost solely on potatoes, that food was exported instead. So in that sense, much of the blame for results of the potato crop failures can be laid at the hands of the government.

Edit: there is an interesting song, written by Steven and Peter Jones, based on letters their great-great-grandfather in Ireland sent to their great-grandfather, who had immigrated to the United States. There are five verses, covering the contents of five of the letters, between 1860 and 1892. Although this is after the Great Famine, it provides an interesting look at what life was like in Ireland for ordinary farmers as they went through hardship and had family members leaving the country.

Here's a nice performance of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRHQAtKbRTk
It kind of seems like the example in the iPython notebook is a red herring. Wouldn't using a Multivariate Gaussian algorithm perform just as well as probabilistic programming in this case?
Again, the people building "amazing things in their spare time" are not the people to be concerned about!!

The usefulness we'd get out of the creative top 1-5% of the population is far outweighed by the chaos that'd be caused by the bottom/criminal 10% of the population.
> I'm curious about the technical reasons.

uBlock hasn't been updated in almost a year. uBlock Origin is actively developed. uBlock has effectively had no significant changes or improvements since the uBlock Origin fork happened.
The point is what will happen in aggregate. If the poor gain $1 additional and the rich lose $1 additional, will investment go up or down? If it goes up then we should target fiscal stimulus at the rich during bad economic times. If it goes down then a BI will reduce future investment.

You are unfortunately in the situation that the stated reasons for your preferred policies contradict each other. That's quite strange - it's almost as if those stated reasons are post-hoc justifications and not your real motivation.
Of course it does. If you pay someone when they reside in the United States, you don't have to deal with the Canada Revenue Agency or any of the provincial and local authorities at all. Instead, you deal with the same federal, state, and local authorities in the United States that you're already dealing with. Navigating bureaucracy is hard, and navigating additional unfamiliar bureaucracies is harder.
A) Windows doesn't handle modern displays properly and has a huge library of problems relating to desktop scaling etc...

B) What was the context of your use of the computer? I.e. Are you gaming or logo branding etc...
>The vast vast majority of the population reject basic income, in favour of a meritocracy, where the harder you work, the more money you can earn.

Then the vast majority of the population are rejecting basic income for the wrong reasons. Nothing about basic income invalidates meritocracy. In fact I would say it strengthens it. No longer is the rat race composed of a hodgepodge of willing, unwilling, and incompetent workers. All the unwilling or incompetent workers drop out. Those that still work have reasons to work besides filling a seat for 8 hours so they can continue to afford a meal .
I understand that a political issue is what drove them apart originally. However, people continually assert that uBlock Origin is the better extension. Is there anyone who has done an objective, non-political comparison of their featuresets and/or technical properties to really evaluate which one is superior for end users?

I can say anecdotally, that I found plain uBlock more featureful for everyday usage, but I haven't done a thorough review. I currently use uBlock Origin.
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Actual article: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/05/03/stack-overflow-how-we...
Chrome T-Rex game played by unsupervised learning