skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title makes or look like this was recently released, but or says right in the article that the product has been around for 5 years.
No, its GREAT for getting things done! I'm only interested in it for pull requests, so that's the angle I'm coming from. I know what you mean for regular issues though.
I had a philosophy professor call words violent weapons two days ago, so the parent is not over exaggerating. FYI weapons are AK-47s in Africa, barrel bombs in Syria, missiles in Gaza, and what they store in guard posts in North Korean work camps.
My family made me feel like crying was a bad thing, that it was weak to cry and that there is something wrong with you. Never feel this way, anyone who says or thinks this is really wrong, emotions are what make us human and we should be glad to feel things!
I have done very similar stuff to Wikipedia for almost ten years now. It is astonishingly easy to make specious claims in backwater articles that no one cares about. It is pretty insane what happens to the articles afterwards. For example, on one article, someone else has made a couple of edits adding even more lies to my completely invented claims! Another "subtle vandal" (as I call myself)! I never expected that. And when someone else edits your false information for clarity, or whatever, it's as good as gold. One trick I use to encourage that is to make minor grammatical or spelling errors. If a human doesn't lumber by to edit (and then seal into fact) my bullshit information, usually an automated bot will eventually do the same thing. It's very important not to make your information sound too trite or wild. Most Wikipedia editors take everything with a big grain of salt the last few years.
I'm reminded again about this very prescient post:

http://assayviaessay.blogspot.com/2014/03/virtual-spaces-rea...
“Interview with Marty Schiff”
This is a good list. Let me add one to it. I manufacture products in China and I consistently see new designs for injection molded parts where the designer has unrealistic expectations for the tolerances that can be achieved on molded parts. While the tolerance we can achieve will change proportionally with the size of the injection molded part, don't design parts that rely on precisions of 0.01mm. Hard to do this unless you are Apple.
No one has mentioned the 2016 Election and the fabrication of stories from the front runners of both parties. History and memory are not being erased, just overwritten with new "facts".
For, and if anybody was wondering, the name is a reference to the Jimmy Stewart movie "Harvey"[1] , in which Jimmy Stewart is a grown man who has an imaginary best friend, a 6 foot tall bunny rabbit.

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042546/
You work for a CA that isn't audited or trusted?
Interesting, thanks for the discussion on the subject. I just can't see moving away from Windows 7 embedded / Windows 7 enterprise in the near future. I envision all sorts of nightmare scenarios where we have to redeploy all the embedded hosts because of some update on the development machines. It wont necessarily be Microsoft's fault directly, but some vendor other vendor driver or such will have to be updated due to the new 'feature' pack. Hah.
This looks really neat! There was a story about Lisp at JPL that got me dreaming about embedded REPLs:

> The Remote Agent software, running on a custom port of Harlequin Common Lisp, flew aboard Deep Space 1 (DS1), the first mission of NASA's New Millennium program. Remote Agent controlled DS1 for two days in May of 1999. During that time we were able to debug and fix a race condition that had not shown up during ground testing. (Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience. Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem.)
http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html

So often in embedded development I resort to things that make printf-style debugging look downright virtuous. ("If you reach some complicated runtime state, blink the LED thrice.") Having a REPL would let you poke around without the compile-flash-test cycle and have an actual conversation with the hardware.
daohub.org has a purchase wizard.
In my town the permitting process for vacation rentals is quite different than hotels.

I have a very expensive permit ($2300 for the first year) and jumped through all the hoops. We pay occupancy tax, etc.

What makes it most different from a hotel is that we have to vet our guests. We won't take anyone off the street. This is perfectly reasonable and also different from a hotel.

I do hope that cities avoid passing laws around vacation rentals. The law is our town is an expensive illogical nightmare.
>and still prohibits discrimination on medical condition or age (over 40)

The webpage (you cited previously) from the California Department of Consumer Affairs that mentions "medical" and "age" doesn't look to be correct.

For reference, the source laws it cites are the following:

(51) California's Unruh Civil Rights Act: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...

(51.2) (special case for senior citizens housing):
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...

Government Code Section 12927(a)(2)(A):
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&gr...

Government Code Section 12955(c):
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&gr...

Reading the actual laws doesn't find any exceptions to the exemptions for roommates and homeowners renting out a private room. The "medical condition" and "age" (along with "gender", "race", etc) are all part of California's Unruh Civil Rights Act. The only age-specific laws (51.2) was discrimination against younger people being acceptable so as to maintain the housing for senior citizens.

In any case, it looks like the exemption for roommates based on it not being a "business". The law in (51) is directed at business establishments and not roommates/homeowners sharing a house/apartment. Based on a plain reading of the previous 4 cites, an 18-year-old girl in California can refuse to share accommodations with a 70-year-old asthma sufferer with a noisy oxygen tank.

>2. the federal exception applies up to 5 rooms for rent, California's applies only when the owner is renting to a single roomer or boarder.

Ok got it. But I wasn't using "tougher discrimination" in the sense that one state allows 1 room (or some other threshold number) instead of 5. Instead, I meant "tougher" as in certain state says you can't discriminate on race for the private bedroom in your house -- whereas FHA says you can.
Whole system takes about 55 minutes on a Raspberry Pi. Just the kernel takes a bit over a minute.

The build speed doesn't matter much if you don't like the runtime speed.
These companies are not banks so I am not sure why we are talking about cash on deposit. Cash that exists on a corporate balance sheet for a non bank company really only exists to reduce risk of default on obligations or prepare for a cash investment of some kind. Not an accountant but can't think of any other use of cash.
Thanks for the reply: very quickly, I'm looking primarily at essentially showing off my analytical abilities and making available articles and writing. It is essentially marketing for...me. I appreciate I'm being a bit vague, because I'm just trying to gauge what the state of play/possibilities are at this point.

I'm really not concerned with (in fact probably against) social involvement such as comments or community forming things on my site. Its all me. I'm torn about whether it could be integrated with the likes of social media (to automatically make posts to an equivalent facebook/twitter page/account). I do not need/want to make any money off of the site itself, so I don't want to worry about advertising, and indeed, want to keep it off the site and make it 100% gauged around user accessability. Its goal is to make money by people being interested in hiring me and what i do, rather than generate revenue by views of the site.

Really, its going to be a very close form to that of a fancy blog/versions, but posts may take forms of blog posts, articles, presentations, books or software links/articles etc. I would appreciate some way to apply themes and manage or structure my content.

Don't know if that helps at all...
Vacation Rentals have been around for a long time longer than Airbnb. In fact, there is nothing unique about Airbnb at all except it is more usable.

I do have regulations in my town, and they are a nightmare. The regulations only benefit hotels by discouraging people from renting out their houses or rooms.
Unschooling by Elon Musk
Can't agree more with you! I'm a woman and my family always shames me for crying - from when I was a teenager even until now in my middle age crying over the death of a family member. It's just absurd - they have called me things from weak to "sensitive" to "emotional" - but I know better now that crying is a totally normal and good emotion and ignore them. I wish these perceptions didn't exist though.
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Hmm Acer announces Switch V10 and Switch One 10 2in1 devices targeting students
I remember people having nearly-identical debates about the motion controlled "party games" of the Wii.
Real life events don't make me cry. Seriously, I've had break ups, deaths.. you name it. But damn, the opening to that movie did.
As a fellow person of color, I have suspected such discrimination happening to me - however by and large I have been able to get an airbnb without much fanfare, which is likely to do with the positive reviews on my profile.
It can be communicated between humans, but it sounds like the rate at which that occurs is far too low to cause an epidemic.
SpaceX lands third rocket on floating barge
Yes, I know. We live in the real world. My issue isn't people making judgements, etc. It's that I choose not to willingly expose myself to (and support) a system that enables those judgements to negatively affect me. Instead, I choose to spend my money with a system (a hotel) which does not allow the prejudices of individuals to get in my way.

Airbnb has chosen it's system (and refuses to address the flaws inherent in that system), so I've chosen not to use it.
Well, if you're rewriting something that is actually worth rewriting, you can end up with way nicer code, but yeah it's still very hard to avoid some awkward crufty bits in that last 10%.

The tricky part is that "actually worth rewriting" is a higher bar than you would think. And even when you clear that, finding the sweet spot between "you ain't gonna need it" and "you ain't gonna need it until the rewrite is 95% done" isn't easy.
That's true on my phone but not my laptop. I would guess that most firewalls would just drop the packets.
It's really odd that their examples are people in the 100K+ range, for whom the benefits are absolutely minimal after you account for the 6 month initial required period & the benefit cap. This is the demographic likely to have both savings to draw on, access to loans (eg a HELoC like the author), family support, ability to fight an eviction or foreclosure... Even in lower income brackets, it's so unlikely to be worthwhile compared to simply saving for the initial 6 months that I'm not surprised that "IncomeAssure has existed for five years, [and] there are about 1,000 active policyholders".

“It has been disappointing that we haven’t been able to find a cost-effective way to get the word out that this exists,” Mr. Sterling, SterlingRisk’s chief, said.

And here we are; they found their cost-effective marketing campaign for their crappy product. I hope the author got lunch paid for at least.
Yeah. When looking for videos I saw he updated his presentation and gave it again, but there’s raw appeal in that first ‘Rethinking best practices’ talk. Just something coming in out of left field. (Another early presentation: “Tom Occhino and Jordan Walke: JS Apps at Facebook” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW0rj4sNH2w)

Re: basic concepts, I admit my eyes glaze over by the time I read the heading “Memoization”. Opens with this great sentence though—I like to say ‘view as a function of state’, but he breaks it down even simpler—“The core premise for React is that UIs are simply a projection of data into a different form of data.”
Heh. Without such race-validating arm-candy, a brown man is taken by some to be a rapist by default, no? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/german-profes...
Apple outsources its manufacturing.

A small startup can't just get Samsung and Foxconn to build their parts. This is true.
Well, complex algos and engineering failures go hand in hand :-)

The approximative kNNs are superior if done well, no doubt about that. It's just that "doing them well" is a major challenge, even for well-established and well thought out tools, such as scikit-learn. So many things can go wrong, and despite the increased complexity & settling for approximative results, you can end up with worse runtime performance than O(n) brute force...

The performance of brute force is pleasantly predictable and stable. I just found the parallels with OP's article (which is on fulltext search, a mostly unrelated field) interesting, that's all.
During allergy season my eyes are always on the verge of tearing up. Then even mildly enthusiastic conversations will cause my eyes to fully tear and that makes me feel emotional. It is embarrassing and often leads me to abruptly end conversations.

There have been numerous studies where facial expressions can affect emotion. It is a positive feedback loop [1]. The situation I described above isn't a facial expression per se, but does anyone else feels like eye strain or irritants (soldering?), makes them more emotional.

[1] http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2010/04/16/botox-may...
>What do containers have to do with microkernels?

Xen is becoming a major OS, and it is a microkernel OS.
Aw, looks like it was Oracle Solaris 10 only.

(Is there a good generic word for Oracle Solaris + SmartOS + Illumos + etc.?)
While it's true that fractional ages are pretty much never used, ages do not necessarily have to be recorded as whole numbers.
It's not the case. Iribe just sold everyone out.

He made 5 minute (like literally) decision all by himself.
Everyone (Palmer, Carmack, Abrash) heard about Facebook acquisition after the deal was already set.
It was already to late for them to do anything at that point.

It might as well be, that everything they said after was just a part of facebook damage control operation.
"According to Roger White MD of the Mayo Clinic and American Heart Association (AHA), "There was never any science here. Heimlich overpowered science all along the way with his slick tactics and intimidation, and everyone, including us at the AHA, caved in.""

Seriously, try reading.
I'm reminded of my early 20s when I played Everquest hardcore. My guild was one of the top among all servers. As soon as a new expansion came out we would quickly get to the endgame content and then spend weeks wiping over and over until we finally beat it all. Then we'd beat it again. And again. After a few times no one cared anymore and we went back to "farm-mode" until the next expansion was released. I guess the "next expansion" for SpaceX would be Mars.
Look up i960. Had most key parts with otherwise normal RISC.
On the other hand, money that's just sitting there doesn't harm anything either; it has no effect until it's used. And at the macro scale there's no shortage of U.S. dollars. If creating more money is all that's needed to boost the economy, the Fed can easily do it.
Certainly a tangent, but can anyone share tips on where/how to pick up traditional wool rugs without getting taken for a ride? I get the distinct impression most vendors are buying way low and angling to sell way high...
Is React worth it? How complex does your site need to be before it becomes worthwhile?
> It is grossly deceptive to say that Steam has a monopoly on games distribution when a vast number of the games on Steam are also distributed by other channels.

This is just from observation without statistics, but I feel once people have a decent number of games on Steam (e.g. from lots of cheap purchases from sales) and no other store, they'd rather stick with Steam instead of installing another store app. Even if another store was a little better, the idea of having to install another app and have games split between two interfaces is a big deterrent.
React is pretty easy to start with, for me the question is when does redux and the madness in redux starter kit become worth it.
In general: insurance premiums aren't held in cash, they're invested. An insurance company

1) has access to better investments than you do, and

2) has the diversification and scale to be unfazed by transient market downturns

If you attempted to self-insure through a savings account or other low-risk investments, you'd need to pay higher "premiums" to account for the lack of returns.

If you attempted to self-insure through index funds, you'd be SOL if your "claim" fell in, say, 2008.

Large corporations whose finances are similar to insurance company finances can and do practice self-insurance, where the "big pool of money" is held by the company and an insurance company is just contracted to do the paperwork.
am i allowed to say "lmao!" on hn?
I remember coming across this some time ago on HN and being really interested by the white plastic bit. It clicks into place Apple's ability to set itself apart visually during the white earbuds era of iPod advertisements. PCs were black and gray and beige, Apple was a shining white.

And no one else could mimic their style, since it was just too difficult.
uBeam (http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.mx/)
GPL vs BSD has triggered flamewars reliably and for decades. Which one is guilty?
That's definitely part of it, although that's certainly not all of it.
I never built any source code system, so not an expert, but isnt branching snapshotting the current version of file(s) (strings), and newer versions are about calculating deltas. Arent, most of the Operations in a source code mgmt system, are diffs and merges of strings. Basically, my point is, scale problems associated with these systems are not at the same level as other scalability problems handled by google's core competency areas such as search which deal with billions of requests or peta bytes of data. Not that they are easy, but that orders of magnitude smaller.
> thick rimmed glasses

I don't know if you're familiar with Curb Your Enthusiasm, but Larry gives this exact theory to his friend Leon ("white people revere black people with glasses... no glasses, no job."). It's really quite amazing how closely it mirrors what you're describing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ECj4OcCC0
> Assuming insurance companies are profitable, insurance is a -EV bet for the consumer.

Not necessarily. Most insurers pretty much break even on the insurance, and make their money on investing the premiums. Auto in particular.

> The only reason to ever buy insurance is if the potential loss would be ruinously large. Gaps in unemployment simply don't generate that kind of huge loss the way a house fire, extended illness or million-dollar lawsuit would.

The loss doesn't have to be large in absolute terms. It's what the financial effects would be.
If you lose your job and have no savings, and your expenses exceed your state unemployment benefits, what do you think will happen? Lose you home maybe, take a job you are not suited for, and lose a huge amount of your lifetime earnings? It's not the absolute amount, it's the timing.

> According to numbers earlier in the article, this pays out $536.50 * 24, about 6.7 weeks of pretax wages or 12.9% of your annual income.

That's for their example, it depends on several criteria. Go to the site and play with the quoter!

> If you put 10% of your income into an emergency fund, you can build it to the level of the payout from this insurance in a little over a year.

Sure. And how many people do that today? Ummmm....
I don't know if ML's tech is vapor or real, but I have a lot of respect for anyone who can get Larry Page to give them half a billion in cash. That right there is some seriously convincing talking.
Reusability is React's real value prop IMO. Other libraries and frameworks may give you the illusion of good encapsulation and composeablity but in reality it breaks down once something changes.

If you have a lot of same or similar views in your app used in different contexts then React becomes worth it really quickly.
>If you combine this with the fact that banks work on fractional reserves, then there'd end up being infinite money... but there isn't because it's not true.

In practical terms the only limit to the amount of new money is the amount qualified borrowers are willing to borrow. Banks that don't have enough reserves typically borrow from other banks or from the central bank. The central bank (in the US, at least) isn't bound by reserve limits at all and can create money by changing a number in a computer.

The lack of lending by banks isn't a problem in and of itself. It's a symptom of the underlying problem, which is a lack of economic activity that would require borrowing.
> Meanwhile, you'll be paying for 24 weeks of coverage.

Actually, premium payments are waived while on claim.
We have a huge (10'x13') Antique Wool Persian Rug made in Kashan before the revolution. Not quite sure how old it is, but the dealer claimed it was likely first imported in the 1930s. We also have several cheaper machine-made Persian-style rugs from a few different places.

The real one is the centerpiece of our entire house, and a treasure. It definitely has a quality and beauty that the machine-made ones don't possess. They're one-of-a-kind works of art. At some point it was repaired and there's a little difference in the dye colors where the patching was performed. Knowing it has some history really adds to the feeling of value. It's an antique you can walk and lay down on. If our home caught fire, I would probably grab my computer and that rug and leave the rest to burn.

It completely transformed the room we put it in and brought it grace and character. The machine-made rugs we put furniture on top of and are already starting to fall apart in places, even the nicer one we paid lots of money for before we got smart.

If you're patient and look around, you kind find them at fairly steep discounts, and now that the market is opening up, I expect the prices to drop even more. Our rug was appraised at something north of $15k, but we bought it for less than $2k. Quick checks on the internet show me similar rugs for around $6.5k. (here's one that looks superficially like ours http://esalerugs.com/red-palace-rugs-kashan-persian-rug-2219...)

When we decided to get a rug, we went through lots of research and shopping, finally decided on a Persian-style rug and hit rug markets and dealers all over our area. For us at least, the color schemes of the made-in-Iran rugs (over the often cheaper Pakistan, Turkish or Afghan handmade rugs) really was unmatched in hitting our taste.

Sorry if this sounds like a commercial, but these really are special objects. It's a shame that there's so many middle-men in-between the weavers and the buyers, I'd much rather have paid the weavers directly, but stupid global politics get in the way. I'm very excited for the slowly thawing relations with Iran, there's so many really wonderful cultural things I'm hoping come exploding out of that country.
Yes, but Apple still has significant say in how its products are made. In many cases they use their own production engineers to figure out the best way to make things. In other cases, they set insanely hard specifications and use their massive buying power to entice their partners to figure it out.

Source: I've worked with ex-Apple engineers at a company that mostly used Apple's hardware processes.