skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mid- to high-end is my target, but it really depends on preferences. I'm generally not going to take care of flights unless it's an award booking, and I'd have a separate fee for that. I can take a budget and suggest accommodations, but I don't want to dip into low end because the low end budgets I've worked with had mid/high expectations and that's sometimes impossible.

Delivery is flexible: My default is a PDF with a daily list of suggestions, plus some maps to find your way, and anything interesting/relevant that I can add based on what I know of the client. Others plan to be online, so I go over how to get a SIM and service closest to the point of arrival, and also send everything electronically - particularly useful with the maps, since they're Google Maps based. I'm considering adding a Slack channel to ask questions, but I can't come up with a reasonable SLA on responses other than "best efforts".

This is basically for the crowd that is willing to pay a bit to filter out the noise in the online reviews and arrive at a plan so that they can go enjoy, whatever enjoyable means to them I work with. I also do pretty well with families with children.

That said, I am planning for an initial consult, phone, IM, whatever is easiest for the client. We through length of trip, pace, preferences/travel style and budget. I come back with suggested accommodations, things to see and do, where to eat. I'm trying to stick to Italy because I've traveled it a bunch, Italian is my first language and I still speak a couple of dialects, and I have a pretty solid network of folks there who can help me fill in the gaps on what's good, what's a tourist trap, and what used to be good but has become a tourist trap (that last category sucks). Totally custom, though, meaning I'm not running out the same PDF for each city or anything. While I do project initially to get a lot of Rome-Florence-Venice first timers, which is great, I'm hoping I can help some repeat clients with trips in the South, which is massively under-explored by American tourists.

Your travel style sounds a lot like mine. So far I've mostly worked with clients that want to basically live somewhere else for a couple of weeks. For instance, in Rome I'd probably suggest a couple of AirBnbs in Monti, a neighborhood close to the sights but not really touristy, or out in Trastevere if you're cooler than me and don't mind crossing the river to see stuff. And food recs for each day, as well as how to score a reservation, etc. For some I get more hands on and do some of the legwork, but I'm leaving that out of the MVP for the web presence.

I'll do a ShowHN once I get the technical side to look better than shit.
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>You can accomplish most of the same things as SS by doing the dumbbell equivalents of the exercises.

"Most"

With 50lbs dumbbells?

After 1 year of starting strength 50lbs dumbells won't be enough.

After never working out before and eating at a calorie deficit I was able to lift these weights after a year of SS.

165 Bench
300 Deadlift
105 OHP
200 Squat
150 Rows

"Most" isn't accurate. 80/20 isn't accurate because you are simply not getting the results SS would give you.
> Every single scientific mathematical model that occured in my life was in an "imperfect" state where humans think that our current "model of things" in form of mathematics is correct while it's totally incomplete and a few days of AI simulation figured out a better way to do it.

I don't think I understand your claim and I'm rather skeptical of what you seem to be saying, so can you give three examples?
Oddly enough, I view contemporary popular music with boredom too.

I'm one of those musicians who plays jazz. I'm a double bassist and a so called "day jobber," meaning that music is not my primary income source. Am I an expert technician? Sure. A decade of classical lessons, thousands of hours of practice, and 30+ years on the bandstand will do that to you.

Why jazz? Well, for one thing, contemporary popular music doesn't even involve my instrument. I'm obsolete. ;-) And I love the double bass -- the sound, technique, history, contemporary leaders, and even just the sheer absurdity of it. For another, I've developed my jazz chops to the point where my best chance of making further musical progress is to continue with jazz. I don't know where I'd even begin to come up with new ideas in the contemporary pop styles, or how I would turn it into a performance art.

There are a couple more things. While there's certainly a market for contemporary pop music, it's utterly saturated with talent. And pop music has always been youth and appearance oriented. As to how credible a 52 year old guy would be in that scene, I'll leave to the imagination. And the target demographic has been conditioned to expect entertainment to be free. For a non-superstar, the popular scene -- even going back as far as rock & roll, is depressing.

So a few of us who have no prospects in popular music, but enjoy performing with some semblance of dignity, will be drawn to other musical genres. In your locale it may be jazz, but more broadly it's also classical, baroque, fiddle music, accompanying dance clubs, etc. Living near Chicago, there's a lot of blues. Players who are still interested in the electric guitar & bass find outlets in the various forms of heavy metal and rock music, playing small venues that support original music.

Money? Surprisingly, yes. For almost a couple decades, I've had a pretty consistent schedule, of roughly one gig per week. Most of the work is paid, with very little overhead. There's no heavy equipment to set up, and commercial gigs such as weddings and corporate events are un-rehearsed. I've never had to go on tour. At the same time, rock bands find it almost prohibitive to break into paid work, because the established players tend to corner the market on the good commercial work.

Another surprise is that an audience will crawl out of the woodwork when good music is being performed. Not a huge audience, and not necessarily a drinking audience, which severely limits the economics. But people will come. Some are musically omnivorous, or even like newer styles, but show up because we still know how to entertain, and we can perform without driving you to deafness.

So I'll never claim to understand the economics of the music business, but it seems to me that there are little niches where people can enjoy performing with dignity while opting out of the mainstream popular music scene.

My kids, both teenagers, have shown no interest in either jazz or popular music, as musicians. They both prefer classical.
Bizarrely, none of the phones I know of that died from water damage were being used in a shower. We must move in different circles.
Is that second paragraph unfair though? You buy/own a block and build a new house. You know there are a lot of useful things you need or might need in the future (garaging, bedrooms for future kids, etc) but your constraints of land size and budget remain so the result is often the efficient answer.
> iPhone didn't become this massive product til 2010 when the 4 was released

If we ignore the iPhone 3G, which was the top-selling mobile phone of 2008. Revisionist history indeed.

The original 2007 iPhone was hugely successful out of the gate within the smartphone category, which it shaped and then dominated for the next few years.

2010 was a tipping point for people abandoning feature phones for smartphones, and there wasn't yet a comparable Android competitor. But the seeds were sown years earlier.
Doxygen != documentation, especially in low-comment situations.

Tell us more.
Sorry, sarcasm doesn't translate well over text.

The tone of the sentence seemed to me to imply that some day the Apple Watch would be a hit, but I'm skeptical.
This is old news. Channel checks is one use of this data and it's nothing new.

http://www.integrity-research.com/are-channel-checks-legit/
There's an urbanist podcast/nonprofit that releases really good, approachable content, and I recently saw a video they did where they went into a typical subdivision and just looked at the houses. In particular, he singled out the complete lack of any porches, saying "these are people who can't afford their houses. If you live out in this countryside place, the absolute highest-returning space is the deck/porch. It wouldn't take more than maybe 10k to construct really good porches (less than 10% even in this cheap area), and not a single house has one. That means they built a huge house and ran out of money before they could build the most important part."

I guess that's just a different way of saying what you're saying. I think buyers choose mcmansions for a couple reasons. The first are the ones sucked into it by the school or proximity to work (where proximity is VERY subjective.) The others actually want those houses, either because it's a cheap structure in which they can imitate the many nice interiors they've collected in their heads, or because they want to build their walls to encompass a maximum volume, hoping that their house will insulate them from all the shit in their work and commute while they're in it.
This should probably link to the original Reuters article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-japan-nissan-engine-...
Honest question: how many people are actively protesting against the death penalty in Texas? A cursory search shows one annual march and protests on the day of executions, with turnouts in the low tens.

From the outside looking in, it seems that most Texans who oppose the death penalty are either indifferent or resigned to the issue. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I find very little evidence of a credible abolition movement. Without sustained political pressure, disapproval counts for very little.
This is probably a different way of expressing the same thing, but I think what is salient to people is that there isn't anything to be done about these kinds of conspiracies. It unleashes a satisfying chemical cocktail in the brain of outrage, fear, and the sense that something "serious" is going on.

And unless you're being asked to do something trivial like spray the air with vinegar or line your wallet with aluminum foil, generally the conspiracy is not accompanied by any obvious call to action that might bring on feelings of tedium and responsibility. All the entertainment value, none of the responsibility.
Isn't "faster hardware" by definition not innovative?
Any reason to just use SFML over this?
Ask HN: What hobbies do you have outside tech, and how do you start learning it?
(When the iPhone was first released the price actually was subsidized by AT&T, who got rather screwed by it because it was based on a "trust our security" model, and people would take it home and put it on T-Mobile. It is absolutely true that the first iPhone sucked vs. a normal phone, though. It wasn't until iPhoneOS 3 and the iPhone 3G[S] that the device started getting good.)
You mean ballot initiatives like prop 8?
I think if he's found not guilty he deserves some kind of compensation. You can't just keep somebody in limbo like that, knowing they will "die soon" for years. It is mental torture. What he's going through now is arguably worse than being found guilty. You can't justify that. They're punishing him and his family repeatedly.

I think this is a perfect example of the US completely getting it wrong. If states can't get it right, I think the ability to arbitrarily punish serious crimes should be dissolved to upper government. Why it makes a difference what state you're in is beyond me. I thought it was something they were phasing out of.
In this order: provably safer is better than potentially safer; potentially safer is better than no potential. And still, as I showed, open or closed source at consumer level has little to do with the potential. It's amount of trusted development and/or review of source then distribution of that. Illustrated where greater than means more trustworthy, reliable, and/or effective:

1. Rigorously designed & reviewed open-source is greater than...

2. Rigorously designed & reviewed closed-source is greater than...

3. Typical, open-source is greater than...

4. Typical, closed-source is greater than...

5. Cloud infrastructure based on Concurrent DOS written in a MOL-360 language.
I didn't realize this had an actual term.

I've smart-hosted using postfix, direct for incoming and gmail/sendgrid/mandrill (before it was neutered by mail chimp) for outgoing.

It was fairly cost effective - generous free tier (upto 12k emails) for outgoing, and a small vps to host postfix (~$5/month).
From a purely functional perspective, complex roof lines and the multiplication of volumes suck for durability and energy use. The more complex the roof, the more vulnerable areas it contains. The more edges and transitions you have, the harder it is to properly flash and air seal the enclosure.

And huge voids suck too: windows have poor thermal resistance and large glazed areas mean overheating due to the sun's radiation.

Add cheap material and poor construction practices (the famed "ductopus" is often found in million dollar homes) and you get crap housing, even without taking aesthetics into account.
And this happens everywhere. When you realize that most of the desirable places to live in the US are illegal to build, it really makes you wonder what the hell we're doing. The answer is that we'll suffer an immense burden of stupidity in return for order. If you've ever sat at a red light at midnight, you should know that feeling.
"Cyclone is way more ambitious than I was thinking. I'm not looking for safety; I want something that, for people who either like C or are required to write C, takes off just some of the rough edges."

Oh OK. That makes sense. Unfortunately, I don't know any off-hand that only do that.
Interesting news, The Reuters article[1] they cite has more content than the current article[2], but even the Reuters article looks very PR-like.

The TLDR appears to be:
The new engine uses variable compression technology, which [allows] at any given moment to choose an optimal compression ratio for combustion.

> The [new VC-T engine] averages 27 percent better fuel economy than the 3.5-liter V6 engine it replaces, with comparable power and torque. Nissan says the new engine matches the diesel engine in torque.

It will be officially unveiled at next month's Paris motor show

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-japan-nissan-engine-...

[2] http://www.thedailynewsgrabber.com/nissan-on-gasoline-engine...
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"with ANN's it's not really the case simply because of the nondeterministic nature of the system. You can validate the "correctness" of an ANN but it's not done in the same manner as reviewing traditional software."

You have to do both: validate the non-deterministic aspects of the ANN logic and validate its implementation as code. Makes them a lot harder. One reason I avoid them.
This is actually wrong. You can be added to the `docker` group. On Docker for OS X you also don't need root.
I still don't see a problem with barring members of congress from the TPP negotiations. It makes it harder for the Obama administration to convince them to pass TPP, but that's up to White House to decide if that's the most prudent way to negotiate, and apparently they thought so.

The "democratic" part of the TPP comes when the US elected the congress who will or won't pass the resolution, and when the US elected Obama into office to negotiate on our behalf.
That's like saying each book ever written is based on the same trick, generating a finite number of words. True, but trivial.
Yeah, but we're talking orders of magnitude here, not a few percent.

So, lettuce, for example, is an order of magnitude (10x) more expensive per calorie than ground beef. And ground beef is almost an order of magnitude more expensive per calorie than cereal grains.

My guess as to the reason for these differences is some aspect of the chemistry involved in creating the foods, combined with how easily they spoil during transport. And I don't think it's any accident that the advent of human civilization coincides with domestication of grains.
Central is the key word. Mushrooms have no chance of being sentient in any sense we consider significant.

Baby cows can be traumatized by separation from their mother and scarred for life. Cows are also mourning the loss of their best friends for a long time. Many other animals that human use for agriculture clearly fit the description of sentient beings that have a "wish" to live.
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I am a 'systems engineer' for an ISP and my role is a combination of two things 1. software development for distributed programs that manage the network 2. sys admin type things
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I never saw that as a kid but now we have Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood which apparently is a continuation of sorts. I find it almost condescendingly heavy on the moralizing and turning everything into a 'teachable moment' but then again I'm not exactly the target audience.
To some extent, this reminds me of Feynman's Lectures on Physics. The lectures were originally given to undergraduates at Caltech (so not "advanced theoretical physics"), but they rely more heavily on intuitive explanations than mathematical derivations compared to a conventional physics textbook. The books were highly regarded by physics experts, but were essentially a failure at their intended purpose of teaching undergrads and preparing them for future work.
How was the data collected?
Correct! I'm not sure why Texas is being singled out here. California has this statue as well.

If you participate in the commission of a felony crime and someone dies, then you are guilty of felony murder. They have something similar in the EU (e.g. Germany has "with deadly outcomes") where you receive an extended sentence even if you never intended for that person to die.
Any way to know how they accomplish the variable compression?
I'd say that "running out of time" is probably over the top, but there's some truth behind the idea. Their huge margins and huger stock price and market cap are based on the perception that they're the company that can produce industry-changing smash hits over and over again. But Jobs was really the one doing that. Can Cook's Apple produce the next big thing, something that takes the whole tech world by storm, like the iPhone or iPad did? How long will investors wait if he doesn't make any big hits? It's not hard to imagine Apple losing some of it's luster if they keep churning out modest revisions on existing products and uninspiring duds for new products.

On the other hand, even with no more hits, they do still have incredible customer loyalty and a massively profitable product line. And a lot of people have predicted Apple's doom over the years, only to be proven wrong later. Betting on Apple for the next 5 years seems safe. I wouldn't bet on Apple for the next 20 years right now though.
OK. Hopefully I'm not putting words in your mouth. You think the author's explanation of why McMansions look like garbage is too soft and squishy. Too "subjective." In reality, it's all just personal taste, and as we know, there's no accounting for taste.

Serious question: do you think this house looks beautiful? http://65.media.tumblr.com/5cfa243ca7f2997cf794ed190c24c38b/...

Does it look better, worse, or the same as this house?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Thomas_J...

Do you think a large majority of people would agree with your personal, subjective taste in this case?
"So the plutocrats will protect us from the majority? :)"

No. The lesson, as usual, is that extremes rarely work out for us. The plutocrats will screw us if totally in control. So will politicians if they can get money from them or special interest groups. So will democracy if something horrible is trending in popularity. As usual, the solution will be a compromise between various points in the design space with more effective checks on various interactions and risks each pose to each other. I can't tell you what that design will be but looking for it is best investment with these things.

"Do you really think eg a Tea Party representative will protect Muslims from the majority better than the first amendment and courts?"

The First Amendment is subject to interpretation by representatives and/or courts. Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth have seriously been watered down. They're among the best examples of the risk. A politician can outlast the media fervor of the moment, get advise from well-informed people, and have teams check the side effects of the law. The current situation exists because apathetic democracy allows them to get away with not doing that. Also, passing laws in exchange for bribes. That could all be stopped with enough voter action followed by legislation or alternative models. The benefits of representational democracy remain.

I'm not saying I believe it's the best system. I'm just saying plutocrats and mobs cause lots of problems it can prevent with less effort than constantly outsmarting plutocrats or fighting mobs. So, it's a consideration.
> Yodlee could be breached

That's the part that data-collecting businesses like to ignore. Either they have perfect security - which is patently not true - or they are risking everyone's data. If they really believe the risk of a breach was low enough, they should be indemnifying their users against any damages from data breaches. Obviously, they won't, which demonstrates how much trust they put in their security.

Also, financial transactions are probably the easiest data to de-anonymize. How many other people match the $42.13 you spent on gas at 7:32 this morning? Cross referencing with a few more transactions should eliminate the rare coincidence.
> There are vanishingly few situations where we can be 100%, absolutely clear on whether a person did something that warrants permanently removing that person from existence.

This is a little strawperson.

If you support the death penalty you also know innocent people will die from the death penalty.

But you support it because you believe overall less people will be removed from existence.

IE it's a deterrent. IE less criminals escape and go on the commit again. IE it costs less so more money goes to save lives in hospitals. [please don't rehash why this are faulty arguments, that's OT to the point I'm making]
SAAB was working on one of these years ago before GM flew that company into the ground. This link gives you an idea of how it works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_Variable_Compression_engi...
There is a huge cheap build going on next door. It is two stories with 7 bedrooms with no back yard because pool. The contractors I talked to joked it will be knocked down in 20 years because of the low build quality.
Just like everywhere else on the internet, there's no shortage of Apple apologists defending the fall of the consumerist junk paradigm.
Depends on the company and what they are doing. If it is google/Amazon etc. be prepared for technical interview process similar to other engineers. Same problems of recursion, dynamic programming etc. with some component of domain Android knowledge.
Are you also suggesting that they should get some sympathy? Why?
This isn't legacy cruft though, imagine having hardware that has tag bits what happens when I do int a = 0; uintptr_t *b = &a?
A Timeless Way of Building is a fantastic read for architecture enthusiasts. Also, it's easy to see how that book influenced software since the GoF book is very much the same idea applied to software.
"CTRL" is pretty revealing of inherent bias