skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, one of the motivations for speculation has been the continuous (electronic) printing of money by the US and other governments (combined with massive infrastructure projects by China), leading many investors to logically-if-naively believe that commodity prices (especially gold) would follow "real" money. The problem is that all commodities are actually produced and consumed and speculation simply causes disproportionate production followed by a crash.

And, of course, there are a number of ways to do speculation in a bear market but altogether, more money is going to be made in a bull market.

Even more, since the money coming out of quantitative easing isn't going into consumer goods (that much), it has to go into speculation and it thus seems likely the various kinds of market imbalances will or get worse.
Same age here, pretty much same experience.
If my local retailer thrives it is marginally beneficial for myself as well. If some remote payment processor thrives.. not so much.
It's infuriating how these crooks are the ones who get to be rich, while people who play by the rules, work and live honestly, end up being in debt to these criminals.

Nice bit of reporting by WSJ. I'm sure they will also get blocked in China, just like when NYT reported on the massive wealth of Party officials.

In a few years when people ask "when did the war start?" We might be pointing to this very incident, and many others like it.
The Mist Principle
Meanwhile pretty much all retail/ATM withdrawals in the EU require both chip (something you have) and PIN (something you know).
With the limitation that it only stays cool for up to six days in an insulated backpack:

...lasts for up to six days inside an insulated backpack...

Also:

...a £2,000 cash prize. Broadway plans to use the money to develop further prototypes and apply for patents...

I wish there was an alternative to providing incentives for innovation that didn't potentially disadvantage the general public, especially for lifesaving technology.
Props for making the files available. Too often I see these types of projects and the author refuses, which I find silly.
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It's funny how there are hundreds of HN apps on the play store.
A negative. Just ask G.K. Chesterton!
>I was more suggesting that nature is more resilient in the face of nuclear waste/damage than one might expect

you're talking about the whole nature instead of the individuals. Place a bunch of humans near Chernobyl for several generations (30 years for wolves would be like 200 years for humans) and enforce the rule of quickly killing off any ill individual - natural thing in nature - and 200 years later you'll have a thriving human population there, and some alien would naturally conclude that humans "is more resilient in the face of nuclear waste/damage than one might expect".
Are you still working on StartFighter but with different focus and without Patrick?
Since the arrival of FSEvents I don't understand why DB needs a kernel mod at all
Okay. Now I'll just have to, you know, actually find a way to play it :-D.
The team behind Elementary is great. The ecosystem badly needs the polish that these developers are meticulous about applying to their particular flavor of linux.

It's not sufficient to just slap things together and hope they are somehow cohesive to compete in the desktop space today.

These people get it.
Introducing Ask a Female Engineer
Oct 2015 was when the first preview went live. Not sure when the last release went out but my copy is missing 3 chapters at the end on deployments.

This book does the same re GCP with most stuff done via the gcloud CLI that I've seen anyhow(I've only skimmed the book). Pretty sure Kelsey Hightower works for Google so it makes sense it is specific to their products.
I guess not as well. I wonder if they will brand differently in Asia Pacific to reduce confusion. MYOB's Atlas does not appear to be targeted towards business outside AU, but Stripe Atlas is targeted at international customers so there may be some collision there.
Bicycle Parking Tracker with Haskell, OpenCV, NixOS and React from GHCJS [video]
Found in the source code: http://reactionwheel.net/
There's a certain pride in being able to provide for yourself and your family without depending on the charity of others. That's very ingrained in middle-class US society, and back in FDR's day that pride was strong among farmers, poor immigrants, and most others barely managing to scrape by through the Great Depression. Those are the folks I believe FDR was talking about in your quote.

But below them are poorer people, desperate people, people who are still struggling to provide for themselves but are loosing ground because the odds are against them. (eg: everything is more expensive when you're poor, opportunities pass you by, etc.) In my opinion, the goal of income redistribution should be to lift these people up enough so that their struggle to hang on is changed into a slow climb towards independence. They don't need riches for that, they just need a fair playing field and enough wealth to stay in the game. No one in this group, I believe, would be hurt by the assistance.

Now, there is a group even further down the ladder, who have given up the struggle, and who couldn't care for themselves even with adequate wealth. These are the people that opponents of various income redistribution proposals use as the examples of "freeloaders" who will "take all our wealth" to get a "free ride". It's disingenuous to highlight this group while ignoring the group I described above, but I do have to agree that this group would not be helped by income redistribution. This group needs a better version of the social safety net that we already have in place: shelters with free meals, medical care, drug addiction treatment rather than incarceration, education. These people need help learning to become productive members of society before they can benefit from directly sharing in the wealth of society and move on to helping to produce that wealth.
That is true. But Stewart also said "The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls."
Yeah, but I'd rather not play the game illegally, if possible. As bad as it may be, the DRM is the dev's choice...

You know, I was going to finish that sentance, and then I remembered what DRM is, and what it does. In short, I came to my senses. Somebody should crack it ASAP.
There is plenty of legacy rental housing and owned homes/condos in the city that don't have parking and they are not facing record vacancy rates. Further, you can buy new homes in the city that do not include a parking space - several in my new complex did not include off-street parking. They were sold within a week of listing.

The fact that the city of Seattle has legislated a need for off-street parking in new construction does not mean that the market actually demands it in any way. Further, the skyrocketing price of housing in Seattle shows pretty clearly that folks will take whatever they can get, parking or no.
I've been using it on Freya and it works very well with my Gmail account.
I didn't downvote you, but that comment was totally content-free. Try making an actual argument about why the dangers outweigh the benefits and I'll bet you the "hivemind" won't be so hard on you.
I'm all for replaceable batteries, but in practice I think they create more safety issues. Many users with old phones will choose the cheapest replacement available, and quality of it will likely be worse than of those shipped with branded phones.
This is a line too far for me. I will not comply. I think we should all insist that we build systems where the encryption is open source, out of our control and we never have access to the keys.

It's time to get rid of passwords too. Start, step by step, getting users used to keys, and used to being responsible for them. IT won't happen overnight.

Doing this takes care of a whole lot of social engineering problems too where hackers could call your customer support reps and get access to an account via an out of band password reset.

It's not just about not trusting the government, it's about not trusting yourself. Your company could make mistakes procedurally, your employees can make mistakes via human weakness or trickery, and as a society we need the trust that comes with real security.
If you start looking at effective achieved energy delivery from solar, 10% is exceptional. Consider that plants are lucky to return 1-10%. Algae, under exceptional conditions, may also reach 10%, but that takes some doing.

Insolation: 1 kW/m^2

Panel efficiency: 10-20%, nominally 17%. Maximum for a single-layer cell is 37% for quantum physics reasons, with an "infinite" layer panel, 87%.

Capacity factor is the amount of time a panel actually recieves sunlightlight. Typically 20-30%, with 30% as a peak.

Spacing factor. PV doesn't work if shaded -- the entire circuit cuts out. So you have to angle and space your panels. On net, this reduces availble area by about 50%. Less near the equator, more at high latitudes.

Degredation. For numerous reasons, solar panels degrade with time, mostly due to physical wearing (broken cells, wiring, hazing of panels, stone and hail damage, etc.) When nominal output falls to about 85% new, panels are deemed due for replacement. This is about 20 years based on multiple studies. So you're replacing 5% of your stock every year, and losing a few percent of output.

Inverter losses. Converting panel (DC) to transmission (AC) power costs about 10%.

Transmission losses. Another 6% or so for high-voltage transmission.

Multiply all that out, and your 1 kW/m^2 * 0.17 * 0.50 * 0.9 * 0.9 * 0.25 leaves you with 17 watts of 24/7/365 capacity per square meter. Or about 1.7% net efficiency.

This doesn't account for storage which can cut into that some more.
Yeah, these honest people deserve what they get! They should have known we only allow liars into our great country.
Which crooks shall we start with first? The Chinese crooks, the American crooks or perhaps crooks of a less powerful third nation?

IE, US brokerages have engaged in similar or even more baldly speculative dodges -

NYTimes: "Hundreds of millions of times a day, thirsty Americans open a can of soda, beer or juice. And every time they do it, they pay a fraction of a penny more because of a shrewd maneuver by Goldman Sachs and other financial players that ultimately costs consumers billions of dollars."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/business/a-shuffle-of-alum...

And whether any of this actually illegal is to-be-determined but we're dealing with the people who make the laws, fighting with other people who also make their laws, right?
> 40 yrs exactly and they always tried to surprise the world with the best design and best UX.

Apple didn't start out with a focus on great user experience. Their first computers forty years ago were kits of the Apple I, whose user interface was a BASIC interpreter. (Though, arguably, these machines were able to use a TV for a display, which was better than what other hobbyist kits were capable of). The UX era arguably began, perhaps, around the Apple Lisa [1983]: the precursor to the Mac [1984].
> why does Maria have to be dressed like a "sexy librarian"?

A quite liked the explanation suggested here[0] to the same question.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12466454
Interview with Google Co-Founder and CEO Larry Page (2014)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12455274
What Should You Choose: Time or Money?
The headline is click-baity, he can still come to USA but has to apply in advance to a costly permit. Canada throws similar hissy-fit when dealing with Americans or Green card holders with DUI record.
Midway is an airport for ants. 10/28 at SFO is 2 sq km, and there are two of them, and 1/19 are 1.5 sq km, and there are two of them. Then you also have OAK and SJC.

Point: a square kilometer to generate 1GW peak of electricity would be an obviously excellent trade off, well within the cost parameters that humans are willing to spend on far less useful endeavors like runways and parking lots.
And they say Linux can't be pretty. If only this distribution had more support! The team hs already done wonders making it the most well-polished Linux distribution out there. Perfect for those transitioning from a Mac/Windows.
Someone should 3D print a 3D printer that 3D prints 3D printers :D
There is an open onedrive client that works great.
If it is too complicated but can't do this, then maybe it is complicated in a wrong way.

Second, "tickets to which you added a comment in the last week" in other words are "active tickets for a week" or more shortly "tickets related to me", which seems to be pretty useful for, e.g., a welcome screen for a developer/manager/whatever. One doesn't look at new tickets each 15 minutes, idk why all darned trackers show that after login.
Garbage-eating drone starts cleaning up the Port of Rotterdam
I believe it's spelled "Stroustrup"
Show HN: A flask app to make dashboards, easily
>We never see or store your admin password. The dialog box you see is a native OS X API (i.e. made by Apple).

Is it a native OS X dialog API, or native OS X authentication API? I could make a password prompt myself, and call that "being official Win32 API".

Can you show me the class where you invoke it, so I can judge for myself?
http://explosm.net/comics/2034/
It's all over the web and there are free databases like TMDB around that provide good API access
Oh please, just because you don't like something does not mean people in the Linux space before elementary were just slapping stuff together.

Sure, there are a lot of distributions and desktop environments that focus on getting stuff done and let the user customize the look to their needs, but that is hardly the only choice.

For anyone wanting to try out a cohesive setup try one of the following:

- GNOME on Fedora (or Korora if you want binary repos).

- Unity on Ubuntu

- KDE on OpenSUSE
This generally applies when they do something that prevents competition. If Facebook made it difficult or impossible for you to use other social media websites, then maybe.
Yes, it is. Zen as such is a religion and philosophy from Japan; it is intrinsically Japanese, by definition, just as Judaism is by definition intrinsically of the Hebrew ethnicity.

I am aware of the use the term has taken on in popular culture, divorced from its original context -- that's precisely what I'm complaining about.

This trend is nothing more than ongoing cultural appropriation of exotic cachet and a watered-down stereotyped design aestheic from a faraway foreign ethnicity, in order to seem cool and sophisticated to other westerners. Websites labeled Zenwhatever have nothing to do with actual zen. It's a philosophical blackface minstrel show.

That the stereotypes being promoted about an ethno-religious identity seem to be positive and flattering is irrelevant. Few people would call their accounting software "Jewbook" to trade on a supposedly positive and flattering image of Jews as prudent financial managers -- yet "Zenefits" is supposedly fine.

Indeed, 50 or 100 years ago, many people widely used the word "Jew" as an adjective in a positive and flattering sense related to "having business acumen" or "being a good negotiator," and when challenged offered very similar defenses to the one you just offered, about how "jew" had by then become a generic word for something good, divorced of its original context, and not a religious stereotype or insult in any sense.

In Japanese culture, incidentally, Zen is most typically associated with Japanese racial superiority ideology and far-right wing militarism. How ironic considering its cachet among young, cool progressive types in the west!
DUI record isn't the same to me admitting that at some point after the age of 18 I was riding a bike with a non zero blood alcohol level
Even if you dislike C++, or like me, came to loathe it, I highly recommend the book he published in the same year, The Design and Evolution of C++ (https://www.amazon.com/Design-Evolution-C-Bjarne-Stroustrup/...). It's very educational about you go about making a successful language in an existing ecosystem, and even after swearing off the language I don't regret one bit the time I spent reading the book.
I'm fascinated by Vala, can anyone talk about how it's used in elementary and if it's a huge productivity benefit? I really think Vala and its ecosystem should get more attention!
Because signup isn't fully working yet. There's still a lot of bugs we hadn't worked out in the signup flow. SSL will be up when we get it working.
mikewhy: The article states that it re-adds itself to the list automatically the next time you log in, without asking for permission again. There's no option to keep it permanently disabled.
Isn't this exactly not what H1B is supposed to be used for? And isn't this against the law already?
I'm a Windows/Linux user. I feel like something like Linux Mint is very much polished. My complain is the lack of main apps: adobe suite and visual studio in my case.
Chariot does not provide "modern, efficient transit" by any metric. They are commuter shuttles, operating only during commute hours. They're miles away from a transit system you can rely on for most of your activities.

Commuter shuttles have trouble attracting significant ridership, because riders are using them just for that: one commute.

We know that for transit to be successful, it's gotta be a way of life. For many car riders, their way of life heavily depends on getting everywhere with a car. It's hard to replace that with mass transit. Cities have done it, but commuter shuttles do not achieve that.
Taking out the garbage: The cost of allocations
Without invoking abuses of either relativity or the rocket equation, current physical understanding more-or-less limits us to long-term 'generation ships'. There is some potential argument about cryogenic freezing/revival, but it may be more accurate to talk about human-descended life forms walking on exoplanets rather than homo sapiens sapiens per se.
this is super cool! I'm especially impressed he built his own lens too. it would have been really easy to justify using an existing lens
Why hasn't America slapped a tariff on Uber and Tesla?
I remember that scene, specifically because 'Doomguy' PAUSES. He listens to find out WHY they're asking for a cleaner shutdown, maybe there's a good reason. Oh, just mining more energy from hell? Not good enough, CRUSH.
Salmon, as an example, turn out to be a major component of nutrient transfer mechanisms returning fertilisers from sea environments to littoral watershed regions.

http://www.inforain.org/reports/salmon_decline.html
Πάμε Στοίχημα ότι ξεκινά η SuperLeague
“Re: Question”: Powell email to Clinton Re BYOD Policy and Workarounds [PDF]
Isn't there a patent or copyright issue involved here?
In some instances it is better. In other circumstances it is not.

One silly example that happened to me. I bought a dishwasher and it had a problem. Under EU law, the retailer covers the warranty the first year and then the manufacturer warranty kicks in for years 2 and 3. Under the manufacturer's warranty they would dispatch a technician to my home. But the for the first year I would have to carry this big bulky appliance back to the store for them to look at and repair it.

In the end I sat on the problem for a few months until the "real" warranty kicked in and had a technician come out.

I don't think this was intentional but an oversight in the original consumer protection law.
There are plugins that give you the fancy icons for some file managers, and they still run in user-space (and as non-root).
But those remarks are just the lens. The lens came out out the 3D printer with a frosty surface. Of course that needs polishing. No 3D printer is going to crank out working optics.

What is surprising here is that the object has the internal clarity, so that all it needs is a surface polish. I imagine it must be relatively free of voids and inclusions.
Well you've picked the perfect example where Python's list comprehensions shine, 1 map, 1 filter, 1 'each'.

I think your Java example only looks gross because it's using ugly APIs, and isn't indented well, but otherwise, apart from contrived examples, pipelining is superior.

I find Python's lack of pipeline capability, whilst every other modern language supports it, very frustrating. JavaScript, Scala, Swift, Rust, Ruby, Elixir, C#, F#, Java, Kotlin <-- all support pipelines.

Meanwhile, Python has borked, 1-line, lambdas that compose awkwardly with map/filter (if you do a map over the result of a filter, they'll be written in reverse order), and refuses to implement useful methods on lists, that would allow pipelining. It's like it can't decide to pick the OO solution to the problem (and add the methods to lists) or to go the FP route (and fix its lambdas), so has done neither.

So we're stuck hoping our problem at hand fits neatly into a list comprehension, which still won't be composable when we come back to it and realise we want to add another operation.

I like Python very much, but this is one of it's weakest areas in my opinion, so I'm surprised you bring it up as a strength.
Wikipedia says that 10/28 is 3.618 km. For the runway itself to be 2 km², it would have to be 0.552 km wide. A quick glance at an aerial map indicates that a width of 0.552 km gives approximately the width of both runways, relevant taxiways, and the surrounding ground. Wikipedia says that the runways are in fact .061 km wide, for a total per-runway size of .221 km².

I picked Midway because it's a very conveniently sized airport, being almost exactly 1 mi² in a square-shaped with obvious meter marks (due to surrounding grid system).
Yes, but the story said the scammer wanted to repay Haschek with 1 card worth $477 (note that $477 is greater than $250, this will be important in the next sentence) and another card worth the difference. You can't add money to an Apple gift card after the initialization of the card.

Therefore, the $477 card wasn't one of the 2 cards that the scammer scammed from Haschek. It was separate, and evidence of another crime. Hence my post.
That is literally one of the first goals, the most famous solution being the RepRap.

http://reprap.org/
Presumably with one of the suid executables you authorized when you typed your root password to the dialogue.

And one of them is writable by anyone -- great security, guys!
Note: even though the paper talks about Approximate Regression Machine layers and uses equations that look sort-of like the equations of regularized regression, the layers aren't about regularized regression but about sparse dictionary encoding, a quite different approach.
Why not Warp 11?
I agree that Mint is very much polished but I actually started recommending Elementary over it just because of well it looks, it's quite subjective.

Adobe suite and VS are also the sole reason I have a Windows dual boot set up. Hopefully in the future but I honestly doubt it.
Users that want the thinnest phone possible so they can wrap it in a Fisher Price box.

Users that want cheaper phones so they can pump more money into the accessory ecosystem the functionality back.

You have fun charging 2 or 3 things every few hours and having horrible device interop or none at all with your headphones and other accessories. I'll keep my headphones.
Geothermal, as with solar power, taps into an extant energy flux, rather than, as with fossil fuels and nuclear fission, stocks which are depleted with time.

There's a long discussion of this, dating to the late 18th century, though it's long been ignored and/or suppressed within mainstream economics. You'll find a healthy discussion in ecological or environmental studies circles, however.

Vaclav Smil in general does some of the better quantitative treatments of the problem.
WhatsApp developers fucking apple