skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article isn't really about how big your home needs to be. If you want a multiple of that many square feet, you pay a multiple of $50k.

You're talking about a budget of $1.2m. Let's spend half of that with the article's math. $600k gets you 3000 square feet of low-rise, or 1500 square feet of mid-rise right at the center of downtown. That's enough for a pretty big family.
Palantir gets some of my sympathy. My organization has a large internship program and I've been first contact for many applicants. I found that a similar number of applicants had to be dropped either due to communication skills or an overall technical skills gap and they tended to be asian/southeast asian.

Interestingly most of them fit the same profile of a bachelor's from India, 1 or 2 years at a consulting firm in India doing something that could be argued is software development and now doing a master's at a large state university. To be honest I'm not sure how they got in or are able to graduate.
Compliance would be a lot fairer and lower-overhead if the government would simply inform businesses of the racial composition they wanted to see, rather than randomly cracking down on firms because particular groups were "only" 4x overrepresented rather than 10x.
The BeagleBone does power management which the RPI doesn't. It's unfortunate that they didn't take this revision opportunity to boost the RAM and switch to USB3. IMHO.
That is not what dynamic analysis means but I appreciate everyone redefining terms to suit their marketing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_program_analysis
Rust Executables 10x Slower on AMD Due To Linux+AMD Performance Issues
You might try mounting it via NFS; it's also quite possible that the serial port might be faster for getting traces off the box than its relatively anemic ethernet support.
personal consumption in terms of durable goods probably, but what about in terms of services / experiences? those seem to be more and more the things that high net worth individuals go after, and as many religions will tell you there is really no limit to human desire (and consequently to the money you are willing to spend to fulfill those desires)

This is how you go from "I'd like to see Europe some day" to "I am going to have a week to go to Europe once every few years" to "I am flying business class to Europe for tourism every year" to much later "I own a private jet and I feel like having those baguettes from that shop for breakfast tomorrow so I am going to get my personal assistant to fly there and get them for me"

There are always goods available no matter how much money you have, as much as the quantity of the food you eat is limited by your physiology, the amount of money it costs is only limited by your imagination.
Thanks, dsacco. Exactly what I meant, but even better put.
Plain un-customized Debian is what it comes with. Debian and Ubuntu are both popular, but you can run almost any distro.
I really things swept under the rug more than in most other countries? If there really is such a huge issue I imagine there must be dozens of topics that are completely ignored in Sweden, and at the same time I have a hard time understanding how any reasonably well functioning society can ignore several important areas without more direct effect on the economy?
And also wants to tear down most government agencies which protect medicine, transport passenger safety, air, food and water, and blind faith that all people will always act honorably and regulation is always the "enemy." Thankfully, this unrealistic, utopian guy whom didn't know where is Aleppo doesn't have a snowball's chance.

Read more of what Thom Hartmann also talks about: http://www.alternet.org/visions/true-history-libertarianism-...
Globalisation vs the environment

Globalisation means consuming cheap stuff made in a low cost country that does usually not last that long and transported over long distances.

Built to consume in cellphones are integrated batteries and cheap components that by design fail after three years so we buy a new phone. Integrated storage of a limited size that you cannot expand. Making things that does not last is more profitable than making things that last long why is that?

How 16 container ships pollute more than all the cars in the world.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-1...

On one hand economists wants us to blindly consume as much stuff as possible since that is good for the economy. The other hand says we pollute the earth and use to much energy which means we need to consume more durable goods which lasts longer.

How do we integrate the environment in the economy?
Palantir charged with discriminating against Asians
> Connecting to TLS to news.ycombinator.com is nice in that I know nobody has read or altered the message in transit. The fact that a third party vouches that news.ycombinator.com is who they say they are doesn't add anything for me, because I don't trust news.ycombinator.com any more than I would trust somebody impersonating news.ycombinator.com. The CA in this situation simply complicates things and adds nothing for me.

You don't know that the message isn't read or altered in transit unless you know that your TLS connection is to the real news.ycombinator.com.

ISPs have been running transparent HTTP proxies to inject ads and other nonsense into your content. It'd be trivial for them to run a transparent HTTPS proxy to do the same - aside from the little detail that your browser would try and fail to verify the certificates provided by said proxy were vouched for by a CA.

I don't consider this is a "largely-hypothetical" attack. ISPs have been doing it for a few extra pennies of ad revenue.
Now that was entirely pedantry.

The microbiome isn't excluded from the law of conservation of energy either. Different microbiomes may process food differently, but it cannot extract more energy than is available.

A calorie is a unit of measure of energy, specifically the energy required to increase the temperature of 1g of water 1C. The fact that it is inconsistent based on temperature and pressure doesn't invalidate its definition. It is approximately 4.184J.

Your example of diet soda is completely off the point as well. A lot of poisons have 0 calories, that doesn't make them good diet food. Olestra is another bad example, because the rats in the experiment didn't gain weight from the olestra but from a feedback effect that resulted in further overeating. But you're right in that calories don't tell you whether something you eat is poisonous.

Calories are a good enough metric, but they require regular reevaluation in order to make decisions.
There's a financial interest. Cheaper homes means your home is worth less. There's a tipping point, however. There's a point where you can no longer afford your home or the neighborhood.

There's also a question of quality of life. A prison is one, extreme example. But an apartment building aimed at college students or young professionals might be another. High density housing might create more traffic, noise, parking problems, property issues, mess, and so on. As someone who recently moved out of a "low rent" neighborhood, I had my property thrown up on and vandalized multiple times, and been woken up in the middle of the night more times than I can count. I was not sad to move to a neighborhood not far away, but significantly quieter. I realize these problems are not related to the property per se, but certainly people chose a neighborhood for a variety of reasons that are not aesthetic.

This isn't to dismiss the need to improving access to housing. I don't want to be NIMBY, but we seem to have this immovable dichotomy between liberal "expand access" policies and conservative "if you don't like the neighborhood, move" policies and no real way to reconcile them.

EDIT: I have a short anecdote to try and illustrate my point. In my former neighborhood I was lucky to have a small, one car garage on an alley. Parking was at a premium and most residents in the converted rental housing (houses that were turned into multi-unit rentals) did not have parking. At least a handful of times per year, I would find a car blocking my garage. Perhaps I didn't leave for work until later in the day or something, but whoever needed that spot thought they were OK there for a while. This is not a trivial problem for me. I needed that car to get to work and now I either have to track down the owner or wait for a tow truck (and incur the owner's wrath which usually involved yelling at me from my yard or smashing my mailbox) and be late for work or wherever I was going. The problem is that this wasn't a serious issue to most people reading an article on HN (or even the local paper). It's not an issue that you make policy based on, but it is an issue for everyone who lived in the neighborhood, including the people who were forced to block my garage for lack of other parking. I can't call the cops and tell them I think my irate neighbor smashed my mailbox or call my city and tell them to do something about parking. I'm stuck with that problem until the slow wheels of planning fix it, and by then I've been late to work a dozen or more times.
Interesting observation!
I actually lower the brightness to about 10-20 % on each display I use (the default settings are ultra high for a sunny day in a fully lit store) and while I have two CCFL panels (a 1000 USD 24" from the past and a 1000 USD 30") blazing at me and both of them clearly use some sort of PWM - they start buzzing audibly below 80-90 % brightness (both in their audio outputs AND even with audio disabled it is heard from the monitor itself) - there never was any visible flicker. And in the CRT days, I saw flicker up to 85 Hz (including). Color wheel DLPs are also pure hell - the image breaks into three separate colors in each eye saccade. Yet, CCFL backlight, buzzing like crazy - and no visible flicker.
Enter my latest, fanciest, wide gamut screen with LED backlight - and on lower brightness, it flickers worse than a 60 Hz CRT...

However, luckily, it is not the case of each and every LED monitor - search for "flicker free" or "PWM free" - and it is not some fancy rare unicorn feature, a PWM free IPS display can cost the same or even less than flickering equivalents.
They pretty much said you should've been on the Apple's Swift language development team :). I mean, the shit is like only 2 years old.
Yep...who repairs shoes or clothes now a days? Go out and buy a new shirt for less than $10. Furniture repair? With Ikea and other compressed wood furniture, it's not worth it to repair furniture. Consumer printers? Just buy a new one.

Heck, I can buy a brand new photo printer for cheaper than it takes to buy the ink (after rebates, of course).

I'm also surprised by this:
The proposed legislation would cut regular tax on repairs of bikes, clothes, and shoes from 25% to 12%.

I can't imagine paying a 25% tax on someone's labor (I live in the U.S)
Would this have anything to do with it?

http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49
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http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/kubeadm/

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> From the last line of the article: "The lawsuit seeks relief for impacted individuals, including lost wages." This sounds like remuneration to me.

I missed that in reviewing the actual lawsuit (and thought it was an error in the article), but see it on review. In any case, the point that the government knows who the applicants are remains.

> I don't know how the government can identify race of all applicants

The government can identify all the applicants. If it reaches the stage at which more information from them becomes relevant, the government can reach out to the applicants for additional information. It doesn't need to rely on the applicants initiating the contact.

Though if, as you indicate, you are personally interested and what to proactively contact the government to make sure you don't miss out on any opportunities, contact information for the office responsible for the lawsuit is in the press release [0] announcing it.

[0] https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ofccp/ofccp20160926
Keep an eye on the github issue; a few people have found kinda-sorta-workarounds. https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements

I've postponed the Sierra upgrade on my main dev box until this is sorted out.
When companies raise money, the first objective is to hire more employees. So I can certainly say, yes they are.
> But if I call a cab, I'd like to have them show up within, say, 15 minutes. The reality is that the explicit promise given by dispatchers is usually an hour,
> and after an hour, the taxi often doesn't show up

Out of curiosity, who are you calling that has these long response times? This reads strangely since you're saying cab/taxi, yet there's no way to call for an NYC yellow cab on the phone... only car services, which are independent companies.

In my experience, nearby Brooklyn car services send cars in 5 to 10 minutes in neighborhoods closer to Manhattan, or maybe around 15 minutes in more far-flung neighborhoods where the car services have smaller fleets. You just have to figure out which car services are physically located in the neighborhood you're in. e.g. call Arecibo from Park Slope where they're based, but don't call them from Coney Island because it's unlikely any of their drivers are there at the moment.
An Introduction to Random Forests, Ensembles, and Performance Metrics
Yes, IBM developers are close to finishing Swift Playgrounds now.
Why does everyone keep saying international shipping isn't sexy? It has a profound global impact and you can see it happening massively everyday with the work of thousands of people as giant ships come into the port and load/unload. I know the heart wants what the heart wants, but it should be considered at least as sexy as hosted version control, mobile marketing analytics, 'big data', automated taxi dispatch, or any other hot areas.
Monday Readings// Doctors Without Borders, Banking Culture, Gucci, Networking
> Linux doesn't have a stable ABI, hasn't hurt its success much.

Linux does have a stable ABI. And GNU'e libc tries to have one but it breaks often enough to be a concern (even with symbol versioning). You're conflating GNU and Linux here.
Ask HN: What would work well in a country built on the Unix Philosophy?
It seems to me counties end up with rules and institutions with increasingly less chance of improvement yet a accumulated complexity.

Would the Unix Philosophy when applied to country building help with this problem?
Most of those places in the South don't have recycling precisely because they are too busy complaining about how terrible and inefficient and wasteful their government is, and how taxes and fines harm their freedom to throw whatever they want to in the garbage. To uncharitably generalize a bit.

There's that, and the belief that environmentalism is a communist plot, and that aluminum grows on trees.

If they wanted compost pickup, there'd be no reason why they couldn't have it. When you've solved curb-side garbage pickup, you've also solved curb-side recycling pickup, and curb-side compost pickup.

Comcast is a publicly traded firm.
seriously? (seriously seriously)? It depends on if you're okay with the chinese having a backdoor, at the firmware level. (to the tune of '//gotroot!!' in the source code, and dropping to root.)

if you're okay with it, you have a LOT more options than if you aren't. perhaps if we start having dedicated routers and networks for the backdoored insecure stuff they'll start realizing that at the end of the day they're being pretty fucking obvious.

no comment on other governments stuff. if they're there, at least they aren't obvious.
Yeah, sure.

Fleet for dnyamic scheduling
Consul for k/v service discovery
Registrator to actually populate consul
Confd to talk to consul so you can configure your containers

...

Oh wait I seem to be building a crappy more involved version of kubernetes.

p.s. I actually did the above. kubernetes is a better solution.
Can you elaborate on what impact they had? The vikings reaching North America early is pretty neat, but doesn't seem to have changed the course of history much. Their colonies West of Greenland were pretty much failures, as they were systematically unable to compete with natives for resources. They were eventually pushed back east by skirmishes with the Thule and harsh, underprovisioned winters.
I hate the current voting system. The mess of voting for a district, which votes for a state, which votes for an electoral college, which votes for a president is ridiculous and leads to only a tiny number of votes actually having the chance to determine the outcome of the election.

I worry that by voting, I give whoever wins a stronger appearance of a mandate. I would prefer not to give them this mandate.
I thought China had brought in a total ban (finally) on both import and sale last year. Obviously there's still smuggling, but I'd hoped the ban would have a noticeably positive effect.
I also had issues with my eyes, which fit the symptoms described. I solved it by wearing glasses with a varying dioptric up and below the centre.

That way your eye has to re-focus as you look up and down on the screen.

The glasses also have a tinted glass that's supposed to help.

Mine are from the company starting with Gu... when searching for "computer screen glasses".
For most owners, there is no tipping point. Their house payments are fixed based on when they purchased the house, not on its appreciation since then.
>making affordable living spaces is easy if the laws and NIMBYs allow it

Buckminster Fuller discovered this back in the 1930's with the Dymaxion House.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house

>"The first Beech-produced Fuller House was widely publicized. Soon 36,000 unsolicited orders, many with checks attached, were received for the Fuller House... None of the building codes would permit their erection. The severest blow of all was that both the national electricians and plumber's organizations said they would have to be paid to take apart all the prefabricated and pre-installed wiring and plumbing, and put it together again, else they would not connect the otherwise "ready to live in" house to the town's or city's electrical lines and water mains. They held exclusively the official license to do this by long-time politically enacted laws. No banks were willing to provide mortgages to cover the sale of the Fuller Houses."

-Grunch of Giants
I think many of the comments are missing a few important points:

1. Yes, 20% Asian hiring rate is pretty decent when you compare to the general Asian population at large. However, the lawsuit specifically alleges that, in one example case, the qualified application pool was 73% Asian. In that case, it's extremely abnormal to hire 17 non-Asians and only 4 Asians.

2. Palantir is involved in government contracting, so there are also very specific regulations for compliance https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/aboutof.html

3. The lawsuit is being brought on by the Department of Labor. IMO, generally government agencies are usually reluctant to initiate lawsuits that they are afraid of losing.

4. It might be malicious, it might not be. But Palantir was given multiple chances to correct their compliance issue: "The Labor Department sent Palantir a notice in October 2015 about its findings, according to the lawsuit. Both before and after that notice, labor regulators attempted to secure Palantir's voluntary compliance, the lawsuit said, but they did not succeed."
> Well obviously the government cares, I'm suggesting that they shouldn't.

There may be an argument that the government shouldn't require non-discrimination by government contractors, but I don't think that there is a particularly good argument, that, given the existence of the requirement as a term of every government contract, that the government should not care that a government contractor is just casually disregarding the terms of its contract with the government and expecting to continue to be paid.

> If you exclude a bunch of people for arbitrary reasons then you necessarily get worse results. Some of the best candidates may be excluded.

Since Palantir is a government contractor, the argument that they would be hurting the quality of work they do (which is valid, just not supported by mere equality of qualifications) is another reason the government should be concerned. Remember, this isn't an enforcement action under general anti-discrimination law, its an enforcement action under the specific rules that apply to government contractors.
https://www.flexport.com/careers#join
It's astonishing how many systems and apps still have no password security in 2016. It's really not that hard to protect your users' passwords.
27 U.S. Senators Rebel Against Arming Saudi Arabia
Yeah, one order of magnitude. I hate doing that.

I don't think it's too high, though. My parents built something on the order of 5,000 sqft in the early 70's for around $15,000 (including the 5 acres of land), adjusted for inflation that's under $150,000. My Mom was able to put herself through 4 years of college by waiting tables part time.

Yeah, we had it good. Why? My dad's blue collar job burying and splicing telephone lines for Ma'Bell.

It really was a different time. That same job today comes with no job security and remarkably similar wages as it was 40 years ago, even as the cost of living and inflation has increased tenfold.
You really think starting an airline is as easy as starting an Uber competitor? Yeah I guess besides the gargantuan barrier to entry.

I've got a bridge to sell you.

No point in discussing this further, really.
Wow! I kind of fit into your sterotype, except i graduated from a large private university. Isn't it stupid that you are putting a billion people in the same pool(Indian bachelors+ consulting firm exp+US State school = suckers)?
Nobody is asking to bulldoze the Painted Ladies or Lombard.

The problem is more about the Sunset, the Richmond, Forest Hills, Excelsior -- just these huge sweeping neighborhoods which are incredibly underzoned and underdeveloped. Or the people who fight development in SOMA because it blocks part of their view.
Since you're working in Sublime Text, you should check out this automatic time tracker that works with ST2 and ST3:

http://wakatime.com/

Full disclosure: I built it.
The game is based on the horrendous and fatally flawed Phillips Curve that posits a inverse relationship between employment and inflation (i.e., a tight labor market means high inflation and high inflation can tighten the labor market - that is the Fed can inject money into the economy to spur job growth).

The Curve was dead in the 1970s and through the 1990s:

https://mises.org/library/phillips-curve

And still dead:

http://www.economonitor.com/dolanecon/2014/05/12/what-ever-h...

I just wish it would die completely.
I keep mine set to what seems like the brightness of everything around it. On this montior, that is 20/100
The BeagleBone Black has always targeted more embedded applications. Raspberry Pi's recommended embedded models are actually worse than this.
it's not really a new SoC ... it's an AM335x die (the real SoC) packaged along with dram, the TI power controller chip along with all the decoupling caps ... what this means is that you can get away with a 4-layer board with components on just one side for a lot of applications and build it at home in a reflow oven