skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have already been told this many times in the past (firstly when I learned about them originally from my history teacher). I need a new word for people that irrationally fear technology but technophobe just looks weird to me.
well I would hope there would be a new Pi coming out... eventually.
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I didn't realise #7 was a feature, that's so cool!
It is, but typically it's a local affair, undertrained, understaffed, and underfunded. For the sake of saving a possibly intelligent species, we could afford to pool a bit of money and manpower and make it less of a fight and more of a slaughter of the poachers.
That's good for California. But if we are to generalize this problem, many states don't have that.

Still, it's a good policy and I wish my state would pursue it. The oil boom priced many people out of their homes.
Presumably the commenter intended the opposite relationship: a growing Chinese economy means more money to spend on luxuries like ivory.
many religions will tell you there is really no limit to human desire

Yes, and I've heard both environmentalists and economists say that human wants are infinite. The economists say it in a reassuring tone (don't worry, robots can't cause unemployment because wants are infinite) while the environmentalists say it in a despairing way. But I think that religions, economists, and environmentalists are all exhibiting scope insensitivity and/or neglecting observable behaviors of people who are far above median wealth.

Let's compare the person who flies to Paris from New York once per year for pleasure and someone who sends the assistant on a private jet to fetch baguettes from Paris every weekend. If the once-per-year person flies on a fully occupied Airbus A380 that's about 367 liters of jet fuel consumed (~5800 kilometers each way, 3.16L/seat/100 km). If a Gulfstream G550 does the round trip every weekend that's about 21200 liters of jet fuel consumed per trip or 1,102,400 liters per year (~5800 kilometers each way, G550 max range 12501 km, G550 max fuel load 18733 kilograms, kerosene specific gravity 0.82, 52 weekends per year).

The richie-rich New Yorker regularly sending a personal jet across the ocean for fresh baguettes consumes up to 3000 times as much jet fuel as the comfortably middle class New Yorker who flies commercial to Paris once per year. That's a big consumption gap. But even this out-there conspicuous consumption spans only 3 orders of magnitude in fuel use, whereas (see previous post) it's easy to find 5 orders of magnitude difference in wealth in one large city. My conclusion, which I repeat: consumption grows with wealth but very sub-linearly.
Hence: "Greatly increase the number of game wardens." At some point the risk vs. reward gets skewed in the elephant's favor, and as a bonus you're employing people who might otherwise be in a militia or mercenary group.
> I was living in China at the time, and the Chinese felt a bit shown up by what they consider to be a less developed economy.

And they should. I and probably a lot others are rooting for India! It is great to see these types of accomplishments by other less resourced programs.
> Maybe the earthquakes make underground habitation too
> dangerous?

The inherent (underground) conditions anywhere make it too undesirable.
Agreed. Their definition of static analysis is laughably bizarre as well; there are many security and safety properties that can be proved by static analysis but not by dynamic analysis. Additionally, many of the problems they attribute to static analysis (non-specific versioning and recursive dependencies) are caused by the package managers themselves, and can be solved using static analysis if the build tool is well defined and well behaved.

Their tool has a few major weaknesses:

1. Builds are not reproducible - Reproducible builds require pinned package versions, which they specifically avoid. This could result in security holes if a dependent package version was bumped after the parent project was tested.

2. Subject of analysis - Their main target of analysis is the build file. This severely limits the extent of their analysis and requires them to build new tools for each build tool used.

3. Underestimation - Since a code path must be exercised in order to analyze it, you are guaranteed that the set of vulnerabilities detected is a subset of (or equal to) the true set of vulnerabilities. This is the opposite of what I believe should be the default: Always prefer false positives over false negatives. Both static analysis and binary analysis allow the programmer to over-estimate their analysis, guaranteeing that all vulnerabilities will be found.
Would you be comfortable living in a place where such a simplified means to capital punishment was legally practical?
Or, as Thatcher said: "I have people for that".

Obama doesn't have keys.
Because this time the physical technology replacing jobs is not really new. It is largely old physical technology with better non-physical technology (e.g., software) added.

A self-driving car, for example, is just a regular car (old technology) with some servos attached (old technology) and a few sensors added (old technology) and a computer (old technology), with self-driving software (new technology).

Put a million drivers out of work with self-driving cars, and you don't open up a million jobs building self-driving cars. The number of cars needed doesn't go up much. The demand for servos and sensors goes up, but making those is largely automated already. Maybe some servo or sensor companies have to add another shift...so they hire a handful of humans to watch the machines on the new shift.

Before, when we replaced a human we were generally replacing him with a new machine. Now we are more just making the old machine that the human was operating operate without the human.
Thank you for a brilliant answer!

Re "If all legislation followed the model presented by git (versioning, increments, branches, merges, and total transparency) I think that it would reflect positively on a true democracy."

I have had the exact same thought. It would be hugely inspiring for democracy and be an amazing vitamin injection into how we use the rules we have.
You can run all the k8s components inside containers with hyperkube
Remember Economics 101: Reduce the supply of something and you'll only make the reward of obtaining it that much higher.

You need to kill demand for this stuff, or you need to sabotage the market so the supply is through the roof like the team making fake rhino horn is doing: http://www.iflscience.com/technology/fake-rhino-horn-fight-p...

Shooting drug dealers, for example, doesn't make people not want to be drug dealers, it just kills off competition and makes the surviving dealers earn way, way more money.
Used beaglebone since it's out years ago, it's a great piece of hardware and kind of kicked off the open-source-software plus open source 32-bit-CPU DIY hardware movement before everybody else.

Then clone was up everywhere, from RPI to Intel to many small shops in China etc, even Arduino started to add 32-bit CPU boards, price has remained to be low so far.

The only concern is that TI is not as active as before on its ARM-chip business, otherwise Beaglebones could have dominated the market instead of RPI series.
I hate to say it, but if you need the functionality that Let's Encrypt won't offer (wildcard certificates, longer validity lengths, not wanting/needing to run certbot, code signing, etc) ... your best bet is to look for the SSL resellers.

I'm not going to name the one I used (as I'm not marketing for them), but I purchased a three-year AlphaSSL wildcard certificate recently for a little over $110 (for all three years, so less than $40/yr.)

It ... absolutely defies common sense that certificate resellers are a thing; but indeed it's the very same certificate I'd have gotten had I paid $150/yr on AlphaSSL's site.

The CA model is just completely broken. But right now, our only choice is to find the lowest amount of money to be taken for if we want full HTTPS functionality. And at the moment, that's with the resellers :/
> only exists so the feds can non-transparently and non-equitably mandate the latter anyway.

This premise is unsupported and, I would argue, completely unsupportable. Though I suppose if you start with the premise that the government is trying to mandate particular outcomes, the enforcement actions they take probably look like the target is capriciously moving, but that's just because the premise is incorrect.
Find another way to help the patient.
Unhappy with the current state of functional programming. I know I should't be. I have a lot of options.

I went to school at UC Berkeley. My first language was Scheme. Then Elisp. CLOS was in the first few too. I really didn't learn C or C++ until second semester.

A few months ago I had to pick up enough Scala to figure out what some code did in a project and I wasn't really happy with the language. I realize it is multi-paradigm, but the functional part just seems a little bolted on at times. The notation was clunky. Maybe it is because I prefer Lisp-ish and APL-ish languages. And the Scala docs aren't very friendly. I actually find it easier to write imperative code in Scala than functional code.

Clojure seems nice, but lacks a lot of things that you kind of want in a LISP (proper tail rec). Racket has very little market pen.

Maybe I'm just picky, but I don't see anything I really want to put time into.
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What about impregnating it with some kind of dye that's very difficult or impossible to bleach out?

Alternatively could introduce a mutation that causes the elephants to not grow tusks.
There aren't that many elephants left to guard, and there isn't an infinite supply of poachers. Unlike dealing drugs, for which the supply is worldwide and can be hidden, and for which no particular skills or guts are required, hunting elephants is not so simple or stealthy.

I'm happy to attack this from both ends though.
> Men are busy doing things

The "things" that have historically dictated men's fashion usually involve being shot/stabbed at. Usually by force of draft.

A lot of men's clothing comes from the battle field. I'm not sure that counts as a privilege as this article would have you believe. Not everything male is a net positive.
It will be interesting to see how these improvements trickle down.

At the moment, a few providers have the scale and skills to run datacenters much more efficiently. But I'm guessing that within a few years there will be some generic datacenter-in-a-container available, with efficiency not much inferior to the big four.

At that point, we go back to the hosting market of 15 years ago. Everybody can offer a datacenter without deep technical knowledge, and sell compute cycles on an open cloud market.

It's like all the tiny hosting providers, except that it requires more capital. So it becomes financialised -- if you can get cheap power, low temperatures and good connectivity, and borrow a few million dollars cheaply, then you're in business. But margins collapse precisely because nobody can do it.

In the end, once we get over the transition period of this move to cloud everything, datacenters end up like utilities
> That is not supply and demand works, price will fall.

Below its existing point, but well above the stated $50K.
Variations of this come up all the time. Last reply I heard to this came down to.

The difficulty of actually sedating the elephant.
The danger of the elephants waking up during tusks removal and hurting them self or the remover.
Poachers would still kill the elephant to avoid needlessly tracking it
Don't know why this is on HN, but as a Kenyan I'll say this: the Kenyan elephant situation is absolutely hopeless. It has been well documented since the 70s that the head honcho in poaching was the then president's wife, and the current president's mother(same woman though) [1]. For obvious reasons, this means absolutely nothing will ever be done about poaching in Kenya. If you like Kenya's elephants, best to just go see them before they become extinct, and don't waste any money on charities that claim to be solving this problem. I am not being cynical at all. 3rd world politics is just that depressing and hopeless. Feudalism disguised with democracy paint.

[1] http://mavulture.com/political-corruption/mother-of-the-nati...
Ah, presumably then that's the main source of the bearing failures? TIL, thanks.
A naive question: with all those benefits of methane/LOX engines why weren't they widely used previously instead of kerosene/LOX engines?
Eh, its virtual to you, if permissions are set up correctly.
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It wasn't clear to me at first that the people you're talking about in your edit are the buyers of the horn. It does seem to me though that if the horns were all poisoned people would stop using them rather quickly. The question remains whether that would be worth it.
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And of course it is impossible to find other avenues of treatment if one doesn't work for the patient.
I couldn't have said it better. Thanks again.
My preferred behaviour for pomodoro timers is: start the break countdown automatically at the end of a pomodoro, but wait for the user to click to start the next pomodoro. Does it do that?

For everyone who has not tried the pomodoro technique (25 minutes focused work, 5 minutes everything else): give it a try! I'm constantly surprised at how much I can get done in 25 minutes.
I don't understand what exactly they're saying. Seems to me they're comparing apples, oranges, and cherries. I don't know if they're willingly doing this or if they're trying to make the problem sound harder than it is.

You only need to perform whatever security analysis is necessary after all your dependencies are resolved. This does not require anything "dynamic". You just call the packager manager, wait for all the dependencies to be resolved, then verify there are no vulnerable versions, which is just a matter of looking up the relevant pieces in some database somewhere.

Which is fine if that's what they're doing but this article seems to be just smoke and mirrors mostly.
My thought has always been that poaching is a economic problem and requires an economic solution.

The reason why elephants are being killed is because they're worth more dead than alive to the poacher and likely the local community or otherwise the local community would do more to protect the animals from poachers. What if there was a fund that paid local communities for each live elephant? The community now has an incentive to prevent poaching.

I suppose some of the foreseeable side effects could be the community preventing elephant migration in order to increase the local numbers, but these types of details could be worked out.
No, and five minutes of reading the thread before commenting would have made that clear.
Racket provides delimited continuations. The page you linked to is criticizing undelimited continuations -- including quoting Matthias Felleisen -- and contains a link to the following:

http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/undelimited.html#delim-vs...
Handing over the reins
Did they fix the problem where target="_blank" gives that linked page complete access to the page?
I'm not familiar with Austin, but if it's anything like most other cities, the growth is not happening at the peripheries of the city limits. It's happening in the inner urban core or well outside city limits at the edges of the metro, where there's nobody to object.

In SF proper most development is happening in the South of Market Neighborhood, an old industrial/warehouse district walking distance from downtown. The other areas seeing substantial growth are in far eastern Contra Costa County (Antioch, Brentwood, etc) which is a 90 minute commute from downtown SF. In the Bay Area nearly all the land between downtown SF and the exurbs is either protected park/watershed land or is filled with existing low-density suburban communities who object vociferously to any new development. In San Francisco much of the city was downzoned in the 70s and 80s so that even the existing structures would be too dense, tall, or otherwise non-compliant for today's codes.

That 3500 homes per year is setting a record since the mid-60s just shows how little development there has been. San Francisco has about 350000 existing homes, so that's a growth rate of 1% a year. That's only slightly above the rate of population growth nationwide, and doesn't account for the neighboring communities that have zero growth (Palo Alto, all of Marin County) or migration that would like to join the enormous economic boom going on here.
That's not solving the problem in any way though. How do I send a message to a friend's iMessage from Skype?
I think the Rhino's need tusks for life.
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In this guide, I will make an attempt to describe how SaaS/enterprise companies design lead nurturing campaigns and how lead scoring can help prioritize leads and improve conversions, as well as how lead nurturing strategy affects the creation of drip email campaigns.
The primary goal of this article is to help you design or improve your current lead nurturing strategy. But the ultimate goal is to provide marketers and founders with some core principles on the topics of lead nurturing, and lead scoring. My intention isn’t to provide a cookie cutter solution, but instead to stimulate ideas and encourage a new way of thinking around these topics.

Summary / Advisories

PART 1: Nurturing: Lead Nurturing and Customer Nurturing

1.1. What is nurturing?: lead nurturing, and customer nurturing?

1.2. Why is a nurturing strategy essential for growth?

PART 2: Lead Scoring Strategy and Design

2.1. How a company’s growth stage impacts leads scoring

2.2. Why a prospect’s FIT and PAIN are at the core of any lead scoring strategy

2.3. How to design a lead scoring system

2.4. What is a target (or SDR-ready) score and how do you select one?

2.5. What are the factors that drive lead scoring?

2.6. Reaching an SDR-ready Score

2.7. Static vs. Predictive lead scoring

2.8. What are the biggest mistakes when it comes to lead scoring?

PART 3: Drip Emails As A Primary Lead Nurturing Mechanism

3.1. What are the primary categories of drip email campaigns?

3.2. Segmentation can increase the effectiveness of your drip email campaigns

Summary

Acknowledgements

Resources
Right -- the $1,800 was inclusive of property taxes and insurance ("all-in"). And again -- there are great houses available for under half that ($900/mo all-in).

(Random nitpick: if you're earning the median income, paying a mortgage while contributing to retirement; and have 2 kids, you are not paying anything close to 30% of your income in income taxes.)

Also you are right that if you save ~30% of your median income ($500 + 10% savings + 10% retirement), the month-to-month gets a little tighter. But then you can retire early. :-)

I'm not arguing that everything is roses, just that tens of millions of people live at the median income and own houses, cars, etc.

You'd have done much better here arguing about the costs of childcare or higher education. Those are a bloodbath, no matter where you are.
I was also surprised by this. I thought networking was an area where dedicated hardware had an obvious advantage, because you need to do simple, well-specified things very fast.
Worse than the performance impact is the problem that AddressSanitizer was designed to be a debugging tool and not to mitigate exploits in production.

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/363
What happens when people are paid to write silly things... It's obvious why there wouldn't be anything unnecessary like pockets on her suit: you don't carry a phone or a lighter or whatnot on the stage in front of hundreds of people.

On the other hand, if I'm allowed to generalize based on my intuition, usually women carry more items regularly than men do (make-up items if they wear make-up, sometimes a bottle of perfume, a pack of pads on their periods, etc...), and it's not practical for them to put all them things in their pockets, especially given that stretchy garments are a la mode for both sexes.
>The "plastic cutlery industry" can rake in all the profits of the (literal) garbage they produce, but the whole society is left with the cost of disposing it.

Where I live, the one who bought the plastic cutlery throws it into garbage and pays the full cost for the disposal of that garbage.

And it's converted to energy, finally.
> Bay Area wages soaring but still can’t keep up with housing prices

Wages are soaring because businesses are trying to hire people faster than local supply of talent can respond, driving up the market clearing price of labor. But that means that people are making more in the Bay Area, and there are more of them working (and thus, wanting to live) in the Bay Area -- both of which are factors driving up demand for housing, and thus price.

Its thus unsurprising that the wages can't keep up with housing prices, since they are one of several means by which housing prices are being driven up.
Thanks for that interesting history - had no idea that corruption was that high up the chain.

But I do also second your question: Why is this on HN? It is pretty common knowledge that overhunting + poaching and poor game management are the primary reason for the loss of megafauna on the African contient.

edit: People thought my first statement was snark - it isn't. I genuinely had no idea that poaching / corruption was that high up the chain.
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Elephants aren't content to sit in one spot, they wander over considerable distances and between many different countries. This makes them a lot harder to police than, say, a captive bear.

You can have all the guards in the world attached to these elephants but guards are human and they'll get lazy doing nothing. When they let themselves slip, someone will be there to take advantage of their lapse.

This is a game you can't win by protecting the animals alone. You need to kill demand, you need to make the risk way, way too high for the potential payoff.

One thing you could do to incentivize protecting elephants is offer a payout for a given herd. If someone poaching an elephant costs you money you'd be motivated to protect them, so long as the protection money is greater than any reward for poaching.

Hopefully over time we'll have more technology based solutions like drones that can spot poachers long before they're a threat or civilians who will snitch out poachers because their livelihood is at stake.
Yes, this was exactly my point.

The elements are present, just that the way naming is done is very confusing. The different distribution/namespaces should have clear goals without any naming confusions.
Interesting! Thanks
I don't know. So far unemployment due to more efficient technical advances hasn't lead to overall structural unemployment so I'm not too worried in the long term. For example if we can ship goods much more efficiently it could lead to increase in production of goods, mining of raw materials, even the service industry as people have more disposable income and that's not even counting the jobs running and maintaining the autonomous fleet. I'm not saying the short term might be kinda hard but long term the economy will adjust.
> the NIMBY crowd wants

If it's become a company town as so many suggest,[0] why isn't the company writing the rules?

I don't know much about local politics, except that the area is considered decidedly liberal. Why hasn't a pro-tech party emerged as a meaningful political force?

Or why hasn't Google migrated significant portions of its workforce to a more accommodating location?

Honest questions as an outsider, just curious.

[0] http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/26/5444030/company-town-how-g...