skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has been talk at the IETF of redefining IDNA2008 (the current way you prevent issues like this) in terms of the PRECIS framework (RFC 7564). This wouldn't exactly "solve" the problem, but it would mean that IDNA could be more agile with respect to Unicode versions and would make it easier to react to new problems, new confusable characters, etc. as they happen.
Anyone in NYC interested in borrowing a PanoMoments camera rig?
> Why do many people think food should be immune from innovation?

Food has been innovated on massively over the last 70 years. From the way it is produced to shipped and stored and finally how it is prepared. The industrialization of food has produced instant meals, TV dinners, fast food and led a mono agriculture policy.

A lot of what is labeled as a particular type of food isn't even what it says it is. Look at a loaf of bread sitting on the shelf. It will have 20+ ingredients! Many of them synthetic or unnatural. And it's not just these things added but the process of how it is made that it makes it "not bread".

And that's just the start. The way animals are raised and pumped full of drugs because of this method of raising them. The packages of pre-made food that is full of a list of who knows what to add color and consistency and preservation.

The food industry has been plenty innovating. Between packaged and ready made food and fast food restaurants selling inexpensive meals the innovation is there and widely accepted. The problem is a lot of this stuff is bad for people and responsible for many health problems today and honestly it mainly tastes awful (that parts an opinion to be sure, but it's no wonder that "American food" has such a low opinion around the world).

The food industry had a revolution and it optimized for low price and convenience as people were sold a message that planning, buying ingredients, cooking and washing dishes is a hassle and not something to be proud of and to enjoy. I live in Manhattan and don't have much space but I can cook without hassle. If I had kids I'd be cooking with them and teaching them the value of it.
+1 for Cloudflare. For failover and such, I'm watching for how their traffic control and traffic manager features evolve. https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-traffic/
> [0] And I know this is a juvenile sentiment. I have learned to deal with it but it's just too damn annoying.

I wouldn't say it's juvenile. Progress is about getting rid of the bullshit you don't like doing in order to have more time for things you like doing.
ISPs failing to provide security updates is a specific reason I'm worried about this, I felt Apple was more likely to care about security than ISPs. There's an Australian ISP that issued exactly one firmware patch for the router they sold, and hasn't updated it in over 2 years. Not even post-Mirai....
For a period as a child, I was thrown in among the happy-clappy sort of evangelical Christian [1] whose answer to every problem was, "Jesus can help you with that!" No money? Pray to Jesus. Sick? Pray to Jesus. Husband beating you? Pray to Jesus. Not sure if Jesus is real or just Santa Claus for adults? Pray to Jesus!

This was an awful experience, but I learned a valuable lesson. When a group of people have exactly one answer to a problem, it's not even worth engaging with them. Even if they have learned to sound reasonable, their conclusion is predetermined. Evangelical fundamentalists of any sort are a waste of time.

[1] Side note: I eventually met more reasonable Christians who found this kind of horseshit just as ridiculous as I did. They had plenty of thoughtful views; even where we disagreed, we could have interesting discussions. So my objection here is not to Christianity (or blockchains), just people who have found their first shiny idea and have let it completely overwhelm them.
> And in places like India you see wealthy people living in enclaves treating the working class around them like a different species. I'm frightened that a decline of nationalism and populism in the US could see a move in the same direction.

We're already there, we just don't yet see it for what it is.

Yesterday I watched a man on the phone while paying for his goods at a convenience store. The cashier spoke to him several times, he completely ignored her in favor of his phone. He made no sign of apology, it was literally like she wasn't there for him.

And of course, she had to keep smiling because that is her place as a customer service provider.

It would be one thing if this were isolated, but (anecdotally, of course) I only see it increasing. We're already at that point where some, at least, fail to consider the working class around them at all.
I don't agree with the premise of the article. I bake my own bread and it's no more difficult than making pancakes. Also much healthier since I use less than half the salt that's put into what you can get at the store.
US tax law is so dense and complicated that they can effectively implicate anyone they choose. Having worked with numerous small businesses in the past, do you know how many of them could readily provide carbon copy receipts for every single deduction they claimed in the last X years?

I think there is a valuable discussion to be had about the power of a federal agency that can so easily zero their sights on anyone they choose, especially when that same agency has admitted to targeting for political purposes in the past.
There was a hackathon this weekend at EPFL, Switzerland and some of the teams were working on this dataset. Quite a few interesting hacks came out of it. A few interesting ones were :
* an app to check for allergens
* an app which lets you know what are the "healthy" recipes you can make using a particular product
* an app which lets you take a photo of a restaurant menu (ANY restaurant menu !!), and then uses the openfood dataset (along with a few other openly available dataset) to give you a health footprint of all the food items !!
I would say datasets like these are pretty rad !! Its painful to collect them in one place thats why there are not plenty of them around.... !!
This is stupid. The solution is the semantic web.
What's interesting here is that bitcoin is both an "investment" and "currency" (since you can pay for [some] goods and services with btc directly).

From the "currency" point of view - exchange rate (FX) gains/losses technically only apply to officially recognized foreign currencies.

So that is an interesting can of worms. If I buy bitcoin at price point X, it goes up to X+Y, but instead of selling it I use that Y to pay for something - was that Y a taxable gain?
It's because that "small subsection of large companies" includes the people who have the money and buy the stuff. It's not very useful to dismiss them. Oracle knows that their image among techies is absolute crap. They don't care. Why should they? There's an actual business lesson to be learned from them, for those who care to try.
Well it is a currency exchange and does broker currency transactions. Seems like a brokerage to me.
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> the school's way of competing for the piles of grant money replacement known as undergrads.

I say it's a consequence of their windfall profits from 3-5% yearly tuition increases. Most institutions have "use-it-or-lose-it" budgets. Their accountants can only be so clever in finding ways to spend it, lest it pile up and get released on a state budget report. Then everyone would scream "Why does UXY have a $50mil surplus when they just increased tuition!".

If they wanted to actually compete, they would lower prices. Thats what attracts buyers.
To be honest, right now for immigrants outside of EU it's even worse than being a refugee. Refugees can get into EU without any documents or proof of their identity, while honest immigrants and tourists have to do ton of paperwork, proof of money, family invitation letters and stuff like that.
Open can, deposit contents in pan, heat in microwave for 5 minutes.

Open box, deposit in container, add milk

Take sandwich, apply peanut butter
No I don't think I expressed myself clearly.
The problem is that machine learning learns from biased data. The input data is the total US population, which has wealthier groups than others. Because of the way we train machine learning (using all the data we have), the bias that is in the original data gets transfered to the logic.

Specifically, a machine learning will produce different numbers for 2 individuals with the exact same characteristics except the race. And that is the problem that needs to be addressed.

Let's put it in another context. Let's say I'm a white athlete, and I'm very good at running the 100m race. Actually I run just as fast as a black person who is my main rival. Now if someone has to select one of us to go to the Olympics, they should toss a coin to decide who goes. If you use a ML algorithm, it would absolutely send the black person, because no white people has won a 100m race in the last 20 olympics. That's the kind of bias ML does and that needs to be addressed.
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Wow this is awesome! I'm building something similar with WebMIDI and WebAudio and I've been blocked trying to get recording to work. My current solution is sampling my OscillatorNodes with a MediaRecorder and turning the resulting blob into an .ogg file but it only works in Firefox (Chrome has a bug with decoding ogg with WebAudio). Do you mind elaborating on how you do your wav recording?
It should show a full screen message on FF to say that it will not work as well as Chrome. It has a continue button to hide the message. Did you see that or did it just show the loading bar straight away?
Get an electric pressure cooker and cook once a week.
Soylent exists because people don't want to cook. Don't want the time sliced out of their day. Don't care about variety and flavour. Would be happy to ignore food as an issue.

Telling them to cook really just amounts to ignoring their priorities.
> Wait, are you seriously suggesting that all of the polls that were done (http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/n...) were manufactured by leftist media?

I didn't say that. I said even if poll results showed more red on the map, they would have probably chosen not to show it.

> And besides, having a poor model is not at all fake news. Fake news is completely making things up.

I didn't say poll were fake news. That's was issue discussed in my comment, throwing labels like "Fake News" at stuff you don't agree, isn't it.

> but isn't that the whole idea behind data journalism that you build a model and feed data to it?

Not so simple. How they sample matters, what demographics they include matters, how they adjust results matter.

They obviously got it wrong. No it is not Fake News. But it would be interesting to see why they got it wrong and all had a consistent bias in one direction mainly. Their reputation is at stake so hopefully they do a more in-depth analysis.
How many regular users would know to do that/know how to do that?
It shouldn't be difficult, unless you don't have access to the proper information. The bitcoins you are selling need to be tied to specific bitcoins that were bought. Once you do that, then you have a cost basis for your sale. Subtract the amount you sold them for from your cost basis and that's your gains. If the source transaction was older than a year, it's capital gains. Otherwise, it's income.

(This is for the US.)
Nice track (Gol). I agree, in a stripped down setting the characteristics are more exposed, and digital synths can get boring quick.

DCO - I like them too, I just have enough of them already (MKS-70, MKS-50, JX-3P, Cheetah MS6). Might pick up the new Behringer 12 poly DCO if it's good, but that'll be enough DCO for me. Still plenty of room for VCO synths though, I've got 6-7 VCO mono synths but they are all small or racked and sound very different :)
Not seeing how decentralization offers any of the perceived advantages the author mentions. Frankly, I'm curious if he's just following the trend du jour of attaching blockchain to anything to make it sound innovative. The current mechanism of voting and credit rating systems for example, aren't the victims of fraud because they are centralized. They also function quite well in developed countries where regulation is respected and enacted.
> Decentralization exists when a small enough community can be self-policing and actors have noble goals. That all changes when you get a single bad actor who takes advantage off their weaknesses and well-meaning nature and controls the new system

I found that Internet expanded this small enough community to a new scale. Call it an Internet social contract. I have a great experience doing business with people around the world that never met before. Obviously, there is a negotiation phase where you filter the ones that don't match certain criteria, but, beyond this, I think people is learning how to be decentralized.
To your point about SARs / CTRs- SARs at banks are usually triggered by cash deposits and withdrawals at a much lower level, and every bitcoin transaction is roughly equivalent to a cash transaction. Thus "bank-level scrutiny".

> I mean isn't that the point of the government request?

It's not clear to me whether they actually need this at all, considering Coinbase's existing reporting requirements. It's common enough from other branches to make overreaching requests to set a precedent (eg the DoJ / Apple iPhone) so I wouldn't just assume it's business as usual.
100% agree.

I like having a smartphone with me because it allows me to do things I couldn't reasonably otherwise do -- but it can also be used as a crutch for things you don't really need a smartphone for. I've started looking for ways to solve problems that DON'T involve popping open a google window or launching yelp. Simple stuff like memorizing routes I want to take before I start so I can navigate with my eyes ahead rather than in my phone, asking friends for food recommendations, keeping eyes out for posters advertising upcoming events. For me, making life less convenient and reducing instant-gratification is helping me enjoy the ride more.

(yes, this is 100% a first-world-problems comment)
For the love of tobacco
What about mobile phones, tablets, laptops ?

It is a given that wired is a better option, but I cannot imagine any modern SOHO environment without a wireless router/access point.
Why is it a choice between spending time with children and cooking? I use shopping as a chance to take a kid with me and get some time together. They help me prep the food and cook it, too.

Sure, when they were babies and toddlers, it wasn't practical. But I've found that both your life, and the life of your children is better when you integrate them into the work that needs done and the life you want to live, and do not treat spending time with them as a separate activity.
Kitchen room doesn't need to be big. In fact, a small kitchen can be a plus as long as it's organized: it's like the bus is faster between the processing and storage units.

If you look at some of the traditional kitchens in the South of France (just as an example), you'll see tiny spaces with very small counter spaces and limited cooking/sink areas and yet awesome food come out of those kitchens.
Asus makes really good routers. You don't even need to root them to get the most out of them, as most come with Telnet/SSH support out of the box.
> the law of unintended consequences

A cynical person might say it is an intended consequence. Higher prices raise the barrier to entry for lower classes.
What a lame article.

I personally think anti-lock brakes on motorcycles are pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2tKc8_7jB4
> Many people used it more like Paypal, a conduit to make or receive payments for sales of goods or services. With the conversion of bitcoin to regular currency happening very quickly. No buy/hold/trade activity, etc.

I'm glad you brought this up because it just strengthens my point. Paypal reports US account transactions to the IRS once they go over a certain size.

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/irs6050w
Not in the US. Been 7 years into business. It's practically impossible to be 100% clean on deductions, receipts, reporting, etc... That, and I'm very strict by any standards.
I'm no where near an expert on the subject, But I have heard convincing arguments[1] that fructose is very bad for you (especially when concentrated in a fruit drink).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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As much as I would love to be able to cook homemade meals everyday, I simply don't have the time. That being said, I think that learning how to cook is important. There are so many things in life that people are unwilling to do for themselves because they've never learned how initially and now the bar seems too high. I'm not saying that we need to forgo innovation but I think that learning how to cook, or generally understanding how your car operates should be at least low level priorities even if you don't plan on using that knowledge on a daily basis. Drink Soylent if you want, but try baking a loaf of bread some time as well.
This was a little hard for me to figure out,but somehow I'm losing weight by eating fewer carbs. It's hard sometimes to figure out exactly what I'm hungry for. If I eat veggies the hunger subsides, but then I get very hungry, fast. If I eat fats, the hunger doesn't go away, but I feel like it helps prevent hunger in the future.

I've been eating to be satiated, because I know I have enough calories to live.

I just found [this article](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924224414...) and it seems to reflect what I personally experience.
But think about the poor underrepresented folks using foreign character sets?

You really need to support this 'sub café {} café()' => Undefined subroutine café in your friendly and social programming language, otherwise you will be accused of discrimination.
Of course the two é are not normalized.

Which unicode-friendly language does really check for mixed script confusables? Java only is my guess. Even perl6 falls into this trap.

http://unicode.org/reports/tr39/#Mixed_Script_Confusables
So salty!
I moved to a cheaper city. I miss the big city. Going to in fact move back, even though I am remote.

The ?? $1k I saved per month is not worth all the good stuff I lost from the city (but it depends what you value)
I would agree with this and expand with anecdotes. I am an average cook in the kitchen, usually leaving with all my fingers where they belong, a nice clean kitchen, and a meal that looks and tastes like I meant it to. I have a lot of dishes that are old-hand dishes; if my partner is coming home after a 12 hour day and needs food now, I have a menu of "ready when she's home" meals that are good and I know like the back of my hand. I dance around the kitchen, know how long the grain takes to cook, how long I need for prepping vegetables and spices, etc. this took a bit of practice get to this level of familiarity. Practicing and getting the core skills and ideas down gave me the leisure to experiment, to start tasting in my head what a finished product would be like, or aometimes just having a brute force list if you would of things that go well with ______.

Meals I haven't done before are usually still easy because not every instruction and technique is new; usually it's a matter of "what do I need in what proportion compared to the other stuff?"

This took a lot of cooking for myself to get comfortable with, and a lot of meals that ended up getting fried up with a pasta of some sort and eaten as a "messed that up" meal.

The part where you start to just know how stuff works is when you know you're getting it, jus like any tech or code. You just make it and go and it's not something you have to think or plan about.

A lot of the prep work you're fretting are decisions you will make eventually automatically. They're not that daunting and pretty soon instead of recipes dictating purchases, it will be the other way around; a kitchen full of the essentials you need and then sales or impulses deciding what you make, and the essentials just being tools you need to make it happen.
Swagger has been great in my personal usage. If google started indexing your swagger spec and made a search widget for it, that would really push it to critical mass.
If you have domains.google as your registrar, they include google's dns, which has been very nice, it does support dynamic usage as well.
> But why does searching for APIs and restaurants differ so much?

Because--oh I don't know--APIs aren't restaurants?

Is this really a problem, or is this a tool to help lazy blub developers be even lazier and blubbier?

If you care enough about an API to worry about what things it does via the docs--and why aren't you using a client lib anyways?--then you care too much to be satisfied with a simple sketch of the API via Google search results.
GitHub delivered the wrong source code to people for a while. https://github.com/blog/2273-incident-report-inadvertent-pri...

I'm not bashing GitHub, but some people find more value and less risk in using git in its "native" distributed mode.
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I just reread this and the tone seems a bit aggressive. Too late to edit. Apologies!

The crux of the argument is that many websites seem to have a model of partially-sponsored content (clearly-labeled, etc...) and that this economic model functions because it provides value to the consumer. Consumers are essentially paying for curated content, with the understanding that some of the information will be promotional, though relevant.

I think this is the most (and often only) viable approach to web advertising.
> - 100 Women 2016: Big names, astonishing untold stories: Find out who is on the list

That's actually an annual award/list thing from the BBC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Women_(BBC)
And bath time, watching a bunch of uncoordinated kids flop around on a futbol field, and hearing chopsticks get butchered is?

That is kind of parenting. You put up with crap to teach your kids.

Also, cooking can be pretty fun. Again boils down to the kind of mentality you have and how you approach it.
It did take me a while to make a decision about the separate screens. I wanted a more fully featured piano roll screen and couldn't fit it in properly underneath the synth like the old version. I thought about putting the piano roll in a window so that you could still see the controls at the same time. This could be an option in a future update.
The IRS has already released guidance on this [1]. It might be interesting to think about, but right now it's straightforward in practice.

IANAL, etc.

Edit: Well, for some definition of straightforward :)

[1] - https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/irs-virtual-currency-guidan...
The BBC is not funded by tax money[1], and is independent from government.

[1] little bits of the World Service radio station get some government funding.
A question: I believe these kind of UIs/apps are not a complex undertaking in any sane desktop UI API. So is JavaScript dev/ecosystem in such state that it is worth showing off such stuff?
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