skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But any deduction or credit for education happens on income tax forms; there's no mechanism to get deductions or credits on property taxes any other way.

People with enough deductions get to file Schedule A and explicitly itemize property taxes. Typically owning a house gets you enough itemized deductions to justifying filing Schedule A so while a renter indirectly pays property taxes too, they don't get an explicit deduction for property taxes and thus also wouldn't get to deduct additional costs of homeschooling incurred.
This should extend beyond code and cover data, too. If you replace a bool field in a class by an enum, for instance, and then read in (or, for systems with a REPL, page in; if your system has paged out data, paging in every page to check it for the presence of to-be-migrated objects on every structural change to any class makes making changes too slow) a file that serialized the bool values, they should automatically be upgraded to use the enum.

There was/is tons of work on that, often using Common Lisp and the meta-object protocol because of its excellent reflection capabilities and change-class ()

I can't find a good reference, but http://plob.sourceforge.net, https://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/ and http://www.adoc-metis.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/elw0... may be starting points for learning more about this.
This is essentially the entire article, without the clickbait or ads.
And, the book it talks about is here: https://www.gitbook.com/download/pdf/book/kyclark/metagenomi...
Many processors do have fraud checks that work quite well, and you can always use services like Amazon Payments which includes fraud protection.
I used to do a lot of that when I was first learning Linux (back in the day when each Linux distro came with a full "HOWTO" collection.) I have become much lazier since, usually going for defaults and not touching anything unless I need the behavior to change.
Functional Programming and Haskell – Computerphile
What's weird to me is that basically "reasonable suspicion" is simply substituted for a court order when it comes to border enforcement officers, however, it seems that at no point during your encounter with one are they obliged to convey to you what that "reasonable suspicion" is.
Given how everything in most phones is by default encrypted these days, I wonder how diffult I would be for someone like Apple to offer a border crossing mode that has whatever apps you deem acceptable, while firewalling off others in an undetectable way?
Interesting. Major problem: Either existing services need to shift gears to support this third-party that reduces their control over data (when often, your data is how they make their money), or else new equivalent services using said third-party need to be made and meaningfully dislodge them (difficult, inertia is a thing).
>there are way too many options parading around as serious contenders.
Its early days for some of these concepts on the web (I mean, discounting some stuff that happened years ago at Xerox Parc which got beat out by worse technology). So by what objective measure are there too many options? There are a few very well established options: React, Angular, and Ember. If you need standards and heavyweight support and reliability, use one of those things. I'm sure in a few years, things will have coalesced and standardized a bit further.
I think it is because people are generally NOT saying that they should necessarily BLOCK things, but instead label them appropriately.

THIS IS SATIRE: at the top of ONION articles.
THIS IS FAKE: on top of us-political-truth-grabber-buzz.com

maybe OPINION gets added to HUFFPO

I think that would likely be enough to satisfy most of the needs.

... Although while we're talking blue sky / greenfield ... maybe we add something like:

Here's How Ridiculously Expensive It Is To Replace A Windshield On An Aston Martin |[ $4414.41 ]

to all that shitty clickbait out there :)
A big problem with the individual market is that it isn't financially viable to serve the individual market at reasonable prices, because in the US market, not holding a job with adequate health insurance is a huge adverse selection marker.

Startup founders should be a lot more concerned about this than they seem to be. Health insurance almost screwed me at Matasano in 2005; it would have, had Erin not taken a full time job elsewhere until Matasano had group coverage.
I think this is good example: if one accepts all these pieces as true, this counts as credible evidence. But the ones that are most certain aren't that damaging, and the ones that are most damaging (I don't think) are that certain.

Jumping to the most damaging, the second article you link says "One of our FBI insiders can confirmed the Intelligence community indicates John and Tony Podesta were in Praia da Luz, Portugal on May 3rd 2007– the day Madaline McCann vanished. The Podesta brothers were staying with a friend named “Clem”."

So far as I can tell, other than this assertion, there has been no evidence uncovered that the either Podesta brother was in Portugal at the time of the girl's disappearance. You reduce the article's claim that "they were staying a friend named "Clem" to saying only that they knew each other, but I haven't seen any proof of even this level of association.

As 'nindalf' asks, how do you balance the goal of finding the truth with the responsibility to avoid terrible damage to a innocent person's reputation based on something that (at this point) is based largely on trusting an unaccountable anonymous source?
I have tried both Zenni and Warby. Warby's frames are much higher quality than Zenni. I'm on my 3rd pair of regulars, and 2nd pair of sunglasses (which are metal, by the way, and very strong), over the course of 4 years. I still have all pairs I ordered, and they are all still fine.

They are not "cheap plastic frames" by any stretch. I'd put them up against the Luxxotica frames any day. They use the high-end plastics, with metal-reinforced stems. The Zenni's I tried, on the other hand, have no reinforcement, and the plastic is definitely more brittle.
This plugin blocks wikileaks.org as a "rumor" site.

This is what I feared would happen with plugins and concepts like this.
Hmm, interesting. For what it's worth, I haven't had that problem.
> a common metadata format for bills and invoices

Such a format does exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDIFACT

It's just hardly anyone uses it. It's got some adoption with large companies such as auto manufacturers that mandate their suppliers to use it but it's far from wide-spread (and certainly not with SMBs or consumer-oriented offerings).

There also is MT940 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MT940 ) which in theory can be used for exchanging and scripting bank accounting data. The format is a terrible mess though with each bank implementing it slightly differently (if they do offer it at all).

Then there is the Incoterms ruleset (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incoterms ), which is commonly used in supply chain management.
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A news story that the Pope endorsed Trump is fiction and should be labeled as such.

That has political implications because everything does. But evaluating content based on those implications, rather than on the actual facts, is a categorical error.

We label fiction and nonfiction in libraries, book stores, movies, magazines, etc--basically every other medium for accessing content. Why not Facebook too?
perhaps to track the phone later? see if there are any contacts on the sim card and cross reference those. replace it with some other chip that does something else?
Some do, but they are working with a much smaller subset of data than would be possible of the cc companies were to do it.

The quality of a real anti fraud solution, if it were to include all data, could be amazing.
Sabine Hossenfelder/backreaction on Erik Verlinde's dark energy and matter
What do they do?
It doesn't mention in the article if he had a work visa, but I imagine he did if he was assigned by CBC to cover the event. It's pretty terrible that a journalist would be denied entry into a country that supposedly has high press freedom on an official assignment because the government (or maybe just the officer who denied him) doesn't like what's happening in Standing Rock. It's even stranger that 1) he is a well known Canadian journalist, so he's probably as low risk as someone could be, and 2) if this would have been a problem, I'm sure that CBC would have taken care of it ahead of time and made sure everything was in order, but it must be so routine for journalists to come from Canada that there wasn't any other necessary preparations besides getting the visa (which should be enough anyway...). We might not have "minders" while we're in the country, but it seems we now have them when entering.
"imagine if I made a night-sky, but, like, out of swirls"

-Vincent Van Gogh, hypothetical

Starry Night (Value: est. ~$80M-$100M+)

Vincent Van Gogh, Actual
Determine the gender of a first name
[Edit: The press release was the same day the show aired.]

Well, I wouldn't be surprised if she put out this press release before the papers were signed...
The point is that dark matter is still a 20th century theory, meaning that the structure of galaxies is understood only with 20th century theories. If you read the letter carefully, you'll find that was the original claim made by Asimov.
It's not actually unlimited liability. Every AWS service has a set of default limits, and you must request AWS raise those limits before you can provision additional resources.

I agree with your larger point, but you're going to be surprised by a $500 bill, not a $500,000 bill.
This is great (!) to know.

I'd like to 'favorite' this comment, but don't see a link with which to do so. :-(

Could anyone advise on how?
I appreciate the info, but I was actually thinking of other gem stones with my question (amethyst, etc)
Lithium is used to breed tritium, which is a neutronic reaction.
Some risk averse people are following one rule: Do not carry any electronics at any border crossing. It's a hostile territory.
Reminds me of the Switch. I mean, that's gaming instead of dev, but it's a pretty similar concept.

I wonder if Nintendo will sell docks separately from the system for that purpose? I would hope so.
The irony is fucking palpatable.
The challenge here is that it's super-easy to design protocols that the average person would consider 100% secure, even after reading some documentation. It's the same problem where anyone can create a lock/encryption that they don't know how to break, but there's always someone smarter or better versed in breaking it.

Subtle bugs don't look like problems until someone figures out an exploit against them.
2008. Right. When there was NO library support and major performance issues. Get real. Garbage article.
So I provided an actual picture of the street in question and gave an accurate block by block description of the parking situation and was down voted?

I know that area like the back of my hand. I was no doubt down-voted by someone sitting thousands of miles away from Manhattan someone who probably doesn't know the area at all.

There seems to be a real binary attitude on Hacker News that if you say anything that doesn't completely agree with the "we need more bikes!" crowd that you are automatically a horrible anti-environmental person. It's very knee jerk reactionary.

I absolutely hate the amount of cars on the street. The reality however is that there are many other complications, practicalities and nuances to consider and I have tried to bring some of these up. Just saying "more bikes no cars!" is really naive.

I recommend sitting in on a city planning meeting in NYC or talking to someone from the D.O.T some time about these issues. I have done both on more than a few occasions. There are so many unique challenges of an island of this density that there is no one solution.

I will also mention that there was a multi year project to widen sidewalks around Astor Place and Cooper Union in lower Manhattan recently. This is nearly complete. And the result is that this has done nothing to reduce the congestion on the street.
and the torture sections of the Geneva convention do not apply to the US govt outside US borders either, cause war on terror, war on drugs, <insert crazy justification here>
"Replace" makes it sound like they gave a new one. Of course they didn't. The phone wouldn't work until you contacted your cell provider. If they did indeed take the card out, they probably used to gather the IMSI number and to download any contact information stored on the card itself.
This is a problem that's near and dear to my heart, and more progress on standardizing URL parsing would be lovely. I have a crawler and a data miner that both rely on URL parsing, and it's kind of a pain. There are about a hundred tests that the code needs to pass with each revision, and it's only a fraction of the tests that are needed and there are still edge cases found in the wild.

For instance, telling the difference between a web uri and a mailto uri without the benefit of a scheme at the beginning of the uri is total guesswork.

The parser's current approach is to return parsed URIs along with a confidence percentage and the application logic then tries to make some additional guesses based on context.

URI parsing is not my favorite thing.
Why Waiting in Line Is Torture
Box wine is still a thing, although it's hard to find anything good in a box.

This probably won't work because the CO2 will just inflate the bladder after you pour your first drink. You'll end up with flat Coke and a bag full of CO2 by the end. Also, the cheap plastic valve would probably fail and start to leak if you put a carbonated beverage in there.
Indeed, from now on I will back up my phone to the cloud, wipe it before going over a border, then reinstalling after. It's the only sane thing to do.
It's the difference in preference between e.g. $500k nearly sure profit versus a tiny chance of $100M profit but a most likely result of losing it all. For a "normal" business, the first one is preferable; a startup is the condition where the first result is considered unacceptable and the investors are there for the second possibility only - go big or go home.

It means quite different cultures, quite different "correct answers" to similar situations, and has mostly opposite requirements for many business factors and people involved.
Private car services and/or illegal taxies.
Even more depressing is the fact that many countries take the US as their idol and start also requiring all 10 finger prints at border crossing. It's an epidemic these days.
I'm sure the journalist would have used a burner phone if he were traveling to China or North Korea. He just needs to understand that the United States of America has a similar view of his human rights.
Anecdotal, but I have severe astigmatism and Zenni has worked well for me.
Yesod(http://www.yesodweb.com/) may be the web framework of your dreams. Yesod is great for building web apps and APIs. The biggest downside is the long compile time which leads to issues with cheap VPS instances since you need to compile on another machine since the instance doesn't have enough RAM.
Your fear of alcohol is incredibly irrational. There is absolutely no evidence that moderate alcohol consumption causes any of those things.

All of the cancer risks are linked to heavy drinking (usually 3+ drinks a day over a prolonged period of time), and there's absolutely no evidence that occasional moderate alcohol consumption poses a health risk greater than any number of other extremely low risk activities. Certainly not greater than a pack a day of cigarettes. (Furthermore, some studies have indicated that moderate alcohol consumption can even have positive health benefits, including decreased risks for some cancers.)

Similarly, alcohol in moderation causes none of the "indirect" things you mention.

You are free to assert an arbitrary moral superiority for abstention, but don't pretend like you have a rational basis for your opinions on the effect of moderate alcohol consumption. Pretending like all use is unhealthy is just as ignorant as the opposite extreme.
Pandas Tutorial: Data Analysis with Python: Part 2
Ask HN: Is the a list of free Software Services?
What's your metric for communication platform full of user generated content 'working well'?

I'm not trying to be snarky, I don't see how this can possibly be a failing of Facebook unless you really believe that an algorithm that ranks posts can actually fix the human problems that underlie this issue.
You can clone modern SIM cards to extract the contacts later on or any data that is stored on it (some phones save texts there)
with or without apis.
Journalists should start publishing under anonymous public/private keys over VPN's and Tor...or something along those lines Satoshi style.

I have a feeling with all this ugly Nationalism starting to rear its head in the world, journalists publishing unpopular opinions towards the mainstream Zeitgeist are going to be vulnerable to witch hunts.
https://handsontable.com/ is pretty awesome.
>If you want to hit the atmosphere in minutes instead of 1.5 hours, you need to pay a price in delta v, but you don't have a problem with the control at hypersonic speeds - we are still in vacuum. Once you hit the atmosphere you need control to hit the target, not to get to the target faster.

If you're in low orbit you'll drop into the atmosphere almost immediately when you burn retrograde. And you can hit your target faster by entering the atmosphere later than you otherwise would and steering down. The question is when you really have enough control to make that happen.

>Now let's see what happens if you put a few dozen or hundred in space. What can you do with a single Rod?

The earth turns. Within 24 hours all your rods will have been in a position to hit any target on the surface.

>But in terms of military targets, what good are these? Remember, they are tiny in comparison with nuclear weapons. You can't destroy nuclear bunkers, you can't acquire mobile targets.

You could most certainly destroy missile bunkers if your targeting was accurate enough even with a relatively small rod. But there's no reason to assume the rods are small - 50 tons is a nice round number. Assuming you can't get volume pricing SpaceX will loft 100 of them for about the price of a carrier.

And I don't see why you think you couldn't hit a moving target (assuming there exists a moving target worth destroying that way). The MRBM missile the Chinese have developed to destroy carriers can hit a moving target, and that's substantially the same bit of engineering.

>If someone could solve the mobile target acquisition problem, these would be really good at killing tanks and armored vehicles.

As I pointed out, this is already a solved problem. That said, it would be pointless to use something that expensive to destroy a tank. There are all sorts of ways to kill tanks and armored vehicles for a tiny, tiny, tiny (and that's not really enough "tinys") fraction of the cost. You're already a sitting duck in a tank.

No, the role for the Rods would be strategic - bunkers, ports, airfields.
> Don't be fooled

I don't get it. Are you a journalist, too?
lulz, you should assume the NSA has access to anything you store in the "cloud".
>Being against Gay Marriage rights is a political opinion, just like being FOR Gay Marriage rights.

There is a difference. If you are for gay marriage, you support gays having the same rights as everyone else. If you are against it, you want them to have less rights, just because they are gay, even though it doesn't affect your own rights in any way.

Now, it's still a political opinion, but it's reasonable for other people to not like it. Being in favor of segregation is also a political opinion but would provoke similar backlash.
A cloud for Symfony
Donald Trump risks China rift with call to Taiwan's leader
What would that look like, code-wise? Is there a good library for this stuff?

It's easy to reach for complex numbers when they're built-in. Do you have to use Maple/Mathematica for this stuff, or can you do it easily in Python/JS/&c ?
I tried arguing this persons privacy yet I got highly downvoted on /r/canada, for points that I felt I couldn't refute, specifically that crossing a nations border is not a right but a privilege, and that most Western nations have similar POVs when it comes to the right for border officers to inspect laptops/phones.

I know that the ACLU and EFF have fought to defend Americans from having their laptops/phones inspected at the border, but I believe I read they haven't had much success in the legal system.

I still don't understand the rationale behind being able to inspect someones computer/mobile phone. Even in the case of say, possessing child pornography, I would assume most people are caught by tracked websites than random searches at the border?
> Roughly two-thirds of the United States' population lives within the 100-mile zone

I knew it was a lot but I didn't guess two thirds. That makes it laughable.
If you write a blog post series about your experiences with fron-end frameworks, I would gladly read every post.
I mean, you see this in any dictatorship or even at any level of power.

The same cops that would flush some weed down the toilet so you don't get thrown in jail or not give people drunk and disorderly tickets would be akin to a hospital's staff not registering a child so the family could try for a boy.
I don't know about your state, but a few years ago mine started requiring a full set of fingerprints for driver's license renewal.
I created an account to reply to you. This happened to me as well! Literally the exact same thing. The dog, the man, the argument, everything. Thought I'd dialled the wrong number.

I used to buy phone cards to call home in Australia long before online calling was available. Wasted far too much money on it. I'm glad it's a thing of the past.
How does Facebook determine what facts
are without politics?

Perhaps they could determine what facts are by seeing if they're true or not?

For example, if an article states that Colorado pot shops accept food stamps [1] or that Dearborn in Michigan follows Sharia law [2] perhaps Facebook could determine those articles are satirical because they aren't true?

[1] http://www.denverpost.com/2014/01/14/fake-report-about-color...
[2] http://nationalreport.net/city-michigan-first-fully-implemen...
No I'm not. I am a 30 year old white guy traveling with my SO on vacation.
Hey guys, I work with JSON on a daily basis on machines that don't have access to jq. My advice to you in similar situations is as follows:

To pretty print JSON:

cat myjson.json | python -m json.tool > prettyPrinted.json

To validate json:

cat myjson.json | python -m json.tool
echo $?

If the result is 0 it is well formed and 1 otherwise. You can also pretty print JSON by opening the scratchpad in firefox and clicking the "Pretty print" button.
If I remember correctly, a lot of it was traced to divorced parents claiming the children on both tax refunds which this law did away with, only the person with most/solo custody can claim the children now.
I often wonder about General Tso - someone who was once a great military leader, but is now known for a dish of chicken.