skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really think this has to do with legal limits; you could probably sell a hut as a "house" in most places if you wanted to, as long as it was compliant with the building codes. The problem isn't that the government won't let you call it that, the problem is that nobody will buy just a hut, they want an actual house.

While it may or may not be the case that 'house quality' has declined over the decades, that's driven by economic factors: do house buyers want to pay 1.2x or whatever for those extra details? I would conjecture that home developers are not stupid, and that they have tried adding those (presumably expensive) details, and found that they were unable to recoup those costs in an increased price.
That was an absolute gem of a talk. Thank you so much for posting this.
There's a psychological difference between taking out pedestrians and taking out a building.
> I wonder why Twitter is so popular.

I don't have an account but it is very useful if I want to see is a program updated to a new version, how a politician feels about a recent event (or wants us to think they feel), or live updates to current events. All that may be possible with Facebook, but since I don't want to always be logged on, I have a huge pop up and annoying captcha
The problem in the US is that the people who are against consumer focused regulation have no problem with regulation that locks out competition.
It could be worse - they could create closed loops on which blind people would get stuck until they figured it out.

It's a perfect example of what happens when a designer has to use a set list of components but isn't aware of the reasons behind the components chosen.
Some people find dull cars a joy to drive.
I wrote a really simple ruby gem to parse HL7 into ruby. It's super easy to extend, all you have to do is define a new class containing a function-to-column map. The key is the name of the function to call against a HL7 segment and the value is the position of the element in HL7 segment that you want the function to return. Check it out here: https://github.com/sufyanadam/simple_hl7_parser
Thanks for the recommendation. faster than "space sniffer" as well.
Everyone I know that enjoys twitter (I never got into it) uses it to interact with an extended group of people that they aren't friends with but have similar interests to -- including minor celebrities in their area.
I've always heard that they're tracking parking lots at retail (Walmart) to predict revenue.
> That doesn't mean I can't take a break to have lunch with the family and take a break for a few laps of racin.

My favorite part of working from home. Take my morning break and cuddle with my daughter on the couch before she heads out to the park/YMCA with mom and play 15 minutes of Minecraft or see what art project she's been working on.

I honestly thought I'd miss having a more defined separation between work and personal life, but being able to blend them together has made me a lot happier, especially getting an extra 40-60 minutes a day with my family from not having to commute.
Tree maps make better use of space, but comparing box sizes vs lengths is a more difficult perceptive task. And harder to label.

Being unable to read thin spikes can be a good thing. There is only enough room to label the biggest boxes -- which are also the ones you care about the most.

If I were seriously building a GUI for this, it would let the user switch between visualizations to see which works best.
I'm working on wikipaper.org
I don't understand how that works - if you're an employee of a company, generally the company is liable for mistakes you make (unless you're also a director of the company). So for the company, whether they choose to provide their services based on the output of some software or based on the judgement of a human employee, the result should be the same.

I can see an argument that if the company was sued then it could try to push the blame onto the software vendor, but surely that would be decided based on the contract between company and software vendor, which is usually defined by the software license.
Amtrak and Greyhound require photo ID (though I've only had Amtrak ask to see it when paying cash), and taxis will not generally take you between cities.

You could drive, but you will almost certainly pass some ALPR cameras.

There is no anonymous long-distance transportation in the US.
It's possible this isn't GPS data, but SafeGraph sources it from cell towers.

I used to have links to some cell provider pages selling this data, but they have all disappeared. You can still find the APIs though, eg https://github.com/RestComm/gmlc
Your claim was that taxis, buses, and trains couldn't be weaponized, not that there was a psychological difference between them. A bus or taxi can be run into a building as well. (I'll grant a train is different.)
Ground vehicles have been used against buildings on numerous occasions, far more often than planes.
Get a ham radio license and join Network 44 if you'd like to get involved.
It's really just a worse Either type, if anything, there's nothing monad about it. Although it's sort of hard to be close to an Either without being an algebraic data type. But I see what you're trying to say.
I am curious to learn more about this if anyone has a recommendation for a paper or two to read.
I guess I missed those features at first glance. I apologize for that.
And yet private prison stocks shot up dramatically when she lost the election. Obviously investors didn't agree that she would be great for them.
For a lot of people it might be installed already as part of their distro or Gnome software metapackages, it'll appear in your menus as "Disk Usage Analyzer."
Mesh networking just revolves around the idea that computers can be linked. If mesh networks have theoretical limits then the internet has them as well.

Mesh networking is a collection of multiple technologies in its ideal form.
I'm sure there are arguments as to whether it's the "best" representation, but I'd contend that it's the most intuitive.

It's probably the first OS X App where I bought licenses for the whole family; they all benefited from it.
> Hopefully, this attack will get more attention and more people will start protecting their servers

I am surprised that article is from 2017. This is long patched in Apache in every major distribution and probably apache itself. As well as IIS patched this like 4 years ago.

It still works in a way or a nother but not with the mentioned code or exact method.
I use it on linux too. I haven't seen anything that comes close in ability to visualize an entire drive.
did you just get angry about someone asking a question about a music player and a video player that also plays music perfectly fine.

:)
We're fighting the symptoms. The right war is against capital.
> ... why would you want to use a USB keyboard or mouse with a classic Mac?

Because optical ADB mice are hard to come by? There are a few, but they're rare.

A good USB implementation might also allow you to hook up storage devices, which would be pretty nice.
This is the number one thing that has made me lose all desire for working in the SF startup scene. I simply cannot be productive at 9:00 a.m. sitting in a chair, whispering distance to 4 other people, under fluorescent lighting.
No. Just wondering in a angry tone ;)
>To reach beyond his own 78,900 followers, Sobieski adds a few more adornments, typing #MAGA to surface the tweet to the president’s supporters online and “.@realDonaldTrump” in hopes of getting the attention of Trump or those who track messages to him.

One of Trump's favorite tactics is to appropriate negative phrases like "fake news" to dilute its bite. Why don't his opponents borrow from his notebook and co-opt those hashtags to drown them out?
Why does one need a license to run a radio?
As a society we are going to have to figure something out: if intellectual property has value, then content contributors are adding value. That means kicking them off is depriving them of the value of their labor.

In the public sphere, we would say they are being deprived of property without due process. In the world of private companies, there is no such protection. For one thing, all the mechanisms we create to ensure due process, ability to appeal, know the charges against you, and seek redress... those cost time, effort, and money.

Platform companies like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube/Google occupy an interesting space. They sometimes act like common carriers and most users implicitly assume the company doesn't meddle or play favorites. False. The companies can and do play favorites (who supplies the highest quality impressions? who has the best conversion rate? who pays back the most in ad dollars?)

Contributors kind of just assume they have some property rights in the things they create. False.

Contributors assume they have some means of redress when an unjust action occurs. False.

The "sharecropping" analogy is apt, but even sharecroppers had better contracts than content creators today have!

Historically, whole systems of government have been tried and replaced to work out fair and just (or at least acceptably unjust) systems. The European revolutions of the 1850's were largely about land use conflicts. Part of the French Revolution was about the conflict between renters and landowners.
Funny because there have been societies which have not been that way in the past. Also there's pretty much 0 evidence that that's a component of evolutionary psychology vs just the social norms in our given society.
That happened to a VP giving a presentation at my company on a Friday. By Monday there was a new wall.
This is probably the most widely cited one: http://circuit.ucsd.edu/~massimo/Papers_files/Capacity-Physi...
Drone Worth $1.5M Goes Missing from Arizona Army Base
538 predicts Patriots would lose (they won)
That sounds like something out of a Bond. (Pun intended)

I'd be really interested in how far this can work effectively. Could we build solar phone booths in a forest that will flash a light (to make them easy to find) if they hear an warning siren from the rangers? Maybe also if someone is yelling in pain so they know where to call for help.
Morse Code and Dictionaries in Python (with Sound)
The definition of 'systems programming' is certainly wooly (and predates all of your examples) but I don't think it's an iterative stochastic hairsplitting fractal, like you're proposing. You've basically argued your way to a corner in which varnish and apache are not 'systems programming'. That's not a sensible use of the term.
Thanks. I took a first quick look at the 3 sites you mentioned and will check them out again. I can see the value investing tilt and how that lends itself more to such discussion forums; as value investing can sometimes have this cool sort of "story telling" component to it where sharing one's trade idea or "story" about a company, and getting feedback on that and hearing other folks' tell their story ideas does make sense. But I also see what you mean about quality and noise being issues that can make these sites not very practical and potentially may end up hurting more than helping.

I have a colleague who eats lunch with his wife 2-3 times a week and I have seen how much it helps him at work on those days. She is not a finance person but she is super smart and consistently offers unique perspective (I have asked if we can hire her).

Connected idea (and admittedly I don't do this often as I probably should) but in general talking to a smart non-finance person about a finance idea can have tons of benefits for a trader:

1) You get to simplify things when you explain and can't use bullshit ambiguous obscuring "finance speak" vocab (leverage delta asymmetry you say?...Nope)

2) There is this hard to explain benefit when no one is trying to "win" in a discussion. By "win" here I mean, we debate finance shit in the office all the time, every day all day, and it's genial and effective and all that, but everyone is vested in it and there is this tint of guys trying to "win at discussions" or show off knowledge or be more right or they just want to have had a part in it (sorry hard to explain this, it's not alpha male posing, rather it's people want to help and want to feel they have contributed to things, like if this was a movie being made everyone wants their name in there when the credits roll, that's ok but it can be counterproductive).

Someone willing to help and listen and maybe offer insight, without consciously or subconsciously caring about credit or getting anything in return is quite hard to find, but it's a real gift when you find such a person...AND it's a gift worth giving if you can be such a person to someone else.

Yes way past "VaR", only really hear that term in government or regulatory stuff, internal risk management would never use such unclear, inexplicit terminology like "value" or "risk" nor simplify bad serious events to a number or two. I like your style, it's not folksy, how many US dollars could someone lose is fundamentally THE risk and the rule in finance that matters.

Spent years as an analyst, now in more of a management role, supervising and training the new younger analysts who don't hate flying yet and who apparently learned nothing in school relevant to working in asset management in the real world. I still do financial analyst work mainly in special situations as they come up. Yes, mid-size multi-strat fund, I co-babysit the credit L/S desks for now. Might semi-retire if the office keeps talking about politics all day. No patience for it :)
I bet it's older. Lenin told a story about German communists who wouldn't leave a railway station because there was no one to check their tickets.
Imagine you had all the torches lifted up in the air throughout the entire duration of the show. As long as the 'human' stays in place, and as long as you know the uuid of each device; you can make any shape you desire.
If you had a full-time nanny you'd just be exploiting someone else, and that's not really better! (Although at least she'd be getting paid.)
Download link is broken.

Alternative ways to download:

a) Use brew:
brew install Caskroom/cask/disk-inventory-x

b) Another download link (same link used in brew/cask)[0]:
http://www.derlien.com/diskinventoryx/downloads/dev/DIX1.0Un...

0: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...
Rate-of-learning: the most valuable startup compensation: https://medium.com/full-stack-marketing/rate-of-learning-the...
Yes, PixMob also produced synched LED bracelets for Taylor Swift's most recent tour. Here's a video of that in action [1] and a video showing various events they've been at [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2hNcJeeDsM

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYnaMaKj27M
I would tend to agree. It's certainly a generally good rule of thumb. However, I've honestly struggled to find a way to document the naming conventions that is useful. Every time I've wondered about a particular name, it's faster for me to go to the definition sight of that name than to seek documentation, and the documentation for the naming conventions might exceed the size of most of the compiler, simply because it's hard to write out all of the aesthetic and stylistic choices that are almost self enforcing through an overwhelming pressure of context when you're actually programming in the code. Basically, while I am a huge fan of documentation, with this style and the approach I'm taking, I've found it exceptionally difficult to create up to date, meaningful, and reliable documentation of any sort that isn't totally useless. Now, I do have public API documentation, but internal developer docs have not proven to be helpful at all for any reason in this compiler. I've tried on multiple occasions to make it happen, and it just doesn't work here. If you have a way to do so, or even maybe if you want to talk with me and make it happen, all the better, but when the code base changes so fast all the time, it's just very hard to keep documenting this fluid thing that keeps changing. In some ways that includes the naming conventions.

I'm quite open to people providing ideas on how to properly document this project outside of "big idea" documentation that I'm currently doing with the paper publications. I've yet to be able to find anything that works. The standard best practices don't seem to flow well at all, but maybe I've missed something.
Grain elevator contracts contain an allowed foreign material allowance. Farmer's bringing in their grain get docked for any foreign material. Then the elevators add foreign material to the grain as train cars are loaded. It's crazy but that's just how the industry has always worked.
I wish Twitter had better stats for that, I mean "this user's tweets are 5% of your timeline on average day" or something similar.
so are you saying all those people are not some random spectators of the show but super bowl crew? Or random spectators who guarantee that they wont move from their predefined position?
It depends on your country but for Americans the FCC places restrictions on communications (what you can say) and band plans (where you can talk).

Why they would do this is many fold and if you'd like to hear why the government might want to do this I'd need to write in longer form them a comment.
And reading their feed prior to the Patriots actually winning, is depressing.

Is Nate Silver just doing it for the eyeballs at this point?

He screwed up on Clinton v Trump in 2016, and now his first big predictions of 2017 are also toast.

What is going on?
Actually, Go was born out of a desire to make something better than c++ for google scale and style use. https://commandcenter.blogspot.it/2012/06/less-is-exponentia...

It just happens that Go is a better replacement for python than c++ in the general case.
I believe the technical reason is that the wake word "ok google" is processed offline.
There are limits already:

>Tweets: 2,400 per day. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals. Retweets are counted as Tweets.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/15364
GMO alone does not affect the genetic diversity of the variety.

GMO just affects how the first plant(s) of a variety are obtained; in the case of GMO, you shoot a gene gun (or use some other technique) to modify one or more starting seeds. In non-GMO crop development, you simply observe an interesting individual (or cross some number of existing varieties and look for interesting individuals among the offspring). A math teacher of mine once found an exceptionally fuzzy soybean plant he thought might be insect resistant.

What happens next is what affects the genetic diversity of the crop.

So you have one special plant. How do you turn that into a field?

Well, you breed it and hope its offspring are also special. Some plants are self-fertilizing; you may do that, to try to avoid introducing non-special genes into the germ-line. You may also use the pollen from your special plant to pollinate a large number of other plants and hope at least some of their offspring are special. In the case of GMO, you might use your gene gun to shoot the same modification into a reasonably diverse set of initial seeds.

Your goal as a seed breeder - GMO or non-GMO - is to get the genes that produce the characteristics of the variety you are trying to produce (flavor or size or color of the fruit; speed of growth; hardiness or resistance) as uniformly as you can into a breeding population of plants, so that all of the offspring of all of the plants can reasonably be expected to express the traits.

There will necessarily be a weak point there: if a new virus attacks the gene that is needed to make your new corn variety super-delicious, all the plants will inherently be susceptible to that disease, regardless of how that gene got there. This sort of susceptibility isn't too troubling, however, because it's always there: corn shares a great number of genes with other corn; that's what makes it corn and not wheat or beans.

What will vary is how much diversity will be in the rest of the plant's genome. There could be very little, if you simply breed your exemplar starting plant against it self, and then its children against themselves, over and over until you have enough seeds to plant a field. There could be a lot, if you can find or produce a number of unrelated exemplars or you first breed your exemplars against a more diverse gene pool.

This second sort of a lack of genetic diversity is more troubling, but it isn't a product of genetic engineering: it's a result of going through a population bottleneck in the recent past; this can happen to non-GMO varieties just as easily.
Thanks for this! I wrote a music visualization plug-in for Winamp, and that side project helped me land my first job in the games industry. I love Winamp and still use when I want to play local mp3s.
More seriously: You complain that your kids bother you any time you try to work from home, and how that's just intolerable. But your wife apparently puts up with it every day. They probably bug the shit out of her too - she's just doing that without whining to you about how haaarrrd it is. Implying that what makes her a "saint" isn't "putting up with her kids" so much as it is "putting up with you".
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation
Lady Gaga's Super Bowl LI Halftime Show
Anyone here questioning what the value is aren't realizing that scaling goes up so so much easier without humans getting tired, getting distracted. It's much easier to coordinate a million robots than a million humans.
I have a free version on iOS
http://apple.co/1r5mC3g
> That isn't really all that much: compare to the 280-350kWh it takes to produce a single barrel of crude from the Alberta tar sands[2].

The "tar sands" are a naturally-occurring asphalt deposit. To make asphalt cement out of it basically just requires digging it up and separating the sand from the bitumen. That's a very small part of the energy required to make synthetic crude.
Repetition spacing algorithm used in SuperMemo 2002 through SuperMemo 2006
Xiaomi the money
Do you want to share any constructive criticism of Libre Office, or tell us why you feel that Microsoft Office is better, rather than slander something that people have volunteered thousands of hours of development time to?

I have never had any problems with the word processor and spreadsheet in Libre Office (the only two in the suite that I've used). Sincere thanks to the developers.
A couple of minor quibbles from an interested amateur:

"The cuneiform script - used to write both Assyrian and Babylonian, and first used for the Sumerian language - is, according to Dr Finkel, the oldest script in the world, and was an inspiration for its far more famous cousin, hieroglyphics."

Uh, yeah. Certainly, there would be cross pollination, but "inspiration" sounds a bit to strong. I'd like to hear what evidence is behind that statement.

"This produced a very durable product, but it was very hard to write, and from about 600BC, Aramaic - which is spoken by modern-day Assyrians in the region - began to gain prominence, simply because it was easier to put into written form, researchers believe."

My understanding is that Aramaic speaking nomads settled in the region about the end of the bronze age, ca. 1000-1200 BCE. Aramaic is a Semitic language, related to both Akkadian and Hebrew and Arabic as opposed to Sumerian for which cuneiform was created. Aramaic became the trade language by the 600 BCE date.

Aramaic was written using the Phoenician alphabet (the source of the "easier" comment?) rather than the syllabary of cuneiform or hieroglyphics.
Arch to phase out 32-bit