skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are "quitting" but the yr/yr graphs on participation growth don't go below zero?

I'm not through the whole thing, yet, but we're off to a bad start
> I mean, competently implemented background indexing shouldn't be a security risk or a performance issue.

Except ofcourse in the 100% theoretical, never ever seen in the wild, case of bugs in file-format parsers. It's not like Linux's "file" or "strings"-utility[1] has had a local exploits in the past or anything.

Uhm... So yeah... About that....

Back in the real world, this is a very real attack vector. Especially when it runs in the background on a large batch of files, automatically and unasked for.

Note: I'm not saying I'm against indexing content for easier access and help locating files. I'm just saying that you can't simply dismiss it as a security-risk because it runs in the background.

[1] http://lcamtuf.blogspot.no/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings-on-u...
I believe there are three good indicators to look at:

- Infrastructure, these can also be called enablers. E.g. fiber accelerates Internet usage, AWS drastically accelerates SaaS businesses. Over time this acceleration will also happen in e.g. biotech and such introductions are to look for. If the infrastructure is missing, its likely gonna take some more time. Success stories in this category would be Spotify, Netflix and most apps.

- Accumulators is similar to a network effect. Information, money, users and customers are orbiting certain networks and companies. These instances are in their domains black holes and it's mostly a bad idea trying to restrain or compete. The opportunity is to harness the momentum. A success story in this category would be Buzzfeed.

- Automation, we are living in the golden age of automation. Essentially it's just to evaluate all repetitive tasks finding those with the highest value to the lowest investment.
The hb-1 visa does require the same salary same as norway

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/h-1b-employers-what-w...
The national average for renewable energy use is 13% but in California it's 30%. Renewables are awesome but subject to clouds or lulls in the the wind so you need to run a renewable heavy grid with more excess capacity compared to one where only the demand side fluctuates unexpectedly.

In the future we can hope to add more short term storage and long range transmission lines to smooth this out.

But in the short term I"ll take that trade.
The problem is that humans are not very good at comparing angles, which is one of the reasons why pie and donut charts aren't good (and sunburst is kinda like a donut, so the same criticism applies).
>If you're thoughtful about it and show some real awareness of history, go ahead and refer to Hitler when you talk about Trump. Or any other politician

-Mike Godwin
Don't post online either, unless you are able to alter your writing style often. Passed writings linked to your profile will be used to try to identify you.

It all depends on your threat model and how wanted you are as a target.
I'd really like to see people who eat less than what they use for the day every day and still gain body weight.
Doubtful, because the demand for calories would shift to other sources (the sources you currently consume) and increase the price substantially. Also, I've found that the United States is one of the best places at accommodating alternative diets.
You've provided almost no information, but at 340 lbs it's possible your TDEE was more than 4000 calories/day, meaning it's possible you went on a reduced calorie diet with your bacon strategy. Without more information, your anecdote is useless, and even with more information it's still just an anecdote.

Also, Paleo, like any similar structured diet, is just a trick to get you to ingest fewer calories.

And I'm going to piggy back on the [citation needed] about calories in/out being scientifically disproven.

[1] https://mytdee.com/#gender=male&yr=30&cm=182.9&kg=154.2&bfp=...
Actually, this is the main subject of 'Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It' (https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259) and the book refers to several scientific studies to support its claim.
I think that sums it up. We really can't top crufty old Windows freeware?

There is a gaping hole in the market.
(I didn't read the article yet, but):

There is a difference between proponents and critics describing the same activity in different terms and noting that different companies treat the system differently and that it is roughly bimodal: "Google's" use and "Infosys'" abuse.

I interpreted the two quotes you pulled as the former.
Oh god. You just turned a thread about startup opportunities into one about diet fad wackos. You even got the ball rolling with your silly carbohydrates comment. Ugh
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One major issue and you stop artificially inserting errors, which are inserted at a rate such that you could turn off the error inserted within some timely manner and still stay within budget.
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I wish this was automatic, factored into your browser + existing internet bill. This way the sites you consume the most content on / get the most from naturally get some form of compensation automatically
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This practice is called border run and many countries in Latin America allow that. Costa Rica and Peru are two of them.
I doubt very much my Slackware 2.0 copy had locate.
American greatness was long premised on the common assumption was that each generation would do better than previous one.

Why is editing so poor these days?
I've only bought tickets online, where it does ask your name (and age), but you could just enter AAAAA AAAA, it's never checked by anyone.
:( my face about the current state of computing and the whole 'app' re(de?)volution.

[!] You have a perfectly good computer running in front of you, with powerful hardware, geometry translation and audio rendering devices ready to be bent to your will.

[!] You have excellent (paid and free) tools and the Internet provides documentation on everything....

[?] Why shove more and more functionality into the browser, which can't even be considered a single proper 'platform' or 'target', since you have to account for several cross-browser/os combinations... In the end, we need frameworks which must patch and shoehorn lots of stuff in our actual code just to deal with cross-browser/os .

[..] In the end, we achieve better and better performance per cycle on one side and waste it more and more on the other. Of course, power efficiency and other important metrics on our increasingly mobile world go out of the window as well.

[.] We could be improving our tooling and languages to enable programmers to achieve good cross-compilation performance everywhere, and making most interfaces properly standard (opengl, communication stack) would make all this accessible and easy.

I leave you with two questions:

positive mindset: is this about lowering the entry bar to 'app' development?

negative (realist?) mindset: is this about vendor lock-in, hardware sales and consumerism?
It certainly does! In Canada, for example, you have to be a resident _somewhere_. So you cannot just move around from country to country on tourist visas (which obviously do not permit you to declare residency) and claim to the Canadian Tax authorities that you are a non-resident and avoid paying all taxes.
>Temporary travel correction

That's some talented doublespeak.
I recently found Dr John McDougal on YouTube who has the solution to obesity based on history, current societies, and science. There seem to be two rules: 1) Base your diet around starchy vegetables (potato, wheat, oats, rice, corn, etc). 2) avoid fats, especially refined fats, and protein. 3) salt and sugar are not health foods, but are allowed to help you stick with rules 1 and 2. People, and societies, that eat like this are thin and healthy.
Copyright isn't a right. Unlike actual rights it can be nullified by legislation, without recourse.

Those nonprofits you mention operate just fine without holding copyright in many cases.
Only if it's VR or brain interfacing or some other 10x improvement.
I'm not excusing the Linux implementation for being slow, which I agree it sometimes is (Hello Dropbox and my huge, flat "Camera uploads" folder...).

I'm just saying that I've seen bad things happen on Windows too. Not blaming Microsoft, just saying that in a typical end-user scenario with lots of randomly installed software, you will have Explorer break too.

Basically the grass is rotten everywhere :)
Just look on how Google Or a big company do.
Create a chatbot based job interview
I think Section 1182f: “Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate”

( Note that green card holders are still a class of aliens.)
You didn't use of the % button.
Still not as intuitive as doing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of 2 numbers.
The researcher disclosed the bug one week before Microsoft is scheduled to patch it. I'm sure MS isn't thrilled, but they did drag their feet:

"I decided to release this bug one week before the patch is released, because it is not the first time Microsoft sits on my bugs. I'm doing free work here with them (I'm not paid in anyways for that) with the goal of helping their users. When they sit on a bug like this one, they're not helping their users but doing marketing damage control, and opportunistic patch release."
are unicycles out now?
> What I detest is the sanctimonious, holier-than-thou attitude that, just because you have kids, you a superior or more evolved human being.

Is this in response directly to what manyxcxi wrote, or is this a response in general? I didn't pick up any such attitude in their writing, so I'm genuinely curious whether anything triggered it for you.

(I agree with you in general, and I'm a parent. For me, it's one of those things where I realized how much free time I used to have and squandered.)
Many things.

We heavily subsidize home ownership, which creates huge disincentives for mobility. In reality we should probably tax it and subsidize renters.

We pay people to sit around in their old location rather than moving. Our "disability insurance" program is actually a giant secret welfare program for people who refuse to leave economically depressed areas. http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

We drastically restrict housing supply in economically productive areas.
I think most people buy their stuff from amazon.co.uk or if they happen to be in Germany then maybe also amazon.de

The store segmentation is created by amazon themselves and doesn't really make sense.
Surely, Money.Net [0] is a first step?
It was founded by a former top executive at Bloomberg: Morgan Downey.

[0] https://www.money.net/
The problem with those listings is they count by the city's full area and not just the urban area. So for example Hong Kong is often listEd low. Go to HK and you'll quickly understand why that way of measuring is wrong.
Amazon tells Super Bowl viewers to look for Prime Air drone delivery “soon”
I've been thinking about this constantly for the last 2-3 years. I'm working on something which might lead to this.

What I've concluded, is that we don't have a good representation for a general purpose tree editor to work on. Roughly speaking, S-expressions are just a bit too simple, and XML is way too complicated.

General purpose plain text editors work so well because we've agreed on a common representation (more or less), which is easy for text. But as soon as you want to move to useful, common tree-structures, you have to agree on both representation and semantics, which makes it much harder.

One challenge we need to solve is - what level do you want to work on? Let's say you're working on some code. You may want to treat functions and blocks as a tree structure, but you want to treat simple mathematical expressions as text. Where this threshold is, is entirely context-dependent. The editor needs to understand the language and be able to expand text into its tree structure, or collapse the tree into its text representation, at any node in the tree.

This implies that we need to agree on a common format for defining the conversion (parsing and generating) between text and trees. We'd probably also need a package system which contains common definitions for all major languages.
A random exe file you download won't be running through sudo, you'll see elevation requests. The elevation request is ~very spooky~ unless the exe is codesigned by a reputable certificate issuer. W10 turns the whole screen red and sometimes warns you that the exe itself is actively unsafe.

Of course, end users will just click OK on the elevation request, but regardless, it's not a fair comparison. Downloading random exes off the internet is more like 'curl | bash' ('still bad' level) than 'curl | bash | sudo' ('are you insane?' classification)
Sure :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jroQCyWwEgE
Did you try Amazon.de and switch language to English? I'm just wondering.
The lake by the "My Summer Car". :p
How is it unhelpful to be told what you need to do?

Are you saying you need more specifics?

If you want to improve your financial position, either earn more money (get a side job, take a higher paying job with more responsibility), or spend less money (buy beans and rice in bulk, prepare your own meals, sell your luxury car to get rid of the payments and drive a paid-for beater, take public transit and read a book on your commute instead of driving a car).

Similarly, to lose unhealthy weight, either reduce calories in (stop drinking sweet sodas and eating candy bars, order 500-800 calorie items from appetizer menus instead of 2000 calorie entrees) or increase calories out (exercise, take the stairs instead of the elevator, walk instead of ride, lift weights to improve resting calorie burning.)

But it's hard to come up with specifics that apply to everyone, since everyone is different. That's why we just say the general rule, instead of assuming people have an expensive car to sell or go through a 2 liter of Coke a day.
Hasn't it been replaced by slocate, mlocate, tlocate or another variant since ?
Probably his last lecture at MIT
http://mashable.com/2013/07/14/amar-bose-dead/
Is string operator “+” so simple?
But didn't Hillary know it isn't the popular vote that gets her to presidency. The is no trophy for winning the popular vote! Why didn't she campaign in the Rust Belt states but went to California instead. It is really baffling...
The world hasn't really caught up with the reality of remote work, but for now, I just pay taxes where I reside most of the time.
You're using a version of coreutils from over a decade ago.

coreutils-5.93.tar.bz2	2005-11-06 09:06
Nothing in the Second Law of Thermodynamics prevents your body from turning some of your heart muscle into fuel, as bad of a plan as that may be.
Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants
so much yes! People in USA and Europa do not understand this. Not everybody in the world has many X Mbit/s on mobile (many have less than 1Mbit/s) and Gigabyte download limits. Companies like Facebook, Instagram and even WhatsApp understand this problems. Some companies like Snapchat do not even know what I'm talking about. The downsite of websites going SSL is that normal Google Chrome compression does not work. While Opera Mini is maybe not as secure (because it does server side rendering even on SSL) it helps a lot on that problem in countries with low bandwidth.
There is a technology similar to this for sorting cells based on biological properties and fluorescent markers called Flow Cytometry. The machines typically allow "user defined" gates and schemes through interactive software.
Technically, it also affords the similar right to the employee to leave at any time for any or no reason. However, with employee / employer relations and power balance as they are, it is a tool that is drastically more powerful for the employer.
Book your Travel as a lowest price
Beside the old generation from the former eastern block (who studied Russian instead of English) pretty much everyone speaks enough English to communicate.

I've traveled to EU a lot and even in a country like France I had zero problems getting by.
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Hundreds of restaurants in the same geographic area will be purchasing ingredients from a variety of different suppliers, based on their need.

If they clubbed together with other local businesses to source common ingredients they could benefit from economies of scale; i.e. instead of 100 restaurants each buying 200 onions, there'd be a bulk order for 20,000 onions; meaning 1 lorry to deliver direct from the supplier(s) rather than multiple vans to cover each supplier/buyer combo.

i.e. Create a platform that would allow suppliers to list what they're selling, buyers to list their needs, and match these up with one another.

- Group similar suppliers or buyers together geographically to help improve the efficiency of individual orders by making them part of a larger collective order.
- Add filter options so that when buying people can specify certain criteria (e.g. "I only want potatoes from soil-association approved suppliers").
- Now people don't buy from suppliers, but rather buy from a service/pool.
- ...and people don't sell to buyers, but rather sell to the service/pool.
- This same model works regardless of supplier or buyer size; i.e. benefits both big and small (though the benefits to smaller companies are more significant as they start to get the benefits of scale that the larger ones have anyway).

Though I'd start with restaurants (i.e. to keep the platform focussed / avoid being too broad too soon), this same platform could over time expand for any purchasing interactions.
I just tried this on macOS. I really like the concept but: It does not conform to macOS UI standards (I could live with that), and it is very slow (I cannot live with that).
(2009) Carl Linnaeus Invented the Index Card
I believe it is currently a minimum of $60K / year, which was established in 1989 and not updated since. Companies in the US (and the government too) tend to skirt laws justifying the misdeeds as, "we interpret the law differently."

In other words, some shops will gladly pay a senior software engineer $60K a year, claiming they are something else like tech support. There are plenty of examples of other methods some companies use.
Based on Paredit keybindings, I don't think 'sibling', 'union' and 'splice' would be enough for convenient editing; you'd at least need a set of keys to move nodes (with their subtrees) around.
Can anybody see a real future in any of these gig service companies? I'd say Uber is the exception because of the way the business works (i.e. ride sharing is something you can't plan for the future, it's a one shot per transaction deal) (this also doesn't account for it's constant boxing matches with various Governments, that's a different discussion)? Like the maid services, once you get linked up with a maid you like, you're directly incentivized to abandon the service to keep the maid you want, and they are incentivized you let you do it because they get more money?

It seems like all of these "match x worker to x task" services are a countdown until the customer finds a worker they particularly like (or just one they can tolerate, I wouldn't be wild about strangers having access to my home) at which point they drop the service, and the servicer's time to handle clients for said service has now been reduced, since they have a direct relationship with a client.

I mean they can put this in the ToS that you "can't do that" but in reality they absolutely can, there's nothing to stop them and no real way to follow up in a meaningful, actionable way for the service.
I'm curious why this has been voted down.
I thought it was Lego at first, but 39000 shapes seemed a bit much. I thought there were only 8-10k shapes?
I think there are some pretty cool things that can be done here. A lot of organizations follow similar structures. Engineer -> Lead Engineer -> Director of Engineering -> Senior Director, etc. Since they follow similar patterns / needs, humans also follow patterns as well, engineers looking to move up into management or deeper into engineering as 1-2 years pass. Matching these two up can be done by scraping / ML.

At the end of the day recruiting is all about matching the right candidate with the right job. Right candidate = one who has the skills and motivation (wanting to move up, work for specific types of companies). Right job = organization that is heading into that phase / requesting it.
Once again pimping one of my favorite DIY projects - Make A Lisp. Lisp in (almost) every language!

https://github.com/kanaka/mal

I find it to be a great tool for both learning about Lisp and the language you're writing your mal implementation in.
Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties (book) is a good start for better understanding/defining trees. http://a.co/9eVzvji
Also available in Debian https://packages.debian.org/sid/treesheets
Regarding sugar, read about the "white rice diet" used for many years at Duke University to cure diabetes. The diet consists of white rice, table sugar, and fruit. https://www.drmcdougall.com/2013/12/31/walter-kempner-md-fou...
Not that I disagree with you at all about cost overruns and schedule delays being an issue, or poor incentive structures all around being an even bigger issue, but going by your numbers:

>The terminal is pretty. But it was 10 years behind schedule. It costs $3.75 BILLION dollars to build, making it the world's most expensive transportation hub. And it runs about 46,000 passengers a day. (Compare and note that Grand Central does five and a half times that many). It was not worth it.

That... doesn't actually sound bad? According to what you wrote there it's serving around 16-17 million passengers a year, which would mean the entire $3.75 billion only works out to ~$220 a passenger for a single year, so it could be entirely recovered by a surcharge or temporary rate bump or whatever of around 50-60 cents a day in just a single year. If built properly so the capex can be amortized across five years or a decade or more, all that drops proportionally. That doesn't seem like a huge ask in NYC.

I mean yeah, it certainly apparently is far from the most efficient design. But even so it's worth considering that even a public infrastructure project here with huge scheduling delays and cost overruns that produces a big upfront bill isn't necessarily that inefficient compared to other forms of competing transport (like cars). It's easy to get too silo'd and forget the fundamental efficiencies and reliability vs the wider world, and in many cases it might be worth "reinvesting" some of those gains in the form of making something more aesthetically pleasing (and thus attractive to the public users) or politically greased, because even if it's worse relative to an internal ideal it might still be better for society. And humans are humans, sometimes some "inefficiency" is necessary from a practical standpoint.

The real question I'd have isn't the one time capex, it's ongoing maintenance. If all that money went into building something that'll be extremely reliable and have either equal or lower maintenance structures vs the rest of the stations, amortization can take care of the rest all right. If however delays and other issues result in higher running costs, that's a much much bigger deal and would be more interesting to know about then the $3.75 billion upfront.