skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the hard thing about the "calories in/calories out" statement, it's accurate for a specific thing: the calories of energy in a burnable form available to your body/the direct burned calories as a combination of RMR and exertion.

The issue of course is that we use it in the context of different kinds of food and a simplistic assumption about how effective we are at converting a calorie in each into a burnable form.

2000 calories of energy from custard will be processed, stored and used differently than 2000 calories of energy from chicken.
Yes! From first principles, one look at materials cost to build a home leaves one with the feeling that prices could potentially be cut by an order of magnitude.
What is the externality here?
> C != C++, because in the latter you can use smart pointers - just like in Rust.

That's an overstatement. You can use smart pointers in C++, but they're not at all equivalent to the usability of Rust's pointer abstractions.
+1 for spring boot.

I dont use the rest repositories/hateos stuff much.

But mvc/data/security, are solid.

The netflix cloud stuff is really nice too, for circuit breaking/routing/discovery.
French Presidential hopeful Melenchon appears as hologram at rally
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Baloo, KDE's indexing engine is apparently hit by the same vulnerability that hits Tracker (except they didn't fix it, according to the article). Also, are you sure Firefox and none of the KDE applications are using gstreamer for the backend (e.g. for HTML5 videos)?

I dislike this idea that the Linux desktop is all Gnome and systemd, too, but the situation is pretty disastrous. Things that have an X in them, from X11 to (especially...) XDG shouldn't be trusted too much...
There is bitcoin.
If the house is passed on to a child, they are forced to sell whether they can afford the taxes or not because now they have decades of built of tax debt they need to pay off out of the estate. If you defer until sale and the elderly person sells when they can't take care of themselves anymore, they have less money with which they can get a new residence.
What suburbs are you talking about? I know people who have chosen to live way the hell out and give themselves a nasty commute, but price was rarely the driver.

As for travel time, unless you are really lucky I don't think it is possible to consistently have less than 1 hour of travel time per day unless you move house every time you change jobs. Even in NYC moving just a few blocks can add or subtract 15 minutes to your commute.
Leased CGI sets / models / scenes.

Building full fledged models / generations of popular cities and places and leasing them to film producers. Its cheaper for them to lease than it would be to hire full devs and designers to start from scratch..I know there is some 're-use' in place by these companies such as pixar and disney. Re-use is not what i am talking about though. I am talking about movies like transformers / godzilla / etc which need on point rendering of actual cities and places.

Just a thought I had the other day when reading how film companies were struggling with growing movie budgets and diminishing returns.
Haxe 3.4 Released – With lots of new Features
Even with a bump allocator, you're still putting large amounts of data into the nursery generation. If you're in a performance critical inner loop (for each line of a 50 gigabyte CSV file, or for each scan-line in an image codec), this is still a bad idea, performance-wise. You still can't beat static stack allocation, where you increment a pointer once to create a stack frame, and decrement it to free memory.

In really fast Rust code, my goal is usually to entirely eliminate all heap allocation in favor of zero-copy parsers. This can be tricky—especially for streaming I/O using buffers, because a single chunk of input might get split over two buffers—but Rust's borrow checker makes it possible to maintain references into other people's buffers without shooting yourself in the foot.
Pretty much everything is complicated because humans are fallible. At least this is methodological error subject to scientific scrutiny rather than ethical shortcomings that comply with the letter of the law.
I think this distinction is a bit ancient...
The US explicitly allows people to get a second passport to allow them to visit countries without facing this issue. For example, if you want to visit Lebabon, you can get a second passport if you later want to visit Israel.

I don't know if Canada or other countries do the same thing.
>If you can remote-work

Lots of people can't. Most people don't work in tech, and probably can't. Telling service workers to live in the boonies and commute an hour and a half by car to their minimum wage job is stupid and tone deaf, obviously there are better solutions.

>use newly affordable automobiles to get to their workplace

Many metro areas are so congested automobiles are no longer the convenient affordable choice they used to be. For some mass transit is less about being planet-conscious and more about not wanting to sit in traffic for half the day and spend $300/mo on parking.

Property is hardly an optimal free market and there's lots of things we can do to improve the situation other than making fun of "Millennials". Most people I know would happily pay less to live outside of the city so long as they were still well-connected to the city center by the transit network. Expanding and improving commuter rail access and building denser more appealing suburbs will be big wins imo.
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Complaining about trivial problems is in no way limited to people without children. In fact, in my experience, people with children take this to an entirely new level when those are things that affect their child.
What's wrong with saying "you could afford this when it was taxed at x% and valued at $y, but now it's taxed at 1.5x and 2y, and you can't afford it, and you should move?"

I'd much rather sell a $500k house and move because the monthly tax bill is too much for my cash flow than stay there and have the thing repossessed because I owe $15k, then I get nothing.

This is more of the "I'm entitled to ___________" mindset coming out of the baby boomer generation. Yes you paid for your house, but there is a monthly tax requirement to keep it. If you paid the house off in full but can't pay the monthly taxes, you can't afford that house.
Agreed. I see thousands of dollars go into SS that I will never see come back.
Kind of related:

Is there an easy way to ask the VAT back from each country?
Well the reality is that US needed to offer labor market access to countries where they wanted US products access. When times were good nobody bothered about H1 value etc but in tough economic times labor market access is one of the top concerns of politicians.

The low level details of salary, duration, mountain of paperwork etc for visa were adjusted as per demand and supply.
They definitely use your contact lists. I have done multiple experiments with this. I first noticed about a year ago, people popping on my FB's "People you may know..." list, and sure enough, the _only_ way they could link them to me was through my iPhone contacts. People like a guy who once fixed my roof, whose number I still had from years ago.

As the original commenter said, LinkedIn seems to be even worse with this, creating those spooky empty default accounts for your grandmother or your child's best friend's dad.

I think there will be a backlash against all this - surely it is a case of diminishing returns for the social media corps, combined with an ever-growing sense of _unnecessary_ intrusion by their users?
That's really shapes and not counting colors/prints multiple times? (Not that it really matters to the scope of the problem ;))
I don't think that's actually frowned upon. Your reasoning makes sense and many countries should be happy if nomads earn money abroad and spend it in their local businesses, but often the laws are just outdated and still designed around the assumption that people earn money in the country where they work.
The Meaning of Decentralization
Which makes the "FYIGM" mindset all the more dangerous. I've seen plenty of people even on HN say some version of "well it was tough when I was younger but it all worked out so we shouldn't change things to my detriment now"
There's no need for a copyright exception, people crafting public laws should simply not incorporate material that cannot be published along with the law.
They can work in Kansas City instead of Manhattan or SF. I'd say the majority of folks never consider moving out of the big population centers (by definition, actually). And its a really good idea, not just because of housing and density issues, but other quality of life measures.
You might be right. But they only claimed it, didn't they?

I personally like Windows 10 a lot and I applaud any effort to turn it into a long-term stable OS.
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Context:

I just graduated from Computer Science. Luckily, I got my dream job as a software engineer at my first interview. I don't know why. I felt that my knowledge isn't enough when I was being asked technical questions (paper based test and architecture design for a case study). But, I am eager to learn something new because I believe that software industry is different from what I got from the university.
Restaurant supply chains could be improved by investing in local farmers. Less time and energy spent on transport enables fresher food; and the local money multiplier is a goood thing too. I'm working on something aimed at this.
That's a great suggestion. I flipped through A Pattern Language a few years ago and found it fascinating.
>Calories in, calories out is not the golden rule, and this has been scientifically proven false.

No. If the laws of thermodynamics had been proven false, we would have heard of it.
You all have so much space, but how you choose to use it is a bit disappointing. There is no shared space. No bike lanes, ok, I understand that, but in most places in town, there aren't even side walks. No town squares, no city parks, just endless rows of little castles, accessible only by car. Crossing the street on foot is illegal. Even to go running or cycling, I'd have to drive somewhere first.

There are enough things to like, but this aspect is something I'll never get used to.
wal-e stuffs data in 'cloud' object storage, such as S3 and compatible, WABS, Swift, and GCE's object storage.

barman stores data on a filesystem.

I'm using wal-e, for me a no brainer since I don't have elastic filesystems available but do have scalable object storage. Other sites will have the opposite problem.
So she was nowhere near as good as the men who participated in the tournament and rage quit because she had to play against women? Isn't that pretty sexist on her part?
See to me the problem is the notion of tree structure itself. Forgive me because I don't know the correct mathematical way to talk about this: a tree is a particular type of network in which nodes can have only one direct parent and thus only share siblings with the descendants of that single parent. What we are really lacking is a good network editor, which would encompass not only trees but also more complex rhizomatic network structures.

I think Ted Nelson's ZigZag structure is the closest anyone has come as yet, but manipulating those is NOT user friendly (to say the least). Visualization of multidimensional networks is difficult on many levels, particularly UI. At a certain point you probably come up against hard cognitive limits of human thought.
To be a little more explicit about why net neutrality is important in the long-term, it's to allow small companies to compete on the Internet. If Google or Facebook can pay for faster access than some new startup, they'll have an innate advantage over the startup. It increases the barrier to entry for companies on the Internet, all so ISPs can make a few extra bucks.
RethinkDB Relicensed under Apache 2.0
Indeed. In Europe Monaco is a popular place for very rich people to (pretend to) live due to the lack of income tax. You are restricted in how long you can spend in other countries before being deemed to be domiciled there for tax purposes. In Ireland and I think the UK also, it's 183 days a year. And they do occasionally check, if you're rich enough.
Schools are funded largely by property taxes, so the tax climate of your state has little to no bearing on how much money your school has, and certainly no bearing on how well they spend what they have.
Nothing more complicated than a scale in your bathroom is needed. Check daily and see if you lose weight with whatever combination of food/activity/metabolism you have going on. If you somehow gain or lose weight, eat accordingly.
Thanks for the link.

If you look at CED high demand, CA today already has almost 10% excess of the projected 2026 peak demand (projected is between 65-70, lets say 69MW, per the LA times capacity is 75MW). High demand makes it's own set of assumptions about the efficacy of self generation and economic growth, and I'd be interested to see if they redid this in 2016 (based off how much they overestimated in 2014 and lowered their expectations in 2015).

I did not fully digest this document but based off a brief skim I don't think this document disagrees strongly with the LA times article. Clearly there are more plants coming online, but that today we have 10% excess of the high end of a 10yr projected forecast, I think is part of the articles point (although I think the main point of the article is about how regulated utilities are benefiting from this, at the cost of consumers and non-regulated utilities).
You're welcome to use hotels and taxis that you like. The issue is with stopping other people from using hotels and taxis that you don't like.
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Anyone care to define default outside of Ubuntu?

I run OpenSUSE and have it down to just a tiled window manager, terminal and FireFox.
It's not a technical problem so I think the best thing would be figuring out ways to make it visible to the average user: e.g. imagine if Netflix could reliably show a “Comcast's network is throttling your movie” message.
No wonder the robots decided to use us for batteries.
Wow, i could definitely see this as a viable business model for LineageOS (previously Cyanogen) I wonder if they ever considered it.
WordPress Exploit Leads to Over 10,000 Websites Being Hacked and Defaced
Although this item falls on the borderline, it seems there are a lot of 10 minute videos, when a single image or paragraph will work.
Moral Equivalent of Turing Test
This is a part of what we're working on at atomist - https://www.atomist.com/

We're imagining the idea that your whole development flow is expressible in terms of trees and expressions that we can use to navigate those trees. Say for example a webhook pushes a commit event. We can navigate from that commit, into the chat channel associated with it. Find the repo that contains it. Associate it with the build and link the two together in chat or, most relevant to this article, navigate into the code itself and perform an action such as changing the code or opening a PR with a suggested edit and comment.

The interesting thing is that it's trees the whole way down. We can use the same expression to reach across all all kinds of events or to pick out individual tokens or structures inside the code.

There's lots of information on our blog: https://the-composition.com/

We've open sourced a lot of our core work at: https://github.com/atomist and are also interested in talking to teams about joining out alpha (see atomist.com)

It's a really interesting problem to be working on.
It is not about education system. It is the dream of lots of third world natives to have a shot at 'dream life' in the first world. So any kind visa including asylum, religious freedom etc are prone to misuse and exploitation.
Or as danjoc proposed, you can just keep the networks small. No need for a backbone on a neighborhood-wide network.
>but all this noise about it is clearly disingenuous.

He's destroying the lives of my friends. There are 100,000 such people affected according to the DOJ in court, and they all have friends as well.

Geopolitics is complicated, and the right action isn't so obvious that I'm going to be in the streets whenever someone drops a bomb. I don't and can't understand things with enough certainty to be outraged. This situation is obvious. He's destroying lives for useless political pandering.

The difference is not the degree of immorality, but my certainty of it.

Moreover, a president who bombs other countries is not going to suddenly bomb me. This president already tried to deport my friends, and almost all of my friends are immigrants. Can any of us feel safe now?
Read words from pictures
Sure, it takes all kinds. But for really caring about something, there's nothing like worrying the spike in white blood cells in your very ill child might be diagnosed as leukemia on Monday. After that, the rest becomes noise.
You're dead on with this. Older users are a potential goldmine but they can be hard customers. Even as I age I see how much harder it is to sell me anything.
It's not insignificant. Humans are pretty good in determining whether someone is making eye contact or not. At 5 meters, we can easily detect a 10cm deviation in gaze direction [1].

Also, I'd like to be (or feel like I am) much closer than 5 meters when talking with someone.

[1] http://tachilab.org/content/files/publication/tp/imai200604P...
Don't forget org mode or mind mapping software. Both are quite able with hierarchical data.
"I want amazon.eu, where I can filter by products, that can actually be shipped to my EU country"

100 hundred times this! I avoid using Amazon just for their shipping information stupidity - I have to use checkout to be able to see if selected item can be shipped to my country. I find it funny and bizarre that it's easier to order online from China (which is half the World away) than from neighboring countries that belong to the same free trade zone. Ebay has an "EU only" search option, but it's useless as Ebay itself has become smaller Aliexpress cousin with same items and higher prices.
Elon Musk Has Already Started Boring That Tunnel He’s Been Talking About
Isn't it only the types of the AST-nodes rather than semantics you need a common representation for?
I do agree. But what specific areas do you think would be good to target? You mention their poor eyesight and difficult UX, but that doesn't mean we should start creating Facebook or Twitter clones with bigger fonts and easier UX? (or should we?)
Countable is a pretty good app for tracking votes and making it easy to contact your representatives. There are also more straightforward sites that track this information, like govtrack.

https://www.countable.us/
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes
you want to be in highly regulated environment, and pay according price for it? great, you have hotels, hostels and so on.

somebody would like to spend less, be in more welcoming/cozy/more spacious environment, have a kitchen at hand and so on? well there is now an option for those too.

I don't see where the problem lies. just don't take perks from the other 'side' as granted.
I did a similar one for Stockholm but for the greater metro area rather than on street level, for the commute time into the city (When I was looking for a place to live outside). I
What I really wanted to do was find "underpriced areas" where commutes are faster than house prices indicate.

In this case I simply took a large number of addresses, ran them through the API for public transit for a random fixed workday (A tuesday morning 8 am commute) to a fixed central address. Then I plotted the times in a heatmap in the format Google maps uses and made a map overlay with the heat map.

It makes a nice spiral galaxy like map where the commuter train stations make little islands of short commute time far away from the city.

http://commutemap.azurewebsites.net/

(Static pic if you don't want to zoom in it and eat my free azure bandwidth... http://prnt.sc/e57bsc). Thinking about it now the dang thing ended up being completely static so it should be possible to just host for free somewhere (github?) rather than cloud. Uses my msdn "testing" sub now...

Outcome: bought place in the orange/red area and started working from home instead :)

Limitations: 1) target address is fixed, new target (e.g. new job location) needs a whole new map. But central stockholm is pretty small and walkable so this works pretty well if your office is central. 2) Interpolation between known points/addresses uses no kind of path finding. It assumes you can walk e.g. 200m in a straight line from an address to the closest bus stop. That might not be what you want to do if it e.g. means crossing water...
Your bacon excursion is perfectly compatible with calories in calories out (you burned some of the calories, others took a different exit).

The mystery would be if you gained weight over a long period of time while consuming food at a calorie deficit. People do make this argument against calorie counting...

The fundamental lesson of calories in calories out is that someone who wishes to lose weight should seek to reduce their calorie intake to a level where it happens. It probably isn't all that useful a lesson, estimating calories consumed is hard, as is reducing them.
Workflowy is pretty nice, it exports to plain text and xml.

https://workflowy.com/
The pattern is... you edit the default configurations of system daemons until they don't work, then complain on the internet?

Wow! it's terrible that your init system has been fighting you! Let's figure out what custom unit you wrote which is causing the problem.

Unless your alsa devices are broken, I find it unlikely that pulseaudio 10 will do anything untoward; if it does, well then, time to fix a bug, good thing there are so many people working on pulseaudio.

Avahi... well idunno. Avahi tends to be true to the name of ZeroConf networking. I have never written an avahi configuration in my life, and yet it works for me. Maybe you have a malicious mDNS peer on your network? I'm sorry you have to experience that! If you could fire up wireshark and pass the hail mary instead of letting it drop to the green, that would be great.
We live in a very small city (metro pop 500-600k so maybe 1/4 the size of Nashville and 1/2 the size of Birmingham), and when my wife and I were dating we lived in an apartment downtown. It was great! Only two things made us move.

1. We wanted a big dog, and that's a non-starter for 90% of apartments.

2. Property taxes were 3-4x what they were just a mile or two outside of the city center.
"Kickstarter" for cities. Housing is unaffordable in desirable cities, but nobody wants to move to less desirable cities, where housing is affordable. Take a city that is desperate for development, like Detroit, and figure out a way for a couple thousand people to "pledge" moving to a dense-ish urban area at a preferential rate.
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I am still shocked that Windows was recoverable from the fiasco of XP security problems. They have gotten exponentially better in security over the years.
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Apart from showing your revulsion to said lifestyle, which is indeed problematic but bound to become more popular in the future, you might also consider that this is acceptable since decades for the Jet set (who employ all of these techniques to the max), but not for ordinary 'nomads'.
It's not a matter of "like", regulated industries are a matter of "safe" and "consistent".
Then later on there was the Enhanced Chip Set and the Advanced Graphics Architecture.

On that note, i think the A500 my parents got me back in the day were a oddity. I distinctly recall it having 1MB chip ram, suggesting it had the ECS inside. But it shipped with Workbench 1.x rather than 2.x.
Or maybe corporations shouldn't be snooping on employees when they clock out? Wild idea I know.