skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though expensive compared to SEA, I prefer Japan when I need to get away and focus on doing a specific project for a few weeks. I just spent 6 weeks in Japan. For me to focus on anything, I want my environmental needs to be of least resistance and least time consuming of my time. I am typically 2-3 times more productive in Japan but I can't do it more than 4-8 weeks continuously to avoid burn out.

I don't know the language so it provides sufficient isolation. Any talking by others around me becomes part of background noise. It doesn't interrupt my thoughts unlike when I may over hear things in language I can understand.

People are great, respectful and non-interfering. They will leave you alone in most situations. You don't need to keep your guards up regards to scams and watching your stuff.

Infrastructure, facilities and safety are great so I don't need to worry about the environment and environmental changes, just focus on what I need to do. Portable 4G wifi is as fast as my comcast at home, no power or living issues. Food is great and don't need to think and watch where I can safely eat.

When I need a break, the major cities have decent nightlife or places and expat population to provide a break from work.
It's probably worth pointing out that every online payment service I've ever encountered has incredibly one-sided terms that allow them to screw the merchant more-or-less at will. Even if the service itself doesn't feel the need to use them, the card networks typically require them, so any service backed by card payments will almost certainly have them.

PayPal is notorious for this kind of thing, obviously to anyone who's been around relevant online forums for a while, but then PayPal is also the 800lb gorilla of the online payments industry so it's hard to assess how representative the nightmare stories really are. I don't know enough about the parent poster's story to offer an opinion, but I've seen plenty of vitriol directed toward PayPal from other merchants whose accounts were frozen but who subsequently turned out to have been clearly in violation of reasonable PayPal terms and either hadn't read those terms or had read them but hoped no-one would notice the prohibited behaviour.

I've also heard nightmare stories about many other providers, including about the shiny new startups of recent years. But again, without knowing the context and the overall scale of their businesses, it's impossible to make any objective judgement about how likely it is to happen to you if you're a merchant who is just trying to collect payments and does nothing wrong.
The weak are meat and the strong do eat.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the appropriate term is here, either. Perhaps contentious? disputed?

I'm still trying to get my head around what fake news is actually trying to describe. I'd like it to refer to intentional deception, but I think it's being used much more broadly than that. I fear that it's effectively meaningless at this point, other than as a generic insult.
I think you mean it's good for anyone who's not a homeowner.
https://source.android.com/security/verifiedboot/verified-bo...

How do you propose a custom rom can establish hardware root of trust without being signed by the device manufacturer?
Thanks. Though the README also says:

> To be able to receive messages signal-cli uses a patched libsignal-service-java, because libsignal-service-java does not yet support registering for the websocket support nor provisioning as a slave device.

So maybe you can add a smartphone if you've already registered via the CLI but not the reverse? The wording is unclear to me.
Yes, world-ending AI seems much more plausible than alien contact of any sort.

In the extraordinarily remote chance that we do contact aliens, though, it seems highly likely that said aliens will be hostile. I can't figure out why most people assume alien life forms would be friendly.
given Android's execution model (closer to a desktop OS, with many things running in userspace, constant context switching) compared to iOS's "one thing running at a time" model (closer to a game console OS), my guess is that Android benchmarks are less reliable.

Not that it discounts the massive advantage to apple on perf.
WTF?

So, in your opinion, equal treatment means that you have to sell broadly similar products from different manufacturers at the same price? So, Porsche could require that you sell their cars at the same price as a Fiat, even though you have to buy it from them at a much higher price than what you pay for the Fiat?

How the fuck is it not obvious that paypal gets treated differently because it is fucking different? Do you seriously think that merchants make up such rules arbitrarily? That it's not maybe that paypal is expensive, so they do the only thing that's fair: They charge the person responsible for the increased costs those increased costs? That it's not maybe that paypal lets itself be used for fraud much more easily than other payment methods in some scenarios, so merchants aren't willing to take that additional risk?
Does anyone have some examples of the practical problems they experience using Linux, which can't easily be solved in any other way than going to Windows?

It just seems odd to me given my good experience switching my fairly computer illiterate parents over to Linux previously.

To be fair they presently use Mac, but I found the Linux switch a great advantage initially as I ended up with much less tech support dealing with anti-virus software, clicking links they shouldn't, malware etc.

If I were to speculate a key problem is that so many people treat MS Word as the standard format for exchanging written documents. Computer illiterate people very frequently send emails with their main info written in MS Word. They seem to have no idea that you can format your emails from a regular email client.

Or how many people bundle images by pasting them into powerpoint rather than just zipping them?

It would be interesting to know whether these are the sort of problems causing a desire for a switch back to Windows or whether there are real legitimate reasons.
Any good walk throughs for fsharp on coreclr with vscode?
Houses can basically last an arbitrarily long amount of time and still remain functional. With most things, like a car, there is some nebulous end of life where its value is effectively $0, and the value of that thing will steadily decrease over time until it reaches that point. Because houses hold their value, people can sell houses when they don't need them, which makes it an investment. Of course value of housing and land change over time - the fact that there's a market ensures that - and of course people want to sell something for more than they bought it for if they are planning on selling. Housing as an investment is so intrinsic to its nature I don't see how to avoid it.
Lol. Microsoft is utterly terrified of Linux making the jump from servers to the workplace.

It's arguably a much bigger threat than home users switching since businesses could switch many thousands of machines at once
Daaaang, on the HN front page. Glad you liked it.

I don't wanna take money from HN folks if I can avoid it though - if you wanna get the course listed on the post, use coupon code hnfrontpage to get it free this week. Enjoy.

(And if you're a bootstrapped startup using MSSQL, holler - I have a soft spot in my heart for that, and I'll do what I can to help.)
How many of those are counted in DAU/MAUs if this is their only action of a day?
I would imagine that the cost difference is enough to get their attention
But only the cool kids owned smart phones in 1996.
awesome, thank you!
I took linear an analytic linear algebra class some years ago, but admittedly don't remember too much. I'm beginning to study more in depth matrix analysis, this and combinatorics are useful for understanding fundamentals of many algorithms.
I've learned a little of Markov Decision Process, but i've been told by people working in the field that MDP isn't used much for neural net anymore, though this doesn't mean it shouldn't be learned. I'll definitely look into tensors.

here's a link i found looking into the subject: http://datascience.ibm.com/blog/the-mathematics-of-machine-l...

and here's some recommendations for math/ml texts i got in another thread that may be of use:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13275031
The author obliquely mentions that blacks are 5 times more likely to be imprisoned in the UK. I decided to look into why this might be happening and turns out that

Population

Population of England and Wales, source: 2011 ONS Census
White – 48,209,395 (85.97%)
[White British – 45,134, 686 – 80.48%] Black – 1,864,890 (3.32%)
Asian – 3,820,390 (6.81%)
Chinese – 393,141 (0.7%)
Mixed race – 1,224,400 (2.18%)
Arab – 230,600 (0.41%)
Other – 333,096 (0.59%)
Total – 56,075,912

Offenders found guilty of selected offences by ethnicity in England and Wales, 2011, source: MoJ

Murder

White – 223 (65.01%)
Black – 57 (16.61%)
Asian – 29 (8.45%)
Other – 4 (1.16%)
Not stated – 30 (8.74%)
Total – 343

Blacks are 6.6 times more likely than whites to commit murder.

Possession of an article with a blade or point in a public place or on school premises

White – 4518 (72.26%)
Black – 1034 (16.53%)
Asian – 224 (3.58%)
Other – 93 (1.48%)
Not stated – 383 (6.12%)
Total – 6252

Blacks are 5.9 more likely than whites to commit of knife offences

Possession of firearms, certificate related and miscellaneous firearms offences

White – 989 (64.05%)
Black – 281 (18.19%)
Asian – 72 (4.66%)
Other – 33 (2.13%)
Not stated – 169 (10.94%)
Total – 1544

Blacks are 7.3 more likely than whites to commit firearms offences.
exactly. I recently switched to android phone and it's one of the most cool features.
The idea that having two de facto political parties means there are only two sides and you have to pick one of them is part of the lie. You do understand you can vote for Democrats for one office, Republicans for other offices, write your own name in for a third office, vote Green for a fourth office, and completely abstain on a final office when you either dislike both candidates or feel to ill-informed to cast a vote, right? But "choosing a side" goes way beyond voting, and in this election both 'sides' choose to vote against a side, not for one.

And as for disparity in the understanding of voters of these fictitious sides, the side that likes to claim the other side is uneducated and ignorant is, statistically speaking, less educated. That, too, is part of the lie.
I was going to ask how anyone could be "likely not qualified" to speculate about life existing on other planets, since there's absolutely no evidence that such life exists.
I've added web console dump and caching. If you git checkout and run with qt5webview.py -u https://chat.cloudron.io/home -c the login screen pops up. The -c flag enables caching
Could be interesting, but is apparently in Russian, which I don't read.

Would be nice to see the developers support other languages, presumably including English.
Incidentally, this is what has happened in Japan, but with one big difference.

In Japan, people expect houses to be worthless after a decade, and they rebuild their houses frequently. This is partly because the poor quality of houses built in the first decades after WWII has created a bias against older homes that is probably no longer justified. Many buyers tear down homes and replace them -- this happens everywhere, but it is more common in Japan. People who have owned their home for a few decades will have it torn down and rebuilt every 20-30 years, and they will continue to live in the new one without any intention of selling the land.

On the other hand, while homes are worthless after a decade, land is extremely expensive. This leads to 40-year mortgages or to people building homes on land they lease for decades, and having them torn down when the lease ends.

I don't expect that kind of situation to develop in the US, nor do I want it to, but it's always good to learn about other approaches to home ownership, because it demonstrates that considering a home as an investment is not natural or inevitable.
No. Closed source binaries are not impenetrable to researchers. For a security audit you have to study the binary in any case so open source is a bonus not a requirement.
My guess is that they're attempting to show that they're not subject to laws against auto-dialing, which is typically just a machine that dials numbers incrementally or randomly.
Raymond Smullyan has died
Lua's source code is very nice to read, even if you're not a C guy
Note the report on which the recommendation was based was authored by a derivative of the Big5 firm which helped Enron. (Arthur Anderson -> Accenture) Technology consultants inventing expensive "customer need" projects is nothing new.
The cost in urban centres is the land, therefore this is a flawed approach. The land does not erode (unless you live on a cliff).
In Android, you can easily disable all notifications for any particular app.

Settings -> Notifications -> {app} -> Block All
That quote is wrong in so many ways - the man clearly didn't understand thermodynamics. Life doesn't reduce universal entropy, and inorganic compounds will spontaneously form more more energetic and complex compounds given a little input energy.
That line is explaining why signal-cli doesn't use the real libsignal, but a modified copy of it. They've modified it to support shit like that. However, https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/issues/49 makes it sound like you may have other issues.
Show HN: Redux store validator
Introducing the terrifying mathematics of the Anthropocene
Where does one go for a dump of all the images? I'm assuming that they'd rather one not scrape the site.
My point with the example was to show that Wikipedia is a public resource. It's not "that other guy's" responsibility to fix it. Every editor is a volunteer. If you have the energy to complain about a public resource that you benefit from for free, that is maintained by volunteers, you absolutely should be shamed for not chipping in yourself and instead writing about it elsewhere. As the famous line goes: "patches welcome".
The really annoying part is when you accidentally click some link that opens in the same tab, or click back, or do anything else that needs to reload the page to open the feed. You effectively lose all progress you've made reading through it.
I was surprised to see the wooden benches in the gym. Except for shoring, I can't recall much wood when I was in the US Navy; fire danger.
Build native applications with Meteor using meteor-desktop
You need to think about the risks/threat model. If you have an attacker close enough to capture Bluetooth, it would be not a stretch to intercept keyboard input from a cable.
Then why do it in TeX as opposed to Inkscape?
Thanks a lot for the quick fix, works great now.
I'm an actual homeowner (no mortgage!) in 94087, and I'd love it if house prices fell. Bubbles aren't good for anyone, in the long run.
I didn't imply otherwise. I'm just wondering how it is iPhone is considered secure when it is happily sharing your data with Apple. Or doesn't it?
Using GPG and SSH Keys (GnuPG 2.1) with a Smartcard (Yubikey 4)
>Just because a giant company wants to be paid, and another giant company could afford to pay them, doesn't mean the bill was justified.

That's not at all what I was saying. All I was saying is that their usage is very clearly not fair use. That is all.
NixOS developers thought a recent change to the nvidia drivers caused the issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/22304#issuecomment-279...
Perhaps specialties in large urban govt bureacracies (like GIS, facilities maintenance, etc.) often require many Windows-only apps and drivers from vendors whom can't justify Linux development (Mac would probably be first).

Having IT supported a similar type heterogenous mix of departments in big name Ivy academia, it's typically workable productivity/interop to have each group of users to standardize on the same OS... usually either Window or Mac but not both (because of app compatibility, even between same vendor isn't always 100%: filename character set, fonts, so on.)
I appreciate your advice. But things still fall through cracks. We do have automated tests in place, we have ran manual regression test before and after the release on test devices -- still, the crash happened for 2 most critical clients of ours. Yes, we are going to increase the testing etc, but testing does not solve the problem, it just decreases the chance of the problems to happen. This is not the issue I was trying to bring up here on this thread. The issue is that if the "expedited" review takes significantly longer (perhaps not consistently), is it a red flag for Apple to do something about improving it. If the process was designed to address the critical client's issues -- it currently does not work. I'm loosing my clients and Apple is not there to help. If I only knew what I'm getting into, I would have submitted through regular process, because, as of right now, it takes only a day for review to complete.
Great comment, thanks for the details on the specific tech - this is rarely captured in the regular "just replace Oracle with PGSQL" threads on HN.

I think you can add to this the fact that Oracle has been hardening the platform and building/fixing edge cases for 30 years. This goes a long way to preventing procurement departments from moving away from the "no-one got fired for buying <dinosaur-x>" model.

I heard a crazy stat that 99% of Oracle's business ($36B revenue, $9B profit) comes from the top 0.01% of customers (basically the US Govt and the Fortune 10). The average OSS start up is not going to materially affect this.

The real problem (solvable with tech? maybe?) is changing the culture in which big orgs evaluate and procure IT. Otherwise Oracle will just be an attractive exit for startups rather than competition that can be threatened...
Land is expensive because the banks will advance huge amounts against your future income. They have no constraint on this as when they advance credit they do so by creating it.

When wages go up, mortgage lending goes up (and by a multiple). The banks hoover up all productivity gains.

NYTimes might want house prices to go down but they have to take on the banks if they mean it.

Incredible that anyone could disagree with this, really, but downvote away.
> not due to morals, but due to it being the best option for themselves

Indeed, and this is why the same thing happens in the BSD world. There are many examples of large and small companies, competitors, working on the same parts of FreeBSD.

Enlightened companies contribute to Free and Open Source software because it's in their best interest, not directly because of the license. Conversely, there are countless examples of companies who don't think it's in their interest, and willfully violate the GPL.
Why not do as I suggested above, which is to answer "Can I work remotely?" with "You can do anything you want as long as it doesn't hurt your work."

That way, you're setting clear expectations ahead of time.
Patently false. I barely hear any talk about MariaDB whereas I still consistently hear about MySQL. Please define "Everybody" in this context, because it sounds like you've conflated it with "I".
Won't someone think of the pro-slavery opinions?
Abstract: The Art of Design (Netflix)
It's roughly the same in iOS. I have almost every app notification disabled. I'll just check them when I check them, rather than getting distracted.
Have read it when it was first published, but it's something of an evergreen (and very well written for a "mere" thread post).
Some Princeton students wanted to rename the Woodrow Wilson school.
Not only was I fully aware of it, but I had just read Emerson's speech on the subject of the end of the British slave trade yesterday.

That is why I was careful to point out that Calhoun's views were already becoming outdated; and at any rate, Calhoun lived in the US, not in, say, England. I'm not arguing that Calhoun was some kind of progressive for his time. I'm sure you don't mean what you seem to be insinuating with your other claim - obviously nobody who isn't mentally ill supports any philosophy of slavery in 2017. That said, I don't think it's 'creepy' to understand how people who did things we regard as abhorrent justified their deeds to themselves and to others.
his copyright and community talk has stayed with me since I heard it 12 years ago, it certainly was special (well argued) and left a lasting impression.
They don't have to be right, they just have to exist in sufficient numbers.
I guess it can't harm to ask nicely. Thanks for the tip!
So your business cards have fuzzy edges from the perforations?

That just screams amateur.
>"The figures come even though--as mentioned in the earnings report headline--Oracle's SaaS/PaaS revenue rose 77% in dollars and 79% in CC, totaling $798 million "

$800 million from their cloud offering in a single quarter is nonsense?
At the time, there was a zero tolerance policy for volcanic ash with jet engines. However there are now upper bounds on the density of ash allowed, so if an Eyjafjallajökull-like eruption happened again today, not as much air traffic would have to shut down.
Funnily enough, after 2004, MS moved their German HQ to Münich.
Yeah, serious health consequences for people globally.

In 1783 Laki erupted:

http://www.economist.com/node/10311405

"Japan suffered one of the three worst famines in its history in 1783-86, when exceptional cold destroyed the rice harvest and as many as 1m people died. Special crews had to be hired to clear the roads of the dead. In Japan this famine is usually attributed to another volcanic eruption, that of Mount Asama, but its impact was small compared with Laki's."
I'm not really sure what this is about, but I only use the browser version of Facebook (which is very functional), so that may be why.
The most obviously missed type would appear to be dystopians characterised by extreme disparities between rich and poor, where the dystopic regime is generally so much better off than the underclass it doesn't need to bother with enforcing or influencing worldviews beyond basic security measures (much of cyberpunk, for example). Call it oligarchic dystopia; I'm not sure which author I'd give the credit to. Arguably there should be [post]apocalyptic dystopia in which the system of organization is the least of people's troubles, of which Anthem and whole subgenres of other books about a future humanity regressing to earlier technological and social states should belong.

Don't think there's too much danger of We breaking the OP's classification system though: it was more or less the template for 1984 (Orwell did read it, and with hindsight his lukewarm review seems rather uncharitable) and as such is one of the earliest and purest examples of Orwellian dystopia.
If we're very, very lucky, it counteracts global warming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age#Volcanic_activi...), but it could also overdo that, as in the year without a summer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer)