skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Saying 'you should have rewritten this in rust in order to avoid liability' is not a standard of care that anybody will ever be held to.

Why is 'you should not have exposed C code to the internet' an unreasonable basis for care?

I'm not saying your approach is wrong, I think they're not mutually exclusive - your solution would provide incentive to not use C in a technology agnostic way. But at some point isn't it just irresponsible to write critical infrastructure, or code that exposes user information, in a language that has historically been a disaster for security?
I guess. But IANAP. Maybe someone can comment whether Planck time is part of Ruiz et al. (2017).
Interesting! That somewhat defeats the purpose of Uber, doesn't it?
It is many orders of magnitude harder to get data from a computer that is in the vicinity than from one VM on the same machine to the host or another VM on that same machine.
Murder in the Lucky Holiday Hotel
TV gives even more interesting results as it uses more unicode 9.0 characters:

http://www.github.com/daleroberts/tv
Build an 8-bit decimal display for our 8-bit computer
Creating a Distributed Minio Cluster on Digital Ocean
That would be a great idea. Universities won't do this unless they're legally required to. Student ignorance drives their business model.
Most recent MIT grads cannot power a light bulb with a battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_%28biblical%29
The trap is far less obvious. 150K $ 4% = 500$ per month which seems doable. But, many things can also snowball.

First intrest rates can rise, second unemployment can rapidly increase loan amounts when either the student after graduation or the parents during collage. Loans are often 50+% higher than initially expected for a huge range of reasons.
Suppliers say automakers are guessing the time for self driving cars
Excellent presentation skills.
There are a lot of comments here, some by people more knowledgeable than I. Let me just say that, by my understanding, just as there's a quantum uncertainty principle linking position and momentum, so there is a similar (or equivalent) quantum uncertainty principle linking energy with time[0]. The more accurately you know when something happens, the less certain you can be about how much energy is involved, and vice versa.

This is why the quantum vacuum is filled with particles, and why the Casimir effect[1] works.

[0] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/uncertainty.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect
If you read the article, you'll see this is not the point. To quote from it:

"Instead, get involved in a tangible way — volunteering, donating money or even running for office. This transforms you from victim of political circumstance to problem solver."
Of course, but I had to sign stuff like this to get a mortgage. A bunch of mandated forms about worst case payments. Seems an easy law to help reform loans.
Video teaching how to make Snapchat-like lens using Python and SimpleCV
Never give advice without telling why, because it's very likely that people will forget it if they don't understand your advice.
“Shut Up ABout Harvard” – Why America's Critique on Higher
I think Macs "just working" has always been a myth. Ask anyone who gets paid to fix Macs.

Sure, I see less of them, but hardly unexpected considering people buy fewer of them (and they're less targetted by malware).

On the other hand, I hate dealing with them because they can suffer from the same "it should work but doesn't" crap that Windows machines do but without the critical mass of support via Google.

And unless you get your issue escalated, the Apple Geniuses are about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
I think having to provide a scanned ID and driver's license, and being reminded "you can't afford it?" and "have some self respect" is far from requesting the person just "being a legit student." It is saying I don't trust you being a good person by default, and I pity you for not being able to pay for it. You give discount or free program then just do it, like how MS do dreamspark, don't do it and antagonize people like that. Everyone knows that a person having to resort to those kinds of discounts are tight on budget - they aren't willing to pay whatever the price the author asks. Rubbing on those aspects is, to me, being a pain in the ass - which the author does have a right to.

But everyone else does have a right to what they do as well, to which they might choose to either unhappily not take that offer and pay, or unhappily not take that offer and pirate. In which case, the whole discounted/free student thing becomes a joke, rather than actually helping anyone.
Algeria’s New Imprint
> i touch type ... Part 1 disqualifies the emoji keyboard

Why do you keep saying this? The Touch Bar replaces the FN keys, not the keyboard.

There are no emojis on the Touch Bar unless you specifically bring them up. You can modify the Touch Bar to only present you with the controls you need. [1]

> I also HATE fan noise and I work from home in a quiet room. ... disqualifies anything with laptop-like internals

The 2016 MBPs are some of the quietest laptops around [2]. Which computer do you use? Is it a desktop without any fans?

[1] https://www.boastr.net/bettertouchtool-touch-bar-customizati...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/5ffhe4/2016_mbp...
1. Be bros with the current one

2. Make sure there is enough online sniping so the current one thinks it isn't worth it.
> No. Landlords will not just raise their rents. They are already charging the maximum the market will bear. However the result of LVT would increase the disposable incomes of those that rent, from which they will apportion some of on purchasing more/better location, the rest of more goods and services.

The day after the BI-increase, the housing supply and demand will be exactly the same, but renters will have a greater capacity to pay. The maximum amount that the market will bear will have risen exactly by the extent of the increase. It is hopelessly optimistic to think that landlords won't increase rents to claim almost all of it.

Until zoning laws permit greater density/supply (building upwards is great but often prohibited by local laws), the situation won't change, and a tax linked to rent will just cause an inflationary spiral.

I won't even go into the difficulties of separating land value from building value, since it's clear that objective land value isn't intended to be a factor in setting the tax level.
US man held for sending flashing tweet to epileptic writer
Depends on your audience too. If you're targeting non-savvy web users then www is a clear indication that a string is a web domain. Not so important for a .com but if your site is example.io or some such ...
Oh, you're right. I totally forgot about that.
Interest rates can be fixed. Some are some are not. If not fixed, they often have a ceiling, and you can propose a guide.

In no case will it be bulletproof against things like unemployment. That is OK. We haven't had a recession in years. People in the last 4 years with student loan debt problems? Not due to a sudden economy shift.
A 15$ minimum wage could disrupt an economy based on crappy jobs
Yeah, until cities stop creating such bike lanes :-).
The reason this astounded me was that as a ham I could have solved this problem at fourteen. Might have stumped me for a few seconds having one wire instead of two but I would have gotten there.

But maybe it's not unusual because I've had recent college CS grads fail the FizzBuzz test.
I find it extremely interesting for this to be viewed as an "experiement". If the experiment fails, how would you recover? Move all your talent back to the bay area? Not trying to be a dick here, but genuinely interested on what your mitigation strategy is.
> I'm not sure how 'innocent until proven guilty' applies here. Are you saying we don't need any airport security because that presumes guilt?

How about effective airport security, and not the facade of "security" we see. AKA: Oh looks a BROWN PERSON!

And holding for someone for 6 hours without due process is a good thing? Yeah, no. Unless they're not a white christian. And that is the underlying message, going all the way up to the Trump Islam Ban.

> I have to say, I really dislike the bigoteer tone in your response.

OOhhh tone police. It's OK. I really hate bigots. (And having live in Indiana most of my life, am confident when I spot them. Guess what? Spotted one.)
So far ahead of its' time.

I was at their launch at ETech in like 2005?
What are you covering? Student loans can't be discharged.

The govt makes a substantial amount of money from student loans as it currently is.
Yes, it's a good idea to take eighteen year olds (that have been told their whole lives that they should go to college) and push them make decisions whose negative consequences we never allow them to escape.
Other commenters have provided great responses. But to add my voice to the mix: CAS is definitely not a mutex. A mutex, by definition of the term, enforces mutual exclusion. CAS cannot do that because it is a synchronization primitive. You can use CAS to implement a mutex. Or you can use CAS to implement synchronization which does not require mutual exclusion. Your synchronization primitive does not determine if your approach is lock-based or not. It's what you do with that synchronization primitive that determines if your approach is lock-based or not.

(Here, I use "synchronization primitive" to mean the processor instruction you use for synchronization. A construct such as a mutex or a spinlock is something you would build with a synchronization primitive.)
Ask HN: Ideas to manage DB correctly
Hi HN,

I'm currently working on a project that requires working with data and do some processing. I've been reading about software architecture and I think that the best design is use a separated database server. My current plan is to use a Python Flask app to create a REST API that saves the data to a few Google Spreadsheet. Is this a good solution?

Another question is how do I test this? I was thinking in create some tests to try to write some data using the Flask app and "assert" that the response codes are correct.

Is this a good approach in general?

Summary: I'm using a Python Flask app to access the data in Google Spreadsheets. Good? Bad? Opinions?

Thanks :)
I have a Toshiba Satellite Radius 11 L15W-... its a cheap 300 dollar laptop runs windows 10. changing the OS is not supported and actually blocked my the manufacturer. I was able to find a few tools to remove some of the counter measures set in place. It is now a Ubuntu Laptop, I would use a Mac for development but Macs are expensive. I have built 2 PC gaming rigs that were more expensive then the 1500 price tag of a hackintosh.
Bottom line is you can get any modern OS working on almost any machine. It just starts to get really hacky and information can be hard to find.
Climate science – as one example – uses the thermodynamic properties of CO_2 as a major building block that can be studied extensively on your desk.

And I'm not claiming that sociology cannot predict. I'm just saying that they cannot measure the small (CO_2) and extrapolate to the large to make predictions. Their predictions therefore need other methods.
How Did the Big Data and Data Mining Perform in Predicting 2017 Dutch Election
This seems to be based on some misinformation. Tuition only covers a small portion of a university's costs. The rest is made up by endowments, grants, donations, and other sources.

People have been going to college in this country for a long time and only relatively recently has the outstanding amount of loans and those in delinquency have shot up. I have a hard time believing the reason is having good professors and air conditioning.
There are quite a few reasons why a bike share program can be nicer or a nice addition to owning a bike. I used the bike share program in a different city and loved it. I think one of the nicest things is that after you park the bike you don't have to worry about it. When I lock up my own bike there's always the concern in the back of my mind that it won't be there when I return. And it's not just about the cost of the bike (and lock), there's also the hassle of getting home without your bike.

It also gives you more freedom to choose different ways to go home after going out. Maybe you meet up with some friends who want to drive somewhere, or it starts pouring rain and you'd rather take the bus/uber/metro back home. Or you can bike somewhere, take a walk to a different part of the city and then take a bike home from there. You don't need to go back to where you left your bike.

The 30 minute limit was almost never a concern for me. If you're going longer distances you can just check the bike into a station and check it back out. It's a little bit of extra time, but usually not a big deal. And in the city where I was living you could get additional time credit on your account if you drop your bike off at a station which doesn't get many returns (to help with the load balancing).

I owned a bike and had a membership to the bike share program, but I almost never used my bike for commuting around town. It was just easier to use the shared bikes.
>Of course this is personality dependent! For me, stuffing myself with sweet, rich food until I felt like I would burst is just one of the best most satisfying feelings ever... if I could just somehow reprogram the mental pathways there......

What worked for me:

Find a flavor you absolutely hate. Be it some hot sauce or mustard or whatever. Top whatever sweet, rich food you enjoy with that topping any time you wish to enjoy said sweet, rich food. This corrupted my memories of "this food was sweet and rich" with "Oh god, last time I did that it was terrible I nearly threw up".

I don't drink alcohol, so I put some rum in my Dr. Pepper. Now I don't drink soda anymore. Ever tried chocolate icecream with mustard? The memory will have you avoiding chocolate icecream like your life depends on it.

It took a bit of self control (actually taking a bite of mustard covered chocolate icecream was tough) but I have such bad memories of the things I used to crave that I no longer crave them. I know they're amazing by themselves but I can't bring myself to partake in them anymore.
There are three gigantic sources of waste in the US: healthcare, military spending and education. All of them are 1) run by large organizations with growing bureaucracies, 2) considered so important that any expense is justified, 3) heavily subsidized or financed with loans or insurance, so growing costs are always met 4) in a position where the bureaucracy decides how much should be spent, not the end consumer. In other words, the school decides its students need $300 text books, or to raise rates $1k to fund new buildings and programs. Same with hospitals: the last hospital I was at had a grand piano and robots roaming the hallway. Politicians don't want to be seen cutting defense spending, so the military bureaucracy decides how much to spend, and when there's money left at the end of the year they always find a way to spend it. I'm not sure how we should fix it, but I'd imagine we either have to increase pressure on these institutions to save money by drying up their endless source of revenue, or take the purchasing decisions out of their hands and back into the hands of consumers.
Plus... the TSA exclusively searches people who are already in America. People support it on the generally prevalent notion that it prevents a flow of terrorists, which is just obviously not true. The TSA does nothing to prevent terrorists from flying planes into America. If anything it would prevent terrorists from hijacking planes to divert to other countries. I genuinely think the only reason people support it is the mental association "of planes bring people here" and "terrorists are other places".

The TSA notionally prevents the use of domestic and outbound international airplanes as weapons. In order to hijack a plane you would need to subdue hundreds of people (because why take over a small plane), find and subdue the air marshall, break into the cockpit, and know how to fly a massive jetliner. It is an insane concept. You could just buy a schoolbus(legal), steal a truck, or even just rent a big uhaul, fill it with explosives(undetectable and not even checked for), and drive it onto a big bridge or next to a stadium(also legal). You wouldn't even have to kill yourself to do it, you could kill many more people, and it would be almost impossible to stop.

If you just wanted to kill people you wouldn't even do that. You'd just set up IEDs like people do in Iraq and Syria. That would be way more terrifying than plane hijacking- the bombs could be everywhere. There would be nearly nothing we could do about it.

The fact that none of that happens says that terrorism is just not a threat in the way we think of it. The TSA is the most useless government organization in the US.
I believe the Chrome connections per host is now 6 (even under old school http). Not sure about the other browsers.
Costs of increased military spending in Trump's budget: $54 billion

Estimated costs to make college tuition free for every citizen: $62 billion
>Does the same risk exist for a superintelligent being with a complex utility function? I doubt it; the risk you describe is the risk of monomania, something which simple utility functions are far more likely to lead to than complex ones. So, I think the risk you describe is likely to be low in practice.

I don't necessarily disagree, but there's no argument (as far as you've provided) for why complex utility functions would be less problematic. Only that they are more difficult for us to understand and therefor more difficult to see how they might fail.
Thank you -- I'm going to revisit this suggestion as it's been brought up by friends as well.

I actually implemented a mobile web version at first with the up-sell of buying high res images. I wasn't happy with the images it was producing though because I forced 1 setting for all images being converted for the sake of ease-of-use for the user.

But this was a mistake. Not all photos are the same: Some photos looked better with smaller/larger cells, as a diamond grid, with different color settings, etc.

Server costs and complexity grew too: (nginx, nodejs, rabbitmq). The algorithm is CPU intensive and not fast enough to my liking yet. So I released the macOS version and put the computational cost on the end user and avoiding the need to support servers.

Sounds like I should make a native mobile version with the option to tweak parameters.
Yep, played it! Although I preferred Railroad Tycoon, and when Transport Tycoon finally came out, I was totally hooked to it and quickly abandoned everything else.
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>Students demand a lot. Good profs. Dorms with AC. Sports teams. Medical care.

Why would you expect your university to provide dorms for you? This whole living on campus thing on Anglo universities was always weird to me. You'd only expect perks like that if you pay thousands of dollars a semester.
Also Re:"Medical care": That's what universal health care is for.
Just in case (same site):

http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI...
An Apology for Roger Ebert (2011)
It seems pretty clear that you don't like qualitative sociology, but do you have a problem with the rigor of quantitative sociology, as it is currently practiced?
Valid point, but searching for the 'cracked' version could also be cultural. It's not like people could not afford, they would prefer to 'feel smart' by having the cracked version instead. For that sake, this 'honeypot page' is good, but could include more info on why paying is so important to keep the lights on.
I went to university in 2008. We did not have dorms with AC. The dorm I lived in was built in the 40s or 50s. Tuition (no relation to dorm costs) was still rising rapidly. Now my alma mater has new dorms with AC, but they cost far more than the older dorms (which are still available). Tuition has continued to rise since then, albeit more gradually.

My university did not provide free medical care. Professor quality has not quantifiably improved over that time.

Have sports team costs increased so rapidly in the last 10-15 years?
The Universe, man. As I consume resources in the process of maintaining a highly ordered state for the duration of my lifetime, I cause an increase in the overall level of entropy in the universe and hurry along the heat death of everything. Nothing is free. Everything has a cost.
It's almost like the company is allergic to receiving external market validation of its claimed valuation. They're happy to hold internal company "liquidation events" where employees can sell to employees, and take on massive yearly fund raising events to hush hush funds, but they never seem to want to let on in any public way what they're actually worth on the real market.
Its going to be a really rough bubble. There's no one source to point the finger at, but we've got ourselves in a spiral where:

-More people are going to school

-University costs have skyrocketed (mostly due to expanded administration services), which has increased the need for students to secure loans

-Wage growth has been low/flat for a long time

-A college degree has replaced a high school diploma/GED as a minimum requirement for most middle class jobs

-New grads are coming out of school to lower paying jobs relative to the cost of their education than ever before, driving defaults.

-As college matriculation becomes more and more necessary, even great high schools pivot towards a goal of getting students into college, instead of providing them great educations which have a secondary effect of getting them into college. Further decreasing the value of high school as someone's highest degree of education.

The last one is very worrisome for me, and something I hear a lot about. I have family and friends who are college professors - even those at ivy league universities are saying their students are just as smart as before, but on average now they're not as generally educated and way less prepared for serious academic work. They can't handle the same work loads, don't write or research as well, require more oversight/direction - things like that.

How do you fix that without blowing everything up and probably destroying the lives for a huge group of people who's only crime was being born in a certain set of years? Not to mention the economic implications of an entire generation going into middle age already carrying massive debt - how are they going to generate asset wealth?