skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go find some local charities, children's theatre companies, dance groups, churches, mosques, artisan coffee shops etc, and offer to make free? Or payment in kind (free coffee?) Sites for them to build a portfolio.

Find arty people who are doing what they do because they believe in it and don't have a ton of resources. hang out for a couple days, help out, see what they do, be inspired.

Depression sucks. I was on medication myself for quite a while over the last few years. My counselor said the meds and everything is about breaking out of the cycle. Your behaviour changing will change your body will change your emotions...

If you do get thoughts about death or hurting yourself, go see a doctor. Call the Samaritans. During depression your mind is swapping to disk everything else as the depression process keeps demanding resources. If you get healthy processes going, which may need help from medics (it may be something as simple as some vitamin deficiency!) Or hanging out with inspiring people, Then the brain can deprioritise it and re assign the resources.

Don't give up.
My dad owns a few trailer parks. Great investment but not for the faint of heart. From our experience, you're not going to want to live in any neighborhood that allows this kind of housing and as a result, it wont be available for long in any neighborhood you're trying to address. Many trailer parks are trashy (literally trash everywhere) with a highly uneducated and unstable demographic. Its the suburban equivalent of an urban ghetto. Alcoholism, assault, vandalism are daily occurrences. Some questions to ask yourself: am I comfortable evicting people on a weekly basis? How many problematic tenants can my system tolerate before all the software engineers who have the option to pay high rents for crappy apartments decide safety and piece of mind are valuable?

Oh and by the way, this type of housing is cheap but not necessarily inexpensive. A trailer in upstate GA an hour and half away from Atlanta in the middle of nowhere makes $500 a month. In Oakland, market rates (and all roads lead to a market rate) will likely get this to $750-800. People are going to start piling into these things to make the economics work, which will make them more dangerous, more unstable.
But it's clear that the drive for profit is a contributor to poverty; arguably a lot of it today exists because of the profit motive. Furthermore, many people can't "claw their way out of poverty". I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make here; the elimination of poverty is a goal that is to be strived for, even if it cannot be reached.
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Keep telling that to yourself the air quality in these shoeboxes alone is a reason to stay away from them.
Homes should be roomy these are not prison cells or airport sleepover rooms.
No, Aristotle Did Not ‘Create’ the Computer
This scenario is the same as any other machine learning environment:

The output is prediction with a % confidence score. This means the threshold can be set such that worst case certain people need to be checked out by hand. Fallback to standard checkout means they still cut down quite a bit on the needed human interaction and they can set KPIs around improving those stats.
Sad that America destroyed Libya. The country had health care, education subsidies, free electricity, housing subsidies .. if you talk to actual Libyans, no one believes their people revolted. The CIA pumped in those people and then carpet bombed the country.

The nation had no debt and the highest GDP of any African country and overnight, the economy collapsed and the new installed dictators (a.k.a rebel freedom fighters) are in debt to the world monetary fund.

Most Americas are totally unaware of the real situation, and when confronted, with be in total denial.
what you do on your own time with or without company resources is yours. too many armchair lawyers on HN trying to spread FUD and scare employers.

As long as you don't compete using their code, everything is fair game.

Such bullying lawsuits would irreversibly damage the credibility of you and your organization.
It's always worth remembering that using something like LastPass should be compared with the status quo that it often fixes (same password for everything, post-it notes, teams emailing passwords around).
I really hope so!

If you wanna help on this mission, we are hiring! Feel free to reach out to matt at creditkarma.com.
~"I genuinely wanted to help" and then..
~"Why didn't that tactic work on others?
No new CVEs assigned to Bitcoin in almost three years
The 1st generation iPad was released April 2010. The last version of iOS for that hardware was iOS 5.1.1, released May 2012. That's just barely 2 years later, not 5.
The Explanatory Gap
If banks could make a profit giving poor people bank accounts, they'd do it. Moreover, there is tremendous competition in the check-cashing market. Walk down a street in Baltimore and you'll hit one every few blocks. If one of those shops could get more of the market by charging lower fees than their competitors, they'd do it.

Focusing your ire on check cashing places is the archetypal example of a bullshit solution crafted based on emotions rather than rational analysis. Forcing check-cashing fees below the market price is just going to reduce the number of check cashing places, taking away options from people who need them. Any real solution is going to either require the government writing a check e.g. by subsidizing bank accounts for poor people, or reducing regulation to lower the transaction costs in check depositing and withdrawals.
This reminds me a lot of Handmade Hero. https://www.youtube.com/user/handmadeheroarchive
For educational purposes, Casey Muratori codes a complete game from scratch, pretty much without any libraries (Win32 and OpenGL).

In one of the videos he said that he doesn't use the internet at work. Hates it. When he has a question, he writes it down. When he needs to learn something, he googles it at home, downloads a bunch of articles as PDFs, then goes through them at work, but offline.
I would much rather Mr Joyboy ("The Loved One", 1965) be my undertaker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-edybFkBiO4 ... what class!
From [1], the Ford Taurus [2]? Weird...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Flagship_vehicles

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Taurus_(sixth_generation)
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Right, but then they're not a pawn shop. Payday loan places would do fine, too, if they turned into traditional banks.
But this is all engineering work that needs to be done for the system at all. None of these things have incremental costs that justify hiding encryption behind a paywall.
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Wow, I was expecting the price for a service like this to be around $20/month but $199/month (custom header/footer) for a service like this seems a bit of a stretch.
Because it isn't revealing information that only exists in your mind. Keep in mind the reason the 5th Amendment exists: the prevent the government from having an incentive to coerce false testimony through torture.

An evil government could coerce someone to falsely say "I did it!"

An evil government cannot coerce someone to falsely type a password into a terminal to decrypt files with incriminating evidence. Because if it's false that evidence simply won't exist.
Similar to MultipeerConnectivity on iOS — https://developer.apple.com/reference/multipeerconnectivity.
What movie did you get that from? It sounds really cool. Like a cross between Goodfellas and the Bourne Identity.
Well, imagine spending $49,000 on a shipping-container house.
I agree using a protected status classfication to justify what happened at Yahoo is gross. She made the company less profitable and a place few would apply.
The difference is the ability to follow through with the threat. If someone sends you a mail, they have your address. If someone does it over twitter, they probably don't know where you live.

Are we going to throw 5 year olds in jail when they tell an adult male they hope they die? No, we're going to apply the same level of doctrine, how likely is it that the 5 year old can carry through with the threat?
Other managers have been reviewed, and found better success than LastPass. I (finally) signed up for a password manager a little while ago, and after some evaluation chose 1Password.

A big part of that decision was that they have been reviewed/audited and there were a couple vulnerabilities found, but they were all minor, which indicates to me the system is pretty secure. The nature of the bugs was also comforting in that they seemed like small oversights, compared to a lot of the LastPass bugs which seem like "holy shit how did you let this happen".
'simes' is Simon Burr, beyond that I can't help.
This seems backwards and terrible.

Every other nation in the world allows direct person-to-person transfer between any bank. You put in your friend's name, BSB and account number into your phone in Australia and the next day they have money. In Germany, you have additional 1-time use TAN numbers.

Only in the US must we use PayPal, Facebook or paper checks. In fact, paper checks are the only way to send money fee-free between banks. You can of course just display a check on a screen and have the other person take a photo of it with their phone, but that's still pretty ass backwards.

Banking should allow direct transfer at the state level, without third parties or fees.
Scope of "this" ?
The point he was making is that Che isn't a widely admired figure in U.S. intelligence circles.
YouTube hardly takes advantage of already existing features on Android, so I very much doubt this is what's holding them back.
Making engineering tradeoffs between cost and reliability or performance and reliability is very much a part of many engineering situations.
Indeed, this kind of thing is what copyright was originally designed for. The fun thing is that even back then they were making mistakes such as the long copyright period in Berne Convention.
Sure, but who'd actually trust Amazon with their food? I know I wouldn't, they've screwed up 3 out of 5 orders in the past year, leading me to have little faith that they won't give me E Coli covered veggies.

They're opening a large, car centric Amazon Grocery pickup location just over in Ballard as a test, but the particular location they picked is a parking lot for 3 to 4 hours a day, and is over 3 blocks from transit (and where they will be putting the light rail in) due to Safeway & Walgreens already owning that prime real estate.
Prefab is a loaded term - unfortunately, depending on people's experiences, it can be loaded in very different ways.

At YC, there's Acre (Pacific NW, California, Colorado): http://www.acredesigns.com/

I work with BrightBuilt (New England originally, now shipping in the mid-Atlantic as well): http://brightbuilthome.com/

Up here in Maine we also have Ecocor, which is a panel product: https://www.ecocor.us/

I think those are a couple of good prefab examples, although none of them hang their designs on the shipping container form factor (and I specifically picked three 'prefab' companies with very different delivery methods). Most prefab companies I have experience with have gone that way, primarily because the width constraints of a container aren't great once you get above one or two modules.

I think the branding (or rebranding) of small homes built on tow-able platforms as 'tiny homes' was a genius stroke of marketing. If you can do that with the Boxouse that's some secret sauce, but in the absence of a strong brand I think the Boxouse units will end up being called 'trailers' as opposed to 'prefab'.
Can we please stop misusing words like 'hack'?
> It’s across the spectrum really, B-, C-, D-, E-stage companies. We’ve shut down three or four unicorns.

Anyone know what these 3 / 4 "Unicorns" are?

Also, isn't the term "unicorn" use to refer to wildly successful startups that have very low chance of failing? This sounds like an oxymoron...
> Letting your code free won't take that away from you, at least not as long as you care.

Good point, and maybe this genuinely wasn't true back then. It would have been much easier to pass someone else's code off as your own back before Google and Github and GrepCode and so on.
No one using API blueprint here? https://apiblueprint.org
It's interesting to speculate what would happen to the content of this article if it were an HN comment. Do you think it would be considered insightful?
You should go out and get any job that you can, no matter how menial it is. There is nothing worse than being an unemployed adult male in America...But at the same time try to get professional experience in web development by signing up with recruiters or a job agency that will get you a job that pays by the hour.

As the years go by, you will gain more and more professional experience and then you will never have to worry about getting a job as a web developer again.

Keep moving and don't stop.
ah! the author of that hwbot.org post is Alex Yee; I remember his name as he wrote that insanely upvoted (and awesome) stackoverflow answer on branch misprediction: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11227902
It seems that these large distributors that aggregate from many sellers are once again having quality issues. However, they'll still get my business because of their many conveniences. I'm just less likely to use them for critical things like medicine or heavy equipment.

I just went through something similar with some kitchen equipment purchased through Soap.com. I tried to claim warranty with the manufacturer, and they earned a new customer:

Hello,

Thank you for your inquiry. Soap.com is not an authorized retailer of our
items and we have had some problems with counterfeit <REDACTED>
that are having this type of problem. That being said, we can honor the
warranty and replace it with the genuine article, however in the future if you
choose to purchase our items please be sure that you are purchasing from
someone we have authorized to do business with. Is the address you list below
your current address to receive the replacement?

Regards,
I'd add trains to your list. There are locomotives in use in UK that use electronics (I admit not microprocessor based and not running an actual operating system) dating from 1980s. The ones currently being designed may have similar active service times.
I don't think the previous user is saying that no-one cared about space, just that no-one cared about 2038. So that conversation wouldn't have happened anyway.
The machines are only starting to beat people in HU (that is, the two player variant of poker). What most people play is 6 or 10 people variant, where complexity goes through the roof. Additionally, those AIs (unless there's some novel development that I'm missing) are about play game-theoretically optimal (GTO) strategy, which won't do that well in real casino setting - because most profits for professional players come from "fishes" (amateurs making terrible plays), whose weaknesses they map and ruthlessly exploit. A GTO bot is unable to do that.
As someone who was planning to buy an SE later this year, I'm fucking pissed about this. They did not double the storage; they discontinued the lower-storage tiers and replaced with two, more expensive higher-storage tiers. 16GB is not a reasonable storage size for an iPhone, but neither is 32GB. Yesterday, you could buy a 64GB iPhone SE for $450. Now your choices are a (for many people) too-small 32GB for $400, or a (for many people) too large 128GB for $500.
I try to relive the historic moment, when printing without royalty was common place- also know as enlightenment. Im not implying racism, its just the anger of the has-something over the ladder climbers beneath taking the same steps, his grandfather took, to get "up".
I mock, what every book on the history on printing could tell you- that this joke was here several times. Although never this cheap before. People who laughed at historys repetition, also laughed over..
This is a good reason to run anything but Linux, particularly on 32bit hardware.

All BSDs have, as far as I'm aware of, solved this years ago.
Simple. Phones got bigger and the hype died down.

When you have a large smartphone and a capable, versatile laptop a tablet becomes pointless.

People jumped on the tablet bandwagon because tablets were incessantly hyped up and did seem cool initially.
I'm 6'3" and completely screwed up my lower back from rowing. In 2013 I had got to the point where I could not sit down at a computer for more than 10 minutes.

After four years of swimming 3-4x/wk, my back is now totally fine! Highly recommended.
> In Go one can use template library to add custom generics using already known syntax. Essentially it will be Go source with familiar template annotations. Surely it is still a non-standard language, but the setup is trivial and extra flexibility of custom DSL may suits some projects better than hypothetical Go-with-generics.

You answer addresses none of the points I was making. Your custom DSL is something you have to maintain on your own, and it obviously yet another thing that fragments the go community. Imagine if C had no macros and everybody would use its own pre-processor that you need to download before compiling a C lib. Go is exactly in the same situation. It's obviously "not a feature", nor simple, nor readable, nor smart, nor practical.
> come into the office every day for the three months naked

And get charged with sexual harassment
> $1500/1920 work hours a year = $0.78/hr. Seems reasonable to me.

If that sounds good to you, consider $150/1920 instead for a thought experiment! Sounds about fair for someone like me who assuredly could work for years on end sitting on a rock or any random plastic chair outside Hanoi for all I care.. I'd be madly paranoid about spilling coffee or such sitting in a 1500 piece of furniture
> They didn't have money and resources to support many models

They have money now, but do they have the resources? Apple's software quality has arguably taken a nosedive, and they've started missing deadlines even for hardware.

Assuming a kind time traveler gave 1997 Apple a few billion US$; could Apple simply have bought its way out of its problems?
Taxes are easy for the average person. A basic 1040-A, and certainly 1040-EZ (these two cover most taxpayers), are not difficult to do on paper if you can read and have a little patience.

I'm not defending Intuit here, by the way. But most people don't need what they are selling.
> poverty is a sandtrap that becomes nearly inescapable

This is different than the original post, which was that it limits your options. I'm also far from convinced that the majority of Americans or HN readers would have a hard time articulating why poverty is dangerous. To be clear, there's a difference between denying the legitimate hazards of poverty and criticizing certain social policies or attitudes.
No, but it sounds like he knows about this stuff all too well. His final scenario is essentially what happened to my father:

"We are kinda indifferent. If you piss us off, we will look for ways to make you miserable. If you leave and start a competitive company or even a half-competitive company, we will use this contract to bring you to tears. BUT, if you don’t piss us off, and serve us loyally, we’ll look the other way when your iPhone app starts making $40,000 a month."

FYI - my father's situation happened about 20 years ago in the late 90's.
I suspect air quality's tied a lot more to where you live than the square footage of the house you've got. (I dunno, maybe you're an edge case and vape constantly or something...)

As an example, I'll bet this house has better air quality than mine: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/15/a4/8c/15a48c913...
would it be possible that if they succeed to create a completely automatic checkout/payment system that the savings would significantly increase the profits in the long run?
What does your perfect world look like? What is the one thing that you can do to take the first step in accomplishing that? Once you've accomplished that, take the next step. These steps don't need to be big, they can be as small necessary - so long as you're moving forward.

Maybe you need to get yourself a job in a supermarket stacking shelves whilst you build up your portfolio. And maybe building up your portfolio means you need to do those jobs for free.

I've been depressed before and found solace in speaking to somebody about it. This is your first step, the next step will be equally challenging to make but equally as rewarding.

Have faith in yourself.
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60s regex with 60s language. Hmm, I wonder which area (regular language parsing or programming theory) has seen more research since then :D.
I understand your point, but the real America did not do this. American has been under the control of a shadow group and is not reflective of the will of the people. Hopefully, that can change soon.
This line of thinking is I fathomable to me. You do realize that you'd probably have better chances pulling a slot machine handle for a big payout than expecting an early-employee stock package that means anything to a non unicorn.

Long hours is not the same as owning me.
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> If you sell your house for less than you paid, it’s a bad investment. Financially-speaking.

If I buy a house today for 500K and sell it in 10 years for 400K, I have spent 10K / year for housing.

If I spend 2K / month in rent for 10 years, I have spent 24K / year in housing.

Obviously there are differences in homeowner's insurance vs. renter's insurance, differences in property taxes & tax deductions, maintenance costs, security deposits, etc. But while there are risks and rewards to both, it seems patently false to claim that a dollar-value loss on a property sale by any means makes the initial purchase a "bad investment. Financially-speaking."
I wouldn't be too confident about quality or authenticity of products in brick and mortar retail spots
Ask HN: Can a Voice Chatbot help my adult autistic brother with everyday tasks?
Hi Everyone,

I'm thinking of building a Voice-Chatbot to help my autistic brother be more productive. He is in his 20's now and works at a grocery store as a bagger. I've noticed for years now that my mother is constantly asking him the same questions, "Wake up", "take a shower", "get ready for work", "have you eaten today", "it's time to leave the house for work", etc. He would be consider to have mild autism on the autism spectrum since he can do well in school but has a hard time connecting with people socially which has lead to a life of isolation. I'm wondering if building a Voice Chatbot via Alexa would help lessen the load for my mother and help my brother with everyday tasks.

These are the task/commands I'm hoping to help him with.

1. Wake up (notify if work day or not)
-Calendar API
-bedroom light switch API

2. Get ready for work
-Weight sensor API (for bed)
-Shower sensor API
-Mirror sensor (recognizes work outfit) API
-Phone location sensor API

3. Ask what he has eaten today.
-Record response
-Send Daily Email/Text Summary to my mother

4. Ask if he would like to (random activity)
-activity suggestions (go on a walk, go to the game store, go watch a movie, etc)

5. It's time to go to bed now
-turns TV power switch off API
-turns bedroom light switch API
-lock computer API

Do you think this would be helpful with his everyday tasks and do have any suggestions?
The buyer of labour-time pays wholly for the labour value provided, but the worker in turn provides surplus labour which the capitalist collects as value. The worker is paid for the the time that the capitalist has purchased, not the surplus. The worker does not "profit" from this; the worker must work in order to survive.