skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My girlfriend just went through an airline training course and, yes, they can stop electrical fires, like batteries, on-board. On a surprising note, they might be even able to handle bombs if these are detected before an explosion. They have procedures for most dangerous stuff, had no idea.
every single headline from the recent French election mentioned "far-right" Le Pen without also mentioning any ideological affiliation of the other candidates

That's not true. Every publication I've seen about the election results are talking about right-wing Le Pen versus centrist Macron.
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Yet its cheap enough that every commercial plane has it and every tractor has it. Sure they'll try to take their pound of flesh but not to the extent it would make the products affordable.
Honest question. I just looked at Redfin and the average house costs around $1.2mm. How would anyone making $130k with 4 dependents buy a house? You seem to fit that criteria so I'll ask you. How on earth did you afford that? Because based on my simple math there just isn't enough money for it to be possible.
Equipartition in globular clusters is controversial.

Trenti M., Marel R.: No Energy Equipartition in Globular Clusters

https://www.astro.umd.edu/~richard/ASTRO620/glob_clust_energ...
til then, i wrote a script that'll let you unsub from everything at once before you close your unroll.me account.

https://goo.gl/B4HLPX
> around £400k which should be comfortably affordable to someone on 70k

The mortgage on that will be using up around half of your income. That's insane.
> Brooklyn

Hahahahahahahaha, good one. Maybe you're in some alternate dimension Brooklyn, but the one I live in is full on crazygonuts expensive.
Six figures is a bit misleading. I make close to 300k, which is also six figures and have a family. Don't really feel poor. I have a 4000 sqft home and take plenty of vacations
Im not a fan of most of their search improvements. It seems like Google these days is good at telling me what I already know but have forgotten vs researching and discovering about information I don't know anything about.
This post is hilarious. You're the embodiment of HN.
To me it's just a poorly pulled espresso with a ton of sugar...
After living in 'cramped old london' for over a decade (still), I can only dream of the luxury of 800 Sq.m. Where do I sign up? :) fitting multiple people/families into anything less is just bad living standards as far as I'm concerned.
You work hard all day long to go back to such a depressing existence. Time to start living fellow HN'ers!
You get a certain number (9, I believe) of free articles per month
A professional worker should be able to support a reasonable sized family without living in a slum or being a millionaire.

I'm not sure what "holding people accountable" means to you. What it means to the Valley is that these companies have basically colonized the region and created an environment where you need to be single or dink. They like that because it means it's easier to make you work more without a family.

In my case, it means my services aren't available to those companies at any price. No big deal individually, but there are many people like me.
Wansink strikes me as an extremely bright, creative researcher. His problem seems to be that he didn't collaborate with people who were strong methodologists.

If anything, he reminds me of a lot of brilliant researchers, who are too confident in their methodological prowess. (And this is the outcome that should have been avoided through collaboration).
Mailbox tools are a security risk
The New York times article a few days ago was pretty bad, and I expect that made the scandals much more mainstream
Ahh product, i love it
Every professor should have a procedural problem generator that takes a seed number input and creates an entire, unique assignment, with a grading guide generator that operates from the same seed to demonstrate the "correct" steps to reach the solutions for the assignment.

That is something you could literally write once and continue to use for 100 years, tweaking only when the course requirements change. Even if you're lazy, and write all the questions and solution guides by hand, you could still select from every such question that you had ever written, and by your 20th year on the job, memorizing from the bootleg study guides would be harder than just learning the course material.
No you are not! HN seems to think the same way, and it is one of the worst cases of rose colored glasses I have ever witnessed. What about the cost? Who is going to be able to afford this? Also, what about people that rely on a vehicle for work? Retrofit $75K work trucks with another $75K in self driving gizmos? Find me a practical plumber, carpenter, A/C, lock smith, self-employed guy/gal that will sign up for that!

Edit to add... Have the crazy expensive and downright hostile self-driving John Deere tractors eliminated farming deaths?
Wait until you get an injury. Professional fighters might be an exception because the type of workouts they do (like grappling) recruit many different muscles, but there's a reason that nearly all sprinters for example train with weights. If you don't do any weight training, definitely make sure to cross train with a variety of activities to avoid becoming imbalanced.

That said, you only need a rack, a bar, a bench, and some plates to get the best possible workout with weights. Doing squats, deadlifts, bench press, rows, and olympic lifts is all it takes to become extremely strong and hardened against injuries. Machines are totally unnecessary.

And I'm not even so sure about fighters. Which fighters do you have in mind that explicitly don't do weight training?
BUT IT IS MY RIGHT TO MAKE CHILDREN EVEN THOUGH I CANNOT AFFORD THEM.

SV parents are the worst.
> 1. Is it legal according to all the regulations?

Turns out that New York has not passed any relevant drone laws that I've found, but FAA guidelines specifically say you should not fly above groups of people:

https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/fly_for_fun/
>So long as you and your partner are both making 6 figures

That's a pretty high bar for cost of living. Here in Charlotte, NC, I make half of that, and could support two people without any difficulty.
Just FYI, all the Indian folks I knew moved out of Utah. Not sure if it is because of race or nom Christian religion
Philadelphia used to have those. It used to be that you weren't allowed to build any taller than William Penn's hat[0]. Now it has a population of 1.56 million compared to boulders 105,112.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_City_Hall
Yes, I guess 8,000 sq ft translates to 743 meters :)
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Google was detecting bicyclists making hand signals 4 years ago. I don't think they are as map dependent as you are arguing.

There is also the possibility that having a detailed map accelerates progress (better automatic scoring of sensor based modeling systems).
Would love to move to Utah for couple of years one day, just because of skiing.
Very tempted to visit Florida
The problem is that I agree largely with Krugman, not disagree. I think taxes should go up. I think rhetoric that is found in his columns does it very little justice, however.
You won't get a mortgage if you're that close to struggling. Lenders will generally stress-test affordability at between 5%-6.5%
If he's really into PC games, does he play Minecraft? I've seen a lot of articles and books about teaching kids to program Minecraft add-ons. That will let him customize his own world a little more, and also give him a great reason to learn and stick with it.
>At the end of the day though, whichever way the law sides, the drone operator has civil restitution available (if it can be proved who shot), which should help shape the court cases.

Seems to me that the drone operator has already admitted to wrecking his drone into someone's bullet. He better prepare himself to pay up some $0.25 to replace the bullet and maybe a few million for pain, suffering, and emotional trauma.
> Portland

Rents in Portland are skyrocketing (I had friends whose landlords were pulling out 30% rent increases). I went from Portland to Oakland and my rent isn't that much more.
We've been experimenting with Envoy for a few months and have been really impressed with the technology and the responsiveness of the community. We're actually deploying an API Gateway built on Envoy so you can easily extend your service mesh all the way out to the edge. Planning on open sourcing it soon (if anyone wants to give it a try, my email is in my profile).
Sorry mixed up. Yes, GFE is more accurate
A lot of the unaffordability is due to the high price of housing in the area. Here are some concrete steps you can take to help lower the price of housing:

- The Brisbane City Council is deciding whether to build 4400 units of housing on 600 acres south of San Francisco, about the same number of units SF built in total last year. The Brisbane Planning Commission recommended building an office park instead. Contact them and ask them to build the housing version of the project.

- The Mountain View City Council is deciding whether to build 2000 units or 8000 units of housing next to Google. They are leaning toward the low end - 2000 units would be tough to support a grocery store or frequent transit. Contact them (or show up to their board meeting - tonight!) and ask them to build the high-housing version of the plan.

- The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is considering a plan to require 28% of all new developments to be below market rate. When you consider the unit costs to build in SF, that would make it _extremely_ difficult to justify new housing starts here. Please contact your Supervisor and ask them to oppose the Peskin/Kim Prop C plan.

- Call your CA State Assemblymember and ask them to oppose AB 915 (makes it harder to build affordable units)

- Call your CA State Assemblymember and ask them to support AB 71 (higher property taxes on second homes, money goes to affordable housing)

- Call your CA State Senator and ask them to support SB 167, which would put teeth in the state's Housing Accountability Act. (for more on this see carlaef.org)

- Call your CA State Senator and ask them to support SB 35 (would remove the ability of local government to block projects that meet certain criteria - near transit, have a high % of affordable units, use union construction labor)

- Email your VC's and C-level executives and tell them how hard it is to find housing in the area. Tell them about your awful commutes and the difficulty of finding good school districts for your kids. Ask them to get more involved politically in pro-housing causes. Ron Conway is a good example here.

NIMBY's are really well organized and things don't change unless we do something about them. All of these changes listed above will go a long way to support the development of housing in the Bay Area, which should help lower prices, and help keep families here and teachers in our neighborhoods.

https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/sf-housing-politics/
Yes, I was simplifying a lot. The point still stands, in that except for a short period of time it has never been "one person working", because maintaining the household and looking after all the young in the extended family is a job of its own. It was not at all like having two kids, who spend half the day or more at school.
I would strike Seattle from this list. Just over the last couple of years, home prices are up 50% or more. It's not SF/SV prices but it's 80-90% there...unfortunately. It is, however, easier to build in Washington, so hopefully this will be a bubble and not a permanent trend.
Isn't Disney pretty much the same thing as SeaWorld these days?
There are different kinds of ethics.
Most activities seemed at least 2x more difficult, and that differential probably becomes 3x with kids. Service all around isn't very good in the Bay, there is a higher chance of simple things to not go as planned. Over the years I've realized that stress is something that creeps up on you slowly but surely, and most often you don't even realize it. Over the years it adds up, and ultimately can reduce your lifespan. It truly is the silent killer.
Israel economy ministry demands importers explain high prices
I'm sure the OP purchased such a large house for efficiency... as their children mature they can just start their own families in various parts of the vast, cavernous manor.
Well that's a lot of data you have there. I did some GLM analysis and clearly weight is correlated with gender. Let me go tell some journalists.
Did you read it?

Chris said something which the witnesses could not hear. His assailant became angrier. Chris then said something that made him even more furious. He jammed the knife into Chris's chest.

There's "evil," and then there's turning a mugging into getting knifed in the chest. Unless you're saying that this was the norm for SF muggings in the 80's. It's pretty likely that 22 year-old guy acted smart. That doesn't make it right, all I said was that I'd be interested in what exactly he said to provoke the response.
I wonder how many couples make six figures. What is the percentage of population with 350k combined income that are not business owners.
Did you read the article? The drone pilot says he never flew over the person's property.
It was in reply to a comment mentioning how much the author has struggled, and my comment points that he had even more to deal with, with the tragic death of his son. Why is it crass, genuinely?
Yes, 25% is the least amount of your time you have to spend on marketing and sales in order to keep up a sustainable business and that's absolutely the case for me. When I started out I didn't do as much. Not because I didn't need to but because this was a lesson I yet had to learn. So, yes by all means, do start with that kind of marketing and sales effort right from the beginning.
That sounds great, but one of the common rebuttals is that the job market (remote or otherwise) may be more challenging outside of the Bay Area.
The Code of Hammurabi
what's the deal with all those tubes hanging down from the ceiling? IMO, they clutter the office too much.
1) He has name-recognition. This carries you very far. Who doesn't know Zuck? He even had a hit movie made about him.

2) He has money. Doesn't need to waste time raising funds. He can also take Trump's line and say he is independent, not in the pockets of big money doners

3) He has access to possibly, the best voter database, and a platform to communicate and drive home his messaging (remember, some say that Trump's win was due to massive FB analytics and targeted ad campaigns)

4) He is likely already in bed with the "establishment". I'm sure he has deep connections to the intelligence agencies and local, state, and federal government. Not to mention of course, the media.

5) He is young and likely more appealing to the millennial generation, who will be more deeply entrenched in society by the time he runs. Certainty more appealing than say Booker or Warren.

> And the left is much less friendly to a billionaire with eyes on purchasing the presidency than the right. Why would anyone pick Zuckerberg in 2020 when they could pick someone like Warren or Booker?

Warren and Booker are pretty discredited IMO. It'll be hard for Warren to win the Bernie votes, given her disloyalty and lack of action during the primaries. I had such high hopes for her, but she really let the power and possibility of a presidential run corrupt her. Her who shtick was this fearless, independent, populist. That image came crashing down this election. If she would have publicly backed Bernie early on, he might have taken the nomination. It's obvious to all that she only backed HRC to kiss-ass to the establishment and curry favors for either a VP nom or to secure her "successor" status to Hillary. Compare her actions to someone like Gabbard.

Booker is similar discredited, given his non-transparent lobbying for a variety of corporate elites.

The main problem for Zuck is his young, rich, tech, Jew shtick makes me persona non-grata for alot of blue collar voters in the key swing states. But who knows, the next generation of those voters, who grew up on FB/Instagram, may not find him so unappealing as their parents.

I think he has a pretty good shot. I def agree that his main weakness is his lack of charisma and perceived fakeness / always-scheming persona, but thats something that can be changed with the key handlers, messaging, and media campaigns.
I use running as an opportunity to listen to audio books. I've caught up on many classic books, thanks to Audible. I actually look forward to it. :)
Put the whole thing into a tamper evident bag. Very cheap, and more resistant to evil maid attacks. Get the type made of Mylar foil with sequential numbering. Pack the battery on the outside if you can, or there might be an easy reason for them to open the bag. Also, if power is available they may try to operate it through the bag, poking tiny wires through the plastic to touch the USB ports.

If you stick some unexposed 400 ISO B&W photographic film, spiral wound with alfoil to increasing thickness, in an opaque envelope, into the pouch you can see how many times they x-rayed it, vs other items; c.f. dosimeter.
Section 8 is destroying our housing market. All these subsidies just encourage people to stay in CA/Bay area and push up the cost of housing for everyone else to unsustainable levels.

Of course the solution is to have a massive increase in the supply of housing. That will never happen. The next best option is to have mass exodus of people leaving the bay area.
I'm missing the interesting and the test part.
Why is that the real question?
I am familiar with the concept of the glass cliff, but when things are going smoothly, why would a company (which we already know are statistically mostly run by men) change leadership? If leadership mostly changes during times of turmoil, and the female population in leadership is growing, wouldn't the two correlate quite strongly irrespective of motive?
The FAA recommends a maximum height of 400 feet for recreational operation.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/fly_for_fun/
I have some insight, but not as much as someone who's actually went through formal training.

It's a mindset issue. In the military, a soldier is a tool to get a specific job done. The soldier must understand this and shed away his ego and any ideas he has about his "self."

He must understand that he is a cog and his only job is to be the perfect cog.

This could be applied to programming to increase efficiency, but I'm certain most programmers (and the HN crowd in general) won't be happy with what's to be expected of them.

The success of the mission rests on appointing a competent commander (CEO/Manager/Etc.) that'll make all the final decisions and having soldiers (employees) that can zero-in on doing exactly what the commander tells them to, even at the sacrifice of their comfort.

There's a lot of ego and self-identity in the programming world which collides with the very essence of the "military way of doing things."
You are right. You dont buy a house there.

I left
Welcome, from a remote dev in Orlando (and fellow Disney pass holder)!
What's the power bill?

I have considered doing the same but seems like you almost have to buy a house that big or live in a non-desirable area.
In the remote North filmmakers are using live-streaming to bring people together
> The book rejects the notion of a French identity that has existed from the beginning—a beginning associated with the cliché “our ancestors the Gauls”—and that has been refined over the centuries to constitute a distinct and particularly rich civilization.

Really? I'm curious what the argument is here. Do they mean it's a modern invention or mostly an imaginary/idealized concept?

I live in Canada having lived in both francophone Quebec and growing up in Ontario I believe there is a strong french identity. One they take serious care in protecting and developing even as expatriates in Canada. This as a result influences personality/psychological traits as well through things like parenting and cultural experience.

A lot of people I knew in Montreal were recent immigrants from France and to me it seemed they equally shared this identity, although they were far less likely to look up to France in a good light. Although many youths leave France to seek opportunity in Canada, and french Canadians may hold an idealized view of France, so that might be why.

This difference between angolophone vs francophone cultures is one of the reasons I had a lot of difficulty living in Montreal. The differences went well beyond language. Similar to the east vs west coast (vs south) dynamic in the US.

Whether or not being so protective of their identity/culture is a positive thing is a another matter (one I believe is self-destructive to an extent). But whether or not it exists is doesn't seem any question in my mind.
Deep Learning intuition for a business user
I'd say it varies too much by locality to even generalize about. In the parts of the south I've lived in, the unlawful discharge laws tend to only apply to MUCH denser population centers. I know of a case in Arkansas in which a husband shot the wall behind where his wife was standing in a domestic dispute. But because she wouldn't say that he was shooting at her, and there's no law against shooting your own wall in the sticks, there was nothing to be done about it.
Yeah, seems fairly ridiculous. You'd spend your life vacuuming.
If your bank is eating your income, you need a new bank.
There's pros and cons to each method, as we've both pointed out. My main point is that it's not an anti-pattern, it's an architecture decision, and the pros and cons of each should be weighed when designing an app.

I just finished working on a real-time collaborative document editing service and chose to use document affinity so that the app server could handle collaboration directly. It is extremely performant and I'd choose this approach again any day versus farming out to Redis/RethinkDB/etc. It persists to a database as writes come in, and performs initial load from the database. Local memory accesses are orders of magnitude faster than going over the network, and it reaps the benefits.
I don't hate Mayer at all, I think she was given a sinking ship and she did the best she could with keeping it afloat. If Yahoo/Verizon wants to pay her all that money then that's between them, so be it. I'm surprised Yahoo went as long as it did...
Colada is life for me in Miami. 4-5 shots of Cafe Cubano to share with friends, or just drink yourself and feel the buzz.
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Ask HN: What are you missing in synthetic monitoring
I'm really curious how small(ish) startups are monitoring their most crucial business processes. Passive monitoring is mostly a pretty well solved problem: the amount of triggers and alerts I can set on a free Datadog account is amazing. However, for synthetic monitoring the market is vastly different and more expensive; Not so much simple pings but more specifically multi-step, selenium-based or otherwise, monitors. What are your experiences?
Also, all of these are much simpler problems than fully-autonomous operation of a vehicle on a regular road surrounded by other users, which involves teaching the system how to deal with an enormously long list of edge cases.

I don't envy people tasked with balancing the need for self-driving car software to be able to handle a sufficiently large number of possibilities to consider eliminating the driver with the need for it to have a small surface area and sufficient degree of tractability to be able to minimise bugs.