skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes exactly. Paying invoices, CRM systems, Taxation etc. The list of uses is almost endless for businesses.
In college students will a mile or several to/from parties or over the course of a night party hopping. Not walking everywhere is more of a social norms issue. In college towns you see many more non-students walking everywhere. People expect people to walk everywhere in college towns and consequently you don't get bothered by the cops for walking around after a reasonable hour unless you're doing something stupid.

In small cities and towns where walking everywhere isn't the social norm nobody does it because walking home from the bar at 2am is likely to get you bothered by the cops because it's not typical.
I was referring to something like this [1]. I imagine there's a lot of mining, oil, and forestry state contracts that look the same way.

Private land is private land. If farmers want to sell it to condo developers they (albeit sadly) can.

My problem is that state government is largely unprofessional. Say what you want about the revolving door in DC between public and private, but state governments make that look downright respectable: generally instead there's kickback + sneaking an agreement in at the last moment + underfunded local news not noticing = public gets screwed and someone gets a cushy private sector job next year.

[1] http://www.myajc.com/news/opinion/opinion-lease-deal-leaves-...
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> I think prolific gun ownership can be an answer to honking and road rage. :-)

You think that escalating a frustrating but not dangerous situation with deadly force is an "answer"?
That's because in most of Europe you can buy beer from 16. Even in mid 20s most people are obviously not 16 any more.
Boeing uses a pretty high proportion of non-US parts in its aircraft too, these days. This was one of the reasons that they had so many teething troubles with the 787.
Seems nice but I don't get where the AI is?
Arbitraging Cryptocurrency Is a Bad Idea
If you're willing to go lossy, also look at PNGQuant - https://pngquant.org/ I've started using it on all of my web images. I've yet to see the loss on a couple dozen images, but the size drops by up to 66%, even after being run through imageoptim.
The idea that every economy can be hyper-competitive is absurd. There are winners and losers, those who produce surplus and those who produce deficits. The question is what to do with the "losers"?

Look at America. The American economy is not competitive. It is not efficient and there is no plan. What you have are a few faboulously wealthy and productive economies (the wealthiest and most productive economies the planet has ever known) and a lot of very uncompetitive localities. What ties it all together and makes it "work" is a surprisingly efficient but very opaque transfer union[1] which is, for purely legacy reasons, called the federal government and controlled by the largely un-educated legislative. Seriously, look at the numbers. Transfer payments to what is generously called "non-metro America" constitute 20-25% of income in some counties.

So ultimately Varoufakis was right. He understood -- despite being an economist, this is just plain old common sense -- that a Euro-dependent Greece is always going to suffer mightily against Germany. No amount of tinkering or restructuring the economy is going to fix this. The only "plan" was to play chicken with the Germans and potentially let Greece crash but at least take the euro with it. (This only works because, as indicated in the article, everybody was loathe to "force" Greece out of the union. It's not even clear whether this is legally possible.) Thus there was in fact a lot of money to be made watching Greece and the euro burn for a while there. Eventually order was restored but only at great pain to all parties and that order is hardly going to be lasting or stable. Such is politics. In the end while it looks like Varoufakis may have been doing nothing... he probably got Greece a much better deal than they deserved in the minds of the Germans. And the next time Greece needs a bail-out -- and it'll happen soon because Greece is literally shrinking as everybody who can flees -- the same game of chicken will need to be played and they'll need to find an outsider like Varoufakis to play it and take the fall.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_payment
[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33507802
For me it wasn't "acquiring a taste"--it was finding the taste that I like. I tried a lot of stuff and thought most of it was crap. Beer tastes foul to me (all of it, from Coors to IPAs and everything in between), as do most liquors (gin, vodka) and while Scotches are drinkable I find a lot of them are the IPAs of liquor ("duuuude, it's so smoky"/"duuuuude, it's so hoppy")--but I happened to find that I really like Irish whiskeys. I'll drink Jameson or Bushmill's neat or a little ginger ale and it's great. Been drinking them for most of a decade now. Still don't like the others I mentioned.

There may totally be nothing that fits your flavor profile, but I wouldn't write it off totally as an acquired taste. Might just not have found what clicks for you.
Regulating the spending of my teenage daughter is the first thing that came to mind.
Your younger coworkers are wrong. By definition, violence is physical.

There is, however, a push within educational institutions to redefine terms like "violence" as part of a wider "social justice" programme. The crux of it is that offending someone else is a very bad thing to do, regardless of whether it's intentional or your words are true.
I suspect the long term plan is to create a training dataset labelled by the 3000 people and, when they have sufficient training data, let machine learning / AI take over.
Rrrreeeeally? That's extremely interesting. It's not officially supported, though, is it? Still, it might be nice for various scripts.
Which is just another hidden cost of not having universal healthcare -- when a hospital can't recover $250,000 in cancer treatment costs due to a bankrupty, they have to make it up somewhere else, so we end up paying $17 for a 10 cent ibuprofen pill in the hospital.
Spotify is close but not actually an Electron app, although it does use the Chromium Embedded Framework on-top of a C++ core and modules. Basically, only the view is web-based.
And how much of that is because brown/muslim canadians, the ones most likely to be refused, just arent risking the trip? All sorts of groups are saying it is too dangerous (schools, boy/girl scouts etc).
Large monolithic parts are harder to repair. That's the upside to the current setup of panels riveted to a frame. Any one of those panels can be drilled out and replaced. Boeing has a special team called "AOG" (aircraft on ground) that will go out to a repairable aircraft that isn't airworthy and make it so. Kind of hard to do that when you need to bring along a megaton autoclave and portable cleanroom.
I'm not quite sure I follow. I only see news posted by my friends and the pages I follow. What would FB lite look like?
The way he phrased it was a definitive statement, which is aggressive and will prime people to respond the way people responded. (Your other post, which I replied to, was way more reasonable than his was.)
Hey, HN!

Happy to show you the tool I'm working on! With Finch you can tweak any live websites design and export, sync and share the changes in real–time.

A bit of history - our team of three was working for a digital agency and we always feared those last 10% of every web project that took 90% of the time – the moment when the website was almost done, but there were lots of small design details that drove the designers crazy and developers devastated.

So to scratch our own itch we built Finch.

Happy to answer if there are any questions!
Really keen to try this, congratulations on launching. I've been missing something like this since Adobe bought and slowly crippled Kuler.
Thanks! Founder here. Currently in private beta, but if you're with Santander, Nationwide, RBS, Natwest, Ulster Bank NI, or IOM Bank I can give you access - sg@teller.io.
Wow, what a flashback !

Code as Craft was one of my favorite blogs back when I was a junior dev.
The AI makes the following desicions: 1. Which Emails are important and need a reply. 2. Which sent Emails require follow ups and what is the best time for a follow up. 3. Which contacts are important to you and which ones are drifting away and need to be reconnected with.
It is only AI to a layperson.

It seems like the "AI" is that it "learns" what emails you send replies to.

If it wants to be AI and useful, it should learn how to reply to those emails. This is just another Chrome extension (useful but it doesn't clear my bar of AI)
So where do you actually make the sale? On your own website?
You could say the same thing about Europe, the resulting problems are just different. The grass is always greener...
That's certainly a concern given the way things are currently, but I'm hopeful concepts like Google's federated learning [1] will become increasingly popular, and a change to data-as-a-liability would help drive development and adoption of such approaches.

[1] https://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-c...
This is a tremendous amount of time per post. A 6-7post/hr throughput is incredibly slow, unless their guidelines require they produce specific, rather than generated, feedback per post.

However, the actual number of people reviewing is unlikely to be 7500. A decent percentage of that headcount will be dedicated management, HR, analytics and administrative staff.
> How would that work in real life? Uber doesn't charge you before your ride is complete, and at that point your payment would bounce, and now you're in trouble.

Well in the Uber example you're allowing payments to Uber, not denying them.

But you do have a very good point about denying pay-after-use type transactions, I'm not really sure what they're doing about that.
Instead use:

command1; and command2

More info: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html#tut_combine...
Why do people make terminal-based programs like this in NodeJS? I'm not trying to be snarky - it's a legitimate question. This program is relatively resource-intensive, and you're using NodeJS of all things to try to render things in the terminal. It seems like the most counter-intuitive tool for the job.
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Talk is cheap. If you have high confidence this is a temporary overreaction, you should be absolutely jumping at the chance to invest.
"This is the weirdest part of the story for me. Does anyone else get boxes of chopsticks in their mail so regularly that they instinctively treat it as junk mail?"

Actually, every two months or so we will receive an amazon package with some item that we never ordered and is not in our purchase queue, etc. Something we never even looked at.

I used to think this was just a mistaken fulfillment, etc., but now I think it's intentional. I think vendors are mining purchase history to determine likely new customers for item X and then sending a "mistaken" shipment to introduce the product.

I have no evidence to back up that conclusion.
And nothing of value was lost, except to marketers.
You are assuming that car manufacturers operate like web companies.

Tip: They do not.
Not optimistic but hopefully things will improve. As of now Facebook can't even remove an account for a hate blog local to my area.
I just publish my first game in life, please try and say how you like it, that would be very helpful :)
> In all cases however, the program without the goto statements turned out to shorter and more lucid

This was with ALGOL though; Haskell uses lambdas and is shorter still. I feel like Scheme / callcc might be even shorter. And the difference between callcc and goto is not at all clear.

To be fair, though, he does mention the human-computer interface. Unfortunately this has still not really been explored in the context of programming. There are toy environments like Light Table etc., and the more developed languages come with IDEs, but nobody seems to use them in practice, preferring vim or emacs or whatever.

My guess for this is that writing GUIs in an extensible, modular, and discoverable/usable way is still an open problem. There are style guidelines, e.g. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/06/designing-modular-u..., but those aren't code and don't fit into an Agile-style incremental development model. The only thing that seems usable are constraint layouts, e.g. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4483218/. But those don't account for all the little UI things, like the efficiency of the interface or which actions are most commonly used. IMO there needs to be some library to just take a bunch of actions/verbs (e.g. Copy to clipboard) and nouns (displayable data stuctures: images, documents, etc.) and turn that into an optimized user interface design, with keybindings, menus, toolbars, dialogs, widgets, etc. And then of course there's the issue that picking a GUI pretty much fixes your choice of programming language, away from any of the functional PL's.
You are correct when you say that writing verifiable/verified code is a separate skill that not many programmers possess.

But crucially, it's a skills gap -- not an intelligence gap -- that stands in their way. For most properties, writing verified code doesn't require that much more intelligence than writing normal code. Different skills, but in most cases not much more intelligence.

But I don't think a skills gap is the most pressing barrier. There is an intrinsic difference in difficulty between stating conjectures and proving theorems. There's no silver bullet here, including either education or raw intelligence. The latter is, intrinsically, more difficult and more time consuming.
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Dissapointed that Windows Server 2008 standar is not supported, just R2.
They don't install anything on their machine. They don't even know .NET exists or that the new release requires DirectX.

The developer will modify the installer to include this extra requirement. End.
Analyse your spending habits to see where you can easily save some money is one example.
Ask HN: What do you do when you've lost motivation at work?
I'm woundering how do you approach this kind of feeling when you don't feel motivated at work.

I think that majority of people will solve it with finding a new job or maybe take a vacation. But, this is all about long term soltions. What I want to know, how to turn your motivation back right away, without changing a job or taking a vacation. Is it even possible?
The J Language: Consistency, Adjacency, and Solution-Oriented Programming
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the blurring is a result of not being able to infer display pixel configuration and thus not using subpixel rendering.

In Windows 7 they had a feature called ClearType which was basically a wizard that rendered text using different techniques and had you choose the one you thought looked best. Is that thing still around?

I would imagine it's also a problem on MacOS using an external display.
Is that any harder than setting her up with her own account and a periodic transfer of $amountYouWishToRestrictHerSpendingTo money into said account? Both of these are available at any bank, methinks.
I think some alternatives do exist, but I do not believe an near exact clone of Facebook with less of the problems of Facebook exists.

Maybe it's just infeasible to properly monitor such a massive social network? I don't know for sure, but I left Facebook long ago and have not regretted it at all.
The BBC is really branching out.
People asking about what problem this solves haven't been to South Africa or Zimbabwe which in some ways are ahead of the West in creating cashless societies.

The biggest bank is a phone operator and people can send each other money over the phone and from what I understand this is very common. Also interestingly most phones aren't smart phones. It's mostly analog. Banks have a serious incentive to create and encourage cashless societies -- because they're limited by the liquidity ratio.

People there are more skeptical of hard cash there while here it's nearly on par with Gold in terms of confidence.

I don't think I've to explain offering an API allows third party engagement and endorsement and an opportunity for others to grow their service. Yes there are security concerns but these can be all secured from backend.
Those are basic features, not "every feature". Black Screen needs to have basic features before it can be considered usable. Besides, it's macOS only, so I won't use it any time soon.
Software Predicts Cognitive Decline Using Brain Images
Sorry for the off-topic, but got any good recommendations for such novels? It's been a while since I read any, and would like to read some good ones again. I've read a few - John Le Carre, and MacLean of course. James Bond, but those tend to be better as movies. Can't think of others off-hand.
Indeed[0]

One would've thought that maybe a place which stuck it's neck out and became known as 'the place to drink under 21' would get a lot of business, but I guess that could also be a potential PR disaster

[0]http://drinkingage.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0...
How to Prevent Overfitting
Yes and no. The downside is that there's a limit to the number of type ratings your pilots can have. Then there's the operational nightmares that come with having to support all kinds of different airframes.

Southwest only flies 737s. In fact, they were so fussy about aircraft that Boeing had to _make_ them take an autopilot on the 737-700s that they bought.
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Yup! Grid operators will have this planned in well ahead of the date.
My BofA account has a whole spending habits section with graphics and charts and a ton of features, for free, which comes with my debit account. Why would I want to do all this myself?

The only real answer is privacy, but I would just use BTC instead of USD if I wanted privacy anyway, and BTC is already programmable.
I love the GIF in the article and how it was copyrighted in 2000 about an event that would happen in 2017. I'm a reader/follower of N. N. Taleb and agree with him about how difficult it is to predict future events. And meanwhile, the conditions in space and the laws of physics allow for a model like this to be made with what seems to be a lot of precision. Can anyone speak to how accurate/precise that GIF model _could've been_ in 2000?
Isn't this one of those things where if you're conscientious enough to want to spend time sorting this out and building up an analysis you're probably already the kind of person that doesn't have completely wild and untracked spending habits?
This beekeeper is rescuing bees with deep learning and an iPhone
Yes, the development team is just me right now.
Cool. I see parallels with Ethereum here. How complex can the rules be? Could you have smart contract functionality?
Interesting that they never mention law firms. Summer associates at top law firms generally earn the prorated salary for a first year associate, which can be easily in excess of $15,000 a month.

I'm bringing this up because it is important, when we're discussing "shortages" of engineers, to keep in mind the kind of options highly educated people have available to them in the US.

Yes, law requires a graduate degree and passing the bar, but many of these interns at tech companies have graduate degrees, and the undergraduate prep for a STEM degree is considerably more rigorous than the typical poli-sci or economics taken by pre-law types (yes, Econ takes a bit more math, but not typically on a level of what is demanded of STEM majors).

Generally speaking, Law school isn't a great idea, but for the top students at the top schools, it remains extremely lucrative. It really makes no sense to compare the top CS and Engineering majors at top schools to some average salary. You need to look at what the options are in other fields for elite students.

Once you do, it is pretty clear why people with choice often decide to do something other than STEM, and why a bit part of the appeal of work visas such as the H1B is that they create a pool of workers who aren't allowed this free choice. Without that crutch for employers, I suspect salaries in tech would rise. And keep in mind, it wouldn't require denying talented immigrants entry to the US, all we'd have to do is let these talented immigrants make the decision about what to study and where to work for themselves. No more allowing Silicon Valley employers to dictate these choices for them.
Publish websites from Sketch
A bit chunky but yeah, that's sort of the thing. It'd be nice if they had a low-profile chicklet version (or at least included the actual keys with the thing), but I'll order one and see if I can make it work.

Thanks!
They do have an excellent reputation for participating in the games under their own rules, tho :-)
That 500-700MB for an ordinary single application is already using heavily optimized electron. I do not think electron is some sloppily written piece of software. That monstrous ram consumption is just the effect of using browser framework for non-browser application. Nothing will change until people simply stop using electron.
I could get behind more stringent drunk driving enforcement if it wasn't already used as a cash cow in a lot of places.

You can't throw law enforcement at a problem when it itself is a problem in a lot of cases.
You cannot be an environmentalist and also for prevention of forest fires, however given the mismanagement of the forests we're now in a very dangerous situation where the forests are too dense and fires will be too hot so recovery from a fire will take a very long time instead of being the productive and beneficial activity that forest fires once were.
>>The land is literally supposed to be held in trust for the public, and free to use.

I'm not sure where it says it has to be free to use. In fact, the Supreme Court has stated numerous times that the authority of the Federal government over public lands is "without limitations."

http://www.lectlaw.com/files/con30.htm
Bitcoin market cap is still pretty small as far as global financial markets go. I'd have doubts at being able to extract serious amount of money from it. I'd bet you can find something much more conventional to invest in that'll produce big gains that can be extracted easily.
Wasn't their example all about limiting the number of rides you can take? So at that point, you'd eventually be denying them, as I understand it.
It's a delicate balance, but Facebook can't even remove overtly racist/sexist/etc. posts/accounts with any reliability right now.
Why not just use Azure auto-off (or just script your VMs to shutdown)?
Hi All,
If you are interested in talking to the devs they can be found in #root on zatech slack group
For invites check https://zatech.github.io/site/

disclaimer: Not a root dev just a user on the zatech slack group
If only every bank would provide a real time feed of every transaction, pretty much everything could be written as a third party software (except denying transactions, but if you use a credit card that's a non issue)
Is that really the case? I think Silicon Valley is perceived as _specially_ unwelcoming to women, not necessarily every computer subculture out there.

My personal guess is that as a traditionally underground community the ROM/emulator scene was more welcoming to certain groups due to the use of pseudonyms. It's easier to not draw attraction when you don't walk into an office every day and meet people face to face.
Texas has the opposite problem than we have in Alaska. Less than 1% of Alaska is privately owned. Despite seemingly having so much space there is suprisingly few desirable lots available for sale. And even fewer at reasonable prices.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/43/65/bf/4365bf0b3...
"I can't work with this, because it's too slow" isn't resource cyncism. It has some neat ideas, but I can't use it as a terminal emulator.