skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An AI with human emotions and how his existence becomes a reality
Yep. I think the names themselves are quite unambiguous to boot. A variable is something that varies in value, meaning it can be changed. A value is always that same value; 5 is never 6. Pretty straightforward if you ask me.
>but lenders are much more likely to give someone a $400,000 loan to buy a house than to buy stock. I don't think this is necessarily sustainable.

Government backstop.

But I hear you. I understand the intentions of subsidized mortgages: housing is a necessity, it (generally) appreciates over time so it's "safe", it provides forced savings etc. But too many people are able to take advantage of the subsidies in indirect ways.

I know people house shopping in British Columbia. They have been approved for a mortgage at 10x their household income. Parents are making the down payment. Bank is fine with it, I guess. How does that work?
Is truck heaviness primarily bounded by legal weight limits or whether or not trucks can get up hills?
While somewhat longer, you do have

var map = hashMapOf("a" to 6, "b" to 12)
var list = listOf(1, 2, 3)

This is still not Java-level verbosity.
Is this the same exact model as https://betalist.com/ ?
Zetcd: running ZooKeeper apps without ZooKeeper
I demand simple answers!
FCC votes to start rolling back landmark net neutrality rules
> t has failed to manage conflicts of interest adequately: for example it gives companies a veto over case studies written about them and academics can be paid by the companies they teach about.

These are textbook conflicts of interest. What respectable academic institution gives corporations veto power over what's written about them?!
I'd love to see a chart of the power/weight ratio of engines over time.
they don't want your $59/month.
The chart makes me sad. My Subaru BRZ (2013-) "sports car" comes with only 200hp. Many people looking for more power install aftermarket superchargers.
Adding lots of hops is going to slow down the connection. That's a limitation of the speed of light.
> Of course, when you wind-up with a bubbles, it's evidence you've screwed up.

Can you think of any country under a market system at any time and place where the market was not characterized by boom-and-bust cycles?
Been there, fought that.
Chess is my way to survive a 12 hours flight. Nothing else helps time fly the same way.
Thanks for Taking me to Sunk cost fallacy. Learnt Something !!
I've been told that a big selling point for Kotlin is that it was developed from actual usage and production rather than some of the more academic languages solving abstract (although still interesting) problems that day-to-day developers may not care much about.
I guess I remember 9.3 -> 9.4 on RDS sucked big time for us (no migration option whatsoever except pg_dump/pg_restore), but since 9.4 they had it pretty much nailed. Update worked flawlessly during the small failover maintenance window you have every now and then anyway. (You do run a HA setup, right?)

YMMV of course, better have your fingers crossed. If you don't trust it, do it the hard way: Switch to write-only mode (easiest: remove write rights for all DB users), notify your users, make a snapshot with pg_dump, restore to a fresh new DB copy and switch your services over. Worked for us, different story if you can't take any write downtime of course.
> This article makes my blood boil.

This article being bumped off the homepage makes my brain confused.
Regardless of the real reasons for the housing bubble, I used to do contracting for quite a few flippers down in San Diego. They were well-aware that it was a bubble and were exploiting it to the fullest extent they could get away with.

The funny part is that every single person on the ground, from the flippers to the guy sweeping trash knew exactly what was happening. No one hid the fact that you could buy a dingy house for 200k, put in 50k of work, sit on it, and sell it for 400k.

There was a lot of other interesting types of people as well. I was aware of a company who flipped, but their entire strategy was to move nice furniture into the place to make it "feel" more expensive. Aside from paying day laborers to move the furniture, they didn't spend any money.

It was a perfect storm of people moving across country, free money, and people willing to exploit the situation. The silly part was that there was a mini-pop around the year 2000, and everyone knew history would repeat itself. It was a mad rush to get it while it was good.

I know all of that is ignoring the toxic bank loans (which the flippers took advantage of as well), but just my experience and observation.
The message they display says:

We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our
international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially
by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits
made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great
new BBC programmes.

The rationale is explained in a little more detail in a BBC FAQ [1].

BBC Worldwide is a commercial entity, but the BBC's fair trading rules prevents them from promoting a commercial entity to UK licence payers. The somewhat odd outcome is that BBC content is unavailable to people in the UK.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/faqs/online/website_changes
Not the OP, but I'm guessing they live up the road from me in Longmont, CO.

Comcast does indeed hate this, and spent roughly $300k on questionably ethical political ads[1] in a city with less than 100k residents.

[1] https://muninetworks.org/content/longmont-votes-again-comcas...
Good point, but then again, access to Facebook is probably going to be the most demanded by ISP customers, and therefore FB company has little to worry.

Google, on the other, as a search engine company, may appear to depend on the open web, but they don't necessarily need to be an internet company. They are a "world information" company, and they can achieve that by moving content to Google servers (like they do with AMP), or simply providing intelligent content through their AI who is learning from content on the open web. I won't be surprised if/when Google stops being a de facto internet company and becomes an information company.
They're asserting that someone aggressively arguing against capitalism while freely and wholeheartedly participating in capitalism has some dissonance to reconcile.

I've got a hard time taking an "I'm allergic to capitalism" tweet seriously coming from someone who 1) lists all the ways they participate in capitalism in their profile and 2) makes this statement in the context of their job which depends completely on capitalism functioning.
This ends up on the next season of Silicon Valley for sure.
Ask HN: Is there a freelance market for custom UI prototypes?
It's kind of a niche thing to sell, which is why I ask.

As a freelancer, I usually either sell landing page type stuff or complete end-to-end products.

Do people pay for UI prototypes (for the purpose of pitching, etc) that can eventually be repurposed into a fully functional product?
So here's the setup:

>Watch for these articles to downplay or ignore our actual 2017 safety data and to instead focus on a small number of complaints and anecdotes that are not representative of what is actually occurring in our factory of over 10,000 workers.

...and a citation to drive the point of Safety home:

>In addition, through the end of Q1 2017, the factory’s total recordable incident rate (TRIR), the leading metric for workplace safety, is 4.6, which is 32% better than the industry average of 6.7.

...and then we get to the whole "Can Elon Musk really scale Tesla to the heights he likes to claim are possible" notion of context:

>Ford had 50,703 U.S. hourly workers as of Feb. 1, according to a report from the UAW's Ford department. A GM spokesman said the company has about 50,300 U.S. hourly workers.[1]

So a 32% better safety record with 1/5 the workforce. Hm. Got it.

[1] http://www.autonews.com/article/20150215/OEM/302169970/ford-...
The leftovers is still on? Damn, who the hell watches that...
The chairman has to be approved by the Senate after being nominated by the President. But the Senate can't remove the chairman afterward, while the President can.

Edit: the commissioners including the chairman have five-year terms and have to be re-approved by the Senate for each term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commiss...
We've been using this while it's in beta for a we app we are working on and it's been a blast. I had not had a ton of experience with CI/CD before this, but I can't imagine it being much easier. It's really helped our dev process and fits in with the workflow we were trying to accomplish.
10 Ridiculous facts you didn't know about Kim Jong Un
I really would like to use Temporal Tables (slides 137 and following) to say like 'give me the record of last week'.

I can of course do that already manually, but it is tedious and I hope it will be faster if implemented directly.
Duty? You have to be kidding me.

Startups live on a knife's edge. Nothing is more important than staying alive!

Try making the case that it's in a startup's actual interest to care about this. Why should I bother clicking on a thing that's just going to try to lay unearned guilt on me?

This is just plain offensive.

EDIT: that's it - vote me down, shoot the messenger because you don't like what I have to say. That's the way to convince us of whatever your point is.
I would love to see the data on how much people actually made flipping vs. how much they lost.

It just feels like one big ponzi scheme to me where most people lose money.

Flipping a house is basically taking a massive futures contract on the house. You borrow most of the money and hope it goes up.

People will say "but you have an asset you can use". Not true. If you have a two condos you are trying to flip and there is a housing glut, you won't even be able to rent them out. They will just sit vacant eating away at your money.

No thank you.
For a time I lived in Wilson, NC which was like this. Time Warner did hate that city, eventually sponsoring legislation (via donations to legislators) to bar municipal broadband.

The jackasses had the gall to do this, when the primary reason the municipal broadband was established was because Time Warner refused to build out their network in Wilson. I suppose they thought there was no business for them there, until the city proved there was.
the whole kotlin debate is just a misguided stab at solving the pain that is programming for android.

everyone everywhere hates android dev work. so they think that it must be java. no, java sucks, but kotlin sucks just the same. the problem is the android ecosystem as a whole. the ever changing apis. etc.

wasting time on java vs kotlin is absurd with so many other real problems.
As was I — and also (because I'm not an astrophysicist so have no clue how ridiculous this sounds...) — would a much [, much, much] larger and denser/thicker version of such an array be of any use where a local supernova's concerned? eg. much further out and much, much broader, and deployed when there might be suspicion of such an impending event, from a known location?
Technical analysis of the Equation Group's post-exploitation tools, Part 1
Who goes Nazi? (1941)
To be honest, im always a little ashamed when mankinds ingenuity dissolves a obstacle i hype-vend-fill-aided two years before.
This segment of the article,

> Furthermore, we lack the natural tools for killing and eating prey – we lack the requisite speed, agility, claws and teeth for taking down any prey of sufficient size to be useful

is the subject of my criticism. It is not relevant to any discussion about diet, either. And it ignores our intelligence as a "tool".
Some really simple technical principles:

Explicit is better than implicit. All state is hard to reason about and debug. Code that doesn't have tests is brittle. Short code is better than long code and no code is better than both. Inheritance of implementation is hard to reason about.

Some technical advice:

Write comments about why you're doing something, not how. Write lots of comments. Check preconditions, especially nulls. Write explicit error messages for every failure: you'll be searching for them one day.

One non-technical thing:

Understanding the problem you're trying to solve is often better than any technical knowledge. Understand the business processes, the users and the people and you'll find you're vastly more effective.
Tales of flipping had nothing to do with the bubble that burst in 2007.

All the tales of flipping in the world are not sufficient by themselves to cause a bubble. On the contrary, given the right conditions then tales of flipping will arise and will be symptoms, not causes.

The bubble that led to the great recession had a number of causes, with the most fundamental cause being credit inflation. Other causes included distortions of credit markets causing pressure to direct credit to mortgages, which set off the vicious cycle of demand leading to price rises leading to more credit leading to more demand leading to... Among such causes was a dearth of investment opportunities in aging (low-fertility) Europe. But also the regulatory and tax environment in the U.S. causing more credit being made available for mortgages, and tax preference given to renting capital over renting property.

Flipping? That's just a natural consequence of the rest -- a symptom, a sign of the debacle that would come. In those heady days no one wanted to see such symptoms for what they were. No, people took them as symptoms of the opposite: of a healthy market that would only ever go up -- and sure, in this sense "tales of flipping" added pressure, but they were not _the_ cause, nor among principal causes, and not enough a cause to be listed as such rather than a symptom. Without apparently-ever-rising markets those tales would not have existed in notable numbers.
(same person, different throwaway)

It's not really my position that being a white man leads to success, but the social theorists insist that a combination of white skin and a penis are the magical route to "privilege" despite no real evidence that this is the case. I'm simply objecting on the terms that the (rather silly, in my view) argument is made in the first place.
I fear I cannot contribute a lot in my extremely limited time. Is there a 'getting started' guide somewhere?
Torture, Israeli-style – as described by the interrogators themselves
Challenges using Clojure for the Cryptopals challenges
To me the most promising aspect seems to be async-await on Android. It'd eliminate so much frustration in developing for that platform.

In general, after bouncing between various desktop, mobile, and web-based technologies, I've come to the conclusion that any binding/event-based GUI system needs some sort of async-await or futures support to be truly workable. Otherwise, performing background tasks without locking up the UI involves way too much boilerplate and tends to blow up the architectural complexity of the application.
It's not like fast food restaurants at all. This is a privacy policy. And it is like (say) the privacy policy that covers people with accounts at Japan Today, which says:

> We reserve the right to use or share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Japan Today Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.

The difference is that unlike Japan Today, and other privacy policies mentioned elsewhere on this page, the BBC is trying to tell you whom the information will be disclosed to, pursuant to the guidelines from the U.K. Information Commissioner on privacy policies, but somewhat ineptly. Japan Today tells you that it may "share information", but nothing whatsoever about whom that is likely to be with. The BBC is trying to tell you whom it is likely to be sharing information with.

And it should come as no surprise that if you are posting from a work computer, one of the people it is going to be sharing the information with is the company that your IP address backtracks to.
Legal weight limits are lower than what the truck can pull. Basically a truck has enough gears that it could pull any load up any hill (though it may be slow). The limit would be when the traction wheels spin out.
> I'm a huge Elon Musk fan and I deeply share his vision for getting humans on mars, being more environmentally friendly, etc. However, I'm starting to lose faith in him.

Same here. A fan of musk. But SCTY's demise should serve as a canary in the mine. TSLA had to buy SCTY to prevent it from going bankrupt.

Not going to bet against Musk since he is a great salesman and he seems to have a lot of powerful friends who have and are willing to bail him out, but TSLA is a company that might not be around in 5 to 10 years if the business/economic environment shifts against him.

He better hope his TSLA self-driving software is the best in class.

People forget that Musk and TSLA was pretty much bankrupt 10 years ago before he got bailed out.
They are inextricably linked. If you organize your company around ML, as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple have stated they are doing, then yes it does have to do with the fundamentals of ML.

Advances and implementations of ML is driving the creation and iteration of products for these companies, as well as helping them run their companies and evaluate where to go next - follow the data as it were.

So it is a critical point that every one of their CEOs has outlined in clear detail over the past few years.
I'm not sure that I believe their assertion that cars have gotten lighter. Perhaps the real land-yacht monstrosities have been weeded out (and replaced with SUVs). But it seems like comfort and safety concerns, coupled with more power and better fuel economy have been causing equivalent cars to become heavier (and more expensive) over time.

As an example, one of my first cars was an 84 VW GTI. It weighed ~2000lbs. Try to find a car that light today. There is a nice comparison of that car and a modern VW GTI here: http://www.automobilemag.com/news/then-vs-now-1984-volkswage...

I think the same is probably true of most 70s and 80s economy cars vs today's cars. Today's equivalents are much heavier, but much safer, and much more pleasant to drive
That's what makes the car perfect. Kudos to it's designers for resisting the demands for more power every year. There are other cars that offer more power (too much for the street in probably every case).
I've definitely seen it in my last two vehicles.

My old 2003 Ford Explorer had a 4.6 L V8 with 239hp.
0-60 in 8.8 seconds.
14/19 mpg. 4,381 lbs

My current 2014 Ford Explorer Sport has a 3.5L V6 twinturbo with 365hp. 0-60 in 6.0 seconds. 16/22 mpg. 4,697 lbs
>What happened to Ford's "pay them enough to afford what they make"? Sheesh.

Henry Ford didn't do business in a global market where he could shop for labor in China or Mexico. A modern day Henry Ford doesn't need to care whether his employees can afford what they make, when he has the entire world to sell to.
longer passwords don't hash to longer values (within any reasonable variation of order of magnitude in input size). That would defeat the purpose of hashing
Companies Stockpiling Bitcoin in Anticipation of Ransomware Attacks
There’s no universal criteria of code quality. The same source code can be terribly bad for one project, and 100% perfect for another one. Don’t just blindly trust what other people say or write about the subject, when possible ask them why they advice stuff.

Learn algorithms and Big-O just enough to pass job interviews, deeper understanding of these is nearly useless in practice, at least outside few narrow niches.

Learn to design and code safe and efficient multithreaded software. While not often asked on interviews, you’ll do that over and over again regardless on languages and platforms, because nearly all modern CPUs are multi-core.

Learn to use other people’s libraries and third-party tools. While their quality vary, good ones can save you tremendous amount of time. BTW, an IDE is one of these tools. Just don’t forget about costs (some might be too expensive for particular project) and licensing (some are GPL).

Don’t afraid to change jobs. Just that you’re working with nice people is not a good reason to stick to your employer. Make sure you learn new stuff, skills degrade over time as the industry moves to new technologies and platforms.
Indeed–it's a strange outcrop of HN's no-fluff-worldview, in that it seems to consider all hints of creativity as detrimental to its mission.

In this case, it has surely come full circle. In an effort to avoid the original title's pun, it has replaced it with something that gives a completely wrong impression regarding the content. Indeed, as the article mentions, it "makes it sounds like a piece of molded plastic your insurance would refuse to cover".

Let's remember that "clickbait" once meant psycho-tricks like "You won't believe these 10 reasons why...". Newspapers have, since time immortal, used all sorts of literary devices in headlines. Indeed there are some publications where headlines are the only outlet for a bit of lightness. The economist, for example, is well-known for bone-dry articles in contrast to evocative headlines (and, sometimes, outright silly captions).
If you're frustrated by the pace of the game, then I think you're not thinking deep enough.
It's the other way around - all that gear is not as much as you'd like and 30kg is a lot of weight to carry on you most of the time :)
>Google was founded by CIA[1]

The linked article does little to establish that, other than early Google got some funding from NSF programs that were of interest to the CIA.

That's not unusual being that Sergey was a CS grad student at Stanford. Cloudflare has a different history...it didn't sprout out of a university project.
It appears that organic was added alongside inorganic. Which means that the low bid was for organic litter. Having written specs, alternatives to established specifications are often proposed by vendors.

Normally for government specifications, opportunities to enjoy pitches by vendors to have their products added to the specification are not allowed due to the potential appearance of a conflict of interest. On the other hand, an LLC might not have quite as rigid a protocol...and establishing an LLC might even be done to avoid having rigid protocols around bidding and vendors.

Now I could be completely off base and a low level employee went cowboy all on their own due to some previous knowledge of organic kitty liter and the economics of its bulk availability. The center of the distribution when specs get changed to allow an alternative technology is more commonly customer eduction by vendors.
God, what a useless post. If you don't like Android development don't waste your time with it.
what is not a improvement over java?
i used to spend several hours every night playing blitz scrabble online. then i realised i wasn't even enjoying it that much, nor was it particularly improving my game; i just got into a zone and kept playing one game after another. i quit cold turkey and don't even miss it.
> None. DoD doesn't require Firefox, Chrome, or IE. But the base install is typically IE only with the option to install Firefox or Chrome upon request.

Hmm, maybe depends on where you are in the crazy large DoD system. Our company was told the DNI office passed down requirements to use specific versions of Firefox and Firefox only for security purposes but IE was typically installed for when you were forced to use it.

But it's also been 3 years now since I've been out of that space.