skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Healthcare, phone plans, internet/cable plans, vehicles ... they're all variations on the (financial) security (for the seller) through obscurity.
That headline seems very ambiguous :)
Same here. Although it was rewarding to write "perfect" code, getting constantly hung up on the tiniest details was quite a soul-drainer.

Nowadays I see more beauty in the end product and refactoring. I still keep that idea of perfection in my mind and do my best to write good code from the start, I just don't let any of it become a blocker.

I'm more efficient, stress-free and productive as a result. And I don't feel as repulsed when working with other people's code.
I am a big fan of twillio, but I suspect that they or companies like it are contributing to the problem.

I would like everyone that uses a telephone API to be required to register a bond. If they are found abusing the system, they will lose the bond and be banned from using ANY companies telephone system.

That telephony companies do not take the opportunity fix tbe actual problem makes me think a court may be able to find they are complicit.
Does anyone know why using spurs (branch lines) is a bad thing?

For example, the BART runs a branch line to Dublin/Pleasanton (and possibly Livermore) but it's not part of the "trunk" to Richmond.
I paid for my current car with my debit card. I asked my bank beforehand whether they needed to authorize that size of transaction but was told that they can tell which accounts are for car dealers.
MusicBrainz Picard, a cross-platform music tagger written in Python
Apparently only the US and Canada charge the phone owner for incoming calls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_services#Incoming_calls

Europe, Asia, Australia etc all charge the caller.
Airbnb host will most likely turn you down if you have disabilities
So, given that you had already predicted you'd get sued, who sued you and what for?
If it is only costing you $2k a year, you are still taking money from tax payers. Cars are a huge burden to a city, costing billions a year in revenue, and more in lost revenue. Not including the number of deaths and injuries.
myopic? it's the only current feasible other planet we might be able to live on.
The function signatures like:

func Classify(modelId string, sampleLocation string, accessToken string)

should be:

func Classify(modelId, sampleLocation, accessToken string)

It's more idiomatic Go to not redundantly specify a type each time if multiple consecutive args have the same type.
Just to push home the awesomeness of crazy music nerds that together create MusicBrainz, please have a look at these two examples:

1. Number of releases per album individually tagged:
https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/f5093c06-23e3-404f-aea...

2. The amount of metadata for an album:
https://musicbrainz.org/release/b84ee12a-09ef-421b-82de-0441...

When you get used to this kind of high quality metadata, it's just so so sad to see how companies like Spotify treat metadata. As an example, look up Bob Marley & The Wailers on Spotify and try to find original releases, and then compare that to the list found here:

https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c296e10c-110a-4103-9e77-47bfe...

...and the sad part is that the metadata is freely available, with a permissive license.
This is a classical example of American "worst of both worlds" governance. People in Bakersfield aren't going to take the HSR to LA, at least not in enough numbers to justify connecting Bakersfield to the HSR. It'd be better to just build a straight-shot HSR and take all the money you save and give a tax break to folks in Bakersfield, or something. But our political system isn't able to achieve that result.

How do European countries deal with it? It's not like Germany and France don't have rural areas versus urban areas (vast swaths of both countries are farmland).
I noticed that, too. Unfortunately it seems like it's going to take several more years to shake off the aggressive anti-fat lobbying and paid "research" by the sugar industry. Also, I'd imagine McDonalds would be much less willing to warn its customers against their offerings high in sugar or refined carbohydrates.
They had a pretty close call at some point and nearly died. All is well that ends well.

There also was freedb (http://www.freedb.org/), not sure if that is still kept up-to-date.
They explains it in the paper. There are cultural and legal limitations. So your knowledge of English will not help when you travel to a country that requires packaging in native language. On the other hand, learning 'universal' icons will help you everywhere.
In particular, read something that has nothing to do with your job once in a while.
The Internet went looking for a man who clobbered protesters at Berkeley
Google removes SIMD.js support from Chromium
Programming Context-Aware Dialogue in the Last of Us (GDC 14)
Uber for books, except you don't have to pay.
1. Go to bank.

2. Withdraw large pile of cash.

3. Put it in a metal garbage can, away from any flammable materials.

4. Light the cash on fire.

This will get you to the same destination, only much faster.
it feels great seeing this coming from africa. meanwhile the U.S rails keeps getting slower and slower.
That is the strategy behind eating oatmeal or rice instead of bread.
So if that is the case, these companies ARE violating the law because they are actually calling you. I hope they get slaughtered in court.
These orgs don't necessarily have a finite number of outbound lines - they'd be using SIP and just buy more channels from the myriad providers out there for a few bucks a month. You can also get "unlimited channels"-SIP trunk providers too - in which case you're limited only by the number of simultaneous virtual channels your Asterisk setup can handle.

So no, "keeping them busy" is not a viable solution.
It's a fun hobby to learn to swear in all kinds of languages. Russians are very creative in this respect.
I was specifically thinking of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Point being, however you scope it nations and empires fall. There's no magic that says the the United Kingdom or France will be here 200 years from now. Given current events, it isn't a sure thing that a map of the U.K. wont be very different in a few decades time.
Shutdown - Transition to del.icio.us
Have you looked at https://github.com/dermotte/lire? This plugin for ElasticSearch uses it: https://github.com/kzwang/elasticsearch-image
I would recommend going and reading about how the blockchain would in depth, it is complex but interesting.

In short, miners build up a log of all exchanges of currency. While you have to "sign" any payments you make so no-one can steal your money, miners can choose to ignore your payments, and not add them to the blockchain.

Now, if the mining power was spread among many people, someone would put your payments on the chain. However, we are currently in a situation where a very small number of groups (between 4 and 6, depending on when you check), control over 50% of all mining. If they went rogue they could, in principle, lock the account of anyone they like, stopping them spending any of their bitcoins.
We detached flagged this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14475078.
Better explanation at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=6020&desc=2
Very inspiring and heartwarming. I wish the best to the lad and his new family.

Stories like these really make you put things into perspective. Here I am complaining about how hard my professors are in a crap university while this guy comes from the depths of poverty and works his way up through one of the best public health programs in the world. My daily problems are nothing compared to the obstacles this guy had to overcome.

Kudos to that man.
There is a tiny part of me that is starting to think Yay! Are we becoming a spacefaring civilization? We are tentatively close.
So cool! Its not hard to image this same technique used on clouds to tweek infastructure for workloads.
Miner hardware is tied to the specific proof-of-work algorithm used in the cryptocurrency they mine. They make extensive capital investments that are, at least in the case of Bitcoin, useless for any other purpose.
Even weirder, according to the chart on page 5, German seems to be the only one to describe the kcal unit unambiguously as Kilokalorien. Where all others go for calorien (Which could either mean the small cal or large calorie Cal/kcal) or completely unitless with describing it as energy content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie
Fuze Card: Your Whole Wallet in One Card
> No non-lawyer is competent to understand all real estate transaction documents.

I understood them well enough. It isn't that hard. The misunderstandings people would complain about were not about subtleties or legal hare-splitting. It's also established legal doctrine that a contract written in ambiguous, confusing, or tricky language isn't going to hold up in court. Judges take a dim view of that.

I also actually read them. Amazing. Although this would visibly annoy the escrow officer.

You did the right thing by having a lawyer review it if you didn't feel confident about it. There's no excuse not to if it is a large transaction.
13:34 - "The syntax doesn't really matter". That's a dialect of Lisp. I know that Andy Gavin -- one of the guys at Naughty Dog -- designed a Lisp based language called GOOL for the original Crash Bandicoot (1996), and furthermore that The Jak & Daxter series, including all the assembly, was 99% written in another one of his languages, a Scheme dialect called GOAL. [1] [2] Cool to see that they are using Lisp still at Naughty Dog.

[1]: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ban...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2475639
We could live in space stations. Hook up a few inflatable habs in a ring, give it a spin and get 0.5 or 0.7 gravity.

Got your human backup population. Much closer to Earth so if something goes wrong (asteroid) they can just wait it out and pop back down when it all settles down.

Living on Mars? Seems too tricky. Got to get back up the gravity well if you want to leave.
America is Coal Country
The only people who feel it's heretical are designers with too little experience.

Very few people would insist these icons were good design: http://i.imgur.com/W6pWibe.png

Unlabeled icons are an antipattern in all but a handful of cases.
Where do you get the half a million number from? Is that people that use it or downloads?
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Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstadter. This book has taught me more about thinking differently than any other.
would probably confuse people
Is that the entire plan? Purchase a town with Ethereum?

I think our president at least supplied a bullet pointed one-sheet with his tax plan.
Yeah, disease of affluence, they call these things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_affluence

It's weird how acknowledged the problem is in the US (and Europe?) and how rare it is elsewhere. Trying to convince people in certain countries that peanut allergies are real can be really difficult, because they have never heard of such a thing. It's also even hard to find information online about the worldwide prevalence of peanut allergies because almost all of the data is US-based, with the occasional tidbit from the UK or continental Europe.
Many years ago, using Virgin Mobile (in the UK) I remember being charged for incoming calls, however these days on all UK networks (and I assume this is the case for most of Europe) the caller gets charged but the callee does not
Pretty easy actually.

$67 billion /39 million people / 30 years => $57/year-person.

or

1.5 million trips per day X 365days/year X 30 years => 15.4 billion trips.

$67 billion / 15.4 billion trips => $4 trip
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No inheritance from the mother's husband sounds like a pretty normal setup for an area where paternity certainty is very low.
I have had several friends and colleagues get new numbers and immediately be hounded by collection agencies looking for the old owner of the number. Some of these collection agencies also stared sending postal mail to their homes based on the linking this new number with their addresses.
Show HN: Tool to figure out which marketing channels might work for you
It's just a chart but early feedback is that it's been super useful for some people. Basically just figure out which quadrant best fits your business and start your marketing tests there first.

The chart/tool: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*SjuFhVCxgeubNv0aa...
A camera module's optical black level isn't the same as Rec.709 color spec using a range of [16..235] for RGB color.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._709
in US maybe, Im getting my advertised Mbps 24/7 as long as the source is able to keep up.
If an open source music format isn't a requirement for you, AAC is as efficient as Opus and playback support is universal – no version of iOS or Android has ever shipped without AAC decode support, for example.

Mp3tag also handles MP4/M4A files wonderfully.
All carriers will eventually charge customers to block this "service." Until consumer-friendly legislation bans the practice ... I'd estimate approximately two decades from the time this "service" is allowed.
An english word is not harder to learn than an icon. It is not harder to attach a cultural and legal explanation of the usage of a word than an icon.

I do enjoy the irony of evading laws that require packaging in the native language, so McDonald's invents a new non-native language instead.
One of the times I answered I told him to put me on the do-not-call list and the live person said: "FUCK YOUUUUUU" and hung up. My calls increased considerably after that day. Yes I have considered suing many times, but chicken out realizing how much work would be involved. Most of the calls don't ring anymore as I migrated to Google Voice and just turned on Do Not Disturb for everyone. I can read that it's telemarketing spam or someone that's real.

Regarding spoofing - 100% are spoofed now. In the last 6 months all of the spam calls I have in my GVoice inbox match the same first 6 digits of my phone number. The last 4 digits are random numbers.
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Insurance doesn't really change the economics if you have a fleet, right?
Are you referring to Bitcoin?

In that case, you're talking about mining pools, which are different from miners. Individual miners participate in different mining pools, and can choose to use different pools at any time. Pool operators don't have that much control over the mining power, as miners will readily use a different pool if it's seen as a better alternative.

Historically, any time that a particular pool gets large enough to be a concern, miners switch off from using it as the risk to the network easily outweighs the small marginal benefit they may get from using a popular pool.

Miner centralization is certainly one of the primary risks in the Bitcoin network, but it's also one that's easy to overstate. Even with fairly extreme miner centralization, it's hard to come up with a good way to abuse that power without the rest of the network participants simply forking away from you.

There's good reason to think that the current level of geographic centralization in China is likely a maximum. The rapid development of ASIC hardware has kept investment timelines short as old hardware is rapidly obsolete. As hard limits in IC design are reached, this development has slowed, and may result in more competitive opportunities in other areas.
I would think that this would first require the adoption of something much closer to the EU data privacy regime: actual rights to know what data is collected, how it would be used prospectively, rights to collect and be forgotten, etc...I think this would be a precondition to the setup you are proposing.

It would also seem clear to me that, from a regulatory standpoint, there would need to be a regulatory body in charge of developing regs around this and enforcing it.

So, in other words, this would be expensive to implement (both in terms of adding government regulatory costs + costs of private enterprises complying).

That being said, what I find particularly attractive about your proposal is that it might shock people into understanding what they are really doing by pressing "I agree." In other words, it could cause a huge cultural shift that I think is really necessary. There are a lot of things written about how people (particularly younger people) do not really value privacy anymore. I would bet a large sum of money that if your proposal were implemented, many of these people who "don't care about privacy" would start caring because the implications of their giving up their personal data would suddenly become clear.

I can't see this being all that difficult to implement technologically, would it be?
I wonder if the author has looked into using SURF/OTB etc?
Please be sarcasm please be sarcasm...
Reminds me of this:
https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/01/17/self-driving-database-ma...
I did have that thought! But most likely these are all several characters in Chinese.
I am not certain ethics are universal. I think "The Righteous Mind", by Jonathan Haidt, does a fairly good job showing that there are different aspects or flavors to ethics, and that not everyone can agree on which aspects 'count'.
So basically, OP is justified in calling a condition that can kill someone a "first world problem." However, responding to that calling out problems with India's sanitation in response is somehow especially arrogant? Aren't both of those at about the same level of dismissiveness?

I'm not advocating for either behavior, but it seems to me that some people only want to others to learn from their experience and not the other way around.
Ethereum is definitely in a strong hype-cycle right now. It is an interesting crypto, but much remains to be seen about how it will actually be used. I'd take a look at e.g. Augur to see the direction it might take, but realize that the applications it promises aren't yet in wide use.
protein: 蛋白
fat: 脂肪
salt: 盐
carbohydrate: 糖类
calorie: 千卡

I dunno...
Amazon engineer crowdsources own $50k portfolio
I explained it above. The dual risks in a loan are credit risk and term risk (look those up and learn about them). Since the term is 5 years, the investment with no credit risk is the 5 year treasury (this is the credit risk-free rate). All loans have credit risk. Bundling loans does not eliminate credit risk (this is what 2008 taught us), though it does reduce credit risk. Selling loans with rates below the risk-free rate has negative expected return.

The proper analogy is this: treasuries vs. corporate bonds. Here is the current yield spread (difference in interest rate: corporate minus treasury): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BAMLC0A0CM

The spread is always positive, because investors demand extra yield for taking on credit risk.
Dark Futures: What happens when literary novelists experiment with Sci-Fi
Out of curiosity, could you give the name or a link to the game?
so true.

People just pick what they like and try to reproduce success.
I know it's a draft, but it's kinda annoying to have a big watermark of DRAFT over every page.

I don't know if a better way to do it, but really makes it tough to jump in and commit to giving a read through.
I imagine that if you have a fleet it's more practical to negotiate a business insurance policy than for one-off rentals a few times a month.
The one with lower timestamp.
The problem is there's really no way to see determine who has the capacity to do what this guy did, until after they do it.
Yeah. I usually ask if they also know anyone that is hiring. So getting into second-degree connections. It's weird considering I live in a big city. I felt like I was dealt a bad hand, but just made it worse.
$40 in 1995 is about $64 now.

The prices have probably changed a little, sure, but a lot of that is just inflation.
>The history has proven that a society that share the common goals can advance forward. While those comprised with self-proclaimed leaders never really manage to unite any large nations.

This sounds nice, but I'm having a hard time thinking of any large modern states that appear to be driven by a shared common goal.

If such states only existed in the past, then my feeling is that is a result of romanticizing the past having not lived it. Maybe in 50 years people will look back on these last two decades as a time when large parts of the western world 'came together' with the common goal of 'fighting terrorism'.
Regarding Julian Jaynes, I also read the book, do you know that the Westworld series touches on his views directly?

For more about inner voices, you might like this article http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/a-mental-disease-by-any-o... and the books by Malidoma Patrice Some.
You have missed an important point. Those loan officers were paid a fee for the service and their institution sold off the loans that were derivatized. The patsy was down the line. They all got paid...

Go back and review the news that came out. "The Big Short" is a decent summary. The trading manager at Bear Stearns who bought the derivatives got to walk out and keep his big bonuses. The share holders ate it. The rating institutions were complicit too - they knew the products were crap but knew the customers (lending institutions) would go to another one and so wrote the bogus ratings. See the players in the game got paid. The snooks got screwed.

Bill Black, who prosecuted the Savings and Loan Crisis, and sent many fraudsters to jail reviewed the 2008 crash and was incensed at the lack of prosecution.

The consumers saw what they wanted to see. Very few consumers perfomed due diligence. The old proverb tends to be true: "If something seens to be too good to be true... It probably is." Fraudsters have taken advantage of the gullible throughout human history. Our generation has no excuse: we have unparalleled access to information and most are too lazy to put the effort in to check these things out our to hire competent counsel who work for us not the seller. How many parents and students understand the debt they take on for college and the expected ROI???
Switching from PHP to Go and Sticking with MySQL
Bitcoin transactions cost dollars, not cents. I routinely have to pay $5 or more to get a confirmation in the same day.
If you'd like to submit a comment on this to the FCC, the link is here:

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings

The proceeding code is 02-278.
The parent comment implied that saying anything negative about core developers is a terrible thing, which is a view that many people don't share. My comment was intended to provide some insight into that aspect.
Centralized government.
This is great news. I still use NetNewsWire 3.3.2, one of the finest Mac apps I have ever purchased. I look forward to seeing Evergreen evolve into a worthy replacement.
Interesting. With what AGESA version - I'm asking because anything earlier than 1.0.0.6 has 1T command rate, which not all memory modules can handle
Yep! Peloton is by the same people.
Well, they haven't released any versions of the bitcoin client that support scaling, either. I do believe the core developers are in charge of releasing new versions of the reference client.
In Germany the ICE train mostly runs on existing routes, for newly build routes you have to make the trade off between connecting cities and travel time.

But not connecting a city of almost 400,000 people is odd, it should get a stop. I don't think the Deutsche Bahn oder SCNF would be allowed not connecting those cities in their home markets.