skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real solution to preventing gerrymandering is to get rid of congressional districts altogether, and move to proportionally representative delegations from each state. Afterall, there is absolutely no constitutional basis for partitioning states into districts.
Your last statement is kind of incoherent. I guess you are just trying to justify USA's lack of that.

"Canada has a problem with credit, haha, looks like their... subsidized health-care didn't help them out of that one as they thought it would!"
I've been wondering why tents and RVs aren't more popular on /r/digitalnomads.
Tensorflow Semi-Supervised Learning Generative Adversarial Networks
Load Balancing with HAProxy – Servers for Hackers
Backblaze b2?
So no issues then otherwise there would huge cry from android users like those from Windows users
This ties back to something I've been saying for years: High School should include a basic course in financial education.

Understanding budgeting, interest on loans & credit card debt, how a mortgage works, saving for retirement, etc...

So that once you get into the real world, you aren't learning this stuff through trial and error.
Because it gets late early?
Unfortunately this is no longer true. In the wake of recent islamist attacks, it is now routine to seen armed police patrolling around cities.
We're using Algolia (the free version) for all Facebook open source project websites (React, GraphQL, Yarn, ...) and it's been nothing short of awesome.

You just include a js file and add an input where you want the search and it just works(tm).

It has required 0 maintenance, it didn't go down, the api didn't change, nothing to tweak on the backend... Users have gotten a quality and super fast search since then.

I highly recommend it!
Sure, and what about skittish Groupon employees?
Only over an HTTP/1 connection. Chrome and FF limit it to 6.
What If You Live in Futuristic Developer Universe
Scientists have proved you can hear the 'chirp' of gravity
It is hard to live within your means when you see everyone else around you get nice things. I know that when I retire (possibly early) I will be glad I saved all my life as I can afford more nice things when I have time. However there is the desire for now.

Worse, nothing is guaranteed. I knew people who died young. All my savings will be wasted if it turns out I'm one of those who don't make it to retirement age. The best thing to do could be charge my credit cards to the max and enjoy life as best I can now - letting my estate be bankrupt. We have no way of knowing until after I die what I should have done.
git-annex has fsck command that can test the data and rclone remote so you can use any configuration of "cloud" storages to hold the chunks.
There was a more balanced story awhile back that talked about this in detail and it said they believe they can make software tweaks and a few other changes to resolve that. However they where not 100% and where doing testing.
They are one of the very few companies in that space which still develop their own search technology instead of just adopting and mixing available open source packages.
Most other search software these days runs on some flavour of Lucene and rightfully so IMO because Lucene is a rock solid piece of software.

This means that creating a defensible USP in that space isn't easy. Algolia did it by essentially developing their own search software from the ground up. It isn't necessarily better than competitors like Elasticsearch in every measure but it certainly has some interesting properties and it can be pretty fast, especially for things like autocomplete.
How MIT OpenCourseWare transformed a learner's life
It should actually be done in primary school. By high school, it's too late to teach them life skills like that. Especially since they are likely already making/spending money at their summer jobs by that point.
>The average American believes that the richest fifth own 59% of the wealth and that the bottom 40% own 9%. The reality is strikingly different. The top 20% of US households own more than 84% of the wealth, and the bottom 40% combine for a paltry 0.3%. The Walton family, for example, has more wealth than 42% of American families combined.

>We don’t want to live like this. In our ideal distribution, the top quintile owns 32% and the bottom two quintiles own 25%. As the journalist Chrystia Freeland put it, “Americans actually live in Russia, although they think they live in Sweden. And they would like to live on a kibbutz.” Norton and Ariely found a surprising level of consensus: everyone — even Republicans and the wealthy—wants a more equal distribution of wealth than the status quo.

You'd think they'd sanity check their poetic description against professed beliefs. If your metric says that most Americans "would like to live on a kibbutz", then your metric is wrong.

What this actually shows is that most Americans have no idea what wealth inequality looks like. Ask the same group of people their predicted and ideal income inequality measurements. I predict you'll get the same numbers, plus a little noise.

A closely related question: is asking in terms of percentages biasing? And the answer is: Very Yes. http://journal.sjdm.org/12/121027/jdm121027.html

>Norton and Ariely (2011) set out to answer a remarkably important set of questions: How much inequality do ordinary Americans believe exists in the U.S.? And how much inequality do they desire? These questions have a range of important policy implications. However, the initial answers to these questions need to be reconsidered. Our findings indicate that the remarkably low estimates of wealth inequality given by Norton and Ariely’s respondents depended on the particular measure (quintile percentages) that was used. When asked to state quintile percentages for either household wealth, teacher salaries, or web page clicks, our respondents seemed to use an anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic leading to very similar responses across very different domains.

>When respondents were relieved of aggregating their intuitions about inequality into quintile percentages, another picture emerged. According to this new picture, Americans do not tend to have extremely biased perceptions of current levels of inequality. Nor do they entertain an ideal of near-perfect egalitarianism. Rather they seem to prefer a world where the poor are not as poor as they are today. Further investigation into this more tractable ideal might provide a basis for workable policy prescriptions.
What if you tax it back?

You give the money, they spend it on the providers of their choice, and then you tax the money back out.

You say, why would the providers accept it? Because they have to. It would only get the minimum a person needs to survive.

Or a better way with less force on producers: a single payer system like SNAP program, that mandates producers sell basic food amount for a certain price if someone comes with food stamps. Because everyone needs food. Why would proucers accept this? Because they make up for it on volume of everyone who has the food stamps (in this scenario, everyone).

Same as why doctors currently accept Medicare even though it pays less on average.
Behold the Power of GraphQL
Ask HN: What's your favorite blog?
That "cheap wheat, corn, and rice grown in more agriculturally productive regions" is cheap because its production is heavily subsidized. When economists talk about removing agricultural subsidies (pretty much the only thing almost all macroeconomists agree on, for what little that's worth), they're generally talking about removing trade barriers and removing agricultural subsidies in the form of payments to farmers. I suppose it's true that if you fixed tariffs without fixing the other side, you'd still have a problem.
Does this work with HTTP caching?

i.e. if I use this to render a movie rating asynchronously, can I return a 304 not modified response and the client will insert a previously-delivered response fragment?
That's not true. Agricultural robotics and automation are certainly more advanced in America and have improving for a long time. Drones with spectral cameras to examine and map plant health and irrigation levels, and to spot-spray pesticides, automated gps tractors and tools, collaborative augmented reality- nothing new in the US or Europe. It's said a lot, but Japanese robotics is somewhat myopic. IMO mostly it's due to the corporate structures in Japan: huge companies like Honda can pour tons of funding into ASIMO for 4 decades, but their goals are too narrow to make up for broad, investigative research. Plus, culture in Japan is a tangible force, and the awareness of societal problems is so high it actually impedes pure research. They are so focused on their aging population and the automation of labor that the large majority of research is geared towards those problems in one way or another. The US has the same problem- we focus on military use over everything else, but we do it just a little less than Japan.

You typically hear this sentiment (Japan is the best at robotics) wrt humanoid robotics, especially ASIMO[1]. ASIMO is basically just a really smooth suite of soft skills. Facial recognition, voice, HRI, and consumer-friendly hardware. The hard skills underneath are extremely highly optimized but fundamentally weak and outdated by over 20 years. ASIMO runs on the same hardware and algorithms from the 90s except for batteries, computer speed and sensor accuracy. In the US we have been extremely inventive with hardware design- eg all-plastic mass-manufacture BAXTER, or ATLAS, which is largely hydraulic. The newest generations of ATLAS have hydraulic actuators integrated into the frame.

ASIMO and most japanese robots use a variation on ZMP walking methods, which has the characteristic high-knee, ankle-heavy look. It's extremely inefficient and unstable. Russian robots use this too. Other robots in the US, Europe and even in China use much more efficient, flexible methods separated by a couple generations of new algorithms. Take Cassie[2] from OSU's dynamic robotics lab. Pretty clearly far ahead of anything in Japan in stability, speed, power[3] and efficiency, built by grad students from scratch. Compact series elastic actuators with HZD algorithms.

Japanese robots are meant to look perfect. Russian robots are meant to look terrifying. American robots are meant to explore new algorithms or technologies. European robots are mostly meant to build cars.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEJeIUTValE

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is4JZqhAy-M

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWVci9qS7Ds
in the general employed public. The average UK citizen is actually really poor compared to Americans.
The best years when I left work related stress to home was whilst brisk walking close to 4 miles back home. It took me about an hour.

Also, an hour on exercise bike at home is good.

Benefits of above activities was/is - I cared more about food and sleep.
In America we have https://www.optoutprescreen.com/?rf=t Canada doesn't have something like this?

Edit: I didn't realize it blocked people in other countries from even seeing it. Here's a snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20170603221522/https://www.optou...
> It's like I got a special deal from my gym for unlimited access. If next year they won't offer it anymore I cannot say "it was not unlimited".

I don't think this analogy works. If you used a lot of space, or really any space over the amount that they change to as the upper limit, that data is now at risk. Some places will make it read only until you move it off (up to a certain amount). Most will simply delete it after a certain amount of time if you don't move it.

Your gym can't really take back an amount of your previous, unlimited usage of the gym. If you have legit uses where you're way over the limit this can pose a real issue. I ran into this when storing photos and videos on Microsoft's OneDrive after they lowered the crazy high amount they were given...I eventually decided to pay the higher fees to cover my data so I wouldn't lose it until I had more time to move it all off.

I no longer use OneDrive.
It works well and works fast.

Indexes are easy to setup, maintain, and SDK's support a variety of languages. Querying is fast enough to feel seamless.
There's a lot of articles about these things that seem to have the same summary: "I didn't read the documentation for how pricing works and then I was surprised by how pricing worked." Some people were shocked by Glacier's egress pricing and others were shocked by the cost per file. Both of these are approximately zero, most of the time, for most people, if they know what they're doing. If you don't know what you're doing and haven't read the docs you shouldn't be using Glacier.

> Cause you know, 60GB is realllly expensive to transfer :(

Network and disk IO capacity planning is hard. You can't just buy GBs of egress at $0.01 and then resell them at $0.01, because you're paying for maximum capacity and turning around and selling average usage. Similarly, when you have a bunch of data shoved into unused sections of disk, you can't just read them back out without affecting whatever else is reading from the same disk. If you want to sell something close to cost, you need to reflect the pricing structure of what you're paying to your customers.

So if you upload a bunch of data to a super-cold storage system that's even named after a geological formation that stays frozen for centuries, to remind you how cold it is, and then you make it hot by trying to download it all at once, you'd expect it to be more expensive.

Just do your regular cost-benefit analysis and it should be fine, based on how long you plan on storing the data and how likely or often you think you'll need to restore it.
Shouldn't Prometheus be compared to InfluxDB?
> By any measure that is per-student

That's a pretty broad statement. I can think of a number of measurements where MIT comes out ahead of Caltech - entrepreneurship (measured per-student) would be one particularly relevant to HN.
No.

The main idea of the blockchain is that each block has a hash of the previous block that has a hash of the previous block that has a hash of the previous block ... so you get a chain of blocks.

Also, each mining node has the complete information of the previous block and all the new transactions, so it can calculate the hash of the previous block and a hash of the new data and create the new block.

Neurons have very few data available. They can sum, rest and make a small amount of delay and accumulation, but each neuron doesn't know the state of the whole brain and has no computational power to make a hash of it anyway.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm assuming the OP is referring to the common claim that American bankruptcy is so high because of medical costs.

It would seem like even with healthcare for all, bankruptcy is still a problem for people.
The sticker price of the F-35B isn't the real cost to the UK as it manufactures a fairly large part of it. The sticker price of the F-18E/F is what would have to be paid plus the cost of a number of T-45s for training plus the cost of replacing the results of a steady stream of airframe losses during normal use.

The expectation is that if the new carriers were ever full of F-35s then a fair number would have USMC markings.
Speaking as a Sia developer, I can address your concerns.

> these networks don't impose any minimums for the upstream bandwidth of the hosts.

Sia today primarily handles that through gross redundancy. If you are using the default installation, you're going to be putting your files on 50 hosts. A typical host selection is going to include at least a few sitting on large pipes. Downloads on Sia today typically run at about 80mbps. (the graph is really spiky though, it'll spike between about 40mbps and 300mbps).

We have updates in the pipeline that will allow you to speedtest hosts before signing up with them, and will allow you to continually monitor their performance over time. If they cease to be fast enough for your specific needs, you'll drop them in favor of a new host. ETA on that is probably ~August.

> Files can completely disappear from the network if the machines that are hosting them happen to go dark for whatever reason

We take host quality very seriously, and it's one of the reasons that our network has 300 hosts while our competitors are reporting something like 20,000 hosts. To be a host on Sia, you have to put up your own money as collateral. You have to go through this long setup process, and there are several features that renters will check for to make sure that you are maintaining your host well and being serious about hosting. Someone who just sets Sia up out of their house and then doesn't maintain it is going to have a very poor score and isn't going to be selected as a host for the most part.

Every time someone puts data on your machine, you have to put up some of your own money as collateral. If you go dark, that money is forfeit. This scares away a lot of hosts, but that's absolutely fine with us. If you aren't that serious about hosting we don't want you on our network.

> but lack of clarity around some important concerns have so far prevented me from taking them seriously

We are in the middle of a re-branding that we hope introduces more clarity around this type of stuff as it relates to our network.
Infected system sends packets to a decoy what? Satellite? And then the satellite forwards it.
Your best bet might be to skim Amazon reviews.

I read a book by the same publisher about Apache (Pro Apache by Peter Wainwright), and it was good.
Came here to say this. And it's not like the author doesn't get that, since grafana is recommended in the piece to be used as the visualization layer for the other two. I think they just wanted to get all three names in the post for some reason.
Interesting that you say that, because Google is constantly being bashed here for it's lack of privacy concerns (rightly so, IMO). When Apple makes the similar mistakes, I feel that they should also be bashed. I don't think of them as an "evil" company, like Google, but they do seem incompetent, or maybe more fairly: focused on the wrong things.

They've touted before that they are the company to use if you want your data to remain private and secure, but continue to act in direct violation of that. This seems highly problematic to me, and, IMO, they should be raked over the coals for this.
Doing things the wrong way to get the right result
Inside the gig economy's new women's clubs
Uber won’t name the alleged harassers it fired, but it doesn't have to
You're conflating public sector vs private sector (Government vs Non-Government) with publicly traded vs privately held.

GE is in the private sector, but publicly traded.
Why would you convert the currency? Canadians pay for things in CAD and Americans in USD.
I don't know what we have, but I know that apparently, having a lawyer and power of attorney tell a credit card company to not send credit cards wasn't enough.
I really enjoyed using http://searchkit.co/ a while back. If i were to do it again, I'd probably roll my own, as IIRC state management with searchkit was a bit of a black box, but it is a pretty nice drop-in lib .
Next news: 8.1.2 release lol
aha!

I recant my: did nobody think of Agrajag[1] and the petunias[2] ?

[1] http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Agrajag
[2] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/124539-curiously-enough-the...
I work in the software business.

It's definitely the state's function to care about soil erosion, not mine.

I vote and pay taxes and expect stuff like courts, law enforcement and military to be taken care of as well.
> In Europe full featured apartments under 20m2 (~215 square feet) are pretty standard.

Seriously?

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
I think you make an important point, which if I understand correctly is that it's easy for lay persons to overlook the interpretive nature of QM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mec...). Do most people know that QM or new theories that describe nature more comprehensively may not even require randomness at all? I know this starts to stray off the mainstream path but the point is nothing is set in stone and in fact, we can already be certain there's more to the story.

I think pop science is so important when done well, not withstanding the problems and pitfalls that come with it. But it seems damn hard to get across some of these subtleties in an easy to understand but still meaningful way. Maybe when the next generation of science does a better job of unifying things it will be somehow easier to grok for all of us.
Every client and manager I've ever worked for wanted their thing done as fast as possible. No business person I've met actually understands technical debt, let alone factors it into decision making.

I work with my clients to manage these trade-offs, and most of them opt for low cost, high speed, low code quality. I still don't charge a flat fee or offer money back.
It does seem somewhat dangerous to use on a collection. But for scenarios like a few parts of the page which depend on the logged-in-user, it seems pretty safe.
This is what leads to the "avocado toast" situation [0].

I'm conflicted on what to think about this. He comes across as arrogant, and made a very poor choice of item to illustrate his point, given how many avocado toasts you'd need to forgo to save a deposit for a house. It's also true that lack of affordable housing is mostly a political failure.

But I look at young people in the UK and kind of see what he means. Home ownership (and any sort of real, sustained wealth) seems like such a distant prospect that people would rather just indulge themselves now.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/15/austral...
and there's nothing wrong with that, if investing means that more people can build wealth for themselves. Starting a business ain't cheap.
An ad company blocking ads, o the irony...
Visiting that site from Canada I get this message:

> The OptOutPrescreen.com website is only accessible through ISP's (Internet Service Providers) located within the United States and its territories.

Rarely see that on non-media sites.

Can someone explain what it does?
Interesting. In most stores in Holland my experience is that over a certain amount, or after a certain number of transactions, I get a 'pin required' message. I then have to wait for the cashier to do some voodoo, only then insert my card (before that causes issues), and enter my PIN. This is the case pretty much everywhere.

I love contactless payment, and this occasional complication doesn't cause enough trouble, but it's still really annoying because I'd expect exactly what you describe to be the case.
Threat Hunting in the Enterprise with AppCompatProcessor
Don't forget to make the "x" as small as possible, unclickable by anyone that doesn't have 20/20 eyesight or really good precision with the mouse.
Introversion is not something that can be fixed for the simplest reason: it's a trait not a disease. I really like being an introvert, but I need to figure out ways to make a living by surrounding it.

About quitting coffee, I thought about it and probably I should...some day!
It sounds like loop-blinn font rendering, which is well known. It helps too if you have a lib for getting outlines from a ttf.