skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think your reasoning in the second paragraph is accurate. People aren't a uniform congealed mass of preferences that match your own.

You don't like cooking. I do. It is really fun for me. I enjoy cooking new things and learning new techniques. I enjoy learning new ingredients and new dishes. I, however, hate going grocery shopping and looking up new recipes. This service deals with the issues I have.

What's even better? It's quality shared time between me and my girlfriend. She'll deal with some of the steps. I'll deal with others. In total, we put in maybe 15 minutes of work, and wait another 15 minutes before the dish is done. Generally this is faster and less effort than going out to eat for the quality of food received. At the end of it all, we have a delicious meal we both put together, and more knowledge about how to cook in general, which we both enjoy.

Hence why these food services are great in my household, and terrible in yours. We're attempting to solve different problems. I want to cook in a hassle free manner. You want to eat in a hassle free manner. They aren't the same thing.
> If we end up with a 2000 member congress so be it. That would provide better representation and make it very difficult to gerrymander.

It wouldn't make it any more difficult to gerrymander (more districts, except in the pathological edge case of 1 voter per district) makes it easier to gerrymander (and easier to do it with reasonably compact districts rather than oddly shaped monstrosities they draw attention.)

You make it more difficult to gerrymander if you increase the number of seats per district, not if you increase the number of districts.

It also (because of organizational dynamics that are not scale independent) would reduce equality of effective representation, because it would increase power inequality within the House.
The high cost of housing and commercial real estate in SF, NYC, Boston, DC, LA, London, ....all have the same underlying cause which was fixed in Japan by the Japanese federal government.

It is a market inefficiency caused by zoning density restrictions and overuse of historic landmark status which creates a politically induced artificial scarcity in housing (scarcity = rising prices). These "rent-seeking" restrictions are a regressive tax transferring income from renters to wealthy landlords including Donald Trump. It is wrong, and Japan has fixed the problem removing zoning density restrictions at the local level. The result, in 2014 there were 140,000 homes built in Tokyo compared with about 90,000 for all of California and 20,000 in NYC.

Economist David Ricardo wrote about this phenomenon of "rent-seeking" about 200 years ago related to the Corn Laws. Corn Laws taxed the import of all grains which benefited not farmers but landowners. Ricardo joined Parliament and managed to overturn the "rent-seeking" law.

The solution is a federal law in the US following the example of Japan.
This is definitely a major concern. I'm sure that it will be ameliorated as more high-performance ARM chips hit the market and some provide open bootloaders or have them written by a community. I want an ARM laptop like nobody's business, and I love my chromebook for its ability to run arbitrary linux executables.

The trend of portable ARM workstations looks super promising, but if these entries are hardlocked to Windows, then they are complete non-starters.
> They're overwhelmingly people with mental and/or drug issues that prevent them from holding a job

Citation needed.

Homeless people with drug problems or mental illness are the most likely to be visibly homeless, acting out, and/or harassing people so perhaps confirmation bias makes you believe they represent the majority? In reality a minority of homeless people (~35%) have drug, alcohol, or metal problems.

The majority of homeless people are depressed and ashamed of being homeless and trying desperately to get off the streets. They lose their job or get evicted and don't have any family they can turn to, causing a downward spiral. Even if you have the money to rent an apartment you're fighting people who can pre-pay a year's worth of rent (thanks to large signing bonuses).

I don't know the breakdown but it is undeniable that some portion of the homeless in the Bay Area are homeless as a direct result of housing being so unaffordable.

>Much more likely is that SF has many factors that make it a nice place to be homeless so these people migrate to it.

That's wrong; 70%+ were residents of SF when they became homeless. Only 10% are from outside California and most of them said they came here on promise of a job, to find family, etc.
History has not been especially kind to Bratton, Compstat, and broken-windows policing.
Can you clarify sources for what types of R&D activities apply? I've been curious myself and didn't see this mentioned in the blog post.
Google helps push big government power and their ability to unilaterally interfere in markets. The fact it was used against them is poetic.
You think taking care of your fellow citizen is hilariously wrong ? At least one city is doesn't treat homeless people like trash and recognizes that they are humans.
AMD K12 is still slated for release in 2017 somehow - they didn't discontinue it. It'll have Zen levels of performance if it's released. For the time being, only Apple cores are remotely near competitive in single-core performance.
I'm not sure if you are trying to be funny - if so, you've succeeded. However, this also reads to me like a very plausible explanation. I like the idea of specifically studying this component further.
You don't have to pass the requirements, you just have to pass the person who reviews your proposal. Put enough fancy language in there and you can make it sound like a simple messaging app is cutting edge machine learning. Every company I've worked for has done similar with the Canadian program (SR&ED).
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But if your startup is developing conversational AI? Wouldn't that qualify? Do you actually have to be publishing? Where's the dividing line in your opinion?
I ended up writing something in Go that resizes images to different devices after a user uploads the food image.

I originally tried to use Google Pagespeed but I was getting some strange error message from image compression.
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Yeah, "I need a wife" is a common refrain of working women, as previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14354026

I got my oldest son to take over the "women's work" when I had a corporate job. He was willing to meet the incredibly high standards of freshness and quality necessary to keep us healthy and out of the ER (due to our genetic disorder) but he was absolutely not willing to cook a traditional meal with meat, potatoes, two veggies, fresh bread etc. He made a lot of one dish meals.

I sometimes think if I can ever get off the street again, we have found a solution to the problem of keeping people well fed without having a de facto live in servant and it has to do with the kind of cooking we do and maybe I could turn that into a blog or app or something. I think a lot about the fact that there are some serious problems surrounding having everyone get paid jobs and somehow also have quality of life stuff adequately addressed.

And it is a conversation that is mostly not happening in earnest. What happens is people with upper class two career type situations just hire servants and pay for take out and for machines to do some of the work for them and so forth. And no one wants to really talk about the fact that this doesn't really work on a global scale. This model of two career upper class coupledom assumes some kind of servant class supporting it, in much the same way that the traditional male breadwinner assumed a full time wife. This does not create a world of real equals.
I notice the name of Ceylon has changed to Eclipse Ceylon [1], in the same way Groovy became Apache Groovy when it joined the Apache foundation 2 years ago.

[1] https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-ceylon
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We haven't tested the whole agent with asyncio applications yet. I guess only CPU profiler was tested during development. We'll do and include it in the docs. For now, if you see any problems, please just open a ticket. Thanks!
ZPG-2 did 11.5 days back in 1957. Maybe consider more than just the raw duration number?
Another thing that I should mention is that most langauges, features like generators / async / exceptions don't compose well at all. In a language where these features are implemented through continuations, it's really easy to pick how they interact, leading to some really powerful tricks!
As an aside to readers: I can't recommend this 99% Invisible episode enough. Children of the Magenta has to be one of my top-3 favorites.
Sure, in the downtown commercial areas. Every city I know of does not allow those skyscrapers to have apartments for rent, it is all for offices. (this is one of the reasons nobody in the US walks to work: there is no legal way to get a place to live near work for most people)

Note that a skyscraper is probably expensive enough to build that they would not put tiny apartments in it anyway, but the more moderate sized buildings downtown could be a mix of apartments and offices resulting in a usable city.
I also find that the recent cuts in editorial staff at various newspapers is having a noticeable effect on quality. I subscribe to the NYT and noticed that after their recent editorial layoff, some of the articles had some egregious spelling and syntax errors.
Not really a question, just wanted to pat you on the back for the exceptional work on the NHS and school cuts sites. They were both highly effective (anecdotally I believe they played a not insignificant part in the general election) and really, really well done.
Inexpensive housing opens up options, for both the public and private sector, that don't exist where all the housing is eye wateringly expensive.
Care to elaborate on this a little more? I’d like to learn about it.
>everyone knows drinking is bad for you

Citations (plural) needed. Without meta-studies and peer responses in subsequent papers and studies, this is just using a single article for confirmation bias.

In the actual scientific world, studies have been mixed since forever on the subject, with moderate wine drinking for example having shown in many studies favourable results for cardiovascular health and other aspects. Also many places with the most long-lived people on earth have big wine drinking populations (e.g. Icaria).

>they do it anyway, because "reasons"

They do it anyway because life is not just about avoiding everything "bad for you" or dangerous, but also about doing whatever one likes and having fun, life expectancy be damned -- from mountain climbing to drinking and anything else.

>anyone who disagrees is just being irrational.

Anyone who disagrees even for casual drinking is probably too afraid of dying -- but they are gonna die the same as everybody else anyway, and often having lived shorter lives than many of their drinking friends.
I'm not sure shopping is necessarily an annoying part though it depends on the circumstances and it does add to the total time commitment. I'd have said it was more about reducing the cognitive load. You're pretty much handed a bunch of ingredients and told what to do.
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I have no idea if weather is a thing with this but I always thought you'd see a much larger population in LA, San Diego, and other places which pretty much have perfect weather all year. And although you see homelessness in those So-Cal cities it isn't rampant like it is in SF, Seattle and Vancouver.
I know more than two software companies first hand that are not doing "AI, machine learning, etc" who qualified for this in the past.
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According to the study which was linked in another comment [1] they were using the standard defined in [2]. This site shows that one pint of lager counts as 2 units of alcohol. One pint is 19.2 oz [3]. A bottle of beer is usually 12 oz, aka 5/8 of a pint, aka 1.25 units of alcohol. I trust the source over the science journalist.

[1] http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2353

[2] https://www.alcoholconcern.org.uk/unit-calculator

[3] Google failed me here. British pints are 19.2 oz, not 12 oz, as pointed out in the comments below.

On a slightly unrelated note.. A woman would be defined as a moderate drinker if she drinks more than one unit a day, but most beer companies don't sell ~10 oz cans of beer. When I feel like drinking at a restaurant, I make a joke and ask for a "child size" beer. When I drink at home, I usually have to pour out part of the full bottle of beer because it is just too much. It seems like a waste!
I think the issue is that SF is the only one doing these things, thus attracts homeless from all over North America. When I did some volunteer work in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside, several times I heard homeless folk speak of their dreams of sneaking across the order to be homeless in SF.
Oh please loosen the yoga pants. Yes, being homeless is terrible. The point was there are worse places to be homeless.
Tesla's Gigafactory and Solar City are in the southern part of Fremont, for what is worth.
A lot of my peers around my age (mid thirties) have been actively moving out of SF specifically. I think it might be a matter of targeting the right pool of candidates to look at.
We tried Blue Apron but stopped for two reasons:

- We have toddlers, and the menu was too "fancy". It's difficult to get a 4 year old to eat squid ink pasta.

- I felt bad about all that wasted packing material and giant ice packs.

We switched to Dream Dinners, which is a local place. My wife goes once a month, picks out a bunch of dinners for the month, and we throw them in the freezer. Each of the dinners fits in a gallon ziploc bag. They were generally easier and faster to cook (pre-chopped vegetables, pre-marinated meat, etc) and there is more choice to it and no shipping containers. Highly recommend.
I can think of half a dozen ways to attract applicants in a way that'd significantly increase the quality of the applicants while at the same time significantly decreasing the number of the applicants.

See, you are assuming a basic process of a job board and anyone applying for the position.

I am saying you are so entrenched in mediocrity that you can't fathom there are much better ways.

I will say this though - they all require a fundamental shift from 'fill seats with people for minimum amount of pay, to do uninteresting work, with least amount of complaining' to actually giving a shit about people you work with, yourself, and your life :)
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Compare this with midtown ATL, where there's a huge residential explosion around an equally blooming tech sector.

It's what happens when the city government steps back and lets progress happens.
What does this tutorial teach you how to do with common crawl ?
http://ecs-network.serv.pacific.edu/past-courses/2012-spring...
?!? Yes, that was the original claim. I challenged how we would prove such a thing, and so you quote a different random person making the same claim? That doesn't answer my question.
Isn't this is true of (almost) everything else Amazon sells too?

[I'm ignoring AWS and other products or services that don't need to be physically delivered.]
Can someone explain how someone who has decided to distance himself from math can major in PHYSICS?!

The pure math world (and certain rarified branches of physics and CS) are quite different from the "measurement-based" sciences. If anything they're almost more similar to endeavors like musical composition (or even poetry) than any "lab-based" science.
Particularly when it comes to the fetishization of "genius", "pure talent" and all that -- and especially when it comes to the character model (myth, really) of the lone genius who locks himself in an attic for N years and not only solves some major problem but totally reimagines the field, front to back.

I mean - at least in terms of the culture of pure mathematics, that's the image one can easily fall into the habit of having about one's self, if one attempts to do mathematics. Such that if you were to switch to physics, astronomy, or CS... you actually would feel like you were "leaving math".
Dirigibles require huge volumes, because the lifting power of gas is small. Those huge volumes make for a relatively weak, slow, and difficult-to-maneuver craft. A big reason why airships disappeared in favor of airplanes was that airships had a really tough time handling or avoiding bad weather because of these limitations.
I checked the date, slightly confused. Just to make sure: could you send me the lottery numbers for the last two years?

Anyway, that Facebook about-us page also has an article from summer 2015 about hitting 1 Billion daily active users for the first time. Their growth really isn't that impressive any more (+280Million in two years), mostly because they've run out of people.
Every time I ask what defines a "drink" in absolute terms of alcohol content I get downvoted too.
What I really want to see is security being integrated into the development process as a conscious tradeoff teams have to make.

When a new feature is proposed, it's rare to hear someone object on the grounds that it could potentially add new vulnerabilities, but in the long run an approach that recognizes and considers those risks would be beneficial.

At the same time, this is incredibly hard to do - managers celebrate employees who develop things that look cool and awesome, not employees who can mitigate risk and manage security effectively (hopefully this changes, but I can't imagine that many unaffected CEOs are calling up their sysadmins right now and congratulating them on their diligence in making sure all their machines are patched).
People aren't a uniform congealed mass of preferences that match your own.

Generally speaking, when people make generalizations, they are not assuming that 100% of the world will exactly fit their statements 100% of the time. Saying that it is generally true does not presume that people like you do not exist. It just presumes that you are probably in the minority.
Keep reading about weird face recognition stuff. Like, this popped up on 4chan yesterday...

https://www.kairos.com/diversity-recognition
A car company sponsoring a bike share is taking the piss
for OSX blocking at DNS level: Posted a year ago in hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11793855

for linux use: https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor/tree/master/data

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This is also true (or very similar) in the US. 14 units is certainly closer to 14 shots than 7.

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-co...

> In the United States, one "standard" drink contains roughly 14 grams of pure alcohol, which is found in:

> * 12 ounces of regular beer, which is usually about 5% alcohol

> * 5 ounces of wine, which is typically about 12% alcohol

> * 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits (= 1 US shot), which is about 40% alcohol

Edit: although, 25mL is far less than 1.5oz. Different units, then.
Man I really wish I could like what you've said here. I too wish people would choose to stay in their right minds (vs. drunk or high), and think hookups are bad.

But I also wouldn't give a 5 year old a circular saw, so that can't be the proper rationale. And you've got to be more winsome or you're doing more harm to your view than good.
Study also looks at adults of average age 43 over 30 years; its subjects are heavily weighted in terms of age.
You're right of course, but the "correct" amount of alcohol is still going to be much more toxic than most other foods that enter your body. Alcohol is a poison.
There's nothing wrong with it if the funds still get to the trust fund as a transfer from general revenue funds.

Now, I don't think that's actually what the policy change has done, but the problem isn't allowing firms to offset the tax.
As usual, an anti-trust regulation puts on display the shortcomings of both capitalism and socialism.

Stifling competition is bad, and it's bad that Google did it.

Trying to meddle in someone's private property and stifling innovation, like the EU just did, is also bad.

And ultimately some win (competitor companies) and some lose (the people who preferred the Google results, even if out of convenience).

I see it as a showcase of how we, and thus our economic models, are flawed and will always be.
We haven't tested it with celery yet. It looks like it should work. gevent is supported by blocking call profiler, and CPU and memory profilers as well as exception and metric reporting are library independent.
Software virus vaccines - I like it. Can’t believe I’ve never run across the concept before. Must be a thing, no?
But who is going to develop apps for these locked down platform? It is not in the interest of the OS maker to make it impossible for developpers to do their job. They need to have access to some open platform to attach debuggers, intercept and observe http traffic, develop and debug drivers, etc. Are windows, android and iOS apps all going to be developped on linux?
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I can demo an alternative to Google Search in a weekend. I can throw comparatively small amounts of money to improve it (e.g. add more sites) such that it is extremely useful to find sites that I designate to have crawled (and it's not difficult to crawl the top N sites). My algorithms will be worse, my crawler less efficient, I probably will ignore javascript, my database will be larger than it needs to be, but none of that matters to an end user who wants to type in some text and get a list of results. My product would be worse in every way something can be worse, yet still satisfy the needs for a sizeable majority of users. It can scale out in known ways (way more expensive than google does it, slower than google does it, etc) by largely paying salary and hosting costs.

I absolutely cannot decide I want to install some poles to run electricity through a town without permits, insurance, inspections, and a ton of capital. I can't decide I want to build my own power plant and sell energy to my new grid without jumping through a lot of hoops, some of those hoops only a mountain range of cash can solve (compared to the merely large pile you'd need to run a credible regional alternative to google search for some segment of the population).
Are there any plans for a voice input Home Assistant component similar to https://home-assistant.io/components/conversation/?

I would prefer to simply use the iOS app as a voice input instead of a dedicated mic + raspberry pi.

Otherwise, great project :)
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The UK has a population of 60 million people. There are only about 4500 rough sleepers.

This figure has risen every year for the past 6 years, and it's likely to keep rising. Removing the single room supplement / imposing the bedroom tax, freezing housing benefit, cuts to local authorities (and thus cuts to drug and alcohol services, and to some mental health provision, and to some housing provision) all mean that rough sleeping is going to increase.

And that number doesn't include people who are in temporary accommodation or vulnerably housed or sofa surfing.
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