skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the timing of the lease doesn't reset.
Living on a floodplain is like smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. You'll be fine for a while, and then you won't be. If the house isn't on stilts, you'll have to fix the flood damage eventually. Insurance companies know this, so they'll charge enough for flood coverage to cover the inevitable losses.
> Is there a technical reason that a blockchain isn't suitable as one part of a possible solution to improving the speed, reliability and security of voting in the United States?

Ignoring for a moment things like hard forks, 51% attacks, lost keys, theft of votes via malware, etc., the biggest non-technical objection I'd see to it is that the concept of a secret ballot is considered absolutely critical in the US.
You should repost this with a direct link.
Cool, we'll use your idea to rephrase the title above.
The Tearoom is a ‘historical public bathroom simulator’
Prescribed? Proscribed means forbidden.
You mean the European Parliament? The body to whom British citizens did in fact elect members to?
There is a difference between a business and social commentary/satire. (But that doesn't mean they're not bullies.)
Exactly, this is an argument in waiting for the real-world behaviour of the database to be well understood
Because Zillow is ultimately right here and her use of the images without Zillow's permission is against their terms of use (which contrary to the hand-wavy analysis in EFF's letter, is absolutely enforceable). However, Zillow doesnt have a lot of damages to recover from her use and definitely wants to avoid another big PR stink, so they get to back off gracefully, she agrees to stop saying she gets the pictures from Zillow (which is what they really wanted), and everything goes back to normal.
This is a big shot across the bow to startups looking to go public.

Message: You're not ready to float if you're not floating, i.e. have a viable business model and can fund operations with revenues.

Also, having a down round after going public likely rained hard on a lot of people's options situations.
Ah. Interesting. That was decoupled in Austria and since we steal all the things from Germany I assumed it was the same there.
Taiwan is a democracy, and has been for some time. Not sure what you're saying here?
Did you intend to say "Refuctoring"? It could be a typo or it could be clever wordplay. And it leads to two drastically different interpretations of what you're saying :)
> "Essentially, the moment a customer becomes more trouble than they are worth, they are dropped [by the insurance company]."

In healthcare there are many different models, but one popular one is the concept of an ASO. This is the case where a healthcare insurance company (think Anthem) will provide administrative services only (ASO) and not (ultimately) be financially responsible for paying claims. The group responsible, in this ASO relationship, is generally an employer.

This is actually fairly common and in it the insurance company has no incentive to drop a "customer" (member), even if/when they legally could.

There is a lot of "bad" in the health insurance industry, but there is also a lot of "good" - people working from the inside who are trying to make things better for members/individuals. Things like improving quality of care, managing coordinated care models, identifying medical risk (eg. opioid abuse), etc.

I think first people need to better educate themselves on how the industry currently works, where the problems are (there are many), and where the more positive efforts are being made in the industry. Bottom-line - don't write it off, but get better informed and try to contribute.
Taiga has a pretty nice looking command line client for their issue tracking https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-ncurses
As I understand it, in the US, flood damage is almost never covered by homeowner's insurance. It is covered by flood insurance from the US government.

The reason for this is because most human settlements are near water. It is not only essential to life, it is a good means of transportation and has been for a long time. So most human settlements are built in flood plains. Thus, sooner or later, most homes will be at risk of flood damage.

Insurance is about risk management. There is no risk to manage here in terms of taking a financial bet. It is all downside for the insurance company. The question is not IF the house will be in danger of flood so much as WHEN. Insurance companies try to avoid such bets, for the most part. (Not counting life insurance.)
everyone should donate! as someone mentioned on a previous post, they are giving away some cool swag as part of their Summer Security Camp right now if you donate (including a sweatshirt, with a $25 recurring monthly donation). EFF really does an immense amount of great work.

https://supporters.eff.org/donate/summer-security-camp-dd
Your Linux Machine Can Be Hacked Remotely with Just a Malicious DNS Response
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. At the individual user level energy usage may appear random and chaotic but at the community level that is not the case. To use your example, at any given instant in time someone in your city is heating water (whether intentionally by consuming water from a hot water storage facility, or passively as that facility activates automatically to keep the water at a given temperature). All of those usages level out to an aggregate demand on energy to heat water over unit time.

If you think about it as a capacitor that "filters" high frequency noise on the electrical grid it might be clearer.
Call me a cynic, but I get the feeling this IPO is more of an early investor/founder cash out?
There is another meal planning serving called Cooksmarts without the raw ingredients.
The FSet functional collections library [0] greatly improves CL's support for functional programming.

[0] https://github.com/slburson/fset
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14665529 and marked it off-topic.
Honestly, I've had people pick up conversation with me in a coffee shop on occasion - either they overhear me talking to whoever I'm there with about something they're super interested in, or they're honestly just bored and I happen to be nearby.
Here there is no time...
Surprised this was a thing Facebook hadn't prevented much earlier.
coughElasticSearchcough
For more along these lines (specifically about The Last of Us), I cannot recommend James Howell's in-progress critical analysis The Rootwork Bulding[0] highly enough. It discusses the affordances of the level design, and how the game advances the the Joel-Ellie relationship via gameplay.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7vAeDYh8SvShredLiTbO...
Is this using a proper date/time library underneath, or did you write it yourself?
Yeah, I agree. It's extremely realistic.
That's most IPO's
I wanted to, but I was afraid since my documentation at GitHub currently sucks, and a direct landing to a "Sign in" / "Sign up" page wouldn't be intuitive at all.

Adding links here again for clarity/tldr;

https://goms-demo.herokuapp.com

https://github.com/artpar/goms
Face?

Also, having that island under China's control would be militarily useful in any showdown with the US - it pushes US forces farther from the mainland.
Young+Couple+Takes+It+Too+Far+with+Fatal+YouTube+Video
Please don't create accounts to troll here. It will eventually get your main account banned as well.

(In case anyone is wondering, we're careful to moderate HN less when YC or YC startups are involved, but "less" doesn't mean "not at all", and in cases like this one the moderation principles are quite well-established.)
Thanks! We put a lot of effort into making the code readable, so I'm glad you found it pleasant to read.
Peer to peer file transfer with IPFS webrtc
I was discussing the OP. McGee is not the OP but the author of the OP. Also I was discussing early content of the NYT on cooking meat, e.g., beef stew.
It assumes the cell tower is just a scaled up version of the small antenna. If a cell tower has better technology that allows it to focus its signal better then obviously it is going to perform better.
You can build on this solution by using the money you save on selling at a loss to other states by using the funds to build storage. As solar capacity increases, more storage is built and in turn more coal plants are taken offline.

The only reason that this is not being implemented is corruption and campaign financing. If never fails to disappoint me the distance politicians will go to support big business as opposed to taking care of actual humans and their future.
Before ML we used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming to find better parameters to match millions of objects (about 30 attributes) against a list of 1000s of human verified (positive and negative) matches. It ran every night and would email us every couple of days a list of parameter better than the previous. We added those to a configuration file.
Lol at all these words written about a toy programming language
Go read what the rust devs have written. They've spent a nearly insignificant amount of time on the issue of community diversity. One post among thousands, and we all better turn up the heat, because "oh my, the wasted effort! They used words that I didn't want to hear one time!"

If you're going to criticize how people spend their time, you'd better bring actual facts about how their time is really spent. One blog post and a few side discussions does not constitute a time investment problem. All you have here is a basic polite courtesy, and that's not something to object to.
My list of people I _never_ want to work for:

OP
What's Different about “Unicorns”
Your tone is gratuitously negative.

The article's central point doesn't "revolve around the distribution of power capacity and generation." It's more precise.

Specifically, it's highlighting the current state of CA renewables policy (with a specific knock on effect for emphasis) and the missing money problem. I found the article insightful and accurate.
Lol, I've been doing this for 11 years and doing Fibonacci off the top of my head would make me sweat.

To me it seems a fairly unimportant exercise that proves little other than that you know the formula for the Fibonacci sequence of the top of your head under duress.
> Your example is extraordinary and could be specifically excluded.

Complications and hospital related infections are not extraordinary. For most of the history of healthcare they were the norm.
To be clear, 7-8PM is the daily peak. The annual peak is around 2-5PM. The annual peak is far more relevant for grid capacity planning. So there's still plenty of room for solar in California.

https://www.caiso.com/Documents/CaliforniaISOPeakLoadHistory...

(I used to work for a CA utility.)
I was a host for a few months. It's a great way to make some extra cash but fatigue pretty quickly set in. Eventually I moved in with my significant other, and that was a great decision. Be prepared to be paranoid about regulations and taxes. When it comes to guests, expect the unexpected and be prepared for worst-case scenarios. Most guests are great, but some bad apples really make it challenging. Always have a spare of everything and be ready random for requests 24/7.
> key indexing

sure, that should come with a huge warning sign in the documentation. Edit: and as code should be self documenting, that warning sign could be an extra function, sure.
Is this because dentists can tell patients who forgot their wallets to take a hike, hospitals can't, and for the most part hospitals don't do emergency dentistry? [0] That is, if dentists were more "ethical", we might see the same problems with cost and payment in dentistry that we see in health care in general?

[0] Sure, there are extreme exceptions, since most hospitals have a dentist they can call when an emergency patient is admitted because an abscessed tooth has destroyed their entire body... It takes commitment and/or great misfortune to get to that point.
Dan, the purpose of the relitigation is the same as it is everywhere else online -- to make the topic itself so toxic that it can't functionally be discussed (this works particularly well on HN because of the flamewar detection).

The way out is through. Acknowledge, recognize, and do something about the pervasive misogyny and bigotry that appears here every time topics like this are brought up.
The subtle, invisible AI that Indian unicorns have made part of consumers’ lives
HackerOne passes $18M in bounties paid out to hackers
Computers Do Have Feelings Too
I grew up on Air Force bases. There, base housing is provided furnished.

On one, the base commander's wife outfitted all the housing with her style of furniture. She was sure she was doing everyone a favor. Naturally, everyone else's wife hated it.

Providing furnished apartments is likely a no-win situation, which is likely why they are hard to find.

Some AF bases had a better system where there was a warehouse with a variety of furniture, and the residents would pick what they wanted. Of course, higher ranking officers got first pick :-)
That would somewhat shock me to be honest. I make a genuine effort to turn on airplane mode if only because not doing so drains the battery and I bet I miss at least one in 20 times. I would hope such a study was based on measuring ehat pople did as opposed to what they said they did.
Thanks Sebastian for the interesting writeup.

Glad you had many second or third dates. My impression from the article was that most were first-only dates.

I mentioned this in a comment below - given your scientific approach and A/B testing to data, I'd be quite curious to know how it would work out if you tried my suggestion.

Ie - a 'normal' photo of yourself, not intentionally or overly bad, but not a cherry-picked one that tries to hide the features you were worried about.

Someone who responded to me below thinks you wouldn't get any swipes. I have exactly zero Tinder experience, but in my naive opinion I think and hope you'd get at least a few.

And you could rest reasonably assured that those dates that do come through won't care much about those features.

And maybe the knowledge that they swiped anyway would put you more at ease on the date, to let your humour and personality shine through even brighter.
I recommend Echofon for mobile (I think it's $4 USD, but there's a free/ad version). First class list support that lets you essentially have multiple timelines. Easy to log into and switch between multiple accounts. less buggy than any client I've used and made me throw away Tweetdeck and others.
@Prefinem Do you plan to release the site source code?

I like it, a cool and useful project for sure.
How Syed Ahmed Taught AI to Translate Sign Language
MBA Admissions – Should You Take the GMAT or GRE?
Just because Zillow has something in their terms of use that doesn't make it enforceable.
I'd assume that the interviewer would describe the formula for Fibonacci if asked. This type of question is more of a Fizzbuzz (i.e. testing for very basic programming ability) than a formula quiz.
I dunno, generally the best argument for democracy is when things come out of balance, there is a mechanism to adjust how things work without violent revolution (which generally necessitates a greater level of destruction than is advisable). Since the general impression of Hong Kong democracy is "yeah, we'll let you vote, but the party is going to have the last word" it's hard to imagine a scenario whereby the status quo (i.e. current elites) will ever be allowed to be threatened.

Well, until it's too late, and the torches and pitchforks come out.

Am I wrong?
Well dang, sincerly you have a rather poor track record on only attacking one side of the argument.

Just above we have a comment by some blhack that is clearly flamebait but from your side of the fence, yet you don't take any issue with that, just like you usually don't take any issue with similar comments that defends your rather obvious personal points of view (something fine for a normal user but not for someone trying to pose as neutral).

Then you proceed and ask that one side (yet again) of the argument just shuts up when this kind of posts gets to the front page and you (like you already did in many similar cases) remove their flagging to force them to stay in the front page.

Well dang, I'm pretty sure you can see that you are forcing everyone that disagrees with your particular view of the world "to either (a) cede the field or (b) suffer the soul-crushing boredom of engaging in an argument they don't want to have".

So, either stop removing the flags the users attribute to these kind of posts or at least allow people to conduct a discussion as long as it remains civil (like it was in some comments - all from the same side - you just flagged and/or adverted against).
> How do you discover under-rated about to explode crypto-currencies such as ethereum?

You research them. Ethereum grew so fast because it's a "platform" for other cryptocurrencies and technologies. There are others like it: Bitshares, Waves, Lisk, Stratis, NEO, etc. Look on coinmarketcap.com for the most popular and/or undervalued cryptocurrencies and start researching them.

> Are there any specific times of the day/week you buy/sell?

It doesn't work like that. You will have to learn trading technical analysis, but you can start by following some Youtubers that talk about altcoins and why they think coins are undervalued on a given day/week. Tradingview.com is also nice for technical analysis on cryptocurrencies (follow the top authors).
EFF isn't as good. They criticize NSA and other alleged privacy violators while it turns a blind eye on the worst offenders: google and facebook. I would not donate to them.
In an interview setting, I'm sure you could hack something together and then improve it! Eg. an iterative Fibonacci is easy to reason about if you're not used to recursion.

It's a good question for junior people because there's so many ways to write it: iterative, recursive, recursive + memoized, eagerly streamed, lazily streamed.

That said, it is not a problem you'll have in the real world, so at best it's good to get a feel for how a candidate thinks through problems, how easily they can reframe an algorithm in different ways, and how they can reason about tradeoffs of different approaches.
>If you want to use light, well, that's getting interesting - there are a lot of ways that biology can create and read light (see bioluminescence and plants, respectively).

Periodically someone alters an animal such that it glows under UV light. Seems like it ought to be possible to equip people with a "check engine light" if, say, their blood glucose or Troponin T levels are too high.
Why did you just throw "blockchain" in there. The path to insurance companies on any blockchain is pretty far, you need something to make decisions on if the claim is valid and how much to pay out. The cost of solving those problems on the blockchain will be higher than savings (IMO)
Now that's how you provide constructive, gentle criticism to a vulnerable little startup.
I would word this differently but I think this is fundamentally correct. What we have now isn't quite as bad as it would be if HN were unmoderated, but our current policy concedes a hecklers veto on stuff like this.
GitExtensions v2.50 release
There's a section in "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman" about the Los Alamos library. Feynman was into safecracking as a hobby, but didn't get anywhere on the library's vault.
React native with vue
I don't use them on prototypes because I will throw away that code. But IMHO TDD is at it's best when your design is highly likely to change. The only protection you have against a moving target is your test suite. The requirements or our understanding of the requirements change so we change the code. In large code bases we can only be certain that the code change doesn't break anything if we have good tests. TDD is the only realistic approach to achieve 100% test coverage. You can certainly write good tests to cover your code at 100% but I've never seen it done by anyone consistently without TDD.
Continuation Passing Style Patterns for JavaScript
The Fibonacci sequence is not much of a "formula", it's simply adding the previous two values in the sequence together. If you don't know that, the interviewer would probably happily tell you what it is, because the question probably aims at how you would actually implement it.

Though not knowing what Fibonacci is might still be a little bit suspect, given how often it is used in examples and literature in general as a "very simple" recursive function. One might think that the candidate hasn't explored their field very much.
Well success is either based entirely on luck or entirely on merit, and I'm sure we'll figure out which of the two it is real soon now.
iOS SDK updates
Why would there be a dichotomy? Both space travel and the internet come to mind as government funded projects moved the United States into lucrative markets with cutting edge technology.

There is no dichotomy between universal coverage and cutting edge technology.
We are in an age of the "hurry let's IPO before they realize our customer acquisition costs are unsustainable" IPO.

Take Blue Apron, for instance.

They stated their blended Cost Per Customer is $94 in their prospectus, this # has been parroted all over the place.

This little piece of "hope the Analysts dont dig in" masks their most recent quarter costs which exploded to $460 per customer. (1)

This is a classic, groupon-like example of somebody figuring out a really profitable niche that's easily duplicate and relies almost entirely on paid media to drive acquisition.

The efficiency and sheer scale of todays' online advertising market means that if you're armed with a shit ton of cash you can buy your way into public-market growth.

Sustainable it is not.

No wonder they don't bother reporting a pesky little detail like "churn" in their prospectus (2)

I wonder how much longer companies will be able to get away with this game.

(1) https://www.recode.net/2017/6/1/15727182/blue-apron-ipo-s1-a...

(2) https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilstern/2017/06/05/meal-prep-...
> I'm fairly certain Blue Apron and such are no different.

You're half wrong. Blue Apron gives you two values, "prep time" and "recipe time". They don't include dicing and peeling, but they don't overlook it either.
I'm sympathetic because it may not be clear:

pdqsort is a hybrid sort; when it encounters apparently pathological input, it switches from a strategy resembling quicksort to heapsort—it doesn't share quicksort's worst case characteristics.

Your thesis is wrong:

> you might as well use an algorithm that takes the same amount of time every time, which I think means heapsort

Heapsort has a variable runtime. It will selectively reheap. Whether this happens is dependent on the state of the heap and your next element, which means the total number of times you reheap will vary with input.
Maybe read the documentation?
The EFF letter cites a bunch of cases where an arbitration clause was unenforceable because of the way the terms of service were presented, which has nothing to do with the current situation (whether a restriction on using images from Zillow is enforceable). I know it's not fashionable to express support for a big bad corporate machine over the little guy/gal, but I'm trying to share some actual information instead of just gush.
It's just not very readable.
No, because they're valid Python. Similarly, what Ruby kids call "DSLs" don't count as DSLs, at best they can be called DSAPIs.
But we all let google and facebook take our data. However, what they criticize the NSA for is that they rarely follow the law and spy on people without them ever knowing
> The real reason for Hong Kong's decline, is the failure/irresponsibility of Hong Kong's elite ruling class

Sounds like a narrative that Beijing would very much support, Mr. New Account.

Get people to hate their local govt and appeal to a higher authority for support. Brilliant.
I am a frontend engineer as well and would probably only be able to answer half of those questions reasonably without studying. Sigh.