skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everywhere I've lived in the U.S. has a periodic oversized/miscellaneous waste pickup day where they will pick up almost anything that doesn't go in the normal trash, for free. Well, by free I mean for no existing charge above whatever you might already pay as a waste fee or tax. I'm not sure where you live so it's possible this doesn't exist everywhere though (it might only be a U.S. thing?).

The everything-else waste pickup day will take bulky things that don't go in the normal trash or recycling: ladders, washing machines, couches, desks, lamps, tires, bicycles, sewing machines, etc.

For example, Houston has this kind of everything-else pickup 6 times a year. There's once a month pickup of oversized waste of two kinds. It takes tree-related waste in odd-numbered months, and non-tree-related waste in even-numbered months: https://houstontx.gov/solidwaste/treewaste.html
In theaters, with the right treatment and the right film, 3D can be totally awesome.

I haven't heard a lot of people talk about the 3D in Rogue One, but I'm very glad I saw it that way.
FFS can we stop with the ridiculous selfies, stickers and MP3-sorting tools?

Who throws money away on these things??
Whitemale and proud of it. This author says what needs saying more. As society becomes more of a game of 'soft skills' women will have the advantage and the power. The future is more Marissa May and less Bill Gates. It is very important they dont fall into the same trap we once did.
> Is it not also AR to have many invisible creatures, gyms, and resources placed in the real world?

Technically... yes. But that would make any location-tracking application technically "AR" too.

Yelp is an AR application (it's Monocle mode) in much more of a real way tham just slapping stuff on landmarks and using GPS.

Lets face it - "Augmented Reality" to most people means real-time video overlay and enhancement. Maps data isn't reality, it's a representation of it. Real-time video through a devices camera is a reflection of reality so augmenting that is much more towards the spirit of the term.
Color space conversion is a hard topic in terms of performance. First of all, not all images are stored in sRGB. Most of them have another color profiles (such as P3 or ProPhoto). So, sRGB conversion is not enough, you need the full color management.

Second, you'll see a real profit of color management only on a few images. Most time you'll see the difference only when you see both images at the same time on the same screen.

For now, I came up to the resizing in original non-linear color space and saving the original color profile with the resulting image.
Write Down Your Password – Schneier on Security
Several people have said this. Look ... a "crash" in a modern operating system is a recoverable exception.
Charts about Wealth Inequality in America
Definitely, although it does have some forum-style characteristics. TTBOMK, there isn't an exact equivalent of HN for literature lovers, and that's likely due to the target demographic.
As a millennial I reject that categorization and we need to stop using it. Millennial is too broad. I'm a millennial and I learned to program in the mid 90's from actual paper books. I share almost nothing in common with the people graduating college right now.

Edit: Also, for every "life is hard" millennial I have met many hard working, extremely intelligent, and charitable ones. Some of whom need to work multiple jobs dealing with the fact that our generation has almost no upward mobility unless you do something like learn to code. The fact that a terrible houses cost amounts of money that years ago would get you a mansion (even when adjusted for inflation) and where spending $100k on college does not even remotely guarantee you a job. Where pensions don't exist and retirement is a pipe dream. Every millennial I know over 25 has been laid off, some multiple times.

Edit 2: furthermore, in the United States, my generation has never known a time where we were not at war. And we are the ones being sent to those wars.
We've had issues with Stripe as well. For example, one of our customers forgot they were paying (happily) for a subscription to our software, and they flagged a recurring charge with their CC company. When Stripe notified us of the flag, we quickly showed them server logs showing that the customer was still actively using our software. We also provided the original purchase information and screenshot of what the user saw right before making the purchase.

Stripe said we lost the dispute because we didn't provide the customer's driver's license. (What?!) We persisted and at this point contacted the customer, who readily admitted that he was still using our software and was happy to pay for it. Unfortunately, even this was not enough for Stripe, who refused to reverse their levy on us. They claimed that someone had stolen the CC from its true owner, signed up for our software, and was emailing us from a fraudulent email address.

At this point, the customer (who was really nice) called their CC company several times to say that it was all a misunderstanding and that the charge was justified. But Stripe refused to accept this as proof. They might not be as bad as PayPal, but they're not saints either.
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By claiming that public figures can be diagnosed by someone who doesn't know them personally, I get the impression you have no idea what is actually involved in a psychological diagnosis. For example, many mental health issues can be the result of physical health issues. In such cases the mental effects are considered part of the physical illness and a separate mental diagnosis is not given. This means that someone's full medical history is necessary for a diagnosis of mental illness. Clinical psychology isn't just running around throwing diagnoses at people who seem sufficiently "crazy", there's lots of specific rules. To get a sense of what is actually required for a diagnosis, reading sections of the DSM-V is invaluable. Here's a link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_xpcySB9uWfejF1S0xlLU95Y2M/...
The Ford GT, a $450,000 road rocket
> This feeds directly into the popular narrative that the working poor somehow lack moral fortitude.

Not really. Not every bad job is held by an oppressed proletariat. Many times they're held by mischievous PFYs who still think they're immortal and that $20 is a lot of money. Youthful indiscretions are one the most common sources of this type of behavior. It's extremely common to not have a professional attitude in your "first real job", or to not even consider most minimum wage jobs as a "real job". There's an entire genre of movies that relies on this culture. Slacker culture has been part of pop culture for decades, now. When you don't have any actual responsibilities it's pretty common to treat any new ones like a big joke, or as "suggestions".

And it doesn't just happen at work - there are people with extremely cavalier attitudes towards education. I had a conversation with my kid about other kids getting around attendance rules in high school by showing up to class and then "going to the bathroom" and not returning to class again. Skipping class to go smoke, race, shop, etc has been a thing for at least 50 years. It's kind of telling, though, that most slacker movies were about college-age (or younger) kids. Ones for adults (e.g. Office Space) are pretty rare and rather niche.

It's important that we recognize that professionalism is not a natural (or an exclusive) trait. Babies don't pop out of the womb screaming "Please advise." The teenage years are full of people pushing boundaries to learn how they fit into society. We expect mistakes at that age, and those expectations are frequently met.

I've literally met hundreds of people who blew off classes because they weren't the ones paying for it, or who called in sick after a hangover or because they didn't like their job. I've stood around at parties listening to people tell stories of how they ditched work. I had a co-worker call in sick because he "couldn't get his car out of the garage." And having six dead grandmothers in a year is a trope now. It's not everyone, for sure, but it happens. It's just that people do it less with the jobs that they value in the careers they've invested into.

That said, we do need a lot of labor reforms around hours worked, employee rights and privacy, cost of living adjustments, etc. And we need better safety nets for citizens. But those will always extend far more slowly to a job that can be filled by 90% of the population. The supply of entry-level workers far outstrips the demand.
I highly recommend dropping it. Switching to a reliable cloud storage from OneDrive is an amazing experience until you reflect on time wasted trying to make 1drv work or waiting for it to start working properly.

OneDrive and Dropbox have been totally opposite experiences to me, heaven and hell. Also after more than a year with OneDrive I passionately despise it. It truly is Internet Explorer of cloud storages.
It seems you've found the source of the obesity crisis!
Under the Hood of a Self-Driving Taxi
If it's meows you want, have I got the album for you!

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1. asm.js is dead in favor of WebAssembly
2. I need a solution for most browsers on most platforms, not for some very recent and most popular
Mine has been really solid. I use it for work and side projects right now.

Switching video cards has been my biggest issue. The Nvidia sucks battery so there are times I want to switch to the integrated Intel. The switch works, but switching back hangs the machine. It happens in the logout or shutdown part of switching video and the login (MDM on mint) never loads. It doesn't matter which card I switch to or from, just the second swap every time. Mint 18.2 is using LightDM which I'm hoping will work better, but I haven't tried yet.
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i agree completely, and that what's happening is nothing more than brute force search. Though I do think this is still interesting as the reward here is potentially much more well-conditioned than the rewards in RL.

Having said that there are situations where this will fail completely, e.g. in maze solving, where the goal is not to play to keep playing but to play to reach the end.
Actually it is harder to learn certain types of programming now than ever before due to the proliferation of incidental complexity and tooling. Take web development frontend for example. Back in the 90s, you could get away with knowing basic HTML and a bit of JavaScript becaus CSS didnt even exist yet. Frameworks were certainly not a thing.

Other forms of systems programming that involve concurrency etc are also newer.

So is cloud. The list goes on...

Every generation faces issues and programming IS hard. It is unfair and condescending to write this office as a millennial concern.
I think I can fairly reduce most of your post to, "it's better for children not to be born than have to live in those terrible conditions." Problem: that's not connected to whether they've been born yet. If only children with good parents should be allowed to live, why should they be spared after birth?
These aren't 1st generation products. There has already been a VR craze, back in the 1990s.
Yup, deserts move and in some areas expand. Tropical weather moves toward the poles, or even dominates all latitudes. Tundra disappears. Ice caps disappear.

Some of this depends on geography, and local terrain features. Lake effect precipitation or thermal activity against natural rock faces and outcroppings, which can change with tectonic activity. A silver lining is that new areas become eligible for rain forests, but only across geologic time scales. Not like next decade.

Desertification, on the other hand, progresses sometimes within a generation.

Mass death tends to move faster than flourishing growth, since growth explosions are rare outside of viral growth, algae blooms and invasive species (or biblical plagues like locusts) which tend to be bad things. Asian carp and huge jellyfish are neat, but humans dislike them, despite being generally successful amid new conditions or otherwise invasive.
ACME is on the path to IETF standardisation, and all of Let's Encrypt is Free Software, so Microsoft absolutely could enable this in a future IIS version. If you're a customer it can't hurt to tell MS you want this.

Meanwhile you're at the mercy of third party probably volunteers to make what you want possible.
quantum startups.
But... Kafka isn't a database?...
You're creating the same false equivalence again by stating that an objective post mortem diagnosis not being practically feasible is the same as an objective cause(s) not existing. In my previous post I linked to multiple pages listing objective causes/mechanisms for two mental illnesses. Diagnosing a mental illness post mortem isn't as simple as finding rhinovirus in a person's nasal cavity, but just because the current knowledge of the disease isn't sufficient to create a satisfactory model that can reliably make a diagnosis post mortem doesn't mean that it can't be done. And if you don't think mental illnesses subside in molecules and physical structures in the brain, where exactly do you think they come from?

Oh, and you kind of can diagnose certain mental illnesses post mortem: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181616/
There are times when I get a really bad night of sleep and mentally can't function the next day. I could take the day off get rest and come back the next day at 100%. Or I can come in anyway working at 10% mental capacity not get any rest and likely still not be at full capacity the next day.

The problem is that this scenario is socially viewed as my foult or being irresponsible; I should have seen to it that I got good sleep. If I slip off of my porch and hurt my back no one questions me not coming in; No "You should have used the handrail" or "maybe de-ice your steps regularly"
Culture can matter a great deal as well. In my experience working in Japan and Taiwan, everyone is considered an immature child that must be babysat minute by minute.

My go-to story: Friend in Japan's train route was significantly delayed by a suicide. Rather than sit in the train station for ~2 hours waiting for cleanup, he leaves, gets on his motorcycle, and rides to work. Shows up 30 minutes late, but his pay is docked those 30 minutes, because unlike everyone else that showed up 2 hours later, he didn't have the little ticket they give you in Japan when your train is delayed. Regardless of him telling HR the situation, showing his house on the train route, etc, nope, he didn't have the slip from mommy, so his pay got docked.

I love working there, but the work culture is infuriating.
>But this will more probably be paid for by taxing corporations and shareholders instead of labour.

This is not a good thing. It will discourage investment in the US.

>For example by using the ~$2.0tn of US companies cash reserves.

Corporations have trillions in debt. They need the cash reserves as a cushion to absorb potential losses from a future economic crisis. The economy is less fragile with companies having these cash reserves.

Central economic planning like this, which just assumes "don't worry this will be fine as we take X from Y and spend it on Z" is so reckless. There are always grave negative unintended consequences from forcibly redistributing other people's income/wealth, and if you're not thinking hard about what they may be, you're going to overlook them.
For the past decade or so, I've often wondered why, given the informational tools available, research is condensed into 'a paper'. I hate reading 'papers' because there's so much left out. I want to know about the initial hypothesis, the drivers, the paths taken, the false starts and changes in direction, and of course the failures. There's so much value lost. The 'paper' seems the scientific equivalent of the photoshop edit.
Ask HN: Thoughts on a service to pool startup equity grants and reduce risk?
I learned Phoenix and OTP at basically the same time. I knew I'd need to build out a worker queueing system as part of a web app, so I started reading an OTP book while I was building the initial structure of the Phoenix app. By the time I needed to do more interesting things than just a crud app, I could work with GenServers and Supervision trees.

The moment that the lightbulb went on for me was when I ran `iex -S mix` in my Phoenix project and fired up erlang's observer to see its processes. I realized that phoenix is just a supervision tree made up of different microservices, much more complicated than the toy projects I'd built, but still relied on the same OTP tools and patterns. And once you understand that, it becomes trivial to use OTP to expand the functionality that Phoenix gives you out of the box.

I think what you're trying to say (and I agree if you are) is that Phoenix and Elixir are great, but you are missing out on what makes Elixir so powerful (Erlang/OTP and BEAM) if you stop there.
Oops, sorry. Have no idea why I overlooked it.
The chicken-and-egg problem with VR is numbers and quality content. So far the sales numbers of VR headsets to consumers did not convince major developers to make a major push. As a result, 95% of Steam VR titles are versions "My First Unity VR Project".

You'd think that device manufacturers would then subsidize content development to differentiate, but that didn't seem to pan out either http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/oculus-story-studio-shu...
I personally donate to Lets Encrypt once a year. The trouble with donations at my company, however, is that 'gifting' money is a lot more complicated than buying something.

For instance, we are supporters of Vim, but we couldn't make a direct donation to the project. Our corporate policies on this makes things a little stiff as any donation like this is seen as potential publicity. so we couldn't move forward on that. However, we do often buy things for corporate events from Amazon, so we could use the affiliate link to buy our stuff and still contribute to the project.

There was another instance, i can't remember what the project is as I didn't deal with it directly, where you could donate directly or buy 'swag' (like T-shirts, cups etc). I remember one of the teams that wanted to contribute funds managed to expense it as swag for their department so everyone got hats, t-shirts, pens, coffee cups etc. because again, can't directly donate.

And of course, sponsorship is usually out of the question, because they don't want to be known as supporting one specific thing or another.

Sometimes its just easier to make a 'sale' than it is to get a donation from huge users of your product.
That sounds like how people become low level managers, too.
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This is not unique to PayPal, it's standard in the credit card processing business. https://www.merchantmaverick.com/understanding-rolling-reser...

However, they do seem particularly aggressive in applying a reserve in this case.

We are missing a lot of data here, for example the business' chargeback rate.
I'm baffled by the ongoing willingness to use Paypal. It's been a terrible company since seemingly forever. 116 days I wrote a comment about how terrible it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13851855 that in turn references my own horror story, from more than a decade ago, 28 days before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13624393.
To be perfectly honest, even though you may have a good point, I feel so alienated by the phrasing I'm having a very hard time seeing through it.

What are you saying below that insult and pontificating? "It used to be harder"? "I am better"? "Old people are better"? Honestly I'm not being facetious, I just can't give this comment a constructive spin. What is the essence?
Seems like VCs get all the diversification benefits while startup employees usually end up with nothing. How about creating pools of startup equity? This would lower upside but increase chances of an actual payout - great for people later in their careers or with families.

What I have in mind is a service that lets people pool some portion of their equity grants. The service would show what startups are "available" and you would only pool with startups you are interested in, say a minimum of 10 per pool. Valuation would be handled either via stated price (e.g. I'll trade 10 shares of MyCo for 15 shares of YourCo) or some other mechanism. Each pool would be managed via a third party escrow holder/fiduciary of some sort.
SunOS/Solaris has been able to run on hosts with lots of CPUs for much longer than Linux.

But then, it had to, because SPARC CPUs have been no match to X86s for almost as long.
Yes but operational reasons such as we can't afford to pay them falls under a fair reason. Only issue could be they would have to a certain amount of notice, so it could be more costly.
While progress might be slow, I still believe that more humanistic values can exist within a capitalist institution, because at the end of the day, a corporation is just another human endeavor.
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There is something very sad about this. Having to change your body just because of other people.
Strange; it appears that you're right. There are patches for `-c none`, but nothing official. Perhaps I'm misremembering sibling's suggestion of using a faster cipher.
Was actually just trying to create a counterpoint to the claim that file hosting services don't make money. Facebook is a hosting service for pictures and comments, and it makes money.
They did at one time offer UNLIMITED!
Nothing but “Bait~n~Switch”.
Any business that offers “UNLIMITED” anything that incurs costs has:
1. planned an exit excuse: “It was being “ABUSED”, or
2. does not mind going out of business.
They said people were abusing the "UNLIMITED" to justify lowering the allowed storage limit in order to start charging. So for Outlook.com they lowered it to 15 GB, why not say 500 GB? Because it would not generate the revenue stream they could have at lower storage limits. Then they prompted you to either signup to keep it at 15 GB, or if you missed the deadline, it will go back to 5 GB.
What is in the future? Be prepared when using their apps, it won't be long, and it is already happening, that the only place you can store your files that you create is on their cloud space. So be prepared if you need your data when say you are on vacation out in the boondocks! It happened!
Remember their corporate motto, “cloud first, mobile first,…………. Consumer last (ad lib)”!
“Your Data Belongs to U$!”
Have you ever considered that good-looking women can also be techies?
This would be a hit in NJ where you can't pump your own gas