skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does a 50% drop in sperm density result in a 50% drop in conception rates?
1) Bad property management company; response to situations; payment to me.
2) Demanding tenant; breaking things, bullying contractors, incurring costs.

Biggest problem: Property management company. I don't trust them to manage my house, and see that the tenant doesn't destroy it. A lot of my problems are things I never worried about, or thought needed to be fixed immediately, but my property management company has screwed me multiple times, but I can't afford to break the contract. My tenant is demanding, and exposing glaring holes in the lease.

Find a reputable property management company and get references. Talk to the home owners, real home owners, not property investors. Require the company to send your payment within the first month, don't let them keep that and earn interest off of it, choosing to remit next month, etc. Include strong clauses in the lease about property and appliance damage, detailed instructions in the lease for tenant maintenance (i.e. air filters), expand the section on pest control to explicitly state what you will, and won't do. Buy warranties on your central air, and if you can find a good place for it, on your appliances. Trust me on this one. Meet, qualify, and set up your own agreements with handymen, contractors, etc. Don't let the property management company do this unless you are absolutely clear on the costs, etc.

My saving graces for this house if my contractor, who is also the handyman, but has a rolodex of reputable people for all situations. Find someone like this, preferably an independent contractor in your area, and get to know them. Worth their weight in gold.
It's a market. Difficult to find in the ocean of more or less poor sites...
This is pretty cool:

https://proofofexistence.com/

wonder if there is a similar thing for time and dating a URL
1973 was also the year Bruce Lee died. Coincidence?
This looks like Heroku with more granular control of the container specs?
Maybe brands could be tied to momentarily moments of happiness for some people. But the modern branding and marketing, but also mass media, is a pretty bad environment to grow a child, to be a female, and for people and societies in general. So i highly doubt the positive value of marketing.

But sure, they do help extract higher margins.
Microsoft's new messaging app
Being nice to people isn't degrading (in fact, it's uplifting.) Being required to pretend to be nice or else is degrading.
They are preserved, no ones making Commodores or GameBoys but I can play all those games just fine. Spin up a XP VM if you want the vintage Flash game experience.

(Hello downvotes? It's true, we preserve all of those things through virtual machines of one variety or another. The Flash plugin doesn't magically stop working because Adobe stops developing it.)
- How to Read Buildings: A Crash Course in Architecture ~~ Carol Davidson Cragoe

It's a quick crash course to historical architecture, teaching how to recognize the different parts from different time periods and why they where made this way.

- The Three Musketeers ~~ Alexandre Dumas

An old classic, funny and give an interesting overview of France in the XVIIe
Hah, the fact that HN itself is a single server (behind Cloudflare, these days) should be enough proof that anything linked to by HN is unlikely to need more than a single server behind a caching CDN.
yep, marketing turns a commodity into something cherished and desired. Literally everything is a commodity unless marketing has put gloss on it
ICOs to Be Regulated the Same as IPOs in the US
It is better. I bought an Intel Compute Stick when they first came out. Used Windows 8 on it just long enough for someone, Ian Morrison(http://www.linuxium.com.au/), to get the Linux version on the internet. Besides some occasional wireless issues, mostly Bluetooth now, Lubuntu 17.04 works great. I use it on vacations all the time just plug it into the hotel TV and load up Netflix and wait for the buffering to finish over the overloaded hotel Wifi.
For me, the route out that I'm trying is to try to build a consultancy or productized-consulting business. It's effectively going into management, but the person you're managing is yourself.

It's especially true when you look at contribution vs reward for a skilled senior / principal engineer. If you take away the "steady paycheck" aspect of salaried employment, you can get 2x to 3x the reward for some percentage increase in total effort.
I'm curious: if you run that substandard tap water through a reverse-osmosis system, how clean is the resulting water?
Their entire permissions messaging is encapsulated in the user connecting the presence of the word "enable" in both the description and on the button. That's it.
I used Waze during my commute a couple months ago. I didn't look at my phone before lunch. When I went to look up what food was in my area that day my phone was already prompting for low power mode. Plugged in to my car my phone battery only maintains charge with Waze running.

Google/Apple maps do not seem to have this problem.
This has nothing to do with ‘Net Neutrality’; a hardware company bundling services the way the article describes may violate some principals that some people have argued for in some context, but it has nothing to do with net neutrality, which is about ISP discrimination between lawful content and applications the end user is trying to access or use on the network.
It looks like you forked because rust-cpython was abandoned. I see that Dan Grunwald pushed a commit in today after no activity since May. He probably just went on summer vacation.
Henry George explained it all a century ago: http://www.henrygeorge.org/pcontents.htm
I'm playing devil's advocate here. I'm glad the testing has been done and hope to see robust discussion.

Some people are deliberating over 1973. It doesn't appear to be a magic year for when problems started. It appears to be the earliest date that was analysed.

The question of "so what" is important (even if people are being downvoted for asking it). At least one expert has said "despite the decline found in the study, average sperm counts still remain in the normal range."[1]. I won't claim to understand "normal" in this context.

What is even more fascinating is that every western country has negative population growth and has for quite some time [2]. In spite of testosterone levels being within normal range, western population numbers are going backwards across all countries. Why?

There are some historical lessons that some people are looking to (eg. The decline of the Roman Empire). I would add that there are other factors that are having a bigger impact than sperm count, namely the pill and career vs motherhood [3]. I greatly respected Kate Ellis (a local MP in South Australia) for publicly resigning and stating just how hard it is to be a committed mother and a woman with a full time career. The "career woman" is the principal type of woman represented by the media today and Kate's voice was very important to some women I spoke with who were relieved that somebody finally spoke out.

We don't even know if sperm count will have a significant impact compared to population decline. I support the investigation but it's part of a much bigger issue.

Is the issue principally chemicals? The data said Asia doesn't appear to be impacted and Asia has plenty of chemicals (and microwaves to respond to another poster).

Is the media contributing to the problem by downplaying the significance of motherhood for women? Are we undermining our collective strength by pretending that every human being is equal rather than recognising and accepting we are different? Should we focus on opportunity rather than outcome when we talk about equality?

Our population decline is a major issue and it apparently isn't linked to sperm count. Migration may be an answer to population decline, or, maybe it's a stop gap. Maybe, the answer can be found in our attitudes.

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2141784-sperm-count-has...

[2] https://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=25

[3] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/complete-without-kids/2...
It is. People who have to resort to drinking bottled water because the tap water is unsafe do live in a third world country.

Draw whatever conclusion from that that you like.
> Facebook’s formidable ad business, along with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, soaked up 99% of the online ad industry’s growth last year, according to Pivotal Research.

Does that seem crazy to anyone else?
I'm not sure if you're criticizing me for my reply above in which I ask the poster to provide data to support their claim. I'm a critical thinker, and when writing papers or making claims, can back up my claims with strong evidence. In this case, I am saying I have been unable to find a single paper that is high quality and supports the assertion that there is a detectable health effect in the population (excluding people who receive massive dosages, far beyond the dosages a regular person is going to get from eating food). I have seen many low quality papers purporting this, but in each case, I found either an invalidating error (failure to use bonferroni correction is most common, but there are many), or it was clear the author was being selective with their data reporting, or made an error in their procedure. That's pretty common, especially in the human health and nutrition sector, unfortunately.
I'm not sure that's what I said at all but I'm sorry if that is what was communicated. It was not my intention.
Thankfully we dodged that bullet already, the Conservative Party of Canada eschewed picking either of our 'Trump'-style Candidates: Kevin O'Leary with his bombastic, CEO brash attitude and Kelly Leech, the 'Canadian-values' 'Old-stock Canadians' candidate (read: racist dog-whistling).

The candidate they did pick, Andrew Scheer, is more like Stephen Harper than otherwise. He might (and in some ways is) try to pull a few pages from Trump's play book, but at least it's not the entire thing.
Some fun Facebook facts from the earnings call/report

- Facebook has a massive, $35.5 billion hoard of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. It's the third biggest S&P 500 company by this metric that isn't paying a dividend, after Berkshire Hathaway and Alphabet.

- Facebook's headcount is now at 20,658. That's up 43 percent since last year

- Average Revenue Per User Rises 23% to $4.73, Down from 4Q 2016

- Facebook Offers No Break Out of Instagram Revenue

- 2Q Daily Active Users 1.32 Billion, Monthly Active Users 2.0 Billion

- Shares Up 1.6% After-Hours, Near Session Highs

- Zuckerberg: WhatsApp and Instagram Stories each have more than 250 million people using them daily. Each of those is a single SNAP whose entire daily user base is around 170 million.

Wow, this is a company that is killing it right now.

Facebook and Google combine to account for up to 99% of advertising growth.

As this relates to SNAP, I have to think that investors will spend atleast a year spending marketing budges with SNAP but after that, RIP Snap......

Also as a crazy aside, Meg Whitman just resigned from the HP Board and has been reported to be visiting Uber.....
Meg Whitman Steps Down from HP Board
Show HN: Faster (Re)deploys with docker-build-cacher
> I have to admit, that is a reasonable assumption.

It costs dirt to move your coins. It's not remotely reasonable if you're in the Bitcoin world at all - if you have any reason to believe that an attacker had any access to your wallet the advice is always the same. Make a new wallet and transfer all the coins ASAP.
Build a GraphQL with Node.js
We're sorry? start by changing this

https://github.com/kiteco/atom-plugin/blob/master/LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2017 Manhattan Engineering, Inc - All Rights Reserved

Reproduction of this material is strictly forbidden unless prior written
permission is obtained from Manhattan Engineering, Inc.
According to Wikipedia, the use of porn as test images for image processing code dates back to at least 1961, so it seems likely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
I'm still getting insider OS updates on my Lumia phone. Their Build conference this year also had the Windows Phone on a bunch of banners hanging all over the conference, even though no one talked about it. Seems like something is brewing...
ME AND MY BEST FRIEND SWITCH MAKEUP *HILARIOUS VIDEO*
*since last year

The jump in EPS from the last earnings call a few months ago is just a few percent - nowhere near that. It's about 18% above expectations. This is good if you're a shareholder for sure, but the title is misleading.
Myths and Facts about Team Hiring
Last commit was made in March 2016.
A 2mil loan is hard to get so that's why you need to assure the bank that the building you buy is worth at least 2mil and you have the money to pay it back with cash flow. Banks are happy to tell you why they won't lend to you so learn from it. Experience is the best teacher. Your BIG advantage is that you have 500k. That's a good amount of cash to work with. Also be very, very careful who you listen to. Make sure you read and learn before you start. You're a sheep going to visit a wolf. Make sure you don't get eaten.
Couldn't we just drop the application bullshit? Didn't they do without this in the old days?
That is absolutely insane. Should we seriously be considering anti-trust regulators to crack down on their insane growth?
Interesting chart, in spite of what I answered to you in another thread, I have noticed something along those lines regarding C++'s usage on UWP.

From the prominent place it used to have at Microsoft presentations, back in the Windows 8 days, it seems to be relegated to high performance UWP componentes and all presentations, including HoloLens ones, are done in C#.

Also the pivoting from Google regarding Brillo, by dropping the planned C++ Framework and instead adopting the Java one from Android.
I've had a few sales jobs where I was employed full-time (w2 not 1099) but also had an employment agreement with a defined term. Most often the term was 1 to 3 years, and if you were going to be let go it would happen when the term was over. They just would not renew your contract.

You could still be fired "for cause" but that almost never happened. The employee would almost have to commit a crime to be terminated early.

Of course you could always quit during the term if you wanted, but that meant you would have to pay back the signing bonus received when the contract was signed :)

I really did not mind this structure, but it seems like it's confined to specific industries and outside of those almost no one does it. For example, I've never seen a software dev job with this sort of structure.
Impressive. So ads money for everyone else :P. Pity those startups that hangs on ads revenue now.
Do you think Flash is insecure in principle, or in implementation? I think it is very much a problem of the implementation. I don't know if Adobe/Macromedia could have done better, or if the backwards compatibility requirements make it impossible to maintain, but I'd like to see for myself.

Anyway, you have no reason to be afraid. All mayor browsers are dropping support for plugins anyway. An open source flash player will most likely be used standalone, and not in a browser.

(I can't help but wonder if we are making a huge historical mistake here by the way. Because the Flash implementation was so bad, we were led to believe that plugins are bad per se. But at least in theory, it seems to me that the best architecture would be a minimal browser (just a layout engine), and everything as a plugin. Current browser are horrible monolithic giants, that only mega-corporations (and Mozilla ;-)) can maintain. That they are relatively secure is only due to the massive amounts of human-years that went into polishing and bug fixing in the recent decade.)
When did you get that? I never received such a card.
It’s permissive about foods that are derived from things that are already generally regarded as safe.

If you come up with some kind of new petrochemical food-item to mimic tofu they’ll want you to get some pre-market approval first. If you’re starting up a new large food business, you’re also going to be subject to inspection to make sure your processes are safe and you’re not adulterating your products, intentionally or unintentionally, with stuff that might not be safe.
GraphQL is all up in everyone's face right now. Good or bad, it's a great tool.

In these videos I will walk you through creating a basic GraphQL server using Node.JS to give you a flavour of how it works.

Many people I talk to who have heard of GraphQL get confused what it is. I was one of those people too. One of the most frequent questions I get asked is, "Is it a database?"...

This video series will explain how exactly you'd go about talking to your database.

I'd love any feedback! =)

PS. I understand this is a very low level intro and doesn't take into consideration a permissions layer. Those are for more advances videos coming soon ;)
No what sites do you go to regularly. Most of them use google ads probably except for maybe reddit.
As mentioned DC is in Maryland not California.

e: http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/05/30/is-it-legal-to-change-...
Friend, you are dangerously naive.

I don't have time to write a big long thing about how wrong you are right now, but I'll provide this though:

Santa Claus is a Coke Ad. http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/coke-lore-santa-clau...
abeyance

Great word, hadn't heard that before (or at least forgot it).

Also, Coca-Cola, Nike etc... would disagree with the idea that brands don't last.
The good thing about awk is that it's limited. So you know when to stop using it and move to use a different language when your requirements exceed the comfort zone of awk.

Larry Wall came and made a language inspired by awk that doesn't give feedback on when you're out of the comfort zone. This lets you make a mess before you know what you've done (aka technical debt). The same problem 'that killed Smalltalk and could have killed ruby' too (thanks, Bob Martin).
I tried out the top 5 computer vision API vendors last year. See my findings, along with examples of output from all of them here: https://goberoi.com/comparing-the-top-five-computer-vision-a...

At the time, Clarifai was the "best" one (I caveat by quoting because this was a for a small corpus, with subjective results, not a real train-test cycle). I re-ran the results about a month ago (linked to from the post), and found that Google and others have continued to invest and improve.
Thanks for sharing those functions. Definitely cuts down on a lot of the boilerplate I see with Redux.
I believe there should be an ability to create a secured container to run some Flash content, which isn't critical.
You can climb a hill without knowing the gradient, so long as you can compare two points in terms of height. You randomly move in some direction, then compare the new point to the old point, go to whichever of them is higher, and repeat.

This sounds like what the experimenters are doing. Perhaps the GP was alluding to "first order hill climbing" as evaluating the gradient in every direction and climbing the steepest one, but the "0th order" version is also usually considered hill climbing and is better for some classes of problem.
Perhaps a stupid question, but why can't the whole experiment be run as a simulation?
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
I also do this. HN comment pages are extremely varied in their quality, but they do tend to be good at shooting down articles which aren't as good as their titles suggest. Plus, HN loads fast. So, open the comments, check to see if the article might be worth reading, and if so, open it, flip back to the main page while the article loads.
Putting UDP on top of TCP eliminates any possible benefit of using UDP.
Best Practices for Feature Engineering (Machine Learning)
That make's plenty of sense but I have a hard time believing that so many of the commenters here have the experience you just described. I know it is certainly not true of the people I interact with offline on a regular basis.

Also, I'm not sure I really buy the argument that because you can automate some "day to day business tasks" means you know better about how a business should be run. Automating a process that already exists is not the same as deciding which processes need to exist and which don't. Certainly, there are people who can both but I'd be lying if I said any significant number of engineers I know could really do both.
> For many cases this would also fall under the free tier since it not that many requests/usage...it kinda seems too good to be true

(since I've ran into the same trap a couple of weeks ago and ended up with USD 650 of unanticipated charges): the free Lambda tier includes

* 1M requests

* 400k GB-seconds

--> the GBsec can be a serious bottleneck. Imagine you're running each Lambda instance with 512MB RAM and each instance takes 2 mins to complete your test. This means that one Lambda instance is ~61.5 GBsec, meaning you can execute ~6,500 of these instances per month to remain in the free tier.

Depending on how extensive your tests are/how often you run them, you might run out of free GBsec well before you'd run out of the requests quota.
I can't understand why people are against open sourcing some proprietary code, why would it affect you? If you hate Flash that much you will have the opportunity to see the source code and confirm that is bad. All the open source reimplementation are incomplete, so with the opening up of Flash the open source ones could have a look (if license allows) and finish the reimplementation.
> let's say Windows is gone tomorrow

one can dream
Where are all the "analysts" from hn claiming fb wouldn't make it?

Thats right.

They left.

Moral of the story is.... Never believe the consensus that is hacker news.

Dare i say inverse

Edit: why the downvotes? Is it because my networth is 23 mil?
Nominees for the Pwnie Awards 2017
"Worth" in the case of stock market cap is a direct reflection of perceived current and future profitability. It is not just a simple summing of assets minus debts = net worth. In fact, the thing you're talking about is simply comparing apples to oranges.

This is like being surprised that corporations have a higher market cap than the sum of the net worths of its employees; it's not really a sensible thing to compare.
So much hate for Flash. Yes it has regular security holes, is CPU hungry and a lot of people used it to create some mightily annoying things....

But Flash was a gift from the gods back in the early days of IE and most people forget that. If you wanted to make some HTML look nice you had little more than the dreaded 'blink' tag to work with.

If it weren't for Flash I doubt we'd have anywhere near as advanced CSS, SVG, Canvas and HTML5 bells and whistles that designers can actually use now.

I doubt Adobe will open source it though. They probably know there's a whole heap of other security issues in it that'll get found and exploited as soon as they release it. Your average user won't be able to patch fast enough!
Or the chemical had to reach a threshold concentration in the environment and/or our bodies before having a noticeable effect, which could have taken 20 years..
>it will always be cheaper to buy than rent.

That's decidedly untrue. In many markets you can make the case that conservative assumptions result in a cheaper buy option. However, the Bay Area in particular throws that calculus in reverse for many neighborhoods and property types.

Your argument seems to rely on the premise that buying is monteraily cheaper in the long run as long as you're willing to put in nominal sweat equity and risk. And that labor buys you some sort of citizenship that money, for the same amount of tenure, does not. The Bay Area market does not reward that puritanical ethic.
Inverters are improving too. New semiconductors are being developed and improved.