skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a repeat of this claim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9892966
Are we talking long term rentals or short term rentals? They are both different animals.

Long term rentals have less issues. I'd say venting tenants if you are doing it yourself can be tough, although you can work with an agent if you choose.

Dealing with issues that are small, but need to be done, for example, dealing with a clogged drain, or dealing with a broken toilet in the middle of the night, are tough to manage. You can call a plumber, but prepared to spend a lot of money for something that can be done yourself without much trouble.

Short term rentals the biggest issues I've seen is the check in/check out process, cleaning, and being able to adjust to client expecations.

Some renters will have issues finding the location for a variety of reasons despite providing directions. This goes for finding wifi passwords, not knowing how or when to checkout, etc. Being there helps enforce these policies and deal with these small matters.

As others have said, prepping the unit with consistent quality can be tough as finding reliable staff isn't easy and their is high turnover.

For some context, my short term rentals are in the Caribbean, my long term rentals in the states.
Did the graphics driver ABI change in Win 10? If not, what's the problem? So if Intel is not willing to support PowerVR GPU, we still have old tested driver that works under Win 10, right? So it's more about MS' willingness to test newer versions of Win 10 for compatibility with last Clover Trail drivers. They can probably dedicate 5 people to do that without experiencing significant dent to their revenue and the one employee/multiple revenue streams philosophy they adhere to, right?
Bodybuilders often take estrogen blockers (eg Indol-3-Carbinol), they don't seem to share your concerns.
I'll leave this here:
https://www.slideshare.net/iammutex/what-every-data-programm...
https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/the-data-sess...

TL;DR Disk IO is pretty much a black box in virtualized environments. All the cool stuff you can do with disks (and memory, and tmpfs) to improve performance seems worth hosting your own hardware.

Personally I'd just read everything Ted Dziuba wrote and rethink how much "Ops" is dying.
http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/archives.html

Maybe it's just being replaced by a bunch of code to fix problems caused by "cloud" hosting performance bottlenecks.
I'm not saying this is necessarily bad, but you should be aware that you're probably trading time managing and picking hardware that suits your needs for additional coding time.
How to create responsive UI with styled-components
cmd-tab to a different program. Not really a show stopper if you want to use org-mode in Emacs....But then you may just end up cmd-tabing to a more feature rich Note taking program.
Netflix down
I guess I gave the impression that I'm shoving it down his throat. I'm taking the approach where I'm trying to inspire by showing him different kid friendly coding tools, not forcing anything and being totally okay if he doesn't want to do it. I was just curious if anyone had any success at inspiring a child to be excited by coding who wasn't into it at first. I know there are a lot of parents out there who try to force activities on their child, and I'm not one of them.
> has life arisen independently from other existing life in the last 4 billion years?

It depends on how you define life. If viruses are a life form then you have one. If self-replicating meta-structures composed of multiple different species interacting such as lichen count as separate life forms made of other life then that might count too.

On the more far-out side of theoretical biology people have proposed culture/memes and the modern high-tech economy as a new form of life that has emerged from previous life. If solar power (or fusion) becomes ubiquitous and it learns to recycle nearly all its waste it will become an ecologically self-sufficient form of life, and if AI ever gets good enough to have machines designing and producing machines it could "fork" and become a completely independent form of life.
Here's a (~24m) talk by the author about blacklistd at the last vBSDcon: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fuuf8G28mjs

To me, it seems kinda novel but I can't see myself ever using it across my production servers.
Thank you for this interesting thought. My first thought was this. Why wouldn't I make furniture and sell directly to customers. Which is something I've been thinking of doing. One problem is that the computer desks I'm thinking about might not be what people want. Why? They will be expensive and it seems like the whole world thinks the IKEA desks are what they really want/need. Check some YouTube tech reviewers, the build game PC's worth thousands but they're nearly always put on IKEA desks because they're cheap (ish).

I guess marketing is at play there.
While that's true, the NSA's secondary objective is to be the only people who have an arsenal of exploits. Since they have the largest budget, having the price of exploits go up only helps this goal.
So to clarify - this is basically a Node.JS wrapper around Chrome headless, right? =_)

Seems pretty awesome.

My use case is to take screenshots of various pages - the docs don't mention the default viewport dimensions, btw.
The comparison is not b/w fusion and a hypothetical waste free source of energy. Its b/w fusion and fission. The waste products of fission are much more dangerous, expensive to handle and we still haven't found foolproof, effective ways of disposing them.

OTOH, danger from irradiated materials (whatever that is, this is the first time I'm hearing this TBH) doesn't seem very pressing. I highly doubt any of the irradiated stuff would have a half life of millions of years.
> is that capitalism looks much like communism in the long run

Not sure what you mean here. In the long run, any communist country has ended up either being completely ruined (USSR, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea) or turning back to capitalism (China, Viet Nam, East Europe). Surely capitalism's track record is not that sordid.

> as companies merge, fuse and become bigger and bigger

Companies also break up and whither away.

> because centralisation and control are the key for efficiency

Only for very narrow understanding of efficiency, taken as saving money on very mundane tasks. The same harsh reality of information flows that leads to socialist central planning end up in disaster in the long run applies to the capitalist conglomerates. Unless they are centralized only by name (as it is the case in holding companies, not exercising centralized operational control), they grow rigid, their technologies and business processes grow stale, and eventually they are beaten by young and hungry newcomers to the market.

The only way that they know to resist this process is to enshrine their way of doing business and their position in the market by coopting government regulation and raising entry barriers. That's why they spend so much money on lobbying - it is one of the most profitable investments known to mankind.

> One of the biggest companies on this planet on a mission to get a share of every transaction on this planet.

Not sure what that is about. Which company is that?
We haven't done so yet, but it shouldn't be a problem at all to set up Chromeless in a container environment. Would you mind creating an issue here to discuss this further? https://github.com/graphcool/chromeless/issues/new
I just keep a simple flat text file. I have a command that opens that file and positions the cursor at the end. I have a simple editor command that adds a new timestamp when I start a new day. There is really no other structure (well, notes that say 'TODO' with checkboxes like [] for "not done" and [x] for "done", but that's really it).

The file is many megabytes long, and that's useful because it's incredibly easy to search.

I've tried other approaches, other tooling, and really it just came down to realizing that there was tremendous value in keeping a log, and that to be successful I had to keep it dirt simple rather than switching horses to new shiny every few months.
Why shouldn't the people who own the silicon and aluminum not get all of Apple's revenue?
I don't agree about -10 C not being a big deal. On my previous bike commute my winter travel time was under 25 minutes. With the right studded snow tires I had enough control over my bike unless snow was very deep. Clothing was manageable, and I could keep temperatures under control and it wasn't a huge deal.

My bike commute now is 20+ miles, and takes a little over an hour in good weather on my road bike. Studded snow tires are obviously much slower, and the ride is much longer. It is challenging to use the correct clothing over a longer distance. My core stays warm and i have to be able to vent it so I don't sweat. I can keep my hands from getting too cold, but it is incredibly difficult to keep my feet warm after about 45-50 minutes in. Exposed skin over an hour gives frostbite where at 20-30 minutes it won't. I have since given up on commuting when it's below 20F now.
I don't know how skyscanner continues to manage to fly under the radar. I've never found cheaper prices on any other aggregator.
The copywriting books that helped me command $250/hr
I feel like part of the disconnect is that Kite uploads source code to servers. In a perfect world with perfect security and 100% honest people, this is no big deal. The world doesn't work like that.

The last thing that I or my employer wants is our source code sitting on someone else's server - even if it's for code completion. My employer's code is proprietary. Period. If I mistakenly enabled Kite when working on some of this source, it's a huge deal. That is grounds for termination, and I am sure there are many other programmers who are in the same boat.

It's probably not a big deal that someone's code is on there, but there are big implications. It doesn't matter that it probably won't be seen. If the source has been leaked to a 3rd party, it would be negative. My employer doesn't give two flips about fundamental flaws and malicious intent. They care if it did or did not happen.
Waze has an eagle-kick level killer feature: The "Commuting time distribution graph".

This feature is so damn useful I'd still use waze even if it were a bash script.
Yes exactly + this can run (in parallel) on AWS Lambda, so you don't need to worry about provisioning & running servers. That's actually the part I'm most excited about :)
I like Haxe but had my qualms with it too. To be honest, I would have to try again, but last I tried I remember at least having some issues with the type system, and the module system was OK but I definitely miss my ES modules.
Considering either selling my house or keeping it as a rental. Trustworthiness and reliability of the management company are my greatest concerns. Will they be available when a tenant has an issue? Will they provide receipts when something breaks?

It seems like too much of a headache, so I will likely sell the house.
Yep. At my company, the Engineering Manager position starts at about 10% above the equivalent tech track position's upper limit in the band, has larger RSU grants and a bigger bonus pool.
Do the math. If you're suggesting running all the tests, drastically increasing your compute volume, it's probably cheaper to use a dedicated instance running at max CPU utilization.
>If you were to tell a non-HNer that Kayak, Booking, Priceline, CheapFlights, OpenTable, and other large websites are worth 100B combined, I don't think they would even blink an eye.

...is that because you don't think non-HNer's don't have an appreciation for how much something like Walmart is worth (~$250B)? Or because you think they believe that $100B is a reasonable valuation?

>Really is fascinating how different perspectives can be.

My personal experience is that "most people" wouldn't recognize that Kayak, Booking, CheapFlights, and OpenTable were businesses / websites, let alone use them.
Sounds interesting! I have been researching the investment apps here in the US, and was waiting for a similar solution back home in India. I think it's about time Indian investors get the technology-backed investing experience. Well done guys!

My two cents: AFAIK, Indians still believe in traditional investment methods like bank deposits and gold. Along with providing the facility to diversify their investments, you will also need to educate your users about investing basics (which I see you already do in your FAQs), why they should diversify, is it safe to invest in mutual funds, and how the traditional mutual funds system operates (demat accounts, fees, etc). In short, why they should diversify and why should they choose you. Because people are normally driven away by the confusing and overwhelming fine print materials, you have an opportunity to not only provide an easier investing method, but also an easier self-educating method for your users. Make the most of it :)
The world is absolutely crawling with bacteria and fungi that will consume any precursors or early proto-life. RNA and protein sequences are delicious. Anything new is going to just get immediately eaten by the better adapted more advanced lifeforms that are everywhere, even in the deep crust, in arctic ice, and in the deepest parts of the ocean. There are no sterile places left.
It's still pretty new, so the library infrastructure sucks (but getting better every day).

I'm only peripherally involved in the community, but at this point, it seems people are using it primarily for small utilities and such.
If I had that much money to invest in real estate right now, I'd buy the house next to mine (semi-detached row house--we share a wall on one side), and use the space as a studio. Assuming I could get the neighbor to sell it, of course.
One minor housekeeping comment:

The first two examples seem to return 404, for me:

https://github.com/graphcool/chromeless#examples
I'm still running an 8 yr old PC with an Intel Core2 that continues to be supported by Windows 10 and all its updates. I would say it's more chip based than MS fault.
> The big question isn't, and wasn't, whether a system with primordial chemicals could generate self-replicating reactions and structures - you could figure that out by looking in a mirror.

OK, we knew that, but what are the precise conditions under which it is more or less likely to happen? Understanding that requires a mathematical theory of exactly how self-replicating patterns form under the laws of thermodynamics, which is what this line of work is aiming to provide.
I believe the line of thinking is that assuming they would have the same yearly expenses of a younger person, they have less total expenses because they have, on average, less years left to live and thus spend money on.
What is wrong with that? Will it eat up RAM or crash the box if it was left to run for too long?
I used Mazda AIO Tweaks to get Android Auto support (along with other changes) in my 2017 Mazda 3. I am pretty sure they support older/other models as well. Very easy, took about 20 minutes from downloading to updating the car.

https://mazdatweaks.com/
And Skyscanner! Lone little skyscanner. Still my favorite.
I try to write anything complex, easy to be forgotten and relevant to the project at an official place like a shared functional spec document, a wiki or edited into a jira ticket.

For my own day-to-day todo list I use workflowy. These are things that I just delete once dealt with.
How are your returns in the Carribean vs the US? In some cities, short term rentals in particular can offer great returns, but definitely not always the case.
Here's a key paragraph that really walks back a lot of the language in the first half of the article. Here he's just stating physics may be much friendlier to the initial conditions for abiogenesis than previously believed:

“In the short term, I’m not saying this tells me a lot about what’s going in a biological system, nor even claiming that this is necessarily telling us where life as we know it came from,” he said. Both questions are “a fraught mess” based on “fragmentary evidence,” that, he said, “I am inclined to steer clear of for now.” He is rather suggesting that in the tool kit of the first life- or proto-life-forms, “maybe there’s more that you can get for free, and then you can optimize it using the Darwinian mechanism.”
You're probably right, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't point out at every possible opportunity that 5.0 was an anomaly and was clearly identified at the time as being an anomaly.

Maybe we can't convince John to unlearn his wrong lessons, but I'd like to avoid having him teach those wrong lessons to everybody else.
As a third party to this debacle, all I have to go on is the comments people have made, but a few of them have asserted that that language was added later on and some initial versions of this change either outright lacked that warning, or else used styling tricks to make it difficult to notice. I lack the time and/or motivation to go digging through the commit history for that plugin, but maybe someone more enterprising could do so and verify if that warning was always present and presented in such a visible fashion.
Honda has both CarPlay and Android Auto.
As a complete outsider, I don't understand what's special about the "optometrist algorithm." As described in the Nature article it's just hill climbing using humans as the evaluation function.

Isn't it basically the same thing they were already doing but more granular?
> a system with primordial chemicals could generate self-replicating reactions and structures - you could figure that out by looking in a mirror

Only if you require no evidence, and no verifiable, independently confirmed experiments to back up your claim. What you said is basically the scientist's version of intelligent design at this point.
Your general description is correct, but your specific application is not; because you've implicitly in the latter limited empirical confirmation such as to juatify the label theort to direct observation or indirect observation that admits no other explanation. Neither is required, and the latter would move it beyond theory to irrefutable fact, as an observation “that is specific enough to rule out other explanations”, obviously, rules out all other explanations.)
If you're following at a distance, you might see the Uber stop before you enter the crosswalk. The problem with nudging into the crosswalk is that when the light changes, you're now forcing pedestrians out into the lanes which increases the chances that they get hit by a car.

Blocking the crosswalk is also a traffic violation. In the Uber scenario I presented, it's really not a question about if you want to break a law, it's which law would you rather break.
OSS already had bug bounties a long time ago.
Fellow beer brewer here!

I wrote my own small weather service, http://www.brilcast.com/, and re purposed the waterproof sensor to help track and record the process from lautering/sparging all the way to transfer to primary fermentation.

The setup is simple. Sensor code is written in Python, then it's sent to a SQLite database running on a Flask webserver. The frontend uses D3.js to visualize the data. The entire service is hosted on Pythonanywhere. It's quite spartan, but it works well. https://github.com/williamBartos/brilCast
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown

- The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
The concept expressed in the title matches a desire. Looking forward to checking out and hearing other's experiences.
I've used https://github.com/stianeikeland/go-rpio to control my garage doors and this library https://github.com/kidoman/embd has some more advanced features which I've used for a thermostat solution.
I don't get it.

The Guardian published something [0]:
>In some branches the boxes of cash being deposited were so big the tellers' windows had to be enlarged.

Rolling Stone published something different [1]:
> ... Breuer admitted that drug dealers would sometimes come to HSBC's Mexican branches and "deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single account, using boxes designed to fit the precise dimensions of the teller windows."

The one doesn't exclude the other.

What is the problem?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/dec/14/hsbc-money-...

[1] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-se...
They also offer a search API and develop custom models for larger customers.
Is anyone using this to sense water levels (or just the presence of water)? I'd like to implement a doohickey that monitors water levels in a water storage tank which is not easily accessible. So it must be very reliable, and install-and-forget, as access is a pain in the ass.
I'm a big fan of OneNote. I use it on my Mac, iPhone, Windows machine, and Android phone to keep a bunch of stuff in sync.

I have one section that contains a Note for each week. I archive the notes after awhile. Each week I start a new Note for that week, and update it daily. At the top, I keep my task list of things to do. When I go to copy it to the next week's note, I rank what's important and not.

I have a section called "projects" where I create a note for each Major project I'm working on. Here's where I create a Dashboard for what's going on with that project.

I have a section called "company" where I create notes related to my big companies process/procedures.

I have a section called "releases" where I have all the release notes stored of all the features that have gone into the project: this is so I can find almost anything instantly with the search functionality. I also have a note called Current Release, that I use as a scratch pad for the current things going on.

In general, any important email that I need to save from Corp, I transpose into my OneNote notebook. I also link a lot of my TODOs that I need to have deadlines on into Tasks in Outlook (I don't do this on my Mac.)

Anyway, I"ve used a lot of tools, like Org-mode, Evernote, Reophnotes, nValt, etc....and have been happy with the tool called One Note.

Etc....
agreed no default is mentioned but you can declare with `await chromeless.viewport(1024, 800)`
Indeed, actually right now our trackers represent quite a big chunk of the website size, but we made sure that they are all async loaded so they don't impact the site that much. It's something that we are aware of and pushed a bit for internally but since we are still evaluating tools and learning, we decided to keep them for now. I'm sure that once we have the right one, we'll decrease that part quite a bit :)
What's going on with economics?
I don't need 99% of software written in the world. Then I know 80% of everything is crap. Try to sell me something I will be polite but some people are not.

I am tech guy but when I think of above I know I need salesman so he sell stuff that I build. Also you cannot scale sales infinitely so having middleman and getting 5% and not having middleman and getting 0 is win situation.
Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadcom's WI-FI Chipsets
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master - Andrew Hunt, David Thomas

- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - Michael Pollan
That's how the theory goes, but how often does this really happen though? See: OpenSSL
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari