skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, not sarcastic at all. I live in a house that is much too big for me. I bought it during the crash when prices were low. I would like to move to a smaller house, but I don't because it's too expensive. I can't just trade my house for one of equal value and come out even. It would be very expensive for me to move to a house of equal value, and the higher prices go the more expensive it gets.

I have no objections to paying taxes. Quite the contrary.
I wonder if removing watermarks from images would be something a machine learning algorithm would be well suited for. Admittedly my understanding of machine learning is rather limited, but it seems like it'd be pretty easy to generate a large training set of watermarked and unwatermarked images for the algorithm to train on. No idea how effective it'd be though.
I am making 75% of my SF salary in Tulsa, so it is a 5.5% reduction in pay after rent. The lower state taxes probably make it break even and I have a considerably higher quality of living.

Calculation:

(0.75*(1.00 - 0.14)) - (1.00 - 0.30) =
0.645 - 0.70 =
-0.055 =
-5.5%
Not sure who is right, but there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev#Vodka_myth
>"For marginalized communities, the power of expression is impoverished for reasons that have little to do with the First Amendment."

So why are we talking about the First Amendment then? Let's address the real problems affecting marginalized communities.
> Personally, I'm still interested in something like react native for desktop.

Use JavaFX with JS running on the JVM?

Far smaller runtime, far better performance.
straightening a plane e.g. a whole video frame, is a bit different from removing a random warp on a watermark (where the warp is more complex than tilting/angling the watermark), while its overlaid with partial visibility on a non-warped image
These kinds of comments really make my day. Thanks!
It does mention "It is likely that the concentration of guaiacol in Isley whiskies is even higher.", since Islay whisky often uses peated malt, won't at least some of it be coming from the malt.

As far as I understand, they don't treat the casks differently to other distilleries.
> (That was intended to be humorously ironic, but there's a serious point behind it: everything in the SFBA is more expensive than it would be if housing were more plentiful.)

No, except for housing, most things are less expensive, because more housing would mean more population but not proportionally more infrastructure (at least, without higher maintenance costs per unit, because the cheap choices are already built) for imports to the region, which means supply increases less than demand for anything with external inputs, which means prices go up.

This effect is even worse for things that are limited and local in supply, like unique local features, where you get increased demand with no increased supply, not merely supply increase less than proportional to demand. So prices on those go way up.
Motorola has been pushing their 'MotoMods' as add-on sleds recently too.

'Our phone is so thin! And has a projector and a great camera and a huge battery! You just need to carry a hand bag of accessories!'
Riveting questionnaire, really.
IIRC, the author of Tab Groups threw their toys out of the pram when told the extension model was changing and that if they needed a feature, they should post on bugzilla. I don't know quite what's happened since then.

EDIT: Looking at bugzilla, looks like the author of Tab Groups decided he was going to put together a report about a year ago, and then never did, so Mozilla doesn't even have any documentation of what functionality would be necessary to implement it, and there's currently nobody interested in implementing it.
Odd way to phrase an interesting question. By your supposed expectation, are heuristics equivalent to inteligence? Do you mean a solution to a subclass of algorithms (an vs any) otherwise I don't see how the question makes sense.
"or tangible document", not "or other tangible documents" which would imply the "records" and "documents" had to be tangible, which they do not.

Files are regularly referred to as documents and all manner of data are referred to as "records", as a programmer. So if I deliberately made it harder for authorities to get into my browser history on my phone I'd possibly be guilty of "concealing" "records" which may have been relevant.
"Concrete is bad for the environment due to the amount of CO2 released in its production"

While this might be true for very large scale pours, is it really true of washing machines? burning 1 kg of gasoline produces about 3 kg CO2. Producing 1 kg of cement produces < 1kg of CO2.
Facebook, like all major software companies, is concerned about corporate platform dominance. As long as they're controlling the underlying platform, they are happy.

As a sibling commenter says, they already have non-Facebook-branded messaging apps, including messenger.com, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Expanding that surface area to include those who still manually install desktop messengers is natural.
Take the time to commute (8hrs) into consideration. Is that extra $12000 worth it?
Any idea if they are planning to get this work with Project Fi service? I've always wondered what changes in hardware are required to get it compatible with Google's Fi service. Anyone knows?
Dammit... Now I want to install CDE again...
'I can confidently tell you there has never been a better time to buy a Surface' (in other words, we have the failure rate down to only 24% now!)
That's not how SSDs work. You would never be exposed to uninitialized flash pages; they are unlinked from the logical address space until after the block gets erased and programmed with fresh data. Wear leveling doesn't change that process at all.
If you read the blog post, they link to their own research that does exactly that.
Agreed with the notion, but will point out that many of the "oil states" are not oblivious to the writing on the wall and as a result have begun allocating significant portions of their "fossil fuel" profits into alternative channels, in many cases into energy as well. The sheer amount of deployable capital at their disposal leads me to believe they will not "descend into utter irrelevance" as you suggest. At the very least they will succeed in maintaining their relative prosperity, but envision there is a state of the world in which they successfully transition into being champions of Renewable energy going forward. It's not very difficult to build an new industrial energy empire when you have trillions of dollars to spend.

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By your logic everyone who believes in open borders, animal rights, children's rights (and many other things) would be entitled to use violence to shut down everyone who disagrees with them. After all they merely try to extend the social contract to non-citizens, animals and children. And "they tolerate all who extend that contract to them".

Even if you oppose prison sentences you could say that you merely try to extend the social contract to former criminals. If you are either pro-life or pro-choice you could say that you merely try to extend the social contract to embryos or pregnant women.
This is a point I think needs to made more often. Bad things get way more attention and I think people on both the left and the right, both social justice people and free speech people, have a bias to exaggerate the extent that these things are happening. Sometimes people just need to take a breath and relax.
Someone watched the Princess Bride - I spent the last few years building up an immunity to peanut powder.
The whisky is diluted as part of the manufacturing process to the optimum(ish) level: 80 proof / 40% ABV. You are correct to not dilute it further.

Ref: Whisky is distilled to around 70% alcohol by volume (vol-%) then diluted to about 40 vol-%, and often drunk after further slight dilution to enhance its taste.
For (3) you are of course assuming that there is a job in Stockton for her skill set.

There may not be which makes option 3 an non starter.
Furthermore, unions in Europe are much more powerful than they are in the US. It must not be unions holding the US back if Europe can manage to build better transit with much stronger unions.
Having your house covered in a few feet of regolith sounds like roofs and walls to me, not "living underground".

Windows will be hard. Maybe you could have them on the side facing away from the sun, but I think general cosmic radiation is also a big problem.

More realistically, you'd have "camera windows". A camera on the outside that displays an image on a screen inside of what you would see if there was a window there.
The amount of RAM that some programs use these days still makes me sad.
What if you put it into a video? Photoshop it into a meme? Drop it in to an internal presentation?

These are all situations where the copyright of a stock image owner is infringed and yet there is very little that automated processes can do to detect them.
I didn't really understand zoning until I witnessed a bunch of Southern middle-class white moms agreeing with their middle-class black mom neighbor about how they all hoped that the new construction on the [formerly agricultural] lot next to the subdivision would be restaurants instead of apartment buildings, because the latter attracts "the wrong kind of people".

Then I looked at the zoning map for the municipality, and read the zoning codes.

From outward appearances, it's to keep the poor people away from the rich people. And not just at night when everyone goes home, either. All the time, everywhere. Jobs, schools, commutes, shopping, entertainment. It's the new age of redlining, with a global substitution of bank account sizes for skin colors.

I couldn't tell what degree of intent was there, but on the ground, the zoning board has reinvented the ghetto. The poor folks get to live next to the railroad tracks. Rich folks get to live next to the zone marked as protected wetland/watershed, so that it can never be developed.
As an Apple fan... I'm fine with it.

I just kept adapters on the ends of my two pairs of headphones and it wasn't an issue.

Then I got AirPods (any good BT headphones would work) and care even less.

I was a tiny bit worried, but it ended up being a non-issue for me.
Not really, but sort of. There's a set 8, and it's by far the best of all 8 sets (I'd rank the sets 8->6->2->3->4->7->5->1), but you have to mail Sean to get it, and you should tell him you've done at least sets 1-6.
Don't forget, that if you're unlucky enough to be an American (like Musk), you will still fall under the interplanetary/intersolar/intergalactic grasp of the IRS.

Even an 'offplanet' bank will fall under FATCA and FBAR.

Renounce before blast off!
Ask HN: What costly inefficiency do you see at work?
I'm 95% curious, 5% hoping some HN reader gets a startup out of it.
Has anybody verified this? Does anybody know whether xerub went through (or attempted) responsible disclosure?
Actually I really like the format of your presentations: just yesterday I watched your live coding session with vrscript (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydyztGZnbNs) and it was fantastic because, first, you were showing to your audience how to work with Racket (and some of the features in DrRacket), and second, you build from zero a demo in a very casual, easy going way. I honestly don't think that a standard slide-based presentation would have been better in any way...
Thanks Jacques, appreciate the offer. I've sent you an email.
Decent specs, niche audience, cheap. Pick two.
Ha, it's funny because for me the format is just perfect. There are numerous presentations on the internet focused on one specific topic but your free form style is just like I'd talk with a friend. The interdisciplinary nature and hands on examples are nice added bonus.

Please don't change this unique approach too much.
> after her building was bought out and she and her neighbors were then about to be homeless, they should have formed a political organization?

No. By then it's obviously too late. You have to act before laws are passed that drive your constituency out of town. But there are a lot of places where this has happened and renters have a lot of rights. And, BTW, the city of San Francisco is one of them. I am not a landlord, but I am told that it is nearly impossible to evict someone in SF.
I considered bringing up Hans Reiser and didn't because it conflates what were already discussing with another issue: Support.

Hans Reiser and his tiny company was the primary point of contact for support on ReiserFS. With him in prison no support was left for it, no new updates were coming. This doesn't invalidate the academic legitimacy of his work on "Dancing Trees", other technical topics definitely didn't prevent other file systems from using algorithm advances he came up with.

Now stop mixing stuff that ought not to be mixed. Yes murderers, racists and xenophobes are horrible people, it doesn't make their every last statement wrong.
No, this is a very real sentiment. I recently saw some folks on /r/nyc complaining that their relatives had to sell their Brooklyn home for millions of dollars more than they paid for it because they could no longer afford the property taxes. They were presented (un-ironically) as victims of gentrification.

I don't know how to rebut this, because it's such an absurd sentiment on its face.
Yes, if it takes you an hour and a half.
Unfortunately, in most cases the base salary is the only part of compensation that is 'guaranteed'. Overtime requirements could change after a few months, a job with a longer commute might allow work from home, etc. Your 'true rate' is an interesting piece of information to consider during job search, but I do not think it should have this much weight.
I understand physical keyboards aren't really a thing for most folks. What I wish though is that someone would make sliding keyboard cases for either more models (only one I saw was for iphone) or something generic that I could clip onto a existing case.

There are some small pocket sized keyboards but with no way to attach to my phone they are not very useful.

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For battery life I have been pretty impressed with my phone (xiaomi redmi note 3 pro) I only plug it in at night and can easily go 2 days without charging. It also charges extremely fast.

First phone I have owned since my nokia flip phone that I almost never think about battery life.
You could hazard that guess, but you could be wrong or at the very best case you're making an assertion that you cannot prove true or false in which case it seems pointless to try to draw further conclusions from it.

edit: Actually you could only assert that I have a cigar. I could have purchased it as a gift for someone else, or am currently being asked to transport it, or maybe I found it on the ground... etc. It certainly does not with any certainty make a 'public expression' about me.
It seems the problem here is that the watermark is transparent, and thus still contains information about the original image.

Similar to how if you want to censor a part of an image, you should always use a single solid color because e.g. a blur can be inverted.

But I guess that would degrade the quality of the watermarked photo too much.
Someone knows if this smartphone uses a custom version of Android?
Why?

Let’s compare the electron-based Minecraft launcher with Minecraft itself.

The download is 400MB vs 11MB (+the 60MB JVM runtime)

The RAM usage is 300-600MB vs. 256MB

I mean, I don’t see how electron comes out ahead in this (and it only runs the damn launcher, not the actual game).

Java definitely is the least of your worries. And with JavaFX you can even use the web APIs for UI.
Agreed, full ramble isn't something many people do well and it's fun too watch. Random but useful information will fall out of peoples brain and it's great!
Do you mind me asking what kind of throughput you are seeing for a process like that where you unpack video across some processes? I'm working on something similar using Go and it'd be great to know if Elixir is a good alternative or not.
There are always tradeoffs. Your choice. Yes it's great that we have so many options now.
Business vs. Dev: The Product management office “war”
If the FCC isn't the right body why change the rules? Why not leave the current status quo while Congress works on it (or until they do)?
Maybe data modeling is something that's officially a "manager-level task" at your company, so it's something you have to be involved in. But I would try to err on the side of delegating too much, rather than too little. If you have knowledge in a certain area that gives you special insight into how to improve implementation of code, I would challenge you to try to disseminate that amongst your team and hold them accountable for following it themselves, rather than setting yourself up as a gatekeeper.

All this assumes you trust your team to be thoughtful and do good work. If not then that's a whole 'nother issue.
I think it absolutely makes sense in business, making low quality product is fine especially when users are nontechnical, they just don't know which app is slow. Though as a developer, I cannot be proud of myself for making low quality electron apps, there is no craftsmanship to be proud of.

Moreover, if the argument of "it is slower but it costs less to make so it's ok" makes sense, then will people start mining bitcoin with client's computation power because it's "cheaper"?
What a tone "I leave you with this" :) Okay. I'm just saying that there is single option: Make a decision and meet the reaction without complaints, which your quote states, right? If you have complaints, that was not a decision but a mistake, wasn't it?
I can see self-driving RVs parked on the streets of San Francisco, reparking every time the meter maid comes by.
Pai is a good talker but he reminds me of the people who talk of the free market in health care. Sounds great but when you look at reality you see quickly there is no such thing. But they still keep talking. Same for Pai's talk about innovation. All innovation that's coming from ISPs is to squeeze more money out of the system.
To rely less on litigation and more on technology.

Additionally, DMCA is only valid within the United States.
The Future of Go – Talk by Rob Pike
Not really.

For the Canton of Zurich (can't find city-specific info), financial services accounts for 21% of GVA, telecommunications accounts for 27%, industry and mining for 14%, entertainment for another 14%.

Zurich is a major tech and manufacturing hub.
It does if you are willing to step out of the "let's do everything in HTML and JS" echo chamber - hence my mentioning there is no alternative for quick and dirty apps.
Just open the link - it's not "Facebook for desktop" app. It's a toolset for their Sketch app for desktop UI elements.
This reminds me a bit of the common argument for locks: it keeps regular people honest. Watermarks are designed really to deter you from casually copying an image and pasting it on your site, unless you don't care at all about a watermark showing (e.g. a blog site with a few followers).

I'm sure a mixture of the original computer vision technique plus some smearing on the original image could wash away even these randomly perturbed watermarks.

Just with many other security matters, you will always be trying to stay one step ahead of someone attempting to circumvent protections. So really the best protection against someone removing watermarks is to file a copyright infringement against the infringing party. DMCA (fixed acronym order :]) is a powerful tool in the USA.

In either case, this was a neat article.
Show HN: App to map photos of all the best dishes with prices and hours
I only realised recently that the US has that level of vendor lock-in for core infrastructure like telephone wires — huge culture shock!
Alternative title: Tim Cook apparently doesn't understand current politics, thus proving why a business's which sells products should not get involved in political press releases.
Our react native apps are around 10 - 15 mb in size once bundled, which is hardly bloated.
You wouldn't like it at all. I would probably be done after a couple weeks.

But I'm sure some people would love to explore places where no human has ever been before for the rest of their lives.

There is also the work of building a new society, settling in new immigrants, improving infrastructure in your settlement etc, that has to be fun for the right kind of person.

So I'm sure that a small percentage of the populations would genuinely like living on Mars. Maybe he biggest problem is predicting who those people are before you ship out :)
C + classes does the job for me. I hate decoding code - that's the compilers job!
I'd be interested to see how reliable this will be. I just want a smartphone that won't freeze/reboot/slow to a crawl seemingly always at the worst possible time.
Many brewers actually use lacto P to sour beer quickly. It's cheap and widely available.
I agree. I think shmageggy's 'anti-throttling' is much closer to something workable.

Heck, anti-racketeering or anti-collusion may be better.
On 08/05/17 I was kidnapped at gun point and at one point forced to turn over my iPhone and on two occasions had to provide the gunman my passcode.

I learned about tapping the power button 5x's but still don't know what would have occurred and if such a function would have endangered by life (I believe it triggers a emergency services call, but that could have tipped off the gunman if he heard an voice asking "911, what's your emergency?" From the phone). So I believe the following would have been useful: an alternate passcode that would have unknowingly triggered my location and activated the mic to emergency services without the gunman being aware.
As a customer of simple I cannot agree with this statement more. This is disheartening news for me.

I've tried for the past few years to use them as my primary bank but it's actually unusable in that regard. Lately I've been asking myself what they're actually good at and it seems like the answer is mostly for providing prompt customer support to work around the issues that they're imposing on me in the first place by not being a real bank. I'm now slowly trying to transition away from them to something like Ally which seems to at least have some visible benefits.
Ask HN: How would you spend a company provided learning budget?
My company this year instituted a learning budget where they will 100% reimburse me for expenses up to a non-trivial amount of money. I can use this to do pretty much whatever (e.g. take classes online, take university classes, attend conferences, etc...). And this money is use-it-or-lose-it, so it's not like they'll just cut me a check for whatever I don't spend. Just curious what the HN community would use the money for.

In particular, I'm looking for things that will actually make me more effective at work as opposed to resume padders. For context, I live in Chicago and work for a trading firm doing a mixture of C++ and Python development. My list so far includes the following, but I'd love to hear the community's ideas:

- attending CPPCON specifically with an eye towards getting a better handle on some tools that I'm not as proficient in as I'd like to be (GDB and perf spring readily to mind).

- hiring a private tutor to better learn linear algebra and stochastic calculus

- signing up for Coursera courses on machine learning

Let me hear what you've got.
Yup. I wouldn't want to ruin a good thing. I don't even want ice in it.

On the other hand, I've tried stuff like Everclear. That needs dilution. It's absolutely horrible, by itself.

Good whiskey needs no adulteration.