skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This lack of opportunities could create more pessimism and disaffection than economic conditions warrant. An increasing body of economic research shows that people tend to form extrapolative expectations -- they expect recent trends to continue forever. Overoptimism is also a common psychological bias. Booms make a lot of young, energetic Americans believe that they’re going to get rich. On the one hand, this causes inevitable disappointment when the froth dissipates. But as long as there’s a gold rush somewhere in the economy, big dreamers can dream big.

So America needs another slot machine we can present to our youth to appease their cognitive biases?
It's just a dumb headline. All whales are predators. Some just evolved to filter crustaceans out of the water intead of tearing flesh off off fish. Krill are still animals. Gray whales are still carnivores.

But yes: early whales had a lifestyle that looked more like a dolphin's than a humpback's, which isn't surprising since a humpback skull works very poorly for hunting animals on land, which is where their common ancestor came from.

What's actually more interesting is that the only other living descendant of that common ancestor isn't a predator at all, nor does it look like one. It's the Hippo.
Alpha AXP: The dire consequences of having 32-bit values in non-canonical form
The flaw there is that then interferes with payment because your hand is in the way of the payment doodad - a lot of the ones in the UK that I've encountered are designed for flat contactless credit cards, not "phone with hand underneath".
even on mp3s where the bitrate is low enough to hear some compression artefacts you would still be able to perceive the difference in dynamic range

and the iTunes files are 256 kbps AACs, you can't hear the compression

remember that 'compression' in this context is data compression and not audio compression (which acts directly on the dynamic range of the source)
> Keep a journal of sticking with this habit. I always print current month, put it up in my kitchen and I cross off days. I'm currently doing that for my diet, but it works for any habit you wanna build.

You mean like a calendar? The "string of unbroken crosses technique"? Or do you mean something else?
cryptocurrency is not enough like another gold rush already?
I've heard rumors that the scanner will be on the back of the phone.
Averages (even with the post's approach) still have the problem of not being "honest" in the game theory sense. For example, if something is rated 4 stars with 100 reviews, a reviewer who believes its true rating should be 3 stars is motivated to give it 1 star because that will move the average rating closer to his desired outcome. A look at rating distributions shows that this is in fact how many people behave.

Median ratings are "honest" in this sense, as long as ties are broken arbitrarily rather than by averaging. Math challenge: is there a way of combining the desirable properties mentioned in the post with the property of honesty? I suspect there is but I haven't tried it.
Ah, fair enough. I wasn't sure it emphasis as part of the whole "editor vs ide" dealio.
A PHP (clone) version of the trending app Sarahah
I would've told you Coinbase until not long ago, but they seem to be going down the drain in terms of support (and I promise: you will at some point need it). It's been over a month for me to even get a single reply to a ticket where there are hundreds of dollars in limbo, and I'm not alone (check their @CoinbaseSupport reply threads)…

Previously, my setup was USD<>BTC at Coinbase, and BTC<>AltCoins at Bittrex… Might try some of the other suggestions for USD<>BTC in the future.
I built a 250 and flew it once and haven't flown it again! That was in the winter.

I'm afraid to break it, I guess. I'm decent in simulators but mine flies so differently, it's quite difficult.

I'm also quite busy, so I have that excuse...

I should get over it.
> I guess it's stuff like that which, had the UK not started the Brexit process, certainly would've made them do it anyway.

Tbh, yes it really really would. There was a referendum on alternative voting a few years back, and (strangely) that result being overruled by the EU would probably go down like a cup of cold sick. I'd personally have had a pretty significant problem with that.

STV brings its own issues, obviously, and any change in structure is a decision that should be made by those people doing the electing.

I'm thrilled that you're embarrassed by the UKs voting system though. If that's the thing weighing on your mind life must be pretty damned good
http://currentlydown.com/angularjs.org#2017-08-30
It's easy to get logs, it'd be better not to deploy code with unsafe queries and then have to scan through the logs to see why your database is on its knees though
Most people alive today can be financially independent, having way more than they need, and traveling all around the world?

I'm genuinely curious about your reasons for thinking so.
The difference obviously is that you can't represent pi as a finite series or a repeating infinite series while you can do that with the rational numbers.
Anyone know if you can run flash in headless mode?
I remember reading that the reason for getting rid of the home button is that certain cultures around the world strictly do not use it, out of fear that it might break and require repairs. Instead, they use the on-screen accessibility button to replace the features of the home button.

The fear of using the home button has gotten so bad that even store employees are recommending to use the accessibility button and advise against pressing the hardware switch.
Isn't that copying android?
What does PoC mean?
Khou.com – Rosharon resident uses AquaDam to protect home from floodwaters
> The damages in previous years seem trivial by comparison.

That has more to do with the fact the australian economy and population has skyrocketed the past 40 years and australia has become more developed. And also it has more to do with location of the storms than anything else.

> However, even these billion dollar damages will be dwarfed by the colossal damages that will result from the storm in Texas.

Houston is a major metropolitan area and there are lots of people with lots of insurance and all that.

Storms happen. Hurricanes happen. It has happened before. And there have been far more destructive hurricanes than harvey.

Once again you just cherrypicked data.
> Alphabet's is "Do the Right Thing"

For the shareholders, of course. Does anyone else even matter?
Interesting. In a small town where Red Cross came in, I recall locals being told their food wasn't allowed to be served to the National Guard & other volunteers since it had not be properly inspected. I'm not sure who's fault this was but it did annoy a lot of people & they found ways around it.
I'll be honest the only time I've heard the word "Strivers" it was being used to mock just the kind of patronizing mindset found in this article. I'm sure it would be lovely to rest on an economic boom created by a risky new venture filled with young "expendables'" in the same way that some people pine for a world war to stiffen up the economy; it borders on evil.
College Librarians Are Key Tech and Info Gatekeepers. Most Are White
Propaganda is information that isn't objective and is used primarily to influence an audience. Unless you're arguing that all techie blog posts are propaganda, it's hard to understand how this qualifies.

Imagine this was a Show HN by someone else. It would get a lot of praise. So why does that praise turn sour just because it's Uber?
can we import them to CT?
It could, but as far as I know it then isn't a compliant JIT any more. That is, it's either a bug or a deliberate deviation from the specification.
Free '7 Steps to Being Secure at Home' Slide Deck – For End Users
You have to remember, though, that these aren’t small national governments.

If Google really pissed off the EU, or US, they could simply force all banks to freeze Google’s assets, and seize them. This has worked in the past, and can be used again.
Implemented this after discovering it via https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20141006/227162/F...

Works amazingly well and so easy to calculate vs say the way IMDb rates things.
Since the 1950s, property taxes and home prices have rapidly outpaced inflation, wages have stagnated, and work remains centralized in high cost areas.

Many people can not afford 500-700k mortgages, 13k per year property tax, 5 types of income taxes (fed state nyc med ss), transportation costs, etc.

Maybe land is being used efficiently, but it sure isn't affordable in the NY NJ CT area.

Is the solution to that to say "sorry, we have higher bidders"...

... or "well we do have some unused land over there that we can rezone for free to allow you to put a temporary home on it"
If you need professional typesetting from HTML+CSS, Prince XML is still king, I'm pretty sure. It can be invoked & run heedlessly.

It also supports page-oriented CSS declarations and variables, like headers, footers, page numbers, etc.
From the latest leaks of cases and whatnot, this seems unlikely. None of the case mockups have cutouts for a fingerprint on the back.

Other rumours include touchID embedded in the glass and/or other forms of biometric authentication (visible+IR cameras and facial detection being the leading contender)
Here’s why people hate Joel Osteen
Just got myself a nice pair of noise-cancelling headphones last week. I had some extremely productive hours like I've hardly known before.
>A look at rating distributions shows that this is in fact how many people behave.

This is really interesting, do you have anything where I could read more about it?
> Note you need to be running the beta version of firefox

Also note that that's only the case on Windows and OS X (it's already released for Linux), and only as long as Firefox 56 hasn't been released yet :)
The exercises are here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15022458 (that post was downvoted & flagged to death, so you might have to turn on showdead in your profile to see it)

In a different comment chain on the same submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15024640), he challenged the commenters disagreeing with him to do these exercises in 24 hours. The tone was pretty abrasive, TBH, but I found the questions interesting enough that I tackled them in earnest.

I posted my solution attempts, so don't scroll down too far if you want to try them on your own ;)
First, Trump was completely outspent by Clinton and won. Money follows the likely winner and this weird political betting market usually gets it right. It's also hard to say that he served the GOP. It very much looked like the elephant reluctantly did what Trump told it to do.

Second, Trump campaigned on lowering immigration and tariffs, by far the most anti-corporate policies American president supported in the living memory.

Both of your points are seriously weakened by the 2016 elections.
That just introduces more questions. What was the evolutionary advantage of baleen before it was used for filter feeding?

Edit: Three hypothesis outlined in the parent's linked PDF:

* Archaic mysticetes used their denticulate teeth to (suction) filter feed like living leopard and crabeater seals, thereby linking tooth function directly with the evolution of bulk feeding and baleen.

* A period of overlap, during which baleen and teeth would have functioned alongside each other.

* Archaic whales first turned from raptorial into suction feeders, which then triggered tooth loss and, eventually, facilitated the emergence of baleen.
They already got rid of the actual physical switch in the iPhone 7. It's now a touch and pressure sensitive area that uses the vibrator to make it feel like it clicks.
Not quite as true in England, where Common Law is meaningful; e.g. only in the last 2 years or so have private car parking companies been able to put pressure on consumers to pay their fines because the Supreme Court ruled in favour of a private parking company.
My perception is probably wrong but I see the cryptocurrency gold rush as already over. To mine bitcoins now is to already have lots of money on machinery or a botnet to steal the machinery to mine the bitcoins.

Do you feel that cryptocurrency is still available to the individual as a gold rush?
Generational GC, Write Barriers/Write Protection and userfaultfd(2)
Whole Foods' employees' reaction to Amazon acquisition
Can you share a story or two? I'm interested in the UK contracting market. The pay for salaried positions in the UK Is shockingly low.
The controller is a good point. This one only supports 1 of the 4 control styles, and I think another control style might suit me better. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try that controller.
Maybe use incognito mode?
That cutout on the front would be so non appleesque. I a sure I'll get used to it, but it seem like they should have found a better way to put it. I still can't stand that android watch that had a black bar on top or seomthing
yes, not just the memory... for models with lots of fields, in Python+Django, the time overhead of instantiating these complex heavyweight objects can really add up if you have a whole 'page' of them

I always figured the main overhead was doing I/O with the db, but in these cases it's not always so

interesting blog post about this from the creator of SQLAlchemy:
http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2015/02/15/asynchronous-python-an...
Couldn't that algorithm equally be used to circumvent the problem of slowing down a file systems the more the available space fills up? I imagine this would be beneficial when storing but detrimental when reading data.
He specifically addresses audio engineering (which can be interpolated to DJing and remixing). As he says, what you need in that case is 24bit audio to have more dynamic range to play with. >48kHz is still useless to human hearing.

This particular article doesn't touch on compression as well, which is probably the biggest thing for remixing or DJing. You really want uncompressed or at least high-bitrate AAC.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-unfortunate-f...

Seems very relevant, as another facet of this issue.
Large Logo Dataset v0.1 (for use with GAN)
Google Cloud Networking Incident
Does anyone know if there is a way to control the window size? If there is does it also modify screen.availHeight properties and other give aways that you have modified the window size.
Galvanize staff fired as coding school industry cracks further
Object detection: an overview in the age of Deep Learning
Pressing escape work for me. What browser are you using?
Competition is good. I would be really worried if Waymo is the only one demonstrating their visualization capabilities. It also encourages more showcase of technologies which is generally good for the public. SDC has been too secretive of an arm race. You can take sides all you want but I think this move of Uber is one that is beneficial to everyone.
Perhaps we should find ways of making them feel good about living in tent cities?
> Is this the seemingly-pointless "memory test" all computers do?

I might not be sure what your parent is talking but it is called "DDR memory training and calibration". I used to struggle with this when I was bringing up LPDDR2 on an i.MX6 embedded board.

You can find more about it here -> https://github.com/librecore-org/librecore/wiki/Understandin...
Can others attend your bookclub? I've been attending https://www.meetup.com/Math-and-Algorithm-Reading-Group/ over at buzzfeed HQ. This is right up the same alley.
That's what's always annoyed me with Amazon's "sort by average rating" setting. I want to see the top 10 or so items by rating to give me a baseline to investigate from, but instead I get page after page of cheap Chinese crap with one 5-star review each from the resident fake reviewer.

Worse than useless.

Even a simple change like adding a "show only items with a minumum of X reviews" would be a godsend.
I currently have setup two CI jobs running Webdriver.IO with different configurations (different in what browser is used). Locally I just run it on all installed browsers using selenium-assistant - not headless, because I want to see what's going on when running locally.

(And yeah, cross-platform Edge would be nice for being able to test in CI without needing a third party.)
Why not unbundle the task and give the conscious thinking to the computer, and the mindless grabbing to the human?

I could think of a few scary ones.
I was just going to say that same thing. Unfortunately, the chains of habit are generally to small to feel until they are to hard to break. Even with this change in hardware, how many will change this ingrained habit of theirs?
How V8 handles JavaScript properties internally
If only browsers supported creation of page headers and footers.
Oh, and people need to know they are not alone. Meetup to speak.

People don't need an union if they are happy with the situation.

But they may need first to share their concern in a place where confidentiality is granted (because we all have loyalty penalties made especially to block the possibility of sharing information). You might need a lawyer advice on how to make people able to share their mind freely.

People suffer, but they cannot talk met googlers and facebookers they were looking like citizens of former soviet countries fearing the snitches.

You will probably want a low tech organization to ensure a strong privacy of the meetups (word to mouth).

You may want people to sign anti-snitch agreement (that blocks leaks).

You will want to make all your possible to protect the confidentiality of the attendant of the meeting in early stages.
Pros of Discounted Cash Flow Methods – “Making It Worth It”
My biggest problem with systemd is that it adds a new and completely unnecessary giant wall of incompatibility/incongruity between Linux and the rest of the *nix universe.

It was and is absolutely asinine and I can't believe all of the major linux distros went along with it.
Remember the camera bump?
How has it worked for you I am interested. It has worked for me too, and I too have tried a lot of things. The reason it has worked for me is because I set the bar very low. Like one pomodoro on a specific task and then I usually end up spending more time...
If you use Ghostery you can whitelist different "tools" independently. It's very easy to allow all ads and block all trackers. You can also decide to only block certain ads or trackers for specific websites.
Doesn't xvfb still just run an Xserver, simply without painting? Or do headless Chrome and Firefox still require an X server running too?
Stress Leads to Bad Decisions. Here’s How to Avoid Them
Young kids are busy at games, used to be the PC, game console, now adding cell phones and tablets.

Let's deal with this new mental-drug-war first before any Gold Rush suggestions, as the kids then young people ignore anything else, even traffic lights...their eyes are too busy on the screen these days.
https://neo4j.com/book-learning-neo4j/
Onto Mars!
Microsoft was leading the world in AR; now it’s at risk of being left behind
Soon after this Sokal and Bricmont wrote a book called 'Fashionable Nonsense' (titled Intellectual Impostures in the UK) in which they tackle Lacan, Deleuze and Guatarri, etc. Its well worth a read.

From the wiki page about the book:

Sokal and Bricmont claim that they do not intend to analyze postmodernist thought in general. Rather, they aim to draw attention to the abuse of concepts from mathematics and physics, subjects they've devoted their careers to studying and teaching. Sokal and Bricmont define abuse of mathematics and physics as:

- Using scientific or pseudoscientific terminology without bothering much about what these words mean.

- Importing concepts from the natural sciences into the humanities without the slightest justification, and without providing any rationale for their use.

- Displaying superficial erudition by shamelessly throwing around technical terms where they are irrelevant, presumably to impress and intimidate the non-specialist reader.

- Manipulating words and phrases that are, in fact, meaningless.

- Self-assurance on topics far beyond the competence of the author and exploiting the prestige of science to give discourses a veneer of rigor.
I work with lasers and we get a yearly security training on staying safe with lasers (the whole shebang, videos of cow-eyes exploding from diffuse scattering of a cutting laser, cutting pizza, photos of scars of accidents, post-trauma photos of retinas etc).

It is indeed terrifying to see how easily you can get tools that can cripple people without people being aware of the danger.
It only appears I'm making that conclusion when you selectively quote small passages from my comment. The very next sentence that follows the portion you quoted starts off by saying:

> "Not that I'm implying there isn't already secret requests for data"

I appreciate that you consider it worth reiterating the point about national security since I had only glossed over it. But I don't appreciate you manipulating my comment to suggest that I was ignoring that point entirely when I quite clearly did raise it.
Great reply, thank you!

Can I ask what your site is?
The thing is that the button always works reliably while all their interface swipes are laggy and become unusable under heavy load, in battery saving mode and as usual, in a few years after they stop optimizing for the old hardware.
Additionally, it's also possible to turn it on using the CLI flag `--headless`, if setting env vars is a concern.
Red Cross absorbs a lot of donor dollars to run a large bureaucracy with a questionable donation/impact ratio.
That sounds like bad parenting and foolishness becoming more visible, rather than a new threat.
Questions on your list (which is appreciated) if anyone can fill these in:

-Which have (legal) US compliance?

-Which have options/futures or other contracts?

-Which have red flags (holds on withdrawls for mysterious reasons, like Poloniex, for example)

-Which have security red flags?

-Which have actual support help?

-What countries are they based in?
I might be the wrong person to ask, my personal opinion of cryptocurrency isn't a popular one. I have issues with the whole idea when I think about the power consumption to keep this 'alive'. And not to forget the 'early adopter' advantage.

But the trade, and the price fluctuations aren't over by long, new cryptocurrencies launched daily by respectable instances and companies. So in this way, I still see a lot of 'rush' potential, even today.

And like the goldrush, it was the people selling the shovels and things making the good steady profits. And there are also a lot of hardware things to change/improve on the cryptocurrency market.
At my company we changed the interaction between two daemons by calling a command line script instead. It caused a 300ms delay in every single AJAX call and broke a dozens of end-to-end tests.

I just tried with Python 2.7 and 3.6 and the hello world startup time is 100ms which is awful lot.
So, basically, if you're building a $15,000 storage box, cough up $500 for a hardware RAID solution.