skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way to know that you won't crash a critical system is to try it. You're right you shouldn't be able to but that doesn't mean it can't be done. Doing this in flight is still dangerous.
Interesting. Do you have any links to read about such implementation details?
Sorry. Your info doesn't match the same reality I live in. As the parent said, sales went down (don't know about mix). Prices for detached homes have not. We were seriously putting offers in March and got outbid for INSANE sums. e.g. 720K offer in Milton .. property went for 100K over. In Mississauga, homes listed for 850K went for 950K-1million. I am looking at data now and it has slowed but not gone down yet.
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This is exactly what I wanted. Thanks for sharing.
Dropping interest rates, backstopping systematically important institutions during the immediate crisis, and even the first QE were arguably necessary. The subsequent QE's and eight years of 0 interest rates were not.
But you are already paying for the lifestyle decisions of others, just in separate pools. The very definition of insurance states that you collectively pay for everyone in the same group.

As I understand it, healthcare in the US isn't voluntary, thanks to the ACA, where the onus is on citizens to have a third-party product covering them at all times. If you choose not to, but could afford it, you are fined for not doing so.

Socialized medicine just amalgamates the disjoint pools of policy holders, and allows the state to manage aspects of care (i.e. avoid the hyper-inflated per-person costs in the US).

I really don't understand your argument, you are never paying for solely your own healthcare in the US system, unless you forego cover completely and accept fines from the govt for doing so.
How do you know whether what you're doing is
truly what you love

My emotions tell me. Sometimes I feel dead and the world seems grey. And sometimes I feel so alive and the world is full of colors. The "alive" mode is the one I want to be in.
Interesting, we use rabbitmq instead of kafka and we have a re-indexation system... not sure if it's more complex for what I see.
> If you read the thread here about those of us who have had to clean out our aging parents home it is amazing how much stuff they have that they hold on to forever and really did not serve a purpose other than to have it.

I'm not sure what the relevance is here?
hi - could you explain the implementation of this "Materialized views for each aggregate are kept in-memory at all times" ? i have been considering a heretical flavor of CQRS/ES as well, where the command returns data.... and i synchronously build the latest state before I return (rather than building through the whole event stream).

when you say "materialized views" - do you really mean the current state of an Order for example ? and by "in memory", is it being persisted to a database ?
Ah. I have a misunderstanding of definition then, since when I think of concurrency I think of interleaved execution irrespective of whether or not this execution is done in parallel.
I can not talk about the ins and outs of the statistical measures.

But from an economist perspective relative price changes of one good to another are usually not very relevant.

The measure for real domestic deflation you want to look at is the 'GDP Deflator'.
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What in your genetic makeup told you to cut down on caffeine? I'm a passionate coffee drinker, and have been sipping coffee the entire day since my teen years, so I'm interested in what you identified as a risk.
Other college alumni here. Nothing I learned in college has helped me to the place where I am. And I do not want to be classified by the college I graduated from. I stayed for four years and I graduated. I am learning new technologies everyday and I am doing very well on my own. I simply do not care what people in tech giants think about my school.
The innovation I'm waiting for is

>> reading audiobooks with the voice of your choice, AND the speed of my choice.
Would you care to provide evidence for your aggressively-worded comment?
Not sure why I'm getting downvotes on this, but you're right that I have an issue with every fiat currency, they're antithetical to a free society. No fiat currencies would exist in a world without coercion, people would not voluntarily use a currency which is debased every year by design.
Thanks for pointing this out, this was reported by a few others. We are investigating it. For now, just refresh the page and it should work.
Ew, on several orthogonal levels.
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Coding outside while running around sounds like a bad idea. But if you meant non-concurrently, then I agree: kids have lots of time, especially if you don't allow them very much screen (TV, play computer) time.
Do you remember what it's already happened for? Do you know what devices they're equivalent to?

While I get the impression FDA and industry prefer 510ks as much as possible, personally I don't see how this is close enough to anything out there right now for that to pass the smell test.

My guess would be that some `Watson` equivalent stuff will be 510k'd in as part of an MRI, CT or DBT imaging system or a CAD tool working on these systems. I think it'd take a while though, I don't think the regulatory science is there yet for actually showing value.
Seriously? I was of the opinion that Hacker News readers had enough intellectual fortitude to evaluate content on its merits.
The point is not that the system is fine, the point is that the method used to identify the flaw is dangerous. This needs to be fixed but the ends do not justify the means.
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In Canada, banks offer fixed and floating rate mortgages; the mortgage rate is always prime + some %.

If you get a fixed-rate mortgage, you're locked in to your rate for 5 years regardless of how the Bank of Canada changes the prime rate. This has been the product of choice for Canadians for the last several years because it protects you against rising interest rates, and rates have had nowhere to go but up.

If you get a floating-rate, your rate moves when the Bank of Canada moves the rate. This is desirable if you think the BoC is going to lower interest rates.

Self-plug - I made a tool to look at how sensitive your monthly mortgage payment is to movements in interest rate: https://pycal.github.io/real-time-ammortization/
Presents such an interesting case for privacy. Down the rode if we can make changes to our genetic code will it really matter?
"lives at risk" is a bit of a stretch. They might take down the IFE and people might be bored, but they won't take the plane down. The telemetry data is read-only (the hardware is physically isolated and transmission one way -- systems that need write access are isolated from the ones that only need read access, and have to go through a slew of certification processes).

(I work on IFE and avionics)
Organically, like just about everything else.

Both my sons showed interest in programming at various times. We toyed with Scratch, then Visual Studio Community Edition to try textual input. Then some Python through Khan Academy and "Learn Python the Hard Way." Enthusiasm for it came and went and sometimes came back just like most things kids do.

One son went on to be a fairly competent programmer, using Mathematica in pursuit of his engineering degree. The other still dabbles in it from time to time, but likes other technical subjects more.

The important point is they really don't need a lot of programming when they're young, just like they don't need a lot of any specific technical field. They just need to know it exists and maybe pique their interest.
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This genuinely made me laugh out loud.
https://npc.collegeboard.org/student/app/olin

is an interesting calculator

plugging in $150K combined income it indicated that hypothetical college age child would pay $44,906 a year to attend

for contrast, given the SAT range of 1470-1550 http://www.olin.edu/admission/class-profiles/2021/

https://scholarships.ua.edu/types/out-of-state.php
That's a rich request in light of your previous comment.
I kinda want to teach her the same way I learned, by giving her an old 1979 BASIC programming book at 7, and setting her up with an interpreter. Although, it would be so much easier to learn with the internet....
Interesting story, I own a Roku but I had to import one from the US in order to get the latest model.

The "Roku Streaming Stick (3600)" is simply not available in the UK for some bizarre reason, I think it is because Roku has a deal with Sky, or some other TV vendor, to not sell it here.

And now that I have a US one, I am not able to use some local UK apps on it, but that is the price you have to pay apparently.
Yeah, you win a few and lose a lot. I guess it all evens out.

Judging by github ratings, the debugger for zsh (zshdb) is more popular than I would have expected. And that means I have had to know more about zsh than I would have otherwise. Like bashdb, zshdb is packaged in Debian/Ubuntu; recently the debian maintainer asked me to update this for more recent zsh releases, which I've done.

By the way, I use github ratings to decide which of several projects to work on when there is a choice. remake ratings have shot up quite a bit by this post, so I guess I'll have to beef it up: add a screenshot of profiling and update the older versions of GNU make for more recent changes.

My recent focus has been on using decompilation as a means of getting more accurate position information. See https://github.com/rocky/python-uncompyle6/wiki/Deparsing-Pa... Sure, I use this in my debuggers, but it would be probably as or more valuable in tracebacks.

For example there is a decent decompiler in Perl for example: https://metacpan.org/pod/B::DeparseTree . I would love to figure out how to hook into Perl's traceback (not Carp, but the one for Perl) to augment that to give this more accurate position information.
I am curious to see any success story on HARO as well. I tried it on and off for ONE YEAR like the author but I was being very picky. I got just a few responses and none turned into anything material enough to justify for time waste.
I'd agree with it were it not for the huge difference between the view refresh latencies. Within the browser, it's near-intantaneous. Hot module reloading (which is still experimental) is relatively fast, yet there's a couple of seconds of a trip; also depends on what and how changes. Full page reload can take even longer, there's compilation time, bundling and the unavoidable cost of reloading stuff in the browser. Sure a couple of seconds doesn't sound bad but it's still a couple of seconds longer than what it should be (immediate) and it breaks my (work)flow.
Just FYI, you can export your 23andme data and upload it to Promethease who will then cross-reference it with findings in SNPedia. Kind of fun :-)
Wow so much pessimism in this thread! I love 23and me and bought it for my girlfriend and parents too, they also loved it!
It's almost like theres a reason every computer security class and every scanning software written has a disclaimer saying "NEVER SCAN A SYSTEM WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION".
As someone confused what this was about, it seems:

>Oracle said this week it plans to transfer management of the Java EE project to an open-source foundation, such as Apache or Eclipse. (Aug 19) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/oracle-want...
I don't agree, I think it's more likely than not that a school specifically designed to foster a particular type of thinking is at least somewhat more effective at it than others. Just like Stanford is likely more effective at developing elite researchers.

I don't think there's nearly enough information to determine that confidently, but we're simply talking about beliefs at this point.
My mother, a former Austrian primary school teacher has, in her words "dragged this mother out of her car and showed her what could've happened." I think that the school doesn't let parents drop kids off right at the door any more for this reason, they have to go to the parking lot down the street instead. Most kids that live near walk or cycle to school (once they're allowed to).

Edit: I think the school recommends that parents walk with the first graders for a certain time (those that are in walking distance) until they feel that the kid knows the way and the rules and feels safe.
Excellent, well written article. The key take away seems to be that instead of an temporary event stream log, since the number of news articles (and associated assets) is finite and cannot explode, they store all the "logs" forever (I'm using the term log as is defined in the article, as a unit of a time-ordered data structure).

I wonder if NYT can help other news websites by making their code open source? I'm a huge fan of NYT and their jump to digital has just been amazing. However, I would also like my local newspaper (which covers more regional news) to be able to serve quality digital content.
It struck a chord with me too. I'm finding in my 30's a lack of fear (or an ability to manage it) that I didn't have when I was younger that makes me want to seek out new experiences and learn new things more in some ways than I did when I was in my teens and 20's (and more "pliable"). This research makes me feel good about my chances and about the benefits that could come with learning new things.
Approach it from the numbers:
You need 1 big farm buying one $2 million dollar unit,
Or you need 100 small farms each buying one $20,000 unit.

If you can make a compelling case that there are many such $20,000 units (for example) that could be researched and invested in, and you have some strong ideas on devices and their network interplay, you could be onto something very strong.
I think you're reading that incorrectly. The way I have interpreted those posts (including my own) is to say that if nmap can crash your software you should a) know that and b) not release it.

In 2017, you absolutely have a reasonable expectation that network systems are safe to nmap. You might be wrong, but that's a completely reasonable assumption.
Sounds amazing! Just to add a usecase - for many people, creating a decent voiceover is one of the big sticking points for producing youtube videos or educational courses. If I could write a script, and have software generate a decent enough voiceover, it would be amazing.

It's not even necessary to copy anyone's voice, as long as there's a selection of the most comprehensible and human-sounding ones.

Then, you could even automatically generate slideshow presentation from a few illustrations and headlines, and that would make "rendering" articles into videos very fast and easy. I'm sure a lot of people would pay for such service.

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By the way, recently I've encountered Deep Voice 2, a similar research project by baidu:

http://research.baidu.com/deep-voice-2-multi-speaker-neural-...

Results are very impressive.
You have to let kids latch on to things they are interested in. The best way to do this is to expose them to as many experiences as possible. It is very likely that your kids will not latch on to the same things you did. As a parent, the best thing you can do is to let that go and focus on what your kid actually wants.
Am I understanding this correctly?

1) For each key, you generate a "hash" - which is a bit position

2) The hash generation is such to ensure that the bit location in the filter is probabilistically distributed for each key (so they are spread "evenly", for lack of a better term, over the length of the filter)

3) You generate so many locations per key, the number of which is the number of hash generators you are using (so if you have 3 generators, you get 3 distributed bit positions)

4) Some keys may cause overlaps/collisions - but this is ok

5) At some point, you fill up the filter with keys

6) To see if a key is -probably- in the filter, you run the same steps again and see if the bits are set; if they are, then it -probably- is

7) You then run that key on your regular index search; some false positives though will cause you to run that expensive operation and get back nothing, but usually you'll get back something (true positive). But if that key wasn't found in the filter, you definitely don't run the expensive lookup at all.

Is that correct?

There must also be something that the bit position "hash" generators have to be able to span an arbitrarily large bit range, in order to "store" more keys; this trivial example would look like it would fill up rather quickly (one all bits are set to "1", any key would generate a "positive" and you would always be running the expensive lookup - whether it was in the index or not - basically, falling back to a default state).

If I have all of that correct (or close) - or even if I don't - it seems like a very powerful technique, limited to only that bit length (and being able to perform bitwise operations on it quickly), which (unless I am missing something?) would need to be fairly long to accommodate a reasonable number of keys (for say a record lookup in an rdb table).

What might also be nice would be a way to detect it is "filled up" and bypass the test; you'd fall back to the worst case scenario (ie - no bloom filter), but at least you wouldn't be running the bloom filter check on top of that as well, incurring an extra demand. I'm thinking there's probably something easily done here - some bitwise operation that could be done (maybe take the inverse and compare it to zero?).
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What if you had the data for just the engineering and computer science majors?
If he doesn't have internet access on that box, won't that be a problem once he needs some library from PIP or elsewhere? I'm sure right now he's just using the standard libraries, though.
CodePlex was created because they didn't want to use the (at the time) standard for Open Source, SourceForge. They abandoned it when GitHub rose to prominence. This was pretty much exactly what Google did as well, with Google Code.
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Find out what they enjoy and are good at. As cheesy as it sounds, cultivation of self interest is the best way, forcing only works for a decade or two.
So if there are genetic roundups, why wouldn't they be accompanied by compulsory testing?

It's pretty much the same story with milder stuff like insurance. If companies can make money by offering discounts for people with genes they like, the insurance company not having your DNA isn't going to make your insurance any cheaper. Or employment, enough people will share their DNA that it becomes a necessary step towards getting the job.

The consequences all flow from allowing society to become hell, not from sharing the DNA.
I'm not an economist or finance expert so take the following with a grain of salt, but this is how I understand it...

When you talk about "money being electronic" you're basically talking about bonds. When people (or companies, foreign governments, etc.) want to hold large quantities of USD they don't really hold USD, they hold short-term US government bonds.

The only truly "real USD" is physical cash, or an account balance at the Federal Reserve (which is available only to banks).

So people don't own bonds just because of the coupon, it's also really the only convenient way to own (something mostly equivalent to) currency -- other than keeping it in a private bank, which is much more likely to fail than the government.
Not asking for a ban on anything, just want people to be aware of the issue.

Sorry, can't find a proper scholarly source right now, but in the past I have seen estimates that conservatively place the occurance rate of pet allergy at around 5-10%. If an airplane seats 200, that's probably "several"; maybe only a few of them will have allergies bad enough to matter. Since dander persists in the environment, at least a few people are going to be allergic to that envirnoment if this happens a lot.

I have to go to work and school, so I can't always avoid this kind of thing. My friend didn't claim to have a medical diagnosis, she just didn't like to be without her dog. By analogy, it might be like if people went around rubbing clams on the furniture at your office. Like at least it would be nice if they only did it with a good reason.
This is easy to answer. Because bonds(while "stable" over the long term), are volatile in the short-term(intraday).

The answer to your question "why would any entity buy bonds..." is: to sell them moments later at a profit.
The issue with this is that operations on text don't necessarily preserve a valid AST. Doing `git merge` on the plain text of a source file may result in invalid code, at which point you have other annoying questions to answer about how to handle text that doesn't parse into a valid AST.
>Are people really that conscious about coding fonts?

Probably not as much anymore, most IDE's in the past 5-10 years have default font and color schemes that are pretty good for most people. It used to be that the first 30 minutes after installing any IDE would be spent customizing the color scheme. And since no IDE's had export/import functionality, and most programmers having almost no background in graphic design, they all looked hideous. Today, the only thing I feel compelled to change is selecting whether I want a light or dark colored theme, and they're all way better than anything I could come up with myself.
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I tend to give my kids (3 and 5) verbal logic puzzles to get their conditional down. Something along the lines of "A cat has a tail and four legs and a dog has a tail and four legs, so a cat must be a dog". It normally ends with them pointing out why they are different... Just as an example but there are all kinds of everyday occurrences that can be used to initiate a logic puzzle.
This would seem to be the source: http://jem.rupress.org/content/early/2017/09/05/jem.20171093
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