skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supply and demand curves don't follow closely with most, if any, markets. Agriculture and some commodity markets follow the models but the rest don't. You literally couldn't model your restaurant's business finances on the basis of micro-economic models.

Even models regarding scales of economy don't fit any firm anywhere on the planet. Firms that produce electronics don't bother with such models and theoretically overshoot scales of economy all the time but make up for it by the fact they can sell their electronics at a price that offsets their costs (i.e. they set the price for the revenue they want, not what the market will bear).
> Crunchy Granola Road

That is actually a rather awesome street name, but I wonder if using registered trademarks as part of a public street name is something local government should allow at all.

Odd though; I can't find this nominative oddity on OpenStreetMap (or Google Maps for that matter).
Have you witnessed the price of food in Europe? It is basically free compared to the US.
Don't Fear the New Nationalism
the app is in leveraging the rider's actual experience ... each time the rider rides the bus, she records the time of arrival - eg takes a photo of the bus - and builds a record of actual arrival times. the app makes predictions about when the bus will come.
Wow! Having both numbered roads and identically numbered aves in the same city is ridiculously common. So common that I am baffled that something like that made production. Not only that having street names like "Church St" and "Church Ave" in the same city/town is also ridiculously common. Sometimes it just happens naturally and sometimes it's an artifact of cities consolidating.
I'd consider that a feature not a bug :).
Yeah, I just bought two frozen pizzas and that carried me through till the paycheck, sorry to dramatize it up a little bit
If you have multiple HTML pages, using a templating engine saves a lot of copy/pasting when you change headers, menus etc. (in the article they're using Hugo).

You can automate the uploading of files by writing a script to upload the files to the bucket so you can deploy in a single command (it gets trickier if you want to do a sync and delete files).

Personally I use rake [0] to create build and deploy tasks so I can do `rake build` and `rake deploy:prod`.

[0] https://github.com/ruby/rake
A coworker once suggested to our CTO that we should get bonuses as a % of the money we save by optimising our AWS costs. I was super on board with that plan at the time since I had been thinking about an unmaintained system and had figured out we could shave off a huge chunk of storage saving us 20k/month with no impact on functionality, and I got the change deployed. Instead of a bonus I got laid off a few months afterward.
Prometheus Exporter exposing pubgtracker stats for a given player
I was chatting in bed with my lady about this last night and we hit on a few negative potential outcomes and concerns:

Companies and their investors are going to look for ways to prevent these issues from happening. Part of the solution will rest on coaching, monitoring and policing (perhaps through employee empowerment etc) the "aggressive" people (mostly men) in the workplace.

A concern my girlfriend highlighted is that this may increase unconscious bias in the hiring process, for example:

Will men consider beautiful girls a risk to the workplace? If you have 90% male employees working in your office and a beautiful girl who is definitely qualified for the job but for the sake of argument not someone you "have to have" for this role, are you introducing risk into the workplace by hiring her knowing that people react stronger to attractive people? Said differently, is there a possibility that her presence becomes a potential "distraction" in the office.

Will progressive personalities be considered a risk to the workplace? Beyond looks to personality types, if you are interviewing a candidate and through rounds of interviews you discover they actively contribute their spare time and energy toward socially progressive movements, rallies, campaigns etc, will they be deemed higher risks as potential work-place agitators?

I never really thought about these things until my gf mentioned them but apparently she and her girlfriends consider these factors when strategizing about interviews ("don't look too good, etc").

Another anecdote: we have a handful of couples we're close to whose girlfriends/wives insist that their CEO boyfriends/husbands never conduct challenging performance based conversations with female employees without a witness present. This was consistent with my girlfriend's experience in banking where she found that her senior managers were comfortable having performance reviews 1-1 (which in theory facilitates more candid dialogue and deeper relationships) whereas all the girls had multiple managers present reviews. On the margin, does this disadvantage women? I don't know but my gf seemed to think so.
It is an interesting idea, but most of the lighting industry is interested in reducing flicker, not increasing possible sources of it.

You'd be fighting the current.
Thanks. Waiting to hear more from you.
I am from Philadelphia area looking to send supplies to USVI (specifically St. Thomas). Any help would be appreciated.

Jacob, Can you email me? g1 at g1technology.net
Checking for broken links is probably something you want to run every X days or something like that, rather when you push your update, unless you only want to check if you accidentally wrote a link wrong, rather than if the link itself broke.
I learned there were just three kinds of markets: open, gray, and black.

Freedom Markets™ is agitprop.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a VPS to rent and host your own email server for much less than $5/mo. And that's just an empty server! Now you've gotta set up the email software and hope to god people get your emails since they aren't coming from a reputable source.
We're not interested in a race to the bottom. We provide a high quality service and we charge enough to provide that service. We're clear about our values:

https://blog.fastmail.com/2016/12/13/fastmails-values/

and we unashamedly charge enough money to keep building a good service and providing a good service.
> why would you base64-encode UUID? You can encode 16 random bytes

Because it's a standard data type. It's supported by the database and the data abstraction layers. I can use other implementations for creating, storing and retrieving UUIDs because they backed by the standard and are interoperable. I don't get these advantages with your ad-hoc approach. The loss of 4 bits do not hurt me.

> this is why your negativity is unfounded

I was criticising the needless deviation from an encoding standard. You talk about how it's good that nanoid picked the correct random algorithm. That just does not fit together.
This is a really beautiful designed PWA - congratulations!
Do you mind sharing some tech details (Framework used, Charts)
Beyond Kolmogorov-Smirnov
>Why is energy so damn expensive in Australia?

24 million people spread across a really big continent[1] might play a role.

My state, South Australia, recently received the dubious honour of having the world's highest energy prices. Here's an article which has a go at explaining some reasons [2], apparently delivery infrastructure (poles + wires) is a major part of the cost.

That and there seems to be a lot of price gouging going on, not sure of the reasons for this. Maybe not enough competition?

[1] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/09/09/compare-australi...
[2] - http://www.smh.com.au/business/sunday-explainer-why-is-elect...
This makes me think that the package containing the trusted certificate list ought to be separated into a standalone repository, so that it is easy to change (like how you subscribe to an adblock list).
> For emails sent by an evil client that doesn't provide a plain text version, you can consider a tool that attempts to convert HTML to plain text (though I don't have a suggestion for this yet).

I use emacs to read my email, and w3m to render HTML email as text. It does a good job. Newer emacs includes its own web browser (eww) but I have not tried it for HTML email rendering since I'm happy with w3m.

Replies always go out in plain text (my preference) but if you want to send HTML there are ways to e.g. write your email in org-mode markup and have it converted to HTML when you send. But IMO if you want to send "rich" email then just use a client that does that natively.
Yes, but the holy UUID standard specifies multiple ways of generating them from sticks and stones, invented before people knew how to properly generate random bytes.
Russia revelations spark demands for new media regulations
That you tell the truth on the internet. Quite an oddity.
If you hire a plumber to do a job in your home for an hour is he now your employee?
BPA exposure through skin from store receipts takes longer to be excreted
PubMed link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28759207
I don't think so; HPC is a different beast There are very few if any organizations on earth that have a database that can write a sustained 1TByte/second+ from as few as 300-400 node to 100s of PB of stateful media for years on end.

Ken Batcher (maybe of OSU?) wrote a quote that the rest of us have been using for years: "Supercomputers are a tool for converting a CPU-bound problem into a HPC-bound problem."

The filesystems start to look more like databases over time, but it's not like they can throw down a nice Cassandra cluster and have it pick up the slack. I'm not saying it will never happen, but I don't think it's am option at the moment.
This is exactly why we build topicbox! We like mailing lists, and we want an archive which is useful.
I live in Aus, and i think I am pay 28c per kilowatt/hr. It wasn't long ago that we were paying 22c.

Power prices in Australia is becoming one of the bigger political talking points at the moment. There is a lot of finger pointing going on. The main culprits appear to be:

1. a poorly designed energy market where electricity suppliers can get paid more by turning down their capacity, increasing scarcity to lead to price spikes, at which they can sell their electricity for inflated prices
2. governments allowing exporting of too much of the countries natural gas supplies - the spike in natural gas prices has caused increased costs for natural gas power stations
3. the market not accommodating the intermittent nature of solar / wind properly
4. the desire to decommission coal stations (probably because coal is on the nose, but more likely that gas stations can fire up/down quicker in response to renewable volatility, and coal is too slow in this respect)
Don't forget VW has to build EV infrastructure worth billions in U.S. as part of their false emissions settlement. Makes a lot of sense to capitalize on all the new chargers you build with the car offering...
There already is a degree of control test for false contractors.

Who controls the persons time? Who controls their work? Who supplie equipment? Is there an opportunity for profit or loss? Do they have the right to subcontract? etc
Just to clarify, I'm only one person. But that certainly doesn't explain a 12x difference.
Whatever happened at Equifax was disastrous. But I really liked the way that they are containing it. Their CEO released a statement. They launched a specific site for security scans for their user for free. They are communicating it to their customers transparently.

With that I also saw that cyber security is and will be the biggest threats of the next decade. They are many cyber security companies these days but I didn't see a single company moving forward to support the Equifax team to figure out what happened and how it can be prevented.
Cyber security companies should have volunteered for the cause.
Demographics will reverse three multi-decade global trends [pdf]
> Extreme, conflicting viewpoints are often simultaneously true — whether in business or more broadly in human life. It is the hallmark of a wise individual to eschew the milquetoast path of middling compromise, and instead to embrace these "antinomies" of reason and fuse them into a concrete course of action; to be patient and comfortable with cognitive dissonance.

I fully agree, but I prefer to think of it in terms of Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis.[1]

When one has a mental model of how the world works; that's the Thesis. Then one comes across a different model that explains how the world works that contradicts one's Thesis; that's the Antithesis. Over time, one figures out how to reconcile these two contradicting models into a new model; that's the Synthesis.

This model of how thought evolves can be applied to large-scale movements in history. For example, a Thesis of Western capitalist economies in the 19th and early 20th century was that welfare programs were unnecessary in market economies. This led to the emergence of an Antithesis in the form of the socialist movement and eventually communist states, which represented a new form of political and economic organization. Eventually, a new Synthesis emerged: the modern Western welfare state, combining the wealth-generation forces of capitalism with a government-funded safety net that dulls the sharpest edges of the market.

The Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis model can also be applied to the evolution of scientific thought. For example, a widely held Thesis in Physics prior to Einstein's theoretical breakthroughs was that light must travel through a substance scientists called the "luminiferous aether" in order to satisfy Newton's and Maxwell's equations.[2] However, in experiment after experiment the speed of light somehow always appeared to be constant to all observers, regardless of conditions, which made no sense within the prevailing theoretical framework (Newton's and Maxwell's equations); this was the Antithesis to the prevailing Thesis. Finally, Einsten reconciled the Thesis and the Antithesis into a new Synthesis: the special and then the general Theory of Relativity.

The Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis model is a great mental model to add to one's arsenal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether
Is simplicity the best way to ensure usability?
https://github.com/Microsoft/GSL is an attempt at something like this.

The Core Guidelines have been in development for a long time now; and they do only catch a subset of issues. I'm all in favor of making languages safer overall though!
There is a link to the wikipedia article about the phenomenon. Unfortunately, it seems to be butchered to oblivion atm. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Typoglycemia&oldi...
Fury!
On the relationship of Mathematics to the real world
> You can always get it unlisted.

How do you do that? The vast majority of blocklists I've interacted with have been unwilling to deal with questions, instead responding only that if you fix "something" (not always specified) automated measures will remove it from the list eventually.

In my experience it has also been extremely difficult to deal with people using blocklists. It's easy to find a bunch of people using .tor.dan.me.uk rather than .torexit.dan.me.uk "just to be safe". Frankly, I'm not sure why the former list exists in the first place other than to be an arse? What threats do entry/relay nodes pose to you?
hugo builds are faster than jekyll, or so it was atleast the one time I experimented with it...
The Linux kernel is a massive project with a web of contributors and maintainers, and it's clear which of the senior level members could step in at any given time.

Big open-source projects have plenty of meatspace to draw on. It's the little projects that 'come from somewhere' that actually only have one or two people 'in the know' that are the ones at risk.
> crypto success story

Suppose 5% of CAs are compromised. Is that a success? It is if you compare it to everyone using self-signed certs, but it is not if you consider that there are likely broad vulnerabilities that can be silently exploited by some groups/nations.

We don't hear much about man in the middle attacks because we have no reason to be aware of them.

> it just works

The point of my remark is not to suggest that a list of trusted CAs compiled by someone like Bruce Schneier would result in a broken web. If it would, then it's hard to argue that the system is not already broken.

The point is to allow experts to establish authority on the basis of careful (possibly paranoid) stewardship of a list of trusted CAs. Then when an attack is revealed experts who whitelisted that CA lose a bit of credibility, and those who blacklisted it gain some.

As it stands, firms that ship a default list of trusted CAs have an incentive to err on the side of whitelisting, and then claiming "oops we had no idea that CA x was compromised..."

There are clues about the relative trustworthiness of CAs, some of which are simply the governments that have jurisdiction to demand private keys, etc.
> Fiera’s current clients include some of the continent’s biggest brands including Dunkin’ Donuts and Sobeys; over the years it has made pastries for Costco, Tim Hortons, Metro, Walmart, and Loblaw. Its factories churn out baked goods by the truckload, destined for markets across North America and around the world. They can produce 2 million bagels alone per day.

Retail boycotts have been used against clothing sweatshops.

Is there a reliable way to identify North American baked goods which originate from these temp-labor factories? If all the large distributors use the same suppliers, are there local bakeries which provide better labor conditions and create better product?
You can try Scotty.js [1].

[1] https://github.com/stojanovic/scottyjs
U.S. Wireless Industry Is Finally Competitive, FCC Says
I'm sure Facebook, the company, enjoys posts like these:

1. Complain a whole lot about the state of affairs with FB,

2. Say "but I still like FB and will probably keep using it"

3. Propose no alternatives to the status quo.

I think this post underscores the fact that FB really didn't have anything to lose doing these things. In fact, these things caused some mildly annoyed users to write lengthy blog posts about FB to give the company even more attention attention and mental time.
It's beyond me why anyone would use this. Can businesses even sign up to get their choice of three words, so my local café might have "tea.coffee.donuts"?

When the alternative is saying to a car "OK Google, how do I get to Clouds and Coffee?" and it working the rest out, I just can't see why anyone would care about three random words.
In a theoretical sense, probably not. It's not a work for hire. You probably gave at most vague directions about how to compose the photo. The fact that it's your camera is irrelevant.

Meanwhile in the real world I somehow doubt that this has ever come up as a legal issue.
I agree, as a migraine sufferer the vision aspect of migraines often looks like a "heat shimmer" film over everything, and this site resembles that.
My comment didn't mention Venmo at all.

The point was to warn people not to use PayPal. It doesn't matter if it was naive when most people would expect PayPal to process a transaction.

You don't need to take my word for it. PayPal has a long and majestic history on HN consisting of hundreds of stories of how terrible PayPal is.
How to Increase Conversion of a Sign Up Page
Can't talk about the whole Europe, but in my country there aren't many banking services provided via phone and banks keep decreasing their count insisting on their clients to use mobile app, online banking or ATM. I believe you can't even get available balance in my current bank via phone.
Proposal for an open-source project to end unwanted sales and marketing emails
Level Up Your CSS Skills with These Pro Tips
It's actually not too bad, even on phones without "easily" replaceable batteries.

Speaking for the OnePlus One and Nexus 5 the procedure is pretty straight forward: pop it open using plastic trim tools (which are often sold with batteries) disconnect the ribbon cable and pry the battery off any adhesive. Drop the new one in, reconnect it and snap it back together and you're done.

Depends on the phone I guess, but the whole thing takes maybe 15 minutes.
Billions of devices imperiled by new clickless Bluetooth attack
Speaking from experience, this solution would cause massive headaches for many people, myself included.
You can get a Scaleways machine for €2.99 a month which will handle a reasonable volume of email.

BUT. The ongoing faff and arsing about and maintenance isn't fun. If I didn't have many, many accounts for me and other people on my servers, I'd have migrated to FastMail a long time ago.
Since they are being so thoughtful, maybe they could offer to pay the charges to freeze affected accounts.
Fastmail has plenty of competition. Some of it with markedly lower prices, but one of it with a comparable quality and smoothness of operation.

Where I live, $5 will buy you a sort of decent loaf of bread or about 3.5 liters of gasoline or cup of coffe out on the town if you are lucky. I happily shoot Fastmail that small amount every thirty days for a neat, stable, well thought out product which saves me all the joyless hassle of running things myself.
Assuming your blog is technical, this would have been a good chance to get some more traffic by at least mentioning the actual domain, linking to the github repo, or having one or both of those in your profile.

Edit: Not sure why this has been met with a stream of downvotes. Is there something wrong with saying "I use a different approach to publish this blog: [link]," especially if it's technical and would be of interest to HN anyway? I see many people do it constantly, even when it's not relevant to the article or discussion at hand.

Edit 2: I don't generally care where a post is but this went from -2 to +6 pretty quickly. Weird?
"Sales is the highest paying hard work and the lowest paying easy work."[1]

With sales, you want to pay for performance and pay for outcomes. And with sales, it's easy to measure quantitatively and simply. Good sales people love it and make good money—bad sales people don't get paid and/or leave.

This is the ideal world. As a employer and an employee, you wish all your departments could be measured and rewarded like that.

Not everyone is cut out for sales, and that's fine, but the model works and works well. Examples where it doesn't work well (e.g., over-promising, over-paid) are companies that have poorly balanced incentive commission plans.

[1] https://www.nasp.com/article/FF282761-5D6C/sales-is-the-high...
How to Fly While Developing an Eclipse TDD Plugin
That's the crux of the matter IMO, most people reading this page already learned how to read; the brain takes shortcuts in recognising words (like the garbled inner part of words as another commenter mentioned). But if your brain isn't able to develop those shortcuts (due to dyslexia), yeah. Try teaching a child to read with a page like this.
Agreed. It's usually better to use a standard if there is one. To be specific its at:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#page-7

Note that it excludes the use of ~ because it has special meaning in some file systems. Nano ID includes ~. It's a good demonstration of why sometimes a standards comittee is better than a lone developer: A group of people and reviewers are more likely to think of everything.
Facebook has pulled Instant Articles off Messenger
Ditch the frameworks and write your resume in web components instead.
I think people are confused at how much money big conglomerates like VW and Toyota spend on power train development -- i.e. VW Group revenue yearly is around 250 Billion US dollars.

In the entire group power train and vehicle development is budgeted at around 120 Billion a year, so this is just over half of that budget spread out over probably 5 years. These are not SV startups, they are enormous companies by revenue and investment (which is why they have low profits and aren't sexy to invest in )