skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think costing more and making the government more money are intended features of this system, not side-effects.

'vice' dispensaries are not meant to provide the best service to their customers. They are meant to fill a need well enough to prevent black market competitors, while at the same time making the vice inconvenient enough to discourage its use as much as possible. At the same time, they want to maximize revenue for the government.

Whether this is good or bad is up for debate, but it isn't something they are accidentally doing. When it comes to vices like alcohol or drugs, 'advocating for the people' is not a simple 'provide people what they want' equation - people are wanting something that is bad for them, so do we give it to them as cheaply as possible, satisfying their want, or do we make it more difficult, to satisfy what society wants as a whole?
What I can't believe is why there's not a criminal case against these idiots? When you are controlling something dangerous and you allow that thing to harm someone else, it's a criminal offense. It's not a matter of whether it's hard. It's simply your responsibility to ensure no one gets hurt.
This company has already caused harm to literally everyone in the US. Minimally, we all now have to take action to attempt to avoid identity theft. And it only gets worse from here.
And these bastards have the chutzpah to wait until hurricane Irma is upon us to make the announcement.
How can a piece code be optimized for one phone but not for another? Are we dealing with a bunch of #ifdefs here?
> Reality exists independent of the observer.

This is costing me way too much HN karma lol, I guess nobody likes to get down voted, but try rewording that first statement like this:

Observer exists independent of reality.

If that were true, what could be said about reality ? Who/what is this Observer, is it the same in every being ?

Is it possible to detach the observer from the self ? Yes. People have been doing this since there is history.

I guess that's the whole point I was trying to make.
I used the handy links here:

http://clark.com/personal-finance-credit/credit-freeze-and-t...

Of course, Equifax just gave me a 500 AND charged my card anyway, so that was nice. The other two worked fine though. Equifax is a steaming pile of garbage.

Edit to mention that I only used burner cards for the payments.
For profit prisons and the politicians paid off by them have an incentive to keep plea bargains because money.
Ember seems to have half as many downloads as Vue nowadays

Interactive histogram of daily downloads:

https://npmcharts.com/compare/react,angular,@angular/core,em...
This is hard to define and is subjective. I use a hard metric for my own definition that makes sense.

Find a physical product that is fundamentally impossible to be built by one man. Say a boeing 747. Find a man who has more wealth then the cost of a boeing 747. By common sense: if it is impossible for a man to build a 747 with his bare hands then it is impossible for a man to own more wealth then the cost of a 747 without going through trades and transactions that are unfair. If such a man exists then he attained his wealth through unfair transactions.

This is my definition of unfair. You may have another definition and I respect that. IMO in the ideal world Bill Gates probably deserves to be a millionaire and billionaires would represent a perversion of wealth that is insanely obscene.
I was expected more comicish less bookish. Basically it looks like you could have taken these pages from any algo book, even CLRS.

I would have liked to see things more pictorially like instead of boxes with numbers have flowers of differing height or tortoise shells of different sizes. Maybe hands replanting the flowers or tree turtles walking to the correct place.

I've thought about this idea before actually but not really for pedagogical proposes just for fun instead.
Hmm... I never said anything about "en masse". It was a reference to the Yelp/Eat24 call center employee controversy from last year. [1] In cases like these, I think it's very reasonable to question why those kinds of jobs should be the ones increasing demand in SF and, therefore, driving up prices for everyone else.

If you think my framing is insensitive to call center employees, I think you may have misunderstood me. I was condescending to the call center employers who are causing undue financial stress on their employees by making S.F. relo a job requirement for what should be a satellite office, if not remote work, position.

My point is also that people who struggle to afford the high cost of living in the "Real Bay Area" [2] -- of which I was one -- should perhaps consider, I don't know, moving -- which I did.

The idea that SF should be redesigned and reconstructed until such time as supply is so plentiful as to bring down prices an order of magnitude, to me that's the offensive bit. I think the property owners of SF are well within their rights to tell people who want to build affordable housing towers to get lost.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/02/23...

[2] - See: http://www.burbed.com

P.S. If this comes off as a little combative, I apologize, my dad is in a house on the canal in Cape Coral, FL right now and refusing to evacuate.
Populating dropdown lists in Razor views using the MVVM design pattern
It depends on the vacation.

I tend to use Skyscanner or similar for flights. This may help me choose the destination based on costs.

Hotels.com for hotels as they have a buy 10 get 1 night free offer.

Then Google for other things. Like skiing for example to find the best deals on lift passes and hire etc.

I used to do the whole lonely planet guide thing when younger and cram activities in. Now I prefer to go somewhere with a rough idea of things to do found on the net, and play it by ear.

Last holiday in Queenstown NZ I did 3 days with family of just hanging out. It's glorious not to be on a schedule sometimes.

Conversely I hate tours for this reason. Done them a couple of times and I dislike travelling with random people especially if they are heavy drinker loud types. I also dislike the forced 6am starts every day.
A lot of people with white collar jobs don't have any expectation they'll ever be able to retire either. As much focus as there is on web development/software engineering/other tech related jobs with decent income possibilities, a lot of other white collar jobs don't pay all that well at all.
It's the areas on the map in the article where prices are average.
Specifically with calculus, I found "The Cartoon Guide to Calculus" by Larry Gonick [0] to be quite memorable and fun! Note: There is no stupid referral on this link.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Guide-Calculus/dp/0061689092
At some point we have to compromise - a lot of people want drugs like marijuana illegal because they DON'T want dispensaries on every corner, open at all hours of the night, selling cheap drugs.

Maybe a good starting compromise is, ok, marijuana will be legal and people won't get arrested anymmore, but it will only be sold at a limited number of places for a limited amount of time, for an amount that will keep it from being too prevalent.
I don't disagree for a second there are some banks and credit unions that intend to service their mortgages but you don't know that will always be so. That's their policy now but it can change in the future and you have no control over it. Banks and credit unions are being bought and sold all the time.

The bank that held my parents mortgage was acquired no less than four times between 1996-2012. In 2007 I got a credit card from my local credit union - right now it's being transitioned into a Bank of America credit card. The credit union still exists though, they sold their credit card division to another company which then was acquired by BoA. Funny thing is a several years after they sold their credit cards they decided to offer them again and create new ones.
All the confusion in this thread is disturbing. If HN readers can't figure this out, the general public is totally screwed.
Jesus. I think you can provide your own. But yeah, when the user-facing bits are this bad, you know it's nothing but garbage below. I can't believe these companies have so much power.
I remember when this trend started years ago. All of a sudden every restaurant (particularly in the fast casual category) started adding farm names and artisanal this or hand-crafted that. It was all still the same old frozen bulk goods and the quality didn't change at all. The only thing that changed was they marked up the price.

Then during the recession another worrying trend started--appetizer prices started climbing dramatically to the point where they weren't really that much cheaper than a main course. I recall reading something around how this was in response to people trying to cut back significantly on restaurant spending by just ordering appetizers instead of an entree.

These days it seems like the fastest growing item in terms of cost is drinks. Toss some powdered drink mix or syrup into a glass with mostly ice and water, call it something exotic like "Refreshing organic passion fruit spritzer" and charge $4 for it.
Roll on you Bears! That's awesome.
Plenty of gas cars do better than 30mpg! Hybrids usually 40. A Honda Accord hybrid is 49 city/47 highway.
After tax and tip… I'd be happy to have a beer for $10 to go along with my nonexistent meal.
"The government" as such is not involved here. I'm not going to pretend the separation of powers is as clean cut as what one learns in school, but first and foremost this is a ruling of a single and independent judge that the defendant is challenging.

I fail to see any motivation for the judge to back down on his contempt of court order. I fail to see any motivation for the prosecution to try to continue the trial faster without the drives (which would be a much weaker case). Just because they are good people and have any problem with somebody they believe to be very guilty sitting in jail? They send people to jail all day long.

And I for myself, owner of many encrypted drives, prefer to know and not having to fight that fight myself while sitting in jail.
You can tell yourself that, but the purpose of LCBO at this stage is the money it makes for government. Liquor prohibition is a distant memory. If you don't realize that, you risk buying into their rhetoric about "protecting children" that they're peddling for weed monopolies.
I would guess that you have any sort of credit history or digital financial trail, companies are sending it to Equifax. Could be something as simple as a cell phone service.
Sure, but now you can compare 16 bytes per cycle.
Kind of reminds me of offload.io
Tinder-like app for finding coauthors?
I remember eating at Oola in SF once and wondering what "hand-cut kennebeck potatos" would look like. The answer: just regular old french fries.
Pseudocode? I vote fairy tale description.
I did. Then I solved that problem by procreating.
That's not easy.

Take public transit, for instance. Arguably, that would be a good thing to change - supply fast, frequent, convenient public transit. But how would you do it?

US cities (with few exceptions) have reached a stable equilibrium where cars are necessary because there's no convenient transit, there's no transit because the city doesn't have the density to make it worthwhile, and it can't have the density because there has to be parking for everybody's cars. How do you change that? You have to change all three pieces at once (plus peoples' attitudes). You almost have to start over with a new city.
Parenthetically... I notice that the comments on this thread which provided the address the dailystormer domain in a ccTLD and the .onion address, have been completely removed. Not downvoted, but they look totally gone to me.
Equifax discovered the hack on July 29, more than a month before this vulnerability was discovered.
I'm sure, the question is always grid capacity vs. production that can't be used locally. Also, some of the renewables are pretty remote and don't have grid access at all yet.
What do they do in that industry exactly? I never really got the purpose.
A third of parasite species could vanish
I use privacy.com for things like this.
Well, this seems like it could be quite useful in future. Certainly like the concept of selling or trading side projects you don't want to run any more, and heck, given how heavily tied success is to marketing skill and what not, I think we may see quite a few successful startups formed by buying projects here.

I'll definitely keep looking to see what interesting stuff comes up here.
movie stars are very close to the wealth level of execs at big companies.

Chris Pratt is American actor who has a net worth of $30 million dollars

McDonalds CEO Don Thompson's cumulative net worth is $20,000,000.
I got the same message plus "Click the button below to continue your enrollment in TrustedID Premier." The button said "Enroll" so I stopped there.
What would a pilot do in a situation like that?
No, the math is very different from a Ponzi scheme. Pensions are awesome if you don't have kids.

Consider if you have a 5% chance to die at or before 65 who get's the money? Well what if you could get together with 10,000 people and split it with those who live. Now your investments are boosted by those who die and there is no downside as who cares what happens after you die.

Unfortunately, such schemes are illegal unless it's though a company. Because really the long tail is living to 120 which means you don't want to aim to be broke at say 95 then turn 95 and be in good health.

PS: Remember, returns after inflation can be <3% over 20 years. I want a hedge for that risk other than just having a massive amount of money I can't really spend.
>Being the sole seller also means that they can negotiate ruthlessly and drive prices down to maximize profit for the people of Ontario. I don't know if they will do that, but it sure helps.

Except they're maximizing profits for LCBO, while the benefits to the "people of Ontario" are arguable. For that money to truly benefit Ontarians, it requires a certain level of faith in the provincial governments to be good shepherds with said funds.
Fair enough. I myself tried to transition to software, but went through Hacker School, now known as the Recurse Center. They're rather closer to a good meal, and are tuition-free.

I do know that medical schools have been trying to attract individuals with other backgrounds -- was recruited myself, and admissions committee members told me one reason is that doctors have the impression they may have screwed themselves by being monoculturally ignorant of economic forces, technology, etc. So they're encouraging people who aren't from the traditional biological sciences backgrounds.

I'd expect the med school literature courses to have about as much effect as med school statistics courses, though -- little to none. Plus, there's been interest in shortening med school.
If you have a plug-in hybrid, you often have the choice between gas and electric, without even using a different car. Hybrids easily beat 30mpg.

For example, the Volt is capable of 48 mpg with no charging on gas only. On electric only with no gas, it does 31 kWh/100miles.
Would you also propose a `pip install python`?
You should know, CCP propaganda units were recruiting foreigners for full time jobs quite openly just few years ago
Not true. But, even if it were, there's no requirement that they operate as they do.
Being aware of this can help you have a better time at a restaurant. Sure, the framed items might have a good margin, but it's probably also something the head chef is willing to stamp the restaurant's name on. If you're not sure what to get and the boxed item isn't outside your budget, just go with that.
There's something called Bare Ownership sale that's popular among widows with no children here in Uruguay, that retain the right to use the property until death :

bare-ownership is a right of virtual ownership. For example, the bare owner of a property has no right to occupy it or rent it out. On the other hand, when the usufruct holder dies, full ownership of the property is carried over to the bare owner without any liability for inheritance tax. He can then dispose of it (by sale, gift, bequest, etc.) as he wishes.

The maximum duration of usufruct generally corresponds to the usufruct holder’s lifetime – in that case, it is called usufruit viager, or life usufruct. But it is possible to set a predefined term (10 years, for example), which is called temporary usufruct.

http://www.french-riviera-property.com/en/news-detail/4301-t...

http://bareownership.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Property...
Is organizing labor a skill as rare as building a boeing 747 with your bare hands and raw intelligence? I would say that the aforementioned skill is so rare, no human being on the face of the earth has the ability to build an airliner by themselves. Yet here we have man named Bill Gates who possesses more wealth then several airliners.

Bill Gates probably deserves to be a millionaire, but no man deservers to be billionaire... it's just obscene to say such a thing.
>Ok. I think it's also quite likely that they're not.

And this study and other similar ones would seem to prove you wrong?

>You'd think that the idea that gay men are sexually attracted to men because they are more feminine than other men would have died in the face of all the obvious counterexamples

A few exceptions don't disprove a statistical correlation.

Besides it's more complicated than just "gay people are more feminine". There are various hormones and biological interactions other than just testosterone. And the effects happen early on in development; Whether an adult has lots of testosterone and muscles is irrelevant.

As this study shows, humans are much worse than this algorithm at identifying gay people. It's not merely a matter of "that face looks feminine" or human scorers would have done much better. Presumably many of the correlations are very small or subtle, but in aggregate they can get surprising accuracy.
I'm too dumb to understand this presumably due to poor nutrition. Can someone explain?
Seconding the the notion that your colored-in example is a fantastic addition and should be included. I had thought of this in terms of The Anatomy Coloring Book where the coloring is mostly a way to engage with the visual material in a physical way, which aids recall. But your specific coloring actually highlights the algorithm in an effective way, making it more clear - and I can see that a teacher might be able to quickly glance at a student coloring and see that they did not grasp the concept (by, say, using a distinct color for each block number throughout, showing no progress through the algorithm). Your annotations are excellent as well, and the whole thing serves as a great model of how such a book should be used. Great stuff.
41.66 megawatts. Sounds much less impressive when you put it that way, because that's about 13 wind turbines' worth of power, 8% of the continuous output of the smallest nuclear plant in the US, or about one hundredth the continuous output of a large nuclear plant.

I'm not saying that 167,000 stations isn't impressive, because it is, but it's not the power output of these stations that makes it impressive really.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

So this would only work if you can find a clause permitting them to do this. I assume this would be the commerce clause?
The BC Liquor stores are not well run. In my experience, the service is slow, the people are not knowledgeable, and you will often have a huge lineup of people waiting at the only cashier that is open. The employees have 0 incentive to change this because they are protected by a powerful union.

On top of this, as mentioned in other posts, we have some of the most expensive alcohol in the world. I have travelled to several countries and have yet to find a place that has more expensive alcohol than BC.

I used to work beside a major liquor importer and after speaking with some of their employees, the general consensus in the industry is that the only people that benefit from this are the union employees that work at the government liquor stores and distribution centres. For everyone else: restaurants, consumers, independent store owners, etc. it is a negative.

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It does actually have such a restriction (Article 1 Section 9): "No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." Further, it prohibits the states from passing such laws as well (Article 1 Section 10).
It was a joke, actually. The quote I was referencing is, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried." I actually wrote a (short) book on the ways of the Unix shell, which hopefully qualifies me to have an opinion on the matter. Although UHH is quite dated, there is and has been a great deal of legitimate criticism of Unix, and for that matter C and Bash as well. You have mistaken my opinion on the matter, but your eagerness in assigning negative qualities here is something you might want to examine. To be clear, I do consider Unix and Bash to be imperfect but essential tools for any programmer.
Kevlin Henney, Enterprise Programming Tricks for Clean Code[video]
This is part of the reason why I see value in something like BlockOne ID (by Thomson-Reuters)[0].

I think it's a noble pursuit (what the US Digital Service is trying to do here[1]), making the internet easier and more accessible for people. For many people, involving themselves in the constant updates of what service is secure versus what service is not and "I have to sign up for a different email now to log in to the thing I used to log in to" is a nightmare -- and this isn't restricted to the elderly.

I think it's noble, because I really think it shouldn't be arcane. To a lot of people the nuances still are, unfortunately.

But a service that translates blockchain addresses into WWW accounts and back has some value, no? Couldn't it do a better job of this? I'd love to know if anybody has any more insight or thoughts. I haven't dug too deeply yet, but it keeps coming back to me. Perhaps BlockOne ID isn't the ultimate execution, but maybe one could be developed. Something that requires one sign up, and can be used as ubiquitously as you like.

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[0] https://blockoneid.thomsonreuters.com/

[1] For instance, with Canadian Government services I require an account for every single service, often with different password and username requirements and age limits. I understand why, but for somebody who doesn't spend so much of their career(s) on and around and familiar with computers and how they work, it could be prohibitive.
I did actually. I tried to commit suicide.
perhaps you changed your site to accommodate a few vocal complaints, alienate your core audience of sensible people.
This has been tried. Check out California's 3rd largest city (by area):

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/california-city-unbuilt-s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_City,_California

Turns out it's pretty hard to create a critical mass of population.
They have a separate contract, I don't know why you think it would be bound by their terms of use. Contracts nearly always contain language about how disputes will be resolves, and the venue they will be resolved in.