skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone working with json output from the gmail api I’m curious to see how people smarter than me take advantage of this new functionality so I can adopt it as well.
I guess this quickly becomes a very broad topic with many many sides and nuances, but I'd like to add another question that bothers me:

Why are creators of popular public statues or significant landmarks treated differently than, for instance, music composers or book authors?

They get a one time fee for their creation and, with some exceptions (e.g. no unauthorized pictures of Brussels' Atomium), that's it?
Me too. We're either all 43, or there's something about that third grade recess.
Yeah, maybe I just need to look at more of it, though the required travel to do so makes that much more difficult than with most other art forms aside from architecture. Maybe that's part of the appeal of state- and country-spanning "conversations" of this sort? Most people are simply priced out of traveling enough to appreciate it? Meanwhile traditional sculpture relies on more general aesthetic principals and references other more-accessible media sufficiently that you don't need to see tons of it to get at least some of the point or intended sense of a given piece.

This kinda junk-drawer-looking abstract sculpture stuff hits me the same way the heavier, growlier kinds of heavy metal do, in that I can never tell whether I'm supposed to be laughing with it, laughing at it, laughing with it at some target of ridicule of which I am unaware, or not laughing at all, but they don't seem like they could be anything other than some form of comedy, even though their fans rarely act like it's the sort of low-brow fart-joke-adjacent thing it appears to be/sounds like to me, and which I don't mind in moderation but wears thin with me pretty quickly. Probably I just haven't been exposed to enough of it.
> Poor people aren't just poor because they have no money, and by and large throwing more money at them won't solve anything.

No, poverty is all about the lack of money. You cannot pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots. A relevant article about "the psychology of scarcity": https://thecorrespondent.com/4664/why-do-the-poor-make-such-...
SCRAM authentication looks like a nice security improvement also. No description on the site but http://paquier.xyz/postgresql-2/postgres-10-scram-authentica... gives a good overview.
As US citizen, the Christian version of sharia law would be worse than what I have today, yes.
Unless I've misread your link, the 200Gt/year loss is the net between gain from snow and loss from calving. Your claim in your post was that Greenland was gaining 50Gt/day. This was not backed by your link. It literally isn't in there.

If it were true then the chart should show well in excess of 200Gt accumulated for this year so far, and it does not. In September they have so far accumulated 50Gt which is in line with previous years at this point.
Iirc they disable updates for all cars when they're junked, so they would have been disabled by the time he got it.
In the US at least, there is a hard cutoff at a certain price point. Beyond that price point the only legal way is to run through the procurement office with all that entails- written specs, detailed contracts, long term execution, etc. Because the procurement process is so complicated, the only companies that WIN the process are those that are optimized for this (rather then, say, writing software or building roads). Often the contracting companies will not even plan on doing actual work, they only specialize in GETTING work and subcontracting it out.

The whole thing is designed to prevent some mid level beauracrat from kicking his brother in law some project for 10% more then "market rate" ... instead we pay 300% more because every project has to get rolled up into some monolithic thing that's big enough for the big contracting companies to get involved.
I hope that the USDS-inspired CDS can prevent these situations in the future, and improve the procurement requirements.

https://digital.canada.ca/
I've worked with the larger version of this in the past (Beaglebone Black). I really think the two 2 200MHz PRUs [1] are very neat, allowing some nice realtime applications with a standard *nix distribution. They can run without the main CPU, and even wake the main CPU, for lower power tasks. You can access the PRU memory directly with mmap, and the PRU access to system memory space.

I used them to bit-bang MDIO (used by ethernet PHYs) and JTAG for debugging and burning fuses (strict timing requirements) in an IC.

It's cheap, easy to use, with good support, and much less of a barrier than an FPGA+ARM solution.

[1] http://elinux.org/images/d/da/Am335xPruReferenceGuide.pdf (page 14 for block diagram)
That looks pretty neat and I'll have to try it out.

Personally, this is my bare skeleton for working with the PRU: https://gist.github.com/jadonk/2ecf864e1b3f250bad82c0eae12b7....
That was my impression from the article too. The works they talk about there don't really wow me or justify the title. From Wikipedia, I learned:

1. He was one of the first sculptors to incorporate motors and movement into what had up until that point been an entirely static artform.

2. Related, he invented the hanging mobile as a sculptural style. The fact that it changes its shape and orientation at the whim of the winds was an innovation.

3. He invented wire sculpture.

Given all those, I can see how he gets acclaim.
I am not arguing that supply if finite, I am arguing that extraction of supply is finite and if you deincentivise millions of people from working while throwing money at them, you further reduce supply and exacerbate long term economic problems.

>So you're using a stereotype to make your argument? Come on

The argument could have been made without the stereotype, I agree. But it is an open secret in NYC that people, especially in Soviet neighborhoods, abuse the welfare system. I'll drop it though because I only have anecdata.

If you lived in poverty, surely you at least caught glimpses of all the people who were not quite as noble as your friends? I do not deny that there are truly hard working poor who need a little extra to climb out. I merely argue that there is a much higher proportion of poor who dont care to learn or work than you are acknowledging, and those are the people who will ruin any UBI experiment.
Whoever downvoted me... it's bad form to downvote someone just because you disagree with them. I personally upvote people I disagree with all the time. Downvoting is for people who aren't being constructive. Now if you felt my comment was not constructive... carry on downvoting

Edit: To clarify, downvoting people you disagree with just turns up and downvotes into a popularity contest where saying things that might be minority opinion... DRM may not always be bad... are censored. One of the things I like about HN is someone can have a different opinion than the majority and not get downvoted to oblivion. I for one do not want to see downvotes weaponized.
Isn't the latest thought that it's to take the brain down for maintenance to flush out debris from processing done during the day? (citation needed)
Mark Zuckerberg on Russian election interference
> Overall basic income is theft from workers

Disagree, basic income is equitable distribution of a collective legacy of increasingly advanced tools and a necessary recognition of limited natural resources and duty to share a small portion to every human being on the basis of birth into our society, aka social contract.
Its not so much a thing that all bloods do. Its just those of us uninitiated into gangs sometimes hear about their esoteric rituals and it can get ridiculous. For instance, some gang members where I grew up put glasses of water under their bed each night and threw it out the next morning because the devil used it. The practice has a lot in common with other rituals around the world, but I heard about it on a school bus and didn't get it.
> But outside regular work hours, it's hard to get a meaningful return on those hours - [...]

I mostly agree. Of the top of my head, installing solar panels mostly competes with leisure and other DIY projects.

Perhaps also with commuting, but for most people the decision on how long to commute can't be altered in the short term.
This is tangential to the article, but one of the more interesting and less-discussed aspects of Seveneves is the ubiquitous surveillance that everyone is living under. Most characters hardly give it a thought most of the time. The way that this later becomes essentially an epic myth composed of original footage, and how it has tangible effects on subsequent cultures, is kind of fascinating.
Can you expand what those numbers mean? I assume they are metrics for the adwords but I have very little knowledge in what you are speaking on.
No problem, and this is a good reminder to test critical systems periodically. Same goes for backups! Good luck.
You can. Not while turn-by-turn is active (presumably because Apple doesn't want to distract drivers), but outside of that, hit the (i) button and "Report an Issue" is an option.

What's neat about this is if you report a map error and they correct it, you actually get a push notification telling you that it's been fixed.
"Experienced programmer" can be a hindrance to learning SQL, depending.

You will need to set aside all your imperative, procedural habits. To use SQL effectively you need to think in terms of sets, unions, intersections, and declarative statements.

If you find yourself thinking "row at a time" you might need to stop yourself. It's not always wrong, but a common mistake many programmers make when first learning SQL.
Whoops, meant to specify TI.
And, yet, your out of hand dismissal fits very well with my assumption that you aren't actually interested in hearing a solution other than UBI.

I am not betting on a political, ideological or moral change. Whether we establish a UBI or go with something akin to my above proposals, these are equally political solutions. Neither will happen without a great many people working to make it happen.

The only question is what kind of future do we want? I think UBI makes no sense and will not work. Universal basic health care would be vastly easier to implement, if only because it has already be done in multiple other countries, so we have models to borrow from. Yet, people think that is a bridge too far and will not happen.

So, to me, the good news is that UBI is unlikely to happen and Gig Work is already on the rise, such as Uber, writing services and delivery services. The challenge here is just getting the word out that such services need to be a win-win scenario for both company and workers.

I am already living this reality. Gig Work has been an ideal solution in the face of a medical situation that makes a normal job not work for me. So, I know firsthand that Gig Work can be a terrific option for the worker if it isn't designed to screw over the little guy.

That can totally coexist alongside factories with very few workers. The rise of the machines does not have to be a terrible thing for humanity. The Industrial Revolution raised standards of living and quality of life across the board. There is no reason The Second Industrial Revolution cannot do the same.

But we do need to set that as a goal and work towards it. My only real concern is that, currently, some very rich and powerful people do not see the 99 percent as actual human beings. They see them as sheeple. And the solutions that grow out of such contempt tend to be self fulfilling prophesies that force powerless people into the narrative imposed on them from high.
Define "big data"? You can buy normal tier 1 server vendor hardware with 6T of memory.

If it fits into 1 machine or a few, it isn't "big data".
This is a test of charity, not UBI.

1. The money involved is voluntarily donated, not confiscated from taxpayers - an essential difference between tax-funded vs charity.

2. 3000 recipients is vanishingly small on a state or federal level. When everyone gets their monthly $UBI check, supply-and-demand dictates that "free money" will be duly devalued, with prices of low-end essential goods/services rising to match (say, basic rent rising to $1000/mo).

3. Many who currently produce wealth to make ends meet - paying income-scaled taxes included - may very well be enticed to "go Galt" by seeking a self-sufficient lifestyle where $UBI/mo covers all cash needs without one having to get a job per se. (I find this option quite attractive.)

4. Old aphorism: "tax what you want less of, subsidize what you want more of." UBI implements/enforces this by punishing the productive and rewarding the idle. Yes, some people will use the opportunity to do laudable activities - which won't necessarily contribute to the economy. Yes, some people will use this to bridge current welfare-to-work transition issues - which are better handled by narrowly fixing that bridging problem without having to involve the entire population. Yes, more people will wonder why they're pulling other people's economic weight, and consider the merits of humble low-income living.

5. I realize Y Combinator is in the business of giving money to people to encourage productivity. Methinks they're too used to working with the rare hyper-productive, and don't grok how many people are quite content with low-cost no-effort zero-productivity living.
I am interested in the answer to this question, too.
TL;DR

For real growth to happen, paychecks need to be fatter.

But not all companies are willing to tie performance with pay.
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This is immediate job position is not a guarantee of more long-term work, but a per project contract.
Having used Flask on two large projects I would never want to use it again, it gives too much freedom and the community isn’t as good as Django and the application context means applying logic from the app to other things is more convoluted. In the end you can come to a Django project and know how it works, often that isn’t the case when inheriting Flask projects. Sqlalchemy is also very slow and complicated and I prefer Django’s less complicated ORM.

After using something as simple, clear and elegant as Phoenix and Elixir I never want to go back.
DC Court Appeals rule stingray tracking require warrant under 4th amendment [pdf]
Just...wow.

* Native partitioning

* Parallel query

Honestly, some very welcome quality of life improvements for use cases even outside of what I would consider "Big Data".

> This means that users no longer need to create triggers for routing data; it's all handled by the system.

Trigger routing has always been a performance foot gun...to the point that it's sometimes better to handle table routing in application logic. I wonder what the performance is comparatively between this new "native" partitioning and existing methods (triggers and rules) and whether or not this makes application routing always inferior.
”This goes back to my original point regarding capital controls: previously discreetly tolerated, their violation is now openly acknowledged. If you stroll through Hong Kong you'll find invoicing services being openly advertised.”

Like all other forms of rule enforcement, things are tolerated until they aren’t tolerated anymore.

You’re trying to extrapolate a story far beyond the evidence — just because “most” laundering happens another way doesn’t mean that bitcoin isn’t significant. It’s obviously significant to the government: they’ve cracked down on it.
This wasn't an accident, it deliberately looked up domain looking string against a DNS server. Don't patronize me, going by your twitter picture, I've been at a command shell longer than you've been alive, I damn well know the difference. I also know that doing DNS lookups (the the user's chosen DNS server, rather than some secret one) on domain-name looking data isn't evil or completely unreasonable. He should have made it clear and opt-in rather than opt-out as it was, but by no means was this a vulnerability. If the user can't trust their domain server for domain-like data, they shouldn't use that server.
Ah, his fame, at least, makes sense then. I've definitely seen other mobiles and wire sculpture that I like.
Judge shoots down local drone ban, citing FAA objectives
Is that really your only alternative?
You cannot pull yourself up by anyones bootstraps if you dont care to, or are so far removed from functional society that you dont know how a job works, and there is no one in your family or circle of acquaintances to teach you to learn because your community is as unortunately poor and ignorant as you are.

UBI is not the answer to the modern ghetto. Regardless of race. We much first address problems with culture and education. Or at the very least do that in conjunction with UBI.
How to hack your brain (for $5K)
I think there is one fundamental point people should understand when pondering macro issues: for a closed system the amount of savings is equal to the amount of debt. Every dollar of debt is a dollar of savings for the debt holder and vice versa (the first part is always true; for the second part to be true we can either take a narrower view of what savings are or we can view "debt" a little more expansively to mean all financial assets -- the key is that claims are always matched by obligations). So China having a lot of debts is equivalent to Chinese having a lot of savings since most of the debts are held domestically. With that in mind maybe people can get a better perspective on the "what if" the credit boom stops.
Looks like they just gave themselves quite a bit of time for testing. http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2017-Septemb...
The website seems to be under load, the file is 70MB! Luckily the Internet Archive has a recent copy mirrored here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170903204630/http://oism.org/n...
Actually, I believe you can already run webpack-dev-server with a multi-config just by making your webpack.config.js export an array instead of a single object. The article seems unaware of this capability, but you should be able to have both builds be part of a single webpack config file.

See https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server/blob/master/ex... for a simple example. I've used this before for web worker scripts (which require a different environment than the DOM) alongside a normal build.
>A developer may also fail in communicating how much time will something take

Estimation is not a communication skill.

>explaining clearly to pm why is feature harder to implement

A PM is probably not interested and does not need to know why they just need to know that it is hard to implement. I've typically done that by assigning a number (1, 3, 5, etc.) to a story indicating its difficulty.

If your communication problems extend to not being able to state numbers then you do not have a lack of soft skills, you have crippling brain damage.

>He may be unable to explain why more time for refactoring

Developers usually don't have to explain to other developers why more time is needed for refactoring, showing them the code in need of a refactor is usually enough.

PMs may ask why but they don't need to why and they probably don't care why anyway.

>It is not possible to write specs completely without ambiguity - just like no one writes code without bugs.

And? Going over to the PM and asking them to clarify a few details isn't exactly the hardest part of a developer's job. Average levels of communication skills suffice. It only becomes challenging when the PM writes horrendously ambiguous specs.
Facebook Says It Will Release Russian Election Ads to Congress
Oh but this was about money. Saving money for a multinational corporation that crushed its rivals in Europe. Nice job.
Yes. Though of course, solar panel installation still has opportunity costs.

Eg even if you don't want to get a second job, you could still be lazing about, spend time with family, do another DIY project, or even commute to a job in that time.

(Commuting decisions usually can't be changed in the short term, but in the long term it's up for grabs just as anything else as people contemplate moving or changing jobs.)
Android Studio 2.3 and the corresponding gradle versions embedded in android projects throw a hissy-fit on this java version. Android studio refuses to select the jdk9 directory (says "Please use JDK 8 or newer"), and gradlew quickly fails with "Parsing the SDK, no caching allowed, Failed to notify project evaluation listener, javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema"...?
If we can't have reasonable licensing requirements, then we need a "right to be erased" like they have across all of the European states.

If 140MM Americans (or even 50MM, let's be reasonable) told Equifax that they wanted to be removed from their database in response to the breach, and Equifax was required to honor those requests, it would be a step in the right direction.

That would be enough to put some "fear of God" into the shareholders at the remaining credit reporting agencies, and it does not sound like an unreasonable request at all. Companies going forward would have a disincentive to do business with Equifax, because 1/3 of people are missing from their database. (Instead, we're all permitted to buy more "Credit Freeze and Monitoring" solutions from Equifax, for the low price of $0, plus a low low payment of $10 every time we need to freeze or unfreeze our credit again to access it in the future. So let's dig the hole even deeper!)

Citizens that want to have credit would not be incentivized to remove their credit history from all three reporting agencies; as you probably already know, having no credit history is worse than having a bad credit history.

Then again, if we allowed that, then what's to stop those hackers from benevolently making the request on behalf of all 140MM people whose information they have appropriated.

There is no negative consequence that will incentivize Equifax to do better next time, if the result of this breach and their subsequent bungling of the response, is that they are allowed to continue operating their business without interruption.

Take the keys to the car away from the drunk driver. That's step one.
Does this affect Hipchat?
heh :) reminiscent of something like equifaxsecurity2017.PROPER.REPACK
Oracle Announces Java SE 9 and Java EE 8
its one thought and it answers nothing
It is possible to plan for survival in the aftermath of a limited nuclear exchange (and other non-Earth-destroying disasters).

One's life could still be made quite miserable by even a mid-size disaster, yet so many people are unprepared, sometimes even proudly and deliberately so.
The General Public and Veterans characterize addiction differently
Likewise. I've worked with some of my university's databases that have a field for SSN, but don't contain SSNs anymore. We now call them Structural Support Numbers, or something equally silly.