skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Well, you are basically fighting with me and your criticism of their remark was vastly more sympathetic than your criticisms of me. That is part and parcel of the pattern and it is incredibly insidious."

If I found gkya's comments more interesting than yours, then I'd be responding to them directly, and more openly discussing their comments. You could see this as argumentative if you want, but my main line of questioning was asking you to clarify a statement you made. If you can point to a single sentence I've said in our exchange that you found offensive I'd be interested to hear it.

> "I only mentioned my position as the top ranked woman here to advise you of my long standing firsthand experience. That's it. And yet it has become yet another reason for you to act like I am somehow doing something wrong."

I'm not suggesting it's wrong, I'm suggesting it's mostly irrelevant. I could say something like "I'm the most vocal proponent for Brexit on HN", and whilst that has a small element of truth to it, I don't think people hold it against me beyond a comment thread. I'll probably forget we had this chat in a week, and we may find ourselves agreeing on a different topic before too long. That's the impermanent, impersonal nature of HN, most of it isn't tied to identity, it's just people playing around with debating ideas and sharing experiences. What I'm saying is, I doubt people hold a grudge on HN, and if you choose to be openly female on HN and people like or dislike what you say, perhaps they're just liking or disliking what you say regardless of your gender.
Optimize your taxes, and invest in the lowest cost, most diversified funds you can get. (That's mostly index funds.)

Optimizing your taxes can mean investing in your own home. That's the opposite of diversified, but in a lot of countries the tax advantages are just too big to ignore.
If you want to extract the most value, and you have multiple cars in your family with 1 car being not mission critical, then you should always buy new, keep up with maintenance, and use them until they’re run into the ground.

As long as you have 1 car that someone doesn’t absolutely need, or at least everyday, then you have time to shop around when your oldest one breaks down.
You’re being so pedantic as to be completely wrong. Affordable does not mean that at least one person on the planet could theoretically purchase it.
The main things is that they waited until after everything was approved to add these demands on.

Frankly if I was the city I’d block any of their future developments. Screw these kind of dishonest games.
~18.8% is roughly 20% or every fifth student loan in the country. If 20% of your portfolio can't repay it's debt that's usually a bad portfolio.

In a simplified model : Assume you give 100 dollar to five people with the intent to earn 5 dollar on interest of each (total 25 dollar interest income.) If now one of them can't pay back the 100 dollar you lose the 100 dollar and the five dollar interest income. So instead of 25 dollar income you get (20-100-5 = -85 dollar).
To avoid this situation you start calling the guy (collections activities). Effecting your earnings again.

Of course one months in arrears is not immediately the road to immediate doom, but it is an early warning indicator.
Especially if you look into trends to understand the behavior of the portfolio.

In this case the early-stage delinquencies have been improving since 2014 and starting 2017 reversed that trend.
So if the trend continues this portfolio segment will grow again leading to more losses and collection activities.
As far as I'm concerned, It's their land. They can build office buildings right up to the millimeter of the easement line for all I care.

But they are actually going to still build some housing which is generous.
Yes.

It's a global network of these dense dots, each specializing in different thing, each exporting their specialties at prices that more bespoke or small-volume producers cannot even approach, and each producing different types of negative externalities for their local environment. You might be facing higher rent, but at least you're not facing cadmium mining runoff in the water, or lead in the water, or acid rain.

Probably.
The distance to an overhead GPS satellite is somewhere in the range of .07-.09 light-seconds. The planet's width is basically irrelevant when your goal is .1 second accuracy.
Just buy eg a three year old Toyota Corolla?

(Only speculating. Out of personal preference I only live in places where you don't need a car.)
You're exactly right and yet I don't really know how to fix it. Perhaps if Twitter opened up the verification process to anyone (free or paid) then I could limit to only those who are verified so I know I'm most likely talking with a real person.

Still, bots will get through the cracks but that has to be better than what is there, today. Right?
Be careful though, this is an easy argument into "just following orders." Which, nobody should ever be comfortable with that argument.
Prosecutors are as vicious as the people who elect them.

Or to be more exact it's very hard for a DA to be elected when they appear to be lenient on crime.

The prosecution and the policing parts of the criminal justice system can quite easily be influenced through the popular vote.
Yes, I meant to imply some amount of no-true-Scotsman in that rephrasing. On the one hand, I sympathize with the desire to define "conservative" in a way in which words actually mean things and it isn't just "I like the way I feel when I call myself 'conservative'", but it's also very easy to dismiss positions by saying "Well, that's not a real conservative."
It makes sense for an academic book to be published in an academic press. A mainstream press probably wouldn't be interested; the academic press would have the relationships with the academic bookshops which is more likely to reach the likely audience.
You have some very basic misunderstandings about urban planning & traffic patterns I’m afraid to say.
So I assume they'll also go after the Trump Organization then.

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/20/538387033/trumps-private-clubs...
Look up eg Sous Vide cooking.
Digital Content Micropayments
But the advertisers don't know anything about me personally. I don't really mind if I'm just an anonymized data point in a sea of millions.
Possible Negative Mass discovery (04-2017)
Ad absurdium arguments are my favorite :)

Totally understand the implications of EEZ, but at some point you have to draw the line else the line will become increasingly more arbitrary as countries try to fuzz the boundaries of what a continent is and is not. Why does any country get to lay claim on a chunk of seafloor that has been uninhabitable for land animals far longer than humans have been around as a species?
My previous MacBook worked 8 years - needed a battery replacement and an upgrade to a SSD. Granted it was a sluggish last year using it.

My current MacBook has lasted me 3 years already and unless something drastic happens I can see it lasting another 3 easily. Only issue is the battery replacement might be more costly (old MacBook had a removable battery). HDD performance shouldn't be a bottleneck for me either, but who knows what's around the corner in tech.

Obviously a gaming computer or something meant for advanced computing isn't going to last that long.
Yes good point. I guess it's too easy to look at those before us and laugh. I'm applying my framework of existence and being to a fact from the past. This should throw a Type error but my interpreter simply coerced the types and returned valid looking garbage.
H2non/baloo: Expressive end-to-end HTTP API testing made easy in Go (golang)
The whole point of this effort is because the language of the standard Miranda is supposedly too difficult to understand for some people...
Ikea is buying TaskRabbit because America’s DIY spirit is dying
I thought fee-based means you just pay them a fixed fee you agree on up front? (And their interests are aligned insofar as they want repeat customers and you to tell your friends to use them?)
This guy understands market principles.
I am interested to see where the librem phone goes but I am not sold on it yet.

I am excited about it, but do not like the idea of asking for donations/funding without having design completed yet... my concern is I give money then do not like a decision they have made.... in any case I am watching it closely, what about you?
Yes. Current setup runs a local DNS server which serves SRV records containing the local IP addresses and ports of services running inside FreeBSD jails. For instance, the payments service in one jail can communicate with the risk service running in another jail on the same host by sending an HTTP message to http://risk.local

Currently using dnsmasq but would like to use erl-dns once I finish wrapping it with an HTTP admin API.

https://github.com/aetrion/erl-dns
SOAP was the fad before REST. And spaghetti code is usually the result of fulfilling customer's requests without taking (/wasting, depending on your perspective) the time to rewrite & refactor.

This'll probably come across as depressing to most of the engineers in the audience, but I don't see this as an example of a company that did anything wrong. Rather, it's a company that did everything right but did it too early. They followed the fad of the early 2000s; there was no way to know then that a better fad would come out in the mid 2000s. And they're still around (and a "large corporation") now, which indicates that from a customer & business POV, they've actually been more successful than ~99% of other technology companies founded in that era.

If you're successful, you too can get to have the kindergartners of today complain about what an idiot you are. That's the best-case outcome, though: more likely, nobody will use your code or it will be thrown away a year later for the newer, shinier fad.

(The more positive spin on this is that our industry actually is making progress, and quite rapidly. What other industry can you look at the best practices of 15 years ago and say "What idiots we all were back then!"?)
I have a Thinkpad T-430 and the thing's great. I can strip it down to just the motherboard and display in less than 5 minutes.
Pipeline Patterns in Go
> The idea of using SRV records in general seems foreign even in the ops realm.

I'm not suggesting you use it but (as for how it works in general) look into how Microsoft's Active Directory works. They've had the "service discovery" problem figured out for going on two decades, including preferences for "closer" servers, weighting, and so on.

I'm no MS fan by any means but AD is one MS product that really is awesome.
I had this album on Spotify or Deezer, one of my favourites. One day something happened and it became un-listenable. It's like Sony came and picked a CD from my shelf. Well luckily there is YouTube. But with actual tools, like tractors, it's different. Tools tend to get personalised/modified to fit the particular routines of their users.
> I don't see it the same way, sure the power of the purse and all but if the Federal Government can't coerce states to follow immigration law as a condition of accepting some federal grants, we may as well say that the feds can't tie money to behavior and just let the chips fall where they may.

I'm confused, I wasn't making any case for that. I'm not sure where we got to Federal funding tied to specific program attributes.

> I get that women and men have different physical capabilities but why split it on gender? Why not split it on race? There isn't much racial equity in some sports, apparently some races can't compete as well as others and the demographics speak for themselves.

Do they, or is that primarily a matter of socioeconomics and class providing less traditional opportunities for certain ethnic groups, leading them to funnel effort in alternate areas, such as sports? It could also be a cyclical system, where many role models for a race are currently in specific areas (such as entertainment and sports) influencing newer generations. I wouldn't be comfortable attributing it to genetic variance of physical capability without a bit more info.
> You realize that the tax deduction for mortgages lowers the cost of rent by reducing the expenses involved in maintaining a large capital investment like a rental house

In a sense the does, but that's somewhat illusory. As with other businesses, any reasonable and necessary expenses of maintaining and managing the property being rented are deductible as business expenses for landlords; mortgage interest is, AFAIK, currently excluded from that only because, with the mortgage interest deduction, it would be double counted. Virtually no one who supports removing the mortgage interest deduction opposes the general notion of deduction of reasonable and necessary business expenses.
You are correct about current flash NVMe drives. The main benefit of NVMe over SATA is lower protocol overhead and more queues. However, it is expected that some sort of low-latency non-volatile storage will become available at some point and that will probably only make sense to put behind NVMe.

Intel's Optane is one example, although it isn't quite as fast or as durable as Intel's initial marketing claims.
I guess at least you know that it was just entertainment, and didn't delude yourself. Not worse or better than watching a movie or reading a novel.
You're arguing different things. You're using a plain English version of the definition of "affordable," beaner is trying to describe the real estate term of art "affordable housing."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_housing
I wish I had something worth saying to pay back your contribution in kind. But I don't. You've got a lot of interesting thoughts there. Nothing I strongly agree or disagree with. Nothing that leaps out as demanding my curiosity.
Fair point. I read it as an indictment of the unpredictability caused by the change to this administration, not just by the change to a new one, but you're right, it's a larger problem than that.
I wouldn’t value a guarantee of employment by a startup, especially not one measured in years. The nature of a startup is that it’s risky, and risky things fail. Unless they put up some type of bond or buy an annuity with the employee as a beneficiary, I don’t see how that works. And they wouldn’t be able to afford it anyway.
I don't think there's anything pedantic about it. The term "affordable housing" implies that housing which isn't subsidized isn't affordable. But the vast majority of housing is bought, sold, and owned by regular people without subsidizing. The term is not accurate at all. The fraction of housing that is only available to a number of people in the single digits is so small as to not be worth considering. "All but 0.0001% of housing is affordable" would be pedantic; "all housing is affordable" is not.
So why aren't there any tech co-ops?
They should use the metric of purchasing power, not just an abstract "growth". If anything purchasing power seems to be dropping for a lot of people.
One large factor the author misses is the staggeringly high rates of murder and violent death in non-state societies, in some instances reaching as high as 60%[1]

This is the core of Hobbes' description of pre-state societies as "nasty, brutish, and short". Prehistoric life was incredibly tough and brutal as there simply wasn't much room for error.

If someone is able to steal from you or mistreat you without repercussion you immediately become a target for every other bad actor in the tribe. In this environment reciprocal violence is rational. A neutral state actor with a monopoly on violence tips the incentives towards non-violent resolution of disputes.

In modern times if you are unemployed for a month you can collect a check from the government and move on with your life. In prehistoric times if you go a month without successfully hunting or collecting food you get to watch your children starve to death. Again, very very little room for error.

Neolithic life had it's own set of challenges namely famine, disease, and inter-state warfare. But over the long term it provided more cushion for common mistakes and the foibles of human nature. It enlarged the margin of error for survival compared to prehistoric peoples.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-e...
Why do you think that 101 is backed up? It's because there is no housing in Mountain View, and people have to live elsewhere.

There's so much room for more housing in Mountain View, and people are always like "Not here! I've got mine, screw you I'm pulling up the ladder."
Todolist: a todo comment based task manager
The problem is that the Valley wants to stay suburban and the market is demanding that it become a city. Google could put a set of huge towers on this land with housing and office space and retail.
Are there any recent studies that crunch the numbers on how much that would cost? Because as a debt free college grad earning ~16000 pre tax I'm still willing to commit a fair amount, call it 500 a year? but I have no idea if that's even close to enough if we assume it's progressive at the same rate as income tax.
Because I get frustrated with people. I feel like they refuse to even attempt to understand. They say to themselves "I'm a visual learner" (everyone is) or they seek solace in groups when mathematical notation is difficult to understand. It's ok if I don't understand this, and I don't even have to try, because lots of other people don't get it either!

If even an idiot like me can understand mathematical notation, anyone can. In particular, if you're able to understand code, you can understand mathematics. I get frustrated with the mental barriers people set up for themselves when learning mathematics.

I think it may even be cultural. I have heard that in China, for example, they don't have this aversion to anything that looks mathematical.
Mark Zuckerberg's Trust Problem
As the era of high interest rates is about to return, this 'right to repair' will be more pronounced. Not because of some ideology, but because people will have to repair electronics.
Tyson's Corner being "in the middle of Virginia" is the perfect Northern Virginian equivalent of the New Yorker's "View of the World from 9th Ave"
af·ford·a·ble
əˈfôrdəb(ə)l
adjective
inexpensive; reasonably priced.

Very little Bay Area housing meets this criteria.
Those candidates are 1 in 100, seriously. If you have a stack of CVs to filter, it literally is not worth looking at everybody's Github to check. Just filter by formatting and spelling and you're probably good.
Using bots to help businesses in Africa raise funding
The Underground City of Derinkuyu Could Shelter as Many as 20,000 People
I have never met anyone that doesn't do this. I must be living in a different bubble than most people here.
Golf tees. Good hard wood.
Wrigley Field is the home of the Chicago Cubs, a Major League Baseball team, for those unfamiliar with American sports.
An RPM with one file in it???? That would be more work than simply scp'ing the binary across.
> The server only has to send one bit back to the client!

As much as the example is a bad one because it leaks server-side info to an unauthenticated client, I've had scenarios where if you have > 3 ssh keys in your key-chain all ssh login attempts fail after 3 keys are tried & cause failures. I end up writing ~/.ssh/config entries; a lot of them for the client to remember which key to try first.

My favourite real-life bloom-filter story is the "unsafe URLs" list that is in Chrome - the "Safe Browsing Bloom" is a neat way to send out obscured information about the bad URLs without actually handing out a list to a user. The web URLs or domains which find a match in this, do need to be checked upstream, but it avoids having to check for every single request with a central service.

On a similar note, been playing with a variant of bloom filters at work called a Bloom-1 filter [1] which works much faster than a regular bloom filter which has a lot of random memory access for 1 bit reads.

[1] - https://github.com/prasanthj/bloomfilter/blob/master/core/sr...
An earlier version of this article was mysteriously removed from the front-page without reason, and the comments criticizing the move deleted.

Irony aside, let's hope this submission on a 'Trust Problem' fares better.
ee is the best minimalist text editor.
Getting started with Daydream development
This looks amazing. I know the "getting started" doc is missing at the moment, but any chance of a 4 line example of what I'd type on my computer to start trying this out?
Everyone is a visual learner but everyone can also understand a simple arithmetic expression. Everyone thinks almost completely in images. The only difference is that mathematicians have had more practice learning how to transform expressions into visual images. It's a bit like looking at sheet music and being able to hum it in your head.

Learning how to read sheet music isn't something that shouldn't even be attempted because you're an "auditory learner". I also think that spending a little extra effort to learn how to read an arithmetic expression is worthwhile and a skill we should foster in society.
After listening I have less hope this ever gets fixed.
It's worth pointing out that property taxes can't really be avoided in practice, cause we all need somewhere to live, and those taxes are filtering down in some form.
I'd be interested in that too. There are countries which implement it effectively.
Based off of some quick and dirty calculations for a GPS satellite at approximately 20,000km above sea level, the difference in distance between a satellite directly overhead and one straight out over the horizon is around 5500km.

That's actually only about 18ms difference in delay. Unless there's something I'm failing to account for here, you should be able to get more than 0.1s precision based off of a single satellite's signal.

Subtract a flat ~75ms to account for the minimum delay (~66ms @ 20,000km) and half of the variable delay, and you shouldn't really be more than about 9ms out.
Interesting that HAProxy believes it is incumbent enough to charge for directly copying a feature Consul has had for years. When I added Consul to my stack 3 years ago HAProxy was already looking behind the times... I don't think they can catch up for any new installation.
This times 100.

It is easy to sit around as a dev and complain about what the suits are doing, when the devs do all the work. I don't think the same devs would be very happy if they switched jobs for a day (and in the same thought, I don't think the suite would do that well coding either).

(Edit: I have only done the dev and founder role here. But I just had about 10 executives tell me what kind of treats I was in for. I believed them, just from what I had learned in two of the roles).
"buuuuuurn"
-Klaus
You have no way to enforce such a policy but not doing it is severly frowned upon.

We are all security experts with different degrees of paranoia, you won't find such a high usage of PGP, Signal and other tools in a different company.
How do you manage to spend 3k in IKEA?
Luminar inked Toyota deal…
it may cost more than just dollars and cents. I worry that the adage of "you get what you pay for" may start to apply.
Maybe what that means is that the economy (or perhaps society in general) is/are changing in ways that are genuinely new, and our understanding of it is lagging behind.
Well, for one, that requires you to have $100 to spare to register. Two, it requires your employer to be willing to hire you like that.
Yes, try Consul. It's extremely easy to configure and run.
The main issue there is that Ikea isn't owning the installation process. They should be making sure that they know who's doing the work, when they're showing up, etc.

And then tracking that, so if one group of contractors has consistent problems, they can be fired.
Some of their demos were very slow and reminded me of old java applets.
Bot god = PK Dick's "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_E...
First edition of HP Lovecraft's first novel up for auction