skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this inner ring suburb is dying then the city is also dying. Inner ring suburbs are usually one of the first to benefit as city workers, looking for a shorter commute, buy housing nearby.

My city, Miami, dilapidated shacks are being snatched up for 300-500k, cash. And they are <20 minutes from the city core. That is what a ring suburb in a thriving city looks like.

If they aren’t getting developers sniffing around driving up the tax base then merging with the city won’t fix it.
"How to make money by posting a pretty boring article to HN and asking for book purchases at the end of it"
Sounds like that guy needs to check out Powershell.

It has a lot of the missing features that bash is missing according to the author and is a very underrated scripting language.

It has support for linux and you may write Cmdlets in Python or other languages for that matter.
What Works and What Doesn’t Work with Millennials?
Sorry I wasn't clear enough making my point:

I'm surprised that the implementation of a (simple) physical button was done badly.

I'm surprised that the (surely more difficult) hotword detection works so well.
The reason is that review papers offer a roadmap of the field allowing new researchers or generally anyone interested to understand what has been studied and what still remains to be examined. It's incredibly useful because otherwise you would have to manually read hundreds of research papers and synthesize that information manually into a clear picture (which they do for you).
What I take from this article? An unexperienced person tried to build a new business in an industry that didn't have the experience in.

Few things wind me up more than people who've never worked in a kitchen/restaurant deciding to open one because it's their dream. They think they can do it better, or just that it will be fun and rewarding.

Over here it tends to be people buying a pub, because they like the idea of hanging out behind the bar serving the odd drink whilst the money rolls in. How hard can it be?

It's infuriating and I have zero sympathy
It's not either or. Poorer people are essential to the operation of the city economy but simultaneously undesirable on an individual level. It's classic NIMBY.

It's not about them being a drain on the _city_ resources, but undesirable beneficiaries of the wealthier denizens' "resource pool".

I'm not arguing in favor of the OP's point or against yours: it's much less economics driven and much more socioeconomic status driven. People don't want to share their neighborhoods with those less well off than them because they want to feel metrically superior wherever possible ("I can afford to live here and they can't") and they don't want to "bring down property values" because there's someone that doesn't meet their vision of "minimum acceptable wealth" living withing a stone's throw of themselves.
It's there only if you listen to a radio, not to a playlist.
> So why do you assume that huge numbers of other people would?

Because it's already happening

Most people don't have the skills to get a better job neither they have the will

Look at the numbers of hartz IV in Germany

The choice is a basic income or a shitty job with no basic income

And they are almost forcing people to work in what they call "mini jobs" to lower the number of unoccupied people, but it's not really working

If they could all have a basic income, regardless of working or not, they would not work, but have more children and more income for the family
A test is only a test if it can fail.

All the projects I've seen, even the ones where there are "minimum viable projects" have too much pressure from above (or have already been sold) so they aren't allowed to fail.

So I agree testing should happen as early as possible, but too often they're not real tests because failure isn't allowed.
It does seem that way from my reading: “Typically, the loser of a bar fight who later initiates a lawsuit has been beaten up pretty badly” and fights lasting “less than 60 seconds” (I’m thinking less than 10 seconds).

But the author is talking about ones that lead to litigation, presumably a minority but one which is by definition self-selecting.

I also hadn’t considered people trying to get back in after being chucked out (which does seem to happen in a surprising number of cases) as “bar fight” though I can imagine that also leads to litigation and is all the same from the insurance company’s POV.

In any case these days I tend to drink in a higher class of joint (excepting Antonio’s in Palo Alto where I still go)
> People should not be limited to access information and not judged upon it.

Googles recipes for anthrax and home made bomb making techniques

I'm gonna be judged on that
I still prefer the human radios like KEXP, Radio Paradise and NPR All songs considered. Nothing is better than a human radio programming.
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> Because living a basic existence isn't very attractive to the vast majority of people

The vast majority of people are already living a fulfilling basic existence

It's the minority of people from big cities and great ambitions that maybe would not like it
> Why do the rich keep moving farther away?

Rich enough to feel they’re above a mere apartment[1], not rich enough to afford a condo.

[1] american also seem obsessed with the idea that houses are for owning and apartments are for renting. Having grown up in buildings full of people/families owning their apartments and sharing costs of building upkeep, I never understood this. Maybe the co-op approach is a remnant of socialism and I’m the weird one.

Personally I’d much prefer to own a nice flat downtown than to waste my life commuting.

Sharing space with the hoi polloi is half the fun of living in a city anyway. Gives your neighborhood some character, interesting people to talk to and to see out and about.

Nothing worse than a neighborhood full of your average middle class suburbanite to drain all the life out of a place. I’ll never forget how utterly terrible living in Menlo Park was. shudder

Edit: sorry that is probably offtopic. My initial point was that real estate is actually more expensive closer to city centers. Maybe “the rich” aren’t so rich after all.
Honest question. Why do you feel this way about a hub, and not about your smartphone?

(assuming you have one)

Is it because, although your smartphone has the ability to listen to you in the same way, it is not the stated aim of the device?
Kaspersky is preoccupied with this group, that by their own description, targets state actors that are hostile to the US. They've obsessively documented 500 of their alleged attacks worldwide, which would be negligible blip on the radar for any normal, purely commercial cyber-security company.

You keep saying this, and it is completely wrong which detracts from your point (which is right!).

All commercial cyber-security companies collect and report on hacking groups.

Here's the Mandiant/FireEye report on APT-1: https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/services/pdf... and here is the APT_28 one: https://www2.fireeye.com/apt28.html

Here's the report by a group of companies on the Chinese Axiom group: http://www.novetta.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Executive_...

And finally, here's the FireEye one I linked to previously talking about the Equation Group: https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/company/even...

The only government that may and probably does employ Kaspersky is the Russian one.

That's not true either as a quick Google shows, eg: https://www.crn.com.au/news/kaspersky-to-protect-prime-minis...
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So, we need to be able to successfully establish a self-sufficient off-world colony in less than a human lifetime after we detect the events that precede a super-eruption. ;-)

Outlook not so good.
Where did you read "letting the FSB know about this contractor so they could target and breach his machine."

I somehow missed to see that anybody but you claims that, so please give some link. I also, like the parent poster, only read that the antvirus program, as it should, collected the virus to the company servers.
They still prefer men that can hunt and chop logs

But you can't if you have to go to work in the city
I immediately think of the very relevant XKCD about standards https://xkcd.com/927/

Over my career as a developer I've learned to just embrace whatever I'm working on. Soon enough I learn the peculiarities of the language and framework, and I'm productive. Most of the time the productivity gain from the perfect language and/or framework is minor, compared to the time I spend thinking about a solution.

Personally I'd just select a reasonably available tech, say F#, and use that if I want to write my scripts in a functional way. Over time you make your own library of useful functionality, and you don't have to fight your way around the language because you get to know it well.
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As soon as I start adding ifs and battling to remember the exact syntax I give up and move to Python and argparse. Recently I've started using the Begins[1] library to make useful command line tools and scripts even more quickly. I appreciate it's less and less portable at this stage but so much more productive. Most of the time these scripts are very specific anyway so it's not a concern.

The other thing I've noticed amongst peers is that I'm usually the only one (or one of a limited few) that remotely understand the shell script too. So I'd serve the team better writing it with Python. YMMV with that of course.

[1] http://begins.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
A lot of what you said sounds so obvious, yet I guess its really not since much of that is often missing from visual languages :)

(3) this is very true and simplifies things a lot! Functional languages largely do this anyway, so there is precedent for this already in textual languages. Iteration was always a stumbling block for me in my visual-language-design escapades because, while feedback-loops are a natural way of looping in dataflow languages, they added too much complexity (for example, Max's left-to-right execution order -- I really don't like the horizontal positioning of blocks to affect the execution!), but if the language doesn't have loops at all outside of looping "functions" like map, reduce, range etc, that problem largely goes away to be hidden inside the implementation of these constructs. Nice.

EDIT: Just re-read the tutorial and I see that you do support recursion. I suppose this is the building block for the higher order constructs? Just like many textual functional languages :)

> I've begun work on dependent types.

I've looked at your language before (because dataflow languages interest me), but I didn't realise how much was going into the type system. I will be very interested to see a working version when you are ready to release something. Dependent types sound pretty awesome in any language, so I'm especially eager to see how that plays out in a visual language with a real type system!
It's absurd to suggest that the NSA is the guiding hand behind the IME. For one thing, the enterprise use cases for the thing are quite obvious, so it's not like the NSA would have had to compel Intel to design and implement it in the first place. And if there weren't a demand for it, there's no way the US government could COMPEL them to make the business decision to undertake a massive change to their core product. Nor could they realistically bribe them to do it, not because the government lacks access to funds to make a sufficient large hypothetical bribe, but because Intel is a huge publicly traded multinational. How many employees do you think worked on the IME? How much money do you think it cost? Maybe the NSA has access to some unaccountable billions to throw; would Intel be able to explain that windfall in its books? Perhaps. But how many people would have to keep quiet in perpetuity about all of this? It just keeps stretching believability the more you think about it, like all conspiracy theories that involve more than a handful of actors.
Apart from the free trial mentioned by sqrt17 (orange "Get started free" button at http://bluemix.com/), you can find open source (Apache 2.0) SDKs for different languages.

The one I used for NodeJS:
https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk

It was useful to read the source code to figure out some aspects I didn't find in the documentation.
The volcanic winter is not much better.
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Havannah [1] is somewhat go-like and is perfect as a pencil and paper game, as stones are never removed. I've been playing on photocopied hex grids for years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havannah
I saw an advert this morning on Twitter for Watson Content Hub. I checked it out[1]. Honestly it looked underwhelming as the only part that Watson came into play was auto-tagging the contents of an image when uploading. Using the Watson branding for such a narrow aspect of the product seemed more like marketing wishes than actual innovation.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/products/watson-content-hub
Daily reminder people are using Apple for everything including their daily banking with Apple pay and Apple wallet.

Apple is sitting on a gold mine. Meanwhile OnePlus is just a phone maker. Something to keep in mind.
EdgeML: machine learning algorithms for edge devices
He was born in Scotland so that was never going to work, lol
Owners:

1985–2007: Navteq

2007–15: Nokia

2015–present: Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Navinfo

2016–present: Tencent, GIC Private, Intel

On 3 August 2015, Here was sold to a consortium of German car makers Audi, BMW, and Mercedes. On 4 December 2015, the consortium completed the acquisition for 2.8 billion euros (2.9 billion US dollars).[33][34] As of December 2015 the company had 6500 employees.[35]

In December 2016, Navinfo, Tencent and GIC Private Limited (the Singapore sovereign wealth fund) agreed to buy a 10% stake in HERE.[34] In January 2017 it was reported that Intel was taking a 15% stake in the firm.[34]

Captain Wikipedia flies away.
There's no reason that I can see not to combine both explicit and implicit rating. If I really love a song let me mark it as such, but also feed things that I've chosen to listen to/skip/add to my library into that algorithm (possibly with a lower weight).
Slide deck : https://storage.googleapis.com/dawn-site/varma-edge-of-ml.pd...
There is no single source for the article.

It refers to a "person familiar with the case" when they explain how an NSA guy exposed his malware to Kaspersky.

It refers to different sources which discuss how any malware might have made its way from Kaspersky to the NSA -- unnamed "information security analysts" (they think the KGB hacked Kaspersky), "other experts" (they say the Russian's version of PRISM picked it up) and Steven Hall, a former spook with no disclosed ties to the case (he says Kaspersky is "likely to be beholden to the Kremlin").
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The beauty of bash scripts is that anything with u+x in your PATH, aliases and user-defined functions become a first-class citizen with the same interface. The usual plumbing with pipes and redirection -- and sometimes some more advanced stuff like process substitution -- is often all you need.

Moving to Python, say, makes the control flow and the "software engineering" easier, for sure. However, don't underestimate the power of grep, sed and especially awk. I wouldn't want to reimplement a half-arsed, presumably non-bug-free version of awk in Python when I could have just used awk in the first place.
One of the biggest drivers of the disaster that was Soviet collectivization was a big fear that Lenin was wrong (he was) in his early claims that peasants would support the Bolsheviks.

Classical Marxism is based in part on a hypothesis that a socialist revolution has a number of preconditions, one being an advanced capitalist economy (Russia of course did not meet that), and a second one being that as a consequence of that, a society with a large working class majority (Russia did not meet that either).

Lenin "worked around" this with a pamphlet published in the early 1890's where he argued that Russia was special: In Russia the large number of landless peasants would come to the support of the socialist revolution and make it possible for a socialist party to take control. Coupled with his idea of a "vanguard party" leading the masses, he believed this would allow Russia to basically "skip capitalism".

The big problem with that, of course, was that it never happened: In the elections for the Constituent Assembly arranged by the Provisional Government after the February Revolution, the Bolsheviks got a minority, with almost all their support in the big cities, while the peasants largely voted for more moderate parties - including the socialist SR/Left SR and Mensheviks. So the Bolsheviks went into their coup (the October "revolution" was a coup against the socialist-led Provisional Government; the Tsar had already been in house-arrest for months) in a situation where they must have known that the odds were most peasants would oppose their regime.

Collectivization then must be seen against a backdrop where the Bolsheviks not only had theoretical reasons to want to minimize the peasantry (trying to "leapfrog" capitalism), but also had very practical reasons to want to try to forcibly mold the peasantry into working class: they were afraid that leaving the peasants be would sow the foundations of further opposition.

Lenin relented a bit after the civil war, with New Economic Policy (which allowed limited market economy), but as soon as he died, Stalin pushed collectivization much harder and further, basically on the basis that while he couldn't eradicate farmers, he certainly could do whatever he could to try to turn farming into an industrial job.

So while they undoubtably also hoped to find ways of increasing productivity, it's worth realizing that a lot of decisions they took also had another purpose of basically trying to find a way of "farming without farmers" that was politically important especially for Stalin, and that made many possible concessions that might have mitigated disastrous outcomes completely politically unpalatable for the Bolsheviks because they especially early on feared for their power base. E.g. even the concession they did make under Lenin (NEP) were unpalatable enough for Stalin to reverse them.

It doesn't excuse what they did in any way, of course, but it goes so way towards explaining why they persisted in at times disastrous policies even after they'd clearly learned about the consequences - maintaining power remained more important for them than getting good outcomes.
Keep in mind that i7's get hyper threading, i5s don't. Small MHz increases don't make the same difference as extra (virtual) cores.
Have you met our lord and savior, Ammonite Shell on Scala? http://ammonite.io/#Ammonite-Shell

It has same terse syntax as bash but much more structured (and easy to add more) because language is powerful. The downside is its slow, but that might have changed already with Scala Native.

The key is it is full scala with some extra niceties that do the stuff bash does. So you get full power of a programming language, extended down to do stuff bash does. Better approach IMO than extending a shell "up" to more and more expressive power towards a quirky programming language.
I like to think you're right, but given the cheaty nature of men, most would trick the system by having a large number of children, even with different women, it doesn't matter.

That's what they already do where children are subsidized by the state welfare, imagine what they would do if it would mean another salary in the house.

It's only basic logic.
Wait, does it really send (suspected) malware home, without asking the user?
Papers : http://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/kumar17a.html
http://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/gupta17a.html
I completely understand taking the opportunity to give basic fire advice. But I have to know: what did you think the "next 24 hours" part was for?
Many of those things on the market here in Aus.

Ember defenders, for example: https://www.ebay.com.au/i/222172111808?chn=ps&dispItem=1
Given that unlimited campaign contributions are a legal way to buy an election, it's clear democracy in the US faces much bigger threats than people talking to each other on the Internet.

I'm traveling through West Africa, I see the impact of unlimited money going into politics daily. It's not good.
You just need to figure how to survive the volcanic winter. It's not like the magma is going to cover the entire surface of the Earth.
I'd add Birth certificate and phone/laptop charger.
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For about 10 minutes I was just browsing comments here looking for why. For whatever reason I only thought of human threat as the possible scenario for your situation. Of course fires occur naturally too.

As for survival advice, I can cover the basics: Don't go die in a fire. :)
ilyash, I think you should see if http://www.oilshell.org/ might be worth your time. (not the author, but I respect it's goals)
Your ridicule is misplaced. We truly cannot trust the computers we use, from the silicon up.

To call that paranoia isn't naivity anymore, it's foolhardiness.
Instacart is down
I wonder which of these two options scales better
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Five Eyes > NATO > non-NATO

We actually have no insight into military secret services' infoflow.
Steal from the best, but don’t steal the wrong thing
If you had read the blogpost you'd know that doesn't help.
Really cannot remember how the mentioned little program worked with the "real" Winlogon, i.e. if it managed to hook "before" it the key sequence.

Anyway there are other ways, here is one:

http://www.oblita.com/interception.html

about midpage there is a sample to "intercept and block" the sequence.
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This game has been sold for a few years as "A fake artist goes to New York" (though it seems like the sort of thing that other companies could easily start selling too, so I'm not sure if that's the only one).
Paper of how govn't crack down VPN software published to IEEE conf IHMSC
The primary issue for me is that in protected mode, you can't copy to clipboard. So I can't take a note and send it to someone, I can't paste something into a ticket system, etc etc. I have to admit I'm pretty used to just clicking out of protected mode.
It is very easy for us humans to identify troll accounts. Why is it so hard for Twitter to take some precautions? I know the complexity can increase exponentially (relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1425/ ) but at least some basic measures like monitoring ip addresses and cross retweeting/liking could help filter out most of the basic troll accounts.

HN does it AFAIK, why can't Twitter?

Edit: From the downvotes, I think there is a misunderstanding. When I say troll-accounts, I mean automated or semi-automated accounts that are created for the sole purpose of creating a hostile atmosphere for people in the other camp. I don't call the people I disagree with as "trolls".
I always get my addons straight from github. That way I'm running the latest version and bypassing Mozilla.

But you have to be an advanced user, it is complex now to install an "unsupported" adon.