skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If landlords know exactly how much a large subset of their renters make, that is how much they will charge. Examples of this in action is looking at rent in military areas and rises in BAH. They follow almost exactly, with rent being in response to BAH change.

Any form of UBI will just be used as a wealth transfer to landlords that rent.
Rent a truck and move everything out?
Based on your comments, I've realized that I do the thing you're talking about. I'm going to change my behaviour as a result. Thanks for posting this.
> Land in the city is expensive. Land in suburbia was (and still is) far cheaper. For $xx/month you can have twice as much "visible wealth" at the expense of a longer commute

The same thing (i.e. the creation of suburbs) is now happening in Eastern Europe, at least it's happening in the country from where I'm from (Romania) without racism playing that much of a part in it. Yeah, some of the middle-class people who chose to move to the suburbs mentioned as motives "wanting to get away from the gipsies", but most of said middle-class people used to live in communist apartment-blocks where there were almost no gipsies (the latter mostly inhabit the oldish houses from the downtown area, formerly owned by the local Jewish community).

The main reason for people moving out to the suburbs are those that you underlined: it has now become economically feasible for many families to own 2 cars and to buy a piece of land and to build a house on it. That's it. It's nevertheless pretty interesting seeing us repeating the same urbanism mistakes that the US did in the 1950s-1960s and the Western European countries started doing from the 1970s. We're now at the phase where we like to invest money into building road-bridges over everything, in order to reduce commute times, as the saying goes. There are very few people (myself included) who still say that this is not the good way going forward and that we should learn from others' mistakes, but we're seen as either nostalgics ("why we would still invest in obsolete things like tramways? tramways are communist!") or as "know-nothings".
Great collection! it should also have Hangman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman_(game)
Other Spotify features include: your daily mix (like discover weekly, but daily, and providing an individual playlist per each genre), release radar, charts, suggesting songs given a playlist, and creating a radio from a song.
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I usually listen to music i already know well and like. It seems less distracting than discovering new tunes.
Amazon Patent: Drones Will Fly to Your Electric Car and Charge It While You Drive
I'd give some insights, but I don't want the stock price to go down before I liquidate. (Or get sued) Hoping Q3 earnings are good b/c of mainframe sales, fingers crossed!

I was hired to work on a 8+ digit contract to apply Watson, office mate and I (only engineers on the team) were laid off 2 months into our new jobs. Do what that company did, put cancellation clauses in any contract should IBM not deliver.
How would one do inline comments without block comments?

I don't know if Python's triple-quote can be used inline, but otherwise that seems like a good solution. I am not entirely familiar with Python comments, does any of his arguments apply to triple-quotes?
My bad, I was probably a bit aggressive and didn't read through. Thank you for correcting a few points.

However, I'm still convinced that calling Promises "memory unsafe" is largely incorrect:

- if it wasn't for the setImmediate, I insist the callback version would cause a stack overflow

- you can't create an infinite number of objects (promises in this case) linked to each other without expecting a memory overflow. If it works in the Future example, it means the Futures are somehow not connected to each other, which must violate the contract for Promises. Can a Future object be resolved/flatMapped more than once without rerunning, ie. does it cache its value? I suspect this is the difference between a Promise and a Future...

- "You can't have infinite loops with Promises" would make a better title

I'm sorry, however, for trolling.

Cheers
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> And knowing porsche and their customers, these won't be absolutely trashed like rental cars.

Not sure about that last one. I know about Porsche drivers taking care of their cars as well, but it’s when the cars are owned by them. That wouldn’t apply here so you’ll get people driving them harder than their own vehicles.
When the media writes about social media, what they mean is Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. None of these serve to democratize access to the general public given all those filters anymore than "letters to the editor".

Power to the people to express themselves? Give everybody the means to operate a self-hosted blog (that is, they and _only_ they are responsible for what is said and how).
TCO is classically a compiler/runtime optimization, but that's only because people didn't commonly implement fundamental control flow as libraries until relatively recently. Whether it is the runtime introspecting function calls to decide whether it can elide the current stack frame, or a futures library introspecting return values to decide whether the current future can delegate to the returned one, it's the same concept.

As for "weird universes", it is typically only functional programming languages that guarantee TCO as part of their standard. Most programmers live in a world where they can't rely on their implementation to optimize tail-calls, which is to say they don't make unbounded recursive calls. If they do, they end up with an insidious form of non-portable code.
Can you name a better source?
It would only matter to cryptographic code if an implementation somehow used floating-point, but the source-level conversion from floating-point to unsigned integer can also leak information in execution time when translated to x86 code:

https://godbolt.org/g/LqUDir

Other implementations purely in hardware or purely in software would be constant-time, but the x86, only offering an instruction for the conversion to signed integer, leads to a mixed solution in which the short sequence of instructions generated by compilers contains a conditional branch on the value being converted.
I wonder if concentrated sludge can be collected and processed in a specialized plant with higher efficiency, reaching market efficiencies.
Unbelievably, and as a complete shock to me given the fire-prone nature of this area, there is almost no information available other than "the fire was here". We all went on line expecting such simple and fundamental information, but there is none to be found. It is truly disgraceful that they don't have anything better than it's fine/evacuate. I literally need to check twitter/facebook once I am done typing this comment.

Edit: Just found a good facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/SCScanner/
> Orrrrr a good amount of racism lead to a great White Flight

That's reductionist and possibly even causally reversed, like saying bad yelp reviews are the reason a restaurant closed.

Rates of crime increased 600% (robbery) [1] in America overall during the 1960-1980. That's enormous. The increase in crime was mostly in urban areas, not rural, so there was even more than an 600% increase in some areas. This was well before Reagan's and Clinton's strategy of mass incarceration.

It's deeply unfair to suggest that a family - of any race - that decides to move to the relatively affordable, calm suburbs, where they can own a full home and have a backyard, and avoid the massive increase in crime - was due to "a good amount of racism" as the primary reason.

If your neighborhood violence increased by more than 600% over the span of 10 years, and you were having kids, you might just decided to move somewhere else, no?

[1] http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
Article has been buried soon after hitting the front page.

Given that it has more points and it is newer than some articles on the front page right now, I'm guessing I've hurt people's feelings.

As one of its long time visitors and contributors, I am disappointed by HN, but that's not news.
Commenting out whole sections of code incredibly useful for debugging and rapid prototyping.
For high-focus I reccomend rain.today (great site, btw).
Great with noise isolation headphones.

For "mechanical" work, I prefer Metal: the faster, the better.
Seems like this may have been less out of concern of bad press and more because of the author's agency as a journalist. I'd imagine a most bug reports have trouble standing out from the "noise" surrounding Google's day-to-day operations, but the author can make their request a little "louder" so Google noticed. Probably helps too that it sounds like the population of people with the home minis is currently pretty small (only attendees of the release event).

You'd think we'd have some sort of baseline for an "acceptable" number of queries. Alarm bells should probably go off if a home thinks people are talking to it 24/7.

Disclaimer: I work at Google and don't actually have any idea how any of this works.
PowerBI, SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services), ELK stack (i.e. Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana), Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (because you have DBeaver on the list)
I imagine the following transpired.

Team Member A: "We're going gold next week, Product decided we'll be including touch support after all - the Hardware guys worked out the kinks just in time"

Team Member B: "Hmm, that's a little tight. Perhaps it can be a simple change, we will re-use the tested code paths and only test additional touch integration"

Result: on_longpress(trigger_hotword());
I can't recommend Empty Wheel enough for in-depth analysis on these stories. For example: https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/10/11/on-the-kaspersky-hack/

These stories still are almost certainly revealing just a fraction of the story. All ignore Kaspersky’s reports laying out US and allies’ spying tools (explaining why Israel might hack Kaspersky and share the details, if not the work). And the most logical explanation for the FSB démarche is that Kaspersky — as they said at the time — reported the hack to their relevant law enforcement agency, which is the FSB, who in turn yelled at the CIA.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15441516
There was a performance question on SO I remember where the comprehension was 1 or 2 orders of magnitude faster.

That sounds really really weird. The worst I've seen is maybe a factor of 3-4 in some corner cases, largely related to how python does lambdas.
Triple-quotes are string literals, not comments. It's just that a string literal at the start of a function, file, or class is a docstring.
How to find out what Facebook knows about you
>breaking the media monopoly

Is more competition for imposing a narrative on the lives of others really what we need? It seems to inhibit individual users critical thoughts which would undermine democratic efficacy.
Sometime within last month it appeared for discover weekly too, at least on mac client - https://imgur.com/a/QJluP
I'm not talking about insurance fraud?

My only point was if you're a college student you probably aren't going to have the same amount and quality of items that someone more established has.

If you're a college student/low income/young you are likely to have, say, 1-2 bath towels bought from the Dollar Store; if you are more established then you're likely to have a nicer towel set that costs closer to $50. Those small items ($5-$50 each) are going to add up to probably be just as much, if not more, as any one expensive item. Every small thing matters.
Some people seem to be in denial about NSA. The body of evidence about the ties to private industry via programs like Prism and others is overwhelming for anyone with the barest curiosity.

Why would Intel go through all the trouble of creating ME or the broke AMD PSP at around the same time? This is hardwired in silicon, is not cheap to do and definitely needs huge business justification to initiate, implement and maintain. What's the business case?

Are they charging a premium for these features and disabling it for everyone else as they would if it was actually a 'premium' feature? Are they giving an option to those who don't want it to disable it without ado?

No, they are pushing it on everyone. That itself compromises ME. How do we know there is no NSL in effect forcing both Intel and AMD to implement this. Nobody does. But it is an intrusive piece of tech that has complete authority over your PC.
Hateful and destructive propaganda is also the cost of unfree speech.
Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing
The article gives a nice intuition about how encryption works using elliptic curves without going too deep into the math.

I'm curious for a similar explanation for how decryption would work though; a trapdoor function is nice and all, but it's only half of the story if there is no 'way out'.
Surely the solution is heredocs? You effectively define your own comment closing string at the comment opening point.
Echo chambers allow two form of messages. Messages to agree with, and messages to raise outrage (carrot and stick). Well thought out contrary opinions belongs to neither so the echo chambers blocks that from view.
Thinking about it a little more, we've listened to a lot of Moana / Frozen / Disney on my Spotify account and none of that has come up in the Discover Weekly, so I guess they filter for it somehow already. Though I guess when they compare to other people with the same tracks you'll probably get a bunch of listeners that fall into a similar category anyway. Also, it doesn't sound like the number of times you play a track adds a huge amount of weight anyway.
Yeah, the NYT article listed 2,000 when I posted it but I have a style preference for describing small thousands as hundreds.
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They were already parked across the street in a windowless van so it wasn't really that dedicated.

"I iz here frum da Google tu replace unit, yes?"
No, of course not, but it’s way easier in Bash because of the first-class-ness of commands. In Python, you’d have to mess about with the subprocess module, etc.
Many editors allow you to select the section and line-comment it as a whole.
Touch Surgery Are Hiring Senior Software Engineers...
You can always customize the vehicle, you're just required to return it to its original state. Obviously this means no racing wings that require drilling into the trunk, but you can add a roof rack if you've got the spring mounts in the roof for it, you can wrap the car or swap out OEM tiers/lighting, etc to your heart's content.
The best way to make money with grep/sed/awk is to become sufficiently l33t in them, you can be gainfully employed by others to "do things" on "the goddam unixes"

hey.. we got more unixes here. can somebody grep them out the way?
Seems like they got lucky then. Their statement also claims that no sensitive client data was accessible.
Bad sign for clients: I'd be banging on the door asking what their mitigation will be for the future.
This is my personal preference, but from experience I prefer languages that don't shun concepts because they're bad programming practice. I can understand if something is difficult to implement or prevents other features from being added, but if a feature is possible, I say add it---it might come in handy sometimes. There's a reason languages like C, C++, Ruby, and Javascript are immensely popular. It's because programmers can use and abuse any nook and cranny of it when needed, because they let you mess with pointers, use goto, redefine language keywords through macros, patch standard libary functions/classes, etc. If programmers want to write bad code, let them write bad code. You can't magically make a bad programmer write good code because of restrictions of the language. I've seen some horribly written Haskell for example, despite how "perfect" the language is designed.

For blocks comments in a functional language though, it might work because many people would come from LISP/Scheme, where block comments were never a thing (I think.)
It looks like the API of the library you're using has changed. Before you update the library you should really check the release notes for braking changes. For npm, you should probably even look more closly at the releases, and update carefully, as the quality of libraries ranges from great to "should not be used in production ever".
With Telegram 4.4 you can share your location in real time and other improvement
Good catch, sorry about the fake info!
Title should be changed to be less clickbait-y.

Perhaps: Some guy’s defective Google Home recorded everything and they had extraordinary customer support and fixed it.
Was the 24-month lease for the Cayman cheaper than 36? I've got about 25 months left on my BMW but am seriously considering a Porsche next if I continue leasing. I would have loved to do a 24-month lease for the BMW but it was more than 30% more expensive.

I like driving nice cars and don't mind spending the money so 24 months seems to be the sweet spot personally, but it's hard to justify it when 36 months is a lot cheaper most of the time.
One website I found extremely useful when initially learning regex was http://regexr.com. It's got a great pattern builder, and hovering over each component explains what its actually doing.
It's not an ad hominem argument. That would be saying "the argument is wrong because it's made by the Washington Post".

I think the assertion here is more subtle: newspapers are really the only outlets attacking social media and claiming it brainwashes people. This isn't something that ever comes up in other discussions or forums as far as I can tell. Certainly I discuss politics with my own friends and Facebook or Twitter are not at the top of their lists of concerns.

In contrast, much of the traditional press publishes hysterical clickbaity screeds like "6 ways social media has become a direct threat to democracy" almost every day. They're obsessed with the topic. But we've seen this all before. It used to be that Google News was the bogeyman.

It is reasonable to point out journalists talk about this issue far greater issue than other classes of people, and that maybe this issue - if it exists at all - is really not as dramatic as they make it out to be.
Maybe you can help me out and point out which temperatures you listed can be described as be "harsh"? The American south has summer averages hotter than all of them but I'm yet to hear anyone call Austin's climate "harsh"
In the corporate world, this is seen as a feature. I’m not kidding you — the fact that documents can’t be viewed offline easily is touted as a feature since if a laptop is stolen, the valuable data won’t be there (supposedly).
Human language evolved over years to let us describe everything in detail on a very abstract level. Computer languages inherit a lot these features from human language.

My favorite analogy: Visual programming languages are like a foreigner going to a Korean McDonald's. He can grunt at pictures and get what he points at, but he can only do a limited set of things that were envisioned by the menu planner. You can't get the burger without tomatoes by grunting.
Neither campaign can buy slots in news reports. Saying he got "billions in free air time" is nonsensical. Money can't buy the sort of coverage he got.
That is certainly one of Python's strong points, at least from my perspective. I haven't touched much code in a number of years, as I've had no reason to, but Python keeps tempting me.

While generally a horrible idea, I can start a simple http server with a simple one-line command from the terminal. Yeah, it's probably not smart - but I find myself using simple things like that more and more often - and I'm just a retiree with a small home network.

If anything draws me back into programming, it's going to be Python or Java.
See also GOTO which is a wart 99.9% of the time but really useful for writing e.g. parsers.
Really good! I’m building a similar thing (actually, very similar), main difference is that yours is a native app, whereas I’m trying to incorporate mine as a new-tab extension to chrome (as I need to be it much more prominent throughout the day. Any chance you can do it as an extension as well? Because then I can simply use yours :-)

If you need help, let me know
it use to be that talking about politics at work was considered bad form, and now people think its practically their duty to do so.

people are 'in-your-face' with politics these days, and while I dislike it, I can hardly blame them. holywood stars, musicians, and now athletes use their elevated status to get their word above all others (even if their fan base dont want to receive it), and being silent allows what ever they wanted passed.
I'm not aure if this page uses MathML or something like that but it does not render correctly on the iPad.
The algorithm doesn't seem to work at all for me as well. There's usually just a single song that I actually like in the discover weekly list every other week.
The D Programming language has a neat trick to block commenting out code for debugging purposes. Wrapping code in a version(none) {} block will exclude the block from compilation. The code inside the block must still be syntactically valid so it avoids the problem mentioned in the linked post.

The D Programming Language - Conditional Compilation: https://dlang.org/spec/version.html
Hmm that sounds like outside of missed frames or otherwise busy sites consistently using more than 25% of the frame budget more power will be required by the new approach. Isn’t that going to be the most common case?
Krugman Says Potential Fed Chair Warsh Is ‘Wrong About Everything’
As nice as it is, integers are not a field (i.e. most of them don't have multiplicative inverses, or 1/n usually isn't integral).

Another good writeup:
http://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cryp...
Lease offers are regional (down to the county level sometimes) and can easily swap a lease payment by hundreds of dollars, especially on something like a 911. Lease offers also change monthly. It's nearly impossible to know if a given number is reasonable for a lease. One person can lease something on December 1 for $1k a month and it can be available for $600/mo a month later.
I also work in an open office environment, with all the associated chatting, and general office noise.

I just ignore everything that isn't important to me.
With Watson, IBM appear to be trying to stop "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" from being true any more.
Something feels fitting that Accenture is a spin-off of Arthur Andersen

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture
Or even just featured in a single / best-of album from the same artist. I'm fairly sure my "library" now contains a bunch of duplicates due to this.