skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We started a co-op
Power users can use unsigned add-ons in Dev Edition. Regular users would be exploited by any middle ground solution in the main release. It's unfortunate the web is a dangerous place for the average user.
I automated complaining once a month to the local water utility about a persistent puddle in the street in front of my home, caused by a leak.
Gathering in Remembrance of Vladimir Voevodsky
What argument? It’s utterly ridiculous that you would assume Apple to be incapable of collecting your fingerprint data simply because you didn’t enable TouchID in their software.

Do you just not use the home button?
But they have successfully shut down the Lavabit as a result.
I use www.freshfitnessfood.com to supply food for me, preparing your own meals is for losers! A guy creeps up to my house every morning and drops off delicious and healthy breakfast/lunch/dinner (not a paid advertiser i promise, ha!)
Not having to surrender your phone to use it is a big motivating factor. Setup is much quicker, and when you're done with it you plug it in and go back to your (still charged) phone. Or, you know, you could let your kids use the headset and watch cat videos on your phone at the same time.
Boy Scouts Announce They Will Accept Girls
come on now, embrace your inevitable future
https://cdn.uploadvr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/zuckerbe...
I go to a crossfit gym where you have to "check in" for a spot in your desired class using their app. Sometimes these spots fill up fairly quickly so I automated that. I'm also in the process of making a web interface for my script so all my friends can use it and we are able to attend the same classes.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15451400.
Reminds me of this reddit user that automated 'liking' his girlfriend's Instagram posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/70udwq/what_routine...
I agree that the article fails to explain why a city can't increase it's housing creation when the market demands (sort of like most places already do, albeit with issues).

BUT I think it's fair to point out that Amazon going anywhere where it represents a large change in the population will have a notable housing impact. Construction lags behind demand and the current markets in high tech areas have lots of problems with difficult local regulations, extreme rents, very limited availability, and general gentrification issues. Amazon will likely be a net positive for wherever they go, but it's a good idea to anticipate and try to reduce the inevitable negatives.

I want to disagree with your NoVa conclusion, but I can't. It has location, population, infrastructure, though transportation is notoriously bad - almost always ranked worse for traffic than San Francisco and Seattle, usually beating Boston, and challenging LA depending on what you measure. (that's from memory and a few google searches to make sure I'm not crazy, take with salt) North Carolina would be the next natural match, but I don't see Amazon taking on that political mess.
Yep or Detroit. Detroit has lots of real estate with no use. I say this as someone from NM and would love them to go there.
I've used ifttt monitoring rss feeds and pushing articles to Pocket for offline reading
The question I ask myself: Is there enough trust left? Just when reading this goal, I experience a high level of aversion against Facebook wanting to be the company doing that.
Maybe this sentiment blows over, or it is only me (and presumably some others in the HN community). But somehow I actually do hope that more people will be critical of anything Facebook does from here on.
In the end, Zuckerberg, as smart as he is, still is as clueless as anyone else about the impact anything he does has on society, as well as about unintended consequences. Previously I kinda gave him the benefit of the doubt ("Maybe he really knows what he is doing"). Now I am not sure anymore.
I assume the file would be deleted as soon as any client finishes downloading. (If the files are backed by regular files on a unix-like system, then the existing open handles to the file will keep working, allowing currently-connected clients to finish downloading, but preventing any new clients from starting the download.)
Mattermost is an open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative (golang)
Laundry. Just put your dirty clothes into a plastic bag and take them to dry cleaners. Pick up washed and ironed the next day. A huge time savings well worth the cost of service. Also no need to own washing machine, dryer, ironing board etc.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, this was a bad example of automation. Please don’t downvote me!
I implemented the vector racing game as a Flash game many years ago

http://www.kongregate.com/games/GeometricGames/vector-race
What the author stated was:

> I will argue that block comments are unnecessary, and in fact near-impossible to design and implement correctly (for my own pedantic notion of correctness)

You might argue, subjectively or objectively, about the utility of the "notion of correctness" used here, but the author warns at the outset that this is the basis for the rest of the analysis.

I ask again, what preface would the author need to write to satisfy your criticism? I think that it's worthwhile for the author to point out that you cannot create a block comment scheme without having some un-intuitive edge cases, and I'm curious what gave you the impression that the author was claiming an unwarranted degree of objectivity.
Law is generally clearly defined for common situations. But you can't anticipate all possible contingencies so courts also have to make findings of fact, frequently on limited or incomplete information.
The solution is that every one of you listen to a friend who is in need and empathize and say, yeah -- i'm here.

Kudos to Zach for opening up about this. I'm going through a similar shit show and I'm hoping that folks who grok it stick close and the others just sway with.
lua also allows you to define blocks like [=[ ... ]=] but with arbitrary, matching counts of '=' inside.

Using this style with your comment syntax handles having nested and/or dangling comment delimiters in the body.

It's probably the most comprehensive approach I've used. In practice, I've never actually needed more than one level of nesting or dangling but it's not particularly onerous to the parser to include the arbitrary levels.
also relevant is james hague's "slumming with basic programmers", one of my favourite programming essays ever.

http://prog21.dadgum.com/21.html
Turo is great for extremely short term rentals (days to a few weeks). Fair makes more sense for monthly to yearly relationships.

Would love to hear feedback if you've played with the app! (username @fair.com)

Disclaimer x3: I work for Fair :)
I definitely agree on it depends. And also you can end up using a combination.

We use Knowi (www.knowi.com) for our dashboards. It was very easy to get started, worked with our existing RDMBSs and Redshift, and also non-native SQL data sources (Mongo, REST APIs, etc.). We've been happy with it. They also have some machine learning features that we are excited to use - so they are not just dashboards.

But we also use Jasper and some other open source products.

My company previously used Qlikview (too pricey and vendor lock in for customizations) and evaluated some of the other "big" players (Tableau, Crystal, etc. etc.) but they were also too pricey, too enterprise, too much up front investment before you see results, etc. etc..

This field is crowded and my guess is we're in for another consolidation once the big guys decide who to buy to extend their product offering or just to keep their competition from doing the same.
Some psychologists reject any hint of medical modal, and say it's only social factors.

(that's not what I think. But these psychologists are reasonably common.)
The parent comment is probably right. In Russia even election results are forged by Putin supporters.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15449966 and marked it off-topic.
With amazons size nearly anywhere would work. They’re not resource constrained and the ecosystem will follow them anywhere.
This is the norm in NYC if you have a job and no washing machine. However, our wash and fold did screw up my clothes more often than I find acceptable.
No I have a mobile phone for voice calls. In the beginning I used dialup, then GPRS or EDGE directly through the phone (cable and later Bluetooth connection). Then I got a separate device for data, first an ICOM 3G USB dongle which I used for many years but as of this year I'm on 4G, with a Huawei 4G mobile wifi thing.
> The numbers for the map come from historian Angus Maddison who uses Sestertius records to find wheat equivalent figure for national disposable income and makes comparisons based off that.

Links to several of Angus Maddison books, I assume it is this:
Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History
thats outsourcing, not automating
I have a cron job which scrapes a bunch of pages and sends me the results to a telegram chat. That includes checking fb messages (because I'm never gonna install the fb app or messenger on my phone), checking for upcoming public holidays, checking when bitcoin goes above/below preset thresholds.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15449966 and marked it off-topic.
10Gbps cable Internet uploads and downloads coming in DOCSIS update
Did the text message come from a separate account or were you able to use your cell phone number? how did this work?
* Liking posts on facebook
* Scraping friends that have unfriend/blocked/added me
* Scraping messaging history because APIs don't support it
* Aggregating location data
* Running tests for projects
* Finding code blocks that are too long
* Downloading personal data
* Logging in to every site I have an account with
Never thought I would find a new artist on hacker news that I would like. Purification ritual is great!!
Cutting gluten out of my life basically "cured" my depression, which sounds crazy, since it is just something I'm eating...

I'm not allergic, but probably intolerant. I ate wheat for most of my life. I'm pretty sure it is related to inflammation, and how eating wheat products probably screwed my digestion up. I also rarely get sick anymore.

Not trying to suggest that medicine, therapy, etc. does or does not work, just that there may be some other things that people can consider and experiment with.
Ask HN: Anyone ever tried a hackathon while water fasting?
I want to specifically know if it helped with speed of execution and creativity.
In this way, lucky for all of us that large wars are getting less frequent, and the amount of non-combatant casualties continues to drop. The amount of people who died in the american civil war and world war 1 & 2 is staggering compared to the loss of life in most modern conflicts.
Find a new wash. I also had this issue but then I switched to another one just around the corner and never had issue with them.
I haven't tried Synthing in about a year, but to me Resilio and Syncthing look like they are from completely different classes of apps/they target different markets.

Syncthing is simply not designed for the mainstream. Resilio is. If Syncthing devs can fix that, I'll gladly start using it over Resilio with my non-technical friends.
Did it work? If so, how many months did it take?
If not, how long has it been running for?
It even describes it as "powerfully seductive" which is not how I felt at all about the description. It's above my paygrade to judge another culture. But I felt sorry for the poor bear.
It's good to see the homepage get more attention. I personally would love a more Facebook-like news feed. There is so much interesting activity on GitHub, but I generally discover it all through Twitter, HN, Reddit, etc.
I used a raspberry pi to control my TV using HDMI-CEC and exposed a subset of the controls through a web API allowing me to turn on/off my TV from my phone or voice controlled from a google home.

I did this because a chromecast will turn on my TV and set it to the correct input, but it wouldn't turn off the TV. Turning the TV off was the only reason I needed to touch my remote control at all. But just recently google added the turning off functionality to chromecasts... so I guess my little project fade away.
pcwalton is right—this is boilerplate ideological battle. That's a violation of both HN's rules and its spirit. This is not a site for race war, however "respectful" its "manner". More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15451825, and in countless other comments sctb and I have posted.
> I absolutely hate therapy (socially anxious and bad at discussing emotions). I'd like to try a cognitive behavioral therapist instead

Respectfully, please don't give up. Continuing to go to your therapist would be exposure therapy for your social anxiety, which _is_ a form of CBT. Maybe just switching therapists will work for you.
Does Daydream immersion feel like your looking through a box like cardboard does due to the fov?

I guess this will be similar.
>> Can any city provide a net increase in 5,000 housing units? Well, that’s a speculative question, but one thing we can do is ask if any city did produce 5,000 extra housing units beyond household formation over the last 5 years

Calgary (Alberta, Canada, not Texas) added triple that in 2014[1]. Since the province's economy is commodity driven the major city centers are accustomed to boom and bust cycles and are used to adding housing quickly. Also of note, Calgary has rated quite high based on a number of other metrics given by Amazon[2] (though, to be fair its really hard to trust all bias is left behind in these analyses)

[1] http://calgaryherald.com/life/homes/new-homes/calgarys-housi...
[2] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/amazon-headquarters-ca...
Why is this gated behind a login?
REMINDER: we're talking about something sensitive here.
I found your comment interesting, especially the Miller '85 reference. You certainly don't come across as condescending, so don't worry about that.

You are of course right that extra structure helps with solving DLOG. I was hoping that you could point me to some specific reasons why DLOG is easier on real/complex curves. I'd be very interested in learning these.

I don't find a "nice smooth curve vs. scatterplot" argument very convincing by itself -- you only care about a cyclic subgroup anyway. Take a complex elliptic curve, viewing it as a torus consider its fundamental parallelogram, and plot a cyclic subgroup on this parallelogram. Won't you get a nice scatter plot just the same?

Even if you can use this extra structure to find some more efficient DLOG algorithms, you could try to apply the same solution as with the crypto based on multiplicative groups of finite fields: just use larger points. My understanding so far is that the reason we don't do it is purely computational efficiency -- I'd be very interested in learning any reasons to think the contrary.

And, back to the original point, I think that the drawings of real/complex curves are very helpful when learning the basics. The group law is really best understood if you actually draw some lines intersecting the real affine part of some curve, show what happens when you draw a tangent line etc. If you confine yourself to finite fields, while it formally works just the same, the geometry is much less obvious, and talking to beginners about Cartier divisors and line bundles won't help much.

While the finite fields are the whole point of elliptic curve cryptography, they are definitely not the whole point of elliptic curves, and in fact I believe that complex case with all the extra structure is best for educational purposes.
On-demand webinar on secure over-the-air updates for embedded Linux
Well to me it’s automated as I don’t have to do it manually. I see your point, it’s still done by a human but from my point of view it has been automated.
Having years of experience with both, I could write an article on why to prefer DRF over Tastypie for general purposes - but one simple reason is that Tastypie is effectively on life-support (taking substantial time to even release versions compatible with new Django versions), while DRF has substantial and accelerating momentum in both its codebase and community around it.
Automated almost all my bill payments to use my rewards card. I set up alerts on my online banking site so I get texted when each one clears. Saves me a couple hours of grumpy time each month, plus I get a substantial 1% cash back that ends up being about $200/year. Also, you can dispute charges on a credit card if they get it wrong. Can't do that with bill payment service.
Cloud Foundry adds native Kubernetes support
Ignoring the content for a moment, I really liked how the background color changes with the mood of the content. I don't think I've seen that before, but it's refreshing from the wall of black text on white backgrounds which sometimes scare me away.

Really enjoyed the post though. I think a lot articles which give advice without personal experience don't ever really resonate. This one actually makes me feel hopeful.
This is standard ideological racewar stuff, which as you know (or should, because we told you) is off topic for HN.

People can't endlessly litigate this on Hacker News. It's beyond tedious—as is anything that gets repeated over and over—and there's no intellectual curiosity in it (despite how it looks on the surface—and some practitioners have gotten good at making it look otherwise), only tribalism. It hijacks discussion, clogs the drain, and destroys what HN is best for: specific and unpredictable topics, like an ancient Japanese people most of us had never heard of.

Since you've repeatedly violated both the spirit and rules of the site, as described in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and our many moderation warnings to you, I've banned this account.
In that case, I've also automated flying my own commercial airliner. I just pay someone $400 and I'm automatically flown anywhere in the continental US! Also, I automated bread baking. I just go to the supermarket and go to the bread aisle, and hey presto! Automatic bread.
If you had it all on screen you would talk of button fatigue. Users are the worst.
Santa Cruz is a standalone headset. The content, headset tracking, and controller tracking all run on hardware that fits inside the headset.
This stands in contrast to current PC VR hardware which requires PC, cable, and sensors (whether lighthouse beacons or rift cameras).
I was diagnosed with "major depression" when I was 14, did the medication and therapy thing for a bit but the medication made me a zombie. Therapy helped me learn to cope a little better, but I was never "cured" of my depression.

My 20s have been pretty bad, but in the last year and a half I've lost 100+lbs and have been running and lifting.

It turns out the common sense advice to depression was really what I needed all along.

* Sleep
* Proper diet
* Exercise

If you're struggling with depression like I was - try and take baby steps to improving those 3. You don't have to be perfect and it doesn't have to be all at once, but through continued effort it has only gotten better and better for me.
> what benefits

Easily hand written?
Disabling IME and similar bugging subsystems is only a temporary solution: vendors will create a different one with next gen CPUs and all those brave folks dedicating their time to the task of removing/disabling it will be forced to go back to square one: study again, reverse engineer, reflash, brick, try again, etc. That way CPU makers will always be ahead.

We instead need a platform (CPU+peripherals) which is open by design; no more ME or closed device drivers, blobs etc. No matter if it's 10 times slower than the equivalent by Intel or AMD or draws 10 times more current than the corresponding ARM processor; the point is funding such a development, producing it and selling it even to a small fraction of users will send a heck of a message. Also a well crafted PR campaign could do the rest (does your boss know that all his/her files and communications can be accessed by Intel, AMD and every government with ties to them? What about making him/her aware?).
If someone starts a project like that, I'm pretty sure I won't be the only one ready to donate a few quid right now.
Colors don't feel as robust to me as syntax.

* color blindness
* broken syntax above typically throws-off subsequent highlighting
* touch a lot of embedded stuff where having any kind of editor at all (even without highlighting) is a luxury
Where's the Proof That Mindfulness Works?
It is obvious to me that Kaspersky is beholden to the Kremlin. The founders of Kaspersky are after all Russian.
I have an iPhone, at least from that perspective it's a cheap version of the Gear VR.
Why not once a week or once a day?
He works for the NSA, but he was on his home computer which is unlikely to stay air-gapped unless he's content with making mspaint art and playing skifree :)
Right now is probably the safest time in human history wrt to dying in a war, on average. At least if you look at actual deaths, not potential ones from a nuclear war. Putting numbers to that last is difficult. If we assume the war is not between major powers with large numbers of nuclear weapons (i.e. assume North Korea, not Russia), then the potential death toll is in the millions to tens of millions and the probability is likely in the single digits at most, I would guess... But I welcome sources on good estimates for this.

On the other hand, in the 19th century diseases _would_ get about 1/4 to 1/2 (depending on what country you were in) of your kids before they turned 5. Check out http://www.gapminder.org/tools/#_state_time_value=1800;&mark... for example. And diseases were, at the time, very much an inhuman threat that you couldn't protect against; people didn't even have a very clear understanding of why they happened, much less what to do about it until the _end_ of the 19th century.

Dying in a mine or being murdered by noblemen isn't even a blip compared to dying of good old cholera, measles, typhus, etc, etc.
Why is the quality of apology such a concern these days? Obviously they're apologizing for PR reasons, as should be expected. You're just creating an environment where people learn to be better liars.
An algorithm for your blind spot
I see your point. Now that I think about it laundry was a bad example of automation.

But to me it feels like automation as I used to do it all myself manually. The amount of time I saved still surprises me. Especially ironing.
Did you ever feel like gluten was affecting you? Or was this a random change you made that happened to have a noticeable effect?
I think it's a mistake. AR makes more sense.

https://www.wareable.com/vr/virtual-reality-vs-augmented-rea...

Quote: 'Tim Cook called it a "core technology," saying that he expects it to be a big technology, bigger than VR, in the future. "Virtual reality sort of encloses and immerses the person into an experience that can be really cool," Cook said, "but probably has a lower commercial interest over time. Less people will be interested in that."'
Because it's recommendations based on your stars and people you follow.
This AI can tell true hate speech from harmless banter
No mention of using a spread spectrum clock source. Nearly all modern clock generator chips have such an option. There is debate as to whether or not it actually improves EMI, but it definitely helps you beat the regulations.

Also, as a non-hardware person, a ferrite choke on the cable is the very first thing I think about for EMI just because it's the single most visible EMI reducing device in anyone's daily life (e.g. that annoying round lump on the end of your VGA cable)
Georgia Tech Researchers Support DARPA’s New “CHIPS” Initiative
Have you tried regular voulentering, Gratitude letter writing, Holotropic breathwork or psychedelic therapy?

I found those to be the most useful.