skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When an area gets better economically, it becomes more desirable, so home prices (and land prices) go up. Outside of California, property taxes go up too, and retired owners often do the math and cash out.
I have sometimes looked at old cinema and wondered, "Why did they make so many Westerns?" I figure that in some decades people will be looking at our time and asking, "Why did they make so many superhero movies?"
Perhaps comics are beginning to fill the void left by retreating religion.

It is comforting to imagine a world in which things make sense, where good triumphs over evil, where you have an opportunity to be a part of something larger than yourself; especially when you're working a dead end job and you feel like your nation is falling apart.

Unfortunately, unlike most religion, comics and comic based films are lacking in the "nutrition" that religious escapism can provide, in the way of community and self improvement, so we end up with man children withdrawing from society.

It is ironic, I think, that the waning of religion in the first world may be very much double sided. Perhaps we as a society are not prepared for secularism, and this may manifest as a moral crisis wherin people on average still require external guidance for morality and ethics.
Ask HN: Why is Plaid.com intaking bank login credentials?
I was just hooking my account up to Abacus and the connection option for Chase takes you to a form at plaid.com to input Chase login credentials. How is this even remotely acceptable?
Nope... It's rein. As in those things you use to control a horse, or the act of doing so. Not what you do as a monarch.
Meet One of Nigerian Youngest App Developer
They have to respect our privacy. The moment they don't, it will cause widespread outrage.

Once I realized that, it was hard to think of reasons why their actions are wrong.
Perhaps he is talking about this?

> NVIDIA specifically requests that server OEMs not use their GTX cards in servers. Of course, this simply means resellers install the cards before delivering them to customers.
its all much of a muchness. You can use a linear function at the nodes to project the space before applying a >. However, all these tweaks tend to just consume CPU for marginal benefit. You can still appoximate a non axis aligned decision boundary with a series of stepwise aligned splits, albeit less compactly. But if your aim is to just generate a ton of non linear distance functions ... a la random forest, focusing on tree expressivity is the wrong thing. Why not spend your CPU cycles on more trees instead instead, which leads to smoother decision boundaries in general when mixing their responses. There is a ton of tweaks you can do, but unless you are expressly researching ML algorithms, the pragmatist should not care and just try a few options from whatever comes in scipy.
Almost all retailers sell your purchase history. This gets aggregated by various parties and is used for retargeting.
> not enough social tissue

Bang on. I think technology (not just the internet kind) has advanced so quickly that none of our social conventions have been able to keep up to help people.

I believe both the democrats and republicans have lost their way a bit - they'll both be spending their time playing big-data social media games to get in power rather than actually trying to give things people want and need.

> scam jobs

While I do believe that this is true, I wonder how much of this is caused because after college is the first time these kids are exposed to the "real world". They've been so insulated their entire life that the older adults see that they can easily manipulate them.
Current hosted Kubernetes-as-a-service models like Google Container Engine (https://cloud.google.com/container-engine) still make the VMs available to you. Other options in the market are very similar to this, and don't provide what you're asking.

But I think if you consider that

* you never bother provisioning of these VMs
* Container Engine autoscales VMs for you
* Container Engine updates the OS and the Kubernetes versions for you automatically
* you never need to SSH into the VMs

you can pretty much think "there are no VMs" even though there are. There's features out there that do VM autoscaling, so when you're not using your cluster fully (i.e have empty nodes laying around), Container Engine will delete some of the empty VMs and shift workloads to the rest of the VMs.

I'd say give it a try.
>Or why don’t free and top work in a Linux container?

You can use the lxcfs fuse filesystem to get that and a little more: https://github.com/lxc/lxcfs/blob/master/README.md
At first glance, the price seems prohibitive compared to a real cadaver

That was not my reaction. But then, i guess i haven't gone cadaver-shopping recently. What's the going rate?
Doesn’t seem likely unless Apple is working with Facebook to surreptitiously activate your microphone, which is highly unlikely.
If you already bought VS 2010 licenses for n seats, you don't want to have to buy VS 2015/2017 licenses for n seats if there is not some additional benefit that is perceived to be worth $500-1200 dollars per seat. Yes, maybe many, perhaps most companies don't sweat it, but the ones that do sweat it have the problem, you dig?

In my ideal world, nobody would bother with using the MSVC compilers (or they would finally make upgrades free for the compiler at least), and we'd all be running the latest stable or LTS versions, and have similar standards for compiler features and performance. Unfortunately, there is a market incentive for some companies to use MSVC, and there is a market incentive for them to not upgrade that MSVC license until they absolutely must.
Someone should write "Scala features I miss most in Kotlin"
No, it wasn't wrong. I studied psychology myself years before the Google blowup and similar studies were in the course. The idea that there are biological differences that cause differences in interest is entirely uncontroversial and frankly also common sense. Alternative explanations for why girls don't study computer science are all absurd.

But it's clear that we've reached a point where agreeing on basic scientific facts or even common sense is apparently impossible. You're so filled with hatred for Damore that you can't see past your own biases. You even called it a "turgid slog of an essay", well revealing that you can't even separate the quality of writing from the ideas a piece of writing expounds. You hate the idea that men and women are actually different so much it's become a religion to you. You're a lost cause: far, far beyond science.
I wish comparisons to Java would use Lombok. I'm never going to actually write something that verbose in Java.
There have been plenty of stories of malware eavesdropping over smartphone microphones in the last two years.

I doubt Facebook does it with their app. It's too much trouble, blatantly illegal and easy to get caught. It's most likely malwAre selling the info to fb, who has no idea how any advertisers get their info.
Part of that is also liability, though. If someone forgets to remove the wrapping and gets sick or even chokes on half-melted plastic wrap, the food manufacturer can at least make a case that they informed users of the safety issue.
>"I can find interest in a lot of different things and try to put that to work in a positive way, connecting the dots and considering how the pieces fit together..."

I've always felt the same way, I can get excited about sweeping floors if there's a challenge there (how to optimally sweep the floors of a massive factory for example) yet I always have to express how "passionate" I am about some company/service/programming language/etc.

Is this because I typically interview with middle management? For those at the top of the chain, do you still have to BS about your passion? Or can you just be excited to be challenged and make money?
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/minibar-delivery-en...
The Facebook app asks for permission to access your camera and microphone. Assuming a user gives it access, doesn't that mean they have free rein to do so?
This is a nice article, but there's some caveats with this approach that deserve a note:

1) Random forests are by nature supervised learners. They will completely ignore information that they can't use to predict their target output. This will have a big impact on any similarity scores derived from these types of models. At best, you'll see which observations the model considers to be similar in the training set (for the purposes of predicting the given output). This is still useful, but not as generalizable.

2) Even when considering the above, the distribution of splits is commonly skewed or biased in some way. The depth of the trees in the forest will vary. The distribution of training data at leaf nodes will vary. Categorical features may cause more splits than numeric features, etc. Some manner of re-weighting (a la information gain ratio) needs to be used to balance feature importance on the overall model behavior.

I think this is a useful technique, and I would like to see more tree-based metrics used. The metrics just need some adjustments to account for all the distributional kinks in the trees, and the users need to know what kind of caveats are applicable for their data.
My personal pet peeve here is that school superintendents get to negotiate with the board and get all sorts of premium benefits (ie free healthcare for life, second pensions, etc) with minimal transparency. Other similar jobs, like police chiefs, are civil service positions with standardized deals.

Administration is growing because compliance requirements are growing.
Linux has undergone a lot more (hostile and friendly) penetration testing and bug-fixing than UEFI.
Product segmentation. Currently this is normally just done by speed or data limits. This gives another option to screw people out of money.
Governments have the tools to deal with that as well: antitrust.
I don't see how this is news. Alan Moore has been decrying and hating on superheroes for the entirety of his career, for largely the same reasons throughout. This is great when it's communicated through his work - showing what comics could be without superheroes, or critiquing the genre from within (Watchmen and Marvelman/Miracleman reboot come to mind), but his personal disdain for the consumers of his products is odd to me.

This has been a half formed thought bouncing around in my head, but I think part of the reason for the resurgence of comic books and superheroes is the simple fact that we live in a complex world where there are very few instances of Good and Evil. We live in a subtle, complex, and nuanced world, where if you take the time to dig in to an issue, you find more complexity...and a lot of really morally compromised people. We don't live in a Good/Evil world, but we want to. I think that comics are a retreat from that, a mental/moral bulwark that gives us an outlet for our need for Right and Wrong. We might not be able to figure out <insert political issue> without coming to blows, but we sure as hell can agree that Thanos is a piece of shit, and that Batman is wicked cool.

Is this a retreat from reality? Sure, but we need that. Moore is wrong here to suppose that adults need to be doing Adult Things at all times. The world is hard enough as it is - taking a few hours respite from it is hardly a crime.
Don't sell 80's viewers short. Many of us put up with, and sometimes even enjoyed, the pap that was fed to us by the TV networks back then, but that doesn't mean that's what we preferred. That's just all we had, created by people who grew up on media from the 50's and 60's.

The media of today is often created by the very people who were dissatisfied with what was available to us back in the 80's. It'll be interesting to see what people dissatisfied with the media of today come up with in another 30 years.
Amen! It’s the worst I’ve seen. Slightly for different reasons. The only plant that makes asphalt in Montreal uses used engine oil as binding agent which destroys roads much quicker. Common QC corruption.
I was totally skeptical when I first heard stories about people's feeds being curated to suit what they were talking about in front of their computers, but then a couple of things made me rethink my views.

I was in the car with my friend once (both our phones were in the car with us too), and we were driving and it started raining. His wiper blades were shoddy and doing a bad job of clearing his windscreen. We had a 5 minute discussion on cleaning blades, where was the best place to get a replacement, etc. Neither of us picked up our phones, or did a search on 'wiper blades', nor asked Siri etc. about nearest places to buy.

But the next day, for the first time ever, I started seeing ads for wiper blades on my feed. They disappeared after a few days, but it was spooky, as it was for an item that I have never ever discussed, or seen on my feed before, or since.

Another anecdote. I was sitting working in my office the other day, when my son came in to talk to me about something. While chatting, he picked up a bass guitar that sits behind my desk and started playing the riff from 'Seinfeld'. I may have said something like "Oh, the Seinfeld theme - you know that was played on a synth and not an actual bass guitar?". Our conversation though, was about something else altogether.

A day later, on my feed, I see an ad about "How they played the Seinfeld theme" [0]. A totally specific ad like that, within 24 hours, totally unrelated to any searched I had done in my past. This one too disappeared within a couple of days.

[0] - https://twitter.com/dsabar/status/924763005014831104
Or it's coincidence? How many ads does Facebook show to how many people? It would be weird if zero of them were relevant.
Because it is not included. You would purchase a base package for say $20 a month, then start adding the apps you want for another $5 a month each. $$profit$$
The fact that the best parts of C# are its few functional bits might be a good hint that if you had a language that was designed around those good bits, it would be so much better ;-).

I don't expect to convince anyone in a HN discussion, because that's not how arguments about programming languages work, but have a look at testimonials (http://fsharp.org/testimonials). You'll see that many people who started using F#, are very happy with it because it lets them solve problems faster with fewer bugs and they enjoy it more.
I don't know these others, but I love Matlab (for its intended use-case of course). I'm fortunate enough to have it as part of my job. I do wish that it was less clunky in how it accommodates functional programming styles.
Having a hard time figuring out if you're serious but if you are then take a look here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...

That's only one instance of why you should care. There are plenty of others.
They're collecting data on children without their informed consent, babies today have their information capital compromised from the moment they are born, via their parents shares, purchases, and activity, without their say.
The package managers that are listed in the post are cross-platform and work on windows.
Reminds of ArrestDB[0]. A one-file PHP "plug-n-play" RESTful API for SQLite, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. ArrestDB provides a REST API that maps directly to your database stucture with no configuation.

[0]: https://github.com/alixaxel/ArrestDB
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> If you have a choice of two ISPs and one of them is net neutral, the other is not, which one are you going to choose?

I strongly favor net neutrality, but personally my decision depends on price and other factors too. For example, I always can pay for a $400/month for a net-neutral private T1 line with 1.4 Mbps, but probably I won't.

As for others: Few end users understand the technical basics required to grasp net neutrality, few are aware of the net neutrality issue, and fewer still understand the principle of freedom-as-in-speech and can grasp its impact. I've had many people ask me for advice on ISPs; not one ever asked about net neutrality. To function, the market relies on educated consumers with access to information; that's not the case here, just like consumers can't choose between airline safety measures.

Regardless, few ISP markets have more than 2 vendors and no vendor offers this sort of thing - can you name one ISP of any size that offers net neutrality? The barrier to entry is too high for a newcomer to break in and sell it, even if there was demand.
200% faster means “on top of the 100% of the current speed”. Think about when a toilet roll says “25% more free” and the “normal” roll is 100 sheets. I’d expect the “more” roll to have 125, or expect to have a bonus 5th roll of 100 in a 4-pack.
Slack does this on mobile.
I found some openminded people on rizon (irc) and especially on #/g/sicp .

I tend to escape from places where people are harsh.

I proposed an idea this afternoon on the chan. Some peoples had interesting proposals and I filled a paper with the insights.

It's a screencasting tool: https://github.com/mabynogy/screencast/blob/master/screencas...

Feel free to reach us. Everybody is welcome.
Everybody who has seen a Facebook ad not directly related to a previous conversation upvote this comment. For science.
I read recently that studios are making more movies aimed at the 50s+ female crowd. The movies are about being single woman and the dating scene at that age.

The reason they made these films is because the 60+ woman demographic is the highest spending right now. People want to see their own experiences reflected in cinema.

I can't join in my head how westerns were a reflection of young and middle aged males. Possibly it depends on the demographic?

ie: middle aged men stuck in a boring job and providing for a family makes them feel powerless. Seeing a strong male on his path gives him the feeling he desires.

So maybe it's not about reflection of experiences but rather an expression of the feelings the demographic wants to feel.
Sssh. Speaking as one of the two people who know F#, I'd be very sad if others learned about it. It's my secret weapon that lets me solve problems that would otherwise take me weeks in a matter of days.
I've learned to never believe an entity that says they won't do something without any way to verify such a claim.
Why Some Cities Are Buying Trailer Parks
Dear lord, they have an image problem... I quickly checked the site and all of the content they show on the front page (is this like an automated sampling of recent posts?) is atrociously sexist and frankly really low bar content intelligence-wise. (I guess you can find equally dumb stuff throughout the twitterverse, but I can't believe they're using it to market on their homepage) I'm surprised, I thought early adopters would be more thoughtful silicon valley types. Can't see anyone I know switching to it any time soon.
I ... don’t know what to say. What they are doing now is respectful?

If we ever come to widespread outrage, it will be much to late. In fact, I don’t think there can be outrage. FB would detect it and make it disappear. Somehow.
I am near a small airport which has a limited number of carriers, so frequently I use the carrier search sites.

For instance if I am going to North Carolina, American will send me through Philadelphia, but Delta will send me through Detroit. Delta will have to offer me a large discount to go that far out of my way.
There were a few houses near me that gave out something special in the late 80s. One house gave out baggies of home made popcorn, brownies at another, candy apples at one house, and one house took a polaroid of you in your costume. These were all beloved houses.

I'd love to do that for the younger kids in my neighborhood. But a lot of the slightly older kids that come to my door are awfully surly. They are trying to grab handfuls of candy from the bowl as you are trying to give them one, and they also steal anything else that happens to be on your front porch that night. I don't really want to deal with trying to give them something special.
I’d agree with this point to some extent too, with the caveat that the DeLorean was always a production car people could buy, the batmobile not so much.

It’s also really just a single model that’s iconic, the brand itself I don’t think has the same value. One could make similar arguments about BMW’s “MINI” brand I guess, but that’s a significantly simpler mass market car.

“Gull wing” style doors (which inevitably any relaunch would need to copy, I can’t see how you could avoid it) have a long history of causing production issues in mass produced vehicles too, which is a factor in why almost no one besides Tesla tries to do it anymore, and Tesla too ran into some trouble there.
> When one player succeeds in this game they buy off appropriate amount of politicians to close doors for others.

Then what you're talking about is not a market at all. You're directly saying several times over that the problem is the lack of any semblance of a market, that the government is the specific problem.

Besides that, reasonably speaking, there are not only so many cables you can lay in the ground. That infrastructure non-problem has had an extraordinarily simple fix for decades:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/natio...
sudo apt install dict
dict rein | grep 'to rein'
I really don't see why anyone, including and especially programmers, use mice these days. That is, assuming you have a great (read: Mac) multi-touch pad. If you are in graphic design or animation/film, maybe a mouse is quite useful (I don't know, but watching others, it seems to have qualities useful to them in those fields).

But once you master your hotkeys and multitouch pad, why lug a mouse around? I haven't used a mouse AT ALL in over 3 years, except when I'm forced to use a Windows machine. And I do mean "forced".
Again, we're not storing anything. And in our case TLS is the layer we're using for protecting our data in-transit. You rely on it as a client when you send the form to the server.

Can you give me an example where POST-ing a form would be secure but responding with the data adds another attack vector? They're both protected by the same "layer" of security, isn't it?
How is one more vulnerable than the other?
It seems like a bad idea from a first glance. It looks like there are also Twitter Zero, Google Free Zone, and possibly others.

Other countries have the right to develop their Internet with the same freedom that we currently have. (I'm in the US.)

People who are concerned with "freedom" should be looking at the long-term effects of those policies on consumers and smaller entrepreneurs too -- not just the effects on larger companies.
I think his problem is more along the lines of:

Rather that an entire country or group of people getting angry because people in power are morally corrupt they're just watching the latest Iron Man and discussing pointless things like Art Direction and the Actresses Performance.
I've known guys with degrees that couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. A degree does not make one a professional.
Kerf also uses keywords, I believe.
Oh Vert.x, I despise it. We jumped on that in 2014 (Vert.x 2) and it's still haunting us. Half-broken build with an outdated Gradle plugin (should've stuck with the official build system), doesn't integrate with the major part of the Java ecosystem due to being callback-based (exceptions can hardly be used, nor can anything that blocks on IO) and tooling for managing tasks doesn't exist either (e.g. running a couple of IO-tasks in order requires you to nest the callbacks if you don't write your own tooling).

I assume Vert.x 3 is doing a better job there, but the fundamental problem remains: callbacks don't work well with exceptions. Maybe Kotlin helps wrapping this nicer, I don't know. All I know is that I'll be more careful when selecting a framework for productive use now. And maybe that I won't be using Vert.x again.
The existence of one-way functions is one of those things that requires P≠NP. So all cryptographic hash functions would be broken.