skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that government employees -- not to mention political appointees in transitory leadership positions -- are increasingly enjoined, mandated, and coerced to tow the party line (of the party in power), I'd pay a fair amount of attention to what the employees' union has to say about the matter. A voice with substantial political clout of its own, as well as some "anonym-ization" from individual comments subject to punishment including career termination.

There is separate reporting to the effect of staff becoming extremely stretched and overworked with the combination of hurricanes and fires that recently hit.

There are the reported proposed cuts to NOAA/NCAR budgets of 15+%. Cuts threatening to cripple current data collection efforts and ongoing innovation and developments in same. At a time when year-upon-year environmental and weather circumstances make increasingly clear that we need a better and more detailed understanding of what is going on (and of how we might deal with it).

U.S. Government weather services provide the backbone upon which private, commercial forecasting builds -- when they are not simply repackaging and repeating the government-provided information.

Those services are also critical to the ongoing management and execution of many commercial sectors within the U.S. economy. Agriculture, shipping, transport, even the "dirty old fossil fuel" sectors. Forecasting was wrong one one of our recent winters experiencing extreme cold spells particularly east of the Rocky Mountains, and propane supplies that had not been bolstered ran extremely low, leading to dramatic price hikes and shortages and considerable economic distress downstream not just to households but to businesses, i.e. other productive sectors.

These services are vital to a planful, productive execution of our economy.

But, as in many cases, the "government is bad" people refuse to acknowledge this.

Look at the EPA. Those folks now can't speak publicly without "official sign-off" of a political leadership. Politics before science.

Where present, set your sentiments about "unions" aside and look at why this may be the primary or only route via which you are hearing about problems, from the people in these institutions.

P.S. I forgot to mention: While I have mixed feelings about over-doing the "soft skills" aspects of the following, part of the head-count concern right now includes expanding efforts to translate data into communication that will make people take pro-active action to minimize their own risks. For a burgeoning emergency, making it clearer where may flood and what that will look like, so that, for example, people evacuate before they are stranded and at imminent physical risk necessitating risky and costly rescue. Reassessing and better communicating environmental risks for specific areas, to spur more pro-active zoning and other regulation as well as individual actions such as seeking flood insurance (before an uninsured person ends up needing a government-funded bail-out).
They sue for patent infringement when someone sprays Roundup on plants from seeds that they didn't pay royalties on, not just when someone grows contaminated seeds.

I'm not sure how I feel about that. There's lots of potential for biopatents to be harmful but there is also a pretty huge gray area.
SIMD is like people boarding an airplane. If you've gotten stuff lined up correctly, it's blazing fast, but usually you have a random mix that gives lots of idling.
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-your-iq-strongly-influenc...

>A growing body of research suggests general cognitive ability may be the best predictor of job performance.
I've put this into a bash function to render markdown files in the terminal window

function markdown()
{
pandoc -s -f markdown -t html "${1}" | sed 's/^<pre class/<p><\/p><pre class/' | lynx -stdin
}

... which doesn't really address your main complaint, but can help in cases where you really don't want to exit your command-line.

Requires the pandoc package, which isn't installed by default in Ubuntu.
Except, Gradle 4.1 with kotlin scripts (unless android studio overwrites your gradle version AGAIN) works fine nowadays.

But Android Studio actually managed to break builds on non-US locales because they used String.format using the system locale (which means %02.f renders with a ,)
I feel like a key difference here is that there was a specific 'learning' version designed to bring someone trying to learn the language behind the scenes. While I can see the concern about this ruling being used in a broader context, I think there's a major difference between copying and experimenting with the prod version of the service and the one developed intentionally to give a behind-the-scenes view.
Ingestion:

Kafka and framed TCP are the two ingestion sources that Wallaroo currently ships with.

Python:

We added a Python API because there was a lot of interest in it. There's more to Wallaroo than just performance and folks were interested in having it available via Python. See https://vimeo.com/234753585 for some more information on the "scale independent" nature of the Wallaroo APIs.

Go:

We're working on that right now actually. Planning to release later this year.

C++:

We had a C++ API (still do), we aren't currently supporting it. There was limited interest at the time. If folks show interest we would start supporting it again.
The Full Reset
IF you want to measure affordability, why not actually measure rent, or rent/sf or something directly?

Why would you measure the number of pictures of rent signs and then assume this means that prices will fall or not?

I would understand if counting pictures of signs were harder than collecting rent data, but it seems to be the opposite.
"Flu shots" are an unique American silliness and seem to do more damage than good for the vaccinations we actually want people to have.
Nice! Python has doctests which serve a similar purpose:

https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/doctest.html
Wow... 16,000 students, 2,100 faculty, and 12,100 admin.

If you need evidence that we're in a college/university bubble, that's a pretty good indicator.
When you say there’s going to be four minutes of network outage in a four hour window, I relay that to our clients. It seems to consistently push into 30 minutes. Just say 30 minutes up front and it’ll be daisy. Also, it seems like I have to pull out teeth when I have a VSI go down because of host (dom0) failure. When I call in, I literally have to argue with the support engineer that the machine is down so he doesn’t waste 30 minutes of everyone’s time to “debug” what I already know to be true (I.e. if I can’t trigger a force restart on the VSI from control or API, and the VSI is down, and “KVM” to it is down, just fucking trust me and escalate). Also, why the hell cant a ticket auto open for that, or even just a manual “open tickets to all accounts affected” button. There’s zero communication with customers, compare that to Google Cloud or the much smaller Linode. It’s really pathetic. My list of grievances can go on and on. My current one is “why did you all bother migrating us all to hardware supposedly capable of live migration, just to not use it and tell me the earlier migrated machines need to be migrated again because you all used me as a guinea pig before putting them on LTS machines!”

EDIT:
also, since this is your domain, what exactly has been happening in lon/ams with networking? SoftLayer used to pride itself with its network, but it feels subpar at best now.
... and anyone who doesn't agree with Communism's version of that is an evil person who is promoting the exploitation of the downtrodden, and therefore inevitably will be violently opposed.

That is, though Marxist Communism talks about everyone being equal, it also talks about violence to those who disagree. And in practice, the violence has shown up more reliably than the equality has.
Good to know it is Pyhton Django
It's potentially useful for forecasting rent drops - if there were no "for rent" signs last year and there are this year, but rent hasn't dropped in the meantime, it may signal a market correction.
We don't count articles as dupes when they haven't had significant attention yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. If we did, many of the best articles would never get attention.

There's a lot of randomness in which submission of an article happens to get noticed. It sucks if you got there sooner and someone else wins the lottery, but if you repeatedly submit good stories, it evens out in the long run.

When we put stories in the second-chance queue (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and links back from there), we always try to privilege the original submitter.
Pony classes have methods.
Pony classes have fields.

Fields and methods can be public or private. Private is akin to Java's package private.

There are no instance variables.
There are a lot of “…but first, the revolution” socialists who oppose private housing on the grounds that it won’t create a more affordable city (described by Sonja Trauss https://medium.com/@LocalPolitics/but-first-the-revolution-e...). For example, the “progressive” blogger Tim Redmond argues that “outside forces” create a demand that can never be met by private construction (http://48hills.org/2016/01/04/the-nimbys-and-the-housing-cri...) and that private capital will never invest enough in construction to reduce the rent (http://48hills.org/2017/07/12/listen-yimby/). There is a large echo chamber of tenant advocates who let the perfect be the enemy of the good and counterproductively oppose private development (http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40509-yimbys-the-alt-righ..., https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/yimbys-housing-affordabil..., https://twitter.com/TenantsUnionSF/status/889152770460090368, https://www.facebook.com/Vanishingsf/posts/700805940111215).

This is especially the case in San Francisco where programs such as rent control, inclusionary zoning, and other programs split renters into non-market partitions who mostly would not directly benefit from added supply (see Kim-Mai Cutler’s article for details on this https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/).
Admittedly I'm not familiar with Erlang's preemptive model, but I'll ask anyway :)

When using async based APIs with something like Akka, passing around futures and such, and leveraging multiple actors in thread pools, doesn't that get you to approximately the same place as Erlang?

Sure, the JVM isn't doing the preempting, but the OS is. Is the main downside per-thread resource consumption and context scheduling overhead?
Show HN: Helloreads – Online bookshelf simplified
There's 300 million acres of cropland in the US. 400 million more of pasture.

https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Online_Resou...

3 million is still pretty big.
International, and unclear if subsidiaries like WFM come into play in this?
They also failed to mention the important role of car engine noise in alerting vision-impaired pedestrians to oncoming traffic.
Is Android Studio today written mostly in java ? Kotlin ?

Are some portions written in native (c?) code ?
Houses have general wear and tear that need to get fixed.

Housing designs and styles go out of date. Code gets updated to add new standards such as better insulation, earthquake resistance, plumbing. Roofs need to be replaced, walls need to be repainted, floors need replacement after general wear and tear. Electrical standards change since our demands have changed over generations. And most units don't keep all of this stuff up to date through renovation other than the bare minimum. Like a used car.

Since buildings last a long time, a 1920s-1970s building is what is considered an aged building. 1980s is on the edge and 1990s is relatively new. A older building that was overengineered will retain better value and so on.
Executive function impairment in high-IQ adults with ADHD [pdf]
I found a fault when using a webview and rendering em's - it (as well as Chrome in debug mode for touch devices) didn't show the 8x scaling issue you get with a real device, which was annoying.
Practically you must do at least one.

The point of fussing with time zones (or the start-time for school/work, if you're in some weird place where people are capable of that) is so that you can go from "no morning or afternoon sun" to "morning or afternoon sun". You could tweak your 8.5 hours of daylight so that the sun rises at 6am and most people go to work/school in the sunlight and the sun sets at 2:30, or you could tweak it so that the sun rises at 10am and most people get some evening sun until 6:30.

It's not great but it's an option, instead of demanding the sun rises at 8am and sets at 4pm so that noon is noon and no one gets to enjoy it.
If the trigger is only rapid alternation of frames with a high luminance and/or contrast delta, it seems like that could be detected fairly easily by methods not wholly dissimilar to those used in MPEG compression. But I'm not at all sure that is indeed the only trigger, and also not sure how that kind of analysis could be done close enough to realtime to make a usable display filter.

Might still be worth putting together as a library, though. I can see an easy win for sites like Twitter, which could apply it to user-submitted content before showing it to anyone.
What's wrong with Squirrel and Windows? I thought they had a Windows update framework?
Why would it benifit an insurance company? In effect, they would simply be subsidizing people who are not their customers (either because they are uninsured, or insured by a different company). Therefore, the insurance company would not see any reduction in payout.

Further, in effect insurane companies do pay their customers to get the flue shot, because they pay full price for the shot, but some distributors (like CVS) offer a discount on unrelated purchases for getting the shot.

I think the solution here is government provided shots. Even without going to full government healthcare, vaccinations seems to fall well withing the CDC's perview. And, due to the herd immunity factor, there is a general societal interest in people getting vacinated (beyond the costs on society of a person getting sick).
I’m curious if and how much stock he holds in it.
The market can never provide housing as cheaply as a properly functioning local/state government.

* The state can borrow money far cheaper than private developers.

* The state has far fewer regulatory risks (getting permits, etc).

* The state does not need to make a profit but only needs to pay the bond payments.

* The state profits even when it doesn't make immediate profits on the particular housing development. It does so by increased local spending (by housing tenants who pay affordable rents instead of every penny they earn, etc) and also by higher taxes on increased incomes/output due to higher productivity, the higher productivity due to reduced stress and churn in the community caused by a lack of funds for life expenses due to high rents. (Remember lower income tenants spend _all_ of their money, with a high proportion spent locally. High earning landlords are exactly the opposite. A much larger proportion of their income flows internationally, to wherever capital gets the highest return, or whereever luxury goods are made)

* The state gets an implicit discount on labour costs in development since it gets tax income from the workers.

With all of these incentives in play the state can provide housing for less than the state borrowing cost of the money for labour/materials to build an apartment. Since in Portland it costs 175-200/sqft to build multifamily units, a 1000sqft 1BR should cost the equivalent of state borrowing costs/month for $175k at 2.2% = $320. Imagine how much better life would be if we had a government that used all of these incentives to provide well-built housing for its people.

There is also the cost for land but the state owns a lot of land, and it has the ability to get land by rezoning, and also by using eminent domain as a last resort. At any rate for high density buildings, this is not the dominant cost.
The median family income in Portland (the city proper, not the metro area) was $77k in 2015 according to http://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/oregon/portland/. $1500/month is totally within the bounds of the typical 40:1 income to rent ratio, so it's unsurprising that available rents tend to be in that range. If you want something cheaper than that, then yes, it's going to be low-end.

I'm not really sure what you're hoping for. Rents were creeping further upwards until building started to catch up with people moving in, and now they're coming down.

Are you really trying to argue that the best move, in light of this evidence, is to build less?
For AWS - 41.7% year over year sales growth (to $4.58b), 44% increase in operating expenses, 36% increase in operating income (to $1.17b).
Fake Tudor-esque stuff is also common; wood just stuck onto a usually brick house.
There was a court case brought by OSGATA against Monsanto. The lawyers for Osgata admitted that Monsanto never sued anyone for accidental contamination but their argument was that there was a chilling effect which discouraged their members from growing non conventional seed for fear of Monsanto suing them.

The case was thrown as it was ruled as Monsanto stated that they didn't intend to sue if you had trace amount of contamination.

https://www.biofortified.org/2015/12/lawsuits-for-inadverten...
Spooky Language
> keep in mind that building a ton of units and not having other policies in place isn't going to magically get us lower rents.

No, that will actually "magically" get you lower rents, for some definition of "a ton".
> Excluding Whole Foods Market and the $124 million favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 29% compared with third quarter 2016.

Still a really impressive 29% without taking WF into account.
"Operating income decreased 40%"
Random name generator for your iPhone
Love this. How many paying users do you have so far?
Amazon Q3 earnings
It's not far off from their old trajectory:

https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/revenues

The Whole Foods acquisition did add a billion, so that helps.
Surely density has some benefits, but not unmitigated by detriments like crowding and lack of freedom. These things go in cycles. Plus, the opposite of "density" like NYC isn't suburban sprawl. There is some middle ground.
You can still download the tools from here https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html#downloads - see the section named 'Get just the command line tools'.
I think that framing the situation in terms of a set number of options is implicitly restrictive on further research in the field of how an production should be organised. I can't bring myself to support any of the options you mentioned; capitalist markets, gift exchange, market socialism, what China is doing (or even what its stated policy is) all maintain the law of value - that is, there is commodity production (the creation not only of useful things but also values, which manifest as exchange values). This was even true in the USSR in which the economy was partially planned; the worker was alienated from his labour and direction and even from other workers.

I don't know if what you say is true, but for me to settle for anything less than what I described in the quote would be to ignore the fundamental critique of capitalism, that is, the production process of capital, and exchange - these things remaining untouched.
Wells Fargo Backdoors RSA 2FA Authentication
Wells Fargo allows customers to increase the security of their online account login and authentication by using a RSA physical one time password generator to increase login-time authentication security.

This is all fine and good, these small USB-drive sized devices spit out numbers which provide a very secure way of proving that you have the device, and that you are who you say you are.
This is an additional step that users need beyond their username and password for increased security.

But wait! Wells Fargo also allows "Advanced Access" 2FA authentication via SMS text message.

So, if you pay for a RSA token, you get choice at login time of using the RSA token or SMS text auth
to authenticate yourself.

If you read hacker news, you know that SMS text auth has been deprecated by the NIST and there are
dozens of cases where phone numbers have been taken over by hackers to bypass SMS text auth.

SMS text auth is generally regarded at quite insecure by the security community.

The best part is you cannot disable the SMS text auth as an alternative method of authentication to using the RSA secure token.*

So, Wells Fargo has managed to design and build a very secure 2FA login mechanism using RSA tokens, and completely defeat the security enhancement by forcing SMS text auth as an alternative.

Can someone please explain why banks such as Wells Fargo create such poor security mechanisms?

*You may delete all phone numbers from your account by calling WF customer service, and this disables the option of offering SMS text auth at login time. This cannot be done online. This is not recommended because then WF cannot reach you by phone.
Twitter banning all ads from RT, effective immediately
That's what I'm working on right now. It's just that I can use all this expertise around me to do it. Everything repeats in technology and what you learned can and will be applied to new trends like Ethereum.

I don't recommend anyone to really go to Google to work on the future (besides perhaps if you want to get an edge in AI). It's just that SV has a lot of people that have accumulated experience while building Google, FB, etc and that helps a lot no matter what comes next. You get a lot of experience and people able and willing to take risks which is a nice basis to build something new.
Press release here:

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-new...
They note in the release that Whole Foods accounted for $1.3 billion in sales. Excluding Whole Foods sales and favorable exchange rates, growth was 29%.
Casper: Bugs in validators can lead to catastrophic losses of money
Thanks for sharing! This is really cool and has a pretty broad spectrum of Games ranging from Minecraft to PUBG!

"What is it?":

> 1. WHAT IS THE GEFORCE NOW™ FOR MAC® FREE BETA?
GeForce NOW for Mac beta is a new service from NVIDIA that connects you to a powerful GeForce GTX gaming PC in the cloud, turning your Mac into a powerful gaming rig. We’ve launched a free beta of this service. so you can try it out at no charge. The GeForce NOW beta app will require you to log in to Steam to install games included in our list of supported games. You must already own or purchase these games to play them.

Other interesting note:
10. HOW MANY GAMES CAN I INSTALL?
Install as many of your games as you like. GeForce NOW game storage is unlimited.
A strategy defeated by a single question under oath: “And were you taking the drugs as prescribed?”
So subsidize it. I mean, that's what subsidies are for - to convince people to do things that are in the public interest.
Files will shed light on a JFK shooting conspiracy – but not the one you think
We did something similar for our newborn in the first few months of sleep deprivation. It helped us with focus until we relaxed and could keep better track of it on our own in our head. The key thing these things miss is keeping track of yourself.
Once again, AWS is the reason Amazon made any money at all. AWS earned $1.1B in profits for the quarter.. a 25% profit margin.
Actually, I'm pretty sure this is it: https://www.thebeeinc.com/
The spammers, yes.
> - upload speed is really bad from Europe (might be purely due to distance). Tried uploading one TB (@1.25MB/s), did around 25GB per day

That's really useful to know. I am looking to switch from Amazon Cloud Drive for my cloud backups (now their pricing scheme has changed) and one criteria was much faster uploads. Sounds like B2 won't be it then, shame.
Waymo Case Against Uber May See Second Trial Over Software Code