skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 18th century version of this was not using an umbrella to preserve demand for coach drivers:

"Over the years, Hanway and his umbrella fell victim to all sorts of abuse from Brits he passed on the sidewalk. The most pernicious abuse came from an unlikely source: coach drivers. In England at the time, hansom cabs (two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriages) and sedan chairs were the primary modes of transportation. Business boomed especially on rainy days, as both hansom cabs and sedan chairs came equipped with small canopies that kept passengers dry. When it rained, Londoners flocked to these coaches, so Hanway’s umbrella represented a threat to business.

Fearing an interruption in their personal incomes, many hansom cab drivers and sedan chair carriers grew violent toward Hanway. According to the British history magazine Look and Learn, when they saw him walking by, they often “pelted him with rubbish.” On one occasion, a hansom cab driver even tried to run Hanway over with his coach. Hanway reacted by using his umbrella to “give the man a good thrashing.”" - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-public-shaming-of-...
I frequently try to "isntall" things...
I would flat refuse to use this, or any Facebook product, at work. I don't use any of their products in my personal life and I'm not about to start using it in my professional one.
You’d think it’d be a simple matter of 1. automatically decrementing a counter when the item is scanned at checkout; and 2. manually decrementing the same counter when you throw things out for breakage or expiry (i.e. pretend the dumpster is a customer and ring up its purchases.)

That would just leave theft, which is usually predictable with ML (this being part of what loyalty cards are for), and doesn’t happen at all for most low/medium-ticket items.
It's the same here. The middle/high school kids here are in the dark for about 5 months. Going to permanent DST would not change anything for them. Dropping DST completely would reduce that to about 3 months. See the third column in my table for the details. The rows are when they go in the dark (1) if we got rid of DST completely, (2) if we keep it as it is, and (3) if we went to permanent DST.

It's elementary school kids that it would make a big difference with. Under the current system here they are always going to school after sunrise. If we went to permanent DST, they would be going in the dark for about 2.5 months.
While overseas investors (or even local students etc) would have no taxable income to offset against, why would this be preferred over simply banning it?
What about the Fair Housing Act?

"The prohibitions specifically cover discrimination because of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability and the presence of children."
I like particle photons. That can used in these:
https://www.particle.io/products/hardware/internet-button

No hacking required.
Its targets would be based on class.
Then the citizens of New Zealand should zone it so that more citizens of New Zealand can live on it. Blaming it 100% on foreigners is a smokescreen.
At 44 km/s, the object is travelling slightly faster than Pioneer 10. Seems too slow for an interstellar probe?
Musk's "hype" of AI? He says we should be scared of it.
I attended Twilio’s Signal conference and they had Twilio Quest running at their hackathon.

As the head of my little startup I was supposed to schmooze and attend all the biz type talks - what did I do instead for the entire morning? I spent it on the Twilio Quest hackathon coding away.

Haven’t had that much fun coding since college. Could not believe Twilio put so much effort into what I assumed would be a small side show at their conference.

This kind of commitment is incredibly impressive and really endears developers and technical users who see this side of Twilio. I even think it has applications outside of Twilio as a teaching tool if it could be frameworked up and open sourced.

Incredibly impressed by Quest and so tempted to see if I can improve my score!
In some areas , it is much easier (profitable) to stuff a bunch of people into Section 8 housing, instead of trying to rent to doctors, lawyers, or software developers (i.e. people that can afford attorneys).

I admire the cashflow of trailer parks, and the ease to remove and replace distressed properties.
I don't understand the concern with foreigners wanting to buy real estate. If a bunch of people want to import money from another jurisdiction and use it to buy something that is literally impossible for them to repatriate, more fool them! Let's take as much of their money as they'll offer.
Technically, it would be the second. First in solar system was Voyager I:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program
A probe should show signs of acceleration, not freefall... unless you wanted the probe to be stealthy. That is a disturbing thought.
The exploitive behavior here is sickening and deserved to be called out. As a marketing person it's also amusing that they claim to want to connect images for brands yet they use company logos apparently without permission all over their web site. The sort of thing likely to irritate the very people in those companies they want as customers.

e.g. https://www.thebeeinc.com/all-pages
Natural and Added Sugars: Two Sides of the Same Coin
In the late 90s at UC Riverside, the hostility was palpable. The campus required every student to take a course on "ethnic studies."

The course demonized whites over the usual gripes, slavery, Native Americans, US Mexico war, Columbus, Captain Cook, etc. This was not presented in its historical context, just agonizing, emotionally manipulative details. Native societies were always presented as near utopias before the arrival of whites. What was so odd to me, my two instructors (Prof and PHD candidate), were both White.

It was very clear that I was supposed to feel guilt and shame for being white. The course absolutely poisoned the campus since nearly everyone had to take it.

I remember a La Raza (a Hispanic racist organization to be honest). Marching, angrily for in-state tuition for illegal aliens (UC System has two fee structures-- a discounted one for California residents, and one for non-California residents). It was insanity because foreign nationals who had followed the rules would pay more, as would out of state citizens, but those arguably least entitled to public resources also paid the least.

As always, any rational discussion, or even nuanced agreement was demonized. You either agreed 100% or were the scum of the earth.

I have never, nor will I ever feel guilty for being white. I also didn't do any of the things shitty things that happened in the past, NOR WAS IT DONE TO THE PEOPLE who seemed to be blaming me for their personal problems.

I was in my early 20s, was offered a great PHD program (by UCR standards), and while many many factors went into the decision, I knew I didn't want to spend another 3 or 4 years with people who by and large hated me.
I meant compared to San Francisco and New York.

Then again, canadian salaries are lower and exchange rates are a factor.
You can't just expense stuff like that. For example you buy a warehouse you can't depreciate it all in one year. Retail is a competitive low margin business. Amazon has always had crazy P/E ratio. I could never really understand it. Maybe I could understand aws, but I can't understand the valuation of the core amazon business. Suppose amazon grows to the size of walmart. Walmart is only worth 260B, and they generate a ton more cash than amazon.
National Archives Release Files on John F. Kennedy’s Assassination
The more interesting question to me is why the robot has to go scan the shelves at the time you ask, when there could just be one (purpose-built) robot that walks the shelves once per night and builds up a model of the entire store that gets used by the other robots for the rest of the day. The hospitality robots wouldn’t even need to be able to see the shelves; they’d just need to be able to guide themselves to the right coordinates in the store and say “it should be right in front of me.”
They already do, at least in NYC. That's just part of the deal you sign when you join. If you don't like it, there are a lot of other options, each with their own tradeoffs.
Turn the competition knob to 0, everybody slacks. Turn it to 11, everybody cheats.

It's at 10. We're hearing more and more about large cheating scandals. I wonder, what could possibly be wrong with the system?
I wonder how many more jobs you would restore by taking away the original retail robot: the cash register. If you just made employees record all sales by hand in a ledger, companies like Walmart would have to hire thousands or millions more people to check out customers. Think of all those beautiful jobs! That would surely make America great again.
And yet they don’t have journalists resigning and calling them propaganda, or resigning because they were assigned to leave the US and work in Crimea. There’s a clear difference when the journalists themselves can’t stomach what they are doing.
I think the problem is that it drives house prices up.
Looks like they just added nested languages in the latest version: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_17#_language-suppor...

While agree that IntelliJ is pretty great the Android Studio implementation of it is nowhere near perfect. I've had false lints, incorrect flags and a whole class of issues where intellisense goes wrong.
Rendezvous with Rama?
Nazism has nothing to do with extermination.
Oh wow, well I'm all the more impressed then. It's admirable to try out new tech and venture into the unknown. Kudos!
Official Google Response: Diving Deeper on the Pixel 2 XL Display
As long as there a dishonest people, you're either going to be a nightmare for sellers, a nightmare for buyers, a random nightmare, or you're going to have a lot of overhead to have competent people in a scalable organization arbitrate everything.
Just have to mention, since I recognize the domain, that Sam Hughes has some excellent science fiction freely available in a serialized form here as well. Well worth investigating.
In the Python world, about the best you can do is enforce the existence of API documentation. Most Python linters can check that every module/class/function/method has a docstring, though of course they can't enforce that it's up-to-date or useful to a human.

Enforcing useful up-to-date documentation requires cultural setup work rather than technological setup work.
sooo its a custom ORM for MySQL? awesome
It’s extremely buggy. Downright broken at times. On a reasonably large project, autocompletion goes broken more often than not; jump to definition is broken beyond recognition. It’s just in line with the rest of what Apple has put up this year as “exciting” software; iOS 11, macOS High Sierra and Xcode 9. Really a shameful display.
Very true. A friend in Seattle tells me that Seattle locals are buying second and third homes as investments, a new way of becoming rich through leverage.
I have my fingers crossed that it does. At the very least there'll be some good popcorn from the drama.
I find it interesting that you consider Amazon to have the least human view of customers when they are founded and based on the principle of customer obsession.
Just pipe the output through cat. By default, the "pipefail" option is not set, so

echo foo | grep bar | cat

is successful. Of course, this works for any command.
Well, tell that to the thousands of small businesses in Hawaii, PR etc. that can't export, and therefore can't compete because sea shipping prices are too high.

A vivid example is Hawaii. Hawaii produces excellent cattle and livestock - plenty of sun and great weather. It is cheaper to fly cattle to the U.S. than it is to transport it in a Jones Act trade ship. There is a weekly Boeing 747 from HNL to LAX to transport cows to the mainland U.S. market. Imagine how much more competitive the Hawaiian livestock industry could be if sea shipping rates were competitive.

As Americans, it is our choice if we want to stimulate and connect our territories to our vast mainland market or if we want to protect special interests, lobbying, and corruption that supports the Jones Act trade.
> the solution to high house prices is ... tax capital gains, limit leveraging ability, implement a land based tax

Your solution to high real estate prices is to make the investment less attractive by increasing taxes? What does this gain for the new buyer?
That said, you don’t really have a choice if you want to support iPhone X, which you should.
Trader Joe's is excellent about this. I'm not sure if it's explicit policy but every single time I've asked an employee where something is they dropped what they were doing, walked over to the exact spot and literally handed me the item I was looking for. I guess that's only possible in a small store though.
Those 10gb Seagates have to be pretty new still. I'm curious about them over time. It would be nice if that's one like their old pre 2006 hdds that hardly ever failed.
A remote civilisation that has no problem waiting hundred thousand years or longer for a probe to reach its destiny.
Prof: Algebra, geometry perpetuate white privilege
Measurements detect no signs of FTL, Sol is noted as a good place for a future hyperspace bypass.
Apple seems to lack the expertise to enter new markets and compete with entrenched players.
I agree, but sunrise and sunset have the disadvantage of not being fixed (unless you live on the equator).
How 5 Tech Giants Have Become More Like Governments Than Companies
Yes it’s very unusual. The official version is the annotated one, and the annotations have legal force.
They don’t want to repatriate it; they want to get it out of their country as the first step of getting themselves out of their country. (Though, they want to stay as long as possible to squeeze as much dirty money out of their corrupt regime as they can before they do, which is why they aren’t just arriving alongside the money.)
I agree with you. Culture will be a larger factor in a font preference. The reason I'm asking is because I'm writing a blog dealing with tech topics but oriented towards women. I know for a fact that there are a lot of women that would like more tech information but less skewed towards the male viewpoint.
Sounds interesting, Please do tell!
Would this also salt the earth for switching away from Montesanto seeds for a few years while reminant chemicals remain?
Not necessarily, if your house is going up $10k per month you could live on HELOCs. Easily possible in the last decade or so in Vancouver.
Brazilian from Sao Paulo speaking...

This is the tip of the iceberg. Waze (and google maps) are wrongly conducting people to most dangerous slums (PTBR: favelas) and some people already died following this apps.

Source: Death #1 - http://g1.globo.com/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2015/10/mulher-mo...

Source: Death #2 - http://dc.clicrbs.com.br/sc/noticias/noticia/2017/01/turista...
You're just reiterating what we agree on. (I think I stated as much, but maybe not.)

EDIT: Just in case: We do agree that certain programs in dependently typed languages would require such reification of type information, yes? That is, we're talking about a run-time decision about choosing a type (or another type), yes?
Coincidental. Vancouver was poised for a massive correction after prices increased 30% in the past 12 months.

My understanding is that condo sales and prices are still strong. So I'd ask if foreign purchases were the cause, why are condo sales still going up?
Any particular reason you pointed out Times New Roman?
Examples of this happening?
Whatnext: a smart and lazy way of organizing your studies
No ability or incentive to coordinate - but a land value tax could facilitate it.
This is a different issue, establishing the difference between someone that buys a property to live in vs buys it as an investment.
If only there were some way for browsers to request content like maps dynamically, or to refresh their maps from servers …
Two things to say: a) come spend winter in Sweden... in Lapland the sun does not set at all in June and there is darkness around the clock in January; Stockholm is not that far up North, so we get a few hours of daylight in mid-December; and b) if lack of daylight in the winter is such an issue, maybe move to Southern California, or somewhere even closer to the equator.

Three things, actually :-) c) consider spending your winter months in the Southern Hemisphere. Some animals migrate vast distances twice a year.
Life is a slow death sentence. Who will commit suicide to protest Death?
Additional JFK Assassination Documents Released
What's the steady state foreign purchase percentage? 5%?

Note that the 10% was in the hottest Vancouver neighborhoods. It was much lower in the suburbs and those prices were still ridiculous.

I'm not arguing foreign purchases had zero impact on prices. I'm just arguing compared to domestic purchases, they are pretty small.
The NIMBYism being referred to isn't about foreigners buying property, it's about zoning preventing higher density housing and therefore constraining supply.
I wonder if it was a physical image backup or a logical image backup. If the latter then deleted data on the server would be likely lost if the original disks were reformatted.
This is going to take me a few minutes...

WITS was discontinued 5 years ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/theories-mean...

https://www.thenation.com/article/why-does-the-far-right-hol...

[warning, pdf] https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/MurderAndE...

[2015 study; warning, pdf]
https://sites.duke.edu/tcths/files/2013/06/Kurzman_Schanzer_...

I'm actually quite certain that antifa has either been infiltrated by agent provocateurs or is populated by useful idiots. I say this as a life long Republican (until March '03).

Edit: Am I supposed to summarize these 4 articles in order to be considered adequate response to a wiki link of an org that was dissolved 5 years ago?
Have you met any tankies.

They do advocate for millions of class enemies to be killed.

Personally I feel, and I know many people disagree, that parallels between today and '30s are overrated.

While history can rhythm, the modern left and right have mythologized that period to the point it is unrecognizable.

People don't actually read books on WWII.
So where does the incentive to build new housing come from once policies are in place to make sure it isn't profitable?
An insurance company can be more profitable if their customer base is more healthy (less payouts) then their competitors.

Society wide health improvement schemes like this generally hurt insurance company's profits since their profit and administrative overhead costs are capped to a percentage of the cost of their insurance plans[0]. One of the problems with healthcare in the US is that not many of the players are incentivized to improve costs. Industry wide inefficiency just means the insurance industry's 3% (or whatever) profit margin is larger in absolute terms.

[0]: https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-...
We had a similar experience. This article [1] was an absolute godsend. Autocomplete is working again and it is, as billed, a bit more reliable and snappier. I hope this helps you.

That said, it's absolutely ludicrous that fixing autocomplete is this difficult and involved. I would much rather see the Xcode team put their efforts towards building a great command-line toolchain and compiler daemon, and let the community plug it into various editors.

[1]: https://miqu.me/blog/2017/06/16/fixing-autocompletion-on-mix...
Wegmans employees do the same thing, and my Wegmans is bigger than some Walmarts.
Inspired by brain’s visual cortex, new AI utterly wrecks CAPTCHA security
To Settle Infinity Question, a New Law of Mathematics (2013)
ARM talks about CCIX details
Many stores do this. Our local grocery store, QFC, frequently does it, Home Depot does it, etc.
> Though in fairness they rarely suspend anyone else either.

Twitter suspends or shadowbans quite a few people, at least if what a fair few people online are saying is true. Not sure their logic behind who exactly they suspend though. Conservatives say they get accounts suspended more, liberals say it's them etc.
Does this civilization do things in threes? Three-legged creatures, etc.?
My personal nemesis is "mroe". Also aliased. My wife, who drafts a lot of legal contracts, has a problem with "doe snot", which the spelling checker is more than happy with.
Press release https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/nr18-05
Show HN: Surface Floater – A WebGL experiment with SDF and collusion physics
A lot of it is greedy, scheming local slumlords, to be honest.

If we abolished Prop 13 statewide, did some minor up-zoning throughout the Bay Area (and had more mixed use zones), made new housing easier to construct (less drawn out process for people to block development, etc.), reduced parking requirements, worked on improving public transit, and taxed unlived-in buildings [or better, switched toward land-value taxes], did more planning at a regional rather than municipal level, we could take a lot of incremental bites out of the housing quagmire.

Unfortunately most of those are politically infeasible.
Pull out wallet, extract credit card, swipe or insert chip, wait, sign, put back card, put back wallet. All these things can be done in parallel while the cashier is also working. With self-checkout unless you are very good you can't do this while you are also scanning all your items.
Prepare for thousands of clickbaity articles on mainstream media in the next few days.
Catalonians don't have a very different culture. They're as dumb illogical in their demands, football-loving, perfid nationalistic as any other Spaniard. The current situation is the best proof of it.
Recall, those guys do everything in threes. Perhaps they'll even send three probes through our solar system.
No one's rights are being infringed upon. The right to free speech is certainly still in their hands. Their audience is then anyone within earshot.

Your question seems to me to be a red herring, and doesn't seem relevant in the discussion surrounding web-based fora. While "the internet" in some abstract form could be construed as a human right in this modern technological world of ours, the World Wide Web as it stands today very much is not that. The infrastructure is privately maintained, and as such is not granted the protections that the 1st amendment provides. Likewise the services that are built upon the physical infrastructure, namely websites and data-transmission services, are not obligated to enforce rights.
In this case doctors were pushing drugs on patients....for some folks, you can't choose not to be addicted after taking it for a length of time.
In California you get $7,000 off the assessed value of your home with the homestead exemption. So ~$70 off your yearly taxes. Must have been much more important value when this was passed into law but almost nothing now on the usual $10,000/yr prop tax bill.
All 64 bit apps are supported by iPhone X. You only need to upgrade to XCode 9 if you want a custom layout for the black band or whatever people are calling it. I'm sure many companies will update their apps, but I can't imagine the experience will be that much better in most cases.
What hospitality robots are you talking about? Does Walmart have hospitality robots? I only saw the stock scanning robot in the article.
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I was planning on putting string manipulation functions like trim() in the cloud and masquerading it as something new and cool

asynchronous string manipulation API now available for Docker
Wow, I thought 256GB was a typo.

I don't think I've ever used a machine with more than 32GB.
Someone tell me why this is a silly thing to say:

It is naive to trust that US elections are valid demonstrations of democracy.
I find it disappointing that even in the litany of alternate technologies tried, there's no reference to using Web technologies, so these animations could be interactive. Obviously the author's choice, but some could benefit now and going forward.