skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least it isn't Fung Wah.
I'll give it a shot.

Every city has rules about what you can and can't build within its boundaries. Even lightly-regulated cities like Houston still have rules about density, lot sizes, and what you can build where. There isn't such a thing as a city without "government intervention."

The current rules were put into place by previously powerful people who wanted the Bay Area to be low density. There are new powerful people who want to change the rules so it can be higher density.

Other people (not the people who are the main focus on this article) also want the local government to help pay to build homes for poorer residents. There are families which have been living in these areas for a long time who can no longer afford to stay. Many communities are only strong because there are people who have been there for a long time, who know each other and have worked hard to build that community. Kicking them out to make room for new comers, who may only be there temporarily, in time weakens the quality of life for everyone.
iOS doesn't have a log, but it does have a really obvious visual indicator (in the form of a fat red status bar) when an app uses the microphone in the background. I became convinced that this whole story was nonsense when I realized a lot of people reporting it were talking about iPhones.

Something like what you describe would be wonderful on either platform, though.
Ah, yeah, I read it as moving from Maine to NH to avoid paying taxes on a job in Maine.
They did just sign a contract with NASA to help fly taxi aeroplanes [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-portugal-websummit-uber/u...
I work with and know a lot of left-wing people, and cutting the corporate tax rate is anathema to them. But the only people who pay 35% corporate tax are small and medium sized businesses! Once you get big enough, you can afford professionals to optimize your business for tax planning. The smaller guys don't have the time or the funds to do so.

So in reality, the 35% tax rate is yet another moat that keeps large companies entrenched. By lowering to (say) 15%, the playing field would be drastically more equal.
Clinton was like a vaccine, inoculating ones ability to show up and vote.
agreed entirely.

we need to stop thinking of maladaptive institutions as features of society gone askew, but rather as dark patterns that have emerged as a result of historical pressures.

what's the best way to stop a dark pattern at the large scale? trip it up at the small scale, where it can't react with its weight.

leak their information. jam their systems. turn off their water supply. make them show their hand for something that isn't quite worth it.

the shadow war with russia can be brough to peace later-- they know the boundary of the game we play.

for now, we must clean our own house.
Can “Cookie to header token” CSRF prevention be beaten with permissive CORS?
The CSRF Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery#Cookie-to-header_token describes Cookie-to-header_token as sending a CSRF token to users in a cookie, and then using JavaScript to read the cookie and set it as a custom header (I think a post param would work too) when making ajax calls. It also adds:

The protection provided by this technique can be thwarted if the target website disables its same-origin policy using one of the following techniques:
Permissive Access-Control-Allow-Origin Cross-origin resource sharing header (with asterisk argument)

The article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-origin_policy#Security_Applications also says:

The user visiting the malicious site would expect that the site he or she is visiting has no access to the banking session cookie. While it is true that the JavaScript has no direct access to the banking session cookie, it could still send and receive requests to the banking site with the banking site's session cookie. Because the script can essentially do the same as the user would do, even CSRF protections by the banking site would not be effective.

Is this still true if doing client side rendering and all server requests are ajax get/post calls with a required token in cookies plus custom header? I think the token can be stolen, if the server is rendering the CSRF token into forms, by sending a GET with the user's session cookie, and parsing the response HTML, but as far as I know a malicious site' JS can't read another site's cookies even with Access-Control-Allow-Origin set to the malicious site and Access-Control-Allow-Credentials set to true.

I know setting allow-origin to the request origin is stupid, but am just wondering if I'm missing something that makes it easy to exploit the above CSRF prevention.
Yup, Bluebird has allowed for:

await Promise.delay(1000);

For as long as I can remember. I'm surprised Bluebird isn't more widely-adopted; it's been way better than native promises for at least 2 years now. The transform-async-to-module-method plugin with Bluebird is the way to go.
Newer BASICs were, too. In fact, the statement you wrote above was still valid in Visual Basic 6.0, provided that it was inside a method in a form (window) - in which case it drew the line on that window. If you wanted to draw it on another one, then you had to use the dot-syntax, but the rest of it would be the same, e.g.:

otherForm.LINE (x1, y1) - (x2, y2), 2, BF

Curiously, LINE was an actual method, with regular parameters; it's just that it had this irregular syntax when calling it. VB had a bunch of special-cased rules for some identifiers like that, for back-compat reasons. Pretty much anything you could do in QB, you could do in VB - CIRCLE, PSET etc.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa230480(v=vs.60).a...

This all got ditched in VB.NET in favor of a regular syntax.

But my favorite part in old BASICs was that the function MID$() - which in other languages is usually known as "substring" or "substr" - was special-cased so that it could be used as target of assignment. So:

s$ = "foobar"
PRINT MID$(s$, 2, 3) ' oba
MID$(s$, 1, 2) = "uu"
PRINT s$ ' fuubar

And yes, VB has this, too. In fact, even VB.NET does (although it did away with $).
I have no simpathy for these ultrarich dipshits and their companies that think that they are better than the rest of us. They'll probably get what they deserve eventually.
The SF Chronicle editorial board thinks so:

http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Editor...
Wow this website loads incredibly fast.
> At 200 miles an hour, NY to Chicago is less than four hours.

Assuming you can a) maintain that speed the entire length and b) there are no stops along the route. A long-distance point-to-point HSR system is simply not cost-effective, particularly when you've got a geographic barrier like the Appalachians. That's what makes Chicago so problematic for HSR: the Midwest ends up being a region where no city is particularly close to being "on the way" between any other city pairing.
Downvotes? Maybe you should have gone with Dilbert's version?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25
I think you're thinking of Amtrak service. Commuter-rail service only goes as far south as Wickford Junction in North Kingston, RI.
> Boosting is another example. It really is stranger than fiction.

Is this true? Boosting is pretty well formulated in the PAC framework and the classical algorithms (e.g. Adaboost) are well-characterized.
I did this successfully at a completely different store - a Media Markt in Berlin - using the approach: "Look, I want to buy this and I could order it online to this store, which would be silly: I have to wait, and you don't make a sale" in a slightly amused, non-confrontational tone.
Now I don't think it is likely that the result depended on the approach, but inofficial store policy. Media Markt is expensive except for special offers.

It was about two Logitech gamepads for ~15€ less overall.
NY-Toronto-Detroit-Chicago is possible in theory, which has much closer connections between four very large cities. But international cooperation is low right now for dotard-related political reasons.
"foundational argument"? He spends half the article talking about the other issues, starting with "But what if those technical realities disappeared?"

I think he smudges the issue by conflating FB's theoretical ingestion of such audio with its current data storage capacity and ingestion. Presumably, raw audio could be transmitted and processed without being stored.

But does the state of the art language recognition allow for broad on-device translation beyond a subset of trigger words, i.e. "Alexa", "Siri", "OK Google"?
Until just the past month I didn't have room for a dedicated dining table. My trick was to store a hollow door (yes, a closet door I carried back from Home Depot) behind my clothes in my closet. And when I had people over for board games and/or dinner, I'd pull out two saw horses from under my bed and place the door across them. Totally worked, and it even kinda looked trendy!

Chairs, of course, were assembled from various other uses around the apt, and I had a few slight, almost space-less lawn chairs if I needed extra. In my smallest apartment, I'd pull the door against the couch, so that three people could sit down. But this was obviously not ideal because they sunk much lower...
Heh, this pretty much summarizes it:

https://i.reddituploads.com/ed7d8ee6c6b84fe2b1ad51aab4e29588...
Tim Cook I believe stated he needed a single digit number to consider bringing back the money[1] which is different but certainly important to note. The 2013 Apple hearing further explains the tax number he believes would be needed to be competitive[2].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4351978/tim-cook-defends-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7H1Y6Nr3c4
TI-83 version of BASIC was the first exposure to programming I ever had. My friends and I made text-based RPGs on our calculators and swapped them to play each others' during classes.
Do you maximize the tax obligation on your personal return?
>The expense for all those accountants, lawyers, lobbyist, and inefficiencies caused by artificially shuffling money around would outweigh just paying the 10-15% tax bill.

That will certainly raise the bar to which paying for those services is worth it, assuming none of them change their prices, find a loophole or scheme, or don't develop new technology to reduce their operating costs.

In fact, establishing a 10-15% tax and then getting the public to wring their hands while saying "thank god that's taken care of" is asking to continue to lose tax money to these schemes.
A Green Beret Found Two SEALs’ Illicit Cash. Then He Was Killed
Offtopic: I wonder why the audiobook (CD) of this is $50-80?
> In the bright-eyed naiveté of my first few weeks as Facebook's first leader of the ads targeting effort

Not to be too snarky, but this is facebook's (ex?) ad targeting leader telling us that everything is A-OK? He might well be right, and he presents some good arguments, but in the face of such an opaque system, that doesn't inspire much confidence.
I think your estimate is off by more than an order of magnitude. I follow a number of large youtube channels. Many of them seem to be making more money from patreon than from ads. And patreon isn't even a true subscription model, since you can usually see the content even if you don't subscribe. And it still beats ads.

One of my favorite channels is this super niche thing that only gets about 1000-2000 views per video and makes 2 vids a month. That adds up to maybe $4-8 in ad revenue using some rough estimates of youtube's payout rate. On patreon he's making over $500 a month. Which is really respectable for such a small audience.

Online ads have never generated that much money per user and were only profitable in large quantities. Given how scummy they are and this evidence that they repel users, they should be eliminated.
> the landlords and homeowners who reap all the benefits from the status quo have somehow been able to dupe the housing have-nots who suffer from it

And by that you mean the people who worked and saved to invest in something wisely to have that take out from under them? I cannot stand people who think home owners and landlords as evil people just because people who come after them cannot have it easy. It was never easy for anyone. It's not the have and have not's, it's the market and hardwork, sure some people are born into wealth but most the time it's just hard work.
Or Facebook saw you logged into Facebook using a laptop and whoever at Amazon set up the ad to target people who use laptops
^ This. I'm writing Bubble off as another hype-ster toy until proven wrong.
I don't know about California, but isn't it reasonable to want to live where you were born, where your parents, grandparents and relatives live? Where you kids friends are if you have children. Moving to another city is easy for someone who doesn't have these values and is just hunting for the best paying job.
While agree that lower rates would help and are fundamentally a better idea. I also think that it should not be legal to avoid these taxes in the current way. In order for the system to work these loopholes need to be closed. The market is based on the survival of the fittest and taxes can really distort things if not applied consistently. I think this is the key reason we need to solve this problem. Not to collect more from the rich but to make sure large international companies do not have an advantage based on their ability to hide funds offshore.
The rise and fall of ISIS
The main opposition in Arlington was they were afraid then proposed Red Line extension out to Bedford/128 wouldn’t happen fast enough (or at all) and the city center would become a commuter hub, not that they were afraid if the kind of people it would attract. The majority were for the extension through Arlington so long as it were done as one continuous project, guaranteeing the terminus wouldn’t be in the town center.
SearX: Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
So I know what part to explain, could you clarify: do you think the owner of a parcel of land that’s close to a transit hub should be allowed to voluntarily build a 4-to-6-story apartment building, or that the government should intervene and require that parcel be a single-family house forever against the owner’s wishes?
For me, expressing math as code in a high-level language like R is way more intuitive, and faster to read/write/extend/verify than formulae.

This said, my context is always data-analysis/modeling. I’ve never felt intimidated by code, though I spent many years being intimidated by certain formulae. I’m fairly certain that I’d have pursued math to a much higher level in school if the symbolic expressions were pseudo code I could mess with, but this may just be my odd learning style.
Bernie Sanders isn't really a Democrat; he tried to hijack the party during one election cycle, much like Trump.
Osaka to Fukuoka in Japan is about 2.5 hours by Shinkansen high speed train with 6 stops.

Chicago to NYC is about twice that distance, so 5 hours should be obtainable
"2 or so hours of record time on a charge. That doesn’t seem sufficient."

I'm not sure why the blackbox style of camera hasn't caught on more. (like eg http://www.rideye.com/, but I'm sure there are others).

My rides are commonly 100miles plus at a time - slowly -
and often overnight. Not only is that too long for the camera at decent resolution, it's too long for batteries; last time I tried that, a GoPro with a 32Gb card that might've taken 8h of video died after 4h. A 5 min rolling window of decent resolution footage is all I want for crashes or highlights.

But more than this, it'd be nice to have some standardisation on bike accessories running off a single power bus, not their individual batteries. My dynamo gear is great (I use a SON hub, Edelux 2, and a Secula rear) but why was this not semi-standard; I'm in northern europe and lights are needed most of the year. And once the cabling is there, why aren't bike gadgets aimed at bus power rather than more and more batteries?
Walmart will even give you a discount on some items for picking them up in store. I was able to score some hard drives pretty cheaply this way. They had 4tb drives with a something like 40 dollars off in store pickup.
Nice project, a claver way of skipping repeat write of previous math step work and just do little edit for the NEXT step in the Math homework .

github https://github.com/jaltekruse/Free-Math

On a different note:
I think for grading purposes of student math home work which is done on a paper, Deep Learning neural network programs will be advanced enough in 5 years that is by 2023
- we will have a $200 flatbed scanner in every class room, as student finish his school work/home work, she can put the papers on scanner, it will sent scanned image to school server which is running Deep Learning software which Grades and home work and record scores in Database for teacher to view .
Doesn't have to be searches. Can be derived from visiting pages (Amazon or not) that have anything to do with laptop bags. Can you open up your browser history and see if nothing you visited in those two days had anything to do with laptops or laptop bags?
Okay, but who will clean / teach / deliver to / cook for / care for (for example) your city of the rich?
Can you explain to me why a couple hundred thousand in ads matter more than a couple billion of super PACs and why those people that spent those billions are blaming it on the couple hundred?

I mean maybe they do, but I feel like in that case you just have to be really shit in marketing and sales, no?

EDIT: you may say: "But I mentioned so many other topics", yes, true, yet the very first in your list is RT. and no I have no skin in this game
The Appalachians aren't particularly an insurmountable barrier. Japan, Switzerland, China, and France all have much bigger and more formidable mountains than the Appalachians.

The real problem is:

- Not enough government funding for mass transit projects

- Not enough people supporting government funding

- Too much power at the city level and not enough power at the state/national level for transportation projects

- Terrible UX and not enough city-level public transit infrastructure. When you exit the train station in most of the above countries, you are greeted with a properly air-conditioned/heated waiting hall, delicious food, hotels within walkable distance, and buses/subway to anywhere you would need to go. In a LOT of US cities when you exit the train station you are greeted with a massive parking lot and not even so much as a restroom. (Okay, Boston, New York, Chicago, and Washington are fine, but they are quite the exception. Most other cities suck.) Even if California gets the high-speed rail going any time soon to Los Angeles, the fact is that it's stupidly hard to get around anywhere in LA without a car, so I don't imagine it getting much ridership until that problem is solved (maybe by autonomous cars, maybe not).
IMO a solution that people rarely discuss is a land value tax, typically also supplemented by pigovian taxes on things like alcohol, carbon emissions, etc.

I personally think income taxes have proven to be a beauracratic and political nightmare with high economic overhead. I don't see a VAT being much better. And as others will mention, just switching to a general sales tax is highly regressive.
I was working back when CASE was the next big thing. People have always loved the idea of programming with pictures. But after decades without success I think we have to acknowledge that paradigms like spreadsheets, Trello etc. are the real way that end users build computer systems.
When did I say they were evil? My point is that yes, they're acting in their own self-interest (which is fine), but crucially, they've somehow convinced the housing-have-nots that artificially restricting the supply of new housing is somehow in their interest, too.

I think this proposition will break that spell, and in a democracy, when the housing-haves vote their self-interest, and the have-nots vote theirs, the latter will win in a landslide.
> the people who worked and saved to invest in something wisely to have that take out from under them

Sounds like the regulatory environment was an investment risk that wasn't taken into account.

Persistence in regulations isn't some sort of right. Laws change all the time. Any investment made without considering the risk of the anti-NIMBY movement is no different from any other un-diligenced investment -- foolish.

Holding an asset and concerned about the risk of diminishing property values in the face of shifting regulations? Unload. You'd do the same if you're seeing a company where you're Long run into potentially difficult headwinds.
Of course the only (dignified) way out is to leave on one's volition.

But when one is highly skilled, one does not simply "just quit and get another job".
Yeah that seems to me to be the strongest argument against FB using the microphone. For iOS, it would require circumventing the Apple guidelines. FB is clearly a big player but not big enough for Apple to bend their privacy rules for.
And feel free to support the campaign financially even if you don't live in SF!
you're completely overlooking the fact that deep neural networks can generalize to unseen data. the kid analogy doesn't work at all.
If you divide US digital ad spend in 2016 by number of US households, that's about $50/month. Same order of magnitude as my earlier guesstimate.
> And by that you mean the people who worked and saved to invest in something wisely to have that take out from under them?

How is dumping your savings into a single asset "wise investment"? The idea that housing should be a good investment is ludicrous on its face when you consider its potential volatility, constant upkeep, and lack of liquidity. I'm not sure why it continues to be promoted, and I think people should be disabused of it. Not only so they make better investment decisions, but so that housing speculation is less of driving force in real estate costs.

What you're suggesting is that we allow putting barriers to new development to artificially keep this asset class valuable for its owners. Why does this make sense for housing but not for stocks or mutual funds?
Which doesn't mean Firefox should support the kernel API directly, or every audio system out there. And other systems probably have wrappers for PulseAudio API.
> I am not sure why you keep assuming my own personal opinions about voting, democracy, etc when I have not bothered to share any.

Because your (mis)interpretation of Thiel's words isn't consistent with any other interpretation. So what are you saying, then? Anything?

> How do you parse his original statement: "extension of franchise to women has rendered the notion of capitalist democracy into an oxymoron".

That he does not think that his goals can be best served by resorting to democratic governmental means.

Which is not the same thing as him being opposed to democracy.

> so much so, that extending franchise to new demographics harmed capitalist democracy

No, he's not saying that at all. When you say something is an "oxymoron" you're saying that it's a contradiction, not that it's "been harmed".

Also, I don't think Peter Thiel gives two shits about "bad PR".
It comes across like people complaining that there are no pensions anymore and its unfair.... If you don't like the circumstances whose fault is it for staying in those circumstances?? The bay is tiny land locked piece of land, its never going to be good/better. It's a bunch of smart people making poor decisions.