skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In addition as I've watched rents around me rise, and anticipated my own rent rising, I wonder at the expectation that we should continually get less for more. My house isn't getting any newer after all.

I think your central confusion stems from the idea that the price of rent is in any way related to the original cost to buy the land and build the building you are renting. It is not.

Rents move to stay competitive with the demand in the area. If more people want to live there, rents will rise. If vacancies increase, rents will fall until all the units are filled. Landlords have no leverage against renters in this regard - if you can find a similar rental for cheaper in your area, you are free to move or negotiate down your rents with your current landlord.

Attempts to legislate this market dynamic away just risk guessing demand incorrectly and limiting prices inefficiently, which results in less housing stock and more expensive/scarce rentals in all cases.
Seeing some guy get folded in half in Disney's movie The Rocketeer was traumatic enough for me, and I was ~13. Not to mention melting the shoe in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

It's hard to tell what will or won't deeply affect a child and even harder to gauge the specific ages where things might become appropriate. It's really per-child, and no matter how well a parent does gauging that, mistakes will be made.

There's no way this can be automated, as it's never going to be one-size-fits-all. The combination of generally sanitized media channel + parental supervision will (and should) endure, IMO.
+1 would be curious to hear more about this.
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>It removes a lot of complexity from your code.

Not to mention, Nginx implements quite a lot of features that are probably missing in LibHTTP, or implements them in a more performant way.
This is pretty neat. We accomplished something similar but simpler. We use unattended reboots with randomised selection of time throughout 24 hours. Drain node with a script. Not perfect but simple to do and setup.
Even under GPL there would be no requirement, since this happens on the server, not the client. The AGPL is the only license I'm aware of that places this requirement when not distributing the software.
The shuttle did what it was supposed to do, in that it’s sensors registered the truck and the shuttle stopped to avoid the accident. Unfortunately the delivery truck did not stop and grazed the front fender of the shuttle.

This is the quote from the very article you linked to. The bus picked it up. The human driver hit it anyway. Obviously the bus' fault - it should have predicted that and stayed away from streets full with crappy drivers in trucks.
h2o has it
The vest isn't powered. Rather, its goal is to absorb some of the force exerted on the wearer and transmit it to the ground (instead of the person's body).

A few months ago, I built a rudimentary unpowered exoskeleton similar to the Ekso models, and it did help with carrying heavy loads once I got past the initial awkwardness of wearing it.
You’re working in the wrong place if you’re working in an open office
That should be part of libc 5.3, which would be hell to install side-by-side whichever version you currently have. Not a rabbit-hole to go down lightly.

Maybe an old (2011-ish) Linux distro in a VM would be the way to go. If you want the effort. (I obviously don't feel like pursuing it myself).
You need to allow special characters in the inability field.

My field was "Python" and my entry was "I still can't remember the argument order for json.dump()", but it gave the error "Inability Only letters, numbers and spaces allowed for inability field".
That 400 is a consumption tax that consumers pay, not the company. The company pays a fraction of that, depending on what in their expenses was also carrying VAT. So you just maximize your vat expenses and voilà, no real tax for the company.

> I don't know why we do this.

We do this because we know that global companies are sociopathic, and left to their own devices would never contribute to the societies they benefit from. So we try to drag them kicking and screaming back into human decency; and they try to escape in more and more creative ways. It's like asking why we pursue burglars.

> I'm very much not arguing for zero taxes

But you are; you are arguing for zero taxes for international companies, leaving only individuals and geo-restricted entities to deal with the task of paying for the cost of living in a civilized society. That's increasingly what happens in practice already, and it's a huge part of the problem. The best case in point is VAT, a regressive tax that is paid almost entirely by consumers - the same people who are also paying income tax, which is still the primary source of funds for any government. So individuals get hammered twice, while wealthy corporations stash away piles of money. That isn't right.
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I think the US is much more likely to violate the privacy of a random 3rd party than Russia, absolutely. How many Kenyans have their data sitting in NSA servers? I bet it's more than Kenyans on the FSB's servers.

I don't know, but I would be surprised of Russia even captured 1% of the data that the NSA captures routinely (or was capturing at the height of its excess).

Additionally, Russia seems to keep quiet about what they do which is lying by omission at worse. A lot of US security officials have lied under oath about what the US is doing - I think it's more important to expose active and direct and popular lies than incidental lies.
More like, "This piece of software I don't understand did something I was not expecting, so now I'm upset that the software isn't actually what I thought it was and I want it changed".
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In order:

1) Yes.

2) More beneficial in limiting displacement only. No considerations of cost.

Answer 1) Subsidized housing provides more benefit because it provides immediate housing stock at lower prices, replacing any stock lost to luxury construction. It is definitely not cheaper or easier to build more - the same areas that need subsidized housing are the ones where housing in general is more expensive to build.

Answer 2) Absolutely yes, zoning laws increase the cost of construction, leading to more expensive housing units. Explicit recommendations in favor of more affordable housing include:

A) Removing parking requirements

B) Allowing more density (more floors, smaller required sq. ft per unit - yes, this is a thing, and fewer yards, set-backs, etc.)
> I was referring to the political difficulty and courage needed. If you can ban the F word you can also ban junk food ads.

That's even more wrong than the more literal version: restricting unpopular words takes zero political courage and has very little difficulty (and, in fact, provides political cover for advertiser-friendly actions commercial outlets would be inclined to take on their own.)

Banning advertisement that established moneyed interests engage in, OTOH, faces actual political difficulty.
Most states require you to take reasonable steps to avoid an accident.
Manual moderation is _fun_...

I'm leaving anything but explicitly elicit stuff for now.
To offer a very slim thread of credibility to the argument, there are cases in which supply and demand interact ... oddly. The canonical case is probably traffic: increasing highway capacity increases congestion.

But, beyond the topical similarity, the cases fall apart. The situation with traffic involves only a small incremental cost being born by each driver, whilst in housing, the internalised costs are large. The drivers of housing inflation -- the interest of numerous parties in increasing asset values (free money for no work!) most especially -- are also highly different.

Actually, that last factor tends to make me suspect that the housing arguments are at least in a significant number of cases insincere.
Agree it is not a trivial task to build out the infrastructure for custom SSL. We’ve done it ourselves and it’s just now another service component we have to manage. ie. more time sink for something that isn’t our business core feature

For others who are reading this, the whole process involves reading and storing private keys using asymmetric ciphers and all that. Definitely more stuff than we’d like to be responsible for.

Will definitely keep an eye on fly.io for new features! Thanks
I fully expect every death caused by a self-driving cars to make national headlines in the next few years. Hysteria, whether justified or not, will set in and legislation will pass banning autonomous vehicles in the US.

Self-driving cars may have a faster reaction time, but they will never reach the level of human awareness of their surroundings while driving.

Let's see a self-driving car navigate through a construction zone, watch for instructions from a police officer who is directing traffic, or stop when kids are playing baseball in a yard and the ball rolls across the street. Answering, "well they'll have that capability someday" isn't a very compelling answer. Truly self-driving cars are dependent on technology that simply hasn't been invented yet.

How nice it will be sitting behind a fleet of self-driving cars dragging their asses down the highway at exactly the speed limit, or slamming on the brakes when a leaf flies in front of the sensors.

In addition to that, you think masses of people will be silent while losing their jobs because these robot overlords are taking the wheel?

Source: I work for a self-driving car startup.
This was a quick and dirty way to prevent abuse. will reinstate when I'm not panicking :)
> what to do when an moving object is headed towards a stopped self-driving car?

Nothing. Whoever is controlling that moving object is responsible. So, provided the car is not stopped on railroad track (in which case - what they heck is it doing stopping on railroad track?!) it should just stay there and not add variables to the situation by jerking around.
Agreed. I did that as a simple way to prevent abuse. I'll have bring back special characters.
Great. Ambiguity creates accidents. "Are you walking? Should I stop!? Oh no you aren't walking I can go, oh wait you are I should stop."

How many times have you had that happen when you're driving and you see someone hesitantly about to jaywalk?

Also, as a cyclist, when a cyclist doesn't ride on the road and follow the laws it drives me nuts. Are you a vehicle or a pedestrian? Please don't be both.
From TFA: "Two market rate houses reduce displacement as much as one affordable house".
The only reason I'm staying with macOS is because it is the only UNIX distribution that doesn't look downright ugly. (Sorry Linux, none of your distros match up to Apple's offering)

I've had lots of teething issues with High Sierra (especially with APFS) and I certainly don't like the new butterfly keyboard in the new MacBook Pros. But on the other hand, they've got the best gesture controls. With Windows 10 you can go far with precision touchpads, but I have yet to use it enough to say whether I like it or not. Screenshot shortcuts (Cmd+Shift+4) is another thing I use on a daily basis that's still not in Windows 10.

When my 2014 MacBook Pro is due for replacement, Windows might be a contender. But that's probably a few more years down the road (hopefully).
NMS is an example of bad procedural generation. Cellular automata, by nature, is a slow[1] algorithm, so it's hard to run automatas for every single planet you create. It's certainly possible, but as we've seen from NMS it's not straightforward to implement.

[1] Actually you can heavily optimize cellular automata for cache, but a K dimensional automata will be in O(N^(K+1)) so assuming a 2D world, it's O(N^3). So, it's not scalable. If you look at procedural world generations in big scale, like dwarffortress, you'll see that they're one time operations that take a very long time. NMS is tricky, since you need to keep doing this multiple times.
> All that being said, I'd agree that Microsoft is (if you can stomach all of this) at least trying to maintain a desktop operating system.

I disagree there, MS is trying to maintain a tablet/phone OS that just happens to include some of their older desktop stuff, but they're deprecating that as quickly as possible. Windows 7 was their last desktop OS.

Seems like KDE and Gnome are the only ones that care about the desktop these days.
I feel this warrants an entry.
Not using systems when starting out.
> The Machine acted in a way that was not expected by the human driver.

Nope, the human driver was careless and did not look around, failing to notice the obstacle. If there was a human-driven car instead, we'd have never heard of it and the matter would have been resolved by regular insurance payments that happen every day in every city a thousand times. But since there's an automatic car involved now it is a philosophical conundrum. Nope, it's not, it's just some guy in a truck being careless.
Performing unattended upgrades seems like a great idea, until a bug introduced in an upgrade causes a performance or operability regression, introduces an even worse security bug, or is otherwise problematic. At worst, you could automate yourself into an outage.

IMO good reliability practices counsel against this approach, certainly not without testing these upgrades in a staging environment first.
Not sure what bank you are working with, but that is not my experience (as a US citizen & resident). I have sent both domestic and international wires completely online.
What, other than an article summarizing research, could possibly be provided as citation? Fund me some peer-reviewed research. In the meantime, we'll just have to make policy by flipping a coin, as there is clearly no other standard of knowledge available to us. /s
An absolute dream to work with, simple, fast enough for most people. (My benchmark when using it was about 20,000 concurrent connections a second under siege.)

It's the Flask/Sinatra of the C world, though you do need to provide your own router if you want anything a little bit more complex.
> if my favorite game [...] doesn't work on Linux, why should I switch?

That's easy: you should not switch to Linux because of games. You should switch because you like it better than Windows; if you also happen to like gaming, you will find plenty of games for Linux. Your favorite game might not be available, but then again, you should not switch (to any OS!) because of games.

This is not exclusively a problem for Linux either; it also happens to Mac users. Still, the Mac has many fans, right?
Around here, every inspection place will let you pay $10 to have them re-register the car with DMV for you, so that you don't have to go there yourself. (New registrations the dealer will do for you, I think, but if you bought it privately, I don't know of any service that will do it for you. I'm not sure that you want there to be, either - you're dealing with a transfer of title, not just a registration; you might not want to trust a third party for that.)
Yea, wasnt sure if the OP was including them or not. Some people do when they say "headaches". If I dont take any medication before getting a migraine and it goes all the way I am incapable of even moving
Why is this flagged? It seems like an opinion from an informed user, an opinion like many others I've read in HN. Also, it was an interesting read for me.
Someone in the inability field for 20 minutes still can't hyphenate.
Practically it needs to be perfect, because whoever makes the self-driving car will be liable every time it kills someone. And there's going to be millions of these things.
I have a similar need. Is there any OSS projects which does this?

Snap a picture of a fixed layout form from smartphone & extract TYPED data
Hmm, unfortunately I don't have the time right now, as I have to go. I'll leave my computer on, though, so if someone wants to help out, you can access it through tmate at https://tmate.io/t/f9Z36rpEkS8CSsHxwpZGlAl1d.

The few files I have are on a dir on my desktop, the superuser password is passw0rd. Thanks!
Linux! I began as a Windows only user, then switched to Linux and never looked back. Now I have been using a Mac for the last couple of months. At first it felt pretty slick (the touchpad is awesome), but after a while, I just want my precious Linux back.
You wish to extend control of property beyond the borders of what they own outright?
This is going to be the same shitshow as Ingress and PoGo. Niantic has two of the potentially greatest games in modern history but they somehow manage to continually piss of their whole userbase.

Niantic has proven again and again and again that they are completely incompetent when it comes to a) communication with their fanbase, b) development of good content and c) quality control.

They had 5 years and hundreds of millions of dollars and what do we get? A completely stagnant Ingress with no new features in a long time and a completely boring and bug-ridden Pokemon Go which rapidly loses players.

Don't get hyped about anything Niantic is doing, you will just get disappointed even if you already had low expectations.

I really really hope a competent game company picks up where Niantic fails and releases truly great AR games.
It's upper body only (strapped to the waist). I think it has springs.

http://eksobionics.com/eksoworks/
Because none of the Linux distros look as good as what Apple (or even Microsoft) has to offer.

ElementaryOS is heading in the right direction, but I cannot shake off the feeling that it's still using design languages relevant to 2010, not 2017.
They nixed their phone software development a few weeks ago...
Modern journalism one, where you do not trust the reader to read the information and make their own conclusion, but instead must shove your viewpoint down their throats, for their own good of course.
Somewhat surprised to not see Vostok Space Beer mentioned:

http://vostokspacebeer.com/

This is my kind of science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUh4w68yNGk

:-)
ya, surprised too. I always thought this is just how everyone informally does multiplications in their head.
although the trackpad is worse

I haven't found a single Windows laptop whose trackpad can be pushed in (thus registering a mouse click) at the top of the trackpad. All I can think is that Apple is aggressively asserting some patent(s).

Is there an alternate explanation? Have I just not come across Windows laptops with good trackpads?
I don't see why any nation should have claim to assemblies of letters and words in another language in another land. Should China have claim to the word China? No more than America should have claim to 美國 or アメリカ.
Exactly. It's not just about the cost, it's about the tradeoff.
http://www.fast.ai/ is what you want, and it's free. Or you can look at Stanford's CS231N for the heavy details.
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>>> And only 1 of the countries that ranks higher than the US in diversity ranks higher than us on the PISA list.

Irrelevant. You and the grandparent are making an irrelevant point again and again. Why bring up diversity at all?

>>> It also doesn't take into account the amount of difference between cultures. For example ...

I already said there was going to be a "median" example... I was right about that, shocker. /s

>>> The US has a far larger percentage of immigrants than any other country, and from far more countries.

Except Canada and Switzerland and many other countries, right?

Thanks for the criticisms about PISA, never said they weren't any (see my previous comment). I asked repeatedly for alternatives instead.

The criticisms are pretty weak as well.

"In addition, Shanghai schools systematically exclude migrant youth."

If they are migrants, they're not representing the local education system now do they?
Thanks for the love! We're working on making GitLab.com faster and more available, it is already a lot faster than a year ago, but still lots of work to do.
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after a while, I just want my precious Linux back.

How long had you used Linux? How long did you use a Mac?

I'm curious how much of that longing for Linux was a desire for familiarity, and how much was a reflection of a superiority of Linux / flaw in Macs.
Nuclear accident in Russia or Kazakhstan sends radioactive cloud over Europe
Ask HN: How to protect from hacking?
What are the top things that I should do if I want to reduce my chances of having devices or accounts compromised?
Maybe Niantic's core business isn't AR games. Maybe it's collecting user data for their investor, In-Q-Tel, and the intelligence community.
That doesn't seem to apply in this case however. This article is talking about people paying >$1 mil for shitty shacks in Silicon Valley. It seems very hard to think of people buying those because it confers "status", actually, anecdotal evidence from my coworkers and I, we are ashamed of telling folks back home how much we payed or showing pictures of our new house.
An os is just a bootloader to run emacs full screen.
The theory behind these devices is even minimal assistance over a long day makes a difference. Try holding your arms strait out for 10 seconds and it's easy, 10 minutes and it becomes really difficult.

Now picture something that reduces your load by 80% you still need to provide some upward assistance so lowering your arms is still effortless, but holding your arms out is also much less effort. For an easy example, sitting underwater provides this kind of support but it also clearly does not reduce range of motion.
Here is detailed usability and feature function allocation analysis. This product was dead in the water from the beginning. https://www.mauronewmedia.com/blog/snap-spectacles-failed-po...

Mauro Usability Science
You're simply wrong, there are plenty of AAA games on Steam, GOG and the Humble Bundle for Linux. Plenty. It's just not the case anymore that you cannot game on Linux. Also, we're on 2017, 2015 is not old.

Here are some AAA games that I own, all running great on a Linux laptop:

- XCOM: Enemy Unknown (the remake)
- Alien: Isolation (impressive graphics)
- Insurgency
- Mad Max
- Victor Vran
- Portal 2
- L4D2
- Dawn of War 2
- SOMA
- Firewatch (awesome graphics)
- Invisible Inc
- Transistor
- Divinity: Original Sin (impressive graphics)
- Hand of Fate
- Shadowrun & all expansions.

... and plenty more. I just picked some that I like (you won't see racing or sports games because I'm not into them), I actually own hundreds of games. Some newer, some older, some low spec, some hardware-demanding.

In this day and age, pretending that gaming on Linux is hard is just FUD. You may get the games later than on Windows, and not every game, but still there are plenty.
Fair point. I wasn't looking at it that way, though. I was trying to say that Russia is more likely to violate a Russian's privacy than the US is to violate an American's privacy. Yes, the NSA may well have the American's communications on their servers (though they are not supposed to unless it left the country), but the FSB probably has the Russian's communications, and seems to me considerably more likely to examine them - or to more actively spy on the Russian citizen.
> Except the driver-less shuttle didn't take any evasive action, the way a human would have.

Stopping was an evasive action, and since the result was a graze, it may have been moderately successful. While the people on the bus seem (from the article) to think there was time for more action, the perception of time under the adrenaline rush of an imminent collision may be misleading.