skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IM on mobile and can’t for the world of me see the images on that blog in a reasonable size. They ought to hire a web design consultant to help them out.
I think definitely more React, more node.js, Python more than Rails, php seems slightly lower level than Rails, but not scientific study, also just ycombinator and angel list browsing. There were only a couple of Rails listings and the one off posting where the company in Atlanta had a posting for a Rails engineer on site.
> and yes, multi-line comments are there but in atom, I can just use ctrl + / to comment and uncomment, makes my life lot easier

I am dying of laughter.

Also, re: JSX. I was surprised now to see Vue supports JSX out of the box, so that's pretty cool.
All human communities like to define themselves in terms of in-groups and out-groups. All of them, including this one.

In the Midwest, you have to make the decisions finer since most people around really are indistinguishable on the usual terms.
Surely that will be considered when employing these weapons in a war.
On the skyscrapers, aren’t they using less resources per square foot?
You need to partner with an insurer and add a small amount on top of the price.

However still not sure, since someone wanted to have the tool _now_ , if a such shop would be open 24/7, in contrast of a library.
I'm not sure which side (if any) you're arguing.

I don't agree with your oxymoron statement. First, social networks aren't inherently unsafe. Plus, I don't think they are "open" or "closed" in a binary sense. Every system–real or online–with humans is going to have bad actors. You just need varying levels of ID, auth, filtering, etc.

I wasn't really involved with Club Penguin because I didn't have kids using it during the heyday, but my understanding is that they grew it to be pretty big without any major safety issues [0].

I think this whole notion of "completely closed and safe" is what gave rise to the helicopter parenting I mentioned above. That's not a good thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Penguin#Child_safety
It was also used to assist blind users in their efforts to use the built in camera app.

>VoiceOver will then use face detection to tell you how many people are in the frame. It will also say if a face is small, and where in the frame a face or faces are located incase you want to try and better center them. When you move, it will tell you the new framing, so you can figure out if you're getting closer to the shot you want.

One face. Small face. Bottom left corner.

https://www.imore.com/making-iphone-camera-work-blind
(Ozgun from Citus)

Citus extends PostgreSQL to make it a distributed database. In comparison, Cockroach builds the entire database from scratch and provides over the wire compatibility. For our users, this means that they get the following benefits.

1. PostgreSQL Features

I can think of the following features that our customers started using as they landed into core Postgres (there's probably many more):

* Rich data types. For example, jsonb, hstore, XML, and HyperLogLog

* Declarative partitioning. You can shard your tables and then partition them

* Performance improvements. Postgres 10 improves analytical query performance by 30-40%, and PG 11 will add another 3x. For Citus customers, they will get these performance benefits at scale.

2. Application Integration

If you already have an app built on Postgres, migrating to Citus should be significantly easier than moving to a new database. Some benefits I can think of are:

* You can pg_dump your Postgres schema and data. You can then load this data into Citus.

* If you need live migrations, you can use Citus Warp to stream changes from your Postgres database to Citus

* Native integration with hundreds of tools already in the Postgres world - data visualization, monitoring, backups, upgrades, and app frameworks such as Rails and Django.

3. Organizational Skills

Since Citus extends (it's practically) Postgres, you benefit from organizational skills created worldwide by running millions of Postgres applications.

All know-how around how to configure your Postgres database, when to create indexes and database constraints, and how to tune your queries directly applies to Citus.

I hope this helps. If this doesn't help clarify things, could you let me know?
>False equivalence - Lenin would have said all land is to be owned by the state.

A major point of "Das Kapital" is the extraction of value by property owners due to mere fact of being an owner of that property when somebody else's use of the said property produces the said value. Lenin in the phrase i cited states his view that land is the main domain where conflict of interests between such rent-seeking owners and efficient users of the land leads to and must be addressed by revolution.

State ownership of land, by the virtue of outright elimination of rentiers and making everybody a renter from state, is obviously the ultimate approach to whatever issues are [perceived to be] stemming from such rent-seeking. LVT is a mild version of that approach as it doesn't eliminates rentiers, it just makes them into renters of their land from state - "economic rent of land" :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent
Totally understand. I can appreciate that, and acknowledge the difficulty of maintaining such a legacy system.

Just don't have the nerve to increase my taxes if you give that excuse though.
I can relate to this, but at the same time I think the lack of diversity does foster a lot of sort of abstract dislike and discrimination, especially combined with religion and the media. The two examples I have in mind are Middle Easterners and homosexuality. In lots of the midwest you won't find anyone openly admitting to be either, and only negative stereotypes or feelings.

[This leads to a stereotypical kind of storyline where a biased individual gains a friend or family member of the given type (perhaps a child comes out as gay or so on), and once the issue becomes real and personal for them, changes their mind.]
Even if they cared, with modern surveillance do you think the government would ever allow anything other than a peaceful protest?

I'm so cynical that any type of revolt, even moderately "violent", would be squashed before it ever had a chance to fully form.

It truly is an interesting time. Initially, corporations were to have a definite lifespan (something like 70 years). Of course they got rid of that.

Our system wasn't designed for corporate influence of this magnitude. Our forefathers were pretty smart dudes..I wonder how they'd change the constitution knowing what we know now.
> The money raised with a land-value tax can be spent building affordable housing for the poor.

Presumably rental, not ownership, cause the poor won't be able to pay the land tax!

I suppose there could be a homestead and/or income based exemption/reduction.
As a rule, I always arrive exactly 15 minutes late to people's houses, I'll even wait in the car. Chances are they are late preparing everything, taking a last minute shower or vacuuming.
I know I shouldn't bite, but I just want to so bad...

>so all you've said is

Actually what I said was "a generalized set of the rules" for Go is Turing Complete. Go in itself is not, because the end-state of the game is indeterminate. Just as a "regular-ass" game of MtG without a very specific and artificial construction is not Turing Complete, in and of itself.

>That's cool

I can appreciate stamp collecting, and I don't want to say that it's an invalid use of time. There are plenty of worse hobbies. But my point is that any of an infinite, arbitrary, and inconsequential number of conceivable systems are "Turing Complete," and personally I don't find this very compelling.

How many books in the Library of Babel[1] describe a Turing Complete system?

>Turing completeness is/is not

I stated as much in a comment below, or you could have inferred the same by my interpretation of the XKCD comic, but thanks for assuming I'm incompetent and acting in bad faith.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
I think a major portion of their revenue model was based on classes. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does box out members who have a lot of skills in a particular area from sharing that knowledge in some sort of structured way. For example, it might have been more engaging to members to set up a recurring event such as "machining monday" or something where people interested in a topic could gather and either share experience and knowledge or at least help each other figure things out. Instead, they focused on classes that were $40 - $600 a pop. They also had a hard time retaining instructors that had professional experience. When the shop I was a member of first opened, they had a lot of instructors that were working part time at the shop and worked full time in a related field (machining, woodworking, etc.). Over time those instructors slowly drifted away and were replaced with younger and less experienced staff. It is a little difficult to learn a complex skill like welding from someone who has only been doing it for a few months and cant really offer any knowledge outside of the packet provided with the class.

I recognize that there needs to be some sort of minimum knowledge needed to operate a machine safely and think that the class model isn't a bad method for that goal. However, I think the problem is when your revenue model depends on people continuing to take more advanced classes which is difficult to sustain.

The "birds of a feather" type meetings would be one way to further member engagement, get people interested and gain the confidence to use the tools, and wouldn't have cost much if anything for the shop to implement.

I think another issue that TechShop had that I am not sure other makerspaces have to deal with is the conflict between people that ran businesses out of the location vs. casual or hobby members. There were a lot of occasions where a small (3-4) member company would reserve a particular tool for an entire day (sometimes multiple days) and box out the casual users. I don't know the best method to combat that, perhaps you can limit the number of reservations an individual or group of individuals can make in a month, or shorten the reservation times in the evenings. Maybe it would have made sense to structure the memberships differently and charge less for a nights and weekends membership than a daytime membership or something. I can say that it was frustrating as a user who showed up a few times a month to see people that camped out on a particular table or area of the shop and not being able to find space to work on my projects or get time on the machines.
Interesting... thanks for the correction. Apparently the head side being slightly heavier do to the extra decoration and whatnot severely biases the coin to falling tails up when spun on its edge, up to 80% of the time with some coins.
I've thought about the firefighting idea as well, especially after the recent Sonoma and Napa fire.

Sprinkler systems for indoor fires are not that uncommon now. Why aren't there sprinkler/fire retardant systems for the perimeter/external part of a house?

In a wildfire, I can't imagine a better way to fight the fire from spreading through a neighborhood than a system that auto-deploys when it senses smoke on the periphery of a house/neighborhood, instantly killing the flames. A top-down approach to fire-fighting is expensive and in a raging fire, not so effective from what we've seen so far. Perhaps, we need to adopt a more distributed approach (ie individual homes and localities protect themselves).

Of course, it would have to have broad adoption, but I bet if it's proven to work well, some homeowners would just install it on their property, especially if the property is close to areas more prone to wildfires.

You could probably even get a discount on your homeowners policy.

If anyone wants to brainstorm this, do email me at vintya9@gmail.com.
I think it's not quite so easy. There were many cities bombed in World War II (maybe 60 in Japan and additional ones in Germany), but there were only 5 or 6 firestorms. Similarly, the Kuwait oil fires created a lot of soot, but the plume is isolated to a given point, which causes it to disperse before reaching the stratosphere.

The claim is that firestorms in particular would create climate change, because a single city-sized plume could carry the soot much higher than if the city burned and released the same amount of soot in an ordinary fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestorm#City_firestorms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
If Linus Torvalds got hit by a bus would Linux die (2012)
> Next time, it'll be about land and AWS servers.

you're basically citing Das Kapital :)
Where/how do you order a linux dell laptop? On the drop down for Operating System only "Windows" options are available. If I search for "linux" I get Canonical support packages and the phrase "Dell recommends Windows" in the top right.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My argument is that I don't think that's what people hear when you ask them about "legal loopholes".

And so the survey accidentally, implicitly ends up comparing "legal tax avoidance" with "benefits fraud" which is apples to oranges. If the questions instead had been "working with your accountant to minimise you tax liability in legal ways" vs. "working with your benefits advisor to make sure you receive the benefits you legally qualify for", I suspect the result would have been different.

If you want to write the article the author actually did, the more relevant question would probably have been "tax fraud" vs "benefits fraud". I'd be curious to know what those numbers are.
Does it matter?

That's my underlying question. There was more to the 30-40s era Nazi platform than just hating non-white Christians. But now it's "don't like Jews? Nazi!" and the haters pick that up by spraying symbols, and then we all play along by pulling out the fainting couch. Do we do anyone a service by acting like dealing with ignorant, hateful white people is the same as defeating Hitler himself? Personally, I think we'd do everyone a great service by ditching the labels, a label the wannabes hope you pin on them, and just call it like it is: un-American white people who don't buy into the melting pot ideal that has made the country what it is.
Google has the resources to deploy a second visual style.

They are rendering on the client anyway, so it is some combination of not giving a shit and an obsession with not having options.
You can also go infinite with time warp and a means of fetching it from your graveyard.
Trump's sip of water goes viral, Trump has awkward water bottle moment
Why Harvard should be taxed
It was absolutely a giant mistake. Part of the original pitch was that landlords would pass the savings on to tenants, which didn't happen for very obvious reasons.

I think bringing back any form of property tax is a brilliant idea; it would raise a ton of money for local governments, discourage people from holding empty units, and also help fix the ridiculous reality that building residential units hurts a municipality financially which causes all kinds of stupidity.

Take my building; it's owned by some vague partnership, is a 14 story high-rise with 100s of units, and for tax purposes it's worth something like $6M for the entire thing. In downtown San Francisco!
That seems unfair... but since we're talking about how people perceive it, that doesn't make it wrong.
Everything I said is in regards to the top-level comment by jfaucett at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15706042 . I used the term "wasted" because that jfaucett wrote that "the system here in Germany ... doesnt waste your time as much" as the US.

You changed to a different topic. I did not argue "that time spent learning [comparative religious studies] is wasted", yet you bring it up again.

Since there is no required religion courses in public schools in the US (that I know of), I of course agree that there is no standardized curriculum.

It appears that most federal states in Germany has religious education for the entirety of schooling. It also appear that you may think that is excessive, compared to your preferences.

Does this mean that we agree?
I don't mean to be dense but why did you just say "SQLite is a proper concurrent database as well" after sharing a story to the contrary and advising "Don't use SQLite for production".

I'm just trying to understand your advice and learn from your experience, I am just confused by this followup.
I believe GP's point is that Magic: The Gathering was not
intended to be a turing-complete set of rules and cards.

I.e., the game design was _intended_ to be entirely decidable. Indeed, certain game rules discuss what happens when events trigger each other in a loop - and if the loop is non-halting, the game ends in a draw. This rule is only meaningful if the halting problem for M:tG is decidable!

However, in creating enough "relatively simple" cards, most of which are of the form "when one thing happens, another thing then happens", the designers of M:tG have managed to _accidentally_ create a non-decidable system.

Sure, this particular example is contrived, but it has the implications that a non-contrived game state could find itself in an undecidable state! It is theoretically possible that a natural, tournament-level game could reach a state where it can't be decided if one player or the other wins, or if it's a draw. (Or, at minimum, deciding the outcome of the game might require sufficiently convincing a tournament official of your mathematical proof that the game in fact will halt , within some known finite time).
I don't think we had either climate models or remote sensing capabilities during World War II adequate to assess what climate effects may have resulted from the several firestorms that occurred. The 1991 Kuwait oil fires were apparently projected by some to cause a "petroleum winter", but these models were disputed and many simulations apparently suggested that the particles would not reach the stratosphere (and evidently they did not)[0]. However, it seems that since 1998[1] it has been known that smoke from naturally occurring firestorms (resulting from wildfires) can reach the stratosphere and cause regional climate effects significant enough to alter hemispheric temperature patterns.

[0] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-011-1685-...

[1] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AGUFM.U14A..04F
Maybe you can crowdsource pricing info. That way, you're not scraping, and users are voluntarily sharing what they've searched.
This is a sensible perspective, but the job market is actually the opposite of sensible (in a way).

Paradoxically, the (again, sensible) attitude that fundamentals are the same with a different coating, will distantiate one from chasing the latest fads... which is actually what the [majority of the] market looks for.
Show HN: Cheapest multicity flight finder
How a New Inflation Measure Would Raise Taxes on the Middle Class
They specifically mention tree-shaking and tools to strip unused code from libraries.
Seems most of the business value was in that initial spark of insight, vis a vis consistently earning money from trending niches. The product dev stuff is interesting, but I’m most curious as to how that initial targeted app was conceived.

(Not that I’d want to work on this kind of software, but I feel the lessons would still be applicable.)
The article is wrong in that it assumes the initial state of the coin has as much duration as the subsequent states.
If that was the case, the difference in duration would be the same as in the odd-even sequence :

number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
odd 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5
even 0 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4
difference 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1

However, what happens here is different - you start at "half a state", meaning that the graph is a see-saw, as such:

rotations 0.0 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 1.25 1.50
head 0.0 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.5 0.75 0.75
tail 0.0 0.0 0.25 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.75
difference 0 .25 0 -.25 0 .25 0
Hudson county, NJ takes that a step further (especially in the West New York/Guttenberg area): E/W streets are numbered, crossed by a dozen or so named N/S Avenues/Boulevards. OK so far. But in some areas there aren't any street signs for those names, just "local" street names (which, by the way, usually aren't visible on maps) in both directions.
I'm not sure if this is true or not after looking around at news stories for a while. There was, for example, some uncertainty about whether or not a train line could sue the family of a man with dementia who was hit by a train [1].

However, even if train companies do sue families if their relatives get hit by trains, it doesn't change the fact that there are a LOT of suicides by train in Tokyo. For example, on one day in 2012 there were 3 separate suicides from jumping in front of trains [2].

I think the lack of delays in Japan from these types of accidents may have to do with very frequent train schedules and lots of redundancy in both alternate routes and alternate tracks.

[1] https://japantoday.com/category/national/family-of-91-year-o...
[2] https://japantoday.com/category/national/man-jumps-to-death-...
These estimates look only cities and their fuel loading.

It would be interesting to see how California would manage during dry 'fire season' if nuclear bombardment caused massive forest fires all over the place. If large fires create massive combined updraft it could be a global catastrophe.

We already know that large-area wildfires sometimes cause firestorms that throw soot into the stratosphere.
I think you have misunderstood the purpose of these tests.

No, the process is not fucked up. There is no one right answer. It is CLEAR that the candidate cannot write perfect code in an interview. But it can still provide valuable data.

Basically it can answer to this question: "has the candidate got _any clue_ about programming?". Sometimes that has a lot of value.

Think about a candidate that cannot even write a function that calculates the length of a null-terminated string, for example. Doesn't that test tell you immediately that something is terribly wrong? I've seen these candidates.

When you get over a certain skill threshold, every candidate passes the coding test. After that, it's useless, of course. Then it's probably best to show some code and discuss.

NO SINGLE recruitment test can provide absolute certainty. Coding in interview is just one variable.
By Midwesterners or East Coastites?
Introduction to Deep Learning
It will depend on your service level.
Ah, interesting. That makes a lot of sense. Would it be correct to say that if both objects in a binary pair are SMBHs, they would very likely not have an accretion disk, as the companion would be unable to send over any material?
Maybe this could work as a B2G route, like the guys making the firefighting helicopters selling to CalFire. But yeah, this smells like they are trying to find a way to privatize firefighting, which is not cool (pardon the pun)
Harvard University Ebola Cure Device
INSIDE THE FIRST CHURCH OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Tim needs to resign.
$2 million. Wow.

I guess that would discourage anyone who's desparate enough to commit suicide (and still cares about their family) to look for other methods.

I'm not quite sure why, but I somehow find it very strange that a railway company[1] can administer a "fine" to people that may never even have interacted with it. Am I alone in this?

[1] Are they private entities in Japan?
The paper you've posted: "The Median of Medians (also known as BFPRT) algorithm, although a landmark theoretical achievement, is seldom used in practice because it and its variants are slower than simple approaches based on sampling."

Me: "It's O(n), but the constant in the front is enormous, so it's usually totally impractical"

?
Wouldn't a hand-held faucet inside a farmer's sink basically be the same thing?
Looks awesome! But it seems that this is AWS only. For companies on Google Cloud, will you be offering a GCP version?
Elm or Eve
If your IoT platform is even _capable_ of exceptions, you’re doing it wrong and at too high a level.