skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Introducing container-diff, a tool for quickly comparing container images
What is the benefit of getting anything via the Github marketplace that can be subscribed to outside of the marketplace?

Potentially, your company might have a GitHub account you're allowed to add services to, but the finance department is less keen on new accounts. It also provides a well known company to complain to instead of yet another small vendor. Things enterprisey type customers tend to like. Manifold - https://www.manifold.co/ - is another player in this space.
The A11X chip of the next iPad could be an authentic eight-core monster
What are you good at? It'll be tremendously faster to build a web application using a technology or framework you're already familiar with than it will be to LEARN and then build. It sounds like you're looking for something like a MEAN stack generator or the like, check out Yeoman if you're into JS development.
They would really benefit by reading "Visualization Analysis & Design" by Munzer. If they had they would not have picked that set of colors :-). But poor color choices aside there is a lot to be said for 'modes'.
Pretty please add support for Apple Carplay!
Add me on the list that loves multiculturalism. It is so much more interesting and I find a desire for anything else hard to understand. What I am most curious about is why something a cherish so strongly others dislike.
Unlike Python 3's relation to Python 2, Perl 6 is genuinely a new language. It would make little sense for the community to discontinue Perl 5 and push for Perl 6.

In retrospect it probably would have been better for the community if they'd given Perl 6 a new name.
People tend to be quite capable of judging someone else's social class at a glance, though, or at least after a few words have been spoken. Racial cues are a pretty small part of it.
> lock you in a cage if you don't pay.

I'm pretty sure you can not actually be imprisoned for failure to pay income taxes. You can be for filing fraudulent tax returns though. You can have the IRS take money from your bank account for not filing taxes though.
maybe their engineers are called advisors?
Way too late, but it wasn't meant as any sort of value judgement.

It's just an anglified états-unien (and similar in many languages).
>Does anyone have suggestions on how to fix this? One option would be to have the cultures integrate so there are not sub communities for PoC.

I find it a bit insane that people think that this is even something that needs to be fixed - why can't different ethnic groups live among themselves, instead of being required to lose their ethnic identity and become part of the larger group? Do you seriously think that's what they actually want? What you're advocating for is the destruction of their ethnic identity. I think that's wrong.
That makes more sense, although I would wager the parent probably doesn't have anything against LSD or THC concentrate.
Our members of Congress don't access anything on the internet. They have people do it for them. Otherwise they may actually be tech-savvy enough to understand the implications of their choices.
Wow that's fascinating. Thanks for sharing!
Or maybe they could provably crowdsource some of the information and say that the fraction that is bot / crowdsourced is proprietary and irrelevant. Then send a copy of the HiQLabs v. LinkedIn case. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-15/the-bruta...
Calling it Southwest monkey is clearly a mistake.

You have little argument there, and you should change that because to a 3rd party it could look like a service offered by Southwest itself.

The part about scraping, etc, is more complicated and you may want to fight that.

See: http://blog.icreon.us/advise/web-scraping-legality and https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/court-rejects-li... as two quick examples I found on previous cases that have gone to court.
`Accounts Receivables as a Service`

Does invoice factoring not exist in the US? It's a fairly run of the mill concept in the UK, and it's nothing like debt collection.
Yes, by some quirk of fate I used to do navigation prompting for bus timed-course competitions; professional drivers on an unfamiliar route with a precise schedule to achieve. I'd shout-out current location, upcoming hazards and traffic controls, distance and time to next stop etc

They'd be penalised ( say ) 2 points for each late arrival but 8 for early arrival, and the same for being seen to stop ahead of the specified location.

I only did it for a couple of years but it was very interesting to watch the pros and made me appreciate the difficulties of maintaining schedules.
This might be rational, actually.

Given the inherent randomness of traffic, it might just make more rational sense to have busses at 'intervals' instead of specific times.

Might make for more throughput.
Craigslist has litigated the scraping issue heavily, and precedents are bad for SWMonkey.

https://newmedialaw.proskauer.com/2017/04/17/craigslist-garn...

Edit: But the LinkedIn case seems favorable: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/court-rejects-li...
> And what happens if you cannot afford the land tax? Does your home get taken away?

That can happen with property tax too though.

If the land tax goes that high, it means more value could be extracted from that land by building more densely on it. One way this could play out for a cash-poor landowner is to sell the land to a condo developer in exchange for a couple of condos in the new building and payment for temporary housing while construction is going on. I've known this kind of exchange to happen in many Indian cities. It works out very well for both parties.
Isn't this part of every consumer camera and phone already?
Just looked at the "dependencies" for one of my projects and it interprets "react" as this 5 year old, defunct repo: https://github.com/wballard/react.
I don't know if this is what libertyEQ was getting at, but generally the argument here is that it's notoriously difficult to regulate/criminalize things that literally "grow on trees". It requires hardly any infrastructure or industry to produce these substances. Thus, without some degree of legalization it's virtually impossible to prevent black markets from popping up.
We're always continuing to evaluate other cloud providers to run our fully managed database as a service on (so stay tuned...) That said, because Citus the extension is open source as well as licensed for the enterprise version you can take it and run it yourself today on GCP or Azure or any other cloud of your choosing. And in fact we do have a number of customers running and managing Citus themselves on top of GCP.
> This is a question of which came first the chicken or the egg?

Oh, I absolutely believe that the uneven distribution of certain races in those poverty cultures is due to historic racism. I'd have to be deluded to not believe that. When an entire race was suppressed just a couple generations ago, it makes absolute sense that that race would continue having an issue with poverty.

However, I don't think race is the issue anymore. I think the issues are culture and poverty, with poverty being the much more significant of the two.

Proof of this IMO is in the white trash culture. White people born and raised in poverty in a culture of hopelessness tend to have terrible college graduation rates, low average income, and high crime rates. There's no systemic racism keeping them down, yet they don't succeed.

> Is the fact that cultures are represented unevenly in society the fault of the non-dominant cultures or the dominant culture?

Jewish and Asian cultures are non-dominant, yet they succeed in our country. Dominance isn't the issue here, I don't think.

> Personally, I love multiculturalism... Dealing with people from other cultures is a lot more fun than dealing with people like me.

That's great! I don't have an issue that some places and people think like that. I just don't see why that kind of mentality needs to be brought to places that think differently. There are always acceptable limits of variance within a culture. Some cultures disallow women from showing their hair, others stone gay people. Neither of those aspects of a culture would be allowed here. Why shouldn't different regions of the country have different bounds for allowed cultural variance?
Sears Canada had a similar approach... millions to a bunch of sr. execs and complete default on pensions to the workers. "We need this to save the company" was their cry. We need those sr. executives to get us out of this situation that they've been in charge of for years.

Oh, Sears Canada is now out of business and the workers got nothing... but don't worry the executives that the company was so worried about received their bonuses.
Four Questions Every Marketplace Startup Should Be Able to Answer
I'm really not that interested in belaboring this point, but you're painting with such a broad brush (and by merely repeating the same assertions), that I couldn't resist digging in a little further. And it turns out that, indeed, there is a sizable Muslim population in Northern Albania--unless you're using some special definition of "northern Albania." (I suppose this is possible. But, if so, it does not appear to coincide with the region being discussed in the article--Shkodër and the Accursed Mountains--which both appear to be areas with significant numbers of Muslims). There are portions of the north that are overwhelmingly Catholic (not actually inconsistent with there also being a sizable Muslim population, but never mind), but also many other areas of the north that are majority Muslim.

Source [via Wikipedia]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Albania#/media/Fil...
I don't think it's a proxy for racism. I think it's its own form of xenophobia. I don't care which one is the "white" truck, I care that someone's drawing major social distinctions on the difference between one truck and another.
Reach Out and Touch Faith
Depends on what kind of web app you want to build. If you want a single page app, then React + a rest framework (like Django Rest Framework) seems to be popular. If you want a normal server rendered CRUD app, Rails or Django might be fine.

Also depends on who will maintain this app in the future. The more esoteric a stack, the harder it is to find other devs(or they're expensive).

The ecosystem of pre-built modules(eg FB integration) so you don't have to re-invent the wheel. Python seem to have a really good ecosystem of libraries ranging from datascience to crypto.

What are you performance requirements? Do you need sockets? Django now has channels that provide you with some of that.

The answer as always is "it depends". I personally recommend sticking to what you know best(unless you're using this as a learning opportunity) and work with whatever the community prefers in that language.
In the blog post, the link to their product page is broken...
Because saying "X is worse than Y" is not useful unless you provide reasons as to why you believe that.

Imagine being someone reading your post. What are they to think? "Oh, this person says X is worse than Y -- I'll go ahead and take their word for it, despite no justification"? That's them buying into an appeal to your authority.

Now imagine if you'd actually provided reasoning. "Oh, this person says X is worse than Y because Z -- Z is a good point, therefore this is useful!" How different.

Providing baseless opinions is not useful, which is why you got downvoted; and incidentally, it's the exact same reason why you should "care to elaborate".
If thats the case I feel like most of the people supporting this don't live outside of urban settings.

Getting rid of #2 would be really harmful and would be an absolute gift to the upper classes. Or, if it didn't cut taxes for the wealthy, it would significantly raise taxes on a lot of the middle class, forcing them out of smaller homes in good school districts.
Yes. It is a multibillion dollar industry. Also a relatively quiet one so I understand the confusion.
Hasn't this long been answered with "yes" for #2 and "no" for the others? When I buy from Amazon, they pay sales tax where I live, but not where the item came from or any other place where they have a presence.

The only wrinkle is that #2 is not very well enforced when a company doesn't have a presence in the buyer's state, but it's still technically required.
This is something that lgtm.com supports. Right now, I can't find a Python project with a dependency on a vulnerable package to show you, but here's the page that shows Django's dependencies (and this is where a known vulnerable version would be highlighted).

https://lgtm.com/projects/g/django/django/dependencies
Not sure about this. I can see this as an "added stress" if we can't update a dependency for whatever reason and alerts keep popping in.
Ah, you're right. This is the case if the coin is flipped with no precession. The paper linked takes precession into account based on the angle you flip the coin at, and this significantly changes the time H or T is up. The paper has two excellent graphs depicting this on Page 4.
Cool I was looking to do something similar with my Pi with the Google Voice kit essentially to be able to control your Spotify, this makes me want to take another look at it for general use without a Pi or Python :)
This is an actual slippery slope. Proposing drastic cuts to legal immigration would have gotten laughed out of the mainstream Republican party in the Reagan-Bush-Dole-Bush era.
(403) BRIDES – Minds
Or at least a WebM. But not a fucking 2.8 MiB large GIF.
In some places in North America, especially because you have 'car culture' - you end up with a total other kind of class of folks on public transit. It depends on where you live.

Try taking the public transit in Monaco, for example - most do it. It's hilarious. Full gowns, diamonds, the works.
That ought to be done in a separate validation step, and/or the tree object should enforce its invariants.

(I shouldn’t be arguing interview problems on HN, but I’ve had a few beers.)
It's not an issue with SQLite itself, the python bindings don't work for concurrent access (and I think some other languages' bindings as well). If you're going to embed SQLite yourself, I think it works fine (I haven't tried it).

In theory, SQLite works quite well with concurrent accesses, I have just never tried it because the libraries in the languages I've used didn't work well for that.
> AI for communicating with dogs

This is borderline satire. You don't need some crazy new idea to do a startup. You need to execute well on something people want, and if you're out looking for ideas, your best bet is probably to enter an existing market and cater to a subset of it better than others are doing.
Baby Bidet is interesting, and anyone who has changed a diaper is probably brainstorming as they read this.

I could see it being something at mounts over the top of a toilet and the baby is covered around their waist with something like a kayak skirt. You'd need a foolproof way to do temperature control, either requiring:
- a hot water line, usually not far from toilet but requires plumbing which is out for most people
- precision heater and needs to be plugged in and will probably make people unhappy with its heat up speed unless its 220v

Good place to start prototyping might be to get a bunch of bumbo seats and start cutting the seats out of them enough to allow water flow but still give support so the little one isn't falling into the bowl.

Thinking about it more, step one for newborns that can't sit up yet could just be a changing table with a nice padded surface that drains directly into a toilet.

That could really be a great product, hope someone makes a run at that.
What a great informative reply, really.

Thank you.

I will definitely start to create a similar meta-documentation for our department as well.

Really how can we expect anyone to properly document anything when not specifying how? It is so obvious now.
John von Neumann figured out a solution for getting fair results from a biased coin:

1. Toss the coin twice.
2. If the results match, start over, forgetting both results.
3. If the results differ, use the first result, forgetting the second.

This has appeared on HN before, but no one's pointed it out so far in the discussion. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_coin#Fair_results_from_a_...
The driving force behind this idea is a tax cut for people who own large buildings. "No, my land at 5th Avenue and 42nd St in Manhattan is not valuable; all the value is in the building, you see." "Okay, we accept your argument - your property taxes are now $12.94. We accept cash."

Introduces confusion into a system that otherwise can't get too out of whack; after all, any arms-length sale of a property gets you a darn good idea of how much it is worth for taxation purposes. But since land is not usually sold separate from the buildings on it, an LVT allows perpetual divergence, and in the end you'll have ultra-valuable properties whose worth is, supposedly, all in the building and thus not taxed at all.
Aren't there services that can handle this for smaller companies? Delivering physical goods to thousands of households scattered across the US is an even more varied, difficult, and expensive process, yet many "mom and pop" companies do it with ease by outsourcing it.
Because "simple" and "easy" are not synonyms.

For example, Backbone is much simpler than React. React keeps a full virtual copy of the DOM in runtime and uses complex diffing algorithms to decide when and how to actually update the DOM in a manner which is entirely opaque to the developer. Backbone just does the DOM updates you tell it to, when and how you tell it to. And since Backbone is so much simpler, it logically follows that building an application in Backbone much be much easier than building the same application in React, right? Right?

In Vue, a component generally consists of a raw JS object, an (almost) HTML template, and a block of raw CSS. The framework does some opaque but straighforward work to bind these three together into a single conceptual entity. This is indeed more complex, but the added complexity follows the grain of my preexisting intuitions. The end result, in practice, is components which have a clean internal structure and much less boilerplate. Slightly more complex, but easier.
Two practical and one theoretical issue with this:
- This relies on a city's ability to repeal property tax.
- There is a carrying capacity to a city and beyond that lies a housing market crash when supply is in large abundance and there isn't a backlog of buyers. Hurting current property owners even more.

I would have to see some more detailed analysis that shows you can simultaneously set this rate at a point low enough to not kill current investors and high enough not create a huge budget hole for the city in question.
It's actually been around even longer, just even more inaccessible. :-) See this video from 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni4FU8D1-DU and http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/10/car-home-for-androi...

It's the View Maps option. It was only enabled in Car (dock) mode and it went away along with several other features at the time of the GMM 5.0 (vector/3D) rewrite, unless you had an internal build.
Introducing Per-Title Encoding, Netflix-style optimization 4 quality & CDN costs
It almost looks like they've gotten rid of that annoying rotate feature, where you get out of having up be north, the way it's supposed to be, when it misinterprets your pinching zoom-in gestures.
Given they're charging for this service, maybe there's a way to make it work economically by having low cost workers (e.g. Mechanical Turk or even a bank of workers in certain countries) perform the checks manually (you could even create a browser extension that automates the form filling, but leaves a human to push the button and parse the results). At least by offering it as a paid service, they have some sums they can run to see if manual would work.
Why Realtors Discriminate Against Buyers Who Use VA Loans
The clusterfuck is Amazon, who clearly has the ability to collect taxes on FBA product.

They fought unsuccessfully to resist their own tax obligations, and pushed liability for tax, counterfeit product, and other issues to an army of third parties. They get to benefit by pushing phoney “third party sales” that they fulfill to avoid customers paying tax.
You're right based on the article. It turns out the paper takes precession into account, which, depending on the angle you flip it at, significantly changes the time that the initial face is up.
It has not overcome any of the flaws, we have just learned to work around them. They are still there and can bite you.

Some of us value our time and would like to improve our discipline. In other fields it's called being professional. It's a shame we care so little about it.
> The author admits he has constructed an artificial scenario under which a Turing Machine is generated. This is exactly the same as using the rules of MtG as a notation to create a machine.

An artificial scenario which is achievable under normal play, and the only variation required by the human players being that when offered a choice, they choose affirmative.

> A generalized set of the rules for the game Go is Turing Complete. A generalized set of the rules for the game Go Fish is Turing Complete.

Do you have references for those? I would be interested in seeing how they simulated the tape.
> If a property owner decides to build 20 story apartment next to my property which increases my property value and property taxes

I'd bet that if your property has a single-family home on it and someone builds a huge 20-story block next to it, it will kill the value of your property, not rise it - shadow from the building, noise from construction, traffic, kids...

IMHO "disruptive" buildings like this should not be allowed without careful thought. In this case, for example, the infrastructure simply might not be there to support a 20-story (or for what its worth even a small 4-story!) building: electricity, telco, water and sewage feeds will need expansion which means months of ripped-open roads, the roads themselves usually won't support the amount of additional cars or public transportation.
I was also intrigued by this.
The Rise and Fall of the English Sentence
Ehrlich and the whole overpopulation predictions, DDT would wipe out songbirds, the prediction we would run out of oil, a new ice age, ozone hole, the whole concept of the doomsday clock, and now the whole AI will wipe out humanity fear.

Part of this blame falls on the media. It amplifies the "gloom and doom" voices because that is what sells.
Thanks. I was looking for tabview but it wasn't easy to find, and in python (not that it's bad, but it wasn't a native tool). Rather, column -t is definitely a better choice, since it is a native posix tool.
We don't really make distinctions between fellow New Yorkers based on the kinds of tiny differences described. Our distribution has much more variance, so we need to go "further out" before we actually care.

Like, New Jerseyans think New Yorkers are snobby, New Yorkers think New Jerseyans are sleazy and uncultured, but you'd never, ever expect people to have a problem working or living together because of the difference. Everyone is so mixed-up that "stick to your own kind" becomes nearly impossible. Saying that we live in the same neighborhood and send our kids to the same school, say, but attend a different church, and so we're not really members of a common community, would just not make sense. If you tried that, you'd run out of "people like us" in about five minutes.
Might be worth to check out the recent LinkedIn vs. startup scraping case: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-ruling...