skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> meaning a 1500 sq. foot house won't be 1/2 the cost as a 3000 sq. foot house in the same neighborhood, but it will be lower and push down the average home value.

Average home value is largely meaningless if you are averaging substantially different houses. It only has meaning if we're talking about heterogeneous neighborhood or about something like a large area in rough comparison with another large area. Well, maybe not entirely meaningless as you still can get rough indicator of "price level", but useless in comparing the effect of this or that measure. It's like the reverse of the joke when Bill Gates walks into a pub and average income of everybody in the pub doubles. May be technically true but not a useful measure of anything.
Yeah, Fastmail isn't free, but you get what you pay for:)
People opposing market externalities would say an activity should be punished or aggressively taxed to minimize the amount of it that goes on. Tax and fine polluters to protect the air. Tax and take the parking away from drivers to protect bicyclists and pedestrians. Etc.

A NIMBY says it's fine to do something, just don't do it near me. Yes, freeways are necessary, just not too close to my house. Yes, we need a waste-water treatment plant, just don't put it in my neighborhood.

Unless you are a literal cartoon villain, you probably don't want public policy to minimize having a place to live. You just want people to have their places to live somewhere else.
I've thought about going to study math too.
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And you can. Vegetable oil is around 33 MJ per liter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Whatever you want them to be.

People signing up for your service. People buying. Whatever you're trying to optimize for in the A/B test.
Before this year, I had never seen an Ars Technica review of a major OS X release with a GIF like this: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sep-23...
Not regretting my decision to always be one major release behind. At this point, I simply don’t trust Apple enough to install updates without breaking my system and interrupting my work.
I bet in a few years most countries will simply follow China and make it illegal not to own/use "closed" devices that are not accessible for the government. 1984 was harmless compared to what is already here and what is coming.
To be fair, I have difficulty imagining how you could practically test for this kind of bug ahead of time. You can't test every feature in every app in the app store with the clock set to every possible date and time.
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AMT Changes: The exemption and phase-out exemption amounts were increased, and AMT is proposed to adjust with inflation. Information on pp 95-97 of the 2018 tax bill.

Just in case someone wants to compare the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) changes themselves:
Current federal AMT law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/55 v.s.
New AMT amendments: pp 95-97 of the 2018 tax bill
You know, that's a good point. When I consult through some of our locals it's very much a team-of-one sort of thing because we're probably too expensive to rope together too many people onto one project. (Not that we're actually that expensive, but false economies around expertise exist throughout tech.)

Something to think about. Thank you.
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You are already a bit better because you started to understand and realize what it is, and now can try to find ways to help. Most people don't realize it and just suffer or end up being alienated because the person acts "crazy". It seems there is new research on it and some treatments are available. How to get the person to accept or seek treatment is the hard part.
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Can't you just enter random garbage email? Since you are probably not internet connected beforehand so can't really confirm the email ownership.
When did this page start being paginated, it makes it hard to Ctrl-f find things?
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It has a weird "reflctive" display which is supposed to make it readable in bright daylight.
It doesn't, in my experience (couldn't read it quite often, a Pebble works perfect though)
Has it actually upended the credit system yet?

I wouldn't put it past the credit industry to find a way to profit at further cost to consumers.
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Coming soon: a proposal to hold the government responsible for every breach of data that occurs because they corruptly assigned some contract to an irresponsible third party or hired a minimum wage cop who decided surveillance power's main use is to prove that you really do secretly love him [1]. And of course for selling your private photos. [2]

Wait. Nope, no way in hell the government is responsible for those things [2] (even ignoring the fact that the government internally knows about thousands of abuse of surveillance data cases as the AP points out and I was able to find 2 references to cases about such abuse, neither held the government responsible for anything (and neither was filed by the government). However they do make clear that government cares deeply that cops not be punished for abusing surveillance systems)

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3124641/security/cops-...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Proposing such a drastic law should somehow be not so easy to do. Sure, this proposal won‘t go through as is but what ever „weaker version“ of it will come in a few months will therefore sound much more sensible and might go through.. these „tactics“ make me really angry..
It is. Back in 2009 in France there used to be 3 major networks and they'd charge insane prices up to $80ish a month for unlimited 3G. Then Free Mobile came and announced a $24 (19.99€) a month for ever unlimited, virtually the next day all those other operators created a "low cost" version of their plan at basically 19.99€ a month for unlimited phone/text/data ... What a coincidence.. nowadays it's still the same price, except it's 4G LTE.

Free Mobile almost had plans to buy T-Mobile[1], that would have been awesome...

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/frances-iliad-dropping-plan-to-...
Random in so far as that I don't use it, don't want to sign up for it. A random cloud service and just ONE random cloud service.

When I got it, you couldn't even see your own data on your phone. HR? Steps? GPS? Stava or gone, poof.
> The Federal Communications Commission put out a final proposal last week to end net neutrality. The proposal opens the door for internet service providers to create fast and slow lanes, to block websites, and to prioritize their own content. This isn’t speculation. It’s all there in the text.

Great. Payola. Thanks Verizon!

Does the FTC have the agreement information needed to hear the anti-trust cases that are sure to result from what are now complaints to the FCC (an organization with network management expertise) being redirected to the FTC?

Title II is the appropriate policy set for ISPs; regardless of how lucrative horizontal integration with content producers seems.
Apple can’t QA software anymore, so I’m sitting in my hotel at Disneyland trying to go to bed but actually upgrading two iPhones to iOS 11.2 beta so that we can use them in the parks tomorrow since the beta is the only confirmed way thus far to avoid it without losing something (access to apps that time check or notifications for apps). Fantastic.
Remote ok? I've worked on Ember and Node for the last 3 years or so.
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He said :
> > What basis do you have to think that any government, let alone all of them, are going to adapt it?

I said :
> It doesn't matter what they do.

They can adopt it, or not adopt it. It makes no difference whatsoever.
FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!
Never expected this from Germany.But we should wait to see if this is really considered by the governament as viable or not.
I do something similar with Fastmail, except instead of subdomain, I use the prefix, e.g. reddit@example.com, hn@example.com. I have a generic one (hi@example.com) for certain use cases but in general I use the specific ones so I know who may have sold/"lost" my email address. It's a lot better than Gmail style plus addressing since some input websites disallow plus emails or have terrible email systems that can't properly recognize it.

The only thing I wish that would go further would be to be able to flag a certain email address to be set to "not exist", so that if someone emails it, it gets bounced back as undeliverable. I set up something similar on my own server a while back using Postfix and Postgres to deal with holding the emails/undeliverable emails but it ended up being a hassle to keep up with and I am glad to pay for Fastmail to not deal with anything but getting my emails.

Additionally, one downside to the burner email services is that some companies have tracked down the popular ones and mark email addresses from those domains as invalid, meaning they really want something that isn't a burner email.
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High.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

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

I think when bitcoin is measured in the multi-trillions, the temptation for the US government to raid american bitcoin exchanges will be too great. And they have form.
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Thomas de Maizière wants that.

The guy says unconstitutional shit like this every other week. It'll be shot down by our supreme court for sure, if it's even taken into consideration in the first place.
I imagine what Yelp really want is to track footfall and IRL behaviors via MAC addresses.

You do not need to attempt to connect to the wifi for them to obtain this, merely walk/move past the restaurant.

This will let them know your movements in meatspace (‘you’ being the derived identifier, until/unless they pay/trade-with a data broker for enrichment).

While both Apple and Google have boasted about MAC address randomization for years, it’s always been crap, and still is[1].

[1]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/10/mac_address_randomi...
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A ycombinator backed project called Quantstamp aims to preform security audits for smart contracts, and seems like a very necessary part of the platform ecosystem that is developing.
Your absolutely right, and not even salary jobs, just part time jobs:

https://tech.mn/jobs/?q=&type=1&role=0&cat=any

vs.

https://tech.mn/jobs/?q=&type=2&role=0&cat=any
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Any language: you can deploy your legacy application and start to monetise it on the blockchain.
How should I ethically approach user password storage for plaintext retrieval?
> And yet Ada exists practically nowhere that requires timely deliverables. Funny that.

Yes, the people who prioritize "working" over "correct" make sloppy mistakes and avoid the languages that would make them be less sloppy.

> if Ada were such a force multiplier, there would be someone who would use it to make lots of money.

The embedded world sends its regards.
As a Swiss, I'm saddened that my country seems to have found yet another way to get involved in shady financial dealings.
Instead, was designed to last only as long until the next induced appetite for a new phone. Cuz otherwise, financials wouldn't look as good while another company X in the industry capitalizes on it anyways
I don't think that at all. I actually admire and respect people who are able to buckle down and focus on a full time job. I also acknowledge and respect that this is not a fit for me. There's nothing wrong with me or with people who that works for, and this is my challenge. Please don't interpret my frustration as a condemnation of traditional employees/employers. I'm learning how to navigate.
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Facebook wifi for business came to me as soon as I saw this.

Fb did this 4 years ago, lots of HN comments at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7018811
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On the plus side, Animoji has been rock solid.
I fear that you might be drastically, tragically understating the importance of that title - even in SV.
This happens because the HN submission guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html say:

“Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.”

The main objective is to highlight and share interesting research, and if a post on ‘The Morning Paper’ achieves that and promotes informative discussions like the ones in this thread, then I’m happy.

On a good day, I like to think there’s enough in my posts that the commentary does qualify as an “original source.” On a bad day, the post may be a more straightforward summary of the paper content (though I’ve occasionally tried passing the text of a paper through an auto-summariser for fun, and let’s just say it doesn’t look like I’m going to be out of a job anytime soon!).

For example, the post that presumably inspired this HN thread (the timing certainly suggests that) is more a straightforward summary: https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/12/01/analyzing-software-requi.... The post from the day before on a related topic is interwoven with much more personal commentary: https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/11/30/the-role-of-software-in-....

Even in the ‘straightforward summary’ case, I will typically have spent a couple of hours or more reading the original paper, trying to distil the key points and putting them across succinctly. (It’s not for me to judge whether or not I succeed at that, but this is the aim!).

My hypothesis is that more people have time to read a long-ish slightly informal blog post than they do to scan a 12-20 page research paper. And it would be shame if when presented with only the link to the original paper pdf, they miss out on some of the key ideas within it because it feels like too much effort to read or scan the paper when presented like that. For one paper I’ll be covering next week for example (and this is an outlier), I spent about 5 hours in total on reading, trying to understand, getting the background and context clear, and then writing it up.

In those cases when the original HN link is to the full paper pdf rather than to my post, then I guess an easy way to give readers the benefit of both is simply a comment in the thread pointing to the ‘Morning Paper’ summary... The main thing though, as I said at the top, is that interesting and thought-provoking research reaches a bigger audience.
Not to mention the frequency/quality of seat upgrades, as well as the exclusivity of their lounges.

For the first ~30 years of my life I was nearly exclusively an United flyer (passed down from parents who traveled for business extensively and were based near an United hub), yet even I have realized that it's just a game of where I can get the lowest cost / highest roi now, since there's just no rewards for my loyalty.
> "Richard Jacobs, a security analyst whom Uber fired in April and now consults for the company"

Why did Uber fire Jacobs and then hire him again, as a consultant?
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I'm actually starting to get excited about good airport food options these days.
It is true where I come from. America is not the only country in the world you know. In fact, it is one of many. I have no desire to live there again TBH.
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Honestly? If they can't legally prove the other stuff, then he shouldn't be prosecuted for it. Perverting justice in order to "catch the bad guy" is a terrible idea.
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My threads aren't showing up paginated.
Its like this guy never heard of the DDR and the Stazi.
You've heard of "be a multiplier, not an adder", right? My contention is that many good developers can be multipliers across very large portions of an engineering organization when given the chance. Dysfunction does seem to be the natural state of any business, and engineering groups are no exception; technical and social resources capable of and empowered to tackle cross-cutting concerns are that chance I'm describing and provide self-evident benefits over the long term. You're right, that sometimes it happens informally. I am asserting that institutionalizing it makes teams faster, less risky, and happier.

I also happen to think that I'd be good at it, because it's kind of what I already do, and I wish it was more common because that'd be great. Heaven forfend. I mean, you can try to pull the well-actually-it's-labor-that's-bad thing by trying to turn it into my mindset is wrong rather than let's talk about executive and managerial allocation of resources and whether we do a good job of it across the board, but the thing speaks for itself.

And you're right, that post is braggy. It's also marketing: from this thread I've gotten two emails inquiring as to the state of my pipeline and if I'd have time for a chat. It can be both self-marketing and a reasonable observation of reality. (Email's in my profile.)
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Matrix multiplication is noncommutative too. What made quaternions so particularly painful?
You seem to be expressing an ideology in this thread that the ability to exist and occupy space is a default-deny privilege that communities should only have to grant if they want to.

I'm struggling to understand how this could work, except as a prior restraint on childbirth. Otherwise, if someone comes into being and no community wants to house them, what do we do? Execute them? Cast them out into the countryside, see if they can survive as a hermit off the land? (Whose land?) Lifetime imprisonment for trespassing, since there are zero places they're entitled to be?

Is the privilege revokable? Can I decide my neighborhood is too crowded, get together with 51% of my neighbors, and vote the other 49% out? Bulldoze their houses and turn them into open space preserves?