skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If latency is not a problem, but the production/consumption is unsteady, use a large buffer. Works in programming, works in personal finance.
BMW Future Electrification Plans Discussed at LA Auto Show
That’s why I just go right to the negative reviews. Usually points out right away if the place is as it seems. Really helpful when booking hotels.
Ah, I should have been clearer in my initial response. I actually have no opinion on whether zip codes are a number, as I'm from the UK and don't really know how they work :-). I was more responding to the idea that any numeric value you don't do calculations on should be stored as a bare string. I would be happy enough with a string that had a constraint limiting the string to characters [0-9], though (again, assuming the data in question is limited to those chars).

On the whole, pgexercises punts on the data modelling aspect, as it's focused on teaching SQL instead - in some cases choosing deliberately bad schema design to make it easier to ask interesting questions. On reflection I'm not sure this was a good approach, but I'm far past the point where I have time/inclination to revisit it.
I'm separating the people I'm talking about from people that actually just want to make donations because of the social good. This other group seems to have no interest in making contributions other than their own misunderstanding of what a tax deduction is.
This happens to me in any encompassing natural situation, or even after watching a well-made nature documentary. It feels as though the troubles of my daily life do not matter as much as the beauty I have witnessed-- it feels like I'm privy to another world that seems external, but feels internal, like the creations of nature are actually a part of me.
personally, I would fast for the long term before I took on terms like that. Fasting is actually quite good for your health and many of us would benefit from it.

in the US with frugal living, you live of 2-3$ per day, using the oatmeal plan.

And, if your so poor you can't afford that, then it's irresponsible to have kids.

At least not until you get back on your feet.
Ask HN: Who hires mathematicians?
Granted, as I am only graduating with a straight BSc it is perhaps a bit presumptuous of me to consider myself a mathematician, but I would like to. I've been looking at jobs and the only people who seem interested in me are banks or people looking for a "quantitative analyst" in the financial sector.

Who hires mathematicians, other than the aforementioned financial industry?

I know that machine learning is pretty math heavy, and I have taken a look at some of the mathematics involved and some programming firms also don't mind if you have a BSc Mathematics/Applied Mathematics degree. But doing that doesn't seem like doing mathematics.

This is perhaps an odd question for the site, but I have been struggling with this and everyone here seems professional and helpful from my years of reading here.
> UPDATE 6/12/17, 17:12: After an eagle-eyed reader spotted that each mocked-up TripAdvisor screen shot contained the same number of reviews, we have edited the images so that the number of reviews match those in the actual screen shots and replaced two of the images.
If you have Go installed as per https://golang.org/doc/install you can build/install this project like this:

> go install github.com/jakewins/findbtc

I'll update the readme!

If that's giving you trouble, I can cross compile it here and upload a binary to github for you if you tell me your OS and processor - although since this is potentially sensitive software, I'd advice building it from source
Depreciation on a $150K tractor you don't need amounts to -$150K, for what it's worth ;) It's just some amount of that every year (with the biggest hit being in the same year, same for buying a new car).
TDD is one solution to the troubles humans have when designing complex systems where the entire solution can not be arrived at through a constructivist approach. Put differently the solution is to complex for a human to keep in their head at once. I came to this conclusion after reading “notes on the sysnthesis of form” by Christopher Alexander

TDD is about people, not software.
> A closer examination of one recording reveals it’s not just a single sound. Roughly 20 or more different frequencies, or pitches, are embedded in it, the AP discovered using a spectrum analyzer, which measures a signal’s frequency and amplitude.

Did anyone try decoding it? GMSK, FSK, BPSK, ASK?
That is no doubt true for some, others will find more drastic methods to end themselves (not all car accidents are accidental and some may hurt bystanders).

In addition I have this philosophy that if you want to interfere with peoples freedom you are responsible for making their life (as judged by that person) worth living - not just preventing them from killing themselves.
I am doing something related to meditation, where i close my eyes for 40 minutes and chant for a good part of it. It is really helping me progress spiritually.
Rural areas usually get more per capita. It's just that density makes services of all sorts easier and more efficient to provide.
You know, if we switched our law enforcement priorities from low level drug offenses to getting rid of these scumbags, our prisons might be just as full (appeasing the private prisons lobby), but at least they'd be full of people who actually have done wrong, and we'd be making life better for everyone else.
I did a ten-day silent retreat (Vipassana) and the effects were profound. I was far calmer, far more able to focus.

It's hard to explain, but physical pain was also reframed from negative 'pain' to simply neutral sensation.

I also found I had much less desire for stimulus. Usually when I'm cooking dinner or cleaning the house I feel the need to play a tv show or listen to a podcast, but after the retreat I could just experience the activity.

For a year after that I kept up between one and two hours a day, until I found that I was feeling a lot of guilt around the practice - when I put it off, when I wasn't able to find time. It seemed like I had begun to miss the point, so I stopped. I'm getting back into it currently, though.

I'd highly recommend the practice, especially learning by going to a ten-day retreat. It really gave me an experience of what is possible with meditation - true peace and fulfillment.
>It all boils down to what class of problems you prioritize, people who read technical documentation not getting distracted or people not getting murdered. I say good on the author.

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Having your own semi is very important during harvest: your combine will fill up in 15 minutes. That means every 15 minutes you need to unload it. 2 combines worth of grain is as much as your can haul in a semi (because of road weight restrictions). When the farmer is harvesting they don't want to stop: every delay is a chance that a storm latter will destroy the rest of the crop. Farmers often hard hauling to a elevator 20 minutes away where there is a 20 minute line to dump. As a result it isn't unusual for a farmer to need 2 semis for every combine.

Now you can rent semis, but it isn't cheap. For a farmer the rental company will look at it as a semi that won't be rented for 10 months so they charge for it.
I wanted to contact the authors directly but can't seem to find contact info at the moment, with a question. I hope some of you might know enough to answer it.

I'm interested in applying this method, or a similar neural-network / tabula rasa based method to the game of Scrabble. I read the original AlphaGo Zero paper and they mentioned that this method works best for games of perfect information. The standard Scrabble AI right now is quite good and can definitely beat top experts close to 50% of the time, but it uses simple Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate positions and just picks the ones that perform better. It doesn't quite account for defensive considerations or other subtleties of the game. I was wondering if anyone who had more insight into MCTS and NN would be able to talk me through how to apply this to Scrabble, or if it even makes sense. One of the issues I can see currently would be very slow convergence; as it has a luck factor, the algorithm could make occasional terrible moves and still win games, and thus be "wrongly trained".
Exercise is a meditative experience! Pushing the body to its limits necessarily changes the mind's experience, and it can help you to cope with any external stress, and solidifies the principle of growth through hardship. You exercise, you break down your own muscle tissue, which then regenerates as an adaptation to the stress, and you become physically stronger.
Definitely. John Rogers, who wrote Leverage, a whole TV series about vigilantes striking back against the crooked, makes some excellent points here:

https://twitter.com/jonrog1/status/938450037276733440
Those societies are their customers. It's where they're making all their money.

Only off-the-grid homesteaders can make any credible claim to having no connection to society at large, but if they get sick, they better be honest with themselves and just die at home instead of going to get healthcare from a system they elected not to contribute to.
There was also a PC game, Marvel Heroes, that had their contract pulled recently for no apparent reason.

Some in the player community has claimed that the CEO had a rap sheet and Disney was pull out because of the whole Metoo thing, but pulling out over the heavy use of loot box mechanics may make more sense.
Right, there are two different markets, commodity crops and specialty crops (e.g. mega-crop tomatos vs organic local tomatoes)

You can be in either market, but it is hard to switch between them. The equipment, land area used, process, etc are different.
I'm told that MySQL replication blows Postgres out of the water by my company's data team, but they could just be biased since that is their area of expertise. I work on server code and don't really have much familiarity with the operations of running replica chains.

Postgres seems like a better choice for personal projects since it has a lot of nifty features. I'm also wary of Oracle, but that's my own attitude talking. For a startup eventually wanting to scale, would the better choice be to use MySQL out of the gates? Am I being mislead about Postgres clusters and availability?

Serious (naive) question; not wanting to start a flame war.
I was always under the impression their differentiator is speed, convenience, and selection. They're marketing is heavily towards how quickly and how conveniently they can get anything you want to you.

Either way, that's exactly my point. Why would you compete with Amazon on price? They can get anything in larger bulk quantities than you ever could.
Content:

>Uber won’t be able to single-handedly kill the restaurant industry

Title:

>Uber's Credit Card is Bankrupting restaurants and it's all your fault

I am confused.
The choice quote:

I offer three specific recommendations:

• Paperless DRE voting machines should be immediately
phased out from US elections in favor of systems, such
as precinct-counted optical scan ballots, that leave a
direct artifact of the voter’s choice.
• Statistical “risk limiting audits” should be used after
every election to detect software failures and attacks.
• Additional resources, infrastructure, and training
should be made available to state and local voting
officials to help them more effectively defend their
systems against increasingly sophisticated adversaries.
I'm already paying for it, either through my free will (through various services) or threat of violence (taxes).
This is what happens when you make debt collection a for profit endeavour.
Rural areas in the US are heavily subsidized by urban areas (which is not inherently bad, but the perception that money flows the other way is a big political problem), especially when it comes to social services such as healthcare, disability payments, welfare, etc., but also if you just look at basic infrastructure like roads, sometimes disguised as regulatory requirements that private infrastructure providers maintain some baseline service everywhere. The issue is that providing high levels of service to sparsely populated places is very expensive. Of course many states are also doing a poor job of basic infrastructure maintenance statewide, but that's a different problem.
Why didn't the USSR or these Middle Eastern countries just enact gun control first, then enact these other policies without resistance?
You might be reading the table wrong? Last column is their adjusted baseline, 2nd column is their baseline+options+dependents.

Comparing with [two years ago](https://open.buffer.com/transparent-salaries/) it looks like engineering at least has about 35% turnover, but everyone is up in salary - some by quite a bit if they've relocated.
A puzzle for 5 Bitcoins
You posted a comment on a website. You have not done a single thing to implement that, nor a single thing to tackle the immense logistics of getting everyone, including people who might not have a computer, a private key, securing that key, or dealing with the fallout that happens when people's private keys inevitably get leaked.
Assisted suicide is a different thing. In those cases, people usually have terminal illnesses anyway so death is inevitable. These people have already accepted death in most cases (I believe this is one of the criteria in places that allow assisted suicide).

This isn't so much about "I want to kill myself; I should go buy a gun" but rather about "I want to kill myself; my dad keeps a gun in his sock drawer". Talk about responsible gun ownership all you want; but if you own a gun for personal defense (as the majority of gun owners do), it's probably not locked up most of the time.
Why? How are any of the factors you mention related to verifiability? How does being supported by public funds with academic personnel from multiple universities make LIGO any more verifiable for me at home? At least I can run these games against my stockfish, thus verifying the result. The method I cannot verify, but being able to verify the results is already more than most of science.
I've had multiple encounters with debt collection agencies that all ended up being for medical bills that were never processed correctly in the first place that I had never seen before. In every single case so far it's been a legitimate, state-licensed debt collector, they have not fulfilled the requirements set by law to prove the debt, and the have just used scare tactics and bureaucracy to avoid a fair confrontation. I've filed complaints with the state regulator, at which point token (but inadequate) documentation has been provided and my complaint "resolved".

I have little sympathy for most cases in which people rack up debt and try to escape the consequences, but Good Lord, the other side of that equation is shady as Hell, even when done far more legitimately than this.
The way this works is: when you run out of your primary X and pull your backup X out of the closet, you immediately add X to the shopping list you carry with you. Then when you're in a shop, you simply buy things that are on the list and put them in the backup closet.

This requires developing two habits: 1) adding a thing to the shopping list when you fetch the backup item, and 2) actually using a shopping list.

Now I sympathize with the fact that different people have problems with different habits, so if it really doesn't work for you, then I guess you need something else :). But the benefit of this trick (or "life hack") is that it's free to use, doesn't require any purchase to set up, and doesn't tie you to any vendor.
Why only do real estate? Why not do landing pages for simple physical products, enterprise SaaS software or mobile apps. Real question though what do people actually use for the above ?
Sure, why not, but then how do we compare to a human?
Recovering Huffman Tables in Intel ME 11.x
Uhh... These games are actually broken. From the second link: https://imgur.com/a/P5tG6

See for yourself:

https://lichess.org/Zqwn4Gzk#87

https://lichess.org/Zqwn4Gzk#88

EDIT: Nope, I'm just a noob.
This has everything to do with the fundamental physical fact that it's hard to provide services at very low population densities. I live in a city that has low single digit emergency response times. In order to get that out in rural farmland you would need to collocate a police and fire station with every single dwelling. Not gonna happen.
Reminds me of the time Optimum continued charging me for SIX MONTHS after cancelling their ISP service. Couldn't get it resolved and ultimately got collections notices for the debt. I had to get the city (NYC) involved and threaten to sue before I got to someone who was willing to resolve it.
> Don't undercharge because you work remotely.

You misunderstand. Remote is the normal salary you want. The on site salary is normal salary + 50% inconvenience fee.
> Not only will it be a disastrously bad shopping experience, it will cause death and carnage.

Sure, but think of all of those billions of dollars they could make! We're talking about GM here. Passenger and driver safety is not exactly their top concern:

http://time.com/46483/gm-recall-ignition-switch-1/
It's generating all of those keyframes from a single picture. The slides are quite interesting: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11ia5Zeg7AiiIi5y10S6z...
However, Prime Video is a paid service that has never been publicly accessible so its users know what they are getting into. It seems more inflammatory to me for Google to block access to a YouTube app, particularly one that Amazon apparently created for their own devices. The two don't seem equivalent.

That being said, Amazon (I believe) started this duel with stopping sales of various Google devices on their website.
If you're interested in the Apollo program, you'll find no better telling of it than A Man On The Moon by Andrew Chaikin.

http://www.andrewchaikin.com/books/a-man-on-the-moon/

The book was adapted into the excellent miniseries From the Earth to the Moon by HBO.
Who issues the private keys? What happens if the keys are compromised? What happens to the debt if a key is lost? How do you migrate older debt to the new system? How would this solve the issue of proving the person you are talking to actually owes the debt? There are soooo many questions and things to figure out in such a big and complicated system. It's easy to criticize, especially when you aren't actually responsible for execution.
What industry? You mean the one that is less than 5yrs old?

IOTA itself, with all its 'smarts' made a stupid mistake designing their own cryptographic hash function! This might seem like I'm hanging on a single point, but I guarantee, any sane security person on this site will tell you to stay far away from this coin if they see this.

https://medium.com/@neha/cryptographic-vulnerabilities-in-io...
Wow... that was a cathartic read. I wish I could meet Andrew, shake his hand, and buy him a beer or something.
ITT: Example after example of persons unaware of their own politics.
And here's the solution to Electron problem.
Canada's Newest Start Up Opens New Warehouse
What is the “quanta” in software? The bit, byte, computer, program? I think any potential parallels are a seductive trap. Quantum physics is elegant and we desire an elegant model for thinking of software. I don’t think quantum physics is the right model for understanding software.
Can't reply below, but:

> If you block ads on my website and I detect it, It's fully within my rights to blacklist you for stealing.

Other than the word "stealing", I agree. It's fully within your rights to block or allow access however you want. And it's fully within my rights to decide whether to look at your ads.

You control your server. I control my browser. This is good.
Your car breaks down. You have absolutely zero money in savings; you work two jobs to pay rent and put food in your children's belly and clothes on their backs. You absolutely must have your car in order to get to your jobs; public transit in most areas is spotty at best. You cannot get a loan any other way, and you need money now.

What do you do?
Dude, you’re deconstructing a clever rejoinder on the topic of paying taxes. Ease up, I know how depreciation works. :-)
Really, you are arguing that Harvey Weinstein is a conservative? I mean I rarely write LOL on this page, but I am literally sitting here and doing that. And yes Roy More, but he wasn't the first and he doesn't seem like he will be the last.
PostgreSQL's replication itself is perfectly fine, albeit a bit bare-bones (e.g. it's just replication plus the ability to trigger a failover). For something like cluster management and automated failovers you'll need e.g. https://repmgr.org/.
That means your normal rate is not high enough.
I find I don't value social constructions near as much as I used to as well. For me it's because I realized there is something inside me. In deep trance I can see it as a blue fire. And it feels like this blue fire is more real than any insecurity or any external pursuit, and yet it drives my external pursuits so that my choices become clearer and I am less confused. It just feels real, while often our modern world feels like brittle plastic.
Bankrupting some restaurants != killing the restaurant industry.
I wonder what's the longest period of time you've ever fasted for?

Many years ago I was homeless and broke for a period of time. At one point I didn't eat for 2 days, it wasn't easy and not something I'd be willing to do again voluntarily.

2 days sounds easy, right?
Measured, or merely observed? I wouldn't trust casual observation for something like this.

In any case, there are other explanations for this than the feature doing what it says. Recording takes less power than constantly running a neural net over the audio to see if you said the trigger phrase. If you really don't trust the manufacturer, they could even artificially use excess power when the feature is enabled, just to make it look like it's doing something extra. Or they might not be listening to you 24/7, but only at selected times.

There really is no way to verify that your phone isn't listening to you when it's not supposed to be.
It isn't just a mindset, it is supported by their accountant. Because of the way depreciation works their long term income is higher by buying new equipment than paying taxes.

The busiest week for farm equipment dealers is the week between Christmas and new years. That is when their account calls them and says trading in some machine would reduce their tax bill by more than the payments! Assuming the trade in value is high enough of course.

Farmers are businessmen running a real business. They understand how to use all the loopholes written for them.
This is very similar to what I had to go through to recover a few BTC in my old Multibit wallets from 2013 this summer.

I had the same problem of underpaying for the transaction because I had to sweep many small wallets.

There are many old wallets around which contain amounts too small to recover. Let's say you have 100 addresses each containing $1, it is no longer economical to sweep them into a single address.

Originally in 2011-2013 it was considered a good practice to create many different addresses for receiving.
This is just ahead of the curve, self driving cars are coming /s