skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related: http://sizes.darkgreener.com/ recording the discrepancy between label size and actual fit for a lot of UK high street shopping.

The variance in label sizes is bad enough - and worse for women's clothing than mens - but when you get into "large/medium/small" it's just a lottery. Especially if you're a westerner ordering direct from China.
It's a completely artificial construct that drives up the cost of living and robs the poor with rent seeking.

It's called "zoning", and it's a perfectly natural construct.

And if you're going to be fair, you'd acknowledge that ultimately it presents a set of tradeoffs, with both positive and negative impact.

All of California's inequality problems go back to that.

Inequality is a very complex problem, with many forces and actors at play. Any analysis that attempts to reduce it to a single causal factor will instantly fail.
Thanks for the link!
Yes, would love to have one for every website. And visitor can input a website for "stupidness"
you should offer a free account to collect emails. maybe track one coin for free. with a daily highlight email or something.
They will starting next year. They're building their own streaming service competitor

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/08/disney-will-pull-its-movies-...
That article honestly sounded like an advertisement for Colibit.
Markets can recover. If you invest in stock you have to consider that you may not be able to liquidate it within the next 10 years. What if the markets don't recover? If they don't recover you will have far larger problems than your stock portfolio being in the red. The machines and people don't just disappear unless there is a war.

Even if you fail to do that as long as you have started investing sufficiently early enough - let's say 30 years before retirement (around 35 years old) - you probably have experienced at least one recession and recovery until retirement. If suddenly markets crash during retirement by 50% on an asset that is up by 150% does it matter? You still got away with a profit.

And nobody forces you to liquidate everything at once. So sure if you plan to draw out 4% of your stocks you will have decreased your portfolio by 8% every year.
I mean, it seems to have been cited in the lawsuit. See e.g. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5803b57737c581885cbd0... and search for it.
Python has always had procedures, of course, but was it ever a functional language? Let's do a bit of fact-checkcing:

(0) Functional programming is expressing computation as the evaluation of functions. A language is “functional” to the extent it allows you to do functional programming.

(1) A function is a mapping from values to values. To express computation as the evaluation of functions, you need a rich universe of values: not just primitive ones like integers and object references, but also tuples, lists, trees, etc.

(2) Values are timeless entities that are distinguished from each other structurally. For example, it makes no sense to distinguish “this list [1,2,3]” from “that list [1,2,3]”, because both have the same structure - the same parts. Thus, what Python calls “tuples” and “lists” are not really tuple values and list values.

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@_9jgl

Let's see how equal they remain in a timeless fashion:

xs = [1,2,3]
ys = [1,2,3]
zs = ys
send_to_another_thread(xs,ys,zs)
print(xs == ys) # who knows
print(ys == zs) # True
print(xs is ys) # False
print(ys is zs) # True

Turns out, the real equality testing operator in Python is `is`, not `==`. The only values Python gives you are object references.

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@lmm

> This is by no means the only way to write Python

This is not the problem. The problem is that Python doesn't have compound values. Values are a matter of semantics, and semantics is a matter of how the language is defined, not how you choose to program in it.
In Germany is the same with Sparkasse, the largest retail bank in the country. username + 5 digits is enough to open your bank statements.
The new release is working on my Mac whereas yesterday's didn't. Thank you!

I was intrigued by the metadata handling for works; would it be possible to support searching via that data? For instance, I'd be interested in seeing works conducted by Bernstein, or performances by a specific orchestra.
Look up ordolibralism. It seems to be working pretty well.
I'm kind of torn on whether this is the same as other media mergers like Comcast-Universal or the upcoming Sinclair-Tribune mergers. I think mergers of news and broadcast outlets are generally bad but the bulk of what Disney is buying is intellectual property. Can owning tons of trademarks and copyrights ever be considered a monopoly? I am uncomfortable with one company owning Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Aliens, Predator, and all the other things. But if they make crappy movies then people will just watch something else.
I built this dashboard because I was often moving between Gdax, Twitter and Reddit. This gives a real time bird eye view of what's going with Cryptocurrency. Appreciate any feedback
Right, not 100% of Grand Rapids people love Amway. But if you talk to people who work for Amway (the corporate Amway, not as a reseller) or people who have family who work for Amway, you're not going to find many complaints about the corporate entity.

I say this because it's in stark contrast to what you mentioned, anyone who doesn't work for Amway corporate will generally have a negative opinion about Amway.
Same. Please let me know if you're able to find anything!
Facebook may become better at monetizing the remaining users, even as there is an exodus, and overall, it could show increasing profits and revenue. This would "excite investors" but it doesn't mean the company isn't screwed in the long term if things continue the way they are.

The other guy joked about Blackberry, because even as the US and Canadian markets were dumping Blackberry, the company continued to see some nice growth overseas, which also led to record sales, profits and so on. But it was obvious Blackberry was fighting against time with the iPhone destroying its core markets.

Most investors didn't see it at the time either, because they were just following the "positive quarterly results," much like Blackberry's leadership was.
Disney is also developing their own streaming service. They see the writing on the wall. In 20 years, broadcast and cable will be dead. Probably within 10.

They can roll their own streaming service (because there isn't any decent ones to buy). But content is expensive.

If the launch with Disney&Fox content while denying Netflix any Disney and Fox content, they'll have a shot at surviving.
I think judges are able to ask some questions and tell the difference between an honest mistake and a flagrant disregard for robots.txt, if that were to be the legal standard.
I think you hit the nail on the head. I was anxious quitting Facebook, but now that I have it feels so much more meaningful to meet with someone I haven't seen in months and have a nice lunch or dinner with them and catch up.
As much as this appeals to me on a sci-fi level, I think that most of the potential applications being floated for it are pretty bad ideas.

For instance, no plant is ever going to replace my desk lamp when the only color it can produce is 530 nm, it is too dim to read with, and I have to worry about killing it. But the real problem there is that I don't even have a desk lamp any more. Or even a desk. My home computer station is a recliner, and my monitor is on a swing-arm.

This technology is a necessary first step to producing nirnroot, but that is the full extent of my expectations. I expect the chiming sound will come later.

Any serious application will probably have to be artificial lichens that can be painted onto surfaces that are exposed to light and moisture. Lichens are hardy little bastards, so if you cover a sidewalk in glowing lichen paint, you will likely end up with something that glows just strongly enough to expose tripping hazards on it. Paint a runway with it, and planes might be able to manage an emergency landing without the usual lighting. This light isn't bright enough for me to see any domestic uses that would displace LEDs or electroluminescent panels.
It won't matter, because the NVidia driver provided by Apple would only talk Metal Compute anyway.

I don't see them doing otherwise.
What does this mean for the Star Wars Franchise?
Instagram is also becoming a monotonous and boring platform to use. The more ads and other junk features they cram into it, the less people will want to use it.
Write a Kubernetes-ready service from zero step-by-step
"the obvious solution is to enforce Facebook's user policy..." Of forcing users to use their real names. "Which would alarm investors." Because it would cause their user base to shrink.

This contention bothers me for a number of reasons, chief among which is that I don't think it's entirely accurate. Suppose FB is a delicious looking cornucopia, save the snark and humor me for the sake of my point, and right now there's a bunch of plastic fruit mixed in there. How then would it detract from the quality of the cornucopia to remove said fruit, other than making it appear less bountiful? There enlies the biggest problem I see with investment-driven business. The incentives of a business's own longevity oft conflict with the nearsightedness of the market. I feel like FB should be able to make a decision like that without being derided and sued by those whose perceived incentives conflict with that of the actual business's profitability. Fucking capitalism, mate, doesn't even seem to work for its own cronies.
> It's useful if it's a monad (and functor) because then you have tools to avoid this check until the end of a series of possibly failing functions.

The monad laws already fail miserably in Haskell when you account for nontermination. Haskellers can only cope with this by eschewing partial functions as a matter of coding style. Now, eschewing partial functions, not to mention effectful procedures, is essentially impossible in a unityped language like Python. Are you sure you still want to play the monad game?

Of course, the decision to tolerate leaky abstractions is very much subjective. But constantly dealing with abstraction leaks is, in my experience, far more burdensome than not using abstractions to begin with. This is especially the case with mathematical abstractions whose meaning is given by equational / rewriting rules.
I know, I was just agreeing with you.
Netflix Steps Back from Fight Over Net Neutrality
Here's where I'm stuck...

Half of me sees this cryptocurrency boom as the beginning of a bubble that will pop in 2018 or 2019. The other half of me is like what if this is a new era of global commerce and this is the investment of a lifetime?

It's hard to know which one will happen. The Internet was a mix of both from the 90's to the 00's to now.
Did Apple say that? Or are you making a prediction?
"Being able to use a tool" does not mean that it's the best choice for you.
People here are saying that these new "Pro" computers are actually really bad choices for Professional, mainly because of the lack of modularity and high price.

If you feel offended by those comment, that's on you, no one is actually judging you.
> Other than storage I haven't upgraded a single PC I've owned in the past decade if not more simply because at the point when upgrade was needed it was pointless.

Me neither, but for a different reason: I moved over to the Mac ecosystem 6 years ago, and haven't been able to upgrade since then. Except for adding some memory to a mac mini.

I'm holding out for the new Mac Pro. If it's upgradable in a meaningful way, I'll snap one up.
Cool idea. Where does the money come from?
Connecting pandas to a GPU database with Apache Arrow
>Housing problem.

Well this is part of what keeps tech workers from making as much as they'd like to and it definitely contributes to the plight of unskilled workers but not as much as this board seems to think it does. There's no realistic zoning changes in SV that are going to make a big enough dent. Unskilled workers will still be spending absurd amounts of their paycheck on shelter except now they'll be living under a restaurant exhaust system or above a noisy bar.

The real winner of zoning changes is going to be well-paid professionals who can buy up real estate with their savings and become the NIMBYs of tomorrow.
And what do you suggest for people who have broader circles of friends all over the world, and/or can't jet-set to visit them all periodically? A platform's utility to you might not equal its utility for others.
Are you talking about work-in-progress (WIP) limits? I've seen tools enforce this so you can't pull another story into the current list. Other tools let you pull but highlight the fact that you're going over the WIP limits by making the whole column eg. red. Or do you mean something else?
assuming any knowledge was actually gained.
Just because it's a robot doesn't mean that it takes more resources to load a page. A robot that loads 1000x more pages than a normal user, sure. But then rate-limit everyone rather than blocking specifically bots.

And that bots don't lead to revenue depends on why the bot is navigating on your page no? If it's some indexer that links back to your website and it's a popular index, then you'll maybe end up with more revenue thanks to that bot than a normal user.
I believe the latter (though IANAL)
So it's both cheaper and covered by Apple warranty (which tends to be quite good). Your point being?
Oh I absolutely 100% agree, I just wanted to point out that sometimes a lot of these seemingly crazy reasons come from somewhere, and that as developers that might work with product managers like this, it's our job to help teach them.

But maximum lengths (that aren't measured in kb) are a monumentally stupid thing, as are most other password "rules" (No, disallowing words in your password is not a good idea...)

Provide a minimum length, and check passwords against common password lists, and use a damn good hashing algorithm with a process in place to easily allow upgrading that hash.
Right. Everybody is charging for scarcity.

Some people charge for the use of the labor they do with their own two hands.

Other people are simply charging for the scarcity of land which they didn't create or make valuable, but were granted the exclusive right to use by the government.
That's a pretty low blow. You can't just answer a suggestion that the criminal system has some value with this.

I didn't know the guy but I'm not sure that using his name to stifle debate is the best use of his legacy.

While we're here, I happen to disagree with what he did. I believe that publicly funded research should be publicly available but he went a lot further.

What was done to him was heinous and a terrible abuse of the US criminal justice system. And it rightfully brought it into disrepute. But it's going too far to say that it's the last word on the principle of criminal justice.
>It's going to take as long as it takes. [...] it may not be the whole kit

If I'm interpreting that fragment right, your essay is treating "programmers development time" as a fixed rate of progress (the "9 women can't have a baby in 1 month" meme) so one answer to meet a deadline is to remove features until the deadline can be met.
This is the "cold start" problem, which they mention in the post ("What do we do about clients who recently signed up and have no past history on the service?") along with how they attempt to mitigate it. It's not surprising that their approach doesn't work for all users (as it would appear that it didn't in your case). I'm curious though, how much feedback does their system need in order to converge? E.g., how many ratings would you need to provide before receiving well-fitting clothes?
Interactive Brokers Now Allowing Short Positions in Bitcoin Futures
One wonders what they're doing with all those profits then. Seems like they would either reinvest in the company (accumulating assets), put it in the bank (fairly literally accumulating assets), or pay it out to shareholders (perhaps the most straightforward way in which stocks are worth money).
I know it's subjective, but those cases you linked are disgusting. In terms of value, I'd opt for the iMac 'case' for $250 over all of those.
Awesome outcome. But the article is yada-yadaing over the good stuff. How are the new genes integrated into the patient's body? Why isn't the virus attacked by the immune system? Instead of regular factor shots, do they need regular viral-gene shots?
Stefan's function is pretty cool but it sounds like you guys are up for the challenge of submitting something even better to the store. Looking forward to seeing your PRs - get creative! https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/93589059037769728...
Ubuntu has kernels specifically tuned for different cloud providers in LTS releases. For AWS, it's the linux-aws package.
Interactive Brokers requires margin of $40,000 per contract for short sales in CFE Bitcoin futures. Margin on long positions of CFE Bitcoin futures is currently $9,000.

“The introduction of short sales was necessitated by the large premium of the January futures contract over the price at which Bitcoin trades on the physical venues,” said Interactive Brokers founder, Chairman and CEO Thomas Peterffy.
Six figures?! I'm sure some people manage to clock that up, but the 2015 average[1] was $30,100 at graduation.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, that's still a huge pile of money for a worthless degree, or something you should have learned "on the job"... But it's a long way off $100k+

[1] https://ticas.org/posd/map-state-data
Yep. I check every week or so to make sure I haven't missed anything too crucial. But the news feed is gone, baby, gone.
Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization [pdf]
If working at a company through and after its IPO period has taught me anything, it's that professionals choosing to put their money on the line or not is not really saying THAT much.
> Movie companies seem to be in completely denial about the change in quality being the source of their problems

Don't you think on demand internet distribution is the true source of the problem? Record sales were at their peak in 2002 too.

https://kyigt1bcans3ofli94di0kch-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
The Physics of Trains in Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Interesting – For me the 27" is actually too small!

(I'm a programmer; I have a 15" laptop, and two 32" monitors. It's just right.)
Then return the item for one that will fit for free, which also gives them the information to improve it for you and others in the future.
We've got a small group of early stage angels/investors. If it picks up, we'll likely go raise venture capital.
Indeed. I still can’t believe Apple pre-announced it a year in advance, so out of character for them: https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives
Agile is meant to be used for non-software delivery projects as well.

In your view, with the parts you crossed out (including the physiological/motivational structures)-- would Agile still be widely applicable outside of the software-oriented projects?

Couple of, say, hypothetical examples, perhaps for non-software projects

-- developing & submitting scientific grant application

-- organizing a non-trivial longitudinal survey

-- looking for college for kids

-- designing a motorcycle with unique frame/engine layout

-- planning and shooting a movie
Surprising is a poor word choice.

A: I just threw 92 heads in a row.

B: I’m surprised!

A: No you’re not.

B: The hell you say?
Downvoters, please explain yourselves. Parent post is fundamentally making a statement about what is possible. If you think it is impossible, the burden is on you to explain why, considering it is possible even to escape from an actual prison, and we are talking about the possibility of escape from SV!
27" monitors are very common for pros and even enthusiasts (Dell P2715Qs are just $500) who do lots of video or photos/image work, yes.
Firefox Focus Adds Quick Access Without Sacrificing Users’ Privacy
I really think that affording $5000 hardware should mean you can afford some desk space for it.
Catching up feels more important and seems to have more substance that way.

The little snippets people share on FB probably are also less personal, imo. It's stuff they're announcing to everyone instead of sharing with you or a small group.

It just doesn't feel like actually "keeping in touch" to me. Feels more like promoted content (from the people and the actual ads).
Exactly. Early 2018 is insanely optimistic, since we've heard nothing about it since the pre-announcement. If I had to bet, I'd say 2nd-half 2018 at the absolute earliest.
The deal might be quite good for my country.
Fox operates as Star Channels in India. They are major entertainment and sports provider. They also have a streaming service 'Hotstar'. Hopefully will see more content on the streaming service.
Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. Most of the clothes they sent are from their own brands which makes me wonder what is new about this model. Anybody retailer can ship their clothes if they are willing to process the returns for free.
Members of Congress Who Told Ajit Pai to Repeal Net Neutrality
Sure, that's the only example of line starting with a dot (I think, I'm not super good at Python, just okay) so anything else that isn't a float should be fine.
It's worse in some respects in UK, we lost the right to format shift, it was briefly legal and the media corps quashed it. We don't have Fair Use (but a much more restrictive Fair Dealing).

So iTunes having CD ripping ability is facilitating infringement according to UK law, I wish they'd try and prosecute that!

It's not enough to pay creators to view their work anymore. Copyright legislation lets works get locked up eg by DRM and formats falling out of use; this subverts the creators part of the contract of copyright, we only grant it on the basis that works enter the public domain in a timely manner ... without that copyright should be void.

Meanwhile big businesses like Google get a special exception on "orphaned works" ...
NVidia provides drivers, I'm using one on a Hackintosh now.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html
Then I didn't understand what you meant by "background" and perhaps the admins won't either. Could you clarify?
>That your parents once did something in different circumstances does not mean everybody can here and now.

Many can.

In my city (nowhere near SV), the cost of living is a bit high. I knew a bunch of low skilled workers who worked in restaurants, cleaning dishes, cooking, etc. They were all fairly close. When rents started shooting up a few years ago, they got together and made a plan - and moved to the Midwest, buying houses in the $40-80K range.

One of the mechanics I used to go to: Same story. Ended up moving to Texas where it is cheaper.

Most cases where I've seen that it is not an option fall into two categories:

1. A desire to be near very high quality services (e.g. one person's kids would get almost free health care from a neighboring university's hospital). Essentially, a desire to keep high quality tax discounted services. These people are making a choice - they can move if they wanted to.

2. People in some kind of hole - usually a financial hole. They want to stay pretty badly so they make poor financial choices, ending up in debt, with poor credit, etc. That makes it harder to go, well, anywhere. That's why the smart thing to do is move before you fall into that hole.

As someone who has lived in places, and grown up in places, where essentially we could have been forced out legally (and in one case actually were), I know what it feels like. And the solution for us was very obvious: Know that we do not have a right to stay where we were, and make contingency plans. For me, part of the contingency plan was to try to move some place that was much less likely to kick us out.
Delite: How and Why It Failed