skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large problem is that the companies with the money to address the issue will only do so starting from a position of a walled-garden rather than a system like email that in principle is open to anyone's mua/mailserver?

We have a proliferation of communication apps that don't talk to each other because each of the capitalistic driving forces wants to kill every other app so there's wins (even if there app is much worse than competitors).

This is where you need cooperation for progress and where capitalism, with greed as the driving force, utterly fails.
Keep in mind that Edison was constantly being sued by his rivals (Edison nearly always won). Any successful businessman is going to have legions of detractors.
> Depending on the context, the em dash can take the place of commas, parentheses, or colons—in each case to slightly different effect.” The “slightly different” part is, to me, the em dash’s appeal summarized.

For me, it's of the opposite. It's like using `auto` too universally in C++: sometimes it's helpful to know the type you actually intend. Although I cede that the overuse in the article is more likely because it's discussing it and making a whimsical point. :)
Tip: On a Mac, you can type an em-dash with shift-option-hyphen. (An en-dash is just option-hyphen.)
Well if you’re calculating “the average American”, you have to include drug-addicted Americans.
You can have affordable density (Tokyo, Chicago), unaffordable density (Hong Kong, New York), and you can also have affordable sprawl (Houston, Indianapolis), and unaffordable sprawl (Anywhere in coastal california).

Because density and affordability aren't really related. The only thing that really affects affordability are supply and demand. As a proof of this, feel free to peruse the Journal of Housing Economics for empirical housing price models. Almost none of them show density as a significant factor, and almost all of them demonstrate the dominance of one single metric: the vacancy rate. Literally, the vacancy rate is the only thing that matters. And density is only related in the sense that it is one of the possible ways to increase the vacancy rate.
Also btc, ltc or eth public addresses are the only thing meant to be entered on that one text field. If people could grab your cash just by knowing your public address then no one would waste their time in crypto-land.
K-means clustering for text dataset
I was a Linode customer back when there was a security incident where everyone found out on Reddit before the company bothered to tell anyone. And then once news did come out they never said (a) what happened or (b) what steps were taken to prevent it happening again.

I am very reluctant now to trust the little guys with anything remotely mission critical.
The central problem is the motive. Low income individuals do not have such a powerful lobby that they're able to compel States to create laws that require affordable housing. It's the real estate/development/construction lobbies. They are very powerful and affordable housing is a big business. Everyone has to get their cut.
For me, a knife is just a tool, like scissors. The most used/useful knife I own is this tiny folding pocket knife.

https://www.crkt.com/shop/everyday-carry-knives/delilah-s-p-...

It is undersized for hunting or boating but for actual day to day use it really excels. I use it mostly for opening boxes and occasionally trimming bits off 3D printed parts. I used to carry it in my watch pocket but now it lives in my laptop bag.
That is where you'd build housing that lets people live closer to where they work, not where you'd built a high capacity train station to get people from a city center to city center.

What the bay area needs is a regional government that could set reasonable housing and transit policy instead of dozens of disjointed communities that only want office space and no housing and stand in the way of transit improvements.

There's no single solution that will solve the housing problem -- it'll take more housing closer to jobs, and better transit. (I purposely left out traffic improvements since that's a short-term bandaid)
Most of the shell utilities described by posix have standard flags, and then gnu/bsd extra flags.

If you use the standard ones (and use the "posix mode" flags when available) you're mostly ok.

Also, a shell script can have logic to handle different tools available (either different flavours of the same tool or even different tools that do similar things).

If the basic syntax it uses (or the shebang) are bash specific then you need bash to run it.
Yeah. I've been on both sides of this coin. If I'm deploying cloud software (which I am, these days), then I have no problem relying on cloud software to make that deployment smoother. But if I ever go back to writing native applications, I sure as hell won't be reliant on the internet in order to manage intranet deployments. These are two different paradigms, and what works well in one doesn't make any sense in the other.
Commas also can take the place of parentheses and, sometimes, colons. Punctuation is like sentence structure in general, adaptable.
ARM did fab their original design(s) ... (on someone else's fab)

(having done this ....) getting gcc/gdb/linux/etc working for your new architecture is something you will have done long before release your gates - both on your architectural simulator and you've probably booted linux at least once to a prompt on your gates (or at least HDL)

I've been on both sides, I found bugs in the original 29k bringing up unix (pre-linux) on the architectural simulator that were in the real chip, and as a logic designer helped design a new CPU and bring up linux on it

Anyone who seriously has a new CPU already has that ecosystem in place at the point they announce their CPU (and is probably busy trying to push their changes upstream to the gcc/llvm/glibc/uboot/linux/etc trees the day they announce to prove they are real)

But I agree the trick is to not run out of money ....
Yes, you can write as long a message as you want with signal. There are desktop clients. You can attach files. Or voice messages. Or use it to call them. Or video chat them. It’s a crazy robust full featured incredibly secure communications system.
Yup. That's a good solution. P2P would probably be a decent solution, too-- bit torrent or block chain or whatever variant.
I don't think this is right. Highways induce demand in a much more immediate way. It takes time for cities to outgrow themselves. And even a very dense city like New York just simply hasn't kept up.

Rents haven't always been as high in NYC as they are now. It's not as though the city's history is one of inducing demand that it can't meet with adequate supply.

The city has always been expensive, but not in the ridiculous way it is today. I'll leave the inflation calculations to you, but this demonstrates my point:

http://www.millersamuel.com/change-is-constant-100-years-of-...
curious why you didn't choose asyncio? If I understand this correctly, it lets you write python endpoints to call from javascript? Does it let you create UI from python only?

Lot of questions because I'd like to see more Python use in front-end/electron type of projects.
That's correlation, not causation. What if the more intense experience comes from the same root cause as the more pronounced effect (ie: maybe some people are just wired differently and it has multiple effects?)

More study is needed before we go off saying that the psychedelic experience is the cause of the improvement, in my view.
Protonmail seems to pull it off. Though at the moment encryption only works inside their system. They are actively working to implement the ability to send secure messages to people outside their service with GPG, though. I believe the CEO said it’d be ready by early 2018.
It may be blunt, but it's also pretty striking. Along most measures of wellbeing and health, the US lags behind most other industrialized countries.
> I've often wondered whether foreign users ever get annoyed with some of our names that happen to acronym to something unfortunate in their native language. Do they just have to live with it, or does it never happen?

All the time, and the response from devs ... depends. Remember the recent Pik image format? Or Pidora linux, which to a russian ear sound akin to "FedoPiLix"? Or Vista, which is exactly "chicken" in latvian?

Mostly you kind of keep laughing and wincing for a few years, then you sorta get used to it.
Yup. Publishing to Clojars requires GPG and is a bit of a pain compared to publishing to NPM. I'd take Clojar's approach any day of the week to this nonsense, though.
> babies that other would have died and not counted live long enough with modern medicine that they drag the average down

Something similar happened when seat belts (or was it airbags?) became mandatory. There was a sudden spike in serious injuries from car crashes, as what would have been instant fatalities became injured survivors.
It seems to me like one of the big problems with "affordable" housing in desirable areas is that everyone who has bought an "unaffordable" house is now in on the con, and "affordable" housing threatens to correct (read: deflate) the value of the very expensive thing that they have bought.

I'm not a homeowner, but being near NYC, if I manage to get myself into buying a home, I would probably be inclined to support any measure that ensures that the demand for my home—and therefore its price—continues to rise at as great a rate as possible to make sure that I wasn't on the hook for a large depreciation on my mortgaged property. This is the reverse of my current desire, which is for housing to be affordable enough for me to get into so I don't have to rent and can provision that part of my income toward building wealth and not someone else's wealth. The moment I become a homeowner, those motivations flip.

If the median home price were closer to the median income in a given area, I surmise that the desire from homeowners for increased demand and value would abate, because homeowners would stand to gain or lose less in their house vis a vis their income. Instead, you have folks who may gain more value in their homes in one year than they would make in salary. And conversely, price correction at such a great disparity to median income would mean that you now owe the bank a year or more's salary more than what your home is worth.
I read that Vanguard study when it came out, yes it's correct statistically but I disagree with using that data to do lump sum investments. For one, the CEO in their 2018 outlook webcast said to DCA. Even if you keep a short timespan on your DCA (I do 26 weeks), it's a good idea for your mental health if you happen to dump it all right before a collapse.

Sometimes it's wiser to take into account human psychology, even if academics are out there with data to convince us otherwise.

I'm personally with the CEO of Vanguard on this one. A short entrance into the market, especially in today's situation is probably the way to go. People can do whatever they want, and if they put their money where their mouth is and go in with a lump sum, then I'll respect it.

Otherwise, as someone who is bringing a lot of money myself onto the market now, I'm DCAing.
Does it count if I'm a student worker at a state university?
> But in between, there's absolutely no guarantee that my email provider sent it to your email provider over SMTP-with-TLS.

Don't accept non-STARTTLS traffic. Google doesn't, you shouldn't have to either. STARTTLS is widely available, and simply needs to be configured. Encouraging everyone to configure STARTTLS correctly is the easiest win we'll have.

And I hope you don't take what I said to mean that IMAPS and SMTP over TLS are a proper message encryption system. I simply meant that HTTPS doesn't do anything right that IMAPS or SMTP over TLS don't also.

Clearly there needs to be a standard way of advertising, distributing, transitioning, and retiring keys for email addresses. It needs to be robust, in continuity with existing infrastructure (probably domainkeys signed), straightforward (maybe signed proof of sender keys in a header), and possible to delegate in a way which meets the requirements of mailing lists. It also needs to be robust against malicious MTAs who could otherwise silently spoof senders and misrepresent their keys (double signing?).

A system with these properties would also solve the problematic interactions between DMARC and mailing lists which prevent almost everyone from deploying an appropriate DMARC policy today. If somebody is working on this I'd like to know about it.
You do not understand this correctly:

> [Asyncio] provides infrastructure for writing single-threaded concurrent code using coroutines, multiplexing I/O access over sockets and other resources, running network clients and servers, and other related primitives.
They end up going to private corporations like Booz Allen, then the government ends up contracting these companies in the private sector lol.
"I mean you might get a few people who are willing to commute 4 hours a day, but certainly not enough to satisfy SV's needs. I doubt a company would pay their janitorial staff enough to live there without being forced."

Of course they would if they had to --- supply and demand. Do you really think companies would not find a way to solve the "my office is a pig sty" problem?
I think it's naive to expect email to be replaced any time soon. Despite all the attempts over the years, it remains and persists. There are essentially no major ongoing efforts to replace it by any of the big players, which is what would be required.

IM is not a substitute and never will be.
Traffic isn't even close to a good analogy. Because traffic isn't anything but an objectively bad thing.

Sure the same pattern of induced demand may occur with housing development, but induced demand in urban development a bad thing? There is evidence that if actually accommodated that induced demand over the last half century, instead of suppressing it, that our national economic growth would have been 50% higher than it actually was.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w21154
If one of the secrets you see is the contents of a buffer containing a password, it might then be a privilege escalation.
Isn't the vacancy rate simply a (literal) combination of supply and demand? So it being the only factor that matters in pricing seems like a truism, but obviously a lot of factors go into both supply and demand.
A technical deep dive on Meltdown. Does it actually work?
On Windows with the numpad: Alt + 0151 (en-dash is Alt + 0150)
> but at least SELinux and related software still give users the rope needed to hang themselves if they're into that sort of thing.

How’s that not possible on macOS too?
Would people be ok with advertisements and price being segregated by race back in the 80s? They say they don't use race as a feature, but the variables they do use could easily be correlated with it (e.g. location). The only reason people doesn't seem to be more outraged by this, as far as I can tell, is that 1) the fact that it is going on is hidden on obscure tech blogs with a high barrier to entrance, 2) there is little incentive to speak up. Every generation has some moral blemish "hidden in plain sight", that a generation or two later will have been exposed and made taboo. Is this not such a thing? I'm not courageous enough to do say something about it, but someone aught to.
This is a massive misconstruement.

There's no "cache://" "protocol". This is simply Google's search query parser being extremely forgiving with "cache://" vs "cache:", which is the correct syntax (as documented on various sites on the internet).

When you type "cache:" or "cache://" into Chrome (FF not tested) you'll see the top result it's about to execute is a search. It just sends the string to google.com.

If you go to google.com manually and input "cache:www.example.com" as the search query, you won't get a results page, you'll go directly to the cached page.
When business insider mentions something that's not a quote, it's almost always wrong.
The intel CEO took over in 2012 - some of these vulnerabilities go back as far as the Pentium Pro (Meltdown) and the other one, effects (I believe) as far back as the original Pentium (Spectre) - why would you fire someone for something that happened under a predecessors leadership (Andy Grove, in this case was CEO when the Meltdown attack was added) - it makes no sense - I see nothing here that doesnt jive up with similar efforts with other bugs.
> Most email users get their email from a website.

I'd argue thats not the case. Business users are likely still using outlook/etc. Personal users are likely using their smart phone for email.

Also by what standard is pgp "the most popular". Its popular with technical people sure, but there is fuck all support in commercial mail clients. S/mime is supported, and due to ca roots, doesnt require you keep using the sams private key - you could use a new cert every 3 months ala LE if you wanted
Apple will likely prefer a refund/exchange to paying for customer medical bills.
iOS, type two hyphens and it gets auto-created
Are there any plan to have sharding mechanism implemented on the blevesearch?
IMHO it should be on the application level, but having this on blevesearch would be good.

Regarding segments based approach like lucene, means we will need to do segments merging which in my experience quite resource intensive. I don't actually know how blevesearch handles this prior segment based approach.
I was talking about the feature request thing, I like how clear it is about the add on services.

I just deeply dislike crypto. I feel that it's not doing it's job as a currency, and I don't like the hype around it.

It's great that your project is open source. It's also cool that you have some stuff to crunch with it.
Can you connect the dots for me? Why is the prevalence of two-earner households driving the gravitation towards bigger cities?

Here is one perspective on "why urbanization" -
https://graylinegroup.com/urbanization-catalyst-overview/
Eugenics doesn’t inherently lead to human rights violations.

You can define better genes objectively by looking at genes of people that live the longest and with the least health issues. Natural selection is poor at selecting for traits that lead to longevity.
And decades earlier, when metal helmets were issued to soldiers, head injuries in war increased dramatically.
Show HN: Hacker News – Saw It Last Time
I'm guessing something like this already exists, but I made a chrome extension to hide posts from the first page of the News/New/Ask/Show tabs that were there the last time the tab was loaded.

If I can't break my habit of reloading HN every 15 minutes, at least I can eliminate having to scan stories I've already seen.

https://github.com/rmb177/hn_saw_it_last_time
I agree entirely. But I think what you'll find underneath a lot of complaints about housing prices is the desire for neighborhoods to remain in exactly whatever state they were in on the day the person you're talking to moved in.

What is the correct density? It's the exact density that existed when I bought in. That's what people -- incumbents, I mean -- are really saying.
You made me really happy with this comment. I have Tron (and Dad's Vic-20 of course) to thank for opening many doors. Boards of Canada, newer music but puts me right back where it all started. Almost like Tron
What we talk about when we talk about a brokered convention (2016)
Possibly Sonarqube Nexus. The Java devs at my workplace use Sonarqube along with Jenkins and Maven on the same server. I believe they communicate through the shared directory on the file system.

(Pet peeve: another product named "Nexus". Please choose original names for your software.)
Lingering effects of the great recession.

There is a very strong and well studied relationship between unemployment, economic stress, and drug abuse. These are people who are depressed (clinically, economically, or often both), and they are self medicating.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/joblessne...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3935688/

Unfortunately the media-driven obsession with this topic is focused on everything other than the underlying problems driving the abuse, which is a guaranteed way to never solve anything.
I'm not saying density is a solely bad thing like traffic, I'm suggesting traffic and high prices both are part of feedback loops (traffic is bad :: high rent is bad), and this is exacerbated when in geographically constrained areas. Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, etc, have unlimited sprawl which helps keep both the traffic and costs down, since the regions can be less centralized. LA, SF, NY do not, and none of them show a good example of "higher density -> lower prices." Instead, the most dense parts of them are the most expensive, fitting the feedback loop model I'm suggesting.

That could very well be because growth in demand has outstripped increase in supply without any sort of feedback relationship, but that itself raises interesting follow-up questions. Is rapid growth undesirable for everyone not directly benefiting from higher salaries from the growth, which is probably most people? Do developers have an incentive to keep growth in supply lagging, since it means they can get a lot more return on investment for what they do raise funds to build? Even for homeowners, your property values go up, but so does everyone else's, so you're not relatively any better off/able to upgrade. What are the political implications of that, if so?

In the past, productivity was not so concentrated in a handful of cities, making me skeptical of that linked model. Big confounding factors there in the death of industries across most of the country happening at the same time as increased global prominence and money concentrating to more and more first-and-second-tier cities.

What that sort of model also misses is that you have at least as many people preferring low density to high density as the reverse (based on empirical trends in the post-car US), and you also have a lot of people who won't be happy with a solution to job distribution that's just "pull up your roots and move to a better city, sorry." It doesn't seem to result in constructive policy recommendations that have a snowball's chance of being welcomed.
Do you need to know computer science to write code?
My particular interest is in OpenBSD, which was not included.
I used to be an em dash over-user but have calmed down quite a bit in that department over the last several years. My current idée fixe is the archaic ellipsis as (over) used by Céline . . . I just can't bring myself to go with the single character scrunchy version.
Another post from today, really laying out the math behind hi-res FSD being a bad joke.

http://www.kguttag.com/2018/01/06/magic-leap-fiber-scanning-...

Key point...

Thus the fiber needs go 10.17 meters X 240/sec = 2,400 meters/sec. For reference, the speed of sound is a mere ~343 meters per second (varies with temp and air density) so the fiber has to average about 7 times the speed of sound and because it is accelerating and decelerating back to zero at each end, it has to have a peak velocity of greater than 14 times the speed of sound!!!!!
Is there a way to measure “Life expectancy of people most similar to you”?

Seems like that would be a more meaningful metric for an individual, rather than lumping them in with every drug addict.
gerber paraframe mini
May I ask why this comment gets downvoted... without getting downvoted?
>who has bought an "unaffordable" house is now in on the con,

Yep, people are using houses as investments instead of just places to live. When a person is invested in something they will willingly engage in behavior that leads to harmful outcomes to everyone, even themselves long term.

A corollary of this is summed up in this famous statement

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Sinclair
Machine learning APIs are too expensive