skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your notion of “supply and demand” doesn’t allow for the predicates to the problem: new buildings are regulated through zoning and permits.

While life might be simpler with your model, it doesn’t fit reality well.

Here’s a decent analysis of the California situation with mismatched supply and demand and the headache that goes along with the state’s governance: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-home-prices-20170725-s...
If you do use jekyll and gitlab, I made this jekyll plugin that does it for you (if you'd rather have something in-ecosystem than an npm package) -> https://github.com/JustinAiken/jekyll-gitlab-letsencrypt
IC Packaging Challenges for 2018
I've mostly been accomplishing it with the soylent. Trying to eat less meat to be more environmentally conscious, but also because I think meat production is, in general, a bad thing™. Moral issues aside, it seems like such a wasteful and problematic way to produce food.
Please don't point people to Webmd; it's a horrible adware and privacy suck -- 33 trackers on the first page alone, and there are 3 pages.

Use noncommercial sources instead, e.g.

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/adult-mmr-vaccine-guidelines#...
I'd be more convinced by the argument that swap shouldn't be thought of as slow RAM if the author addressed the fact that it's generally known as 'virtual memory'—and it has been since at least System 370, so it's not simply a later misconception: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~stjones/proj/vm_reading/ibmrd2505M... . Instead the article just omits the term 'virtual memory' completely, and pretty conspicuously.

I also think that a convincing case for swap would have to discuss the concepts of latency, interactivity, and (soft) real-time performance, things that largely weren't to the fore in the salad days of the 370 family or the VAX. Virtual memory is the TCP of local storage.
Software engineering does not consist of preparing for and then giving short/intense performances.

Plenty of fields do - performing arts, film, trading, etc. all involve some form of short, intense, expensive activity to which you show up prepared and work in a burst of superhuman activity. But software isn’t like that at all - you get a problem and you dig into it, mull it over, research, etc. at your leisure until it’s done. We’re novelists, not actors.
Is this using homomorphic encryption ?
Where are people getting kitchens that will fit multiple dishwashers? Even in my oversized Midwestern house, I'd be giving up a significant amount of storage space to rip out the cabinets to put in a second dishwasher.
Hi HN,

Lucky is a web framework written in Crystal that helps you build web apps quickly, catches bugs for you, and runs incredibly fast.

This article explains how actions and routes are built to catch as many bugs as possible and help make development easy.

Let me know what you think :)
It was replaced with a new contract via a hard fork. Doing so was the right move, by far, but purists loathe the move.
I hate the interviews as much as anybody... but really I wish that kind of instruction had been a bigger part of my college curriculum. Yea, we had data structures classes, algorithm classes - but none of them really made me good at any of them. Not like how math classes makes you good at the math, by forcing you to solve problems over and over, until it becomes nearly instinctual.

I've actually become a better programmer by practicing interview problems, because they ultimately are a bit like the arithmetic involved in solving more large scale problems.
Yes, Netflix is pretty bad when it comes to connecting to Chromecast
We are talking about machines but during my last trip to Japan I’ve been blown away by the domotic present in the appartment I rented. There was a self-filling bathtube that I could program directly from the kitchen.

Is there any « bathtube auto-fill/alexa » product in the US? I never been able to find something like that. I’d like to be able to ask alexa to prepare my bath while I’m cooking.
Sure. Nuclear security is a broad area and it can mean a whole lot of things, but mostly it means more to do with non-proliferation and defense against and response to nuclear threats on a technical level and less the mechanics of training people what to do in the event of a detonation. It'd usually fall into the spectrum of nuclear engineering, though it can be pretty multi-disciplinary (e.g., my educational background is in nuclear engineering, applied math and CS).

In my case I'm in research; specifically I develop algorithms for locating radioactive sources using sensor networks distributed through a city. My educational background focused heavily on non-proliferation and nuclear forensics. One of the things we studied in my graduate career was how to optimally sample fallout in the immediate aftermath of a detonation based on predicted dispersal in order to get the best quality samples (for forensics work) while minimizing the risk to first responders. Spent a decent chunk of time learning about all the sorts of dangers you expect from a nuclear detonation.
Nature doesn't force animals to stand in their own shit for their entire life in cages that don't allow them to even turn around.

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missin...

Watch this and get back to me about cruelty.

https://vimeo.com/209647801
This reminded me of Tradewave back in 2014, any idea what happened to it?
Awesome, I also made a sub because I didn't see anything out there focused on more technical dev type stuff https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockchainDevs/
Walmart Officials Plan to Cut Thousands of Jobs Through Store Closure Automation
I phrase this as "incentive alignment". Every stable system aligns incentives with its continuation.
If you're trying to confirm that flat panels are better (anecdotally) than CRTs, I'm not 100% sure I follow your logic here, because:

- Most CRTs, generally, could operate at 75Hz on the low end and upwards towards/beyond 120Hz on the high end if set in the system settings

- Most flat panels default, and may be capped, to 60Hz (unfortunately including the one I'm on now) and only in recent history do they have relatively expensive options boasting 120Hz
Check r/excel and youtube - excelisfun.
How did you eventually diagnose the bug? I sometimes wonder if something like that might be the cause of some issues.
Towards a Galactic Positioning System Based On Pulsar Observation
Nice, really fast and simple!

One thing which bothers me though is the whitespace in the rows. How about using css to collapse the white space like bootstrap4's card-columns:

https://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/components/card/#card-colu...
I live in Seattle, and couldn't agree more! I think it's reprehensible that there hasn't been more done by our current Congress, the Executive branch, and the Washington state legislature to prevent such disastrous accidents as the recent release of Atlantic salmon around Puget Sound.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/puget-sou...

I'm glad to see that parts of the government, specifically one of our US Senators, Maria Cantwell, and some folks in Washington state's legislature, like Kevin Ranker from Orcas Island, are doing the right thing on this issue. Cantwell, being in the minority party in the Senate, can't do much more than angrily issue press releases, and Ranker, being in the majority party in the Washington state Senate, is doing as much as he can—i.e. introduce legislation.

https://www.facebook.com/senatorcantwell/posts/1994659154144...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/puget-sou...
> What software development skills will be most useful in a post-apocalyptic world?

At the moment of writing this, North Korea alone is not able to bring about the kind of total apocalypse people are thinking when they talk about "post-apocalyptic world". Assuming China joins in (thought I am unsure why they would, unless US strikes first), according the Wikipedia they have 260 warheads [1], which is enough to bring about a massive catastrophe but I am not convinced that the result would be total collapse of civilization.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_weapons_of_mass_dest...
A weird aspect of CES is that it's THE trade show that blows up outside the US on developing countries. News programs send people to report on what is absolutely certainly the future and coming up if they were to be believed. I've always found it surprising, as no true disruptors are revealed there, and every year it seems to get worse as the article notes.
HN has a counter measure: vouching. So if something gets flagged, people who think it doesn't deserve to be can counterweight it with a vouch.

I am old and cranky and at a point where I would rather see more of that than more off topic pissing and moaning about what one or two individuals would like to see or not see here. It's lots of sound and noise, but no real action. I am suggesting they take action because my experience suggests that's both more effective and more satisfying.

But, then, in some sense, I am being a hypocrite. I probably should have just flagged and downvoted their off topic, annoying comments rather than trying to make suggestions.

So, whatever.
At 10% efficiency you'd still be dumping out around 45 watts of heat in your pocket. We'll just need some aluminum pants for the heatsink!
Actually my mother (age mid 70s) who grew up on a farm has said to me many times over the years her family only ate meat on Sunday. They were not vegetarians or some weird cult it was the way people were it was a normal way to eat.

Traditionally or historically (?) fish isn't seen as meat. And not just for religious reasons. My guess is people saw them as so different from land animals they were not classed as meat in the minds of our ancestors.
To expand on that: “Rent” is a term of art in economics that means a “payment to an owner or factor of production in excess of the costs needed to bring that factor into production” [0].

Economic theory shows that in a perfectly competitive market the price of a good equals its marginal cost of production. So prices above marginal cost demonstrate either a lack of competition in the market or other deviations from the theoretic ideal that give producers what economists call “market power”, the ability to charge higher prices for a good than they should be able to charge in a market in which many producers compete to sell more or less indistinguishable items.

Financing costs and all other costs are included in this calculus, so economic “rents” (as a term of art) in the context of the rent charged on homes and other real-estate means something like “excess profits due to a dysfunctional market”; in this case the dysfunctionality of the market is largely the result of regulation that prevents local supply of housing to rise to the level of local demand.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent
You could say the same about most symbols in words that are used in English but that are not from English. Your point doesn't stand.

Edit: I.e. it doesn't make it a reason not to use it. Even in English there are many sounds that are not pronounced how they're written. We still take the effort to put the 'w' in 'sword', but most will say 'sord'.
I created an blockchain education site: https://coursefriend.com/

I'm also working on a more general discussion / Q&A site for blockchain/decentralization topics that will launch soon. I am trying to scratch my own itch of wanting more interesting and informed online discussion/news on dApps and decentralized protocols. This stuff can be hard to grok so finding a good community is important.
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What question does the exit code answer? Are there any errors? No (0) there are no errors.

The concept of using 0 to mean false is not new to javascript is what I was getting at.
Speculation is not based on the market of people who want housing. Speculation is based on the price of housing going up consistently. Vancouver had the issue where many buildings were sold and kept completely empty. They were investment vehicles because the market was always going up. It wasn't to do with "how much you can make in rent" it was being able to invest large sums of money in a property.
The last two places I've interviewed and was turned away would have loved a "software engineer" who had taken this class. I am a typical developer, I can get shit done but there are rough edges I have because I'm human. I think, interviewing in general is tough for me and when there's a set way of showing your abilities comes up, I'm not great at presenting that.

My github is active, I work on things that a potential employer as well as fellow developers would be interested in and I also am trying to grow by showing bad, good, and some code that I'm very proud of on my github. But, the thing I noticed at the two aforementioned interviews was that they hadn't even taken a look at my github.
No country is going to risk that for two reasons in the current global context.

First, everyone will assume the payload is nuclear. Once the launch is detected, literally no one is going to even consider for a single moment that the missile might have a conventional payload. All actions, responses, and threat assessments are going to treat it as a nuke. If you're going to launch ICBMs at people, you might as well mount a nuke to it because the rest of the nuclear club is going to respond as if you had.

Second, the alert was for Hawaii. Given their isolation (they're over 7,500km from Korea), that means the missile is an ICBM. The Hwasong-15[0] can carry an estimated ~1,000kg payload, though it's unknown if it could do so for its full range.[1] That's tiny for a warhead. Mounting it on an ICBM, even if your country doesn't get blown to hell after launch, would just be a waste of money. The same goes for SLBMs as well. The only exception would be for precision strikes, but that's not really relevant to NK.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwasong-15

1. http://allthingsnuclear.org/dwright/nk-longest-missile-test-...
Not all that familiar with Rust's history or anything but why would he leave to work on Swift at Apple? He creates a language which is getting a huge amount momentum and praise around it, and decides to do something else? Must have been a lot more money, because a situation like that don't come up very often.
See this article on font rasterization [1] for a primer. The software used makes a big difference.

[1] http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.h...
There aren't really "networking events". It's a community of like-minded people that aren't particularly eager to add more people to the community that aren't also like-minded.

That aside, they can be fairly inclusive.

I got involved in the community in 2002. I was a typical dot-com nerd. I'd been doing some amateur rocketry events in the black rock desert and had heard about Burning Man. Eventually, I decided I had to go. Got introduced to a group of people that had a camp, they discovered I was terribly useful (I could weld, machine, fix electronics, repair generators, build things, etc), and the rest was history.

I went, met a tremendous number of people, cultivated lots of friendships and from there became privy to all the other inter-related things happening in the bay area, including the kinds of parties described above. The debauchery I've had the opportunity to participate in is quite extensive.

Be useful, be nice, be non-judgmental, go meet people, get involved, do stuff, become part of the community and you'll enjoy similar opportunities.
Forget about what the RFP ranks as important criteria, the only thing that really matters is Amazon's ability to hire 50,000 high-end tech industry workers (from new grads to seasoned tech executives). There is only one location in the world that can supply this kind of tech talent without draining the rest of the ecosystem and that's Silicon Valley (not including SF or Oakland here).

Google is already planning it's future growth in downtown San Jose (8 million square foot "Google Village"), Adobe is expanding it's downtown SJ presence with a fourth tower, Apple and Microsoft are planning new campuses in north SJ, and Amazon is already expanding it's South Bay presence significantly. As more companies look to expand to urban, transit oriented sites, Downtown SJ will emerge as a premier location for tech company HQs.
I mean the notion of "exactly" is nonsensical in so many ways, especially when it comes to thinly traded exchanges. I can sell $1 to my friend for $1.10 break the US dollar. Lol.
Depends on which brain regions you want to acquire signals from (usually based on the literature), but generally yes, you need to sample from a "sufficient" number of places (one of my fmr colleges has a lead reduction paper coming out this year that will talk about this).

But keep in mind here, using eeg (and beamforming) is still way cheaper and accessible than any fmri machine, though as far as having the skills to implement such, I think it is out of the reach of most labs who do this sort of research.

Electrodes are even getting better[0] wrt cost and actual ease of real world usage (dry/non gel needed/comfort).

[0] http://doc.ml.tu-berlin.de/bbci/publications/GroVoiFaz11.pdf
Maybe, or maybe people just need to be less clever with their code?
Big Clive had a reasonably comprehensive video on UV sources and some of the dangers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpRMud6EFtE
​Major Linux redesign in the works to deal with Intel security flaw
Hidden Moving Target Defense in Smart Grids (2017) [pdf]
Can't read the article due to ad blockers.

But going by the headline: Huh?

Siri is usually able to do something reasonable with requests I throw at it. Alexa -- almost never. I have a Dot at home, and it's good for getting a weather report and reciting the digits of pi. Otherwise, it's usually clueless.

Can someone please explain the hype?
Have a family of 7 and get back to me on that one.
Edit: not trying to be snarky but a use case for a single person or small family breaks down quickly when you have young kids and have special diets(that require an entirely different set of dishes) then you can see where automation is useful.
Study: Dietary trehalose enhances virulence of epidemic Clostridium difficile

Citation: J. Collins, C. Robinson, H. Danhof, C. W. Knetsch, H. C. van Leeuwen, T. D. Lawley, J. M. Auchtung & R. A. Britton. Nature 2018-01-03 online.

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25178

DOI: 10.1038/nature25178

Abstract: Clostridium difficile disease has recently increased to become a dominant nosocomial pathogen in North America and Europe, although little is known about what has driven this emergence. Here we show that two epidemic ribotypes (RT027 and RT078) have acquired unique mechanisms to metabolize low concentrations of the disaccharide trehalose. RT027 strains contain a single point mutation in the trehalose repressor that increases the sensitivity of this ribotype to trehalose by more than 500-fold. Furthermore, dietary trehalose increases the virulence of a RT027 strain in a mouse model of infection. RT078 strains acquired a cluster of four genes involved in trehalose metabolism, including a PTS permease that is both necessary and sufficient for growth on low concentrations of trehalose. We propose that the implementation of trehalose as a food additive into the human diet, shortly before the emergence of these two epidemic lineages, helped select for their emergence and contributed to hypervirulence.
I disagree that Airbnb is not one of the causes of the shortage.

As of 2011 there were 306,105 renter-occupied units in Metro Vancouver (http://www.metrovancouver.org/services/regional-planning/Pla...)

As of April 2017 there were an estimated 5,000 units on Airbnb (https://www.straight.com/news/943456/average-airbnb-prices-a...),
but unclear if that's Metro Vancouver or a greater area.

The City of Vancouver estimates that 1,600 rental units could be returned to the rental supply (http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2017/11/14/vancouver-...).

The vacancy rate was 0.9% as of Nov 2017 (https://www.biv.com/article/2017/11/metro-vancouver-rental-v...).

So, let's do some rough math:
306k units * 0.9% vacancy rate = 2,754.

So Airbnb is holding up somewhere in the range of 50% - 100% of the vacancy rate of units in Metro Vancouver. It isn't a giant number, but if they were released back onto the market, that's a significant amount of stock to be available for renting, and I'd expect would relieve some upward pressure on rent prices.

That said, I don't disagree that there are other causes too, such as zoning, lack of many new builds until the last 10 years, and empty apartments. But my hunch is that Airbnb is a bigger factor than empty apartments, and a lesser factor than zoning/builds.
"When you place an order at the market price that gets filled immediately, you are considered a taker and will pay a fee between 0.10% and 0.25% for BTC books and 0.10% and 0.30% for ETH books.

When you place an order which is not immediately matched by an existing order, that order is placed on the order book. If another customer places an order that matches yours, you are considered the maker and your fee will be 0%.

When you place an order that gets partially matched immediately, you pay a taker fee for that portion. The remainder of the order is placed on the order book and, when matched, is considered a maker order. The fee is 0% for that part of the total order."

https://www.gdax.com/fees/
But we're talking about robots, right? Mechanical devices that are constructed, not human beings of any sort.

It seems like the appropriate analogy would be something like a drug or a video game. I would claim it is unwise in the extreme to allow a robot with emotional-influencing abilities/programming to first calculate one's "best interests" and then go about imposing those best interests without getting overt, conscious go-ahead from the user.

Of course, even with human beings, you want to interact with people who have an intention to be good to you and whose idea of "good" is somewhat in accordance with your own ideas of good, otherwise you get nuts and cults and so-forth. With robots, devices which function imperfectly and which we don't want just imposing their "values" on society, jeesh, obviously, one wants tight control what concept they have of "best interests" along with tight control on what sort of influencing they do.

The inability of people to see human-robot interactions as rather distinct from human-human interactions, just makes the situation more urgent.
Wear and tear. Psychologically not wanting "other people" to have occupied your property.

Basically if you have a lot of money, the marginal extra income isn't worth the headache.
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The companion robots were there last year too (in Sands IIRC). They were also working when I passed them .. singing a creepy old McDonald had a farm. I spoke to a rep and she said kids can get rough with these things so they are targeting seniors. Yeah.. I dunno about this one.

Cruzr was a big robot from a Shenzen company. I really liked it. I have seen Jibo in action .. the Cruzr I saw had a personality that surpised me!

I thought there was another laundry robot that won a prize. I went to a "demo time" but it wasn't a demo .. it was just a talk. They had a video from inside the robot and they were obscuring things. My personal opinion but I was very annoyed at the lack of demo (so were others) and felt they might be hiding something.

The table tennis robot was pretty awesome and so was the dobot magician. I could hardly believe that the same arm was used as a 3d printer, a lazer engraver and a paint brush.

Some of the VR stuff I saw was disappointing. The pimax guys were running the Blu demo .. what a horrible demo to show case their tech. I couldn't tell a difference between it and my oculus. I tried the HTC vive pro at the Intel booth and it was decent (I was able to clearly read text). But what blew me away was the Sansar VR demo.

I was stupid and skipped the Intel wireless headset demo .. kicking myself over it. Saw a bunch of engineering demos that were very cool.