skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, are you seriously suggesting

This is not good faith engagement.

Second, even if it did cause an outbreak

I didn't say it caused an outbreak. I believe there are likely multiple contributing factors. But the epidemic disproportionately impacts the homeless population. For homeless people, paying 10 cents a bag is a serious hardship. Bags go from being a free courtesy item that enhances their life to yet another financial burden when money is already a serious problem. There are multiple factors that then make bags a potential vector for disease for the homeless.

The bag ban in California is aimed at injecting a facade of sustainability into the upper class lives of people who have no plans to give up their cars and big houses. It puts a big burden on people who lack either a car or a home or both. It is the people walking or taking public transit who most need a bag to carry their stuff. But, no, the US has no plans to improve public transit.

The only thing I am suggesting is that the discussion should be more nuanced. I see no reason why such a suggestion ought to be dismissed as unreasonable.
The causation here is weak to say the least.
> remember the banner ads in search engines before google came about? or how you usually had to go through ten pages of results in order to find what you wanted?

Not my memory of Altavista. Also, when I google any book ever written, I don't hit any link not trying to sell it to me, just showing me wikipedia copy, and/or trying to trick me into something completely unrelated until around the tenth page.
Unless someone is actively trying to sell the domain on sedo.com (or similar site) the best bet is to use whois to find the owner and email them, we get a few inquiries for our domains a year and we just send back a friendly "no we're not interested in selling" if that's the case. When we've asked to buy other domains, some say they're not selling and some have been willing to it to us... as with all business negotiation is next!

With other countries, sometimes nobody owns the one in question and they will have various willingness to sell it or not, with various levels of paperwork.
Unlikely; in over 40 years I have zero cavities.
"appalling", not "appealing"
The issue here is assuming that the users of said sites are their customers. They are not.

When you are selling beef, do you worry about how the cows feel about it?
The Future of Silicon: An Interview with Dr. Gary Patton, CTO of GlobalFoundries
> Also interesting, the presence or absence of necessity was not at all a factor in my usage. I elected to pay a bunch of money for what was certainly an 'unnecessary' use of an I.V. with a goal of enhancing well-being/accelerating recovery time.

When I commented about unnecessary, I wasn't commenting about the goal but the means. You get the same benefits from ORT as you get from IV rehydration[0], at lower risk, and lower cost.

> In the context of opt-in usage: not in a hospital full of sick people and disease, where provider can simply refuse to offer any service to patients if risk factors are present, with ability to pay premium market-based prices for supplies/storage since its an upscale opt-in product …

Also not in a hospital full of professionals used to aseptic procedures and products.

> I would imagine the actual complication rate from such opt-in usages are likely to be lower than would result from unnecessary uses in a hospital environment…

I would imagine the opposite.

> I still think I might opt-in to this treatment again from time to time …

Or you could use regular ORT and get the same benefits. But it's your health and money so you do you.

[0] again unless it's a case of emergency rehydration, or the patient is unable to drink, obviously
There's nothing strange about drawing a distinction. You calling it "strange" in an attempt to create controversy where there is none is uncool.
Conda is especially useful if you want to use scientific packages on Windows.
Tesla opens Model 3 orders to non-owners with reservations
I’ve always found the rise of Snapchat a bit volatile. Their main audience is bound to lose interest and move to the next cool thing. Facebook at least has a utility, so it’s not only about where the ”cool kids are”.

Like MySpace.
You just cd into your project's directory and run "pipenv shell" and it activates the virtualenv for you.
There was also a rapidly-maturing Reddit waiting in the wings.

If you have a moat, you can weather the storm after a design snafu. If you don't? @Jack, you dead.
Brian Goetz Speaks to InfoQ on Data Classes for Java
Welcome to the bright side. I've been enjoying my Chromebook with coreboot and nerf'ed Intel ME for years. It's not as hard as many of us would think.

By the way, Chromebooks are cheap and is a fantastic platform to experiment with coreboot/de-intel-ME. Acer C720s are $100 right now.

There are 2 spererate tasks: Flashing coreboot and De-blob'ing Intel ME. If you just want to try coreboot with the Chromebook, then you can do it with software and don't need an external programmer. All you have to do is just remove the BIOS write-protect screws - MrChromebox's website is a great resource. If you need to de-blob the chromebooks, then you'd need an external programmer, such as a Raspberry Pi.

As a shameless plug, I have released a tool so one doesn't have to be an electrical engineer and/or a Linux expert to flash many Chromebooks/Thinkpads with a Raspberry Pi [1]. You don't really have to have a breadboard to flash the Chromebooks like you do with the Thinkpad in the article. Also, the cool thing about it is that it prepares the image on your x86 computer so you literally don't have to configure the pi and get/compile stuff afterwards. I didn't know that the X200 needs a patch. I will integrate the x200 support into ezpi4ME so people don't have to manually patch and wait for it to compile on the Pi.

1: github.com/htruong/EzPi4ME

Edit: I noticed OP has a blog post complaining about Acer 720s having problems. It hasn't happened to me, at least with MrChromebox's firmware. I did have problem with John Lewis' firmware builds, though.
> it's a major threat to his monopolistic bosses

I don't think he's being this cynical, but in what world is SpaceX competition to Verizon et al? SpaceX's satellites won't beam Internet to your phone. They'll beam it to the towers.
This is the type of dangerous question that leads to interminable lists of laws. If there is any problem and we don't know of another solution that works as well, let's go with the one we do know. It also happens to be the easiest and we know it will work. One wonders why the same solution doesn't apply to paper that is also a serious littering problem? And it's always this same type of appeal to emotion. If you cared about the fish so much, why not just outlaw all plastics? Answer: because people only care about things as much as it doesn't affect them to solve. That's how regressive laws happen.

I could put forth a guess or two on attempts at action, but I am not familiar enough with the science to argue them wholeheartedly. But I can say the political decisions are rarely science based and more often based on perceived righteousness (which is why it's a tax and not illegal).
That's red, I think.
Physical deeds are forged all the time, and sorting it out requires a quiet title lawsuit. A stolen electronic deed would be handled similarly. You would ask a court to declare the stolen title invalid and issue a new one.
Can someone remind me how on earth is Snap's market cap US$20 billion right now?
They also have a "fun" half way house before shadowbanning, limiting your comments to X pr Y hours...
Do you know if it's easy to start using pyenv with existing projects, or should I wait until my next de novo project?
Can you please link to "per-night homeless statistics from UN" source that you mentioned? I can't not find it through a little googling.

5 million figure for Russia for example appears on wikipedia [1] where it is cited from IB Times[2]. IB Times[2] cites Homeless World Cup[3] as the source. Homeless World Cup[3] cites the original IB Times[2] article as the source for the 5 million number! This was the first number I investigated and it already seems super suspect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_...
[2] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/homeless-day-2014-new-york-manila-a...
[3] https://homelessworldcup.org/homelessness-statistics/
You should probably reconsider your trust in the face of data:

https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/02/09/a-v-safety-2018-upd...

But who cares about data, if it is all about AI singularity religion?
Automated Feature Engineering
I'd argue that disposable bags, disposable straws, disposable chopsticks, and the like are in a different category because there is a ready alternative which is not particularly onerous to use.
It probably isn't marketing for her as much as it's clickbait for bloomberg. I'm sure she doesn't mind the headlines regardless.
Apologies if I'm missing something obvious (relatively new to Python), but what's the advantage of loading it the 1st way? I'm currently using conda and do something similar to you're 2nd example `source activate conda-env && python myapp.py`
It is, for a few reasons. For one, you need to be able to detect the period of stillness, and so how certainly you can detect that time window is a function of how long it is.

Second, you need to be able to make a number of measurements from your IMU during the downtime. If you have an IMU that works at 20Hz and your period if stillness is 100ms, then you know you can get a measurement in. If your period of stillness is 10ms, then you can't.
Compared to the TV, video on the internet was not good enough for a long time.
I'm not asking for evidence, just a reasonable argument as to why people might learn better at night. Because the obvious thinking on that is, until very recently, night time meant most humans simply went to bed.
Also remember the risk of risk aversion: leading a dull, curmudgeonly life.

In general, I've found that the more you understand in detail how a technology works, the more comfortable with it you become.
I think it's because the marketing is trying to attract current crypto traders and not new people. Could be wrong though
Most of these proposals fix the blockchain by not using the blockchain.

Also, the Lightning Network will let anyone steal your money if you remain offline for more than 24 hours, which is probably not good.
You could always put the hash on the blockchain. :)
when you want to run a command 'inside' the pipenv of the current directory, do:

> pipenv run {command}

This mirrors how npm works.

There's also:

> pipenv shell

to give you a shell in which the environment is setup correctly for you
I haven't had to write python in awhile but are there reasons to use virtualenv etc. instead of a docker container?
Yes, this is an important lesson about redesigns. I saw a couple people brush off the Snapchat redesign angst with, "Meh, people will get over it", usually with links to the (admittedly accurate) Oatmeal comic about Facebook layout changes [0]. And while that's certainly the case sometimes, don't count on it as a general rule: Digg demonstrated conclusively that a poorly-received redesign can torpedo the entire company. Proceed with caution.

[0]: http://theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_winter/facebook_layout
Ask HN: Why am I not excited about big companies anymore?
I used to be very attracted by companies like Google, Apple, FB, etc. I had a chance to work in some of these companies in the past. But for the last 2-3 years I've completely disconnected from all the "exciting" things that come with joining a big name. It doesn't necessarily mean the big-5, also hot startups, YC program, etc. I am just not excited about these things anymore.

Recently, I found myself more excited about cryptocurrencies and open source communities. When I see updates from people on linkedin who just joined "hot" companies, it almost make me sick remembering how proud I was being an engineer at XYZ.

How do you feel about that?

Notes: This is not a burnout situation. Just got sick of tech companies and the culture in general.
Puppeteer has some limitations. You can’t install extensions, for example.

I haven’t looked into it, but I imagine it has a pretty clear fingerprint as well. So it would be easier to block than stock chrome in headless mode.
Not sure what tablet/browser you're using, but several have extensions to create a whitelist of sites to always open links in new tabs. I haven't tried this one in particular, but Chrome has an "Open in new tab" extension where the description actually says "Useful for websites such as hackernews where you would ideally like to open links in new tab."
Don't leave password around in SPA (2017)
Yeah, I use pip + virtualenv on most machines (and have for years), but conda is the only one that actually seems to "just work" on Windows.
I know you put launch in quotes, but just to emphasize - the internet was launched much earlier than 1989 in terms of the technology. The base technology was worked on in the 60s and 70s, and things like email were already in use in the 70s and early 80s.

Of course, digital cash has been worked on for many years too, but if you compare the bitcoin whitepaper to, say, the TCP/IP RFC, then you'd expect AOL-comparable bitcoin usage in 2030, more or less.
Google might do all those things but ads still win. Another poster put up a thought experiment about whether google would take a 50% hit to advertising revenue for an improvement in search results. The answer to that would show what Google actually is, and I believe that Google would not take the hit

Additionally google is not flat management. As much as it might feel at the moment that it's driven from the ground up, if someone higher up the chain can put the kibosh on something below them on the chain, then it is manager driven
What makes you think we'll be remembered?
In what way is NPM and package.json different from using pip and requirements.txt?
I didn't mean to complain. I respect and accept your decision to ban me. There are large parts of this community that truly aren't for me. I just wanted to say it to educate the people that the shadowban mechanics are still active, with myself as the example.
I own a small business in Venezuela. Nothing tech related, but in the food industry.

Bitcoin has been a godsend. We are able to save money again having it as hard currency. I do exchange some of my btc for dollars, using btc to help to make the transaction (Why change it? Because I respect that you shouldn't have on crypto more than you can't afford to lose).

I'm buying small amounts every day (As our currency depreciate every day as well), but it give us the chance to save and is easier and safer than buying usd in cash.

I do understand the benefits have yet to "trickle down" to the regular people (I'm after all, a business owner), but it will trickle down. Our business is safer, I can afford to raise wages and able to plan ahead (As much as you can plan ahead in a country like Venezuela).
A chatbot couldn't possibly be faster unless the website design is really horrible. Checking order status is a common use case for most online retailers and usually just 2 clicks away from the home page.
Of course, they did no such thing. Side note: will we ever have real journalists again?

They launched a pair of temporary test satellites to prove some of the concepts they plan to use. These will remain on orbit only for a short time.

I was at Vandenberg on Wednesday morning for the scrubbed launch - drat!!
>They won't take risks with technology.

Better you say taking risks with human lives, this is not a framework or app where you risk crashes and upseting customers because they lost some work, this is about human life and expensive damages.
It's a WSJ story that everyone here thought was important enough to vote up to the front page. Where else should the link go?
FWIW Clozure CL has a precise gc on x86/x64. The register usage is detailed here: https://ccl.clozure.com/docs/ccl.html#register-and-stack-usa...
Typestates in Rust
Indeed, the words "New Jersey" do not even occur in that article.

It's not clear why someone who really, really wanted more than 16 oz. of soda could not simply order two, if they want it so much they're willing to consider traveling to New Jersey. Or for that matter just go to the store and buy a 2 liter bottle of soda.
I was recently explaining this here — you still end up with a virtualenv so it's not a difference in capabilities but rather ease of use:

1. It transparently creates the virtualenv for you

2. The pipfile format handles dependencies and version locking (including hashes of packages), including updates. That means that the versions won't change without your knowledge but upgrading to the latest versions of everything is simply running "pipenv update" to have the virtualenv completely rebuilt (i.e. you'll never forget to add a dependency to a requirements file) and the lock file updated so the next time you push your code the same versions you tested are certain to be used.

3. It'll automatically load the .env file for every command – i.e. your project can have "DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=myproject.site_settings" in that file and you will never need to spend time talking about it in the future.

4. It separates regular and developer dependencies so you don't install as much on servers

5. "pipenv check" will let you know whether any of the versions of any of the packages installed have known security vulnerabilities

6. Pipfile also includes the version of the Python interpreter so e.g. your Python 2 project will seamlessly stay on 2.7 until you upgrade even if your system default python becomes 3.

None of this is something you couldn't do before but it's just easier. Every time a Python point release happens you have to rebuild a virtualenv and now it takes 5 seconds and no thought.
Batch Normalization for deep networks
Typo: It's the CBP (Customs and Border Protection). Title currently reads "CPB."

Original letter from Senator Wyden here: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden-mccaskill-e...
That is certainly a much more likely cause of the devaluing.
"We have pretty good information about 20th century events"

We don't have specific dates for when the vast majority of extinctions have happened. We have a rough idea of what the base line extinction rate was for the last million years, and we have good data suggesting that the trend has been up for maybe 10-20,000 years, give or take several thousand years. Picking a specific year, such 9,874 BC, or 434 AD, or 1965 AD, is arbitrary, and a political act.
You aren't listening to anything I have said at all. For the third time: I am perfectly a-okay with banning assault weapons. So if that is all you want, why are you arguing with me?

My example was intended to illustrate that discussion can only come when active, physical violence ceases.

And I am telling you the active physical violence precedes these incidents and I want that to stop. Characterizing the shooting as the entirety of the violence is part of the problem.
Well yes, in 1998 it was literally absurdist humor on The Onion.
pipenv is like npm for python and Pipfile works similar to package.json.
There's even a Pipfile.lock
Bruce Perens Seeks Mandatory Award of Legal Fees vs. Open Source Security Inc
Less of a pain in the ass for rapid iteration, zero overhead, fewer dependencies = less complexity.

Virtualenv is literally a set of shims in your $PATH and some tooling to manage those sets. Pyenv is the same thing, but extends the concept out to your actual Python interpreter and lets you rapidly switch between them.
Hindsight bias. It rose because of a gigantic short squeeze coupled with better than expected earnings.

>Revenue: $285.7 million versus $252.9 million estimated, according to a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate.
"While your Electron app will be tweaked to make a Cordova app that runs on iOS."

And be incredibly shitty.

If you care about your users and their experience, you won't write apps in JS to begin with.
Sarcasm marks (e.g. "/s") are another option, although I was able to get it without the annotation.
Probably around ~50ms (see https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/space...)
Quite strange it appears on this large item and not on hardly any other item in the store, especially those that are easier to shoplift. I believe it is to prevent those using government baby formula subsidies from reselling.

Edit: after reading online, I think you are probably right but it seems like a dumb deterrent and inconsistently applied.
and it is gone..
If she were to short the stock and then posted a tweet is that illegal? Or the inverse if she bought the stock and posted a tweet? It seems like some of these social influencers have a lot of power.
Or use a container.
According to the article linked, the ban was on any soda over 16 oz. rather than any particular size.
But if they eat less calories than they burn... They will lose weight...
You need to buckle up on Mathematics. Do not look at fancy stuff like PyTorch, Keras, Tensorflow, etc. Libraries and languages are a means to an end. Good, intuitive understanding of mathematical concepts behind a certain ML algorithm will go a long way. As mentioned in one of the comments, statistics shows up everywhere.
Another user pointed out that Snap released their first annual earnings report since IPO this morning, which seems a far more likely cause :)
Every time I go home to Tennessee to visit family, I’m shocked at how wasteful they are with plastic bags. If you buy a small cart load of groceries/whatever at Wal-Mart, they have a big rotating carousel of bags for the cashier to drop items into and they’ll consistently use every bag slot rather than putting everything into a couple of bags. They’ve sent me home with 6 bags before, each holding only 1 or 2 items.

I’ve had convenience stores try to give me a bag for a candy bar. It’s one item and I’m going to eat it now. What am I going to do with this bag? There’s always a look of confusion when I ask for items not to be bagged. It’s just such a foreign thing.

I’m glad that my city has instituted a bag fee and banned plastic bags. A lot of places don’t actually seem to charge per bag as they’re supposed to, but even so the number of people bringing bags is much higher now and the number of bags used is way lower. And none of them are throwaway plastic.