skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has more to do with urbanization/centralization than with spending habits. A handful of firms headquartered in global cities are increasingly eating the world; this is making those cities expensive by increasing the importance of living in one of them.

All the San Francisco complainers could likely find living-wage jobs and houses in what's left of America's small towns and stagnant cities, and choose not to. You're right. But IT jobs only exist in Middle America because the Bay Area and Seattle cloud companies haven't gotten to them yet. If you want to be on the forefront of your industry and on the right side of history, you probably need to do it from a place where homeownership is growing further and further out of reach to mere professionals.

In those cities, the few thousand dollars a year you could save by cutting the restaurant meals and travel don't make a meaningful difference in your ability to amass as $200k down payment or plop down a $1m cash offer (increasingly necessary to win a bid).
Although it is an emergency room, a lot of people still turn up when it's not an emergency. It's heavily triaged. If you seriously need attention RIGHT NOW, you will get it. It's not like people are sitting in waiting rooms and dying in the meantime.
This is because Google removing youtube app from Fire devices.
Yes I agree it's rather harsh. I had originally written "mouse children" but googling showed the other term was more prevalent.

It's not something you call a child, but refers to the high rate of micro-ecephaly in that region, and the consensus seems to be it that it is caused by inbreeding.
That's...a little disturbing.
>whereas previous generation had to start earning their life around 16

The previous generation had access to vastly more efficient and heavily taxpayer-subsidized public universities, and could pay for them with typical teenage part-time jobs. Universal high school came on the scene in the 1940s. I'm sure there was a generation that had to earn its life starting at age 16, but it was more than a couple of generations ago.
I think that's because it's been affecting a fairly large number of people (compared to the number of perpetrators) over a fairly long period of time. I think it's also because it's public enough that the police are worried about the message that would be sent if they didn't seriously try to stop it.
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In the current climate, I'd suggest approaching such data with a pinch of salt. Historically, computer work originated in Electrical Engineering field. Dedicated Computer Science departments appeared later on. It is entirely possible that focusing on "people with Computer Science degrees in the '70s" to give a skewed perspective of the period workplace demographics.
I have the same problem, so it's not just you.
In the UK they do put K-series[0] engines into the MGB.

[0] The K-series is the descendant of the T16, which is the descendant of the M-series, which is the descendant of the O2-series, which is the descendant of the O-series, which is the engine that we /designed/ for the MGB, but never was put into the MGB before it was canceled. The O-Series instead went into a bunch of work vans and other hateful boxes instead.

So he might have sort of been right. But he was probably still a royal bullshitter.
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> I feel like virtually any long term relationship I'm in will mean significantly subsidizing someone.

I'm not divorced, but I had similar questions before my own marriage. In the end we moved forward on a more traditional basis, where we both acknowledge that we bring different things to the table, and we're OK with that (i.e. "equitable" as in "fair", but not "equitable" as in "equal").
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-23183102

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392217/Muslim-outra...

It's noteworthy that it's simultaneously socially unacceptable to criticize Pakistanis for their preference for first cousin marriages, despite the undeniable harm caused by it, and yet it's also socially unacceptable for whites to have the much less incestuous preference for just marrying other whites, despite the absence of harm:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...
If you that in the intention of targeting german citizens (or all people of the world), yes, that could lead to a court assuming jurisdiction.
I don't think it's Amazon decision to not allow Prime video on the google chromecast devices - it's available of consoles, Roku and other 3rd party devices.
it's a different Pierre Menard than the author of the Quixote.
I assure you I have not flagged (repeatedly, abusively, or otherwise!) your posts in any way. In fact, HN would not allow a new user to do so, only high-karma users have the option of downvoting/moderating.

I do not avidly follow discussions about social issues or relatives, marriage, or any combination thereof, and therefore do not wish to confuse my comment history on the main nick. I felt I had some knowledge to share on the matter and so created an account to share it.

I do not believe my actions are abusive or dishonest in any way, I simply wish to distance myself from the discussion. Once this anonymous chrome window is closed I won't even remember the password as it was autogenerated.

Also, I am not racist, and nor are my comments. Pakistan is a country, not a race. India is a country, not a race. If you mean subcontinental Asians, yes, that could broadly be termed a race. I have other throwaway accounts called nonsmellyindians, it was just a bit longer to type when making a one-time use nick.

I am sorry you are offended, and offer my sincere apologies.
I'd argue it is just different. CSS floats really only deal with square shapes, still. (I could be behind on this point, not something I've cared to do in... well, ever. :( )

Quickly googling for the example from the TeX-book of the text in a circle doesn't give anything similar for html.
When I ask myself this question, I find I'm not willing to pay for most blog articles, neither though advertising nor directly. When I follow through and forgo the information, I find other pursuits to fill the time, and these are usually more fulfilling. I feel more healthy after a morning of playing Minecraft or working on my Node app, than a morning of reading blogs and social media.
Sure, but these are two entirely different matters. Having an open, unenforced judgment against you might lead to complications, for example if the defendant happens to travel to the EU. It’s unlikely that a minor fine will be enforced by snatching the defendant at the airport, but it could at least legally an option.

Or the defendant may later open up a German subsidiary or plan on selling to a company with a german subsidiary. Things would get complicated in those cases.

So it’s important to be somewhat precise here - no enforcement doesn’t equal squashed judgment.
To put things into perspective, the plaintiffs lawyers, Waldorf Frommer, are known for shady tactics. They have built an industry of putting immense pressure on private people. They don't shy away from lawsuits because they are cheap for them and menacing for the people. They don't always win, but under the line it is a very profitable business for them; they employ about 60 lawyers.

The public broadcast made documentaries about their cease-and-desist-industry against private people. Even the German Bundestag changed multiple times the law to stop that madness, but it took many years because the christian party opposed effective changes. Now, even though the law has changed on the 13th October 2017, they continue to pressure people into paying.

Some courts are heavily in favour of them, most notably the Amtsgericht München. This makes the situation even worse for people who cannot afford to appeal a judgement even though they are convinced they are not guilty, because the financial risk is too high. I would not be surprised if the judgement in this case gets overthrown in a higher court.

The defendants german lawyers, WILDE BEUGER SOLMECKE, are known for legal defense against Waldorf Frommer. Personally, I don't trust them completely because they offer an all-inclusive legal defense package that is conveniently priced at 2/3 of the value Waldorf Frommer asks for. This industry is a huge employment scheme for lawyers.
A lady engineer told me something similar, that she got into CS because as the only female she immediately became cool. Seems like a smart move. A sizable portion of the CS class will go on to become reasonably wealthy, and a female engineer will have her pick due to the lack of competition.
As a male in his early thirties, who have been to several OKCupid dates, I can tell you that you are in a minority because you seem not to care much about your partner's earning power. Among the women I've met in those dates, at least 1 out of 3 will start conversation to find out how much I make in the first two or three dates; almost all of them will ask that question by the fifth date. I already wrote in my profile that I'm a programmer, so they could guess I make a decent amount of money. Still, they seem to be interested in finding out more about my income.

I, on the other hand, start to become very self-conscious about my income level and wonder whether it is too low sometimes. I also have a close friend whose girlfriend broke up with him after dating for >5 years because he was just a mere accountant (making just about 70k at the time) and she, after grad school, got a six-figure job as a risk analyst at a big bank. She said to him that she wanted a more ambitious man who can support her and make sure they can afford a nice house with a yard and a nice car. That's the reality most men have to deal with.
Indeed it is an unfortunate term for the large number of people afflicted by micro-encephaly in certain regions.

I originally wrote "mouse children", but then google referred to "rat children" and so I edited my comment for easier googling.
Yes, that is the correct course of action. Users with high karma will see a downvote button as well.
This is one of those areas where anecdata is misleading.

http://www.firstmet.com/dating-blog/online-dating-money-fact...

And this stays true after finding someone:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/articl...

https://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/the-inside-job/2008/05/...
Even if it is NP Complete, that would really just limit you on the size of a text for which you could find the absolute best line breaking.

Consider, the traveling salesman for the capitals of the US is easily solvable, due to the small size of the problem space. Similarly, I'd imagine the actual problem space to not be that large on line breaking.

Specifically, since line breaking is limited to the paragraphs you are looking at, this probably isn't an issue in most cases. Degenerate cases could be checked for and processing limited to not try too much.
I would think PhantomJS is still quite heavily used so having some kind of migrator to puppeteer would be useful. I’m sure people would pay $$$ for it.
I predict that there will be a rising tide of this sort of civil unrest until income inequality reverses direction.
Presumably the 'Celtic fringe' is the flip-side to the 'Protestant ascendancy' which is just a bit of neat propaganda tied with a bow to justify and perpetuate the historical into the future.
Had a wake for my father some years ago. While there was a lot of alcohol there was great comfort in the many stories that everyone had of him and had no issue in laughing over. My family always has held wakes and probably always will.
This should not be downvoted. YouTube does not have a viable competitor because serving video is incredibly expensive.

Edit: This is being downvoted as well. Downvoted is for off-topic or inflammatory comments, not for comments you disagree with. If you disagree, leave a comment and explain why!
0 dying? Doesn't it just say it increases your chance by 18%?

So instead of 1 in 170, not eating nitrates makes it 1 in 200.
I think my favorite way of trying K is John Earnest’s JS-based interpreter Ok:

http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/index.html
Usually criminals need to sell the goods they steal, now they can just use the goods.

Is this a new type of crime?
The aviation world has similar stuff. In the US, the experimental homebuilt scene is great. Lots of us (myself included) buy a kit and build and customize from there. My build is a kit from Vans Aircraft (likely the biggest of such manufacturers), but other companies sell kits and even just plans to build to your heart’s content. As the builder of record, you’re free to build and customize things like engines and avionics without being a certified mechanic.
These computers are worth millions, so it's possible they could try to sell them.
While I'm not saying the guy in college wasn't a liar, there have been many MGB conversions to a V8.

http://www.advanceautowire.com/mgbgtv8/ is just one that I know of. Though I only know because when I was younger, my parents had MGs, sadly my siblings all got one for graduation and I didn't. They figured I would want the computer more.
If only there was a monopoly. It isn't as if you suddenly can't get these device any longer.
It would be great if people started referring to classification and regression algorithms as Statistical Learning instead of Machine Learning. But then no one would write an article like this I guess.
Only if you really don't like the idea of the Internet should you advocate for that kind of thing. If every website would have to comply with every country's laws this would immediately lead to almost complete segregation of the Internet. Why should anybody take the risks of making their websites internationally available? It's hard enough to ensure that your website complies with your own country's laws. It's impossible to do that for every country.

If a country doesn't like what a website provides they are free to block it at the border, just like with physical goods.
This is neat, but sadly useless for what I'd imagine many of us have. Pictures of people we want to classify. Possibly of events.

Classifying events is often most easily done by looking at the metadata of the image, so converting to base64 just the image is probably a bad idea. (Specifically, I'd expect the date/time and possibly location data to be of help.)

Classifying the people is a helluva challenge. As someone in a family of 6, I don't think machine classification has much of a chance on getting pictures of my kids right. Especially if it doesn't have the dates on the pictures. I've seen some pictures of my oldest daughter that I would swear are my youngest son.
It may be describing Ray, but there's no way to figure that out from reading it. Ray as an entity in its own right isn't mentioned at all - I certainly had no idea what it might be, or whether "Pandas on Ray" was just a quirky name with "on Ray" being a movie reference I didn't get or something.
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How did Google employees making $250k/yr become the symbol of unfair distribution of wealth? Why not shoot at some CEO who makes $100m/yr? The Google employees on those buses are much closer in income to the typical protester than they are to the CEO.

For that reason, I say this is just senseless violence that has nothing to do with wealth inequality.
There are a number of articles on this theme from 2014. Here's one: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...
Quite an interesting presentation, but the site is pretty slow, especially with the transitions. I would click on the three dots on the first slide and export it to PDF to read it.
Export it to PDF by clicking the ellipsis symbol followed by "Export".
Because there's a concerted effort happening to point the blame at those who aren't the source of the problem.
I wrote a few hundred lines about bout a year or two ago and about 2k the last few months. It's definately gotten better and there's something in the works for most of the things I took issue with which is kind of nice but doesn't really help if you're not on nightly.

Specific pain points for me were:
- the lack of traits for numeric primitives/types without pulling in the num crate
- the difficulty working with floating point types
- the inconsistent type annotations in fn signatures
- the type annotations are a bit clunky no easy way to alias
- and auto deref mechanics especially via match statement
- having to fully specify a type in a match statement or use Self::Type
- the use mechanism makes no sense
- no optional/default arguments without macros leads to a lot of shimming/boilerplate
- having to split operations because the borrow checker can't do partials or non lexical lifetimes
- the clunky range syntax wich makes writing invertible/reversible functions really ugly and error prone due to lack of inclusive range and I really can't believe the committee decided to go ahead with ..= instead of ... It's really out of line compared to pretty much every other language is doing
- doesn't seem like there's a good way to nicely format long lines

Overall I still really like the language but I really don't see it taking off until these issues are fixed because it makes it so hard to start up.
At the cost of harming all german users. The Fischer Verlag honestly couldn’t care less - they probably like the outcome. Now even books that they wouldn’t have a legal recourse against are no longer available and must be bought. What an unexpected bonus!
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The computers are worth $3m. I'd gauge they could generate that amount of bitcoin within 18 months?

This also brings an interesting thought - will it be harder to track down those running a hydroponic lab in the future, with many houses using huge amounts of electricity on mining?
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Slashdot's back:

https://meta.slashdot.org/story/18/03/04/0428237/slashdot-ou...
Because automating homes is not their goal; profiting when others automate their homes is their goal. They appear t believe that they will make significantly more profit by selling home automation tools and the things that attach to them than by carrying some other company's home automation tools in their catalog in addition to their own.
Monopoly power can be exerted at a whole lot less than 100% of the market.
This is probably more about the BB gun(s) than anything else. These aren't deadly weapons, but police are acutely sensitive to any form of gun, deadly or otherwise, and they've got a case here where someone is regularly taking shots at these buses.
Perfect HN opportunity to open up a marketplace for said parts, especially with so many early adopters here
Why do I need all this overhead for something as simple as a button or other native form input elements?
When it comes to happiness, it is really interesting the choices people make.

Thought experiment: in an ideal world, what is the preference that leads to 100/0 split in career choice? By that I mean in an ideal world, by how much does someone have to prefer career A over career B before there is a 100% chance people choose A? At an 80-20 preference for A, surely 100% of people choose A - why would you choose B when you overwhelmingly prefer A? But what about 60-40? Of even 51-49?

Unlike say eating lunch, where you have 300 odd per year, which means you can have Thai 200 times, Italian 100 and other things the rest, given how costly most careers are to establish - University is time AND money, and progressing the career ladder is time - I think a rather small preference, closer to 51-49 than than 60-40, is going to lead, in an ideal world, to 100-0 A over B. Because why would anyone choose a lesser preference?

In an unideal world, where the cost of in income over a lifetime is large, job prospects limited and risks of failing large, preference will be negated, muted or reversed. In an ideal world, that tiny preference is going to really matter.

TL;DR Happiness is as much a measure of what you can reasonably choose from as what you actually choose.
I don't want to fix up my car, clean it, stage photos, or meet potential buyers for test drives, so I sell it to a company specialized in those activities.

In the same way, an inventor may not care to advertise his technology, negotiate licensing deals, or file lawsuits to enforce his rights, so he sells it to a company specialized in those activities.

Further, the existence of a secondary market gives inventors strictly more options than they'd have without one. Maybe no one will care to license a particular patent. Maybe it will be a long time before anyone cares. Maybe the business intending to use the patent didn't pan out, and the inventor doesn't really care about licensing it. The market can price in these concerns and still holder an immediate, nonzero payoff when he wants it. The fact that IP can have value even in bankruptcy probably makes investments and loans flow more freely to small businesses and startups.

The real problem is that anyone has an exclusive right to obvious and natural arrangements of software constructs, i.e. that the patent exists at all. The fact that it's a patent troll vs. the original inventor asserting those rights is merely an example of economic specialization.

The meta-problem is that patents are based on the idea that R&D is expensive and commercialization-minus-R&D is cheaper. But in our industry, ideas are cheap and execution at scale is hard.
Honestly that applies to most long term posters here
Using Cheerio with TypeScript types to parse data from tables in downloaded HTML files. Great tool.
Don't forget the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act, so silent cars make noise to warn pedestrians:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/follow-up-report-presiden...
Mark Blyth[1] has a simple warning: "It is a no win scenario until basically until elites figure out that at the end of the day, as I like to say to my American hedge fund friends, the Hamptons is not a defensible position. The Hamptons is a very rich area on Long Island that lies on low lying beaches. Very hard to defend a low lying beach. Eventually people are going to come for you."[2]

I encourage everybody interested in trying to prevent that outcome to listen to this[3] talk where Blyth summarizes the root cause and suggests a few reasonable steps towards a solution.

[1] prof. of political economy at Brown

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGvZil0qWPg

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsqGITb0W4A
How popular are the Mosquito ultralight personal helicopters in the aviation scene?
It's also a bet on whether Bitcoin will stay afloat for the next 18 months
FACTA, the dreaded E-8BEN form that I get to fill in every time I happen to have a US customer, copyright, see Kim Dotcom, access to emails stored by Microsoft Europe (though MS is fighting that).

Honestly, laws have always been enforced internationally, that’s why extradition treaties exist. The internet just makes it much much simpler to commit a crime on foreign soil.
In the days of slavery, it was pretty common to steal others' slaves and then use them.
If they attack the bus filled with officers, does this also stack on additional charges for assault on the police?
Now imagine if you kept encouring the same timid driver and everyone knew how to cut in front of them.
You wouldn't need a runway if you're using a helicopter/quadcopter like device, just a small landing pad (hell, you might be able to do it on a public street... but I imagine that would be a regulatory nightmare)
Agreed. Aesthetics are always subjective but to me it looks terrible.
and what is your current source of protein, after you cut of meat?
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