skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like an is ought question that is long settled: look at the credit reporting agencies. We may be doing impressive new things and figuring out how to learn a lot more about people, but who owns data on a person is a dead and buried question.
There are also a few anti-OtherLanguage protests.

For example, this is hardly "pro-OurLanguage" - http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/karnataka-raks...
Then correlate speaking with CPU usage. Processing audio is always going to have /some/ cost /somewhere/, and likely one we can detect for the time being.
Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. I'll be around to answer questions.
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Bah, UK is so small it’s easy to see how it can be a problem. America has so much land available out there, some of it is incredibly cheap the farther you are from civilization, even almost free. I think I could buy several rolling acres of land for a couple thousand bucks right now.
I didn’t say there should be no laws, just better ones.

Again I don’t think we should evict granny but there are 1 million rent stabilized units in the city. Great deal...unless you’re looking to rent.
On some further reflection, it seems that the "paid feature for free" argument could translate into "security", and thus explain Slack's strange messaging. That is so far the most logical explanation I've heard. Thanks for helping me understand!
Thanks! I do expect to continue offering sponsorships so that it can at least cover its costs. At the moment I'm just happy people are using the product and seem to like it.

If continues growing, who knows? Maybe it could become a real business. Evolving and iterating is the name of the game, right?
The density of NY is the cause of the high costs of living, making it even denser is unlikely to bring costs down long term. It would make more sense just to accept that living centrally is a luxury not everyone can afford, and instead channel the revenue away from the rent-seekers and into the hands of the public (i.e. by increasing property taxes).
Human Landscapes of Germany
Australian scientists move closer to world-beating quantum computer
I listened to the audio for a bit but gave up after coming across multiple logical fallacies.

The fundamental point, though, is that given the large variability of both genetics and IQ (or most other traits, really) within those groups commonly called "races", and big overlap between them, the group label itself is almost always of little use.
There is No Now
"upon completing the work, rented the place out for $2,900/month."
Oh my god, how is it possible for anyone to pay that much?
2800$ is about the general income / month here.
The world is maybe bigger and more diverse, than the bubble you know.

Here in germany for example, much more people have PayPal, than a credit card.

So what should those people do, if they want to use your service?
Getting a CC, just for you?
Then your service must be really good.
I am also only now finally getting one, but because of flights, otherwise I never needed one.
Show HN: Google Hash Code 2018 Simulator / Result Viewer
Agreed. And let's not forget that Airbnb isn't"the sharing economy", it's a website with images and text on it for landlords.

No innovation, just exploitation. Silicon valley.
JavaFX will be removed from JDK packages
How VCs Get Measured
WeeChat Slack API plugin (works without IRC-gateway)

https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack

Background

I'm not associated but I thought I had to share this. Since about a year back I've migrated to wee-slack for slack usage in my WeeChat IRC-client, it's also possible to use WeeChat as a bouncer through WeeChat relay (if not mistaken there's irssi-proxy:esque proxy-plugin too).

I've been a die hard irssi-fan and still use it for much of my IRC interaction and been using weechat as a irssi-like slack client. As a bonus we can use many of the features that didn't work through the irc-gateway.

You can also see a preview of my setup on my twitter

https://twitter.com/ahultner/status/923588418126348289

If you're interested of my personal setup you can find it in my dotfiles

https://github.com/Hultner/dotfiles/tree/master/cetrezMBP/.w...
Why, in China and Japan, a copy is just as good as an original
How to Make A.I. Human-Friendly
Lived in Manhattan for 6 years 2011-2017 in The East Village. Made about half that. 1 roommate. 2 bedroom. Occasionally worked a side job (tutoring) but was for extra cash more than necessity. I was working in the live music industry so I had free access to a lot of live shows around town which allowed me to save money but still do the things that make living in NYC Great.

It’s very possible.

Was kind to my landlord, and tried to fix whatever I could rather than calling her when I needed something. The goal was to have her forget I existed. Rent was raised $50 every other year which was completely manageable.
This is true, but you'll tend to get used machines (even at that price). I own a Passap 6000 as well as a single-bed machine; they're fun toys to have, definitely on the unusual side of the nerdy scale.

Various links to fun projects:

* https://www.hackerspace-bamberg.de/Passap_pfaff_e6000
* https://www.hackerspace-bamberg.de/Knitty

* http://www.kniterate.com (this is very cool, but $8000)
Hi HN,

I'd like to present you one of the project I developed recently.

After the Google Hash Code 2018 Competition, I thought I could create a "result viewer", I'm not really sure how to name it, to train my skills in Go development and because it seemed funny to do it this way.

The scores are the same as the Judge System from Google and the simulation is displayed using a graphic interface which can be disabled.

Everything, including the graphic interface has been developed in Go.

Just wanted to share it here to get some feedback !
I had the same thing happen with one of my photos of lightning in London. I actually thought my shot had been ripped off at first glance, then realised it was from a different angle.

Mine: https://www.flickr.com/photos/beechlights/2739042419/in/phot...

Alternative, from the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/earth/2515...
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If both of those are true then your concern is of the form "ANY party records audio data and sells it".

Which is why we don't want random apps having permanent mic access. Or permanent anything access. This is why data mining is bad, not just because the party doing the mining can get the data, but because they can sell it to third parties who combine it in unexpected ways to leak data that you really don't want to be public.
Wow, that's very true!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/07/16/germans...

Only 32% of Germans even own a credit card. The average German uses on only 39 times a year (I use mine that many times a month or more).
[I felt like I was playing "Find 8 differences between these pictures" on the comics page]

I looked at the large images. Gendon's appears to have been shot slightly earlier based on two differences. 1. The crest of the background wave at the left is horizontal in Gendon's photo and turning down from photo left to right in Risman's. 2. The trough in front of the breaking wave has reached the front of the light house in Gendon's photo exposing a sunlit rock at the lower left of the low circular structure.

A rock broke wave is most photogenic at the moment of maximum spray extent. The water is at lowest velocity and the gestalt shape is briefly frozen...then gravity dominates and the moment collapses. The shape of the spray is the second most stable element in the scene. While it is the defining photographic moment, it is not clock correlated down at the millisecond level.
This is chemical engineering class 1 lol. Unless your going to build a block of flats the cost of design is going to outweigh the savings. I make it O(£50) p.a. just not worth it (assuming 50l per day heated 20C)
I...never noticed that before. That's super annoying. Must be something with the template, thank you for pointing it out!
Apple Employee Threatens to Leak User’s iCloud Data
The next generation of technological progress has to be an answer to these questions.

Google and Facebook (and similar companies) have killed innovation with their monopolies and in order to break their monopolies new technologies must be invented that disrupt their business models.

It is interesting to see the NY Times advancing such avant garde ideas but it is good to see rising social consciousness of the limitations of current technology.
To your later point: I never played FTL, but a pixel-art turn-based kaiju-killing tactics game was just too awesome to pass up.

And it runs perfectly under Wineskin on my Mac :)
It's most likely written to the lay-person who is interested in science, not the scientist in the field.
The media portrayal of the tech world would be more impactful if it weren't so hyperbolic, dramatized, and skewed. There are myriad valid complaints about the tech world, but Facebook paying you for you posting your photos is not one of them.

Facebook is free. Google search is free. 15gb of gmail/google drive is free. You get those free, truly amazing services for nothing because the companies found ways to generate value from the data being gathered. The cost to maintain that infrastructure and provide those great services is pretty high and has taken some brilliant engineers years of sweat. (I don't work for either so I'm not tooting my own horn, just giving credit where I believe credit is due)

I think as it currently stands (collect data on me and I get free 99.99% uptime, cloud available services for email, cloud drive, and social networking) is a pretty sweet deal.
This would make an interesting copyright case.
Usernames do not solve the problems described in the link:

* They're not portable. My username here is Zak. It is on reddit as well, but I think that's the only other place. If I don't discover a service within it's first week of operation, I won't get that username, and many won't allow it because it's "too short".

* They don't tap into users' existing contact lists. I've discovered several people I know using Signal because I had their phone numbers stored in my phone's contacts.

But if a new communications protocol is to replace the legacy phone network, which I consider desirable, it probably shouldn't use identifiers tied to the legacy phone network.
This is true and possibly one reason I think moons are a better bet for cosmic colonization.

Mars, venus, and mercury have next to no field, earth has a moderate field, and all our gas giants have very strong fields.

Some of the gas giant moons are attractive since the gravitational effects on the moons can create geo-thermal energy. Pair a large planet with a strong magnetic field and energy created from gravity and we might have something interesting worth exploring.

I do not think this is perfect though, due to the size of our atmosphere we are shielded from meteorites,, this might not be the case of these moons. We would need to consider making some way to protect ourselves like harvesting ore from surrounding areas. Even then this might not stop large collisions.
French Translation in Dubai
"kids learns better and faster that adults'.

Which is a misconception I'm often confronted with and irritates me quite a bit, "

Why is that a misconception?

The example you give are from people saying can't learn at all, which is something different.
It's all about consent... if you give consent that's fine.

It's when an App goes behind your back and does it (And then sells it on) then it's bad.
Thanks! That makes sense. But still: I’m talking about how to communicate when you are off. Instead of saying “I’m on PTO” people could say “I’m sick.” But they don’t. Thus Information is lost, which could be useful depending on the context
Closed-form peer review is basically a (very tight) spam filter in ML at the moment. Everyone wants the papers to appear quickly, so reviewers can't meaningfully require changes --- papers are in or out. Overall this is net better. Requiring changes leads to bike-shedding, and really long publication processes.

Most review is community review, of exactly this sort of form. So we really don't want to add a lot of politeness constraints around requesting citations.

The literature is moving so fast that authors can get away with assuming readers won't know about relevant work. If we let that thrive, we'll reward bad actors who "forget" prior work and claim novelty.
I am pleasantly surprised to see Kannada and Karnataka mentioned. I am a Kannadiga from Bengaluru. As for street slang of the city, don't ignore the copious amounts of Urdu loan words!

As you might already know, the case with Kannada is more complex. Firstly, it has high amount of diglossia. Even with all the unnecessary, flowery Sanskrit loan words removed, the spoken form is greatly different from the written form. Next, the spoken language has many many regional variants, as with most languages in the world. Further, the spoken language varies according to social groups aka caste within the regions. One could even attempt to find variations based on economic status, aka rich to poor scale, but as an amateur linguist I don't find anything particularly noteworthy to hold such a classification, and, if anything, the variation is mostly confined to the tone of speech (not same as being tonal) and a bit of inflectional oddities rather than vocabulary. In modern times, the rich tend to use more English words which muddles the matter further. Beyond all this, there are about half a dozen languages that are identified as child languages of Kannada that are mostly associated with tribal groups living in forests and mountains. I guess this kind of diversity is expected of a language which is in continuous use for nearly two millennia.

For those intrigued and interested by this, I can't give any references on the internet beyond the wikipedia page because Kannada and Karnataka are severely underrated and underrepresented in Indian historical scene. Any work of worth written in English belong to the colonial times, with 1930s being the latest. The information in this post comes from knowledge acquired by reading books published, in Kannada, by language departments of universities of the state and the literary organization, and others are from personal experiences.
Ok, now being serious, they need to include a real example here. Whenever I run a Lambda function is to process something and make a call to at least one external service. I was a .NET developer for a long time and I seriously doubt .NET Core has been improved to the point where blocking http calls are handled better than in Go runtime. I may believe .NET Core may have some performance advantages in some CPU bound scenarios, but nothing more. Until then, this benchmark proves nothing.
Gratitude for Invisible Systems
Do you know of any open-source db that folded and is still alive ? I know of rethinkdb, riak and don't know how alive they really are.
Yes, no work
40% of buildings in manhattan couldn't be built today. Seems like the standards could be lowered.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-...
For anyone who like me want to keep using slack via irc there's a solution using weechat. See my other comment for more info

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16544045
This is one of a rare coincidence.
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And here you're conflating "public facts about you" with "facts that only your cell phone / mattress / underpants / web browser know about you."

"Facts about you" falls into at least two categories: "Facts which you want and reasonably expect to remain private", and "facts which you display to the world and have no expectation of privacy about."
Turkey Threatens Exxon Mobil and the US 6th Fleet Off Cyprus
That depends on the kind of pump.

Centrifugal pumps are perfectly fine with start/stop cycles and back pressure, though not with air.
Embrace IRC. There are some excellent IRC clients, such as IRCCloud[0]. With web & mobile versions. I'm on IRC all the time, and there's still lots of good stuff there. I've been an IRC user for 15 years, and haven't lost any contacts due to arbitrary corporate decisions.

[0]: https://www.irccloud.com/
Ok I unfortunately don't have the time to listen to the whole episode, but whatever hard data is included in the text of the article doesn't look to fit the title.

> the suicide rate in Sri Lanka has dropped significantly. So, from 57 deaths per 100,000 population in ’95, it has dropped now to 17. This is a 70% reduction. So, it’s a very significant success, in fact the greatest decrease in suicide rate ever seen.

So the first thing we see is that 70% reduction amounts to the suicide rate dropping from 0.057% to 0.017%. That would still put Sri Lanka at or near the top (=most suicidal) according to Wikipedia [1], so I guess it's pretty significant; it's just that I always view relative percentages with suspicion ("we reduced the death rate by INFINITY percent!" "oh yeah you saved one life").

Second, if the rate of suicide decreased by 70% in 20 years, that doesn't mean that it can be 100% percent attributed to lack of pesticides (in fact, I cannot think of any scenario where that could be true). 20 years is a lot of time, especially in Asia, so I don't know, maybe it was just the improvement of the quality of life, or (mental) health-care? Edit: I hope the recording sheds more light on why they attribute any part of the drop to lack of pesticides...

Anyways, it's discouraging, and therefore I judge the title as "click-bait-y".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...
Istanbul taxi drivers beat up Uber Drivers
You wrote:

> it also applies to any operator or function.

I understand what you mean (that anticommutativity is a property that any binary operator might have) but it did sound like you meant all operators are anticommutative.
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I guess it is because we have a different system, called EC Card. (or does the US also have it?)
So we also pay with card mostly, just use a different system.
Summarizing, this is about decreasing the effectiveness of suicide attempts, not their rate.

About a fifth of the world's suicides are done by drinking pesticides. When removing that alternative, people turn to less effective methods. Those that fail are unlikely to try again.

Very eye-opening.
As someone that had a good one, you do anything you can to hold onto them. 1% yearly increases in a gentrifying neighborhood is awesome
PG's anti-philosophy agit-prop is always very juvenile.

The "philosophy is proto-versions of everything else" schtick is such a confused, petulant view.

Research academic analytic philosophy as practiced in contemporary universities at post-grad level, as published in journals, has nothing to do with the "philosophy" of history which meant any "thinking systematically".

(Imagine "physics" being held to account for artistotle's Physics!)

Research philosophy is metacogition, ie., the application of concepts-about-concepts to whichever concepts are of interest to a given philosopher: everything from programming to physics to art.

This isnt a proto-version or a degraded version or anyhting. Its an enitrely different discipline. Physicists do not regard cycling has some "proto" version of classical physics.

The employing of domain concepts is different to employing metacognative concepts to that domain. The latter is a whole field of independent research with its own goals, criteria, method.
Well, the article explicitly states one should use "outie" style fittings for PEX. Check the fittings figure on the last page; letter (C).
Link to the library in the article: react-vis (http://uber.github.io/react-vis/documentation/welcome-to-rea...)
thankfully, absolutely nothing else changed for this population in 20 years, so we know this is a legit controlled study
From Crown Heights and Bed Stuy (two of the neighborhoods singled out in the article) it's about a 45-60 minute commute into Manhattan via the subway -- not exactly "living centrally." Are people supposed to live 2 hours out?

> instead channel the revenue away from the rent-seekers and into the hands of the public (i.e. by increasing property taxes)

Good luck getting that passed. And while I'm in favor of higher taxes on the land-owning elite almost half of NYC's income tax revenue is made up from 1% of its residents (https://nypost.com/2014/04/15/citys-one-percent-pay-larger-i...), about 35K people making > 600K. And income tax is about 2/3 of how NYS collects revenue (https://www.tax.ny.gov/research/collections/fy_collections_s...).

Raise taxes on them enough and they move to NJ or CT and it's actually a net loss for the city.
Amazon is fixing Alexa creepy laughter
In which scenario would you use a blocking http call?
Ninja is a very specific tool that does only one thing and that only somewhat well enough, though it is fast. Even cmake has trouble employing it for certain generated file cases.
... Then, in August of this year, NSA freaked out. It was a quiet freakout, as you would expect from the world’s largest spy agency. But it made big waves with cryptographers.
Still an astrophysicist. I'm a Computer Scientist. I won't cease being one even if I change professions, I will just be whatever I become in addition to a CS.
A graph database is similar, only it uses direct-record-ids for linking connected entities and not indexes.
So instead of doing joins on indexes it follows record-pointers during graph traversals.

In the graph databases book (graphdatabases.com) there is a chapter on the internal architecture of Neo4j.
I use emacs with emacspeak for programming and a good many other things.
For pure terminal interaction outside of emacs I use a console-based
screen reader called Speakup.
For graphical applications, I use a screenreader called Orca. I don't use a
whole lot of graphical applications, but I need Firefox for most of the
"modern" web. I've also used Chrome with Chromevox over the years.

Honestly I prefer text-mode browsers when I can use them, but that ship has
mostly sailed. I've been involved with the development of edbrowse;
the author is a friend of mine.
"the copy is closer to the original than the original, for the older the building becomes, the further it is from its original state. A reproduction would restore it, as it were, to its ‘original state’"

"We might also say that originals preserve themselves through copies. Nature provides the model. The organism also renews itself through continual cell-replacement. After a certain period of time, the organism is a replica of itself. The old cells are simply replaced by new cell material. In this case, the question of an original does not arise. The old dies off and is replaced by the new. Identity and renewal are not mutually exclusive. In a culture where continual reproduction represents a technique for conservation and preservation, replicas are anything but mere copies."
Just use Google Docs.
NYC != Manhattan.

By taking residential units out of the market, affects of short term rentals are affecting rents in other boroughs as well.

NYC isn’t San Francisco. Rent control is a known quantity that has been around forever, as has been the lack of space in the NY Metro area. AirBnb and similar services bend the supply curve, hurting hotels and renters alike.

Short term rental growth didn’t create all problems, but it makes many worse.
Can you just change the clock on your PC to get it to work again?
Not to mention the webhooks. It's trivial to implement pushing data into slack.

They even give you a hello world sample curl when you opt to add the webhook. At the simplest you can just replace the hello world text and bam -- you're sending to slack. Just takes a very simple json input.
It's incredible how Customer Intelligence is powerful these days