skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My gut reaction is to dismiss the dwave for that. But, it’s still a neat piece of hardware - a quantum scale hardware neural network modeled on a simplification of brain neurons. It’s just sort of a naming collision.
Dog owners. I lost many a piece to chewing.
But the counter-evidence is that real estate investment trusts are generally flat over the last 2+ years (and that S&P valuation increases can be mostly credited to belief in a business friendly political environment).

What makes Santa Clara real estate defy that trend?
It’s worth pointing out here that that’s true for the desktop market, but as with sighted users a large portion of time for blind users is taken up with mobile or tablet computing and there iOS and VoiceOver is the dominant platform.
I also found this thread very interesting, and then I got here and thought I recognized your username. Turns out you asked to try the alpha of my own tool Cicerone (http://cicerone.co). Hi!

Cicerone doesn't yet do the kind of thing discussed here because it is originally designed to be a rich structured content editor with customizable HTML/CSS components, as opposed to a design tool. However the more I use it myself, the more I find that designing anything in CSS is the biggest PIA, and it would be really cool if I could bring a little sanity there. So I've been thinking a lot about how to do this. Stay tuned (but don't hold you breath, it'll be a while.)

PS: and if you do get around to poking around with Cicerone, do let me know your thoughts: good, bad, or random, I'm happy to nerd out on tools. Cheers Stephen.
Kubernetes Is Making On-Prem Exciting Again
Great! Thanks for the tips :)
I love the idea here, but I don't find the report very easy to read.
I agree with what you are saying:

"So right away, let us cast aside the technological protocols, that are usually referred to as “the internet”, that of which was built upon that make accessing or publishing information public between two or more machines…

Because talking about such things would require most internet users to cast aside social constructs they willingly suspend on a daily basis upon engaging with such technology/services (without any care to understand for oneself, one might add) and then demand collectively in retrospect to have their cries pacified while continuing to use such services (of which, most for free).

Yup, let us look past all that and believe (because that’s all we can do for ourselves) that institutions/organizations/companies/governments, that all consist of our fellow human beings in all of our qualities and flaws, can provide for the individual that which he chooses not to do for himself, to a satisfactory level in which his desires are forever coddled and placated." "The Banality of Privacy As A Service" [0]

[0] http://pictobar.tumblr.com/post/63785124046/the-banality-of-...
It wasn't even Satoshi who came up with the proof of work mechanism, it's from Hashcash which was invented in the 90s. What he did do though was have the good sense to connect the two concepts!
Most Snapdragons are manufactured at TSMC too. If Apple is willing to pay top dollar to buy out the earliest 7nm runs, they might have an advantage until the process scales up a bit, but historically they havent had more than 6 months or so lead. They dont own TSMC, anyone who is willing to pay can manufacture on the same process.
> That prompted me to recall Carl Berg from the prior era of the 1980s and 1990s tech boom.

Minor point: those were two tech booms, a 1980s one and a 1990s one, separated by the recession of the early 1990s. I was not around, but period books describe the early 1990s recession as impacting the technology sector fairly seriously.
I made a brief, aborted attempt at a restaurant recommendation service. We wanted to hydrate our data with existing pictures of dishes from the restaurants sourced from Yelp and/or Google Image Search. After looking at that data, I realized that a human touch to picking the right images would make a huge difference in the service.

We're talking thousands of restaurants that we wanted pictures of food from, each of the restaurants had dozens of images we could pull. So tens of thousands of images needed to be sifted through, I figured with the right tooling, myself and my cofounder could put together something really nice that would only need an hour or so of maintenance a day to keep up.

So I built a pipeline that used very basic and easy to build and maintain 'dumb' Rails asset pipeline pages to present data for sifting. Go to the endpoint, it shows you the name of the restaurant and a bunch of images, you select one, type in a name for the dish, and it saves it to the database and puts up another page of images.

It took me bitching up a storm to get him to even look at it. He complained about how long he thought it would take, while I just got to work. Took maybe three weeks to prototype our app. One thing I learned in the process is that if you're looking at a bunch of Southern food, for some reason the picture of shrimp and grits always looks the most appetizing.

I was well on my way to classifying and figuring out novel ways to present the data when I had to make the determination that there wasn't good cofounder fit. So now I work with CNN.

But now all my side projects revolve around ways to get human attention to improve automated tasks. I suppose one of these days I'll get the right idea and/or the right cofounder and I'll give it another go.

There's a wealth of usable information out there on the web that one can build businesses on top of if one only wants to apply a little elbow grease to clean it and turn it into data. It's far easier to scrape data with a regular web browser with a custom browser extension than to try to build out headless infrastructure. But no one wants to do it.
I'm reading your TOS right now. I'm not well versed with this type of jargon but what is this https://www.fancyhands.com ? Also, from the privacy policy, it seems like you'll be able to sell anonymous data. How "anonymous" would this be?
2. macOS isn't a distro, so you can't just say "let your distro maintainers do it". If you don't submit to MacPorts, the only way you'll get in there is if someone else steps up to submit on your behalf, but that kinda sucks because you're package will likely end up out-of-date in MacPorts unless the volunteer maintainer is super diligent about noticing new releases and updating the Portfile.

So by that logic I have to support mac/nix over every other system by default as they don't have maintainers? That sounds like a mac/nixos problem, not a developer problem.
IAC has a chart showing total revenue of Match group, which includes tinder. Page 6

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/IACI/4185874240x0x970...

BTW Love the quote "Match Group proved definitively in 2017 that Tinder is not just a moment, nor just a solid business reflecting an enduring commercial testament to the power of love. "
It's surprising how close majority-single-family-housing areas are to downtown Seattle, South Lake Union (Amazon campus), and Fremont (Google campus + smaller companies.) A few blocks north of the Google campus is mostly single-family housing. Queen Anne, north Capitol Hill, Greenlake, First Hill - all have apartment buildings only on major roads.
Show HN: GitHub for ML datasets
>long before Bitcoin

To be fair, bitcoin is only about 37 months younger than git.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
I assume most people were taught the same things I was, namely that Lamarckism is ridiculous nonsense, and now we're finding it has elements of truth.
I currently have my google voice number only and not tied to a landline or cell number. When was the last time you tried #4, because it's been like this for me for a year or more.
Requests 3.0 Dev Plan
> Could someone making $140k/yr ever expect to be a homeowner in SF/SV?

You probably can't. But you can rent. And rents plateaued a couple of years ago.

> There must be a study out there demonstrating that people systematically undervalue (or outright neglect) cost-of-living in a region when taking a job off

Higher COL regions generally provide higher quality of life (why else do people pay more to live there?). I find that the highest "life value" I can get is in the Bay Area (huge tech scene, great weather/outdoors, generally solid culture)
Yeah that certainly seems...non ideal.
What does travel have to do with it?
6,200 units on Airbnb in city of 3.4 million homes. Airbnb is also rounding error.

If you are concerned about affordability, the focus should be almost entirely on barriers to housing development.
Darfur – May 14, 2006
The killer app of blockchain is people trading coins in and out speculating on altcoins https://www.coingecko.com/en
How Pusher uses microservices to rapidly deploy new features with minimal risk
I completely understand that. However, the only solution to that problem is to try to halt change and protect existing residents from outsiders. Not to mention that existing property owners do really well when prices skyrocket.

Edit: I guess the broader question is to what degree do locals get to infringe on the rights of outsiders to buy property?
Kruidentuin aanleggen doe je makkelijk met ons eenvoudig stappenplan
Why can't we get hype for my friend Sparse Merkle Trees!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMV8p6Lb-bd6UZtTc_QD4zA
People have been comparing magic leap to theranos for years but neglecting the major differences between the two. Magic leap will at least have a product out that does not need to meet stringent FDA guidelines. Magic leap is not being sued by its own investors (they’ve had separate legal issues but not that). And magic leap is not shuttering it’s offices. They’ve revealed their product two months ago and are doing multiple public presentations in 2 weeks. It’s looking more and more likely that a product is actually coming to market and that investors gave them that sum simply because it’s a real product they see a future in.
> People say 'affordable housing' when they mean 'government legally forcing landlords to underprice their units' versus what the term should actually mean, 'a reasonable price range of rents'.

Huh? No, "affordable housing" means "rents people can pay" (an extreme example being a $250/month apartment). This isn't complicated.

> There isn't necessarily more but there should be less to incentivize builders. No point in going through all the bureaucracy if your margins are going to be super low.

Or, you could take steps that actually address the problem with the lack of affordable housing. Given that you just admitted red tape isn't necessarily more for affordable housing, removing red tape doesn't address the problem with the lack of affordable housing.

Red tape is a problem, but it's hardly the most pressing problem. Builders are making plenty of money in NYC. So when we're discussing real pressing problems like the lack of affordable housing I would appreciate it if you stayed on topic and didn't bring up the irrelevant problem of red tape. I'm not worried about builders having to fill out more paperwork when people are literally homeless in the snow right now.

> I'm not defending Airbnb as a nonentity

Your previous post was definitely defending AirBnB, even if it was just so you could bring up your pet issue of giving already-rich people incentives.

> academics and state politicians seem less enthused about taking a cold, hard look at housing laws, while well-intentioned at protecting low-income renters, probably play a far larger role in increasing housing costs.

Plenty of people are looking at housing laws. It's just that if you look at housing laws without the myopic lens of "incentives are the only way we can do anything", it's pretty obvious that laws which prevent owners from raising rents on affordable housing don't cause the shortage of affordable housing.

I'm just not sure how one can be so confused that they think allowing raising rents is the solution to rents being too high.

I realize I'm being hostile here, but your viewpoint is hostile to the poor and homeless of NYC.
Minimal iPhoneX case promises drop protection &uninterrupted wireless charging
Well, that's kind of the point - if the possibility to live in a particular place is scarce and so desirable that it costs $4000/month, then you either can afford that or don't live in that place - and this mechanism is useful; it allows people who really value living in that particular spot to pay the premium and do so; and the money flowing in provides a strong incentive to increase supply.
Is there any overlap in Oracle and Mac usage?
Dark Caracal Surveillanceware [pdf]
I’ve used my American Express card almost exclusively online (a lot) since the late ‘90s and have never had to replace it. On the other hand, I only use my Visa for offline charges and have to replace it every six months or so.
I wish there was some way to isolate developer streams discussing programming in the FFMPEG libav API from the countless "how to use FFMPEG" videos.
Which is what he's saying, the use of the term is because of the extremely-vague-homeomorphism implied by the structure

Unfortunately, the word choice can lead to "they've gots em a neural networks and an AI singularities and them robots coming to take over"
I'm not sure about a general source, but there's a real estate agency in Summit County, Colorado that puts out similarly detailed reports for that area:

https://www.breckenridgeassociates.com/statistics.php

Their reports show data going back to about 2000. It's interesting to see the rise and fall of inventory levels, days-on-market, price per square foot, etc., as the economy has gone up and down. They also break it down by housing type, so you can, for example, see the changes in condo stats separately from single-family home stats.
I understand what you mean. But, for me to get the same quality of service (without regulation), I’d have to pay tens of thousands of dollars, at least. But, if there were regulations (like, to force service providers to have both a ‘free’ and a for-fee privacy-protected version), I’d probably only have to pay a few dollars.
Should mention in the comments that this is written by Tim Pope, probably the foremost vim plugin author of the last decade. He also wrote pathogen, vim-surround, vim-repeat, etc etc etc.

https://github.com/tpope?tab=repositories
agreed, thanks for the feedback !
it's fine, can't back down now anyway :)
Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks are clearly inspired by the scientific fields of Genetics and Neuroscience.
I don't know cryptocurrency centered around this industry is doing a favor or disfavor?
Paragon https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/paragon/usd
Potcoin https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/potcoin/usd

Why and what people are doing with these?
Show HN: Embod.ai – Build and Compete bots in online environments
This is not informative. Pick any planning meeting, at random, from anywhere in the United States, and you will find someone like this. Cranks are everywhere, and practically the entire purpose of public meetings are so that the cranks have a place to go rant and "be heard" by local officials. The real question is: does anyone listen to them, and if so, why? There's usually a good reason that isn't being discussed.

Silicon valley bedroom communities should be building more housing, but this kind of stuff is just straw-man argumentation.
You said a cert is required, but the footnote quote says drivers must be signed. Being signed doesn't expire. Could you rectify the discrepancy and explain why an expiring cert is a requirement for VR, your analysis (though clearly highly informed) seems spurious to me.
nextjs && node for api. some laravel on backend
Toleration is a broad, complex spectrum, and all too often people put little thought into their principles. Instead we tend to define ourselves amongst our peers, some distance from the issues. The true test of your principles comes when its happening to you.
+1 to imagery. Half of Instagram is pictures of food for good reason.
You're using surveys of all republicans and all Americans to dispute my comment about 'the far right'?
No offense, but you are a great example for the rule that giving people privileges for free is a bad idea because they will take them for granted and be upset when you no longer give them those privileges for free.

If you go to a take-away and always get extra napkins for free, you feel entitled to those extra napkins for free, so when they no longer do that you feel like you've been wronged although the extra napkins were never part of what you paid for.

AppSumo didn't take anything from you. They just didn't go above and beyond their duty this time for whatever reason and now you feel like you've been cheated because you justified the expense for yourself based on the expectation that they'd do it again.
Julian Castro is doing a seminar series at the LBJ Library that I've been attending. I think they livestream them as well on Facebook. They are definitely worth a watch and address issues of housing prices, services, gentrification, how to approach them from a government and legal perspective.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/policy-seminar-series-with-juli...
Interesting point, that makes me think they're really tackling two birds with one stone here: "sustainability" and increasing revenue because people will have to buy legos more often.
As a programmer AND a Joe Sixpack, I already have Paypal. They already have my bank/cc. I'm not going to get rid of it. By going to Stripe, now my attack vector has doubled.

That said, if there was an alternative that stored my CC info and let me do one-click buying (does Stripe do this??) that was integrated into 60%+ of payment systems, I'd gladly use it instead of Paypal, who I've grown to abhor.
Yes temporarily sure? But if you keep deferring can you really tell me what the tax laws will be 50 years from now? I don't think in 2068 if you finally decide to sell and cash out the IRS will come with a list " Well on 2030: taxes were X%, again on 2035: taxes were Y%". They will just give you a bill for the present day tax system
But a lack of supply doesn't explain rents being comparatively flat over the past 2 years.

The prices going up imply either:

1. Market has strong belief that housing construction will stop in the future (i..e regulatory environment actually worsens), leading to surge in rents.

2. Irrationality.
yeah I'm not completely happy about how it looks either, will probably have to work with someone better on design/UX for that. if you have ideas on how to improve or feedback on the parts that were not clear don't hesitate
I think that the death certificate should either just say "yep, this person's dead", or it should list the actual reasons how and why a person died. In most cases, hopefully that'll be "this person lived out their life, and this happened to be the end of it", and that'll be self-evident because the person died of natural causes and received appropriate treatment for any illness at the appropriate stages. In others, it might require investigation. Whether it's a doctor's job to do that or a multidisciplinary team's is irrelevant to the question of what it should contain.
How are they forcing anyone to wake up any earlier? Sunday marks the switch to DST for the entire country, so you'd be waking up earlier anyways, this law just means that come November we won't be messing with our clocks and learning a new sleep pattern.
Ghostery Goes Open Source
Will it be available for audio and video datasets as well in coming time?
We make it super easy to do ML data annotations. We are online platform for teams to collaboratively build ML datasets.

Using this you can enlist your team/colleagues to help out in annotations, we provide good data visualization to help get insights from your data and tracking on which of the team members if helping the most.

Eagerly looking forward to HN communities feedback. :)
I was just thinking this morning how keybase would be useful as a tie-in for crypto identity on blockchain, when this is desirable. This is fantastic news.

Just confirms that Stellar is great platform.
I just got one of those warnings yesterday and found it very useful. Shame you were not permitted to continue the work you had planned to do on that! It was a worthwhile idea.
I arrived in the SV 12 years ago (2006) with already $20k savings. I had a $100k job initially to now $140k. My rent was $1,400 for tiny but cute studio. I stayed in that studio for 5 years (until 2011) and managed to saved $100k total. I bought a place in SF with my partner, we put $200k down ($100k each) for a ~$800k 2br/2ba. We now pay $3k per month so $1,500 each per month which is not much more than I used to pay when single in my studio (granted, now I need to add HOA ($150/month) and property tax (but could be deducted from taxes)).
So, I would say it was possible but as a couple with same kind of income. Now (2018) I don't think we could afford the exact same condo (maybe worth now up to $1.2M). We could afford something smaller and/or less central. But having said that, I was very surprised when talking with (younger) coworkers who have the same salary ($140k), on how little to none they were actually saving. It is tempting to eat our for both lunch and dinner, etc in the City, but it gets expensive very quickly. To be a homeowner anywhere, you need to save. To be homeowner in SF/SV you need to save even more, and be a couple. Not impossible, but more difficult. Save early, and as much as you possibly can, that would determine your future purchase power.
The Book of Enoch Is False
No, I agree with you. There are some great declarative interfaces and there are many problems best solved by one.

SQL is a great example. But it’s also an example of how difficult it is to make a great declarative API. Look how much effort went into designing and then refining and then adapting SQL to changing needs. It’s been an enormous effort across a huge community.

Same with CSS. Those aren’t things some developer just wrote and they got refined in an application over time. There are entire conferences about the regular redefinition of those interfaces.

My point is that concept doesn’t scale to some large number of abstractions. SQL and CSS are big manifolds that operate on the boundary of your application, and often separate you from an entire other group of developers working to maintain the other side of that contract.

If you try to apply that same setup to every problem, with thousands of declarative manifolds all intersecting within your application, you get chaos. Which is what many modern frameworks try to do. Declarative APIs only work when they are rare and standard and everyone knows them.
The bolt of lightning is clearly identical, but I'm having a difficult time correlating buildings between the two shots. My guess is they were taken a mile or two apart.
I use my credit card online so often that I have the card number, expiration date, and CVC memorized.
Having this option makes me think that maybe the author is having a tough time being a capitalist. I've come across quite a few people who are uncomfortable making a profit off of someone else and instead provide the option to give things away so they don't "feel bad".
TIL that IAC owns Tinder, Vimeo, Dictionary.com, Investopedia, Ask, and a bunch of other stuff.

Their stock has tripled in 2 years, also.
Yes, he's probably aware, but hopefully we're not coming to one. Machine learning was a lot less useful in the 1980s. There's still a lot of amazing (and unfortunate) uses for machine learning for government and business left to be plucked.

The only thing that is going to die for now is any trace of the idea from non-technicals is that if we throw $10mm at it, it's going to come alive.
These are the use cases we are actively building out. Should be there in a few weeks.

I invite you to give it a try and provide feedback on how can this be useful for you/your team?
And trying to search with "libAV" brings up dork videos emotionally raging about the libAV fork that died.