skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that there is no car loan in this case; he's paying for the car in cash, and borrowing in the investment account instead.

In both scenarios, let's say we have 60k in stocks to start.

Starting point: 60k stocks

Scenario A: 1 car, (30k car loan), 60k stocks

Scenario B: 1 car, 60k stocks, (30k debt in margin account)

Let's say the market drops by 50%, then recovers by 100% overnight.

At midnight:

Scenario A: 1 car, (30k car loan), 30k stocks

Scenario B: 1 car, 30k stocks, (30k debt in margin account)

Position is closed, so now Scenario B is: 1 car

In the morning, the world goes back to normal:

Scenario A: 1 car, (30k car loan), 60k stocks

Scenario B: 1 car

While we had the same amount of debt in both cases, in scenario A, there's no instant way for the car loan provider to instantly declare that you don't have liquidity at midnight.
Since "X adds support for Y" is nearly always ambiguous and confusing:

It looks like GitLab's CI/CD system can now be pointed at GitHub repositories. So that means you can point your GitLab CI system at a GitHub repo and get build/test/deployment of your code, probably integrated with PR checks and so forth.
> it's important that the market has all the information.

I'll be honest with you: when I read this my first response was "what does this even mean? What is "the market" and how does it "have information"?" I guess the sentences preceding it are supposed to explain the structure that the market has built up to automagically capture this information, but I don't quite follow.

I'm not criticising your comments, I'm very grateful that you are trying to explain how this works and the logic behind it, but so far it's black-box abstractions all the way down.
Thanks for the link. Full interview at https://vimeo.com/146145543
Qubole Sparklens tool for performance tuning Apache Spark
I have many friends from Egypt, China, Brazil and other places but I live in Germany. If I visit Egypt in 2 years for some reason I want to shoot a message to my friends there to meet them for "a coffee face to face". There is no better service then facebook to enable this.
True, those bugs are worrying. But I still feel iOS and macOS are the most secure choice because:

1. This incredibly obscure bug (in the sense that I'm surprised someone was able to find this) was found relatively quickly

2. After it was found a fix was developed and tested quickly

3. Once that fix passed QA my devices received a software update over the air and the problem was solved. One of the big problem with other mobile OSs is that the OS updates are often going through the carrier or device manufacturer and it takes time or you don't get it at all.

I don't expect a device that's perfectly secure. I'm sure there are hundreds if not thousands of undiscovered vulnerabilities on the device I'm using to type this to you right now. But that's not the whole picture on security.
This makes a lot of sense to me. Gives Github users a taste of Gitlab's CI capabilities.
Sorry, but that story was pure clickbait. So instead of moving to affordable, yet economically strong places like the metro areas in Texas he went for Canada to pay double the taxes... I do not get that story. There is nothing wrong with moving to Canada, great country, great people. But no one can tell me that the only Alternative to SV was Canada.
Please fix this to point to the original article, not this blogspam.

https://about.gitlab.com/features/github/
This speaks to me.

https://youtu.be/yL7X3DTyS2Q
Can you elaborate on your reasoning?
Suppose I studied for the SATs more than anyone by conjugating Japanese verbs for 16 hours a day. Would this help my scores? Surely the relevance of information is more important to investment returns than the quantity.
Buildings can definitely accumulate technical debt when they're put through a series of changes of use over time. It manifests as odd cable routing, inconsistent floor levels, repeatedly moved doorways, obstructed windows, etc.
> You are using Adblockers to circumvent the primary means of making money [...]

I'm using adblockers to control the way I interact with the content, on my device.

I should perhaps clarify, I don't use YT Android app, only Firefox.
Blog post with previous discussion on the tool

https://www.qubole.com/blog/introducing-quboles-spark-tuning...
There’s a whole theory of learning that suggested that some languages were more suited to mental gymnastics for a particular field of study (math, logic, biology) and that maybe we could further human progress by teaching children the curriculum in that language.
This White Tech Guy Has an Idea to Make Tech Less White
Amazon's AI fashion advice, explained by a PM [video]
>This may smack of censorship in some ways, and if it was a government agency, it certainly would be

This is a common misconception. Nowhere is it defined that only a government can conduct censorship.
I can never take seriously someone explaining something in detail over a long series of tweets. What ever happened to personal websites for god's sake?
Are you even old enough to play games? I feel like mother told you about the baddies if you venture outside and so long as you suckle her breast, you will be free from the horror and disgust of the world. You latch on with white knuckles waiting for cotton wool ball to take you to Nursery.

Feeble statements like this define who is fun to kill, who is cocky, and who you are going to target.
Really!!!! I will use WhatsApp then
I didn't see Russian listed anywhere on there, but I suspect it would be in the top 20 on this list. It is a pretty straightforward base 10 complicated by archaic phonetic rules that change the pronunciation and stress of words with logical roots in unintuitive ways.

In addition, countable nouns (like cars, people, cities, but also including multiples of 100, 1000, etc...) change form depending on how many of them there are (1, 2-4, 5-20, 21-24, 25-30 etc...) Usually these separate forms are phonetically related, but sometimes there is no connection at all. These rules don't come in to play when strictly counting numbers until 200, but is an integral part of what makes it hard to count things in Russian.

There are also wrinkles like the word for 40 (сорок) and 90
(девяносто) that don't fit in the usual tens pattern like 20 (двадцать - two * ten) or 30 (тридцать - three * ten). Any Russian speakers care to explain what's going on with those two?
Citation needed. That's not the case in the SF Bay Area, Manhattan/Brooklyn, Vancouver, or Toronto. The new tax bill's provisions to cap mortgage interest deductions has further tilted the balance against expensive houses.
I’ve always found the metaphors around Technical Debt really interesting. They simplify it to a point where everyone “gets it”; however I have often worried whether there’s a cult of “anti-technical-debt”, much like there are the cults of “absolutely no credit card debt / usage ever”. Sure, it works for some, but I’ve also seen product progress completely halt over the argument of “that’s adding to our technical debt”, surely it would be phrased better as “this is adding to our customers experience, at the cost of our chase for purity and technical perfection”?

As has been said a few times in this thread: there’s nuance to engineering, and a careful trade off. I think the metaphors are weaponized to a point where that nuance is lost in harsh memories of student-era credit card debt.
People are always taken back about how much classic staples didn't exist prior to the discovery of America. On top of that realization is that the food wasn't adopted immediately. Meaning a lot of common dishes didn't exist until after 1700/1800s.

Things like tomato sauce and pasta in italian cuisine wasn't until almost 1800. Yet we talk about 'authentic' cuisine we usually use it in context way before 'America'. Yet most cuisine we eat didn't come into existence until AFTER America.

Another example is chilis in thai cuisine. Capsicum didn't make it over the ocean until america was discovered. So all the spicy peppers in so many dishes from Thai to Vietnamese food didn't exist in their cooking until it was brought over and eventually incorporated.

Potatoes is another one. Originated in Peru. Russian potato vodka? Irish Potatoes? Germans bangers and mash?

Nope, nada until America was discovered.

Chocolate, Vanilla. Staples of desserts of european cooking...except not until America was discovered.

These above ingredients alone are associated with so many traditional recipes but they didn't exist until recently. It really shows how quickly food and traditions change and the idea of 'authenticity' is over blown.
Ask HN: Health insurance APIs?
Does anyone know of APIs for the following usecases:

- Get a list of insurance providers.

- Get a member's plan details. Given an insurance provider, member ID, and potentially other info.

- Get a member's paid deductible and out-of-pockets from claims. Given an insurance provider, member ID, and potentially other info.

- Get eligibility or pricing info for a procedure or doctor. Given an insurance provider, member ID, doctor identification, and potentially other info like procedure codes.

I'm working on making this type of information more accessible for developers, and hoping to build a few example apps. However, I'm having trouble finding these types of services. Any help would be much appreciated!
Turbulence – And Opportunity – Ahead in the Oracle Sparc Base
Figma launches Platform
This works great on Linux, as long as everyone has a solid internet connection. The mobile app has improved a little, but is still quite lacking.
And how about cheese fondue in South Korea! :) Though apparently they've been making their own cheese since 1959, so at what point may it be considered part of their culture? https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/22701/when-did-c...
You cited the extension but did not link it. I'm interested in it. Could you provide the link?
That's too inconvenient. The nice part about facebook is that you can forget about people, but then they post a status update that they are currently somewhere in your country and you can meet them.
I would suggest that any contempt of early superstitious ideas has to do with the fact that many live on today.
Human-driven car fatalities per day: 120+

Automated-car fatalities total: 1

Seems safer, so far.

Also, nothing's going to make walking out in front of a ton of steel going 30+mph 100% safe.
What is a reasonable time to see this in my next phone? 2020? Looks really cool, with the screen being the biggest battery hog I hope to see a bump in battery lasting through the day (otherwise we get thinner phones).
Moreover, Japanese has TWO parallel number systems (as does Korean). The Sinitic system, enumerated here, is used for naming numbers, counting with most counter words, and counting large quantities, whereas the native Japanese system is used with certain common counter words.

Compare:

Ｊａｐ　　Ｓｉｎ
1 ひとつ　　イチ
2 ふたつ　　ニ
3 みっつ　　サン
4 よっつ　　ヨン
5　 いつつ　　ゴ
6　 むっつ　　ロク
7　 ななつ　　シチ
8　 やっつ　　ハチ
9 ここのつ　キュウ
10　とお　　　ジュウ

The native Japanese numerals are themselves variable: I have listed the forms they assume when paired with the つ counter. For example, two days is rendered as ふつか and six days as むいか.

Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals
https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/14959/are-there...
The article, and by extension Asprey, come across as a bit tone deaf to me.

He was making $250,000 salary + stock/benefits + double income with his physician wife. He owned a home, admitted he lived in "nice neighborhoods", sent both his children to private school, spent weekends at Tahoe, and who knows what else.

With all of this he says he felt "less than middle class".
They exist in two arenas, both (theoretically) subject to strict judicial oversight. The first as you reference is public safety, which includes inciting to violence, and other classic examples. The second is a bit murkier: national security.

That said, something like a super injunction for a celebrity’s sex life would be flat-out impossible and unconstitutional.
It is an interest idea and a great starter for philosophical thinking, but no-one is treating it like literal gospel.
Both of those are specific legal definitions. Could you please elaborate on what your point is?

We can only speculate, but if you lie to the FBI, I would assume it's very likely that you have something to hide. Whether those plea deals led further down the rabbit hole to people who were guilty of further crimes we don't know. Maybe a few of them were on that list. Maybe some will get revealed later. I'm hopeful we will uncover the truth in time.
https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976783608219279360

He goes on to defend his work at Google, arguing that they're similar on the surface, but Facebook is truly dangerous where Google is not.

I'm not sure I agree with that. Google is quite a bit more distributed across products and platforms, so Facebook has a simpler loop centered around the newsfeed. That said, Google can track a user's behaviour across nearly every website on the internet.

Facebook can run these "reinforcement learning on a global scale" experiments through its newsfeed. Google, it seems to me, can run them across the web as a whole.
Computer Science as Interpretation
Hmm, turns out Google cars are programmed to go over speed limits in certain situations. Quote from a Reuters article:

Google’s driverless car is programmed to stay within the speed limit, mostly. Research shows that sticking to the speed limit when other cars are going much faster actually can be dangerous, Dolgov says, so its autonomous car can go up to 10 mph (16 kph) above the speed limit when traffic conditions warrant.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-google-driverless/look-no-...

I wonder how they decide over what warrants speeding.
But you're well-versed in this area already, right? The reason that more people are only shocked now is because no one before reported in a way that was accessible enough to the general public. Journalists on the whole are still better at one thing that techies continue to struggle with - investigative journalism & communication.
We hear a lot about it, but how many people have actually been successful in avoiding technical debt? Any links to writeups/blogs/analyses?
Whole Foods Is Losing Executives Under New Owner Amazon
That 15 year old Atlassian JIRA ticket
If you ever want to see the reductio ad absurdum of non-responsiveness from a tech company look no further than https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-1369 - this is the Atlassian Jira issue to reduce the email chattiness of Jira itself.

Age: 15 years (!!!) |
Votes: 1200+ |
Comments: Hundreds |
Adequate Responses from Atlassian: 0
From what I heard Blizzard is already overdoing it, going as far as punishing a professional player for posting a meme on Twitter or muting people for "toxicity" and then punishing them again for lack of communication.

For me, this isn't a problem to be solved on such a high level. After all, a mute function exists already and can be applied to anyone and the best thing is that it's a power within the hands of a player.
Outside.
Slack and discord for daily talks with friends. Everyone else I email, call, or sms. I haven't had facebook for a few years and haven't had an issue with keeping in contact with anyone.

I want an encrypted chat service thats convenient as slack and discord.
I don't agree with this. As was pointed out here too, software changes in production all the time. This happens with Buildings too, but on a different time scale. Buildings that were made with forward layouts for HVAC and electrical systems will be easier to upgrade in the future. If you look at old buildings that had networking and such retrofitted in a visible and ugly fashion, I think its fair to say that you're looking at technical debt.
This is not how the term is typical used in vision science which is why I thought it was worth pointing out
Zoom is rock solid on Linux. If they had rooms that were super easy to join spontaneously like appear.in, there'd be no reason to use anything else.
Ok, so half-guessing at what you meant, wouldn't this be the crux of the problem then:

> In other words, every time a security is traded, its price is updated with a very small amount of new information.

The update happens after trading, so before that the price is by definition outdated, meaning it has that bit of "inefficiency" you spoke about. Hence "doing your homework" as a hedge-fund manager would in theory allow you to spot this inefficiency and make better trades.
The impact is also diminished by the fact that they're complaining about the idea of a powerful social media empire on Twitter.
Work at a travel company.
Robert Noyce Is the Conscience of a Female Founder in a Silicon Valley Musical
This debate is already well underway in the context of speed cameras, which can automatically issue a ticket to every single driver who is even 1mph over the speed limit. Many communities are limiting their use, for example by restricting their placement to only streets immediately outside schools.
outside nigga; theres people everywhere!!
Ferguson: It's hard to see how Facebook's business model remains intact
Work at a travel company in tech. They will understand. They will hire you.
Next you'll be asking for a geocities host page. Luddite.
If you think "freedom" means you should be allowed to be an asshole to people, then that is what it stands for.

If you want the benefits of society, you cannot ignore the needs of others.
I want to broadcast my desktop, so that anyone can watch it online and that's what Join.me does. How is it something which Jitsi offers?
Yeah. But it looks like the way it works is you say "Don't ask again" on e.g. microphone, then there's no good way to deal with some new site where you actually want to use your mic.

I guess the site can detect the permission denial. But making the website show browser-specific instructions for how to disable the global opt-out seems really suboptimal. The browser is where browser-specific specific UI belongs!
That's exactly as saying that someone made a full c++ program using nothing but notepad and therefore it's impressive. All I see its someone that made their lives more difficult by purpose.
Finally!

I'm running a custom GitLab instance, and I have most of my projects in there, but I have to have some of my projects on GitHub, and having the same CI workflow available for them is going to be amazing.
Agreed, and if I used an alternative I would have to spend hours searching on google, trying to import "iContacts" or whatever format into whatever other format when I change my pc, phone, loose all the data, or whatever might happen.

Its like downloading your email and organizing it into sub folders instead of using gmail.
Understanding Spectre Attack
Ruby Creator“Matz”Yukihiro Matsumoto Discusses the History of Ruby and Ruby 3.0
The advantage of a tweetstorm is that readers can like/retweet individual paragraphs. This high-granularity feedback can be surprisingly useful data to the writer.
It's interesting to think what the transition point was when people just made do with whatever plants and animals were available nearby, and that was "food," to when things became "<country/culture/region/etc> food." If tortilla wraps, beans, etc. were imported to Japan 300 years ago, that would just be Japanese food, but now if a Japanese restaurant started mixing those in, it would never escape the label "Japanese/Mexican fusion" or a variation on that.
I can't recreate your math, but I don't think that's important for the point.

By your numbers, there's a 1% difference. On the scale of the GDP, that is a HUGE number. I think looking at the absolute numbers matters. Free higher education for everyone would cost $75 billion (according to Bernie Sanders). Trump asked for an additional $116 billion dollars for defense. I don't see the logic in arguing if we can afford $600 billion, and another $116 billion, while at the same time arguing $75 billion is impossible and would bankrupt the country. We're clearly making priorities.
A potentially messy way to use that zip file is to find the page with your contact info in a big HTML table. You can copy and paste that table from a web browser into a spreadsheet program, edit the data into a useful format, and then export it as CSV. The CSV file can be imported into a local or online mail app.

Outlook.com used to have a feature that would import your Facebook contacts directly. I can't find that feature in the current version of the site though. Yahoo.com still does have one. So you could make an account there, import your FB contacts, then export them as a CSV file.
I would suggest going to university. Anything else is a waste of time if you're looking for employment.

The only exception would be if you're an employee (programmer) of a large firm that's willing to train you and put you in a position to use your skills. But if that was the case you wouldn't be here. Don't spend months of your time self-training because nobody will hire you without hard qualifications.

Also ML is a very large and diverse field, with many different sub-categories. What you learn from online courses depends on the course. Most of them are essentially just training videos that teach programmers how to use a certain library.
If you really want to learn ML, browse for graduate programmes in universities you can attend. If you don't have an undergraduate degree, go get one. If you only want to learn ML as a hobby with no prospects of getting employed, try studying from various online courses (ie on MIT or coursera etc).
I agree there are tons of share praxtices here - but there is always the “alternative cost” to consider. For example - would the alternative be just switching to a different social network for “social graph management”? If so - which one?
And for Facebook’s many services (calebdar, photo albums, chat) there are numerous alternatives to each - but would the privacy issues of using all those competitors together be worse or better than just staying on Facebook?

There is also the issue of damage done. Facebook knows a lot about me, too much, but the competing service might not. Switching to other services means giving them a lot of the information I already regret I gave Facebook.

So in the end - unless one convinces both one self and all contacts to switch to “traditional” social networking such as a phonebook, a list of email addresses, blogs for photos, secure chat apps - one must consider what the alternative “integrity cost” to Facebook is.

People have to be pulled not just from Facebook but to something else (unless they agree to the phonebook style social network - which nearly no one will). But what?
Like Neocities?
Yes. The PR people were so casual about attempting to control the story that I have to think they normally got away with it.

In some ways, the "let a thousand flowers bloom" effect that the Internet has on journalism has made this worse. The more options a PR person has for getting stories out, the less power any individual reporter has.
Zuckerberg and Sandberg can't be trusted to handle data leak fallout
> companies whose annual global revenue exceeds €750 million ($918 million). The tax would apply to services where users play an important role in creating value, such as selling online ad space, social media or platform services for ride hailing or food delivery.

So it's basically a tax on EU punching bags, got it.
> “Wow, so it’s like taking somebody’s job?” Espinoza asked.

I don't understand why some people propose this as inherently a bad thing. A robot taking a job means that a human can be freed to do other things; things that we can't easily automate or have robots to do (like curing cancer). These jobs/problems exist whether or not the robot is there to take the human's job. Otherwise why wouldn't we simply regress to the stone ages and have way more jobs for everyone.