skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Bespoke" actually means more than custom-tailored; to be "bespoke", the client must have commissioned the creation of the design of an article of clothing. The usual dividing line between "bespoke" and "made-to-measure" is that in a "bespoke" process, there is more input in the design process, and there are a number of fittings of the garment (rather than just a set of measurements as in made-to measure). In the case of a shoe, a custom 'last' is generally the indicator of a "bespoke" product.
Do camera makers have any recent models that small, or do we generally need to look at old versions, since the point and shoot market tanked?
Whether or not they are governments is a question of definition. Definitions are important, and social networks don't fit very well into it.

They are fundamentally different from modern governments as they do not have a monopoly on coercion.

If social media are governments, then every corporation - no, every association of people - on Earth is a government.
These algorithems don't destroy our taste, they shape it. If it woundnt be for IMDb recommendations, I'd be wasting a lot more time watching bad movies.
In the 16 years since you left Chicago, the sky hasn't fallen. The percentage of population with a college degree is the highest of the country's 7 largest cities (http://midwest.chicagofedblogs.org/?p=3048), which implies educated people are disagreeing with you. Also, if your claim is about taxes, you seem to be misinformed as:

- Wisconsin has higher income taxes than Illinois

- Kenosha and Madison have higher property tax rates than Chicago

The parking meters were sold 10 years ago under a different mayor, update your talking points. Meanwhile, Wisconsin is handing out $3 billion to a Chinese manufacturing company (http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/18/news/scott-walker-signs-foxc...). This is the same Wisconsin (and same governor) who cut school funding a few years earlier (http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2014/sep/07/g...).

What kind of state cuts school funding and then gives billions to a Chinese company? The kind I don't move to.
It's just inappropriate to apply some global biases for a particular user, and avoiding that can result in a better user experience.

The problem is that most deep learning programs aren't intended for (and really be for) one user out there in user space. Deep learning programs are written for the large institutions which have the large troves of data need to train large nets and want to make important decisions using that data. But by this, those decisions won't be made in isolation but will effect a large number of people, people who aren't the users but rather the used. And if such systems have biases relative to the whole, it is a problem. And problem may not be for the institutions immediate goals but for the people who depend on the institution.
> we have governments watching the interest of the corporations

Supplanting institutions with popular will is populism, an ideology that has a habit of bee lining towards authoritarianism. "Corporations" are employers, pension fund holdings, tax payers and instruments of foreign influence. The "people versus corporations" narrative is absurd.
You might enjoy the book, The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scientific Revolution.

The book is set around 1660, as the center of the scientific universe shifted from Italy to England. Interestingly, the formation of the Royal Society occurred in the midst of the English Civil war. Not only economic forces, but military forces and political forces had a dramatic impact on shaping what became the formalization of of the scientific method, and peer review process.

Consider that the very existence of Oxford (and other universities) hung on the arbitrary conceptions of military generals and the political implications of their decisions.
Interesting how there is no keywords for 'security' and 'privacy'. Seems like a good acquisition to implement tracking of people's financial activity.
When you live within walking distance from a grocery store and enjoy walking then picking up 1 or 2 items isn't uncommon.

But you do bring up a good point. When it comes to larger food / supply runs, I just put in the whole receipt as 1 entry. GnuCash has a "description" field for metadata. I usually just put in the store's name along with the receipt ID.

Correcting a failure / mistake is easy because GnuCash lets you create, edit or delete entries from any date. If you forgot to put something in from 3 months ago but caught it on your bank statement later, you just plop in a new transaction with 3 months ago's date and it'll auto-adjust everything.
IRS computer systems are down
You're right, but over the course of a building's lifespan, the "chance" is greater, right? So the chance of a terrorist attack against salesforce tower this year is less than the chance it might happen sometime in the next 30 years. I'm not good at statistics, though.

Anyway, this is why we have a lot of earthquake preparedness, though the chance is 5% in the next 30 years.

It's not a "constant worry," so much as a plan. There's non-negligible chance of terrorist attack, so they architect in such a way to prevent it being catastrophic. There's a non-negligible chance of your office catching fire, so they put green exit signs at the door. That sort of thing.
I often wonder if "Kermit The Frog reacts to 2 Girls 1 Cup" was the sole reason reaction videos became a trend. I guess the answer is resounding - Yes.
The two people he shared it with didn't say it was delicious, the just awkwardly tried to say it wasn't as nasty as they feared. You could tell it was 100% Dominos being some sort of sponsor. The pizza chef at the end even threatened Chang about making him eat it again.

Dominos is terribad.
This is off topic, but the mention of my data going onto Google cloud made me wonder: does Netflix share viewing histories?

I read their privacy policy but it was so mealy mouthed it's hard to make heads or tails of to a non-lawyer.
Pardon my Blockstack ignorance, but are keys deterministically created via some kind of KDF w/ some factors I provide or are the users expected to handle key management? IMO the latter significantly restricts adoption, especially in a multi-device-same-identity world.
What are you talking about?

It's possible to build P2P software on desktop computers. How can you do that on mobile?
I wish there was a community of actively-developed 2000-era software that ran on modern hardware. We'd have so much space...
I believe it does. If you write quality content people want to read and share, configure your pages so they can be easily understood by search bots and get quality backlinks, you're going to rank well. You should follow what Google actually suggest you do about SEO (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451184?hl=en) but I don't think it's a good idea attempting to game Google by trying to figure out what they're measuring behind-the-scenes because their algorithms can changes.

Plugging my own project but based on the above principles I wrote a guide containing on-page SEO rules that authoritative sources say are important (e.g. Google) and created a Chrome extension that tests your site follows these rules:

https://www.checkbot.io
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Only at the front end, it downgraded to 1.1 between the ALB and your servers.
and this is why I am grateful we have the 2nd Amendment. Sure, you can't match a tank head to head, but the past 50 years of insurgencies show that you don't need to go head to head to still come out on top.
This quote from Einstein on the subject sums up my thoughts on this as well.

"Science, however, cannot create ends and, even less, instill them in human beings; science, at most, can supply the means by which to attain certain ends. But the ends themselves are conceived by personalities with lofty ethical ideals and—if these ends are not stillborn, but vital and vigorous—are adopted and carried forward by those many human beings who, half unconsciously, determine the slow evolution of society.

For these reasons, we should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems; and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society."

https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/
My opinion is informative. Thanks.
The reproducibility crisis is most severe in the social sciences. Hard sciences like physics are on much firmer ground, and conflating the two is clownish. Social science research is funded almost entirely by the government[1].

It's a nice story you've got there, but the reason there is a replication crisis in the softer sciences is not due to the evil capitalists of the marxist imagination. In fact, much of it is due to cultural marxist insistence on outcomes conforming to political correctness, as well as uncritical acceptance of politically conforming work. See the ongoing fight against the idea of a high genetic basis for adult IQ.

All of this is obvious enough: capitalists aren't interested in non-reproducable results unless it is obviating them from blame for a given externality. But that sort of research is a small fraction of overall research (and should absolutely be done by impartial third parties.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_of_science
"In order to be a true scientist, you should be familiar with philosophy, first"
> Theres nothing much we can do, guns vs stones.

Gun control works.
Teaching Data Science to High Schoolers
Its almost like we live in some sort of 'forever september '
Companies are not committed to employees. The easy example is that they have layoffs, even amazon and microsoft. a committed company would do what microsoft used to do, since they had basically endless openings, if your project was canceled you had 2 months to find another job. and you could always find another job.

The other reason to consider carefully before going there is they sometimes try to scare people by enforcing non-competes. So what are you going to do, deliver papers? Here's a recent article - https://www.geekwire.com/2017/business-personal-amazon-web-s...

edit - here's an example of layoffs in seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-laying-o...
Wonder where the 5% clean areas are?
That's the thing. R is excellent at the statistics (the science, the hypothesis testing, and the other tools - and CRAN has real gems), but completely unusable for data manipulation (cleaning, filtering, discovering/exploration, tinkering), and especially hostile for anyone who is used to real programming languages. (No data pipeline for you, no easy scripting for regular experiments/backtesting. No great APIs, etc.)
Democracy is just tyranny of the majority.
From startup to construction – A lesson in confidence and empathy
The big advantage is double-entry. It's generally much easier to avoid missing something in one of the accounts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqAaScYVeRQ
> Why would the strength requirement for a 5 story building be different from a 50 story building?

Because if it falls over it won't just kill 5 stories worth of people, but 50 stories plus an unknown number of people in the building it falls on, as well as creating a giant civic problem?

> ignorant and full of shit

Oooohkay, buddy. At best you are playing semantic games here. If your theory is that the building code is just fine when things like the Millennium Tower can happen, then we disagree on what "fine" means.
It seems to me as though this is the exact reason that Zuck was called in to testify. We have a reasonable understanding and can at least comment intelligently, but the public sees this, and clearly calls fowl. Being unable to stop it, they demand action from their senators. There's a reckoning coming I reckon --- it reminds me of GDPR in Europe.
> And when governments misbehave, they kill: wars, corruption, suppression, etc.

You're comparing a giant to a nest of angry ants. The giant sometimes tramples houses; the ants don't. One might conclude the ants are therefore gentler, and wonder much better life would be under giant ants instead of the giant, neglecting that if the ants had the giant's power, they would be far more deadly than it.
But who knows who really owns the domain? Google Knows Who...
And Knuth!
It could just be targeting. While it's possible something nefarious is going on, advertisers are really good at using available data to predict information that was never provided. In the case of the kung fu movie, it's possible IP address was used. For the open house, there could be some location correlation, but I would bet it's more than that (age, financial profile, relationship status). You can feed a bunch of data about someone to an algorithm and predict these things with pretty high confidence.

The way to avoid this is to opt out of interest based ads. iOS and Android both have options for this.
Any links so I can read more on the subject? I’d love to get my hands on some material describing their infrastructure.
+1 regarding RDS. A company I spoke to is moving from GCP to AWS, with their biggest pain point being Cloud SQL is WAY less flexible than RDS. While GCP's k8s offering is better/easier to use, they still have some catching up to do.

To drive the second point home, GCP recently released VPC Flow Logs, while AWS has had it for a good while now.
That's a really good price. I live in a fairly desirable area in MN and $10,000/acre is considered high in these parts.
Pop-up galleries designed for instagram selfie appeal, restaurant trendiness where one ramen place is the "internet approved" one and has an hour long line, and a place two blocks away with a different style - but not really worse, just not as trendy - has no line at all, etc - there are definitely ways in which there's more of a hive mind than ever. The meme popularity of bacon on the internet, even. For a more local example: growing up, Whataburger was just another Texas fast food option, not a tightly-held piece of people's online identities.

But at the same time, there's a lot of opportunities for increased individualism. You can buy clothes and furniture from far more places. You can much more exhaustively search restaurants. You have way more options in what you watch and listen to. Even the existence of "mainstream hipster" taste in movies is a change compared to just "maintstream" being a single thing.

So is personal taste really less present than it used to be? I don't think so, I think the domains just shifted around a bit.
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If you run with "docker-compose up --build", it should automatically build. This requires that any app you want to work on references the local Dockerfile, not a published one, the same way as in my paste. I.e. "build: ./myapp" or whatever.

Edit the code, then restart Compose, and repeat. It will build each time. If you want to save time and you have some containers that don't change, you can "pin" those containers to published images — e.g., the main app is in "./myapp", but it depends on two apps "foo:08adcef" and "bar:eed2a94", which don't get built every time. This speeds up development.

Building on every change sounds like a nightmare, though. It's more convenient to use a file-watching system such as nodemon and map the whole app to a volume. Here's a blog article about it that also shows how you'd use Compose with multiple containers that use a local Dockerfile instead of a published one: https://medium.com/lucjuggery/docker-in-development-with-nod....
Companies compete for your time, money, and labor. Governments have no competition.

Even if you think natural monopolies are a true facet of free markets, Facebook is not a natural monopoly. MySpace is a simple counterexample to that idea.
> earthquakes every other week

Ridiculous hyberbole is right.
thanks and yes I keep doing this but it is getting harder with so many distributed knowledge source. HN and some feeds are getting me there but I feel I can do better
Ask HN: What bank are you using if you are running a small SAAS startup?
We are getting incurred ridiculous wire and account analysis fees from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).
That's not at all true. Trump is a unique individual in that he is not co-opted in certain ways, or wasn't until recently perhaps. The truth about North Korea would rock you back on your heels. I don't even believe what is rumored to actually be going on there. But NK and certain other nations aren't what you think they are. And what has taken place to finally break things free isn't what you think it is, either.
> While I am a single freelance developer, things wouldn't change much with a family.

I disagree with this statement because this claims assumes you keep up to date on tax code changes. Getting married, buying a house, and having a child now add in deductions for mortgage interest, child tax credits, child care tax credits, a first time home buyer's loan, and potential changes to your bracket because of your spouse and how you file. Taxes for an individual with 2 kids, a house, and business are definitely more complicated than taxes for a single individual who lives in an apartment. At some point, you have to ask if this is worth your time as opposed to getting work done, especially seeing as how demonstrated in the past year, the government can radically change the tax code.
Weird, no Animal Liberation by Peter Singer, one of the best applications of utilitarianism.
Those 2 parties should play a very small role too...
I see such intense benefits from HTTP/2 end to end, I'm quite happy to be called a shiny-chaser when my 50th and 99th drops so sharply.

Also, prefetch is absolutely incredible for webapps and I'm trying to get my peers at my current employer to embrace it even if it's not well supported in AWS.
Is crumbled plastic part of the micro-plastics we hear about polluting the ocean?
...but that just isn't true. Statistical analysis is (among other things) a way to quantify our uncertainty. If done approriately, the statistics simply communicate the role probability played in moving from the experimental premises to the results.

The level of uncertainty in most (perhaps all) experiments involving particles in a vacuum is far lower than experiments involving human behavior. Statistics doesn't create the uncertainty, it communicates the uncertainty.

I can use propositional logic to arrive at the conclusion that "Unicorns are real" yet I don't encounter many people throwing logic itself under the bus because of that.

People lie while speaking English every day yet I don't encounter many people claiming that English is inherently untrustworthy.

Statistics has been a whipping boy for a long time by people who don't know much about statistics or just fail to think clearly about what is being said.
Yeah, it's noticeably better. Then again, the bar was so low that this isn't much of an achievement.

It's not my favorite pizza, but if you live in an area with a Papa Johns, a Pizza Hut, and some local crap-pie joint, then it's going to be your best option.

They still sell "cheap" pizza, so there's an upper limit to how good it can get. Their cheese quality can only be so high (since it's such a large portion of the cost) and their offerings need to appeal to like 90% of customers.
China Does Tesla a Favor
Protecting WebView with Safe Browsing
Does anyone have recommendations for a layman interested in philosophy?
Agreed. Years ago I wrote a daemon for Linux with glibc only, so I assumed I can just ignore EINTR everywhere, until I needed to use valgrind and suddenly had EINTRs everywhere.

Rather than making signalfd POSIX, if we play make-a-wish let's just go for kqueue. Signalfd feels somewhat hackish, even though its simplicity admittedly has some appeal too.
My personal budget is extremely simple and very, very effective:

1) Take my desired savings and investments rate off the top with automatic paycheck deposits

2) Spend the rest freely

If I feel like I'm running out of money, I'd have to go back and evaluate my expenses to see where I could improve my spending.

I also do separate auto deposits to a separate account if I'm saving for a big purchase.

The only other categorizing I do is I have a special account for house related expenses.
My guess would be:

1) Facebook (ie instagram) knows you are in a relationship

2) Facebook knows girlfriend's location from being signed in (on Instagram)

3) Facebook knows locations are at open houses from data gathered from other users or around the web. Or maybe Facebook knows that going to a few totally new random residential locations in a short period of time, combined with girlfriend's other engagement activities means user is looking for a new place to live.
> who will be setting those limits

The same ones who set the limits on the railroads and oil tycoons, after they abused their power, or on AT&T, after it abused its power, et cetera. This is why we have government.
> Solomon maintains that “nothing has been more harmful to philosophy than its ‘professionalization,’ which on the one hand has increased the abilities and techniques of its practitioners immensely, but on the other has rendered it an increasingly impersonal and technical discipline, cut off from and forbidding to everyone else.”

> As an addendum, Ho adds that “most of the works on the list are analytic philosophy,”...

Interesting that analytic philosophy is both seen as being the most harmful yet also most prestigious.
I took GA recently, and was never over-sold. I knew exactly what I was getting into-- yet I do have previous programming experience.

What upset me were, as you said, those who wanted to believe the promise of instant-employability without ANY prior coding experience. But GA did not over-sell this. They make it very clear in the entrance interview that there are no promises and the employment process is on our shoulders.

I feel, perhaps, the industry oversells itself: claims of "everyone should learn to code", claims of developers "making millions on IPOs", and reading how big tech companies are making the headlines every day. My neighbor's are all driving nice, fancy cars. Why? Amazon developers. Who doesn't want to be a developer-turned-overnight-success with propaganda like that?
What's interesting is that "nuclearization" was forced upon them by outside actors. NK was freed from this outside influence and is suddenly now able to come out of the cold.
The Python-with-NumPy example I gave at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16849500 supports higher dimensional matrices:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> np.multiply.reduce(np.array([[1,2,3,4], [5,6,7,8]]))
array([ 5, 12, 21, 32])

and it lets you reshape into different forms, like:

>>> arr = np.array([[1,2,3,4], [5,6,7,8]])
>>> np.multiply.reduce(arr.flatten())
40320
>>> np.multiply.reduce(arr.reshape((4,2)))
array([105, 384])
>>> np.multiply.reduce(arr.reshape((2,2,2)))
array([[ 5, 12],
[21, 32]])

I believe this was influenced by the array languages.
Ah yes, the Wayans Brothers channel and the Star Trek Voyager channel
Haha, yes, perhaps.

"I found the mathematical approach to grammar immediately appealing---so much so, in fact, that I must admit to taking a copy of Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures along with me on my honeymoon in 1961." - Knuth
How long is that cycle for sites that Google crawls daily? Can you determine the results of a change right after the crawl, or is there lag time?
Docker Inevitably Embraces Kubernetes Container Orchestration
https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-...