skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, I don't think starting out with spherical cows and a neoclassical economics textbook is a rational approach to the housing problem. If you want to engage in it that's cool and you do you, but it's a bit like expecting everyone to start speaking Esperanto just because you happen to think it's a good idea.

In my view, any successful policy is going to have to be both incremental and carefully balanced to take everyone along for the ride. That will piss off lots of people who think the other side is trying to destroy or deny them the things they love, but it's pretty much the only way forward.
Mostly highly rated classes tend to be blow-off classes, rather than informative and engaging ones.
I wonder how much the sqrt function is simplifying our lives here — might it be simpler to deal these issues in terms of Newton’s method directly, just ignoring the quadratic formula?
But not currency, is it? Maybe social currency.
I'm not going to lie, I started reading this thinking it was an example. I was very impressed as often Markov chain generated sentences break down after a common joining word.
Perhaps Deep Blue (or current equivalent) vs the World would be an interesting match, where the AI did not have access to the discussion.
Triton Kubernetes, a multi-cloud Kubernetes solution
... the downvotes say so.

I am wondering about the same. Peter Thiel does not seem to be someone the world should listen to. His politics are anti-human I would say. And yes, by being as influentual as he is I think we can and should talk about his politics here.

I am still trying to figure out how two such different world-views like thiel and musk were able to work together.
Keeps people both fit and myopialess? Brilliant!

(9kg btw, for the Europeans here.)
No clue why none has done it so far I guess idea for kick starter :)
The entry reminds me how Microsoft had one of the better proto-social media platforms of the 2000s and a solid messenger app, and then managed to run both into the ground. RIP old blogosphere
Spoofing vulnerability in Google Inbox
An excellent introduction to this topic is a lecture series called “How to Listen to and Understand Great Music” by Robert Greenberg.

It’s very rich in detail but Greenberg also makes it accessible and fun.

It’s available for cheap on audible and from “the great courses”.
I'd say that sometimes the raw economics works against you and it can be very difficult to change that. As an example take micro-payments, I'm sure hundreds of startups have tried to make it work but the economics don't stack up in a way that works. The problem you are working to solve may be unsolved for a reason. Your investors may be thinking very naively; on the face of it some problems seem easy to solve but actually are almost impossible.

On top of that it sounds like you're pretty smart and business focused but you aren't hugely passionate about the problem you're solving.

I would probably advise you to go away and find a different problem to solve; one that you're more passionate about and one where the economic model stacks up. If you've got a good team of people then you can probably leverage that to become successful in a new space.
Guidelines and base severity levels only specify a maximum sentence, with counterfeit goods crossing state and national boundaries 15 months is completely appropriate.
I was a student at the great institution called UC Berkeley and I remember well the teenagers walking around in suits/ties and skirts/blouse. These were undergrad Business school students and I remember well the air of superiority they showed. They seemed so proud.
1. I think giving up at this stage is the the easiest thing to do - and I think it common due to the uncertainty about the future

2. Check that you can imagine yourself spending next few years doing what you are doing, just even more harder

3. If so, double down, as suggested above ask why, why and why. If needed, pivot.
Sergey Brin warns of the threat from AI in today’s ‘technology renaissance’
This is not the way the cogniscenti would suggest it, but I would look at some 'classical hits' type playlists. These tend to give you a variety of fairly melodic and easy to grasp excerpts from longer pieces.

Find some that take your fancy and then listen to the whole piece, to see if you like that. Rinse and repeat.

Oh and Holst's The Planets is a nice varied introduction to things with some rip-roaring tunes and interesting orchestral effects. Try that.
>> the main investors/advisors (from the 220k friends/family/fools round) pretty much feel like it's time to pull the plug

Given your statement above, there's really no question beyond this point. You promised riches and success to family and friends and it is not currently looking like you will do that, and their message is "stop please before its all gone". Do so.

If you still have money and it is from family and friends then stop right now - on Monday (tomorrow) and give back all that you can. If you burn the rest of that cash then for the rest of your life those relationships will exist for you only in the light of that money. It would be different if the money you had was from an angel or VC who are taking calculated risks.

Your family and friends relationships are worth infinitely more than any startup.

You should instantly kill all business costs, go get a job, and continue marketing what you have built on the side.
Asheville, NC is an example that worked.

https://www.planetizen.com/node/53922

Google will find you lots more.
Ask HN: Distributed Tracing in Node.js?
Hi all,

I worked for a company more than 1 year which most of our stack is using Node.js architected in micro-service way.

I found difficulty on finding the best way for tracing context and error (distributed tracing) to detect issue faster. Anyone has experienced this too and been willing to share the way for dealing with this in production system?

P.S: I believe most people usually passing context in function call and combine it with open tracing. But I'm not sure if there are any better ways than that in Node.js. Example of distributed tracing in Golang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm2A80PfYww
I like following programmer fellaz. Even tho half of it promotes its tutorials, its still good to see full of stuff about programming, whats going on around. And there is good amount of interaction on open source, react, graphql related people as far as I see.
Events and tradeshows are in a category of their own, but anything that goes wrong in front of an audience comes with a large emotional burden. In events, there is never such a thing as perfect, but learning to execute well means less surprises. If you're burnt by recent catastrophes, know that there is also an amazing feeling that comes when things do go right. If you like/trust the people you are doing it with then stick with it until you can get a win, then decide if you want to keep at it.
> One should be allowed to alter one's own consciousness any way one sees fit.

And to what degree is one accountable for the things they do in pursuit of and under the influence of altered consciousness?
Link to the game http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1252350
I've had several optometrists suggest to me, based mostly on anectodal evidence, that excessive use of small screens lead to more cases of astigmatism than simply myopia, which is even harder to correct.
The Business Case for Snowplow Analytics
Ah thanks, I was looking for that earlier and couldn't find it :)
To this point, consider the failed startup Trada. (I worked there for a bit)

They had a marketplace for ad campaigns with Google. Instead of running ad campaigns or using artificial intelligence, a pool of optimizers would work on a campaign and Trada worked as the middle man between optimizers and advertisers.

The Trada logo was a jar of jelly beans: (http://wisdomofcrowds.blogspot.nl/2009/12/jelly-bean-experim...)

> A classic demonstration of group intelligence is the jelly-beans-in-the-jar experiment, in which invariably the group’s estimate is superior to the vast majority of the individual guesses. When finance professor Jack Treynor ran the experiment in his class with a jar that held 850 beans, the group estimate was 871. Only one of the fifty-six people in the class made a better guess.

When advertising on Google competition leads to higher prices. For example the keywords "dui lawyer" cost a fortune because the rate of return is so high for each click. Theoretically a creative individual could come up with a set of untapped, low price keywords that could lead to an effective ad campaign at a lower price.

In practice the company had major problems. Incompetent optimizers would chew through a whole budget, leading to advertiser churn, and a lot of intervention. Eventually everything becomes micro-managed which isn't a sustainable business model. (There's a reason agencies target big ad campaigns... its the only way to make it worth it because of the amount of resources you have to invest)

So there's a single data point where the wisdom of the crowds failed.
I find the short example a strange choice. Sure, you can build a crazy expression which is hard to process / read / debug. But the change also enables this, which solves most problems raised and makes reading easier:

if diff := x - x_base:
if (g := gcd(diff, n)) > 1:
return g

Or even this, depending on preference:

if diff := x - x_base:
g = gcd(diff, n)
if g > 1:
return g
Of course it's true that these are public health matter. But having been through trial and turmoil with family members in the depths of alcoholism, I have never found myself wishing to return to alcohol prohibition; have you?
Question: did you start with a problem to solve? Or are you a solution in search of a problem?
they have to respect the requests regardless of where the European individual is today

That's not the case, as far as I understand it; the GDPR protects people in the EU, not EU citizens wherever they are.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gdpr-does-apply-eu-citizens-g...
I'm fine with that, as long as they waive their right to public welfare if they become a societal burden caused by drug addiction/abuse. If one should be allowed to alter one's own consciousness any way one sees fit, then one should also accept full responsibility for making that decision without putting burden on the rest of the society.
It is not a cognitive liberty issue equally for everyone.

Many alcoholics are born that way. They do not have the same liberty with regard to alcohol as others do. Their agency is impaired when confronted with decisions about alcohol.

Alcohol is a potentially dangerous drug that I believe should be regulated more heavily than it currently is, while I also believe that other intoxicants such as marijuana are far milder in their overall impact and should be regulated less.

But in any particular case, I think that we must face the social implications of substance abuse as a real issue. I’ve talked to addicts that say that the intervention of law enforcement saved their lives. Of course this is not generally the experience for poor people or minorities. So if you are going to be more permissive in what people can legally acquire, I think that we have a moral obligation to provide intervention and support services for individuals affected by substance abuse. I don’t see a lot of people actually talking about this aspect of decriminalization in the US. Yes, blanket legalization will cure some ills but it will create many others. I don’t see any way to tell which side the weight comes down on at this point.
Have to mention
http://www.sourdo.com

You can get cultures from all over the world.

But it’s also worth trying to start your own from scratch. As a complete noob I had some great success.
Well, there is a solution to that: border tax adjustments.

Carbon taxes — and I mean at the well, not those bureaucratic, corruption-prone cap-and-trade schemes – are the simplest, cheapest, fastest way to get a carbon-free economy off the ground. And if you make them revenue-neutral, you can get conservatives on board as well (look up "fee and dividend").
An acquaintance of mine who graduated from USC MBA said basically you will do well if you can carry on good conversation over beer.

And another who went to Harvard Law said everyone at Harvard Law viewed folks at Harvard MBA as idiots.
IMHO, the logic is that catching people in the act (of burglary, robbery, etc) is difficult, and convicting them if they're not caught red handed can be difficult. Catching and convicting people for drug possession is relatively easy.

Since we think certain people are up to no good anyway, drug laws let us put them away, without actually having to prove the bad things they've probably done. It's essentially an end run around "proof beyond a reasonable doubt."

Laws criminalizing concealed weapons follow a similar logic.
Burning Man founder Larry Harvey dies aged 70
What is fun is CEOs like Jack Dorsey who leads two companies.
As a self-described hipster, who happens to love Solaris, this name offends me (just a bit).
I ended up just taking that paragraph out. I don't think it added much.
How Helen Keller Learned to Talk [video]
So you know what the problem is - the solution is to find product market fit. Take a couple days off, relax, and then go back to work hungry to solve this problem.

Get in and talk with the Pilot companies - be straight up and honest, ask them if it’s really solving a problem for them or if it’s just a nice to have. Ask what their true pains are.

Monitor your run rates and have contingency plans for dealing with what happens if funds get low.

If you’re worried, talk to your cofounders and make sure you’re communicating properly. Express your concerns.

If you truly want to quit, then you can do that but it will have consequences as well.

Startups can be hard, but the rules are simple. Find a problem and solve it.
It has. Drinking milk for instance is directly correlated to your growth
It's crazy how hard it is to fight fishing and spam, if I had programmed that UI I would never have thought of that. Maybe they're waiting for someone to actually exploit it before they make the UI less clean. It could be quite easy to make a special case for "email-like" recipient names, but it could also probably be cheated with some unicode wizardry.
The usual argument isn't that "all drugs are great". It's that meth, heroin, etc. are harmful, and even more harmful when they're banned, because the second-order consequences of prohibition (funding organized crime, risk of overdose due inconsistent purity, reluctance for user-criminals to seek help, etc.) more than offset any benefit from decreased availability.

This is more of a factual question than a moral one. It's hard to get data, but experiences like Portugal's point in favor of at least decriminalization. Even with perfect data, you have to decide how to value lives of Americans who choose to take drugs vs. Mexican civilians caught in drug war crossfire vs. ....

Quickly:

1. "Largely prevented as it is now"? Take a walk through SF...

2. If heroin were legal, would you try it? The legal risk is hardly the biggest reason to avoid the stuff now.

3. Lots of addicts are high-functioning even now. The goal is that more would be with lower prices, consistent dosage, public health support with less stigma / legal risk, etc.
It's great to disagree & commit if the person on the other side of the table can explain his/her position in a organized manner.

Unfortunately the proposal can be a fait accompli. I used to have demoralizing arguments with my boss, a company VP, about his product directives that were blatantly unsupported by logic or data. In every case his response would be to shrug his shoulders and say "but it's a done deal". (Meaning his CEO wanted to do it.) I can look back & say with confidence that each change was a financial dud.

Go ahead & say that it's your option to leave the company in these situations. It's true - and not always a viable option.
StrongTowns has developed an extensive body of work investigating that problem. I'd highly recommend reading/following then, especially as urban development issues gain more traction. Having followed StrongTowns for the last two years, and now seeing the rise in frequency and intensities of discussions around livable communities, mixed use, high density housing, etc, I get the feeling their message is finally starting to be heard and adopted by wider audiences.

I'd also personally suggest a recurring donation, even if it's small. (I donate monthly but have no other affiliation with StrongTowns). It's an apolitical movement founded by a civil engineer with the intention of developing stronger communities and fiscally sound towns and cities across the country. It's not solely about urban issues - they actually focus on small towns, though cities play a prominent role. It is also not against suburbs or urban sprawl, though they do describe the issues that those methodologies are hampered by.

I think if anything will bring Americans back together, it will be a focus on building stronger, fiscally stable communities under a visionary movement that appeals to any political viewpoint. StrongTowns is a strong contender for that role. For that reason I believe they are worth contributing to.
Is it just me, or the link is missing here ?
light intensity does that

try this:
take a picture, same object, no flash, ... one under normal bright sun and another in a room under normal bright lighting. which one is sharper?

set phone brightness to lowest, another on highest. try to read something and measure your arm's length. adjust brightness so you can still focus at farthest arm's length as comfort dictates. don't save on power juice. your eyes are more important.

drive outside and then go to underground parking lot. you'll notice it's harder to look.

use your normal glasses in a normal lighting room. go outside and swith to lower power (say your previous glasses). notice the difference.

the problem was i used the same power glasses all the time, out of habit. the very same glasses for reading far (chalkboards) and for reading books. it's somewhat not practical to switch glasses every time you copy something from board and write to your notes. using lower powered glasses and move my seat to the front mitigate this problem.

tldr; try to get maximum amount of light to your eyes as comfort dictates. if you really have to use glasses, choose the one with lower power that's sufficient for your need. practice to never use glasses for most tasks (adjust brightness on smartphone). you'll be surprised on what ur eyes can do without glasses.
Not sure why this is downvoted.

Long-term use of heroin produces no long term physician damage beyond chronic constipation.

Heroin is destructive because it's illegal. People take drugs of unknown purity and die from overdoses or infections. And people commit crimes to pay for the black market markup.

They have heroin replacement programs in Europe where addicts get prescription heroin. Experience shows that an addicts life gets pretty boring on it (boring from the stability). Which causes many of them to actually do something with their life rather than just hustle 24/7 to pay for black market heroin.
We must have read different articles. The one I read said it was dated around 1450AD.
> Is the hardenedbsd web site's security feature comparison table up to date?

It's misleading, if not outright inaccurate.
Show HN: Simple deployment script for portainer
Follow your instincts.

If you're interested in a full time salaried CTO position at a recently funded VR startup (cofounder level entry, but salaried/optional equity), message me at charlie@zannorman.com
An excellent companion-read to the linked article is:
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

It builds up a concept of "Colour" as describing information about a thing (distinct from metadata / tagging) which is not necessarily derivable from the thing itself. Most frequently it uses the term to describe provenance, but is careful not to limit the concept. To quote the ansuz' essay above in relation to the linked article:

When we use Colour like that to protect ourselves against viruses or malicious input, we're using the Colour to conservatively approximate a difficult or impossible to compute function of the bits. Either our operating system is infected, or it is not. A given sequence of bits either is an infected file or isn't, and the same sequence of bits will always be either infected or not. Disinfecting a file changes the bits. Infected or not is a function, not a Colour. The trouble is that because any of our files might be infected including the tools we would use to test for infection, we can't reliably compute the "is infected" function, so we use Colour to approximate "is infected" with something that we can compute and manage - namely "might be infected". Note that "might be infected" is not a function; the same file can be "might be infected" or "not (might be infected)" depending on where it came from. That is a Colour.

Once you've left your computer alone with a potential adversary, it has the might-be-compromised Colour. Proving whether it definitely has or has not been compromised is easy for devices which do not have this Colour, but as described in the linked-to article, very difficult or impossible once it has this Colour.
Is their a way to go past the paywall ?
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So, now then.
democracy is not about decision, but decision making. during the process consensus is born and grown. it then generates mandate and enough political capital and willingness for consequent execution.

that being said, democracy often leads to wishes that nobody could execute. after all, it's about what participants want, not what they really need.
There's more nuance here to discuss. One is throwing people in jail - you can still make production and distribution illegal while keeping the use itself legal. Another one is that availability of various drugs allows people to make relatively safer choices - see the difference in opioid addictions between states with different pot laws.

We can still jail people actively distributing/producing highly addictive drugs, while at the same time giving mostly free choice and helping rather than harming (potential) users. Monitoring actual results in the society can affect the thresholds of what's done.
Just you, it works fine on my end.
Reminds me of this friendly eel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IQ2I-P8Ucw
When developing new things, I always used Terraform and Jenkins.

The reason is because:

1. Terraform
You can abstract the deployment logic and requirements into single unit because developers ideally should spend more time building products rather than dealing with the deployment and cloud stuff. Furthermore, this will be one source of truth for any deployment configuration and documentation, that will be super worthed in onboading as well especially when you're working with big engineering team (> 50 engineers)

2. Jenkins
We actually can run terraform from our local computer, but with Jenkins we can standardize the way people update and create the resource in consistent way. Also, by using Jenkins we can track all deployment that happened

My future plan is for combining this workflow with management configuration tools like Ansible since Terraform is not only for creating cloud resource, not for manage configuration. Currently, I'm ussing bash command which obviously won't be easily scalable and understandable by engineers.
If glasses are an exoskeleton, use the minimum strength for:

- phone (30 cm)
- computer (60 cm)
- board/driving (600+ cm)

Now that you can buy good quality glasses online for less than $50 from the same Essilor labs that supply local stores, it is practical to wear situation-specific pairs, especially for computer work.

More info: https://gettingstronger.org/2016/03/faq-for-vision-improveme...
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.ft.com/content/94...
Useless Use of Cat