skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Still growing.

Right. Doesn't change the inflow/outflow dynamic.

> it's the fault of "the other", and that Oregon/Washington/Colorado/wherever are victims rather than merely other states impacted by the same factors California is -- namely, a booming economy, inflows to more urban areas, rising property values, growing wage gaps, etc.

Sure, I follow you. Nevertheless, the hypothesis that outflows from CA would be lower if CA housing were less expensive (because supply was less constrained) is a reasonable one, IMO. Do you disagree?

In that context, it is arguably correct to attribute (some) inflows from the state to CA's expensive housing policies, which are in many ways worse than other states.
Ahh thanks for letting me know. No chance to delete it now but the submission links to the abstract and the PDF can be accessed there.
The west coast, well, many urban areas, often are leaders in showing trends then end up spreading more widely.
Does it buy you anything at that point? A server-side issue, such as this, would still log the thing you need to log in, and a client-side issue would just intercept the hashed form or could derive the hashing mechanism from analysing the client.

At most, it would seem to prevent weak passwords from being passed directly to bcrypt, but salting should solve that in a similar way anyway, and anyone brute-forcing a copy of the database can incorporate the same weak hashing logic
But they're not comparing denser helium-filled drives to less-dense air-filled drives. They're comparing 12TB helium drives to 12TB air drives—equal density. (I have no idea how they're managing to make non-helium drives of that density, but apparently they can.)

Of course, for a drive density that can only be achieved using helium, a helium leak will kill the drive.

But right now, it seems that these drives might not actually need the helium, since equivalent drives exist without it.
Just a couple of asides, since I was reading about these very subjects (Am-241 RTGs and outer solar system photovoltaics) a few weeks ago;

The UK's NNL prototyped out a process for volume manufacture of Am-241 in 2013. http://www.nnl.co.uk/news-media-centre/news-archive/space-ba...
And a few notes about the Americium-RTG effort more generally:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2015/0423-can-a-n...

NASA has also studied use of solar power beyond Jupiter's orbit: (PDF link) https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/nov_2007_meeting/presentations...

(Edit: Fixed a link)
Asked and answered in the thread above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16990570
It can be 0, or it can any number greater than 0 in multiples of 100. I've yet to hear a convincing argument as to why it's incapable to posting gains ever again.
Any particular reason you didn't opt for scrapy...
I guess you're based in the UK, were you previously compliant with the Data Protection act of 1998?

If not, this seems rather stupid.
If not malice, it is incredibly bad engineering. Every IP address on a foreign, public network has to be considered as "in use".
Good, one less website owned by irresponsible people in existence. :-)
I don't think your "correctly" parenthetical is apt — you are proposing that demand is infinite and therefore supply and demand does not apply. Clearly demand is not infinite because prices are finite. Also, if demand can eat up all of the supply, you are still supply-limited. That is supply and demand in action — you're imagining a scenario in which supply is still very constrained and claiming that prices will stay high. I agree! Supply needs to be less constrained than that to lower prices, which is kind of the general thrust of the YIMBYs.

Yes, rent control distorts supply and demand, leading to higher prices.

Land will eventually constrain, but at the moment SFBA has tons and tons of unused air that is kept off the market by zoning.
Right now, investing in drug development is just a bad use of resources. There's a huge amount of variation in clinical practice using the drugs we already have. A lot of that practice is undoubtedly sub-optimal or actively harmful, but we just aren't funding research into how we use old, boring, generic drugs.

If you go into cardiac arrest, you may or may not be given epinephrine. Some hospitals use it in their resus protocols, some don't. Nobody knows whether it works, but it's the subject of heated debate at anesthesiology conferences. Some trials suggest that it's marginally effective, others suggest that it reduces long-term survival rates. There's conflicting evidence on timing and dose. As you teeter on the threshold between life or death, someone might be giving you a drug based on decades-old studies performed on dogs, some clinical guesswork and a bunch of inconclusive research.

For the price of one drug that offers a few extra months of life to a handful of patients with a rare form of cancer, we could resolve several of these clinical debates.

http://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=...
PocketCasts is interesting because arguably the Discover section is less central than other apps (I can't remember the last time I used except to do searches for new shows vs. other apps where the main page is loaded for recommendations of shows I don't care about).

I wonder if that changes.
I think in general social media is hostile to conservative viewpoints because most social media users are young.

There's really not much social media companies can do if someone gets downvoted into oblivion because 90% of people viewing a comment thread are under the age of 25 and more likely to be liberal as a result.

That said, companies like Reddit need to be careful that they don't automatically interpret something like criticism of illegal immigration as hate speech. Of course such criticism certainly could be framed in such a way that it is hate speech, but it's very possible to not be hateful while discussing illegal immigration and similarly sensitive issues. Yet therein lies the grey.
Isn’t that what the “compassionate use” exemption is for?
“We shut down Richard Spencer's Altright website.”
This article (like a lot of others) confuses Spark and Hadoop. To clarify:

Spark is a data processing engine. Spark works with many persistent storage layers but provides none itself. So Spark can run on object storage (S3 etc), additionally it can run on HDFS (the Hadoop file system).

The right layer to compare Spark with is MapReduce or to compare its SQL engine vs other SQL engines that run on Hadoop (Impala, Hive LLAP, Presto).

YARN is used for resource scheduling in the Hadoop world but Spark has other options like its internal scheduler, Mesos, and now Kubernetes.

When people say Hadoop, the technical meaning is often HDFS + Hive + YARN + MapReduce (for legacy) + implicitly Spark on Hadoop. All Hadoop distributions support Spark.

So the comment Spark is faster that Hadoop is like saying Postgres is faster than Google Cloud.
So fundamentally, due to mitigatable-but-impossible-to-fully-patch hardware exploits like Rowhammer and Spectre, client-based sandboxing cannot be relied upon.

Seems that a good approach for the average HN user is to disable Javascript for all sites, but whitelisting trusted sources (of course with HTTP MITM over compromised routers, never execute any code with questionable integrity, so anything delivered over a non-TLS connection)

Goes without saying one should only use the minimal possible amount of native applications too: ideally none except perhaps the smartphone OS-vendor's trusted applications (your OS-vendor can already arbitrarily execute code and read memory). Using the OS-vendor's web browser with Javascript disabled shouldn't be too much of a security risk.
Yeah, I think the usual approach is to ship the JVM with the app.

And last I looked it (like ScalaFX) runs against Java 8, so no Jigsaw to shrink app sizes.
We dont need another game engine ... we need a good game.

No one has created a good html 5 game. This is because engineers make good engines but its the creative artist spirit that makes works of art.

Any game designer will use unity over any html5 engine.

Why not?
SF's strong renter's rights mean that $0 can be a better deal for the landlord.

There exist values for X and Y where $X * 12 months < $Y * 8 months, and if the landlord believes the market will be that much higher in 4 months, then the unit stays empty.
For anyone intrigued by this sort of thing - that is to say the ethics of hobo culture - I would highly recommend reading `You Can't Win'[1], the autobiographical account of Jack Black's train hoppin', bank robbin' life as a yegg.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Win_(book)
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Memes about programming languages (and programming language communities) die hard so it's probably a good idea to avoid reinforcing them when possible. I read this comment as a sort of implicit variant of "RIIR". Judging by the downvotes, I think others did the same.

Rust probably doesn't even deserve the "RIIR" meme as 1) "RIIR" seems to happen way more often on HN/similar than on mailing lists or bug trackers and 2) much of the time the person saying "RIIR" admits to not even being a Rust programmer themselves. I think it's just a side effect of Rust (justifiably) emphasizing safety, and by extension security, in its presentation, and the tendency of some people to conflate the elimination of a certain class of vulnerabilities with the elimination of all vulnerabilities. To be fair, this poster didn't make this mistake.

Edit: Another mistake that some people make after being introduced to Rust is assume that languages that don't explicitly emphasize memory safety in their presentation aren't memory safe. This poster comes across as potentially making this mistake.
I'm also much more productive at work, but I suspect I could do roughly as well at a decent co-working space in a cheap city.
Can't Stand connotes repulsion or dislike, the title it misleading and the conclusions drawn don't make much sense.
All of the rigorous descriptions of reality consist of math; the deeper we delve into it, the more math there is. So far, no non-math stuff been found. There is nothing to contradict a suspicion that it's just math all the way to the bottom (if there is a bottom) or else just math all the way.
Genetics for one. If a DNA primer-pair is looking for it's complement [0], then this strategy could be useful. Here the prisoners are the complementary primers and the DNA-sequence-to-be-matched-to is the cabinet. Shepherding proteins/histones could restrict in a nucleic bottleneck of some sort, such that only one primer gets to go at once without repeating [1]. Only when the primers are all set-up is the DNA 'free' to be transcribed or some such thing.

[0] For a sequence like ATGC, the primer is the opposite nucleotide, therefore the 'matching number' would be not ATGC as well, but TACG.

[1] Look, bio is weird, like, jumping genes are actually a thing. This set-up, though strange, is not as unreasonable as a lot of stuff that goes on.
Eh. Cost of 'doing business'. I saw the analogy last time when the same author posted their last "I'm shutting this down because of GDPR" post - chefs still have to follow food safety regulations, even if they just want to cook food.

You want to write code? Deploy it to localhost:8000.

You want to launch something online and collect user data? Be responsible with it.
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> Young websites and non-profits cannot afford legal teams. Therefore the risk posed by GDPR is unacceptably high.

I was going to post something on the previous post (re: StreetLend), but I guess I'll say it here: this is a bunch of nonsense. There are plenty of other regulations that can land a young startup in hot water (DMCA, for one, which, by the way, carries a 5-year potential jail sentence as a penalty) and yet we're seeing more tech startups in 2018 than we did in 1998, not less.

This whole hoopla is just posturing.
Asylo is not tied to EPID; the framework aims to abstract away any unique behavior specific to TEE implementations, and provide a common backend interface that developers can code against. The goal is to allow developers to easily migrate their apps between backends with little to no source-code changes.

Specifically for attestation purposes, Asylo defines the EnclaveAssertionGenerator[1] and EnclaveAssertionVerifier[2] interfaces; these will need technology-specific implementations.

In this initial release we only support a simulated backend, for experimental development. We'll continue looking into specific TEE technologies going forward.

[1] https://github.com/google/asylo/blob/master/asylo/identity/e...

[2] https://github.com/google/asylo/blob/master/asylo/identity/e...
The theory is that space-time is infinitely large, and there is an infinite amount of energy within it (afaik).

Actually the theory (General Relativity)is that a closed universe should have measurable positive curvature, unless it has some weird topology that isn't "naturally" expected (although everything consistent is possible of course). We measure a curvature approximately 0, so that would imply the universe is in fact infinite. Since it is also expected to be isotropic (have approx. the same distribution properties everywhere and in any direction), then it also would have infinite energy. There's no proof of this infiniteness of course, it is only the most natural expectation (most natural of course is always controversial since some physicists probably don't like infinite universes). What we observe, and what can affect us in any way, is of course the 'Observable Universe', and up to its edge it appears boringly uniform (except for a minor anomaly[1]), arranging in a web of huge filaments[2] that extend across its entirety.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_evil_(cosmology)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_filament
Chamath Palihapitiya on solving the world's hardest problems [video]
I haven't experienced the sync problems, but I believe you. Also, I use mobile the majority of the time so it's entirely possible I just don't use that feature enough to experience that pain.

> find the words inside the audio of any episode

Woah, that I didn't know about!
It doesn't need to be deterministic, it just needs to be biased.
It's notable that "fish and shellfish just 6 percent."

I suspect the reason is simple - we distrust shellfish preparation, and take extra care.

With salads ... I mean yesterday I tipped a bag of salad into a bowl, stuck some dressing on an ate it.

Either salad bag makers are going to go the extra mile with "Washed in frozen nitrogen by astronauts for your safety" or the industry is dead.
Even with whatever streamlining Stripe Atlas provides, going through that process requires making a lot of decisions, outside a typical developer's scope of expertise, that really make it obvious that this is no longer a hobby and it's now a business. That's enough to make a developer decide to just shut down a casual side project application or service, especially if it isn't making money.
Also (for the benefit of the rest of HN) s/as/but/ — I had problems on Windows, and someone is proposing a solution I just need to merge in once the mega-PR that added it and a bunch of other things are split into more manageable chunks that won't merge conflict as easily with what I am independently doing to stabilize the build.
Technically, you could choose a 3.5 inch, 6 Gb/s, 4 Tb model that contains He and then compare to the non-He version.
Exactly. This is a very small startup killer.

Who wants to launch a side project and be faced with the prospect of $20M fines if someone from the EU signs up and decides to blow them in to regulators for whatever obscure way their side project isn’t compliant...

What’s worse is that it’s not entirely clear how to comply. I’ve spent countless hours now just trying to figure out what it all means and get specific, actionable ways to comply for my apps.

Unfortunately, it has drastically changed the projects I am considering moving forward.
Apple donating huge amounts to cash to charity would be an... interesting... lawsuit. I agree that they would definitely get sued over it, but I don't believe that they outcome of that lawsuit is necessarily cut and dry.

And the cases you bring up for fraud/negligence are very different, and pretty obviously not covered under running an enterprise in good faith.
I would be interested in hearing peoples experience of Altair vs Bokeh. I've used Bokeh on a couple of very small vis products, but never really dived into it fully. Altair seems to have a similar goals, and a similar design philosophy. Is that an accurate impressions? Does either of the two stand obviously ahead of the other?
> Responding to the new resaerch, Kevin McConway, Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics at The Open University, said the significance of the trend may be less clear cut than the research group claim.

It’s not unusual for such small proportions to have large variation.
That's the rub about the seemingly innocent golf question. What if someone has a physical handicap that prevents them from playing golf but in no way affects their ability to perform the duties of the job they are interviewing for?
Any US lawyers want to comment on how GDPR, a EU regulation, impacts US-based business, startups, hobbyists, etc?

If it's an EU law, if they're based in the USA can they simply ignore the EU law? Or move to the USA?
I was hoping the article would be in BBS like format.
1950 isn't that long ago, I've read books from that era in the last 12 months, even computer science papers from that era are not too uncommon.
I hope researchers are as inquisitive as you. These are some excellent questions and fears I have as well (sleeping with phone).
At the height of gold farming when hacking WoW accounts was very profitable 1/2 our guild was individually hacked over a six month period. Normally it's much harder to detect password being leaked but it was really noticeable and hardware/cellphone tokens made a huge difference.

So, I suspect the reverse is true with standalone PC's being more likely to be compromised, what makes this less noticeable is it's harder to automated extracting value from those hacked accounts beyond sending gmail spam etc.

PS: This is also why cryptocoin software on users machines is basically a non starter.
> if you’re in a biggest-number-naming contest, and you write “BB(10000),” you’ll destroy any opponent—however otherwise mathematically literate they are—who’s innocent of computability theory. For BB(n) grows faster than any computable sequence of integers

So is BB(10000) computable or no? If not, does "greater than" still have meaning?
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Really, it's just more FUD.

> GDPR threatens website owners with fines of 4% of turnover or €20 million (whichever is higher) if they do not jump through a number of ambiguously-defined hoops.

...No. GDPR certainly doesn't. The often quoted "4% of revenue" fines are upper bound of fines for the serious intentional and continuous violations.[1] Spreading information like this is almost certainly the textbook definition of FUD.

GDPR is, largely, 'common sense' regulation. At the gist of it is "be responsible with users data". If you want to store personally identifiable information, that comes with it a set of responsibilities that you have to keep on top of. Delete data when users ask for it. Inform users about what you do with their data. I really think that's the minimum you could ask for.

Edited fines to align closer to the language used in the actual regulation

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
Web Auth API (authn) does try to make it usable.

It ties in with the credential management API (A way to have the browser store login credentials for a site, a much less heuristic based approach than autocomplete on forms) and basic principle is generate a key pair, pass back public key to be sent to server during registration. On login generate a challenge value for the client to sign. I don't think iirc the JS code ever sees the private key, only the browser sees it.
Okay, is it just me or are these patents insane? Literally no words or limitations as to what the patent actually covers. Just a set of pictures, with the part they would like to have "patented" emboldened.

Can't you just claim that Tesla's design is 1% different from the drawing and therefore not subject to this patent?
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IANAL but this depends entirely on how much exposure you have in the EU. If you have none, then you can safely ignore GDPR.
I don’t manage an API, but as a consumer of APIs that others manage, I can tell you that SOP seems to be “push breaking changes with no warning and often times no documentation.” (Even from very large companies you would assume know better.) If you send any kind of warning or advance notice you are likely in the top quartile already.
Thoughts on cordless Bluetooth headphones? I use them for hours a day to listen to music or calls, which is radiating my ear drum?
Same thing with Casino and Goodfellas both of which end quite disturbingbly for the main characters
This is, yet, again, an ill-informed and extremely narrow-minded statement. Stock markets came about because they were a way for farmers to hedge their bets against poor crop yields and allowed them, as well as the civilizations that depended on them, to survive winters without starving. Stock markets are responsible for the growth of major trade routes that did things like spread agricultural innovation, knowledge, and culture throughout the ancient world. It was not "to make investors rich".

Today, the stock market still serves as a way to spread innovation. Elon Musk would not have been able to build Tesla, nor SpaceX, nor Solarcity without the help that Wall Street has provided. You are incorrect in assuming that this is about a "single-minded focus on wealth". They are asking questions about capital because these are the things that will determine whether or not Tesla will fail at "making the world a better place", and those are important things to know, just like it was important to know if all of your farmers are going to go out of business and cause a famine.
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I don't think "answering basic questions about the financial health of your company" really should be considered "brown nosing", but to each their own.

And it's not that simple that he can just raise debt or equity if Tesla's stock starts tanking. There aren't billions of dollars out there to be invested or loaned to money losing companies whose stock price is tanking. If come Q4 Tesla is having to raise money at a lower valuation, it becomes even more difficult to see the path to success.
Your argument is not very clear to me. They may very correctly realize that when you take how large the demand is + how much land is up for sale + how much could possibly be built on it + which neighborhood they want to remain in... the chance the market will reduce those units to prices that affordable to them... the chances are very low. So its not really a surprise they become NIMBYs.
> You want to launch something online and collect user data? Be responsible with it.

You imply I should "be responsible" in return for the value I'm getting from the user data?

If so, you're wrong about the value part. I don't see any value in data from users - I see it as a dangerous liability and something I'd rather was not stored on my servers.

I code in order to provide a service, which I do because it's satisfying to use my skill to build something I'm proud of, and something that helps other people out.

I do not code to collect user data.

And, by the way, I am responsible with user data - probably more so than many large organisations with the legal capacity to defend against GDPR claims.