skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true in fully wild populations. Wildlife like deer attracts suburban crazy people just like pigeons in the city. Folks leave food for the "poor deer" and create local population booms.

My parents neighbor probably drops 150-200 pounds of feed per day for this purpose.
https://www.airbnbcitizen.com/airbnb-new-york-and-housing/
I've always been impressed by Duolingo's strategy - offering language education while distributing text translation.

Traditionally, language learning software like Rosetta Stone has been very expensive. Duolingo offers a free language learning service. As students improve/advance, Duolingo starts to use real sentences for teaching / translation. Because the other side of their business offers language translation services, the app can surface client's text to students and once enough students have attempted to translate it, their software compares and returns the best match to the client. [1]

Equally interesting, its founder previously started Captcha, which cleverly took the "prove you're a human" opportunity to have humans OCR books and street signs. Since the Google acquisition, I think ReCaptcha is now primarily used to improve Google Maps data.

I believe Duolingo has started exploring other revenue opportunities as this hasn't been as profitable as originally expected, but the idea is/was clever.

[1] https://unicornomy.com/how-does-duolingo-make-money-business...
Particularly when the wrong flag is used. In this case, Gaelige is given the Scottish flag when it's actually the official language of Ireland in the EU. Scots and Irish Gaelige are not the same language. And Scotland is not an EU member (it's membership, sadly, is by virtue of the UK's membership)
Sounds like the PR firm for the hotel industry has been busy!
Isn’t AT&T screwing their own customers by blocking 1.1.1.1 as well ?
My point is that this is either a use a lawsuit for PR purposes thing or a shakedown attempt. Their design patents, for want of a better word, suck. Besides, neither company has an actual product out (though Tesla has some prototypes, and Nikola has at least one) making this even more of a farce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb9cC2VHhyo
There was a very interesting post on that topic just a couple of days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16953005
But hardly anyone actually holds the device to their head anymore...
> it was not absurd for AT&T engineers in the past to thing

That is an utterly unreasonable conclusion.

The same logic resulted in Y2K, which was generally a huge waste of time, money, and resources.

The same logic has resulted in the anemic adoption of IPv6, which is NOT a correct solution, because it doesn't work properly for large swaths of the public.

The correct answer always was, and will continue to be, to use internal routes for internal routing, and external routes for external. Clashes with your LAN? Too fucking bad.

This sort of pushing out of externalizes onto the customer results in the same exact outcome anyway: customer gets screwed.

The customer always gets screwed. Don't rationalize the incompetence of engineers who should know better, and corporate execs who don't give a fuck.
this actually works. I just use the short forms in the documentation because it is more compact and more understandable
Anti-Oxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Ketogenic Diet
With greater heights you have less problems with insects. It could very well be that there were humans everywhere but those who lived there did better.
In the terms in which design patents apply, they don't look alike. The lines are off by several feet.
You're quibbling. If people really cared about this issue, they'd be demanding change. If they really cared, they would have demanded change after Gore lost in 2000, and again in 2016 when Trump won. But they don't. The ones on the losing side complain "he wasn't elected by a majority! He shouldn't pursue his agenda!" while the ones on the winning side counter with "your side lost! get over it! This is the system we all use!"

Have you seen any groundswell of movement to try to change any of the election laws? Of course not. We've seen people pushing for new gun laws (in the wakes of shootings), we've seen people pushing for marijuana legalization or decriminalization or rescheduling, we've seen people pushing for gay marriage (and winning), we've seen people pushing for higher minimum wage laws, but we have NOT seen any real push for electoral reform.

Our gun laws have seen various changes (at all levels) over the decades, MJ was only banned in the 1930s IIRC, gay marriage only became an issue in the last couple decades, yet we've had these same election laws since the founding of the nation. If we really cared about changing them, we have done so by now. I, for one, certainly haven't seen any desire to change the Electoral College system on the right, since they benefit from it; instead, they steadfastly defend the system.

So yes, a majority of Americans do support this election system.
This article like the telegraph is utter bs. The power output of a mobile phone by standard is a max of 1 watt. And even then the mobile phone does not use 1 watt constantly. Hell, if it was the case that we were getting damaged by these ranges of frequency bands we wouldn't be having WIFI all over the place for the same reason. Now Hypothetically if one was to be stupid enough to stand next to an active Mobile base-station antenna then yes, you would start having head-aches because of the emissive power concentration from the antenna, and also the fact that base stations are at max i think between 30-50 watts.
How Long Until a Robot Cries (2013)
There are certain people in companies who if they aren't in meetings all the time, would probably have very little to actually do.

I think for those people meetings are saving their job.
Check out park.io: https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-automating-tasks-...

The product (individual domains) advertises the service (domain backordering).

Sort of reverse-engineered marketing.
I mean, that's only because you/we romanticise our industry.

What a bizarre false dichotomy. Literal prostitution, retail job, or software development. There are plenty of others out there that are needed that people work in. Become an apprentice, learn a trade, and start business. Work in retail, become a manager, own a location, climb the ranks. Get a finance degree, work at a firm, create a consultancy.
I don't think you do the problem justice. Here are some people who fit the "no employment" metric but who we shouldn't count as "unemployed" if our goal is "anyone who wants a job, or needs a job to live without assistance, has one":

* A by-choice stay-at-home parent. There are like 10 million stay-at-home parents in the US (c.f., our entire labor force is ~125 million!)

* A contract worker/consultant, as well as employees in seasonal fields such as construction, many of whom make very decent 12-month wages but might be "unemployed" if you ask at the wrong moment.

* Anyone with a severe disability (mental or physical) which makes work difficult or impossible.

* Someone younger than retirement age (40s-50s) who has retired early by choice (e.g., no kids, dual high incomes for 20+ years, non-extravagant lifestyle; particularly relevant for this forum...)

If you counted all of these, I have no doubt our unemployment rate would at least double, if not triple. But that would be a ridiculously stupid number to even think about -- none of the above people want a job (or want a 12 month job); why should we try to organize society around forcing them to work when they don't need to and don't want to?!

I'm not claiming the current definition of "unemployed" is perfect, BTW. But IMO it's WAY better than yours...
On the Connectivity of Mesh Networks
> only doing this to harm their company

That's not wholly unthinkable as far as AT&T is concerned. They're historically a bad player.
> That seems to be a shoehorn of the most popular technology of one field into another field.

Recurrent neural network is used to model gene regulatory network. It's not a shoehorn.

See for example:

[1]: Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Networks from Gene Expression Data Using Decoupled Recurrent Neural Network Model
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-4-431-54394-7_...

[2]: Gene regulatory networks inference with recurrent neural network models
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1555844/

[3]: Recurrent Neural Network Based Modeling of Gene Regulatory
Network Using Bat Algorithm https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.03221.pdf

> The GRN is orders of magnitude more complex than computational NNs and it is orders of magnitude slower than signal transduction of axons.

It's possible that we can reduce relevant complexity to the RNN subset that it useful. Feedback loop speeds are slower but they can be below second.

In many search and optimization problems the ability to run say 100 trillion large stochastic RNN's in parallel in a 100 liter tank could be huge. Especially if all you need is glucose and few cheap nutrients to power it.
Could robots be counselors?
[citation needed] and are you seriously suggesting discriminating against people based on marital status?
Very useful here, thanks mate. I'll share it, a lot of people around me are confused.
(By 'genre' I meant the type of comment, not the type of people.)

I don't disagree, but it doesn't answer the point: we have no way to tell what's true vs. false in these posts. Bad hiring practices are a thing and disgruntled applicants are a thing. Who Is Hiring threads are in no position to tell one apart from the other. Just imagine the mess if people started litigating the details here?

But they can't, anyhow, because no matter what someone posts, the person representing the company can usually only reply with something generic. A situation in which it's impossible to hear both sides and impossible to determine the facts is not one that is possible for the rest of us to decide fairly.
Thanks for the explanation! If it functions similarly to strings, which are also immutable, when you do any type of operation it causes a reallocation?
Gold is used as a hedge because it often moves opposite of other value stores. Crypto currency's move independent of any specific store of value making them effectively nearly useless as hedges.

PS: Adjusted for inflation in 1915 gold was worth $483.23 in 2015 prices, in 2018 it was actually worth $1,060. That's extreme long term price stability as in +/- 1% per year over 100 years go back say 500 or 2,000 years and it stays very stable. That long term stability relates to it's intrinsic value as an actual good, which bounds price movements.
Ah, turns out that's just another word for "users". [1]

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/367268/446554
You Can Finally Encrypt Slack Messages So Your Boss Can't Read Them
Nope. It is easy to make an efficient heat engine if temperature differential is so huge that it is sufficient for a steam turbine. And efficiency of a turbine will be nowhere like Carnot efficiency. Stirling engines work on much lower temperature difference, providing efficiencies dead close to Carnot levels (which is still, on that temperature difference, quite low).
Their rebuttal is linked in the article.

https://www.airbnbcitizen.com/airbnb-new-york-and-housing/
Do you find standups actually useful? Or are you doing them because agile companies do standups?

I've never found any utility in standups at all, and the days we missed the standups were no different to the days we have the standups.
Which scenes specifically?
Can people really still point at Turkey and call it a serious candidate for EU membership?

There is a serious case for including Israeli figures in this kind of pan-regional not-exclusively-EU analysis. Israel is far closer, culturally, to Europe than geographically closer neighbors (e.g. Morocco, Tunisia) and is increasingly part of European academic, sporting, and artistic interests (most recently thinking of Eurocrypt 2018, which was in Tel Aviv this week, and this year's Giro D'Italia, which is starting in Israel this weekend).

There are strong historical reasons why Israel will never apply to be a member of the EU or to adopt the Euro - but a perspective is to think of Israel as strongly Eurosceptic. Can anyone really look at Eurosceptic parties on the Continent and say that, what, the EU defines what it means to be European? That Hungary is no longer culturally European or that it dropped off the Continent because Viktor Orbán got elected Prime Minister?
Pro Kitesurfer Antoine Auriol on the Windy App
The thing I find odd (and unexciting) about the second-hand market thing is that appears to be to be fighting technology rather than innovating. We already have scarcity in the real world. One of the most interesting and powerful things about the digital world is that it scarcity does not exist. If I squint hard enough I can see this sort of thing being successful, but it seems like a step backward instead of forward.

My question in the identity system was actually an honest one (though I don't blame you for having me pegged as a skeptic and answering as such): why isn't this a thing yet? 10 years seems like a long time; 3 years seems like long enough for me to have heard of at least one promising work in progress system. What are the challenges?
What's routine mean? I've had people that go all Peter Potomus and start beating down the office door if you don't reply to their insane, rambling emails inside of five minutes, screeching "Did you get that THING I sent YA!"

Email is a medium that should require a little bit of thought and deliberation, and if you're doing it, you can't do much else. Incoming-email-driven development is one of the more frustrating and wasteful processes I've suffered through. Ping ping ping, bouncing all around, not concentrating.

It's also worth trying to cultivate some self-reliance in your coworkers, so they learn how to find information and solve problems on their own, without needing their hand held every step. It's sometimes overwhelmingly difficult not to send back a lmgtfy link to some questions.
For anyone interested, here is the full text of the study: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u4s1fcync2gseyl/AirBnB_Report%20FI...

A brief description of how they attempted to control for other factors:

> We also control for demographic and economic changes in neighborhood level by including average household income (in log form), population (in log form), and the shares of college-educated and employed residents in the neighborhood. We also included year and neighborhood-level fixed effects (dummy) variables to control for otherwise uncontrolled-for trends and neighborhood characteristics.
Put it in airplane mode overnight.
Slightly OT, but for the rest of us "fake it till you make it" is terrible advice. Because if you don't make it, you have lived a fake life and this will eat on you.
> I worry that if the Postgres people do make that change, they'll find themselves hearing from a different set of kernel developers that they should have known direct IO doesn't work properly and they should be using buffered IO instead.

That definitely will happen. But the fact remains that at the moment you'll get considerably higher performance when expertly using O_DIRECT, and there's nothing on the horizon to change that.

> For example this message from ten years ago, and other strongly-worded views in that thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/10/235

> In particular, I'd taken this bit as a suggestion that if people found problems with buffered IO then the right thing to do is to ask the kernel side to improve things, rather than switch:

I think partially that's just been overtaken by reality. A database is guaranteed to need its own buffer pool and you're a) going to have more information about recency in there b) the OS caching adds a good chunk of additional overhead. With buffered IO we (PostgreSQL) already had to add code to manage e.g. the amount of dirty data caching the OS does. The only reason DIO isn't always going to be beneficial after doing the necessary architectural improvements, is that the OS buffer pool is more adaptive in mixed use / not as well tuned databases.
Well explained! And I wonder: Does the existence of our universe require that something else "exist" outside of time?

People claim it as a proof of "God" or a creator, and I used to be skeptical of that logic (albeit I am a theist, for other reasons) but the way you put it I find pretty convincing.
Pure CSS 4 Designers
TV shows for the truly tech-obsessed
These particular folks were concerned about the idea of radios in each ear communicating across the brain. The potential interference or other impact on brain "electonics" was an area of concern, not just cancer.

I was surprised these guys were worried about it. They all use wired earbuds, which says enough for me.
The odd thing is that AirBnB’s entire value proposition to hosts is that it increases realizable income from the property they control and make available through AirBnB; if true, especially in the presence of supply constraints, this has to increase market clearing prices.

They are in a position where what they need hosts to believe is directly at odds with what they want policymakers (including people voting directly on policy or for politicians) to believe.
> We will remove this clause altogether once time is ready to launch.

Glad to hear that :)
Right, adding a column with a default means the alter takes time while holding that lock and nothing can be read/written so is generally unsafe for big tables, but it doesn’t help if the alter can’t acquire the lock in the first place
People wanted disruption ... well that's what you get. Economics of capitalism at work.
Life Before and After Spinnaker
LovelyStay | https://lovelystay.com | Back End Engineer | TypeScript/PostgreSQL | Lisbon/Portugal | Onsite

LovelyStay.com is bridging the gap between home owners and the major booking platforms.

Our stack is NodeJS + TypeScript + PostgreSQL + React + Redux, and we're looking for backend developers that:

1. Prefer TypeScript to JavaScript;

2. Prefer parameterized SQL to an ORM;

3. Prefer PostgreSQL to MySQL and NO-SQL;

4. Prefer functional programming to OOP...

...and would like to work in Lovely Lisbon, Portugal (no recruiters please).

We're currently a team of 8 developers, and growing.

Get in touch with us at hn@lovelystay.com.
I think one reason is that in these movies those actors you mention are the “heroes” of the story, in the sense that they’re the ones who undergoe the transformation. The flip side, all the people who have lost everything because of Belfort are not portraited at all.

Another reason might be that many people are simply greedy and the consequences for the main actors weren’t that bad in the end after all. I think the real Belfort made an appearance at the end of the movie and gives speeches nowadays...
The link is at the end of the article.

https://www.airbnbcitizen.com/airbnb-new-york-and-housing/
>Well, the conference organizers are "respecting" the "US public"'s choice by holding their conference somewhere where more people are welcome.

Yes, exactly. You don't need the scare-quotes. The voters of the US have spoken, and their will should be respected. If they don't want to be a welcoming place, that's their right. It's the conference organizers' right to take their conference someplace more welcoming, and it isn't disrespectful for them to do this.

>If the management of the Holtin Hotels said brown-haired people are no longer welcome in their hotel, would you hold your conference (which has some brown haired people attendees) there or would you hold it somewhere else?

Exactly! There's plenty of places in the world where you can have a large tech conference.
Autopsies are performed when the cause of death is indeterminate. Most people die of a known cause. A family member of mine was autopsied (in the UK) when they died unexpectedly. I expect that if killed by brain cancer, you'll either present symptoms resulting in a diagnosis (albeit a late one), or die unexpectedly and be autopsied.
And scripted with Common Lisp
As is "hotel inflation" and "car inflation" and "park inflation".
Would this mean hiring local companies to rep you like registered agents? Sounds super prohibitive to small businesses. Also seems if true to be a decent business opportunity.
> I don't think widely considered experts experience the impostor syndrome in the same way that I see it explained. Experts on postgres internals don't wonder if they're experts on postgres internals...

Um. I'm an expert on PG internals. And I get impostor syndrome on stuff related to PG internals.
> you should inspect the 7-Zip code in order to be 100% sure that the magic number detection in your filter is identical (or matches a superset) to the one from 7-Zip

CPP/7zip/Archive/Rar/RarHandler.cpp:

#define SIGNATURE { 0x52 , 0x61, 0x72, 0x21, 0x1a, 0x07, 0x00 }

CPP/7zip/UI/Common/OpenArchive.cpp:

const Byte kRarHeader[] = { 0x52 , 0x61, 0x72, 0x21, 0x1a, 0x07, 0x00 };

CPP/7zip/Archive/Rar/Rar5Handler.cpp:

#define SIGNATURE { 0x52 , 0x61, 0x72, 0x21, 0x1a, 0x07, 0x01, 0 }

Those are the two magic numbers for RAR archive version 1.50 onwards and RAR archive version 5.0 onwards respectively, and those are the places they are referenced in the 7-zip source code. I looked at the source archive of the 18.05 version, downloaded from https://www.7-zip.org/a/7z1805-src.7z. I guess if you wanted to be really rigorous you'd look at previous versions as well. If the 7-zip project makes use of a version control system and that vcs supports the equivalent of git blame then that should not be too difficult of a task for whoever wanted to go to that extent of investigation.

And here is where one copy of the 'file' command identifies the same magic numbers as RAR archives:

https://github.com/file/file/blob/f0a725a13fe0c1b046d8e07057...

0 string Rar!\x1a\7\0 RAR archive data

https://github.com/file/file/blob/f0a725a13fe0c1b046d8e07057...

0 string Rar!\x1a\7\1\0 RAR archive data, v5

:)
Eat shit.
Can you show a benchmark where Go outperforms Rust?
That's not a valid criticism; that's an excuse.

CloudFlare likely did this on purpose, because so many people can't get their heads out of their own asses and follow spec. Now there's a big spotlight on the people purposefully breaking the network. And it will be fixed, eventually, whereas previously, AT&T would have just said "take a hike".
Agreed. Also not accounted for is the UK's huge immigration surge (more than doubling the foreign-born UK populace of the mid-90s). [1]

Different ancestries carry with them different genetic predispositions. It might be that the GBM rise is due to phenotypes not phones.

[1]
http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings...
Yes it's already a part of China. However like Taiwan, the culture is different. While HK shares a lot of traits with the mainland, it's culturally still closer to the West. That said things change over time.
Hah. It baffles me that they still gave him the honor of mentioning him in that article. Free publicity to the fake.
> Package ptrace provides a ptrace-based implementation of the platform interface. This is useful for development and testing purposes primarily, and runs on stock kernels without special permissions.

From:

https://godoc.org/github.com/google/gvisor/pkg/sentry/platfo...
Former 5 foot 7 black teenager here, never got stopped. Never got questioned. Never had a single incidence of racism placed on me. Can't say that I know anyone who has had issues in my area either.

Looking like you belong has a lot more to do with your attitude than your race.
What makes you think I'm not a programmer? I was marveling at how evolution can lead so something so systematic.

> Can you answer what was first? information (RNA/DNA) or the first cell?

No I can't. What are you getting at?