skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a uniquely Republican / Democrat United States problem. It's a problem in the UK and and it's a problem in Australia and so likely in most Western Democracies.

Simplistic ideas presented with easy-to-remember slogans defeat any complexity because of how humans work. Very few voters have any understanding of the various issues facing modern society, so politicians can say whatever they want without really being held to account in any kind of realistic fashion.

As a meta-example, it would be easy for me to get on your Republican-bashing bandwagon, but the issues at stake are infinitely more complex than that. The Republican / Democrat divide is a perfect example of humans inability to process nuance outside their areas of deep understanding, which are generally very narrow if they exist at all.

We've got easily persuaded societies under political systems that reward the kinds of people least deserving of positions of power.

If anti-science wins votes, then anti-science it is!
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But without the level of demand that created the need for that apartment complex, it would have been worth X/4.
Interesting. Given the negligible delay of 10 seconds, perhaps they did create processing clusters to do the pipeline of what you suggested.

More from the marketing brochure:

> The only requirement outside of the client-side embedder library is the installation of a video fingerprint generator appliance in close time proximity to the video encoder. Operating independently of the encoder on a copy of the signal, signatures are calculated and other frame analyses are performed to enable precise triggering and recovery of the identifying symbols.
OP here - as a matter of fact I try to do just this, starting with the database. I'm mostly a data person so I try to think through, as deeply as I can, what I should expect in every table - there has to be a sensible default and if I can't find one then I rethink my design. You'll probably disagree with me and grunt out another single sentence missive, which is fine, but I think it's worth taking some extra time and using Null as a bit of a warning. It's a crutch! A way to stop thinking and say "whatever I don't know what this value is supposed to be so... it's null. Let's go shopping!"
I wouldn't recommend dynamically generating strings. Strings are just a shorthand for Path objects, use Path instead: http://glom.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#specifier-type...
My favourite approach to this so far, that I would like other libraries to copy, is Elixir’s Access protocol, which gives you e.g.:

foo = %{key: [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6]]}

path = [:key, Access.all, Access.at(0)]

get_in foo, path
# => [1, 3, 5]

update_in foo, path, &(&1 * 10)
# => %{key: [[10, 2], [30, 4], [50, 6]]}

foo
|> put_in([:key, Access.all], “foo”)
|> put_in([:new_key], “bar”)
# => %{key: [“foo”, “foo”, “foo”], new_key: “bar”}

That third form is essentially the equivalent of building up a complex object through a series of mutations—but entirely functional.
Dude, this looks really nice! I use nested stuff like that all the time - nested layers of flat data ;) - and glom (+T) do seem super appropriate and nice!
>In a downtown corridor during rush hour? Sure - I could totally see a lane full of just busses. However, most dedicated bus lanes won't be that busy.

These are precisely the places where dedicated bus lanes and BRTs exist. BRT is called bus rapid transit because there is a planned frequency for these buses - therefore a need for consistent, uninterrupted rights of way.

>In a well run business that would be true.
In the first world, most busses are heavily subsidized.

Only because highly popular bus routes (and train routes) subsidize unpopular routes that exist for the public good and not to make money - neighborhood routes, night buses, etc. In the US, routes are highly subsidized because of a lack of density compared to Europe or Asia.
"well, they pay me more than the others to comment about them on the internet"
Ask HN: API as a Service?
Is there any SaaS offering that lets you quickly create a provisioned, usage based API for your existing cloud services?

Let me explain.

Let's say I have some code that transforms widgets. Right now, I'm the only person who could invoke it.

I would ideally like to sell access to it. I would integrate with some SaaS API-as-a-service. They would handle creating user accounts, multi-user access, 2FA, billing, and monitoring usage.

I would set them up with an endpoint to my service along with the expected inputs. I would be responsible for hosting the API endpoint as well as supplying the containers to execute the services.

Perhaps they would request modifying the function to include an additional parameter for tracking purposes.

Then they would be billed either based on usage or a flat fee..

My guess is that maybe the solution involves serverless somehow.
Would AOF persistence as 'everysec' not imply a write guarantee of max 1 second data loss for restart?
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All the real estate ads in Japan include the year it was built, have never seen that anywhere else, quite sure my landlord in Australia wouldn't know if I asked.
> BART has a carriage shortage so they try to shave off cars from longer routes

This is just crazy. Compared to the cost of new track some additional rolling stock should be almost insignificant. You couldn't come up with a better example of penny wise, pound foolish...
In this case the adjective 'potentially suicidal' belongs in front of 'White House'. Un-freaking-believably stupid.
https://www.pluralsight.com/tech-index

Java might be old, but it's still a long way from dead. And actually it could be argued that it's done a fantastic job keeping up with the demands of modern development. Kotlin and Scala are great, but there's still tons of need for and value in Java itself.
How exactly would this proposal require a huge amount of capital to build?

Your solution is to effectively steal the rights of the owners of the land (by taking away their ability to control density) without compensation and hand a windfall to developers. How do you think we ended up in the current NIMBYism situation?
That's fine. You're more than welcome to use whatever mouse you want. I think you're mistaken in thinking that you're the end user in mind if you prefer to have a corded mouse. It's a wireless mouse. It's targeted at people that want a wireless mouse. It's really ergonomic too. If you don't care about that then don't buy it.

As for it being "to the detriment of end users", I disagree here too. The minor annoyance of having the battery charge on its side while you're not using it is less than the annoyance of having to replace batteries or even remove them to put them in a charger for most users. They'll only care when they have to charge it and, when it's not left plugged in, that should last it at least 9 months. I mean...I dare you to show me a source that says that the Magic Mouse battery is anything but amazing.

I prefer my G903 overall but I get way more use out of my Magic Mouse vs. my Logitech and I have to charge it far less. The G903 can be used wired or wirelessly but that has resulted in me leaving it plugged in accidentally and now the battery life is getting shorter and shorter. It's just a much bigger hassle than the charging on the side.
There's a bunch of undocumented GCB features by the way. Pop into their Slack and they'll often give you tips that haven't made their way into the docs yet. We've been mostly happy with it, but still use Jenkins as the kickoff point.
This kills the battery.
I think CS is unique in two ways.
The first one way is it has a unique pipeline. Many CS majors started off tinkering around with their computers in ways that many high school girls don't.(where as most people's first experience with math/other stem is through classroom instruction)

The second is that programmers are perceived(rightly or wrongly) to be more lacking of social skills than other equivalent professions.

i.e. the office versus silicon valley
It will never be ported fully. It's one of those extensions that dived so deep into Firefox's source code that Mozilla changing things in the source code caused it to break a lot of the times.

Mozilla categorically doesn't want that anymore, as it will inevitably cause some Mozilla devs to try to not break those extensions and therefore not do things such as code refactoring. The sort of stuff that you can ignore in the short-term in order to not break extensions, but which causes huge problems in the long run.

The CTR dev has however created a userChrome.css file, which you can use to get at least the visual changes: http://techdows.com/2017/09/classic-theme-restorer-userchrom...
> I think developers will hate this idea because instead of the whole surplus going to them and their corrupt buddies in government, it will have to be shared with the local community.

I would think if there were a lot of developers and a lot of parcels, an alternative is that there would be more supply-side competition for housing and then better-quality housing would be more affordable overall. Do you see factors preventing this outcome from being likely?
It seems that ff esr60 will be the only esr in august: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/
This isn't the 70s anymore.

Places like Tokyo have figured out how to build tall buildings that are safe for earthquakes.
I don't know, man. You cherry-pick some examples of government inefficiency, but our society benefits greatly from all the rules that the government enforces in order to benefit citizens (e.g. the FDA approving new food products).
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That wasn't a complaint about the per person cap. It was a response to

> Basing the budget on real estate value makes two incorrect assumptions ...

My challenge to the per person cap is that

1) All prices in an area go up when property values go up. This means the per person cost of city services goes up.

2) It's a solution lacking a problem. Where's the benefit of a per person cap?
I'm pretty sure each and every one* of those industries is several orders of magnitude larger than the industry for fake families. For example, there are 2 million people in the US alone with artificial limbs.

* ..except maybe independent supercars, and even then only if counting units sold and not dollars invested.
Is Kubernetes complicated?
Google’s AI program DeepMind learns human navigation skills
Oh I think it'll help you successfully quit smoking, but man, quitting vaping is another animal in itself. The problem being that vaping is cheap (especially DIY), and it doesn't smell. So there's less incentive to quit, and if you do try holy hell the irritability is horrible for 2-4 days (nicotine withdrawal).
>"Net Neutrality" is nothing more than an Orwellian named, amorphous and vague idea that nobody really knows what it means.

Do you really think that? Do you really think nobody knows what it means? The previous policy... was it words someone might understand... or not?
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I'm impressed you're able to hold those contradictory ideas in your head at the same time without anything exploding.
You can have a competitor providing the same service using a different business model.
First of all, the government has its hands in almost everything, so any list small enough to fit into a hacker news comment is necessarily going to be "cherry picked".

I'm not one of those people who thinks we don't need any regulations. I think they need to be a last-resort when everything else has been tried.

Everything else has not been tried here.

I mean, 5G and the SpaceX satellite internet plan are right around the corner.
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It's freedom... just not for a lot of people.
So, on the one hand one approach is to replace the mind (take it out of the loop and "let the robots take over". The other is to "augment the mind and enable it to do more". One sounds better then the other.

The robotic choice unfortunately has a very authoritarian or centralist vibe. That is, it's taking over for the person with but with central tutelage. The other the tutelage is in the person using the augmenting tech.

Obs it remains to be seen how things pan out.
Bromoform kills methanogens.
Ask HN: Why Do Government Websites Work Human Hours
Here is a perfect example of the IRS deciding servers only work 4am to 7pm pst

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/apply-for-an-employer-identification-number-ein-online
Mux is hiring engineers to build the world's most powerful video API
Off-topic, but:

Do you know if Landmark is a cult? Is it something to be worried about? A close friend has recently gotten super involved with it and has done all three courses and is evangelizing it pretty hard, he's normally not someone who gets sucked into this kind of thing easily though.

He also doesn't seem "brainwashed". I've googled about the organization and have my reservations, but I'm not sure if it's legitimately helpful with some bad marketing strategies or Scientology/Waco/Jonestown
I don't believe that anyone here, without looking it up, could explain what exactly "net neutrality" means, without falling back on talking points and vague aspirational language, rather than what actually is written in the regulations.

For starters, the FCC did an end run around Congress because they couldn't get Congress to pass it, so they had to take previous regulations intended for telephone service and cram a square peg into a round hole with all kinds of promises not to enforce certain parts, etc.

I'll bet 90% of the people reading this comment don't even know what that means.
I don’t, but the reason why is Australian builders can no longer build high quality houses. The current new house here is so poorly built out of such low-quality and flimsy material that it will be lucky to last 40 years.
Please don't post ideological rants to Hacker News, regardless of which ideology you favor.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
More generally, I really wonder how our entire economic system, which is based on ever increasing levels of debt, is going to cope when the premise of infinite exponential growth comes to be shown to be impossible? What happens when there are trillions of dollars of interest bearing debt yet the gross economic expansion is no longer even keeping up with the interest?

On the other hand I think there's a very good argument that space could open up sufficient development and opportunity that we could return to infinite exponential growth. If the 'new world' spurred the world economy for centuries, one can only imagine the potential of everything from asteroid utilization to colonization of entirely new planets and all of the discoveries and advances this will all bring.
Ok, I'll grant you "niche industry". Kind of like the people that get hired to cry at funerals and such.
Japan has some of the strictest building standards for earthquake resistance in the world. Seismic design code:

https://www.fujipress.jp/jdr/dr/dsstr000100030341/
> What are you trying to do that requires a touch, but gives no visual feedback?

It happens to me regularly that I touch something that I happen to know is an active control and absolutely nothing happens. I have no idea if my touch registered and the app is just hung, or if it didn't register.

> it’s easy to change the wallpaper

I shouldn't have to install an app to make my wallpaper solid grey instead of black.

But that's not really the point. The point is that all those polka-dot patterns are just visually atrocious. They're about as tasteful as plastic pink lawn flamingos.
Bbc is also.overly hyped
Since we're constantly reading about how old and unstable the IRS's computer systems are, I'd guess that their choice of uptime hours might actually be due to technical constraints.

For example, they might need several hours in the middle of the night to process the day's transactions through ancient, overloaded mainframe batch-processing systems. Or they might need the nights and weekends to do maintenance (e.g., programming, testing or backups) on the system, which the system is too overloaded to handle while it's available to users.

Not to mention that it's currently not even a month after the tax due date, so right now they'd be prioritizing the use of their systems to process people's tax returns while deprioritizing all other transactions.
Don't outsource such an important part of your business. It's not that hard to charge people -- just log requests and bill their credit cards monthly. When you're starting out and have < 100 paying customers, you can do it manually in a couple hours a month.
The nuance of male friendship and popularity is probably just as complicated as female friendship and popularity. Complicated in a sense that I doubt any questionnaire captures the real truth.
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Stop pretending that you are smarter than everyone here.

There is a reason why only the telcos want to get rid of NN.
So this begs the mildly racist question, do Japanese people fart? Can they light their farts on fire? Maybe not if the seaweed in the diet kills off methane producing bacteria.
> A house on a quiet street with a decent view might be worth X, but the same house becomes worth X/2 if a high-traffic, view-blocking apartment complex is built next door.

I disagree. The house might be worth less but the plot of land it is sitting on is worth a lot to a developer who wants to build a similar complex there.
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>If you venture to the extremes

Isn’t this just moving the goalposts? We’re not talking about a fringe Republican here, we’re talking about the president of the United States, along with the senate majority leader and the speaker of the house, to name the three most prominent republicans advocating for these positions.
That breaks the site guidelines, which ask:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

It also crosses into personal attack. Could you please read and follow https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html when commenting here?
> would contributors just need to use Emacs?

As you note, org-mode text is just special plaintext, no different from Markdown (other than being rather more powerful).

And of course folks should want to use emacs, or a similarly-powerful editor in which it's possible to build something like org-mode. Why use worse tools when better ones are equally available?
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Huh. In the US, year of construction is one of a very short list of numbers that characterizes a home for sale. It makes a big difference, too, as you can see various styles, floorplans, and uses of space fall into and out of fashion decade-to-decade. It would be quite unusual for a homeowner here not to be in tune with the year their home was built.
Yes, well said. I think you're making an important distinction. Shortwave is old technology, but combined with SDR, this is a novel application of it AFAIK.
> software is perceived as anti-social

IMO anti-socal wasn't the best choice of words. I'm pretty sure in this context she intended "social" to mean "a pursuit where the bulk of your time is spent interacting with people", and "anti-social" meant "a pursuit where the bulk of your time is spent time interacting with things".
Isn’t this just the story of all corporations though? They start selling a niche product, and then they have three axes for growth: vertical, horizontal, and addressable market. All corporations take “breaths” on each of these axes as they see opportunities. But a corporation that grows too wide finds a more focused competitor stealing their share. A company that grows too tall sees a competitor using network effects against them. Growing the addressable market generally lifts all ships, but hits a limit once you max out global marketing.

Every company will eventually flex as far as they can on all these axes. I’m interested if you have some insight about something that makes Google particularly dangerous in the horizontal direction?
Not everyone is you.

People tend to blink less when looking at a bright, backlit screen than they do when looking at a passively lit screen. The eye is dryer when you blink less, and thus more easily irritated.

"Computer Vision Syndrome" brings up 250,000 hits on Google Scholar. I'm skeptical that it's a nocebo at this point.
Yes! This is (one of the many things) addressed in the redesign. Also found it confusing, but don't worry, it will be fixed :)

Can't wait to share some of the new designs with everyone!

If anyone has other suggestions or frustrations, send them to me - contacts are in my description.

I'm the guy working on a major UI/UX redesign for Matrix/Riot that Matthew mentioned above.
Many Democrats are anti-science when it comes to anything relating to racial differences. There’s also quite a bit of anti-scientific Democrat behavior about gender. Most liberals I know start to sound about as sane as chemtrail believers when it comes to race and science.

EDIT: As a great example, see the downvotes from the liberal equivalent of climate deniers.
How is that racist? Just being only relevant to one race doesn't make it racist.
Healthcare?

Name me one country with free-market healthcare.

I'll wait.

Also, your friend chose to live in that house, along with all the regulations that came with it. Spare us the sob story.

You clearly don't understand why NN was put in place. All the telcos were prioritizing content, taking advantage of their monopoly power. Starting a telco is serious work, and that isn't simply due to government regulation.

Try again.
This is slightly weird...but I named my dog Mara: https://flic.kr/p/FtdRNX
Of course, but friendships between males and females is a whole other dynamic entirely.
Not if you own a Heathkit H-8, it isn't.

(Possibly the only computer made ...note that qualifier, please ... that required most users to learn a number base in order to operate it.)
Your listed Do's are great, and I'll add the following:

Do:
- Read my profile and make it clear in your email or message why you think the position is a good fit (referencing details from my profile)

- Be personable and real with me. The more I feel like a random number to you, the less I'm likely to respond. I'm simply too busy for low-quality inquiries.

Don't:
- Require salary verification at any point in the process. These days it's offensive.

- Blast out inquiries to anyone who has a keyword in their profile

- Be uniformed about how and why I might be a tremendous fit.

- Bullshit me
spacemacs grin

More seriously, there're https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode & https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer — but even more seriously, take a look at emacs + evil-mode (which make emacs a vim-clone, but an easily- & pleasantly-extensible vim-clone).