skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You sure do like to place all sorts of stamps on people, don't you? 'alt-media', 'anti-immigration', 'cocksure ....', 'I know that the Netherlands have a lot of people like yourself'? You do realise that this is not a way to engender civilised discussion I assume, you may also notice that I have not lowered myself to that level.

Also, I tend to provide links which stave the things I discuss. You do not, instead you just claim that said things are not true - we just have to take your word for it as there is nothing else to follow. In this you do fit in quite well in that segment of the political discourse in Sweden which is often accused of 'fact-resistance', things are the way you state them to be no matter what they seem to be.

Come down from that ivory tower and discuss on equal terms, stave your claims with proof other than a raised voice and a collection of epithets and maybe people will actually listen instead of wearily nod their heads.
DDoS attacks and methods to prevent it
The Philips Hue (I use this)/pretty much any smart lighting system has lights in it range that can shift white balance and most have some kind of software to schedule the shift over the course of a day, often in the form of an iOS/Android app.

These things are super easy to buy generally speaking - Best Buy/Home Depot style stores stock them, as well as pretty much all major online retailers. The Hue system is pretty popular right now.
Insuretech startup Bold Penguin in Columbus is hiring engineers to work with RoR
ha ha, now i dont need to collect them
If they really cared for the poor, they would diversify their investments both geographically and across many sectors of the real economy in order to restructure it for better efficiency.

What they do instead is that they boost their PR image and invest it in the "next big thing" like driverless cars, augmented reality, etc., and these endeavours often fail in a few years time, effectively wasting the capital and disproportionally enriching the selected few.
ha ha, now dont need to collect them :)
I'm not convinced.

I run a Pi-Hole [0] to redirect all advertising-related queries to a black hole. When tracking the most-blocked domains, Microsoft is at the very top [1].

For instance, when I enter "Office" into the start menu, Microsoft immediately sends a ping to bing.com and Microsoft's telemetry servers. That is, Microsoft is sending all of the data entered into the start menu to Microsoft's servers, even when using the 'Pro' version and with 'full' telemtry off.

When it was first detected that Microsoft was adding telemetry calls to all compiled programs in Windows [2], Microsoft said it was mostly for event debugging for programmers. Now I'm not so sure -- look at your Microsoft account privacy settings to see that Microsoft tracks when you open applications. (They say on the page that not all data is shown there).

Unforutnately, there is no way to opt out of this. You can "disable" full telemetry, but you still have to opt into "Basic" telemetry, which still sends your advertiser ID, the programs you run, and the queries you put into the start menu. I'm concerned that Microsoft is not going to stop here. They have a real incentive to capture as much data about you as they can -- they currently earn about $1 billion in advertising through Bing.com search queries. Unlike Google or especially Facebook, however, it's much more difficult to opt out of Microsoft's tracking -- so many people depend on Microsoft Office or other Windows programs that I can't fully switch to Linux.

I don't know how this is acceptable through GDPR. There are so many problems with what Microsoft is doing:

1. There is no way to opt out of telemetry

2. There is no way to see all of the data that Microsoft has collected

3. Microsoft has severe lock-in because so much software is written for Windows-only

4. Microsoft has an incentive to increase their telemetry, not decrease it.

[0] https://pi-hole.net/

[1] https://imgur.com/a/MbjtYJe

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4ibauu/visual_studio_a...
I haven't read it yet but this book has been highly recommended often.

You Had Me at Hello World by Dona Sarkar

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26166862-you-had-me-at-h...
They’re referring to Depth First Search
> Land is the epitome of something that cannot be manufactured, so goes up in value.

Lot sizes have gotten significantly smaller over the past 50 years. The difference is probably closer to 3 vs 20 if you include the amount of land purchased. There's $800,000 homes in my neighborhood on 4,000 sqft lots.
Candles, Programming and Archetypes
Can you give an example of something that the "elm overlords" (I like the phrasing!) have railed against?
> if there was a place to show off these cutting edge tricks? This is a competition where jugglers on the cutting edge can shine.
There's the ejc :) http://www.ejc2018.org/

But when it's a trick that only lands 1/10, will you enjoy watching them fail for a while, possibly with a lenghty setup and stay interested in it? I think it's usually the jugglers not showing them because they're not consistent yet.
SmoothLife: Continuous Domain Game of Life in Python with Numpy
Maybe I'm out of the loop: what's wrong with Phoronix?
It is the homeless people who should stop whining and move away? Or the priest who wanted to help them?
Meet the all-new Spark 2.0, with revolutionary team features
Why did he resign though? Because he felt bad about he tweeted?
I don't care about the software bugs, software will only get better over time. For me the most important is build quality. And i think Tesla is doing its best to have a high build quality. Maybe for the first few cars rolling of the assembly line there might be problems.

I still hope for the best.
PostgreSQL Management and Automation with ClusterControl – New Whitepaper
Have any data on this? I'm skeptical.
I think what you describe is pretty much exactly the no true Scotsman fallacy.

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I would expect that interop wouldn't be trivial - the impedance mismatch between a mutable and immutable world would be difficult. I didn't know of BuckleScript though and that faces a similar problem, so it's interesting if it significantly better.
Also median homes have nearly doubled in size.
this is super cool! i imagine it being really useful to content creators & journalists who want to take a “this day in history” angle on stories.
Does this mean apps like Mint and YNAB will be able to stop asking for users passwords and switch to something like OAuth with read-only privileges?
Have you considered that perhaps prison shouldn’t be hell? To my knowledge there is no evidence that horrible prisons in any way reduce crime vs decent prisons. I believe there’s quite a bit of evidence in the other direction, and that prisons which emphasize learning life skills rather than surviving hell reduce recidivism.
This seemed highly unpleasant but ignores the effect of falling interest rates over much of the study period. I put together a plot using FRED data to show the cost of monthly housing (assuming a US-style 30 year mortgage) as well as its annual cost as a percent of median US household income.

https://imgur.com/a/0F20SGF

It could be better - I'm quite envious of those who owned a home in the 1970's - but clearly there has been some secular change in US expectations of housing costs as a percent of income. There is an upward trend but nowhere near as dramatic as this post tries to show. In 1980 housing represented 21% of income, in 2016 it was 24%.
Rising 8-inch foundry quotes putting pressure on IC designers
Has anyone else read "The Golden Age" by John C. Wright?

I'm really fascinated by the idea of the College of Hortation.

I think Wright actually sees it as sinister, but I thought it was a good idea.

Rough idea:

Make all laws extremely libertarian, and then have a voluntary group people join that does things liberals say they want (free healthcare with progressive membership dues, etc.)

Except in his book, if you weren't a member, no one would do business with you - because it was against the terms of membership, and almost everyone was a member. So then those people who rejected society could, but they couldn't trade with almost anyone.
For some kinds of data, such as taxonomies, there is a datatype called an ltree available in Postgres that can be indexed. Not as general as a CTE but useful for avoiding the optimization barrier in specific cases.
I use 'arbitrary' in the sense of uniformly random. The point is it's not uniformly random. You can think of reproduction as a random walk in the space of DNA combinations, but it's not a uniform random walk. It has a structure that comes from the biochemical processes which perform the recombinations of DNA. Focusing on mutations ignores this point. (Also, as an aside, it's not settled that mutations occur at random positions. That may be a reasonable starting point, but it's likely that the way DNA folds into nucleosomes/chromatine/chromosomes biases the location of mutations.)
Although true, it really is a matter of perspective. If you were June bug, or any bug, running into a chicken would be a frightful and terrifying prospect.
so, did Bird (and other scooter companies) simply copy their business model from existing business models which had already been pioneered in China?
Can someone tell me what is company (Mixpanel) even does? Does it just track what pages your users click on in your UI and then show the metrics in graphs?
Reminds me of one of my favorite Biden quotes, “Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.”
Well it looks like brake issue can be solved with a software update [1] in a few days. Which is not too surprising since brakes are a known technology.

[1]https://electrek.co/2018/05/22/tesla-will-update-model-3-fir...
Elm is in no way an alternative to HTML+CSS. It is an alternative to JS as a way of doing work client side (it does in fact compile to JS).

The 'view' functions in Elm return HTML (represented using an ELM DSL for convenience) that is added to the DOM and so then rendered using some CSS provided elsewhere in the normal way.
The world is a little upside down at the moment.

Most of the "liberal" folks today are really old-style chamber of commerce republicans with a different flavor of conformity. More accepting of old social taboos, and we've replace suits with khaki.

Religion is defined in the popular consciousness as regressive right-wing fire and brimstone types, with a helping of swarmy prosperity ministry. The success of the political parties of polarizing folks on wedge issues like abortion is incredible and dangerous. The catholic church I grew up in, for all its faults, was basically the backbone of the social services sector in my region. Now many of the holy-roller types are so aggressive about pro-life activity they are supporting GOP candidates. That's leading to more political rally nonsense, less service like food pantries, helping the aging & sick, etc.
Links exist lol
Nope. Luck is an ingredient in success, though not the only one. The idea that all successes could/should be boiled down to luck does an injustice to the ability of humans to impact outcomes.

Also I would look at it as lessons learnt from someone who had the privilege of being part of a journey that few of us have.
What You Should Know about IBM Watson Workspace
I believe it's a good time for the publishing of a high-quality article detailing on how to build such mirroring servers with minimal budget.

Usually such machines don't need best CPUs around but they definitely do need ECC memory and serious NAS-like capabilities. So maybe older-gen Xeons? I am no expert though. Hopefully somebody publishes a blog post about it.
Apparently the pastor has had difficulty growing his congregation. I wonder how many people there are in Palo Alto who partake in charitable activities but not when they're affiliated with organized religion.
How to Promote Auto and Vehicles Apps
Zillow has published some work on it -- https://www.zillow.com/blog/bigger-homes-smaller-lots-184558... but it doesn't go back very far. -10% since 2000.
I made this for exploring public data in Enigma Public on a given date (click the top nav to choose a date other than today). It searches not just dates in timestamp format but a few other textual representations of dates as well.

Often these in-text references are the most interesting. Currently I'm fascinated by the consistent number of tilapia fillets expiring on any given day...
I agree. Where I live there are two types of homes being built: Dense condo developments, or huge houses on large lots (1 acre+).

Nobody is building the 1950s/1960s subdivision style 3-bedroom ranch on a quarter acre lot, and I don't really see many larger homes on small lots.

Anecdotal to be sure, however.
Given that TOTP (one of the more common phone OTP methods, used by Google Authenticator) uses a symmetric key, it seems unlikely it’s being stored in the Secure Enclave
Why? I'm interested in picking something like this up.
That seems easy enough to fix, no? Change the API to allow a runtime generated list of compile-time strings, et viola. Though, I doubt that's as safe as you might imagine. Imagine a return oriented programming-like technique using static SQL strings. Difficult, for sure, but not impossible.
i've heard that coffee is one of the most heavily sprayed crops in production today. do these coffee husks, or cherries, have significant amounts of pesticide residue?
Idea dump 2018
> Trained humans can maintain a speed of ~20kph for hours

The very best humans can only manage ~20kph for 2.05 hours (WR: 42.2km in 2:02:57 giving 20.59kph). Beyond that, the 50km WR is down to 18.3kph; 100km WR is 16.1kph; etc.
I imagine that there must be some system similar to prolog but with a probabilistic model of inference, for example ground rules could be sorted by statistical properties to accelerate inference. Just like machine learning trees select features for classification (perhaps using cross-entropy minimization).

Edit: I found Journal of Machine Learning Research 7 (2006) 307–342, Kernels on Prolog Proof Trees:
Statistical Learning in the ILP Setting
How about cell phones and computers? Robots? The Internet?

Surely their cost decreased but that didn't mean people spend less, no they spend MORE today on those things than 50 years before.
That fallacy does not apply. I can claim to be an alien from Saturn. People can, and should, disagree.

Besides, powerful and wealthy people have often claimed to be "on the side of the poor and helpless", to "protect" their subjects and so on throughout history.

This applied to: emperors, kings, aristocrats & knights, shogun & samurai, military leaders... hence the hypocrisy that the pastor is pointing out.
Vancouver's tech market is booming, but it's missing one thing: web developers
>Of all the mammals on Earth, 96% are livestock and humans, only 4% are wild mammals
>70% of birds are chickens and other poultry

The articles fails to mention the obvious fact that these ratios are shifted because we breed more livestock animals, not because we kill wild ones.

>All life on Earth is made up of 82% plants and found in 86% on land 1% in the oceans

Which is also a completely wrong statement. Anyone with a highschool diploma knows that the ocean contains a huge amount of biomass, probably larger than all terrestrial life combined.

The article seems to be taking the position that we should only have an effect on the environment proportional to our biomass ratio with other mammals. I don't understand this idea. Are they saying more humans should die, or that more animals should die? What kind of ratio are they optimizing for?
It's entirely common in that segment. The BMW 3 series, against which the Model 3 is precisely positioned, starts at $34,900, has a non-optioned model with a larger engine and all-wheel drive starting at $50,950, and can get optioned to $66,000. And that's not even getting into the M3 performance version, which starts at $66,500 and can get optioned up to $88,000.
I don't know SV municipalities specifically, but I'd guess its probably true http://www.newsweek.com/illegal-feed-criminalizing-homeless-...

Its been enforced haphazardly in Atlanta over the last couple of years.
I commute between New York and the Bay Area, and am consistently struck by how plutocratic of a city San Francisco has become. Most social functions are held in private venues and heavily segregated by race and class. Leaving a charity event, a millionaire will casually step over a homeless person en route to their apartment. They will talk about poverty in Africa and then vote in NIMBYist politicians. A total gutting of humanity, and I’m saying this as a New Yorker.
Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript with explanations
You can make a new one though. They will never find out unless you try to use their seller marketplace.
Is that increase greater or smaller than investing in an S&P 500 tracker would have been? That's gone up 2.1x since mid 2012.

I live in the Cambridge, UK. Since 2012 it feels like very many things doubled in price: houses, FTSE shares, food, classic cars, software engineer wages. I guess what really happened is someone printed a lot of money and a pound sterling is worth about 60% as much as it was before.
It makes me ache just thinking of corralling a herd of banks to work with Plaid. Really is an understatement to say how difficult that must have been.
Maybe you're not on the best side? Just a question to ask yourself. IMO wikileaks is a natural evolution being pushed by this fact that we feel less and less like we have the right checks and balances on the actions and decisions of the US government.
Nebula Level01: A Newbie's Approach
Based upon that older neighbourhoods should lose value as they age and they lose relative space.
I think that 19:23-26 may be more clear than 23 by itself?

Also, out of curiosity, what translation is that?
I imagine this to be food for thought. If, after reading this thread, you'll learn and implement at least one item of that checklist, that would still be a win.
I can't figure out why the number of employees a company has is a benchmark of its success. Employees are just an easy expense that anyone can incur if investors give them the money to do so. It seems like every year or so startups invent a new, largely irrelevant, metric with which to advertise their success.

Whatsapp, with 55 employees at the time of their $19b acquisition, is more of the type of company I'd want to strive to become. Not a company that has "30 fortune 500 clients," and will not say anything about the nature of their relationship with those companies or the cash flows that they create.
it's what he said
Sheryl Sandberg should run for President in 2020, not take a CEO role
Word, skateboarding has taught me to be relatively street smart and aware so I'm not _too_ worried. Can't wait to visit and thanks for the advice!
It's more complex than that.

The old 2x2 model of Left vs. Right and Authoritarian vs. Libertarian doesn't really work on a "longitudinal" basis. Community has been redefined in a few ways, and we're more bipolar -- Liberal Libertarianism for "us", the full authoritarian treatment for "them".
Well isn't it normal? Food has become cheaper since these days. Stuff has become massively, incomparably cheaper. Travel has become cheaper. And Americans had enough of all these in 1950: it was a rich country already, very few went hungry or unable to buy clothes or household stuff, so as prices fell, possibility of increase of demand were limited, these markets, except travel, were already saturated.

So a lot of money released by these things getting cheaper had to be spent somewhere, and eventually it was spent on things which aren't so prone to technology-driven deflation, mainly real estate.
Holy Wars, American Style
Or if you have a Touch Bar MacBook: https://github.com/ntrippar/sekey
Canada is lacking in fintech apps for consumers. I'm excited to see more companies expand north. There might not be many of us but we can be loud and proud users (with really polite app reviews! ha)
Excellent points worth bearing in mind.

If you're looking for a mentor (especially a technical one), check out https://www.mentorcruise.com - no affiliation, just a cool team working on a worthy problem...
Also consider that the standard down payment required on a mortgage used to be 20%. That limited what you could buy.
Build an app that allows me to get notifications when debit transactions are made. Even if it's minutes or hours late.

I LOVE that I get an email every time my credit card is used. But my debit doesn't have that option.
TBH it does make sense that the "VP of Social Good" isn't going anywhere
It's not surprising that home prices have gone through the roof, since many government policies are intended to keep home prices rising.
The best inspiration comes from the development work you are doing for work or a hobby project.

When you start something new or run in to an issue doing something create an article.

Detail what you are doing and what documentation your are following. Outline the steps, pitfalls/potential pitfalls and how to overcome them.

Almost everything we do whether something new or doing something new detailing the steps and providing tips to complete it or improve it is going to help someone coming down the same path after you.

So take inspiration from your own work.

If you use a framework or language that's a good topic to dump all the knowledge you come across for others following in your footsteps.

Every topic has been written about, but there is always new versions of everything so detailing the steps again and including anything missing from the docs will be helpful to people.
How much pocket money should an economist pay their children?
https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/65...

The posts in question
Reminds me a lot of the world of One Piece manga
It's just a momentary trend. The vast amount of coffee waste in coffee producing countries is used for fertilizer. The title should be: In a few select farms that produce cascara, it fetches a 480% premium over coffee.

Honestly, it's high price and "premium" perception only exist because so few farms are producing it. The tiny premium bottles of cascara you see would be replaced by gallon jugs for $2-3 if more farms started making it.
Yes, that's great for asymmetric stuff, but we're talking about TOTP, which uses a fixed symmetric key and a hashing algorithm. Unless you can run arbitrary code on the secure element, like you can with Intel and Qualcomm stuff it can't be done and even if it can be, it'd be a significant effort investment for what's probably a negligible secure it gain in practice. Still, I'd be pretty impressed if any apps did so.
4.5x would be a dream for Australians - Sydney and Melbourne are currently at 13x & 10.5x respectivly. Those two cities cover close to half the Australian population.
Insanity.
> Thanks to demand from these chains, the coffee husk now often fetches a higher price than the bean itself does. Batlle says she gets $7 for a pound of cascara, while the average price for coffee hovers around $1.20, the lowest in about two years, because of an oversupply of arabica beans.

So my takeaway is that it's a factor of being new trendy thing right now, and coffee beans themselves are cheaper than normal from oversupply. I imagine the price and especially the premium ratio will balance out.

With that said, I certainly hope the trend of continuing to use the husks continues. Coffee is a wonderful, precious fruit and I'm all for using more of it. Most people don't even realize that coffee "beans" are the seeds of the coffee fruit itself, which is more like a cherry. The vast majority of the fruit is usually discarded and rinsed off the seeds, except on some varietals where some of the pulp is allowed to remain on the seeds before being roasted to give them more of a fruity/citrusy flavor.
Implementing Python's f-strings in elisp
Yep like $7 a month to "rent" it. There is a good reason for not doing that racket.