skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a per capita basis, an increase in density requires less sewer, water, roads, fire and police (shorter response times). Schooling needs are the same, and there's only "more" public transportation because it's actually possible.

And what pays for it is … the property tax.
So why aren't there more search engines these days? Google is great but we constantly talk here about how it's losing its edge for certain kinds of more specific searches like technical ones. So seems like there's room for engines that are more tuned for special use cases and the ability to index web pages has only gotten cheaper since Google started. Has the size of the web made this impractical? Or do I just not know about these options?
> the only relevant metric is units sold.

That's an arbitrary statement. The only relevant metric is revenue outside of whatever bars you would like to matter. Over time, units sold is a poor return and D3 was disappointing against every prediction beyond units sold. It was a disaster, in comparison to the recurring success of PoE.
7 days.
It's the banks and the toxic crap on their balance sheet, that is really being protected. By avoiding true mark-to-market they have pulled literally the scam of the century on the USA...
This is a huge concern for me at my current organization. Dev has decided to put all data into mongoDB. Yet all decisions are based on that data and the tools we have do not allow for seamless flow (ETL) from mongoDB. That data is important for deriving decisions that affect revenue and costs. Where are solutions for the data analysts and scientists? Frankly I'm pretty sick of hearing it can just be automated.

In my mind there has to be a decent "business intelligence stack". I'm not sure I'm coining that because I didn't get good search results from that phrase. Believe me I've been trying to find solutions. I believe there is big opportunity in building out this sort of stack that bridges data management and data analysis. Sure you can call IBM, Microsoft, Dell, HP but be prepared for big costs and huge software bloat. I would like simplified solutions and options that can fit with most industry standard tools.

I'm also willing to work with anyone on this as well.
My first thought: I'd probably just take a screenshot and crop it as needed, although there's likely a better way to do it.
Housing prices in Flint Michigan are also rising, a town not only free of zoning problems but also a shrinking population (among other issues).

And flint is not the only city like this with shrinking population yet rising housing values. A quick google shows me also Rockford, IL, Decatur, IL. Youngstown OH. Saginaw, MI. Binghamton, NY with no apparent end to the list

While it's true that zoning worsens the problem, cities with essentially no zoning rules also have have rising housing prices.

The crux of this universal problem is that housing has been turned into an international investment class rather than being housing.

That and that retirement support is so dismal, individuals must have large returns on home purchase to avoid life threatening poverty in old age.

So of course change zoning rules, it's bound to help some but it's not the core problem.

[1] for the curious, start here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shrinking_cities_in_th...
You are right, of course. Here's the exact quote:

So the Philips Curve posits that there is a relationship between the degree of slack in the labor market and inflation, and it is an empirical relationship that, while not absolutely tight, has been a consistent relationship over time, and I believe that relationship still holds.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?406675-1/federal-reserve-chair...

> there's considerable support for the idea that an inverse relationship between unemployment and inflation exists at least in the short run

Would you care to cite some? I'm certainly familiar with the post-70's forms of Phillips Curve theory (it's discussed in the very Wikipedia article I linked). But I also cited a 2017 paper from the Philadelphia Fed that looked very hard for such a relationship and couldn't find one, and which itself cites prior research going back to 2001 that agrees.
I believe this is called FUD - lengthy "summarizing" of the facts, alternating with vague baseless allusions. The author condemns the bill for being 10k words long, while his own screed weighs in at 5.5k!

I am a bit wary of something that pops up out of the blue, looking helpful - "never let a good crisis go to waste" and all that. And I'm generally skeptical of "making more laws". But what are the specific flaws in this one?

The indictment seems to be focused on time, meaning there could be flaws we cannot find. But given this is an adversarial process, it also means there (hopefully) hasn't been much of a chance for every entrenched interest to compromise with each other at the people's expense!

The tech giants will eventually benefit from this type of legislation, because after the initial shock it will just help them consolidate. For instance (contrary to the linked FUD), "mom and pop [retail] stores" already don't have to worry about handling customers' information, as that's encapsulated by the payment processors.

So now every little business that wants to use surveillance against their customers will be pushed to go through some centralizer (eg Google). Though from the perspective of the unwillingly surveilled, this isn't really that bad either - eg gaining the ability to actually break up with clingy and histrionic Faceboot.

The big question is if this ability to delete the files being kept about ourselves will remain unneutered, or whether the surveillance industry will eventually succeed in eroding it under some guise of indefinite consent or nebulous mingling of orthogonal purposes.

Another big test will be if the law can be successfully applied against say Experian.
Sometimes that’s the best someone with better intuition than communication can produce. (I prefer to err on the side of clear testable communications, but there are weak communicators who are still usually correct)
Every U.S. Veteran Is a Pedophile and Had Sex with Their Own Children
From an article [0] published in last month's CACM, describing attempts by three 2016 conferences to anonymize papers:

We find that anonymization is imperfect but fairly effective: 70%–86% of the reviews were submitted with no author guesses, and 74%–90% of reviews were submitted with no correct guesses.

[0] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/6/228027-effectiveness-o...
I don't know the whole story but maybe someone will enlighten me

I think the cat is already out of the bag. We saw how engaging the public works with the legislature. California net neutrality is a recent case in point.

I would argue that the being frozen thing is a good thing. In fact, I think we need to make this proposition system stronger. Once a proposal meets certification, the applicant or anyone may not withdraw it. This I think reduced chances of reckless gambling behavior.
Ask HN: Employee surveillance at your work  place?
HN,

I've seen both ends of the spectrum but I wanted to know what the consensus with the HN crowd was:

Does your work place monitor employee activity?
Does it extend to their personal devices?
How about off work activity?
How extensive are we talking about?
Can you mention your company's name?

To me privacy is one of the most valuable "perks" I look for in a job. I will gladly exchange privacy for health insurance and 401k. I've seen companies where privacy is extremely valued,but I've also seen the other end,I just don't know what is normal anymore.

Bonus question: I've seen contractors' personal phones monitored because "they use it for work too.",is that common?
A prior could be a population level statistic which is then updated by a likelihood to reveal a posterior probability. Take for example a medical test. We know that on average that 1/10 people have some disease X. We have a test that tests for X (with some false positive rate).. Using that we can calculate the posterior probability that you actually have disease X. If you relied just on the test you don't discount the population level statistics which might be relevant. You can also use the tests FP rate in the same way as your prior... e.g. the people who test positive who don't have the disease etc...
yes, please stay away. Do not come to Oakland it sucks and you shouldn't move there.
"diagnosed with ADD and it turns out when they are interested in what they're doing, their attention span is completely normal."

Of course the problem is that, even when something is interesting to the person at a high level, there may be subsets of that activity which are dead boring.
Flickr has been seemingly starved of resources since Yahoo purchased it - development definitely slowed down and the performance of the service got noticeably worse. It was looking grim for a while there, so it's really hopeful that smugmug have bought it.
The Linux Command Line: Midnight Commander
For better or for worse, MongoDB tends to be easier for developers move quickly, so it ends up getting adopted quite a bit. This is more about how to deal with it after it's already in your stack.
I think the transformation has been more subtle, App Stores SEO is a thing, and voice searches are becoming more common. Document searches is still Google though.
yeah what does 'de-commodify' even mean?
OV does not put the name in the address bar.

OV requires users actually open the certificate (assuming browser support), hit "details", then scroll down to the Subject section. Then, if there is an O= section there, you can read the Organisation name. That field is missing in a DV cert.

The CA industry wants us to believe the average user does this regularly, in order to determine trust in a website. It's absurd.
You just need to read the oplog, so it only needs to track your saves.

In general, you probably should have at least something in your stack which reads all changes from your DB, at the very least for backup reasons.
Almost had me there...
Pause and Resume Index Creation with Azure Sql DB
That depends heavily on the language used.

In Lisp you can have code blocks that are clearly independent units hanging 50 characters off to the right. A limit of 80 would limit the lines in the code block to 30 characters, which is not enough. Lisp tends to have pretty long function names, like multiple-value-bind or with-open-file.
“An Overview of Probabilistic Programming” by Vikash K. Mansinghka
I often wonder the same thing. It seems likely that something we take for granted is possibly poisonous considering the number of chemicals we are exposed to in various ways.
This exists: https://www.mongodb.com/download-center#bi-connector
Those in the know said electric cars in general were an unpractical waste of money. I also remember three years ago hearing those in the know saying a self landing rocket would not be possible, and if it ever were made it would also be done at great cost and waste.

Heck, those in the know said even a couple of months ago that Tesla would not be able to achieve 5000 Model 3s by today.

The truth is, there aren't really any people we can claim are "in the know" when it comes to new, innovative approaches to manufacturing.

Maybe Tesla will fail, maybe it will succeed. I don't think anyone actually knows one way or another. Elon Musk and his crew are trying something no one else has bothered to try before and we just have to see how it goes and what lessons can be learned from it.
Even though is Mozilla I don't like the fact that they force you to receive emails if you one to add another language.

Edit: My bad, is only for the unavailable languages.
Part of the issue is that you can't not assume a prior; it's unavoidable. The Bayesian POV just makes this assumption clear / explicit, while many frequentist methods (if naively applied) amount to choosing a uniform prior.

E.g., imagine you have an e-commerce site that has, historically, had a 2% conversion rate (landing page to purchase). Now you run an A/B test with two variants, a control (A) and a treatment (B). Both buckets get 10,000 landings, of which A converts 200 of them and B converts 250. How can you tell if A is better than B? Cutting to the chase, the frequentist approach (if applied naively) would be to model B as some distribution centered around 2.5%, for example N(2.5%, 0.15%) or Beta(251, 9751).

A Bayesian would say that this assumes a uniform prior - but that this is probably a bad prior because it ignores what we know about the historical conversion rate of 2.0%. Said another way, the above amounts to saying (before we run the test) that we think it's just as likely for B to have a conversion rate of 2.5% as it is to have a conversion rate of 100%. Clearly we don't actually believe this.
I have to admit if a spouse left me while i was fighting cancer for someone else ...I would likely just want them out of my life as much as possible.
Have to admit I agree with this. He didn't change the appetite he just recognized that it was better to make a $120k EV than a $20k EV.
Flint Michigan is emerging from one of the greatest catastrophes in modern times - their entire water supply poisoned by lead.

This is not the city to use in any argument, unless it involves EPA super sites.
This is a list of apps. The more the merrier, right? It doesn't matter if brackets offers anything over vscode/atom
I remember reading an article years ago: FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool (2006).

> the eavesdropping technique "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off."

https://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdr...
I dunno, it looks fairly reasonable to me. At this point I feel like the sooner everyone just shrugs and adopts a GDPR-ish like framework, the better. And this one looks serviceable, doesn't come into effect until 2020, and can be tweaked in the meantime if needed.

I'm open to the proposition that there's something horrible here but 1) the linked article doesn't seems to able to find any and 2) it does do a good job of selling me on the idea that this law is better than the ballot initiative we'll get if this doesn't pass.

So...what are we meant to do with this info? Call up our local legislators (if we live in CA) and tell them to pass it? (Or...not pass it? I'm honestly confused what the author wants.) There's no call to action here I can see, probably because there's nothing meaningful to do, in which case...maybe take a few more days and make a readable analysis of whatever ends up passing? Because this just feels like fearmongering.
Publishing the block chain in question or running a node then becomes a civil and/or criminal transgression. Similar to how torrents were/are handled.

Whack a mole, with whomever has the most force winning (usually a nation state).
Bear in mind that exchanges are owned by the companies that trade on them - they've got a VERY strong vested interest in not fixing the problem.

HFT works because fast traders can see a buy and sell order that are a distance apart, buy from the seller, then immediately offer to sell it at a fractionally higher price. Because they can see the buy order at all times, they know they can sell what they've just bought and make a tiny profit. All they have to do is ensure they can see the buy and sell orders faster than anyone else, then keep hitting those orders. Repeat until retirement.

Several years ago, a new exchange was set up to try to address this problem by simply putting a huge coil (many km) of fibre in front of the system/s that accepted orders. This approach meant that, while HFTs could still see orders before anyone else and hit them faster, their speed advantage was largely lost due to the latency as their order placement was just a bit slower. As a result there was no guarantee the 2nd part of the order those HFTs were hitting was still there, so they might get left holding a position without being able to sell it at the profit they were used to. Each HFT could try to front run orders as they do now, but the fairly small increase in latency killed their advantage.

HFT companies managed to avoid using this exchange very successfully.
"not to mention
1.
used to introduce an additional fact or point that reinforces the point being made."

That's the problem with HN: more idiots trying to shit on google than people with basic reading skills.
My parents have one of those, they use it maybe twice a year. It does make good pizza though.

They're a like a bread maker in that regard. They seem super useful, but just never get used.
'Statistics is formalized philosophy of science' -- care to expand? Or provide supplementary literature?
My thoughts exactly. Very poorly constructed article. They definitely buried the lead, which is that the law is reasonable. IMO it's crazy that it's taken this long for real regulation of web 2.0.
> Plus it came out when I was 10 years old

I was 9. It's one of my favorite games ever. I lost interest in D2 pretty quickly, but I still come back to D1 every few years. I made my wife play it too and after about an hour she was hooked and became inseparable from the computer until beating the game a week or two later.
Bryan Cantrill has been accused of verbal abuse by at least seven people
Talk of metasearch engines and not mention Dogpile? They have been going since '95 and they're still there. Doubt they get much traffic these days.
> I wouldn't be surprised if the tech giants are actually positive on such legislation, because after the initial shock it will just help them consolidate.

It's really easy to check this, and the answer is no they're not positive on such legislation:

"Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber are paying big money to kill a California privacy initiative": https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/15/17468292/amazon-microsoft...

Only facebook left this group of tech companies opposing this after his testimony in Washington (probably wanted to avoid even more bad PR).

"Facebook exits group opposing California's proposed privacy law": https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-drops-opposition-to-calif...
The databases (Glassdoor, etc) I’ve seen are pretty close on base salary. There are outlier mistakes but generally close. They get some of their data from H1B applications. This misses bonuses and equity, and can be a little lower than non-H1B, but the numbers I’ve had first hand knowledge on are 100% accurate.
Such breathless, emotional ramblings really don't support whatever point the author is trying to make.
I'd dearly love to see a super set that included open and closed source and had a tag for each, like this does for platform/language. I do care about open source but I'll take a closed source app in a pinch if it fixes a problem
This is also something of a myth. There was a trust (that Edison was part of) which monopolized film production, but by the time Hollywood was ramping up their patents had already expired. They were really enforcing their monopoly through price and supply controls. The cartel was ultimately broken by antitrust litigation, not IP piracy.
> The salary of cleaners would rise until enough people are willing to do the job or it is more profitable to install self-cleaning toilets.

or we could pass laws to bring in temporary workers from other countries and keep the wages down.
Haha, California is such a hellhole. Same as the EU.
RethinkDB blows MongoDB on easy to use factor out by a large margin, with the upside of being a project focused on actual quality rather than pure marketing.
Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be
What are you claiming the SEC would disagree with? The claim is that Tesla set a goal of 5000 vehicles per week.

There are two things you could disagree with but you don't specify which. You can disagree that Tesla set this goal for itself, or you can disagree that the number 5000 is arbitrary.

To disagree with the first part, you'd need to show that the 5000 figure came from an external party, do you have such a source for this?

To disagree with the second part, you'd need to show that there is something significant about the number 5000. Is your claim that there is some significance to the number 5000?

If you can't substantiate the claim that some external party gave Tesla the goal to make 5000 vehicles per week, and you can't substantiate the claim that the number 5000 has some fundamental significance when it comes to car manufacturing, then you have no grounds to refute the statement that Tesla set this arbitrary goal of 5000 for itself.
Let's see. Can you move your feet?
i have alot of plate steel lying around. cut a piece of 3/8" (~1cm) to fit exactly in the oven, put stainless handles on it (its probably 30lbs/14kg) to lift it in and out. cleaned it off well and seasoned with avocado oil (I guess flax is better, but it spoils)

takes a long time to heat up, but when it does pizza cooks like its supposed to, and the oven temp springs back quickly after you close the door.

inexpensive and pretty durable. highly recommend.
Does anyone have a windows version of this list? Or a cross platform one at least?

The closest I can find is this list of windows apps, not open source though.

https://github.com/Awesome-Windows/Awesome/blob/master/READM...
I'm unsure what will happen if a company stores their data in the blockchain then receives a deletion request, but any attempt to remove data from the blockchain itself would be inherently unenforceable - by design, as any blockchain that could be modified or censored via judicial or financial pressure would be critically compromised.
It’s not broken. That’s the thing.

But there sure is s coordinated push of badly written articles spreading FUD about it...
While I didn't phrase that well (everybody resists change), I do stand by the assertion that they specifically will benefit in the long term.

It's like how the health insurance companies were really against "Obamacare", while now it has cemented their ability to compel your patronage.
Cybersecurity questionnaire to help Aussie conveyancers avoid another PEXA scam
This is such a common issue there's an entire architecture pattern developed to solve it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_architecture . No classic ETL, and any number of folks/systems can plug into the messaging system and get all the data.
Does anyone else (partially) blame the therapist he ran away with?
A small fraction of engineers have compensation that high, certainly not enough to really impact house prices that dramatically.
Ok I’ll resist. Percent Christian in the US is now down to 70% and dropping rapidly according to Pew. In another 10 years we’ll thankfully be able to say this is not a Christian nation.
The actual real crisis was WW2 which proved so many grand ideas to be wrong or terrifying if right.

The atom bomb and the slaughter proved science is powerful, god nonpresent, and that in either case society had no grand narrative to believe in any longer that wouldn’t be horrifying in the end.
So, you discovered "the problem with HN" and called me an idiot because you disagreed with what I was saying? I would invest in a mirror if I were you.

Fyi, I didn't "shit on google". There are many former google employees that work in government and vice versa. Even if they're a small minority,former .gov employees work there.

> This person can't possibly speak for all other employees.

How is saying former .gov people work at google (hence this article does not speak for them) constitute "shit on google" as you so eloquntly put it? And how does that fail to reinforce that point?

Maybe you should spend a little less energy on insults and emotional reactions?
I had to figure out what the rest of the article title meant.

> Feature 128 MB eDRAM, 48 EUs

I'm guessing 48 EUs means 4/8 execution units (4 cores, 8 HTT).

Just learned what eDRAM is, but turns out to be two different things: either a way of having a larger cache shared with the CPUs L3 and the GPU, or a buffer for main memory access which also allows bus devices to use the cache. There's even a mode where the eDRAM can be written bypassing L3 since all of L3 could easily be invalidated otherwise.