skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The three scotches you like are peaty; 2 are Islays and one (the Talisker) is an Island, which is like a toned-down Islay. You like smoke, phenols, and brine. If you want something sort of "in between" the Lagavulin (almost one-note phenolic) and the Macallan (caramel and wine, little wood, no smoke), try a BenRomach, which is a briney and not smokey and right in your price point.

The other Islays you haven't tried include:

* Laphroig, which adds a huge medicinal flavor to the wood and smoke in Lagavulin.

* Bowmore, which tends towards leather and fruit flavors (they do some interesting wine cask expressions). Kilchoman is similar, pricier, but with even better casks.

* Ardbeg, which tends peatier/smokier than Lagavulin but not as iodiney and briney as Laphroaig.

The other two you like, the Macallan and the Balvenie, are very mainstream Speysides. No peat, lots of wine flavor. It's easy to find a lot of whiskeys in the same region and all will be better values than the Macallan (which is one of the world's most popular single malts and priced accordingly) and the Balvenie, which is solid but also grocery store scotch. I recommend GlenDronach 12 or 15 if you want to explore the sherry-bomb character of the Macallan 18 (GlenDronach is probably the scotch most like Macallan that isn't called Macallan), and Glenrothes if you just want to explore the cereal/vanilla/caramel malt characteristics of Speysides. Both are ~$50-$60 priced well.
When to use React Native
Seems like Habitat (which looks awesome by the way) relies on Docker. Which, if you consider performance heuristics in the article (size, cold/hot start time), may be a non-starter for what they're trying to do.
>people are more interested in absolving themselves from guilt than actually coming up with legitimate solutions to plastic waste

Yep, it's pure politics, and it's not much different than any other political situation. Most of the people speaking up are more concerned with HOW a problem is addressed, rather than IF that problem is actually addressed. They don't ask for less crime or mass murder, they ask for gun control. They don't ask for lower unemployment, they ask for immigration enforcement. And, politicians are only measured by whether they implemented those specific controls, and not at all for whether they actually managed to make progress towards solving or reducing a problem.
Women Making Science Videos on YouTube Face Hostile Comments
I'm pretty sure most services don't check for duplicate credit cards, both from experience and also it seems like it would leak information to tell someone that some card number is currently in use by that service
You still need to buy the equipment, and that is expensive. This makes zero sense.
Right but node projects tend to use ten billion trivial packages to do anything whatsoever (no standard library!) so the problem does get exacerbated. Moreover, npm has been told multiple times how to avoid this and they did not care.
Sadly in the US, this isn't a channel we have available much. The FCC just announced that they're just gonna tell you to go pound sand unless you pay them.

State Attorneys General can still do things, sometimes.
I use it, it made it, but I'd still prefer the old function keys back
Americans are weird. America is always exceptional. Exceptionally good, or exceptionally terrible. We have homeless people in Australia too, you know.
> Both sides of the abortion debate, for instance, believe with absolute and unshakeable conviction that theirs is the moral high ground.

I know people who preface an explanation of their support for pro-choice policy with something like "I would never have an abortion myself, but..." That's the opposite of "absolute and unshakeable conviction that theirs is the moral high ground." Most of the time it's the words of someone who recognizes a compromise needs to be made.
Please don’t conflate savings and investment - they are fundamentally different things with very different risk profiles. Both serve a purpose. Modern monetary policy has made saving impossible.
Thanks for pointing towards Slatestarcodex. Loved it.
"Don't major in art history at a $30k/year school unless we win the lottery"

If you put it in precisely those terms, I would wager one of your kids will, of all possible career choices, choose to major in art history for exactly $30k/year.
Paternity tests are accurate, but they are not 100% accurate. Firstly, there's simple incorrect calls. Then, there's a variety of conditions (for example mosaicism) that could cause a man's blood cells to have a different DNA pattern than his skin cells.

Finally, paternity tests are useless in the presence of identical twin men. A twin is not responsible legally for the children of his twin brother. What matters is who had sex with the mother. Any system needs to have ways to solve this.

Personally, I think we should look towards the most well-tested paternity system -- marriage (and the accompanying social stigma of adultery) -- for advice on how to move forward. Paternity tests can be a part of that, but they are not the panacea you make them out to be, including relatively common situations.
> Egison is a programming language that realizes non-linear pattern-matching against non-free data types.

It's a what? Can someone ELI5 this for a lowly Python and JS dev - why would I want this?

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I watched a talk about Scala's future [0] recently, in which the presenter compared the taglines of a few different languages (Go, Rust, Erlang, Scala), and how they relate to business pains or non-academic problems.

His conclusion about Scala's tagline - "Scala combines object-oriented and functional programming in one concise, high-level language" is that "no engineering manager in the history of software development ever thought to themselves 'hmmm, if only I had a language that fused OO and FP, I'd be able to solve my business problems'. That hasn't happened; that will never happen. This is an academic novelty that has zero relevance to any of us as professional software developers [...] this is not a business pain, this is an academic interest."

I felt a little bit like that when I read Egison's tagline: why should I care about this language?

[0] "The Last Hope for Scala's Infinity War"
https://youtu.be/v8IQ-X2HkGE?t=15m8s
Interesting that they're going after "ladies nights" which aren't exactly emblematic of "safe spaces." My impression is that offering women free entry is largely an overall economic decision based on the logic that social spaces like nightclubs will be more attractive to "spenders" (i.e. men) if there are more women there. Interesting to see what would happen to overall culture in that world if entrance fee parity was enforced.
I believe that business is called Bitmain
#MeToo is hardly mentioned in the article, so I'm not sure why you expected to see some kind of equivalent.
This essay certainly corresponds with the sentiment in this article:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-white-blu...

"You are patiently standing in the middle of a long line stretching toward the horizon, where the American Dream awaits. But as you wait, you see people cutting in line ahead of you. Many of these line-cutters are black—beneficiaries of affirmative action or welfare. Some are career-driven women pushing into jobs they never had before. Then you see immigrants, Mexicans, Somalis, the Syrian refugees yet to come. As you wait in this unmoving line, you’re being asked to feel sorry for them all. You have a good heart. But who is deciding who you should feel compassion for? Then you see President Barack Hussein Obama waving the line-cutters forward. He’s on their side. In fact, isn’t he a line-cutter too? How did this fatherless black guy pay for Harvard? As you wait your turn, Obama is using the money in your pocket to help the line-cutters. He and his liberal backers have removed the shame from taking. The government has become an instrument for redistributing your money to the undeserving. It’s not your government anymore; it’s theirs."

I think this sentiment explains why so many poor whites are against programs that would ultimately help them. To them, minorities are the competition in a zero sum game.
What's a tiny shoebox for you? Average apartment sizes in Berlin are about 90m^2 (~950 square feet). That's plenty for two people and enough for a small family.
Names are hard. My name is John. Programmers get really confused when I tell them that. "Did you know there's another programmer named John? You probably should have researched names before you decided to go with that one"
If US embassy in Korea did anything similar to influence Korean election, and if it was found out, you can be assured that people will throw some major shit and there will be protests, both on the streets and in the national assembly, and heads will start rolling.

America understands this, and does not try to influence Korean election (or, if they still do, they are really careful not to get caught), because the risk of it backfiring is simply too much.

...And South Korea was basically America's puppet state during the majority of its existence.
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Because moving sucks. I hate moving and I do it a lot. And one thing I hate even more than moving is being forced to do something unpleasant through no fault of my own.
Bacon is cured belly meat, whereas this was apparently pure fat. Fat tends to concentrate flavors, good or bad, and in this case it would have probably be very very gamey.

Edit: I think we have to see a difference between domesticated pigs, bred and raised for purpose, and their cured, seasoned, fat... and some fat hacked off a wild ibex. If you’ve ever had wild game you’ll know what I mean about gamey flavors. I can only imagine that some ice age ibex would be an acquired taste at best. Pig fat is also some of the most delicious, mild fat around, which is why it’s pigs used in that article.
What Is the Best IP Geolocation API?
The title is a clear play on the hashtag.
For what it's worth, this is how Tcl self-contained executables work [0], since Tcl already has a virtual filesystem mechanism.

[0] https://www.tcl.tk/starkits/
Incredibly short sighted given the timing of Trump's comment, the suspicious nature of his campaign's behavior, and Russia's involvement in releasing propaganda designed to help elect Trump.

A reasonable person could look at his behavior and think that he was hiding his corruption in plain sight.
Great idea, but I find a bit ironic that "I Code Dis" can’t be submitted to itself because it’s not open-source. Do you plan to open the code at some point?
Not if you need to communicate with other user space services, such as:

* systray icons/application indicators

* newer fontconfig versions support new config options which results in fonts being broken for apps that use older versions

* I think there is some issue around glibc locales handling if you use a different glibc

* systemd/logind/... DBus apis

Those were just some external interfaces that came to my mind. I'm sure there are many more.
>So which do you prefer? Foreign manipulation of public will, or democracy?

That's a false dichotomy which implies you missed my point. There is no such thing as sovereign democracy in a globalized world with omnipresence and instantaneous communication.
Does a square peg fit in a round hole? The obvious answer is no, the circumspective answer is it depends on the diameter of the hole, the "can do" answer is: pass me a hammer. Should the operation fail, the "politically correct" response to the client will be 'we needed a bigger hammer' than specified in the initial project plan...herein is our revised project estimate...

Scrutinize the aforementioned gedenkan thoroughly.
Rinse & repeat.
Accidenture [decode it] and plenty of projects under execution by Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, Capgemini/E&Y operate just like this on a regular basis

Similarly, so are you {square peg in round hole) if you think solving a cicada challenge provides a hypothetic-deductive 'proof' of likelihood of 'worthiness' at any firm.

Conversely, if you cannot suss out the meaning of what has been provided in the previous two paragraphs, then it is indeed probable that certain "problem solving" requisite skills are presently absent from your internalized paradigms and personal processes...these can be learned and are not untestable...get a full-time gig and "just do it" as the Nike slogan alludes.

Best regards
You have a point. However, I am new enough to Philly and have explored those areas little enough that I'm not sure I can be a good judge of them.
I don't have this on authority, but I believe Kinesis Streams is an AWS-maintained fork of Kafka around 0.7. Firehose is a wrapper around Lambda + Kinesis Streams. And Kinesis Analytics is a SQLStream wrapper with Kinesis Streams as its input. That's my best understanding, anyway.
Wow, sounds like my info is out of date! This was true when we last evaluated it. I really do appreciate how fast Google is on this stuff.
Mastery gives passion as much as passion gives mastery.

Become incredibly good at something, so that when you do it, you can do it quickly and go back to leisure or work on really tough problems where people look up to you as the expert.
My daily is Very Old Barton (so: much cheaper). My basic rule is that you can't go wrong with anything that is also sold in a bonded expression (and you can't go wrong with the bonded expressions themselves), and that it comes down to whether you like rye-spice-dry (Four Roses, Old-Granddad, VOB) or wheat-sweet-mellow (Weller, Makers, Fitzgerald).
What will be America's next move here? They are looking awful weak right now.
CI/CD Using CircleCI and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Being treated with dignity by companies should not depend on how many friends I have.
While I very much endorse the growth theory (within reasonable limits I guess) and have experienced myself that things I didn't immediately find interesting grew on me, the downside for me nowadays is that I never really know whether things just aren't for me or if I'm just lazy and not trying hard enough.

Guess the trade-off of exploration vs. exploitation strikes even here, in career choices (or less consequential, hobbies and such).
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There's a number of Numberphile videos I've seen where there are computer checks being done on various conjectures famous enough to on a video series like Numberphile, and even IIRC one case where a counterexample was found by an amateur with a computer. I've often thought there must be a lot of much less famous conjectures that are probably something an amateur with a computer could attack, and could well be the first to try. Or be the first one to try with gigabytes and teraflops, if the last person tried in an era where "kilo" still sounded pretty impressive.

Math is well covered, but the frontier is larger than ever; it grows every day. There's just a certain art to finding them.

Another field I've wondered about that may be relevant to HN interests is quantum algorithms. There's a lot of very smart people working the theory and the engineering and such, but I wouldn't be all that surprised there's a lot of room for even a relative amateur to learn about what quantum computers can do, and find practical speedups to existing problems, not because nobody is trying but because the field of existing problems is just so large that there almost has to be low hanging fruit still available. Theorists right now are mostly interested in solutions that change O() classes, but someone just having some fun will care if they can find a 100x speedup that is technically not in a different O() class, or something like that.
This looks like an intruiging alternative to Julia. Last time I tried Julia, effecient multidimensional code generation was incomplete due to required work in the type system. I wonder how Egison's performance matches it's expressiveness.
That's why free/leisure time to figure WTF is going on politically/economically socially and an education not to get lost on the way of getting there have been considered as pre-requisites for a functioning democracy.
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I think it depends on how old the house is and what you are comparing it to (condo or detached house). We moved to a 10 year old farm house and the house maintenance has been easier than our older suburban home.

Most maintenance time is spent outside because we have a couple of acres, an orchard and we enjoy gardening. But there was nothing stopping us from getting a house without acreage in the same area.

One thing that has improved, maintenance-wise, is snow removal. In our suburban home I used to spend 40-60 minutes removing snow from the driveway. Now we have a bigger driveway, but it's very affordable to get a professional snow removal guy to come with a plower and take care of it in 5 minutes. I started to enjoy winters much more after moving. Plus the white winter scenery here is much better than the muddy winter in the suburbs.
The whole point is that sometimes rules are better handled at a high level, rather than a local one.

The result of local dominant zoning is rampant NIMBYism, with unsustainable and anti-environmental suburban sprawl, people unable to afford rent in the areas with the most good jobs, and widespread economic segregation.

The system is working for some definition of working, but not terribly well.
A story about Airbnb, bedbugs and a lack of accountability:

My now-wife and I used Airbnb in Berlin and the mattress in our otherwise clean apartment was badly infested with bedbugs. I took a video (see below) and posted it to YouTube so that Airbnb would have the evidence needed to make what I assumed would be a quick decision in our favor.

Instead, they were completely unhelpful. I was an American traveling in Europe so I didn't have a phone number where I could be reached, which they insisted was the only way they could communicate with me about the issue in real time. They demanded photos of the bedbugs, which I didn't take, because I assumed the video would be more helpful and my wife and I got out of the apartment as quickly as possible. (after frantically checking to make sure our clothes and luggage were bedbug-free)

Finally, they took the host's word that there were no bedbugs, besides the obvious conflict of interest on his part to not report the visible bugs and blood stains on his mattress. (below a clean topsheet!)

After much complaining on social media and repeated Skype calls from WiFi hotspots they finally agreed to cancel our remaining few nights and pay for a hotel for us instead. This might sound generous, but it came after losing a night to bedbugs and the better part of a day to dealing with their terrible customer service--one full day lost out of a 7 day trip.

Like many of the complaints people are describing ITT, the problems that arise with Airbnb can happen in any hotel, too. The difference is that a hotel can quickly make you whole by giving you a new room or, if need be, putting you up in another location across town.

With platforms like Airbnb it's simply too easy for them to ignore you and your pesky complaints or, in the case of OP, ban you from their platform forever. While I'm reluctant to call for more regulation, it's hard to see what else could make them treat you fairly, as a customer and a human being.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJHScbdp15s
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I see a recurring pattern:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17285707
My friends were involved in popularizing this on the west coast, worked for and with Yamazaki. This is a misleading title. The article says nothing about why it’s “so good.” Only why it is hard to find. At best it mentions that “People see Japanese whisky as a super premium product.” But this is pure perception. The “goodness” is assumed. Rarity itself is proof positive.

I am not saying anything about the actual quality of Japanese whisky here (I happen to like much of it). But I will note that the concepts of “good” in the spirits world are very much influenced by subtle and not so subtle signals like this article title, brand ambassadors, good stories, exclusivity, “authenticity”, etc.
> It's still possible to buy an apartment in Jackson Heights for $200k and take the F train to work

It's possible to find a listing for an old studio apartment in Jackson Heights, possibly with an existing tenant you'll have to evict, and possibly with a long walk to the train. Throw in the condo fee ($300+ per month maybe?) and you've got yourself a deal.

At ~$400 / square foot that's relatively pricey. I think typical construction costs are like $125 - $150 / square foot, so this could be a $80k or less free standing house in a truly cheap region.
Name and shame! Is there a site for posting bad experiences with Airbnb hosts, complete with their name and listing address?
Establish your requirements, research the pros and cons of this solution, weigh them against other solutions, have a dicussion with your team. The popularity of a solution should have no bearing on your decision other than support and community; ignore hype and focus on core value add (or lack of)

Kubernetes will not go away soon. You might see less articles on the front page of Hacker News as the honeymoon phase dies down. Eventually we will see the “why we switched away from kubernetes” articles. This happens with all big tech

At the end of the day if it was all “hype”, it doesn’t matter, as long as it works for your team
You mean, like this? http://www.emikodavies.com/blog/italian-table-talk-lardo-di-... What is called "Lardo" is considered gourmet in most Italian / European traditional cuisines, and I can clearly see people in 2018 easily paying hundreds of dollars for a kilo of Ibex lard. I understand curing it might optimize the taste, but I would not call dried/smoked lard horrible.
so I took AirBNB for the first time and I was shocked how little vetting process there is. One particular place I had was awful....towels with dried blood spots, pubic hair on blanket....
> what it's like not to have the ability to manipulate the database.

In general "not wanting to understand, depend on, or work with other systems/teams" (often cause of dysfunctional eng/pm organizations) has, over 20years experience, been the number one reason devs (esp front end devs cause they tend to move the fastest (faster than traditional backend teams are prepared for) and have least experience in back end systems) go for something new, something they can control, something they can spin up fast and quick. NoSQL, cloud, anything they can do themselves.