skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> , if their competitive advantage really just boils down to the fact that they are ignoring the rules then there should be a market correction based on them being subject to actual enforcement.

I highly doubt that the majority of advertising business for Facebook and Google comes solely from discriminatory housing ads.
Just a small fine and remedial action to resolve the violation. This also happens to traditional businesses.
It seems pretty easy to verify the blocks are stacked properly.

First, make them out of a shape that naturally fits together.

Then, build them with a vertical hole (shaft) through them. Put a reflector under the bottom one. Before the crane releases a block, it shines a light down the hole and checks if it is reflected back. Misalignment will block the light. (Or, you can do something similar with electricity, connected contacts on the top and bottom, and a check that current flows through the entire stack.)
> I don’t see why it would matter if you chose not to advertise your non-pet friendly apartment complex to people who have pets. Unless someone can show that’s a pretty direct proxy to a protected class it seems fine.

As a matter of fact, pet ownership is a strong proxy for a protected class [1].

Is your position that an apartment building owner should have to advertise to pet owners and non pet owners equally even if the apartment complex doesn't allow pets?

Come to think of it, isn't having a no-pets policy itself discriminatory?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/250858/dog-or-cat-owners...
LISA has now been funded by ESA with a small contribution from NASA. It is slated for launch in the late 2020s / early 2030s.
His memory was going down hill for many years, even before he retired.
If you can hack it together in a week then there are probably already a bunch of competitors. As has routinely been pointed out, many of the most popular apps can be readily copied in a fairly short time. The app is the easiest part.
To me that sounds like a trade off of due process and justness. Which I hold in high opinion of. At the EOD all laws are backed by violence. If the state is to resort to that they better be right.

edit: "...and justness"
I guess you could in theory go buy some ads on fb and see what it lets you scope
1968 Created the 'Ultimate' Anti-Sport Sport
I’d agree but it’s the corporate counsel’s job to make sure they know about this stuff. Did counsel never tell them ‘you MUST do something about this’, which seems like a huge failing, or has it been brought up and the executives decide ‘oh well we don’t care’ which would be a REALLY BAD thing to have a court find out about.

This is all so easy to avoid. Maybe you’d get sued when someone claimed you weren’t doing enough but they’re not doing ANYTHING. The lowest possible bar.
Chinese here. How do you guys reconcile your own torrenting, usage of sci-hub etc with the tendency to portray us as monsters for "theft of American intellectual property"?

I'm granting that we did (and on a large enough scale) for the sake of argument.

Is the idea that it's okay to steal so long as it's stealing from the rich and powerful (netflix, disney, record labels whatever)? If so, do you see how that argument might be something we can also appeal to?

(I would add "genuinely curious", but I feel it's become a device not for canceling for but for indicating sarcasm, so I won't do it)
And prions are regular proteins just folded a bit differently but they give you mad cow disease. Biology can be tricky and even small differences can matter.
"military grade tech" sounds like bullshit.

In the military the highest priority is hat things are reliable. Costs are only a second factor. Most "military grade" is far too expensive for consumer goods.

1. The US military is trying to go the other way. Trying to
apply cheap consumer technology for military applications. You may google it.

2. The former Soviet union military production companies also build consumer electronics on the side. It was far too expensive since they used "military grade" electronics for mainstream market consumer goods. This is the reason some people still love this old equipment that was also sometimes exported into the west.
Source code for what, though? How about pre-natal influences in the womb, does this mean the womb is a sort of compiler? What about the structure of DNA itself, known to influence gene expression levels? What about the microbiota, which is arguably more 'you' than your own body in terms of raw cell count? What about the phages found in the microbiota (the phageome)? Why are they not part of the so-called source code?
> Criminals kill people just because they can. That's a fact.

If it is a fact, I don't think it's a fact that is supported by your anecdote. You removed the hair from this guy's butt! While I don't think your perhaps uninvited waxing was a good justification for a shooting, it's just as disconnected from the situation we were discussing as the ISIS example.
I tried cutting my resume down to one page.
I received virtually no callbacks, because I'm perceived as inexperienced. (OR: the shotgun approach to getting past resume filters is a real thing).

So then, I exhaustively detailed every past project on my resume. At every interview: it's excruciatingly clear, nobody read the fucking thing.

Junior engineers who I interview, know this: Even if my boss hands me your resume the day before, I will read every single word, and I will pay attention, and understand what it means in context of your background. 3 pages is my upper-limit for patience. Your competence is usually demonstrated by about halfway down the second page.
I don’t understand why Slovakia has so many fruit trees compared to other countries!
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Reminds me of profunctor lenses.
I dunno about military-grade, but the Model 3 is definitely special.

I found this video series [0] about disassembling and analyzing a Model 3 very interesting and informative. If you have worked on cars much, particularly if you have ever changed a clutch or removed an engine, there will be some mind blowing things here.

For example, removing the entire drive train requires unplugging a half dozen connectors, two coolant hoses and undoing four bolts. Probably a half hour job, given a lift, a transmission jack and a few hand basic hand tools. [1]

Take a look at the inverter. [2] It's about twice the size of the one on my electric bike, but it's good for 300kw. The 100kw inverter in my Chevy Spark EV is huge by comparison. It's the lower module in the big stack of boxes [3]. Above it is the 3.3kw charger.

I already have an electric car, and the Chevy Bolt would suit my needs better (small, hatchback) than the Model 3, but I'm tempted by the artistry of it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/Ingineerix/videos
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4eQ7nN_Lwo
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6dV2re3rtM
[3] https://www.automobilesreview.com/gallery/2015-chevrolet-spa...
You’re missing the point entirely. The complaint is about what Facebook has designed their platform to allow, which is very clearly illegal and for very clear reasons. What’s not not clear is how you’ve come to the conclusion that landlords are “where the fault lies”; you’re begging the question by assuming that the fault can entirely be placed on one group or the other. One thing at a time.
Is this sarcasm? Legitimate question because I don't see what the issue with these statements are.
For those of you that like Hawaiian pizza try adding prawns/shrimp to it. Its a very good combo!
Something like the Consumer usage, and a way to apply it to arbitrary transformations of state (see the README on that repo for an example), would go a long way towards de-boilerplating a lot of things. The code I deal with has a painful number of connect() calls just for outputting pieces of data from the store.
The concept of HappiLabs calls to me, and while spendy for a new lab, is definitely less than a qualified lab manager would be.

Sadly, really only useful for wet labs.
I missed that bit in the article, thanks for pointing it out. So they are already developing ways to reduce c02 output of concrete production, nice. This would change c02 balancing estimates greatly.
> Gravitational waves last for an instant and then you've missed them.

Could you go into more detail? How do they differ from EM waves?
Mmm... not sure I really see a difference between that and what `connect` does right now. Can you clarify with a specific example?
Not preventing people from doing something illegal is not itself illegal?
These aren't requirements though; it's not like saying you must speak Italian to live here. It's more like advertising a job posting for a doctor in a medical journal instead of a car magazine.
I think that's the difficulty a lot of people have with this: it seems to them like their idea might be one of those "one in a million".

Part of the difficultly for me has been realizing that the it's not just a rare, good idea that matters—but that it's a rare and good business idea specifically. For instance, I've had a couple projects that gained interest by researchers, which I took as evidence that they might be uncommonly good; but getting the attention of researchers is different from getting the attention of investors for a reason, and it's still questionable whether either has even above average value as a business idea...
Great niche markets are valuable secrets. I bought a house in Silicon Valley with money that I make with a side project. It has no competitors because people don’t know how easy it is to make money in this space. Someone with a tech background looking for project ideas would never find it. I’d never say what it is because then my shitty app would immediately be fighting for market share against competitors. Someone may discover the market eventually and kill my app but I’m not going to help anyone do it.
It is delicious. If it gets more folks to give up a regular burger, all the better.

The place I eat mine from cooks it just right. Yum.
I can't tell if you're joking or not. Smoking used to be considered healthy, leeches were healthy, letting blood was how you got over sickness, drinking a mercury-based concoction was once thought to be an elixir of immortality. Maybe coffee is good, maybe it's bad. Maybe wine is good, maybe it's bad. How often are diets shown to not do the things they are supposed to? Humans are wrong about nutrition (and health) a lot. Saying that this is definitely not dangerous seems rather arrogant. With that said, we do the things that seem like the best idea at the time with the knowledge we have, and this does seem pretty safe.

Personally, I'm going to keep eating meat, but I'm kind of old-fashioned
I'm not doubting it, but on the other hand I don't think that the cement will re-absorb a significant amount of its own mass in CO2 (which it would have to in order to offset this 1-to-1 CO2 footprint).
> how much water does it take to make a cubic foot of concrete

The article does mention that they expect to use 1/6th the cement of construction concrete.

This paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-017-0009-5 gives an idea: 2 Gt of water per 21.3 Gt of not-water.

Assuming perfectly dry concrete (and none of the water converting to not-water mass, both of which I believe are counter-factual), that means a 2130 kg block of concrete would have needed 200 kg of water. Pumped hydro, assuming identical efficiency, would need all 2130 kg of water.
Funnily enough, the moon has recently been used to constrain the gravitational wave stochastic background [1], i.e. the space-time strain created by the stochastic gravitational wave emission of all massive bodies in the universe.

[1] https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.10...
No I am not wrong about New York, Republicans might currently control the senate but the State Assembly in Albany has been controlled by Democrats every year since 1992[1]. And it takes both chambers to pass legislation doesn't it?

Your first link completely supports my point:

>"A plan to shrink the state budget by $2.7 billion to keep New York from going broke was passed by the Legislature on Wednesday."

That would be the same Democrat-controlled since 1992 state legislature that passed that budget plan.

Furthermore the Governor appoints 6 of the 17 seats of the MTA board. And Governor Cuomo is a Democrat from NYC(Queens.) And the the Mayor another Democrat gets to appoint 4 seats. Thats 10 of the 17, for a majority.[1] Let's also point out that New York state has had a Democratic Governor for the last 11 years as well. So those board seat decisions have been by a Democrat for over a decade now.

That certainly seems like a healthy does ofDemocrat influence doesn't it? Maybe do a little more fact checking before telling people they are wrong.

And to be clear the context of my comment was in response to the OP who was insisting that the sad state of mass transit in NYC and SF is because of Republicans and that simply not true as both parties are equally to blame. Failure to fund infrastructure is failure by government period. Reductionist partisan finger pointing is what those have failed us would like us to believe.

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/New_York_State_Legislature

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/nyregion/who-runs-new-yor...
Interestingly the concern from the FDA was not whether or not soy leghemoglobin is safe generally, but whether or not it’s a potential allergen. Given that chemically equivalent ingredients are found in all kinds of food already, it’s a shame this got held up so long in a process that a lot of food additives skip entirely. But I’m happy that really solid beef alternatives are starting to become available.
Presumably because the CO2 cost of cement is thoroughly discussed in the article.
I’ve seen a person buying organic ribeye steaks with EBT. I assume they were not going hungry because they were morbidly obese. And paternalistic is fine with me, that means like a father which is what buying someone’s food is, really.
I specifically look at these threads for business ideas. I probably wouldnt straight copy any of them, though. Better to differentiate. A side benefit is that the new offering might not even negatively impact the person I got the idea from.
It turns out there are even Raspberry Pi specific examples in their docs:

https://github.com/gen2brain/raylib-go/tree/master/examples/...
It is not a good practice to paint with a brush so broadly. Americans believe Russia did no election meddling.
>"According to the study, because minimal risk was observed at 50-55% carbohydrate intake. So extreme consumption on either end can't be very close to the minimum."

Your conclusion does not follow from the premise, so there are some additional assumptions you are making somewhere.
“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”

A Study in Scarlet
Very impressive! I must say, writing an entire accounting/bookkeeping package seems like a lot of work, especially as a side project. Can I ask what domain-specific knowledge you had before you decided to embark on it? For example, did you already have experience in small business financials to guide you? Did you have someone like a Chartered Accountant or Tax Lawyer advise you?

Also, just FYI -- your FAQ contains an outdated reference:
API currently in beta, but will be available by mid November 2017
> We know that these regulations will not in fact stop housing discrimination

We don’t know that. I imagine if that was true it would have been proved clearly in the last 40 years. But the law still exists. I’ve not aware of attempts to repeal it.

> and that more will follow.

Again, we’ve had 40 years for this.

So many people in this thread arguing against HUD seem to be trying to argue like this law is something new, like a soda tax, that has very little history or case law. Where the best we can do is hypotheticals. That’s not the case.

> It's disappointing that we're unable to have a frank discussion of this subject

I find it scary that we’re having a discussion. As I see it the story is ‘FB refuses to comply with 40 year old law’, and there are a lot of people arguing they don’t like the idea behind the law so why should they?

Because it’s a 40 year old law. It’s been to the Supreme Court at least once (2015). You don’t get to choose to ignore it because you don’t like it and then get mad when the government tried to punish you for it.

> All the responses in this thread have essentially been that we shouldn't ask "What next?" because the "next" part hasn't happened yet

FHA was 1968. So 50 years, not 40. We have 50 years of ‘next’ to look at.

> That's just ostrich-in-sand thinking.

What is ignoring 50 years of impact and acting like we don’t know how the law would be enforced?

Again? My read of this story was purely as a ‘tech giant decides to ignore he law because they can get away with it’ and had nothing to do with the law in question.

I should have expected HN to see it as ‘poor company bullied by law that theoretically may be problematic based on someone’s beliefs’. I’ve been here far long enough. I should have known. But I didn’t. I looked at the thread. Sigh.
Your arguments are irrelevant because they do not match my experiences. Are you telling me to disbelieve my eyes?
That's a bug, thanks for reporting it. We don't have it in our bug tracker -- I don't recall CSPA having a Show HN post o_O.
I think you're confusing me with another user. I never made any strawman accusation at all.
I think companies like Grabb-It Labs only make the world more hellish. I really don't understand why you would start a company like this. On my commute each day they've started video advertising on my local bus and also in the subway. It just really SUCKS to be bombarded with more shitty ads for banks and big box stores.

I'm not trying to scold the founders. It just confounds me that people would start companies like this when there's clearly no net value to social capital.
McDonalds serves more customers than a five star restaurant, but that doesn't mean the restaurant is a bad investment or won't be able to turn a profit.

You're talking about different target audiences. The question isn't whether or not Mastadon completely kills Twitter and literally everyone moves over - it's whether there's a compelling reason for a significant number of people to switch over. Is it viable to for Mastadon to become a Twitter alternative with a broad level of adoption?

What people bring up over and over on every one of these articles is, "Oh, the project is doomed because why would any normal person switch over? You're only ever going to have the idealistic tech people on it, and it'll die as soon as they lose interest."

But it turns out that quality has a wide mainstream appeal, and it is a valid strategy to compete with other businesses purely on the basis of "our content is better." If Mastadon grows to the point where it has a similarly sized (albeit slightly smaller) userbase than Twitter and then stalls out, I don't any of what I said above would be invalidated. ;) Quite the opposite.
What is it about Redux that you need?
That's pretty cool—congrats. Especially interesting for me to see, because it's the kind of tool and business model that interests me. One thing I wonder though is how it can be sustainable using the one time cost model. I suppose if the market were large enough, then you could just charge for new major versions every couple years and that might be sufficient. But maybe some kind of more expensive licensing for specific types of customers?
How so Mexican?
Hi ho, greetings to the rabid HN paleo crew, how you doing?

You're all over this thread like a bad rash.
wheresvic1 mentioned indiehackers.com. Ill add Barnacl.es also has lots of examples and advice for executing on the idea. Lots of articles on reaching customers, too.

https://barnacl.es
Third-rail electric distribution is an established technology.
Well, he certainly has a right to complain.

But there are good reasons, both ethically and practically, not to let your frustrations get the better of you and rant publicly without first making reasonable efforts to get the problem corrected in the normal way.
https://www.traccar.org/

It's an open source GPS tracking solution. We make money on SaaS, support and customisation services. Some of it basically passive income from subscriptions, some is new development.
But is that really as hypocritical as you seem to suggest? After all we are, for lack of a better phrase, the good guys. It's not unprincipled to give the good guys more benefit of the doubt.
A modest proposal for optional methods in Swift protocols
Have you taken a look at Fable? There's a React-Redux sample here: http://fable.io/samples-browser/

But the real zen of Fable is using fable-elmish, which is a UI library that (like Elm) focuses on message passing. It's super elegant.

Good sample app doing nontrivial stuff: https://github.com/SAFE-Stack/SAFE-Chat

(Bonus is that it's full-stack F# :))
Are you seriously comparing advertising job openings to doctors with advertising apartments to only people of a certain race? You can’t just parameterize “x” and call it an argument.
I set it up with my phone. GitHub was the easiest way to do it that I knew HN wouldn't ban. They don't allow image links I don't think.
I didn’t know that. Well, if it meets whatever HUD/the courts’ threshold is for something that’s too discriminatory then maybe that’s off the list.

I know that pet friendly and non-pet friendly housing exists, so there must be some legal basis.

But if the current legal standard meant that it would be illegal to advertise to (or away from) pet owners then yes, I would expect that FB would have to remove those options for housing ads.

Guess that wasn’t the clear example I was hoping for.
Uber pays more than $3.5 an hour. Where are you getting that number?

Uber and other ride sharing services are so much better than taxis, why would you want them to die? Uber's international support is amazing and has made international travel far more safe and convenient.
Built WooRender to allow easy access to GPU compute. Basically leasing my deep learning server with 10x 1080ti cards for $100/day.

https://woorender.com
They're baking up soy hemoglobin in yeast and purifying it to add to non-meat burgers. This is particularly neat considering how complex the human heme synthetic pathway is. I suspect even in soy, it's more than just producing a "pre-(a-)"protein-- you'd have to make a few other enzymes along the heme synthetic pathway and provide an environment conducive to them working.

It does make me wonder, why soy? Corn and rice hemoglobins, unlike soy hemoglobin, are basically ubiquitous in our diet as far as I know. I suppose soy hemoglobin may be more meat-like or easier to produce.
That's not the legal test to determine if someone is afoul of the legal test that Facebook is accused of violating.

The wording of the provision they've run afoul of is elsewhere in the thread; it disagrees with you.

My point is more along the lines of Legal needed to be asleep at the wheel to let a team put together a solution where you literally draw a red line around zip codes to exclude them.
It’s not just (presumably) his position, it’s the law. And there is a good reason for it. Look up red lining.