skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Facebook isn't displaying the ad to you but you walk into the apartment management office and are denied the ability to rent (despite having the means) because you are a minority is Facebook liable? Again Facebook isn't a potential party to a rental or sale agreement. Can't deny you housing. Again Facebook isn't the one placing the ad.
We do in-house deployments for corporate clients, which many other providers do not offer.

Our app is loved by our customers, and especially so because it's a light PWA that feels native.

We also offer a free forever tier and are also integrated with UK tax authorities to submit company taxes online (this will be mandatory from 2019 onwards).

Our support is considered to be really good, because we bend over backwards for our clients. We listen to them and add features they ask for as quickly as we can.

We have in built project management and time tracking, and we're making this functionality better in our upcoming release.

Our quality of service and the easiness of our app seems to win us clients from the likes of Sage, QuickBooks and Xero. Try them all, and then try Bx - I hope the difference is obvious!
Parent post asked the question in general, not specific to housing.
I call BS. I'm not saying the planet doesn't have iron or titanium, just that I don't think their data shows it.

The researchers supposed that this planet might have iron and titanium in the atmosphere, they have an image of the star with a slight dimming from the passing of the planet across it, and they find the spectral signature of iron and titanium.

The percentage of the light collected that was emitted by iron and titanium, if it existed in the atmosphere, would be so mind-boggling minuscule compared to the light of the star itself, I would think that the iron and titanium signatures would come from elements trapped in or around the star.

I think if they looked hard enough they could find whatever elements they want.
And profiting from it.

The HUD press release contains the following text, which is pretty damning:

>Additionally, Facebook promotes its advertising targeting platform for housing purposes with "success stories" for finding "the perfect homeowners," "reaching home buyers," "attracting renters" and "personalizing property ads."

Yowzers!!
If your edit is in earnest it's because your comment comes off as naive. Inefficiency _must_ be one of several deciding factors because our resources are limited.

Tying resources up in a maximally just be deeply inefficient process prevents us from dealing with other problems of injustice for whom the solution requires more resources. The world _requires_ us to consider factors other than maximal justice in individual cases if we are to maximize justice in a broader societal context.
"According to the Norwegian pilots currently flying the F35, it defeats all other planes it has gone up against due to its tech and stealth superiority."

The F35 is a one trick pony.

- Arms load? Little

- Speed? comparatively slow

- Dogfighting capability? Low

- View for the pilot? limited.

- Maintenance requirement. High

It sets all bets on "invisibility". By definition a plane can't be invisible in the year 2018. It depends on what frequencies/spectrum your look at it and from what angle you look at it (most planes are not very visible if the radar sees them from the front). Once you take this out (and Russians radars may be able to, nobody knows) it is a very risky bet. Guess why the US don't want Russia to train Turks on the S400. Then we would likely know.

"The Israelis are actively using the F35 in missions. Their air force is not known for spending large sums of money on planes that don't work."

What was the last time Israel fought Russia or China? Please remind me.

And since people like to downvote me, take this as a hint:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-f-35-still-ha...

And this: http://www.defenseworld.net/news/10501/Enemy_AESA_Radar_Can_...

One advantage has the F-35. Acquisition costs seem cheap. It is in the price range of the Eurofighter.
"Customers pick a cheese sauce, a pasta base, add unlimited toppings like roasted broccoli and mushrooms, and top it off with anything from truffle oil to Hot Cheetos." - So basically Noodles and Co.
You are misrepresenting my position. Where did I suggest that FB get an exemption from the law? I never said that FB should get special treatment. For clarity, FB should follow the law and prohibit targeting of housing ads based on this list of criteria.

My original point (which has now been downvoted into oblivion, presumably because it raises uncomfortable questions) is that we as an industry need to ask the question "What next?". We know that these regulations will not in fact stop housing discrimination and that more will follow.

It's disappointing that we're unable to have a frank discussion of this subject, since it's important both legally and economically. All the responses in this thread have essentially been that we shouldn't ask "What next?" because the "next" part hasn't happened yet. That's just ostrich-in-sand thinking.
No. I define revenue as what we earn before our costs/expenses.
So it uses concrete which is VERY BAD and also needs a lot of it, but at maybe 1/6th the impact of regular concrete.[1]

It's unclear how this works out in the end. Exactly how much cement do they need to scale this up? What's the CO2 impact per MW of storage, for example? I would say anything that involves significant CO2 emissions is not an ideal candidate for renewable energy storage.

[1] From the article: "Energy Vault would need a lot of concrete to build hundreds of 35-metric-ton blocks... [but they've] developed a machine that can mix substances that cities often pay to get rid off, such as gravel or building waste, along with cement to create low-cost concrete blocks. The cost saving comes from having to use only a sixth of the amount of cement that would otherwise have been needed if the concrete were used for building construction."
I’ve also read that concrete absorbs CO2, in significant enough quantities that an isolated ecosystem experiment had to be aborted because plants weren’t getting enough of it.
It's an analog of hemoglobin. What kinds of dangers can it possibly pose?
That sort of harangue is just the tediousness we don't want here. Please stop.
I’m surprised it took this long for them to be sued.

With people like Bosworth and Zuckerberg at the top and Sandberg as consigliere it's no surprise at all. Tone at the top has a huge effect on internal controls.
Also: he did not solve his cases by deduction; rather, it was (logical) abduction [1].

Hah. How's that for pedantry, eh?

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning
I still have my 2012 MBP with the nearly-dead battery, but for daily work I'm just using a $200 Samsung Chromebook 3 with Termux. Yes, I can't run everything, and it's quite slow, but as a result I end up spotting performance problems I wouldn't otherwise.
Sounds more arbitrary and a lot worse than Twitter’s policy.
I wonder why apple doesn't allow or support Linux?

I wonder if it might be possible somehow under Boot Camp. Or if on a machine as beefy as a Mac Pro if a VM would be good enough. I don't know enough about either to say definitively.

The dealbreaker for me is no ctrl key in the corner

System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys
> So, a concrete tower, comparable to a pumped-storage hydroelectricity plant would be gigantic.

There's nothing to suggest that each tower would need to be comparable.

My reading of the article suggests the converse, that each installation is feasible at a fraction of the size of pumped hydro [1].

Although the article does mention land availability being an issue, to say the same for pumped hydro would be a gross understatement, since the latter requires not just land but a specific (vertical) shape of land in a continguous piece.

[1] Article mentions "each 35 MWh system". I found it remarkably difficult to find the usable storage capacity of a PSH station.
Um... possibly? I know artists that swear by the iPad pencil. In theory you could keep using that and then run Linux on your main computer. But in practice, I don't actually know if Linux support for iPad management is up to snuff.

I'm sure there's some kind of experimental driver support at least, but it has to actually be good.

You're probably not wrong. If you're looking at a new Macbook maybe there's at least good odds you already don't care about touch? In which case, it's not a bad idea to at least think about Linux, especially since you're already familiar with more than a few of the command line conventions.
Every time these kinds of articles pop up, I feel compelled to ask this question: how prevalent is online dating in America? Here in Europe it's of course a thing but the vast majority of people I know still find their partners in meatspace, even millenials. Frequent dating apps users remain a minority as far as I know, and people still meet through social gatherings, friends of friends, workspaces, etc. I'm under the impression, from my (limited) stays in the US, the (limited) conversations I've had with people there as well as the experiences of friends who live there, that online dating apps have become the de facto standard for meeting people if you are single and looking for anything. Having never used them, I am sometimes bemused by the passionate and lengthy discussions these articles tend to provoke, as well as all the (sometimes ludicrous) social commentary about gender dynamics derived from online behavior. Maybe it's because you are completely missing out if you don't use dating apps in America, and online dating has simply become dating. On the other hand, the stories I've heard are maybe only relevant to a tiny demographic (college-educated urban millenials living in one of the top 10 US cities) and have little to do with the general population at large. So, what gives?
The AIDS example here is using a known AIDS/HIV denialist (who is also not a medical doctor, but a psychoanalyst), and does not represent the consensus view at the time. That same year, the NIH and Department of Health and Human Services had announced that there was a probable link between a virus (HTLV, later HIV) and AIDS [1].

There are always some denialists or crackpots out there, but I don't think your examples necessarily show that doctors are lazy and default to psychogenic means.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6100648
Would you please stop using HN primarily for political battle? It's destructive of what this site exists for, the site guidelines ask you not to, and we ban accounts that continue doing it, regardless of their politics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Obviously US pizza eaters are very weird people. Their least favorite toppings are pineapple, anchovies and mushrooms. Not liking mushrooms on pizza is just wrong.
Such a minimal marginal improvement on human lives... kinda disappointed with this company.
The law explicitly says you can’t discriminate housing ads against certain groups. Courts have held that Things that aren’t illegal on their face can be illegal if they have highly discriminatory effect in practice.

So I don’t see why any of that should be allowed here.

And it would only apply to things that have a heavy discriminatory effect. 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.

Again, this only applies to kinds of ads covered by this (or similar) laws. Housing and employment are the only two kinds I know of. I see no reason why you should be restricted in who you choose to advertise your new T-shirt to.
Worth pointing out that if you're patient with setting times, you can use portland cement substitutes (fly ash, ground blast furnace slag) as a substitute for portland cement. Slower strength times (several days longer) but same long term strength and way lower embodied carbon.

The thing i ponder about this is the foundations needed for a setup. Concrete stacks very well (think dams) but you need very strong foundations for tall, solid concrete structures.
What bothers me about the Prenda coverage is that what got them in trouble was that they [the legal team, doing the suing] owned the copyright. As far as I've read (basically just the Popehat posts), there was no legal issue with what they were doing, but they hid from the court the fact that they directly earned the penalties imposed on victims.

Everyone treats this as if it were a victory against the practice of copyright trolling, but I don't see how. You can still do copyright trolling, as long as you're a law firm that doesn't own the copyright on behalf of which you're suing outright. A 100% ownership stake, undisclosed, is fraud on the court. A 60% contingency fee would be... normal?

The problem with copyright trolling isn't that copyright owners (!) might start suing over it without having to engage third-party law firms. The problem is the suing. If I were going to choose one group as the most entitled to file lawsuits over copyrights, I'd choose the owners before third-party law firms. How does Prenda reflect that?
>The best part was to be able to just focus on the writing, not formatting.

I see this 'slogan' frequently when it comes to Tex-based editors. (I realize you are talking about a GUI interface that only uses Tex as its backend... comment isnt really directed to you.)

Is the slogan really true? Perhaps I'm just easily distracted, but I find the exact opposite is true. I spend 1% of the time drafting, and 99% of the time fiddling with Tex, loading packages to make a cool kind of ligature, then ending up reading about the history of ligatures, then writing my own package to create a ligature more consistent with those used in 17th century upper Bavaria, then adding more features to the package to account for monospaced fonts, etc... and finally, at around 4:00 am, I realize I've only written a single sentence.

Maybe it's just me... but the slogan seems like something an alcoholic in denial would say.
In the US or UK system? And, in any case, then what is 0?
It was an actual incident that I witnessed. Perhaps it stuck with me precisely because apples keep relatively well. But there they were, going bad.

If you aren't homeless, no one expects you to sit and eat a giant bag of apples all by yourself within one to three days. People in housing who are gifted a large amount of produce or whose gardens overflow will post questions to forums concerning creative uses. They will can, pickle, etc the excess -- the amount they can't reasonably eat fresh. People expect you to eat an apple or two in a day, not twenty or thirty of them. Unless you are homeless, I guess. Then suddenly you should be grateful for 30 apples instead of revolted at the idea of trying to finish them by yourself before they rot in the heat.

Canning, pickling etc is beyond the means of a homeless person. So I have no idea why any middle class person would think giving a huge bag of a single type of fruit to a homeless individual in hot weather would make any sense whatsoever. I cannot fathom it.

If you give a big enough bag of even a hardy fruit to someone with no means to preserve it, it will rot. Even apples.
I promise you. If you ignore the churn and learn the fundamentals, your skills will have an order of magnitude longer shelf life.

If you know js and web standards then anything on the frontend is just a new application of the same ideas. If you know a bit of networking and a bit of operating systems then web development in python/django/Scala are all just interesting new ways to say basically the same thing.

If you know the specs then you don't need to find out about technology by following 100 different blogs.

Occasionally there will be new fundamentals to learn but you'll be ready because you won't have a backlog of relearning framework X's new way of saying "hello, world".
Everybody seems fixated on the stacking, but it's clearly not central to the system, merely an artifact of the demonstration-scale (and presumably demonstration-budget) implementation. They could just as easily be lifting a tremendously massive object a small distance and then letting it back down again with fixed hoists, which eliminates all of the structural problems this stack of barrels faces. Also, that would allow a single unit to sink and source power continuously instead of intermittently like this crane.
No, they're just in a position to allow rampant discrimination.
> there is exactly one time in the lifecycle of an entire system when you want a blocking read from the Linux KRNG

Right. I'm glad to hear you phrasing it this way.

And listen: I don't mean to be flamy here, and it's possible that my sense of these things is tainted by our many... colorful discussions here on HN, but the unradom orthodoxy, to which getrandom and python's os.urandom are in part a response, is something for which you are arguably a tiny bit responsible, having actually written "Use urandom. Use urandom. Use urandom. Use urandom. Use urandom. Use urandom" on your blog. That kind of punditry has no place in security engineering.

There is a need for a degree of sobriety with these sorts of security considerations. Sometimes edge cases move toward the mainstream, and that's exactly what has happened with this odd little phenomenon of programs being executed much, much earlier in the OS lifecycle in the case of containerization and IoT devices.

Yes, some containers are deployed in settings where the host KRNG can be and is used. But not all. And many IoT devices suffer from a sufficiently weak set of entropy sources as to need to block.

These are real concerns, as identified by the study I linked from the University of Michigan. The researchers there were able to replicate over 1% of the SSH keys that they found in the wild because the devices that created them had insufficient entropy at the time of the key generation.

All I'm saying is: don't treat these sorts of security issues as subject to orthodoxy. Clear thinking and solid engineering are the orders of the day.
The code you linked actually seems to refute your claim of this precision error, at least for multiply, because it is using npy_intp for nnz, which will be int64 on a 64 bit platform, and there is even an overflow check below!

Can you post a gist or link some other concrete example to show how it can overflow the intp type based on large nnz? Reading the code, it looks like this could not happen.

(Note that the entire second step function wouldn’t have this problem, because it’s accessing indices inside the other arrays, after nnz has already been computed, and is not looping over a variable that would overflow, apart from nnz from the first function, which I pointed out above seems not to overflow unless you’re compiling things in a non-standard way that affects npy_intp).

I don’t know what your comments about malloc having nothing to do with it are though. That is how numpy arrays possess their post-allocation result for __len__, such as for indices, indptr and data in csr. So __len__ could not overflow an int type (since it requires the platform address space’s int type to allocate underlying contiguous arrays and returns a Python integer).
Radio waves were first predicted almost exactly 150 years before the first confirmed detection of gravity waves. Either signal takes millions to billions of years to travel across the universe.
Is the answer to my question "yes" or "no"?
One reason would be that gravitational wave amplitude decays only as 1/distance instead of electromagnetic radiation which decays as 1/(distance squared).

...But man-made gravitational waves are, without some scientific advance eclipsing the discovery of electricity, completely beyond any human capability of being produced at the levels required for extra terrestrial communication.
Yep, it's highlighted in our README and "Learning Resources" docs pages, and it's the first thing I recommend after the docs in my own "Suggested Resources for Learning Redux" blog post ( http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/12/blogged-answers-lea... ).

Leave a comment in issue 2590, or DM me on Twitter or something - happy for any assistance you can offer!
I'm no fan of Facebook or discrimination, and am happy to see this pursued by the federal government, but I personally would gladly be excluded from all ads, ranging from billboards to search results to food packaging.

I guess what I'm thinking is, if Facebook had a feature (maybe it does, I'm not a user) allowing members to search housing classifieds, and if that feature allowed listing agents to discriminate against who saw their listings in results, that would be straight up bullshit. But, AFAIK, anyone can anonymously search different housing listing platforms for available housing wherever they want to live, so I guess I'm just struggling to see how housing advertising is worth this sort of scrutiny at all.

Again, I stress that discrimination is fucked and I'm happy to see something being done about it on any level, at all. I just feel like there are surely bigger fish to fry and spending resources on pursuing to whom/how ads are delivered doesn't seem like the best investment.
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Users flagged it (I'm not sure why) and then the author reposted it using a different account. Normally we would unkill such a comment when we review the flags, since I didn't notice anything flaggable about it either, but we're not going to do that when there's a duplicate.

Here's a tip: general explanations like 'is drawing attention to the "attention economy" taboo here' are basically never the answer. It's almost always something much more mundane. You could also know the answer to your question by using HN search to find any of countless threads that discuss these questions extensively. Even "attention economy", though that isn't one of the more common phrases, shows up quite a bit: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22attention%20economy%22&sort....
Ha, you're right about web engineering. But how available are jobs like yours? Because the guys that were doing them 20 years ago are still doing them today.
On a large scale, assuming people are being honest is probably more functional and beneficial. The flow of research, in particular medical, seemed already covered with speed-bumps as it is.

And the fact that the fraud has been found out, even if a delay is involved, pleads in favour of the system.
Cool! Thanks for the clarifications. I'm looking forward to whatever comes next!
Both actually, now that you mention it :)

But no, touch screens are what I meant. There's also a scenario where someone is moving away from Mac specifically because they're looking at convertibles like a Surface Book. Maybe before this point they were doing drawing on an iPad, or a wacom tablet. Apple had and still has a huge userbase of artists.

Say that you're one of those artists trying to transition to (opinion me) a superior hardware medium for doing artwork, where you have more control over buying hardware brands you think will be reliable or flexible or portable, and where you can get the advantages of running a full-fledged OS on your tablet. You can buy a PC convertible and install Linux on it. But you won't be happy with how Linux runs on those devices (also opinion me).
NGINX 1.6 and 1.7 Releasedholland
$891 million*. Incorrect title
"honest and dedicated to work"

Honest? Has he denounced China's human rights violations?
yeah, with the extra word being "person", not "homeless"
For their legal case? I’d think so. It looks way better that you were trying to do something and weren’t very effective than that you decided not to bother.

For their need to comply? No. They have to follow ineffective laws as long as they’re on the books.
Surround it with a hyper-dense mesh of windmills. Now it can generate energy when demand is high, and store energy when demand is low.