skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A judge can apply corrections in the local land registry. They're obviously conservative in doing so, but bad entries can and do appear, and judges, when presented with the right evidence, can repair them.

If there are court proceedings attached to the sale of the house, the corrections might be done there.
I see, I've set my browser to block third party javascript, on inspection, it seems the author has decided to download the markdown render script from what looks to be an analytics firm.
(https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/latest/markdeep.min.js)

Interesting choice
The benefits drop precipitously after the 15 or 20min mark. A 10-20min walking or biking commute is good. 30min of driving in traffic is not.
My life with mathematical tattoos
Without (arbitrary) scaling normalization PCA gives different results with change of dimensional units, that is principal components depend on choice of units or scaling.
>Looks like 'Grey' was mostly used in quotes, whereas the author would use 'Gray'. I'd put it down to copy-pasting.

It's also common to respect the original spelling when quoting (e.g. consciously, not just as an artifact of copy/pasting)
>Stock is not pay

It's not, but it'd also be foolish to ignore that RSU's can be fairly easily exercised and translate into real money. It's probably more accurate to say that the stock isn't worth the face value, but RSU's certainly does have value at public companies.
Don't we have the AGPL for this purpose to require them to contribute back their proprietary changes. As others have pointed out, if this was only about the modifications they would have used AGPL. Instead, and giving the clauses about consulting, it seems more like they are concerned about money than the health of the ecosystem.
How about you or antirez contact the HN admins about this instead of complaining and hoping someone notices?
Well the premise is that it should emerge naturally from the group of people, I see it as people centric and not mindless corporate execution in the works.

No question that if it comes of fashion in management, the natural aspect with fade out to a artificial «natural» process that won't work, but I don't see any worse than others awful corporate practise such as group pressured cheering or mandatory good mood.
TLDR; They encouraged people to make random gestures or perform meaningless tasks before eating and they found a ~10% reduction in calories (self-reported) and ~20% difference in people choosing vegetables over cake.

I wonder if breathing and presencing would have the same effect or stronger. I think our initial urge for sugar / instant gratification comes from our monkey brain and is overpowering but brief. Slowing down allows our rational brain to catch up and make a better long term decision.

This probably applies to more in life than just eating.
Bingo. Software engineers, raise your hand if you’ve ever worked for company where your project had to undergo a full UI/UX overhaul with every major release. This is why. These designers have a portfolio to build up, and your software is their perpetually blank canvas!
What if currency were privately printed?
Not so much these days with the devops reaction. Now you need to package your work and a good remote worker can figure out what is needed in a few minutes. Not a bad thing for either party TBH. Sysadmins can chase butterflies when they burn out and 3rd worlders get a remote gig to pay for food.
When you bend your arms at 90° where are your palms? With proper posture/keyboard height they should be over the keyboard. If you’re sitting straight it’s natural to bring your keyboard to the edge of the desk. But if you prefer to be under the desk then just rest on the desk.

I made a really quick sketch some time ago maybe it helps: http://svgur.com/s/7e6

That wrist angle on the green dude is very exaggerated, the point was to show that the fingers are in their natural positions, rather than curled, which is what happens when your wrists are glued.

EDIT: Also just look where the piano lady is resting her hands.
It's a snarl word for dynamically typed languages, to conflate strong, dynamic type systems like Python's with true untyped languages like Assembly, Forth, and BCPL.
He cares, because he wasn't trying to be political.

You could try being literate.
What algorithmic art can teach us about artificial intelligence
I've understood that a large reason why the Allied fuel had higher octane was use of TEL, and that for some reason(???) the Germans never figured it out (sounds unlikely?) or they couldn't produce it due to some other reason. Is this completely wrong, did the Germans also use TEL?
GitLab 11.2 released with live preview in the Web IDE and Android project import
Ask HN: Do you think there's a space to compete with YouTube?
Is it possible with changing the way you monetize the content? creating a better experience for the end user and a more steady income for content creators.
Do you consider "religious" appropriate? I see the point that theology originally means something like the study of God.
I live in CA and often comute on my motrcycle. It’s a joy - carpool lanes, lane spliting, and a motorcycle I like. About 15 mins by motorcycle and could easily be 40 by car (because of carpool lanes and lane splitting, not speed)
Here it is: "First, cut your food into pieces before you eat it. Second, rearrange the pieces so that they are perfectly symmetric on your plate. Finally, press your eating utensil against the top of your food three times."
I've helped keep a young drug addict alive for the past several years. I can assure you that good financial planning, and decision-making in general, does not always coincide with poverty.

And it's fine to argue that if people make poor decisions, they should be allowed to suffer the consequences, but that downplays the consequences that those around them suffer as well, especially children.

It's perfectly reasonable to say the money should be in a single bucket, but don't delude yourself that people are rational actors.
Thanks, this is interesting stuff.

I've been interested in Eve for years but only last week realized that it has a free tier.

However progression in the game seems a bit slow to me and tutorial a bit boring. After how many hours in can I expect some more interesting action?
I love the description by Richard Rhodes of Szilard's crossing of the road in London when he realised the possibility of a chain reaction:

"The stoplight changed to green. Szilard stepped off the curb. As he crossed the street time cracked open before him and he saw a way to the future, death into the world and all our woes, the shape of things to come"

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio...
It's really just:

mkdir Notes/
vim Notes/index.wiki
git add Notes/index.wiki

See ":help vimwiki-temporary-wiki" for details, but basically, it recognizes the Notes directory as the root of a wiki upon opening the file.

Since it's just tracked as a normal part of the repo, it gets branched and merged along with the code. So for example if I make an experiments branch, any wiki changes regarding the experiment won't sit around polluting the wiki if I decide to drop the branch. Similarly, any changes relevant to the branch I am working on get merged together along with the code merge.
New bill would require paper ballots to secure election results
Somehow, even though you quoted it, you missed the content inside the parenthesis. Also, flash news! You'll be working roughly 1/4 of your entire life. Unless there's nothing that excites you, it makes much more sense to get a salary + the excitement.
If the vendor wrote crash reports which you could review before sending, would you trust that the crash report is actually what is being sent?

If you opted out of sending anything, do you really trust that the vendor is not sending anything?

You still need to research what is going on at the low level to be sure if something is being sent or not and what is being sent. Your grandma is going to rely on the information obtained from independent researchers.

Yes, the behavior of Linux distributions are also independently audited by independent researchers.
The challenges of space electronics
I wonder if/when we’ll see clinics offering kratom as an alternative treatment for pain management and opioid withdrawal. There’s heaps of anecdotal evidence of its effectiveness for helping people to get clean, but we’re lacking research to corroborate it, and I can imagine people are hesitant to start such research in case the FDA succeeds in banning it—on the basis of what seems to me junk science and fearmongering, I might add, but we’ll see.

More to the point—a typical dose of kratom is less than $1; it’s hard to abuse since taking too much will just make you dizzy/nauseated/anxious, a mistake most users only make once; it doesn’t cause respiratory depression (doesn’t recruit β-arrestin2) so it (EDIT: probably, although we don’t know for certain) won’t kill you if you overdose; and if you’re in withdrawal, it will take you from “not fine” to “fine” within an hour without getting you particularly high or keeping you dependent like methadone/suboxone.

There are certainly downsides—e.g., it’s moderately addictive itself and can interfere with testosterone like any opioid—but its potential utility in fighting the opioid addiction epidemic is clear. If I had my way, it’d be guaranteed to remain legal and available over the counter to people over 18, thoroughly studied for side effects and drug interactions, and recommended/prescribed as an alternative PRN treatment for withdrawal symptoms—and other conditions like anxiety, if you don’t want to get hooked on benzos.

I know this: it saved multiple people in my life from opioid abuse, and myself from alcohol. That’s got to be worth something.
Should product managers know how to code?
I wouldn't be surprised if this is something that will "support Macs" being a library used for official releases, since there's generally more commercial support for Macs and porting houses likely to incorporate and contribute to this directly.

At least it's my hope, it could also be there's just a big unknown with what happens to WINE/tools like this when macOS doesn't support 32-bit apps anymore.
Yes sorry I too could have resisted baiting. I will try to do better.
You mean like Twitch, Snapchat, Instagram, and Patreon do? Or do you mean getting as big as YouTube?
Here's a copy that works without JS:

https://gist.github.com/jwilk/37e329126f0919b8ddf4066e61c188...
The Desperate Quest for Genomic Compression Algorithms
I think you're overblowing the potential for offense and committing the sin of assuming it's other people and not you that will get offended. If some religious person is offended by the characterization, I welcome them to articulate why. I'm highly spiritual myself and have interacted with many very religious people, and I can say that most of them relish the opportunity to think about worldly things using religious framing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17806459
Agree with you in general - that adjusting your body, and not your keyboard, is the fix - but not necessarily the specifics.

The most important fixes imo are:

- Neutral angle wrists (elbows flared so that it's a straight line from the elbow to the fingertips, i.e. no wrist "yaw")

- Monitor at eye-level

- Forearms parallel to the ground

- Feet planted on the floor

afaik slouching takes pressure of the lumbar vertebrae, but neither that nor sitting up straight is uncomfortable for me, and I arbitrarily alternate between the two. Also, arms resting on the desk doesn't bother me.

I find it nearly impossible to work on a laptop for any length of time, mostly because of the monitor-at-eye-level requirement. Speaking of, an adjustable monitor arm is the best investment you can make. I use the Humanscale M2.
The pinky being the weakest perfectly matches my subjective experience. My wrist pain is at the outside of my wrist. The more I use my pinky, the worse it gets.
> Three to four members of each hiring panel join the offer call, everyone cheers and shares anecdotes from their interviews

I'm always off put with that kind of «relevant only when spontaneous» formalized behavior. How is it supposed to work ? But maybe it's just a culture problem since I'm non US :) .
There's actually a resurgence in film making. A bunch of small film makers are starting production again (ADOX and Ferrania come to mind) and Kodak recently reintroduced T-Max P3200 and is in the process of ramping up Ektachrome production.
You're Still Paying for the Spanish-American War (2006)
It's really important to manage versioned schema for events and defining rules around evolution of schemas, hopefully with tooling support like via Avro's Schema Registry or Protobuf's forward and backwards compatibility guarantees.
In the case of Redis and the handful of cloud providers, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t leave millions on the table just because they’re anxious about having to run it by legal.
> Do you posit that people are more inclined to share contributions to a codebase that does not ask them to share such contributions?

I posit that people businesses share contributions because it brings them business value, and the business itself being able to use the code in proprietary derivatives often significantly enhances the business value from sharing contributions, which is why SQLite (available as public domain or permissive license) and PostgreSQL (permissive license) have significant upstream contributions from downstream proprietary users, and even Linux gets a fair amount from people whose main use motivating modifications is hosted use which does not require contributions (because it's GPL, not AGPL.)

I further posit that, OTOH, people who don't want to control downstream use are more likely to contribute if they can do so with a license that doesn't constrain downstream use.

But most critically I observe that a GPL-or-proprietary offer cannot use GPL-only contributions, it requires acquiring rights from downstream contributors to relicense code under a proprietary license. So even if people are contributing under the GPL, that isn't “giving back” to the vendor of software that is under a GPL-or-proprietary license scheme (where the value proposition is that the proprietary offers at least as much in all dimensions as the GPL version, and more in some), since by adopting that license scheme they have locked themselves out of use of community improvements that are offered only under the reciprocal provisions of the GPL, which can result in the proprietary version being supported by less aggregate development resources than a community, GPL-only fork.
In a Philosophize This! podcast on Kant I learned that he was extremely consistent in his routines. Every day he would walk at the same time, eat at the same time, etc. Not exactly the same as rituals, but it finally got me to consider that perhaps consistent routines every day would help me essentially slip into other creative, productive habits via auto-pilot.
Show HN: Production Ready Microservices at Scale
Google and Android is weirder. The base OS is still totally open source and based on a Linux kernel. But in order to distribute Android with Play/Gapps, you have to join the Open Handset Alliance. You're heavily restricted on what apps you can bundle and you CANNOT manufacture any Amazon Fire devices (or any Android devices that do not contain the Google base services).

The base is open, but what makes it useful is licensed, essentially making the free still crippled. I did a post about Android a while back:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/android-fragmentation/
Stanford Professors Find Bosses Often Waste Employees' Time.  Why
Also is great. I extend this script and use it as a quick-and-easy way of managing my dev team’s vpn into our clouds.
But the benefits you're describing penalize gainful employment very heavily. Look at the cash flow:

Before: 0 labor output, $100 income.

After: $100 labor output, $175 income.

You've gained $75 by doing $100 of labor, which means that the welfare program is taxing your labor income at a 25% rate. This is a fairly strong disincentive to work, and a substantial penalty on gainful employment. In the reverse direction:

Before: $100 labor output, $175 income

After: 0 labor output, $100 income

You'd expect losing $100 of sales to represent a loss of $100 in income. But it's only a loss of $75, because the welfare program will subsidize you to quit your job. This is, again, a disincentive to work.

To evaluate whether the program is an incentive to work or a disincentive to work, you have to ask whether, in the presence of the program, more work or less work is done than would be done in the absence of the program. It's not at all relevant that the marginal tax rate implied by the program is always less than 100%. As long as it's more than 0%, it is a disincentive to work.
Maybe open source is just not keeping up with the real world, a few things could destroy it: lack of open source license choices restrictive enough and clear enough and enabling openness so much that most businesses can't profit in any significant way from software under those licenses; lack of standardized proprietary licenses for dual-licensed open source project; lack of standardized open source CLAs and CLA integration with popular software hubs.

Ultimately, though, open source has to incentivize independent creators and not big corporations. AGPL is somewhat successful here, because big corporations already ban its use internally, but it's far from addressing the problem. New restrictive licenses are needed.
Lessons Learned Deploying a Generic CSRF Solution
Yeah. From what I remember, Octopress was designed to take Jekyll from static site generator to Blog engine (i.e. automate the manual stuff to set up a blog). Jekyll has since cribbed significantly from Octopress to make it much easier to approach for that use case.
I've seen this prediction on a regular basis since the mid-1990s. Usually the prediction hasn't included the qualifier "sometime after 2018". Would you like to add a qualifier to your statement?
The docs located at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/Mu... should help you there.
Sure. The question would be how well would they be able to run the systems? My guess is mostly not at all.
Coconut oil is 'pure poison', says Harvard professor
If what you're asking about is the math, the steps are (essentially) as follows:

1. A Riemannian manifold is constructed from the dataset.

2. The manifold is approximately mapped to an n-dimensional topological structure.

3. The reduced embedding is an (n - k)-dimensional projection equivalent to the initial topological structure, where k is the number of dimensions you'd like to reduce by.

I don't know how well that answers your question because it's difficult to simplify the math beyond that. But you can also check out the paper on arXiv. [1]

The underlying idea is to transform the data into a topological representation, analyze its structure, then find a much smaller (dimensionally speaking) topological structure which is either the same thing ("equivalent") or very close to it. You get most of the way there by thinking about how two things which look very different can be topologically the same based on their properties. A pretty accessible demonstration of that idea is the classical donut <-> coffee mug example on the Wikipedia page for homeomorphisms. [2]

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1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.03426.pdf

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeomorphism
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Absolutely! Not saying that Apple model is right or wrong, but they certainly chose BSD consciously (whether or not it was because of the encumbrance of GPL, or any technical reasons).

It's simply wrong to say that nobody pays attention to this. It's a choice you make, and whether you view the consequences as "repercussions" or "features" depends entirely on your view and the actual outcomes of those choices.

Fwiw I understand that Darwin is also available as BSD, so it seems you can get some good actors that are willing to pay it forward without necessarily needing to add a license that goads them into it.
Why are people still on this platform?
Probably similar to how a camera takes the photons from a 3D source and projects it onto film (or photosensitive plate).
On HN 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17019533
Sun keyboards are nice for pair programming, since when your partner does something good you can press the 'props' key.
We did get more. And less. Many of the innovations of VRML-97 have been forgotten, ready to be rediscovered. But progress on other fronts has been amazing.

Mostly the notion of treating your entire app as a simulation, just like games do. VRML-97's event loop, warts and all, made things a lot easier.

VRML-97 also had a true prototype/instance class system, way more like David Unger's Self language than what we have today. (Ironically, JavaScript is moving away from prototypes and more towards classes each iteration. Too bad.)

Scene graphs, of course. Really just a DSL for describing object graphs. Very succinct & powerful.

A few things deflected VRML-97.

Sun placed their bets on Java3D and ignored OpenGL. In addition to scene graphs, Java3D had the notion of live (active) objects, sending messages to each other. It was the 90s, people still bought into OO. It was an idea worth exploring that didn't pan out. No shame in trying.

The bigger mistake was the VRML steering committee went all in for XML and switched to Web3D. Completely stopped all the hard earned momentum. Classic example of Joel Spolsky's "Don't Rewrite" rule. This idea was not worth exploring.

Source: Implemented VRML-97 browser, wrote some games and authoring tools, coauthored the original JavaGL bindings with "Alligator Descartes", lobbied Sun & SGI for years to drop Java3D and promote JavaGL (which they eventually did, but too late).
Oh okay. I did know about that weakness of PCA. But it seems like in this case letting one prime factor correspond to one unit of distance is a nonarbitrary scaling, so I would expect PCA to give sensible results.
WTF is a library that helps you introduce a lot of swearing in your code
Much needed for the place I work at, some people shouldn’t be allowed to enter /s
I would imagine no more than it owns the files you upload to Google Drive. The disk on the Colab instance is ephemeral, so you will need external storage for your dataset anyway.
I am not aware of any multicopter design that can autorotate. Something like this with a tilt wing approach probably has some ability to glide:

https://youtu.be/gJrKmMM7vW0
> Honestly, what are you talking about? At which point has the UN accepted the PRC's claims to Taiwan or the PRC victory

Click the link in my post.
Thank you! I own several of your books but I couldn't use hookpad due to the flash requirement. I'm excited to use this!
serotonin hit
How about "here is our simple sample project and documentation, please study them and during interview we will fix a few simple books and discuss how to implement a bigger change or how to refactor the existing code". Fair for both sides and much more closer to actual work setting.
You're not wrong. Adults have an ability to discern crap from talent. Children don't know the difference, and will buy what's pushed at them. This is very different from the 1940s, 1950s, where a record (and phonograph, speakers, amplifier) was expensive and music was primarily purchased by adults. The demographic shift is rather profound -- where the average age used to be in the high 30s/low 40s, to today, where it is teenagers.

I don't agree that pop music is becoming more vanilla and less offensive. In fact I think it's demonstrably quite the opposite -- much more vulgar and crude. Just a few moments spent with modern "music videos" should dispel any notion of bland, inoffensive art.