skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will really only end when the credit rating agencies become irrelevant. Large purchases should be based on ability to pay, which is different than credit rating.

You can have a credit rating of zero just because you don't use credit - even though you have plenty of money in the bank.

If you are running a business, why not avoid equifax and other credit raters and use a different mechanism?

If you are looking to startup a business - doesn't this look like an area that needs disruption?
I have worked in many as a care aid providin direct care to residents. I worked for 7 years in one facility that worked with advanced Alzheimer's and dementia like condition clients. I would not describe the nursing home as cruel or in-human, though to a person with sound mind it certainly would. The people who resided there simply could not live alone. They would soon be seriously hurt or die. So yes when they enter the facility they don't have all the same freedoms as you and I. It is not safe. They leave ovens on, let strangers have access to their money, go wondering in the night no regard to weather or other important factors and so on.
Now on the family side of things they have been probably spending months trying to manage their loved one and at the same time are grieving the loss of that loved one as they watch the person they once knew fade away. Every hour for the family is spent wondering if mom or dad is safe at home and eventually their lives come to a halt and they start to experience care giver burn out. The facility provided a safe harbour for their loved ones. We ensured medications were taken on time. That they would get up in the morning and put on clean clothing and wash up as needed. We tried to entertain the residents with music, games and various activities. The facility I worked at made it so the families could finally breath and know their loved on me was safe at the end of the day. I hope others find the nursing homes they deal with to be the same experience.
A slug doesnt need a supercomputer because a slug is working more like this thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44
I thought that 741 would just be a map of Sahara, but it actually includes most of North (where I'm from) and West Africa.

Wouldn't a Canadian or Russian map have more sparsely populated land, or am I underestimating the size of the Sahara?
Again, if that's the case, you should open a trouble ticket, so the problem can be fixed. It won't get fixed if there isn't a work ticket and nobody knows where your traffic is coming from or going to.
You're making a purely semantic argument, concerning some very common words, which I actually consider to be somewhat rude. It doesn't seem to be the case that you did not understand the intended meaning, but rather that you are deliberately choosing misconstrusion. If you don't think that there is a well-understood sense by which "abstract" means "not real", then that sounds like an argument that a dictionary or encyclopedia would be better-qualified to answer than myself.
My understanding is that go is primarily targeted at spinning up webservices quickly, at the expense of most other purposes, so probably rust. (Or another contender for c++ replacement like d, nim, or zig.)
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Ok, so who decides what is a "mistake", and when do existing "established" laws become a "mistake"? Common law is based on the idea that case law and precedent help establish how we apply law in harmony with the constitution.
I used to give my real birthday. Then I kept reading about how knowing that plus your address (usually easy to find on the internet - whitepages.com, etc.) got someone a long ways toward imitating you.

So I started making up birthdays but would have problems because I didn't remember them. So now I just use the epoch, which I think somebody here suggested.
As an User and Dev of both iOS and Android, I can tell you Push Notifications are miles ahead on Android compared to iOS.

The article refers to not wanting use Google Solution for non technical reasons.
For Clojure, check out Ghostwheel [1] - a lightweight DSL for writing specs.

If you want proper static typing though, ReasonML might be a good choice. Static, compiles to js and native, super easy to learn, and there’s an experimental Lisp frontend with Clojure-like syntax if you can’t live without paredit.

[1] https://github.com/gnl/ghostwheel
you ain't seen nothin yet
One bomb dropped every twenty minutes for the last 30 years, mostly on innocent people.

Hell yeah, America has a mass-murder problem. Its just ignorant of the fact because .. you know .. nobody likes to know how their powerful military is really being used.
I don't have a degree or formal education but I managed to work for Google about 10 years ago and left to start a company that engages in HFT.

What I'd argue is that your observation is a form of survivorship bias. Of the very small people who manage to succeed without a degree, those people will likely have a great deal of drive, self-motivation, and other traits to compensate for that lack of degree. I'd then argue that in the long term, those traits end up having a much greater impact on your ability to succeed than an education.

But that doesn't mean not having an education is overall a good thing. The majority of people without a degree will be absolutely incompetent software developers compared to those with a degree... you would just have never met them because they don't last long enough to work with you.
> But if bug count is proportional to LOC and LOC per day are constant across all languages, then bug per day will also be constant across all languages.

Of course -- but the important thing is that bug count per feature/app will be lower in a more expressive language.
check the autoclave
The numbers in the circles are not neatly centered. They're a little off. Fixing that (center them perfectly) would make them visually much more appealing.
If you don't have a push provider mediating the many apps trying to get notifications, you end up in a tragedy of the commons scenario, where every single app will try to implement its own push service and will prioritize its own push service, quickly resulting in a race to the bottom where the device is constantly connecting to a different push service, draining battery and exhausting your data connection.

It isn't very different from preemptive/cooperative multitasking.
Part of the problem is that vi is pretty much guaranteed to be on any system you log into, including many 'embedded' systems. So although I was historically an emacs user, I have learned the minimum of vi commands to get by, but no better than that.
> I'm no fan of crime documentaries or political coverage, but it seems almost guaranteed that there are better sources for those things online [1], at least if you know where to look and how to vet whether someone's an expert [2].

[1] Not sure about that — those "better sources online" tend to be the very journalists whom we're discussing, working for local media outlets.

[2] Assumes facts not in evidence — vetting of someone else's expertise is a non-trivial challenge, one that most of us neither want to do nor have the time to spend doing it.
Make HN Laugh: A new infinitely recursive (lisp, sort of) joke
(Actually, this is going to Make HN Yell At Me, and maybe even Make HN Ban Me, since only Lisp programmers are going to get it, but it's too funny (if you're a lisp programmer), so in honor of the invention of the smiley, which started as a joke thread at CMU (by, btw, a lisp programmer!): https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm ... :-)

I asked an engineer for a quote. He said that he doesn't give quotes, but gave me one anyway. So it was an "unquote quote". The phrase "unquote quote" is a "quote unquote quote", which is a ...

If you don't see why this is funny, you're not a lisp programmer ... or maybe it's just not funny. :-(
80's myth. It's been ruled out by population studies in Asia.
might not realise how strange the idea of emptiness is to many Brits

This is certainly not true of all Brits, mostly Londoners think this way. "What this green empty space really needs is an exciting development of exclusive executive apartments... say, why do they call them flood plains anyway?". Most of the UK is uninhabitable, it's just the bits that are habitable are very densely packed with people, who rarely venture out of them and see the rest of the country.
There is a HTTPS, between HN and me. "HTTPS creates a secure channel over an insecure network. This ensures reasonable protection from eavesdroppers and man-in-the-middle attacks ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS
Out of interest, could you recommend any mezcal/tequila, I've not had any before, but do enjoy smokey drinks like laphroaig/octomore whiskies along with smoked beers along with non-smokey spirits too!
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It’s an app and I don’t know if you need to supply a number first. Either way they need it one time so use a throwaway only to activate the app.
There's a lot of truth in this. However, there is also the fact that their ability to keep the lid on things means they may also suppress feedback mechanisms which in a democracy may prevent wrong things from going on too long.

Something like this has been seen in the one child policy which went too far and the government is now scrambling. Also, the clumsy attempts to prop up the stock exchanges a couple of years ago have ultimately come undone. So we will see whether we have true resilience in the system, or is it actually brittle.
Not exactly "a page", as with a modal you are not messing with the browser history and you expect to keep the exact state of the page underneath the modal
Often considered "bike shedding" https://phinze.github.io/2014/05/24/useful-tech-terms-part-1...

When you are working on minor details, everyone has an opinion. When you are working on major difficult things, nobody wants to weigh in.
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Is it really faster when you account for the time needed to first create the whirlpool?

Conveniently, the emptying "race" in the video only starts after the whirlpool has been created!
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I'm working on my first Clojure project and find JVM to be painful (it starts very slowly and eats lots of RAM). I'd appreciate any tips on making JVM non-bloated.
Put your money where your mouth is. Publish your info and see what happens. If you later have a problem, how will you be able to show that it was because you published your info?
In your opinion what software platform will replace java and .net?
Exactly. But Google had no subsidy as far as I know, so the margin to be profitable must be higher.
Oh, you're right, I don't. I assumed that they were also gc, but I guess not!

How was the performance of the old mainframe formats?
No, core.spec does not address the main issues with dynamic typing. It offers some neat stuff, but it is not a replacement for static typing.
that gave out "free" copies of the New York Times and USA Today (which we probably paid for in our tuition fees). I would pick them both up on most days and there was rarely anything in either of them worth reading past the headline.

No newspaper can really overcome a combination of idle cynicism and incuriosity. Perhaps you just don't like news.
I tried for nearly six months in 2015 to have two bogus collection agency debts removed from my Experian credit report. While Experian would write me form letters and say they were disputing, had disputed, would dispute, nothing was ever done. Furthermore, I think they enable fraudulent companies. Here is the basis of my deduction: I consulted a credit repair agency late in 2017 and this agency in a very short period of time forced the recalcitrant creditor(s) to produce evidence. There was none. However, I had to contact CYBERCOP to clean up the mess, wipe out negative reports and he did within just a week. My advice to you is that if your issues are the least bit complicated, contact CYBERCOP (CYBERCOP@WORKMAIL.COM; +1 872 307 0106) to intercede on your behalf rather than waste your time. He's magnificent.
Interesting segment where they talked about facebook doing nothing to control or remove the group. It seems like a pretty cut and dry case that these types of deals are illegal (and facebook has more than enough money to know that). It also seems to go against their more liberal nature, but I guess theyve maybe grouped this in their "freedom of speech" category, along with hate speech and the like.
>Since American families and homeowners have fallen to record lows they have no consistent voter base from individuals anymore.

No. This is just factually incorrect.

American are moving at historically low levels.

https://slate.com/business/2018/06/americans-are-moving-less...

Homeownership is certainly not at historic lows.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/homeownership-rate-reaches... (data for 2017, 2018 is higher: https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/index.html )
> In my experience ease of reading code is not a function of verbosity, but a function of familiarity.

You would think so, sure. I used to write Perl code and I was extremely familiar with it and it used to be pretty easy for me to hack a script. Going back after couple of months and trying to understand it though, was a totally different animal.

You can argue that it was my fault for writing bad Perl code, but ask any old farts who ever had to write Perl.
I've got an instance of both Chrome and Firefox open on MacOS right now, and the UI's use exactly the same amount of space. The navigation bar on Firefox is a little thicker than Chrome, but it's made up for with a slightly thinner tab bar (since FF tabs don't have the blank space above to make them look like physical folder tabs).

Not sure if this holds in Linux or Windows.

EDIT: In fact I just noticed that Chrome was outdated. After upgrading it to the latest build, it uses more screen real estate for the UI than FF Quantum's latest build. The difference is even more pronounced if you have bookbar bars turned on.
Sure, only look at the result of their worst decisions. They're doing fine now.
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I'll add wrote a similar comment but I suspect that someone already saw this video and comment here.

But I am a little surprised by the amount of people that get that from the recommender system too.
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To me, core.spec has valid uses, but not as a replacement for static tying.
Bug count per day is constant...but functionality per line of code is higher with the more expressive language.

Umm...so for the same amount of bugs I can have more features if I choose the more expressive one...
If you coil a cable around something like your palm or arm, with each revolution there is also a half twist. When unrolling the cable, it doesn't untwist. The result after repeated coiling is a twisted up cable that doesn't lay flat even when wound correctly. The roadie wrap technique removes the twist.

Another technique I've found, and the one I prefer these days, is to coil the cables in the opposite direction when I put them away from when I opened them. If I wrapped the cable around my left arm before, when putting away I use my right arm. This also removes the twist like the roadie wrap. The roadie wrap removes the twist per revolution. This method removes it over the length of the cable.
GP was talking about how they think, not how types are used in practice
Show HN: Full Video Walkthrough of Hacking the Game Pwn Adventure 3
Pwn Adventure 3 is an online game, created for a hacking CTF competition. Over the past few months I have solved all available challenges and created detailed walkthrough videos. The videos don't just show the solutions, I explain my thought process and show where I got stuck or failed. I'm very proud of the final result.

Here is the YouTube Playlist. Below you can find a list of episodes:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhixgUqwRTjzzBeFSHXrw...

GitHub: https://github.com/LiveOverflow/PwnAdventure3
Pwn Adventure 3: http://www.pwnadventure.com/

Excluding the casual Let's Play episode (which can be skipped), the whole series is less than 4 hours long.

* Let's Play/Hack [39:20]

* Setup Private Server with Docker [8:42]

* Information Gathering / Recon [14:09]

* Recover Game Classes with gdb [11:28]

* Hooking on Linux with LD_PRELOAD [12:07]

* Flying and our first Flag! (Cow King) [6:34]

* Teleporting and Hovering (Unbearable Revenge) [9:31]

* Find the hidden Golden Eggs [10:26]

* Developing a TCP Network Proxy [12:26]

* Analyzing the Game Network Protocol [14:48]

* Implementing Autoloot with the Proxy [12:33]

* Exploiting an Integer Overflow (Fire and Ice) [19:59]

* †: Signed and Unsigned Integers - Integer Overflows.5 [3:12]

* Analyzing the Blocky Logic Puzzle [10:51]

* Failing at Machine Learning (Blocky part 2) [14:34]

* Reversing Input Validation (Keygen part 1) [12:27]

* Reversing Custom Encoding (Keygen part 2) [16:01]

* Understanding the Key Verification Algorithm (Keygen part 3) [13:10]

* RSA Implemented in Assembler (Keygen part 4) [16:23]

* RSA Implemented in JavaScript (Keygen part 5) [4:32]

* The Last Flag (Overachiever) [5:31]

And please also checkout the rest of my channel LiveOverflow: https://www.youtube.com/LiveOverflowCTF
>To be honest, the tech baton will stay in the US until someone can put up a comparable education and research ecosystem.

...

US in my eyes, evidently scores much, much, much less than China when it comes to public education. Both secondary and undergraduate tertiary level.

Only graduate school does well in US, just because high profile academicians tend to like working in high profile universities
Go is great for all kinds of [web] server/systems and network programming -- if you're ok with the GC (i.e. it's a replacement for most things you'd do with Java and possibly some C/C++ stuff). Then Go is a great choice (BTW the Go standard library is fantastic and the eco system is amazing! you want to do USB, see gousb, d-bus? look at go.dbus etc).

If you are building an OS, game engine, database server or doing embedded programming where the gc is a problem, or if you need a memory/type safe program (at the expense of a bit of productivity), then use Rust.
>The variational representations used in image processing are much more complicated than you suggest

Fair enough, but my main point stands: has anyone tried to apply Euler-Lagrange and a PDE solver to the problem of training a deep net or is it obvious that backprop-based methods will work better?
How do you deal with food that doesn't have a barcode? Do those things just not get entered in this app?
Presumably you would treat during early onset.
This is a common misconception. The agave plant matures in 7-10 years, so harvesting 10-14% per year is 100% sustainable.
> I'm in the majority

Judging by your user name you seem to be just another retarded shitskin streetshitter who got a $50 phone before he could get a toilet in his house. Read HN in guest mode rather than posting bullshit like this, kumar-asshole
Is that something we actually know, that it's the storage area that's damaged and not the retrieval pathways?
I haven't thought or Rawls in quite a while.

The idea of a "veil of ignorance" as a mode of capturing the implications of some political position is a useful, wide-ranging, and easily digestible ethical concept; I'm going to add it back into my intellectual tool bag for when I am trying to discuss ethics with folks.

Thanks for the reminder.
Try this one - very easy to build, and extremely fun to fly:

https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?1395335-Begin...

EDIT: BTW, if you want to get into the hobby, rcgroups.com is basically Mecca for the DIY builders in the crowd.
Not all, but a good chunk. Definitely less than half. Somewhere around 18% of current US GDP is healthcare spending [1], growing at around 5% year over year. Education spending is somewhere around 5% of GDP [2]. It's hard to figure out how much actual growth is occurring there since most of the ridiculous increases have been specifically in college, not in K-12 which is the bigger share. Total increase seems to be somewhere below 3% year over year growth. We can even add in military spending and not get to half. Thanks to this year's absurd 9% budget increase [3], military spending is now above 4% of GDP again.

So, healthcare + education + military accounts for around 27% of GDP and about 5.2% weighted average growth for that 27%. US GDP is up 4.2% annualized for Q2 this year, so that growth in our 3 categories is only accounting for maybe a third of total GDP growth.

[1] https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2017/02/16/spending-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spending_...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/19/u-s-m...
It sounds like you take some concern into your dads health and that you care. I would encourage you to be open and ask questions and find the information you need to help how you can. Maybe that is talking to your mom or if he is alone perhaps start a conversation with his doctor. If this is just something you have noticed but hasn't gone through the doctor I highly encourage you to do so. There are several causes to dementia. One being Alzheimer's as most know example but there are other types of dementia like vascular dementia where medications absolutely can help to some extent. Anyways don't be afraid to ask the questions. Wish you and your family best regards with all this.
Logically, don't use Clojure & the JVM if you want to avoid bloat. Try LFE, Lisp Flavored Erlang: http://lfe.io/
or SBCL: http://sbcl.org/

Just a recommendation if you want to avoid the JVM bloat issues, which are real and have existed since the JVM was developed

peace
I think Michael Pettis is probably worth quoting here :
"In most economies, GDP growth is a measure of economic output generated by the performance of the underlying economy. In China, however, Beijing sets annual GDP growth targets it expects to meet. Turning GDP growth into an economic input, rather than an output, radically changes its meaning and interpretation."

See http://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/75355
I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but there are actually supported Tensorflow bindings for Go. They're quite usable (at least for me when I used them for inference), relatively idiomatic, and well documented. See https://godoc.org/github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tensorflo...
I think even that would be noticed by now. If almost every person that worked in a nursing home 30 years ago are getting Alzheimer's.
The interesting thing is that Xi seems smarter and wiser than Mao ever was. Well, in matters of war, Mao was really smart, and hopefully, we'll never have to see Xi tested that way because if we do, it'll probably be during a world war. But in terms of economic decisions, I'd say he absolutely tops Mao. The question is whether there's any situation where he wins in the long run because the responsibility of running China is basically being dealt a really bad hand; the issues are perhaps more complex and risky than corresponding issues when running the US.
I recently wanted to render some graphs and found there are a confusing variety of options. In particular https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre/wiki seems to be layout focused and then plugs into a bunch of other systems including d3. It would be nice if one of these tools was able to describe itself in contrast to the others.
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