skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two thirds of homeless people reported alcohol or drug abuse led to their homelessness [1]. 20 to 25% of the homeless have severe mental health issues. [2]

[1] http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/addiction.pdf
[2] http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.pd...
You're misreading the privacy policy. Google's privacy policy has two modes, one for sync on, and one for sync off. Logging into Chrome does not turn sync on, so you can be logged into Chrome and still covered by the "basic" privacy policy.

They aren't actually collecting that data because you haven't turned sync on.
Video calling and live video is innovation now?
Im rooting for more than a cooling, more like a sub zero freeze! Houses going from costing unaffordable X 3 to only unaffordable X 2 has no effect on me.
what a bargin
I think the intention was that if you have no mut refs, then you have no borrow checker problems.
Right, but who's renting them when they're on an engineer's salary? You can't just up and move instantly upon finding out you're in the unemployment line.
Ok, this is just a non-technical version of what @souterrain posted.

If I am the CEO of a local supermarket or a butchery, I don't need to know my domain registrar as they are not a major factor to my business. My website being down for 1 week also might not make a big difference. My customers deal with my company face to face.

But if I am a CEO of an "Internet company" and my customers deal with me via my "domain", I damn well ensure that I have a weekly quick call with the guy who could block my domain abruptly.
they serve the same purpose that facebook did when it was nascent/enjoyable
I really don't understand why any enterprise service would use these kinds of bargain bin registrars. Is using a reputable registrar with professional, enterprise-grade service not worth it given the scale of someone like Zoho? Optimizing to save a tiny amount on your registrar while you have millions pouring in from customers seems like a really poor decision.

I really believe in running a lean business, but running lean means cutting the fat, not cutting out your muscles and tendons and running with a naked skeleton that is fragile.
Anyway, is it relevant to not be logged in? You make it a bit harder for them, but it is easy to know who you are evn if you dont log in,

- screen resolution,

- browser add-ons installed,

- ip localization

- etc

It is called digital print i belive.
I played Riven first, before Myst. You can imagine the utter confusion.
Most western democracies pride themselves on “having governments of laws, not men”. Australia has a rather more transactional view of freedom and very limited judicial review.

Just this weekend it was announced that people with welfare debts would be blocked from flying overseas. That might be fair, but blocking people from travelling seems to be at the whim of civil servants and politicians. There wasn’t much of an uproar, since the ends justify the means, and no one likes cheats, despite this amounting to extrajudicial punishment.

The minister proposing this encryption crackdown has used his vast discretionary powers to do immigration favours for the politically connected, with impunity, while ignoring arguably more deserving cases.

The land of roos, barbies and golden beaches has a rather well-developed authoritarian streak behind its carefully constructed facade.
Use it to fund Internal Affairs...
you got an email?
> I really expect this change to push a lot of people away from Chrome

Agree with you up until this point. The vast, vast majority of people won't even notice this has happened, or really care much.

Anecdotal of course, but I haven't heard a single complaint among my non-tech friends, and I'm usually the first person they talk to about this stuff (because I'm "in tech"). I also believe Google when they say this change results in a lot less confusion from users (and just so happens to be a strategic benefit for Google, too...)
When the one game job i worked at laid everyone off and files for bankruptcy i got 6 weeks severance paid for by the government about two months later. Of course this was Australia where companies pay a per employee tax to support this.

won't happen in the states.
I don't see it as disputing definitions at all. Paul Bloom is clear what he means by "empathy" and doesn't carelessly apply his argument when the word "empathy" means something else. In fact at the same time he argues that empathy by his meaning isn't good practice for doctors he says the "empathy training" for doctors that he is aware of is a good thing, precisely because the word is used in a different way. He defines certain terms in certain ways for the sake of making his argument while acknowledging that the same words are commonly used in ways that his argument doesn't apply to.
Show HN: AsyncMachine – Relational State Machine (JS)
For reference, my nice home in Logan Square (the hipster neighborhood) in Logan Square wass $590,000 and is around 3100 sqft with a super nice interior. I'm a software engineer and do great.

At what point to businesses start leaving the bay area due to being priced out? This seems a bit excessive.
> Why is it so crucial to their business model that the customers' deposits are deposited directly with the Fed

Note that whether interest was earned via IOER or via the Fed Funds market, the funds would be deposited with the Fed either way (whether in the bank's own Fed account or overnight in the Fed account of the counterparty of a Fed funds loan).

It wouldn't be possible to accept transfers from other banks, to send funds to other banks or to participate in the Fed Funds market unless the bank had an account with the Fed.

On the point of "risk-free", the TED spread was north of 1% for much of the 20 months between August 2007 and April 2009, and peaked at over 4%. So it's not always what I'd call negligible risk. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TEDRATE
I have similar feelings sometimes but I am conflicted on the topic. Would you be interested in a discussion on this topic?
It's super exciting what they're trying to do (especially exploding a crater, collecting samples from that and returning with them in 2020), but I can't get over the fact that the pictures are still worse than what a cellphone camera would take 10 years back.
https://mailinabox.email/ has worked well for me in the past
We are Testimonly (https://www.testimonly.com) and we want to help SaaS businesses automate their users feedback acquisition and showcasing workflow.
First official statement:

https://instagram-press.com/blog/2018/09/24/statement-from-k...

> We’re planning on taking some time off to explore our curiosity and creativity again. Building new things requires that we step back, understand what inspires us and match that with what the world needs; that’s what we plan to do.

h/t to Bloomberg's @sarahfrier, who also says this:

https://twitter.com/sarahfrier/status/1044419256383729664

> My sources say the Instagram founders are leaving after increased tension with Mark Zuckerberg over the direction of the product. IG culture/priorities very different from FB. See my April story for background
Australia might be a fairly small market, but it's a quite rich one (top 10 GDP per capita, top 20 in PPP terms). Companies like Apple do pretty well here. So they could just refuse to sell products here, but I don't think they would just pull out completely...
> it can be hard to do a step by step change that is (a) fair (...) and (b) works for every step

Yes. This is what separates the pros from the not-pros in major systems design and operation. The transition plan is the major key to plan, not the algorithm (which plays the role of Shiny Object in this case).

It is lots harder, lots, to get smoothly from A to B than to simply big-bang B. It takes enormous attention to detail and thinking through of every angle, and when done well is a thing of wonder.

I think in this case your team was not well served by how it was tasked.

Thanks again for responding, and for your team's efforts in the design.
The question is are they here to stay like Microsoft, or Oracle?
Spoken like a true modern ux designer ;-)

I won't say you cannot make toys but I'd be happy if ux designers everywhere could take a break and stop dumbing down working applications, thanks.

PS: they don't need to be flashing.
I like to remind people of shit like this when they claim that the United States government is an "oppressive" presence on the Internet.

Not “uniquely evil.” I think if he’d said what you’re shifting the goalposts to, it would have been an unremarkable comment with few if any replies. He didn’t say that though, and what he did say was very clear and didn’t leave wiggle room for the hyperbole you’re trying to inject.

The actual quote the person you’re responding to was addressing justifies what they said, insofar as it ...trivially reduces to, "everything the US does is fine until it's the most oppressive presence on the internet". That’s a fair summation of using China as a diversion when people claim that the US is *...An oppressive presence on the internet.” Responding to people who claim that it’s worse than China, or “uniquely evil” is an entirely different conversation no one here was having.
He also only holds his seat on a 1.6% margin, and was only one vote (his own) away from being forced to resign in a vote of no confidence last week (for misleading Parliment over the handling of some immigration cases where he interveined to let in au pairs for friends/Liberal party donors who admitted that they were going to illegally work on tourist visas)...

The next Federal election can't come soon enough...
I wouldn't be surprised if they go and try to build something to unf*ck the world they helped create. It can't be easy to witness the massively deleterious impact your creation ends up having on society.

Instagram is a tool primarily for disseminating FOMO, encouraging voyeuristic tendencies, jealousy, and materialism, perfectly calibrated to be addictive, and that is almost certainly on balance a net negative for humanity. I feel very sorry for kids growing up today, because they're subject to stimuli the human brain (and certainly the adolescent brain) is not supposed to be able to tolerate without severe emotional repercussions.

Systrom can't be directly blamed for all of this of course (if he hadn't built it, someone else would have), but he never struck me as someone with the same personality deficiencies and borderline sociopathy as Zuckerberg. He probably has regrets. Zuck doesn't really care about the negative externalities of what Facebook is building. He doesn't really care about people, even if he wants you to believe that he's changed from the very early days:

> Zuck: People just submitted it.

> Zuck: I don't know why.

> Zuck: They "trust me"

> Zuck: Dumb fucks
List a vacant lot for 7 figures, no one bats an eye. List a lot with a small house on it for 7 figures, everyone loses their minds.
Other than buffering, why are libc calls faster than system calls?
I don't know the details but that does sound like the medical issue killed her.
Yea, people who don’t live here have no idea how expensive it is. Based on how much I make, my rural east coast parents, bless them, probably wonder why I live in a home 1/2 the size of theirs with a 50 mile commute, and not a castle with a 7 car garage. Bay Area prices and taxes...that’s why!
If you have to deal withtheir web apps like me, please also report performance problems loud and clear when they affect non-Chrome browsers.
Ergonomics, if you’re using it with a keyboard. Which a lot of people seem to these days. Keyboard-and-touchscreen is a bad combination.
I'm sure Google will be willing to beat anything that Facebook offers for the next rising competitor just to hurt them.
> The next Federal election can't come soon enough...

Where they'll be replaced by the Labor party who also support this.
Still subject to the implementation. Chez Scheme is one of the best for performance vs., say, MIT Scheme.
No, a lot of people hate Facebook. John Oliver has been talking about it.
> but "operating system powered by node.js" is a little strong

Strong? It's like saying that a car is powered by its chassis.
You should have seen my camera roll on my phone while playing through some areas. It was an incredibly helpful tool for getting through the game.
Second that as we’ve started to see fraud related registration activity from zoho.com around the end of August.
That's one of the near-future threats to government funding that is going to cause some very interesting public arguments that don't match the private fears.

- Autonomous cars will massively reduce income from speeding fines

- Electric cars will reduce the incoming tax revenue from buying fuel (in Australia this is a large component that also goes into funding the maintenance of the roads)

- Solar power reducing overall household spend on power, which is potentially another large source of tax revenue

The last two things keeps more money in the pockets of consumers, which will therefore probably get spent on other things, so could be closer to a zero-sum game than it looks.

Until some kind of rule change comes in to create new government revenue streams, it's the early adopters getting the benefits so far (for example, Australia is considering additional taxes on electric cars to make up for the 'road maintenance' component the government won't be getting due to their not buying fuel. No word on incentives for "clean air" or "reduced emissions" benefits though...).
Took me a minute to decipher.

If I understand correctly, the theory is basically that the Earth consists of approximately 4 quadrants, all experiencing a different part of the day at the same time. So each day on the Earth is really 4 days.

Then somehow points of light from the sun are added up to arrive at a sum of 96 hours in each day. This doesn't make sense to me.

I rate Time Cube as: insane. I also love it, in a way. The spectrum of humanity and the ideas contained therein is colorful and vast. Remains to be seen what difference it will all make in the end.
The drowning person panics and drags you under.

The shitty person pushes you overboard.
Dutton annoyed that Turnbull and cabinet "went dark" and he couldn't find out (through his friends in law enforcement; remember hes an ex-detective) who was talking to who during the leadership spill and thus lost his bid to be Prime Minister?
You’d probably want to go a step further and formalize it if you have any doubt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_healthcare_directive
Looks cool. A lot of transactional emails have customer data. Not sure you could do that here. A gif tutorial of an example would be good.

Also register email link went to spam, probably a new account thing but double check your send grid account.
The devil has enough advocates.

The turn on sync thing is already reported to be a dark pattern.

Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18062082
But the PM is likely to be changed halfway through the term anyway (along with his/her ministers), so this really doesn't make much of a difference either way :-/
That, and rent that's well over 50% of your monthly income, to have a 1 bedroom apartment miles from anything.
I had been helping my bipolar ex-girlfriend all the time, and yet she did things to hurt me and push me away.

I share the same feeling with you, although I'm still struggling if I should help her.
> Or be more attuned to the current state

That's a good suggestion I hadn't thought of. Really not sure aside from that—I've got some vague ideas about certain 'empathy trainings' that could be done, but I'd be concerned about throwing a random factor into how the rest of their work is done...
Wow, I was interested, but just couldn't get through the whole article without a single figure or diagram to illustrate his points about what he would change.

Perhaps I'll give it a try reading this much prose again when I have the time.
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Note that Prop 6 (the gas tax repeal) is not looking so good in the most recent poll, from August: https://www.probolskyresearch.com/2018/08/17/prop-6-results/

This follows the usual trends expected from California ballot propositions. The rule of thumb is that, once campaigning starts, ballot proposition support drops by about 10 points. So a proposition needs about 60% support to survive to election day. Prop 6 never had that support. (It could of course still pass: that rule is only a rule of thumb.)
South Australian here - I was unaware of the origin of the term, so thanks for that. I have an interest in such history as my distant relative, one "Johann Heinrich Both" arrived on the Bengalee back in 1838:
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/bengalee1838.sht...
... and was most definitely not a criminal.
i think he was being sarcastic.
ZOHO went down and hundreds of thousands of business went down...feel like this should be a bigger warning of how dependent we are to handful of companies?
Statement from Kevin Systrom, Instagram Co-Founder and CEO
Call me sick, but I really love reading post-mortem reports I wasn’t involved with. I feel like you can learn so much from other people’s pain.

...it’s almost like watching the TV show Jackass
Their early work... Strongbad Episodes, and the Sam and Max series, were really quite amazing. TTG's later franchises never really interested me; I had assumed the games were just as good. To hear that their later franchises resorted to these kinds of tactics makes me sad :(
Your interpretation seems about right. But why does Ray suppose there are 4 time points a day, instead of any other number?

Maybe he's correct that "no writer or speaker understands the Time Cube."
At least in my girlfriend's case, she seemed to feel regret after the maniac episode is over.
Until today I had no idea that the two guys who created Cyan were from a rural area outside Spokane. What a random pacific northwest trivia tidbit.
It was designed about that long ago, so that's about right. Also even though the light levels are pretty good (near-earth orbital radius from the sun) its got to capture and transmit pictures using the limited power available on a small spacecraft. The speed of transmission is limited by power and time. So the minimum useful resolution is chosen to allow the most pictures in the limited time available.
Posting anon.

In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in honorable futility, but after a while, my bank account depleted and I had to go.

To make various ends meet and to keep my mental health during the wind down however, I took up some contract work that I found through various friends in the SF startup scene. One company that I really liked and did some small stuff for was Burbn, which was a mobile-only location check-in that was hinged around taking photos of your location.

Missing my friends in NYC (I made a lot of friends in SF, but my inner circle were my college buddies from CMU; I went to tech and they went finance, sigh), I decided to leave SF to head to NYC and get a fresh start.

As I was leaving, I wanted to tie up a few loose ends, so I emailed my contact at Burbn and said I was likely to be unavailable for any more work, but that I liked the project and hoped for the best for him. He responded and said that he was near funding on a small pivot, and that if I was interested, there might be a full-time role available. I declined - I was mentally done with SF and the startup scene (Larry Chiang, 111 Minna, the rise of FB spam-crap like RockYou, etc.) as it was then.

That person was Kevin Systrom; that pivot was Instagram.
The employer of those spammers? Einstein^H^H^H^H^H^H^HGoogle
I think the next big thing for FB is VR. If VR becomes mainstream soon (and I think it will) and FB lead the space with Oculus, then their future is bright.
How Big Data Is Impacting the Oil Industry
I suppose the answer to that depends on how meta you want go get, so to speak. But at its most basic, some people are just assholes without being irrational, stressed out, etc. Though you could easily argue they weren't raised right and are being stupid, basically.
If severance is in your contract, and the company is insolvent, you are SOL. It is not like any other obligation, as an example, unemployment: your company pays into unemployment funds every month (mandated by government), which is what allows you to collect if you're let go, regardless of their solvency situation.

A severance agreement with a bankrupt company is worthless.
> If they can't cope now, how will they cope then?

Elementary school students (especially in the early grades; it's less of a problem for the 10-11 year olds) typically need someone to help them get out the door in the morning and someone to meet them when they come after school. This introduces a coupling between school start/stop times and parent work schedules.

Your typical high schooler can get themselves to and from school on their own and doesn't need to be watched over when they come home, so their school schedule doesn't really have to match up to the parents' work schedule.
Taking things into perspective, what benefit does I, as an individual user will get when Chrome automatically logs me in the browser when I sign into my Google account?

Unless there's a compelling benefit for me as a consumer, then I think Google wasted a lot of engineering hours and talent building something that majority of people would want no part of.
As caregiver for my grandfather, who had end-stage dementia and then pancreatic cancer, I can say this is true. In home hospice care basically instructed us to OD him on morphine to end his suffering.
Yes, lots of people reported it to be a "dark pattern", but I'm very much with Nikita Borisov on this one:

https://twitter.com/nikitab/status/1044314072706158593

Meanwhile: whatever color you want to shade in the "pattern" with, this subthread starts with a claim that is falsifiable, and also actually false. So please don't pretend like I'm arguing from abstractions here.
It’s true that there are such doctors. My experience is not necessarily typical, as these were faculty at a well-regarded cancer hospital and always very close to new developments.

The ones I mention, being involved in clinical trials and new treatments/diagnostics makes them particularly appropriate for this discussion because they are at the intersection of translational treatment and patients. (Cures vs patients)
You’re right that many doctors aren’t called out like they should be out of some misguided deference, and I’m disappointed to hear how many of them are in cases which matter so, so very much to you, if not to them.

With regard to your personal experience, remember that no professional will care as much about your or your loved one’s condition as you will. You (or your loved one) are the only patient you’re treating, and I encourage you to advocate as necessary.
As a network engineer for several medium sized ASes, I have a real problem with political jackasses who've never typed "enable" on a router one day in their life making regulations about the Internet.
Recently I was troubleshooting someone's Windows 10 computer and initially I remember thinking that the start menu's blur-transparency background effect looked nicer than what I'm used to on MATE, but then when I actually clicked one of the options the menu had totally frozen! It remained that way until a restart.
Where do you live that they don't? ;)

My high school (in Maryland) started at 7:25. The middle school in my town in Massachussetts now starts at 7:40.
According to Wikipedia [1], the company’s formal name is still International Business Machines Corporation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM