skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone I've ever spoken with about real life in Hawaii has said:
1) Schools are not good, IE for those with kids
2) Food, gas, etc are expensive
3) Tensions with native Hawaiians, ie: "this is a locals-only beach"
4) Island madness is a real thing (desire to be somewhere not surrounded by water, experience an actual change in weather, etc)

Have you found that to not be the case?
Show HN: 'orion' – yet another attempt at pure-Rust cryptography
Not sure. They announced Victoria Coleman as their CTO in 2016[1]. But she isn't listed in their 2017-2018 Form 990[2]. Odd, since all "company officers" are supposed to be listed, even if paid nothing[3].

[1]https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/11/02/victoria-coleman-chief...

[2]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/6/67/Form_...

[3]https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/form-990-part-vii-...
That way if I want to contribute more than the maximum to my 401k I can use this as a workaround. And drive super fast too!
I mean that's a pretty elementary interpretation to say the least. If you're struggling to make ends meet and are considering Uber for a few extra dollars every week are you going to care whether or not there is an arbitration clause? Even if you know it's bad you might be willing to risk it.
In commercial settings, I wonder how hard it really is to package this up? I've been building/distributing fully cython'd installers for a while (to sort-of hide the source as well as make a convenient package)... I wonder if that would be harder with PyQt for some reason?

"In the Python world, the process of turning source code into a self-contained executable is called freezing. Although there are many libraries that address this issue – such as PyInstaller, py2exe, cx_Freeze, bbfreze, py2app, ... – freezing PyQt apps has traditionally been a surprisingly hard problem.

We will use a new library called fbs..."

click to fbs...

"You can use fbs for free in open source projects that are licensed under the GPL. If you don't want to open your code up to the public, you can purchase a commercial license for EUR 249 per developer"

I'd happily pay the 250 euros but I somehow doubt fbs will also convert my code to C and compile it.
According to Bloomberg [1] he owns "just" 16.4 percent.

Sure, he is CEO and probably has a large influence on the board too.

But just based on stock, he doesn't even seem to have a blocking minority. (Unless he has a lot of preferred shares of some kind).
Internet Society and Facebook Partner to Expand Internet Connectivity in Africa
Ok, now where is the Google/Facebook/Microsoft privacy test repository?
If you want your software to be adopted by Europeans, good privacy scores are very important.
Maybe they're using lap belts but the little kids certainly weren't buckled in :(
The failure rate of GeForce is higher than Tesla (though it's not that much worse in my experience these days). OEMs worked around this by burning the GPUs in for a couple days running HPC or DL code before sending them out to customers and then they binned the failed GPUs into gaming machines where bitwise reproducibility didn't matter as much. Also, it's usually the memory controller that's defective on 1080TIs so it's pretty easy to spot early.

NVIDIA was not amused.
Every hardware can be cheaper than AWS if you build it yourself, that's not the point. The ongoing cost of maintaining and improving it, and the necessary knowledge might not. Also instead of building your own hardware, you can build the app instead. I thought these are obvious for anyone.
Using Fibonacci to Exemplify Recursion, Big O, and Memoization
Actually beyond that it's a pretty awful study. The graph is showing rates levelling off for all groups. It makes sense for people that are old to have been divorced. The actual rate of divorce for people that are 18-34 right now isn't going to be known until they are 55-70. The data is already showing that they will have a lower rate that today's 55-70, but again, to blame the divorce rate drop on the 18-34 age range when it's across the board, is kinda ridiculous. If you look at the graph of the 18-34 chart going back to 1980 it's pretty much bouncing up and down from 11-13 percent consistently.
In 2017 WMF had $120M in assets. It's probably closer to $150M today, since they are making over $20M a year in "profit" (revenues minus expenes). The cost of actually running Wikimedia projects (servers + network + salaries of dev ops and salaries of code maintainers) should easily fit below $10M, because it did in 2012. There has been growth since then in terms of usage, but this is very scalable growth that's cheap to handle: it's not servers and network expenses that's been skyrocketing, these are pretty much constant since 2012. It's the salaries, grants and awards. Look at their financial reports[1], and especially compare the growth in expenses over time. Suffice to say, if WMF struggles in the future, it's only due to mismanagement of its cancerous growth.

[1] - https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/
Am I the only person worried about how this represent a potential violation of privacy? You can not only enter your e-mail address to see how you are affected, you could also put in the e-mail addresses of other people, and boom, you can see what communities they have signed up for, assuming those sites have suffered a breach some time in the past. I might have given Last.fm my e-mail address during the signup process, for example, but I might not necessarily want the whole world to be able to determine that I have signed up for Last.fm.

Yes, I am aware that the breached data is already floating around on the internet, but it isn’t so convenient to consult it as on this website (or Have I Been Pwned?). These sites ought to require that a person prove they own that e-mail address before returning data concerning it.
LogP is a general-purpose adaptive parallel model so not tied to a specific architecture. However, I too am curious if anyone knows the Cell lineage and if there is a connection. A cursory search on Google Scholar [1] shows the LogP paper is cited more than 2000 times, but I did not see a direct lineage reference between the IBM Cell architecture [2] and the Berkeley LogP model [3]. Does anyone know the history and if there is a connection?

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=52811921455145789...

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogP_machine
A colleague at my office recently brought in a 43" 4K TV to use as a monitor. He was reimbursed immediately.

After a few days I bought one, too, took it home, and took the 2x 23" monitors it replaced to the office.

In a different department another friend systematically acquired new large monitors for her dev team. Her management chain complained about the expense.

Bias for action not only gets you far, it attracts folks to your team inside a company. ;-)
Hallucinogen use in the U.S. (2018)
Agree with the analysis of funding you provide.

Concerning mindset, I think there's an even bigger cultural trait that's holding back French entrepreneurship: a complete absence of a "culture of failure".

By and large, French culture is one of fixed mindset. Mistakes/errors/failures reveal one's limitations or flaws, and aren't perceived as an opportunity to learn and grow. This starts very early and is very much baked in to the structure of schooling.

On the flip-side, this seems to be slowly changing. At the very least, people are aware that the US does this differently, and there seems to be some interest in effecting change.
Ask HN: Renting normally vs. Airbnb
Anyone renting out their property(ies) on Airbnb? As a property owner, how do you decide between listing your property on Airbnb versus just short-term renting your place(s)? Assuming short-term is 4 - 12 months duration. Moreover, is there a difference in revenue and profit?
> there's still a real emphasis on building great products, talking to users, and faith in the idea that in the long term, the best product will win

There is a gap in "the best product will win". Where is the revenue come from?
Thanks for the site notification, but you shouldn't use the site without https.

Use: https://monitor.firefox.com/
An 8% change in any behavior on a sample size as large as the country is huge.
I have 3 "internal" tools in electron I need to have running all the time on my PC... It's a corporate dell mini PC, poor thing.
Fire in the New Jersey Pinelands is a force of renewal
Baltimore:

- Murder capital of the US. Although the murders are often gang-related, it's a proxy metric for the amount of violence and crime in the city, any many innocent people are affected.

- Very bad public school system.

- Very high property tax rate, especially for what you're getting (see: comment about public school system). At 2.2% the rate is higher than NYC and matches that of some of the nicest areas Maryland and New Jersey with superb school districts. It's a huge deterrent to purchasing a home.

There a lot of good things about Baltimore, too, but you didn't ask about them. :)
I lived in NYC for 27 years until 12/2017. You nailed it. I had to laugh at the furniture issue. SO MANY STORES in NYC sell giant-sized sofas etc. Who buys them? Not NYers, I guess.

I moved to Lower Merion, a 1st-ring suburb of Philadelphia. What sucks here:

1) can't walk anywhere. Some people can but we can't. Even when they can, it's not like they have choices of places, mostly.

2) Poor diversity. It's almost all white. It was sad to leave our son's great public school in NYC to come to a similarly great public school in PA, with 95% white classmates. But we are able to find small pockets of diversity--like in his karate class.
You're right, sadly: I guess I was anthropomorphizing us ;)
Yea, think about it. One of the ancient global trade drivers!
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But that’s 8% off of 26% though which is a lot
I do the same thing while looking at a system on a chip; a $9 item today would have been worth millions just 30 years ago.
I didnt understand why couples would get married if they were clashing while dating.

Now that I'm in my late 20s, Ive seen everything to cause people to get married. Now I understand the divorce rate.
The real racket isn't in ripping people off for services, but that everyone needs these services. Weddings used to be relatively private affairs. Costs were far less. Churches provided services to parishioners and associated gatherings were at family houses. Today we are expected to purchase everything.

Take wedding dresses. They were not always white. Brides bought expensive dresses, but they would expect to use them for many years to come. Even Kings and Queens would use their wedding clothes many times. The recent switch to white made them single-use garments. That freed them to become very expensive and elaborate.
>Everyone I've ever spoken with about real life in Hawaii has said: 1) Schools are not good, IE for those with kids 2) Food, gas, etc are expensive 3) Tensions with native Hawaiians, ie: "this is a locals-only beach" 4) Island madness is a real thing (desire to be somewhere not surrounded by water, experience an actual change in weather, etc)

From my 3 years living there I'd say this is spot on. It's pretty bi-modal though, people tend to love it or get completely fed up within a couple years. The key is being able to hop on a plane and go somewhere 2-3 times a year. If you can't afford that it gets miserable.
So if you believed I punched you deliberately, but also believed no action of yours would keep me from punching you again, does that mean you would do nothing?

Even if I called you a coward?
Boston has a reputation for aggressive drivers and I think there's definitely some reality to the stereotype. That said, just about everyone from cars to bikes to pedestrians has a somewhat casual relationship to traffic laws. The fact that a lot of streets are narrow and come together at all sorts of angles. It's not an easy city to drive in. On the other hand, I drive (and walk) in the city fairly regularly and don't find it to be extraordinarily difficult or dangerous.
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Wasn’t it just the sensible thing to do back when the definition of what people today think of as a “sin” was invented? Imagine if safe, reliable, widely-available contraception was around when they were first formulating it, I bet the rules would have been way different.

I guess we could extend the metaphor perpetually - if there was no biological clock or aging at all, the rules might be completely different again.
If they force a name change, change it to Wolkswagon.
In the last 5 years I've lived in Budapest, London, Dubai.

Each city is a trade-off.

BUDAPEST:

- low salary (not competitive) compared to other cities

- hard to achieve good savings rate b/c overall salary is not very high

- reasonable selection of tech startups/companies to work for (SAP, MS, MoSt, MSCI, IBM, LMI, Prezi, etc)

- most of these have secondary/engineering offices there, not the HQ

- top FAANG companies not available

- cost of living is low, so you will live very well off your salary

- if you can negotiate a western salary in BP, it'll be a good deal

- city life is excellent, best of the 3; if you're <35, you'll have a great time

- low cost flights across EU

- don't do a startup here, there's no local market/VC money (I tried)

- ignore the politics

- least diversity of the three cities

- weather is great

.

LONDON:

- highest salaries in EU, 2-3x compared to BP, 25-40% lower than in SF

- cost of living is very high (but not as high as SF)

- hard to achieve good savings rate with family

- good savings rate achievable if single, if you optimize

- excellent selection of companies to work for (FB, Google Deepmind, lots of others)

- city is very big and dense, 10M people

- lots of commuting, like sardines if you take the tube (solution: go at 10am, leave at 6pm)

- excellent culture (eg. museums are free entry)

- Brexit is unclear

- lots of diversity

- weather not so nice

.

DUBAI:

- high salaries, income is not taxed at all

- very high standard of living, at a reasonable cost of living (cheap compared to salaries)

- can live very comfortably (nice car, wide roads, best food, shopping)

- outstanding savings rate achievable

- get very hot (40-50C in the summer), nothing to do, have to be inside

- weather and beach is perfect in the winter at 25C, when it's freezing in Europe

- lots of expats

- a lot less tech companies to work for than in the other 2 cities

- top FAANG companies not available

- laws, customs, rights, social structure very different than in Europe/US, can be uncomfortable/frustrating

- lots of diversity
Ok, pricing thing is scary.
1. Interesting
2. I've it installed already
3. How does vpn help?
4. Does having safari, help?
5. I use safari as default. does that work?
6. I don't use FB, Twitter. Only Youtube, Gmail
> Some of the examples in the documentation are still in C++

If you do anything serious with Qt you'll have to read those anyway, I believe even PyQt stopped "translating" the docs to python. It's easy enough anyway, even for people like me with no real experience of C++.
I get Rails people are crazy biased, but I still don't understand your argument.

What type of business that someone would basically run out of an office closet like this would need to service more than 6k requests per minute?
They disagree with the direction the company is going so they ... quit? They apply at some other company comparable to Google, uproot their family, move across country, and get a job somewhere else?

Google isn't the only tech company in Silicon Valley.
They recently updated the music search. It's integrated in their assistant, and they have a widget for direct access.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/09/googles-next-generation-mu...
The Upside to Being Screamed At, All the Time, for Everything
You're kidding, right? Selling user privacy is how Google makes their money. Other than Facebook, there probably isn't a single company out there less interested in protecting user privacy.
Just want to chime in here, if you're ok deciding that Google engineers should be quitting their jobs, you should be fine deleting any Google services you're still a part of.
Technically that is true. People do have an inherent right to make bad decisions. That, (ironically in this example) is what freedom means.
Are there any good tech meetups/groups there that you'd recommend? I currently live in NYC but will be working remotely from Hawaii from Dec 15-Jan 15.
Can you tell me more about the cultural friction? Driving too?
I'm curious why they're applying the "Firefox" branding to this.

I suppose it makes sense as a Mozilla project, but what does it have to do with the browser?
I believe that's for criminal subpoenas. For civil subpoenas they actually change #2 to "will." However in my experience they never notified me.

"Upon the receipt of a valid civil subpoena, Namecheap will promptly notify the customer whose information is sought via email or U.S. mail. If the circumstances do not amount to an emergency, Namecheap will not immediately produce the customer information sought by the subpoena and will provide the customer an opportunity to move to quash the subpoena in court. Namecheap reserves the right to charge an administration fee to the customer by charging the customer’s Namecheap account."
> The downside is that when they do have kids outside of marriage it's a worse situation as the families are less stable without the institution holding them together.

There's an unstated major premise here - that any "two parents cohabitating" family, even an unhappy one, is better than a single-parent or separated-parents family.

Is that true?
You don't even need an account to do those changes.
LessPass is also something to consider. One way to solve the sync problem is to make it so there's nothing to sync.
Ask HN: Should we use website log analyzers again?
As I'm thinking about privacy on my own blog I'm wondering, "should we use log file analyzers again?" My primary motivation is not sharing my users information with a third party (even one that claims to take privacy seriously).

I'm a bit old school so I remember the days of using awstats and webalizer to read your apache log files and generate stats about your top visited pages, most popular countries, etc.

Are there more modern equivalents of these tools that run on our own servers and do not share data with third parties? Should we be using log file analysis for our primary statics again, especially on small sites?
The real meat of the protocol is explained here:

https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/

> I assume any recipient can prove to a third party that someone said something

All public messages are signed with the author's key, so any third-party can verify it.

Private messages are different, though. You need one of the recipient / sender's keys to decrypt that, and so for a third-party to verify it they would need one of those private keys.
Yeah. A friend of mine moved there and does a combination of remote work and travel. She loves it.
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When I lived in Chicago:

-The Racism, shocked how open people would shit talk muslims/blacks/indians.. being a minority myself I definitely thought it was weird. people in the workplace were definitely less sensitive when criticizing those groups based on the places I had worked at; will talk crap at how the black neighbors should take better care of their lawns. the city + state is incredibly segregated.

-This spills in from above, I could not for the life of me crack into any real leadership positions.. kinda bs, seeing as both west + east coasts previously + currently hold lead positions. During hiring, people I'd advocate for people who were miles more technically skilled + well-rounded for upper positions. It would get overlooked for some white person who could throw drinks down better w/ the CEO

-Cost of living is definitely cheaper, but I have no idea how some people are able to pay off their student loans with the wages around there

-People settle down a lot sooner than the rest of the coasts.

-People are less driven to create companies, so the frequency of interesting startups in chicago are a lot smaller compared to the coasts. a good proportion of the smart tech ppl in the city end up working for some financial company.

I'm a million times happier since I've moved out of the state and feel much more appreciated/welcomed. Definitely do miss the restaurants + music scene.
Or you could take a more cynical view:

Women that marry in their late 20s and have kids in their 30s aren't really thrilled with their dating prospects when they're fast approaching 40 and have a kid.

Men that marry in their late 20s and have kids in their 30s don't like the idea of living in a crappy apartment, driving a 15yo Civic and eating rice and beans well into their 50s because they're getting bent over for child support.

If you get married and feel you've made the wrong choice later in life you have more motivation to "make it work" because your ability to "do better" is worse.

50yr ago it wasn't uncommon for people to get married in their early 20s and be divorced (with or without kids, usually with) by 30. Millennials may just have skipped that phase.

Edit: Never mind that last paragraph, it is contradicted by one of the graphs.
Unless you use Qt quick which seems to be the way forward, and what many devs with html/css/js background seem to prefer.

Qt widgets look close to native UIs but the feel isn't always the same, especially when you have to juggle with different platforms (all native widgets differ in subtle ways even when their function is the same).
Your response is ridiculous. As a native New Yorker, his comments are spot-on.

His post (and this thread) is a good resource for weighing the pros and cons of moving to any city. Many people move to NYC with ridiculous expectations of living their dream and become despondent when they realize the subways smell like urine and the people can be as cold as the weather.
While this sounds like a good change in theory, it doesn't really help against people who really, really want to play their sounds.

The same policy exists for popups. You no longer get websites automatically popping up windows on load. Instead, they hijack all click events so that they can create popups in response to user actions.

The policy doesn't solve the problem, it just delays it slightly. Is it any less surprising to have sound play when you attempt to click a link or highlight text?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
Mumble rap became popular.
Same. Suppesedly you can find the schematics and board files some place so it should be possible to build your own if you are ambitious enough....
EDIT 5 (can't edit anymore :( ): I imagine that's what gpg-agent does when working as a ssh-agent, and the ssh server has a public key corresponding to the openpgp card that would be the yubikey. Really, U2F seems to do a subset of what PGP can do.
I live in Orlando

1) People can't drive. There's too many old drivers who shouldn't be on the road, driving half the speed limit. Equally as many aggressively annoying drive. And tourists who are asking to get T-boned constantly.

2) There's only 1 rock climbing gym 30 mins north of downtown. Consequently its also very flat here. I like mountains

3) Constant construction, roads constantly closing, so navigating around the city is sometimes a PITA.

4) Homelessness situation has been getting worst over the years. Especially downtown

5) Your face is plastered all over AWS servers in Orlando, if you care about privacy this isn't the right city

6) You know, Florida. r/floridaman. It has some merit of truth to it
Particulates and NOx. http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web/home/about/news/170918-diesel-nox...
what's cheap? 70k?