skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once again, I think it absolutely is racism and bigotry when they talk about Chinese money.

Canada knows the solution to this "problem": higher property taxes for everyone. No, not just got absent owners. Use this money to fund infrastructure spending. Help increase supply of housing. The Chinese don't have unlimited monies. They can't print the US dollar...

Of course, home owners don't want to pay higher taxes. They don't want property process to fall. A bunch of hypocrites if you ask me.
Well you have replacement rate wages which a company would use to fill positions they can't do without so the wage has to increase. Then you have expansion based wages where the company wants to grow and seize marketshare. Your best bet is to have some kind of leverage. So multiple offers.
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I'm having trouble understanding the terms being used by the article. First off - bots. Generally I understood them as automatic agents doing something a person otherwise would do themselves. This doesn't seem to be the definition in use here:

> why would a small percentage, though small, find anything positive about the bots, about being lied to

Under the "bots = automation" definition, this is similar to saying "why would anyone find anything positive about computer programs".

Instead, this article is saying:

bots = lies

Does the article actually talk about astroturfing trolls leveraging automation? The automation part doesn't seem to be relevant, as paid trolls are the problem.

In the end, I understand that the article has a problem with lying on the internet, but what does "bot" mean to the society at large these days?
So were these comments.

See how asinine that sounds?
In other words, UK wants to keep their union, EU wants to keep their union, nobody bothers to ask the Irish, as usual.
Why didn't you like them and what changed your mind?
That's one way to go about it but it might be a bit simplistic and there's no reason why cooperation wouldn't work out for some civilizations as well. To completely hide one's signals is both hard to achieve and not necessarily beneficial. For example in ancient times there were blooming trades between empires which would not have been possible if every civilization just thought about hiding themselves. I was not a fan of "Three Body Problem" from its beginning.
Legion of lobotomized unices
It's pretty clear that Merkel and Macron essentially dictate EU policy to all other member nations and the EU Commissioners make broad, sweeping policies from on high that are driven as much by personal ambition as by the needs of the EU (e.g. Vestager's blatant attack on US tech).
A quick glance at the article immediately says that the KMT is responsible, which is the Chinese representative party of Taiwan that believes it should not be considered its own country despite having its own democratic government. Following that line of thought, it would be more logical to say “no one would think twice about doing business with China”.
September, 1978.

It's David P. Reed's PhD thesis, which led among other things to the fascinating Croquet [0,1] system. When I visited Viewpoints Research in 2014 while working on my own approach to concurrent programming, Reed's thesis was specifically recommended to me as well worth studying.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project#Synchronizatio...

[1] https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/C5.2003.1222325
“We can keep your data from falling into the wrong hands...” just like they did for that drive you found.
Until mutations happen. But redundancy should help with that
Only that google now treats "+" and "-" merely as suggestions, if you want to fine tune your results, google got really bad at that. DDG and bing handle it fine. On google you usually have to find a link to click "yes, really only provide results with the keyword I explicitly provided" and even then you end up with 8 results where you would get hundreds of them a few years ago.
That's an extremely dishonest position.
Good to see this make the front page of HN. I only spend a few hours a month using Pharo (some working on my open source NLP project, but mostly just trying out new packages and demos released for Pharo).

Other comments here are right: think of Smalltalk as being the complete computer. When I use Pharo I usually put it in full screen mode and don't think about the macOS or Linux host.
I just asked Google Home that question, and it the largest lake it gave isn't a lake that exists. The largest lake (by surface area) is the Salton Sea, which was result #2.
You can also use pdf printers available in linux distros and even windows now.
CEOs should have been the fall guys; why are they still heroes?
I recently heard of BME from a blind person. He doesn't need it often because he's usually with someone, but he said it worked very well. This was a good reminder as I forgot to sign up after he told me. I didn't know it was so widely used!
If a future referendum indicated that there was no longer support for leaving the EU, then yes, the government would not be in a position where it needed to take further action - call that "treating it as final" if you wish. Of course, in the future it could be reevaluated, using the same approach that led to the 2016 referendum to leave the EU.

Heck, we have confirmation dialogs when you close a word document - I don't understand the opposition to having an "are you sure you want to quit?" for brexit.

Brexit is a pretty major decision, and it's not unreasonable to me to require that the majority that voted for it is in fact stable and consistent via holding a second vote. If the second vote does not indicate that a majority supports leaving, that seems like an indication that it was a fantastic idea to hold a second referendum.
I was invited to speak at Google about “the elite charade of changing the world”
I've got a pretty specific set of things I cover at the start and at the end of the process, but as you'll see the rest of the type (typically 30m, weekly) is devoted to whatever they want to talk about. And if that is nothing, we adjourn.

The steps:

0. 5m of catch up, ask about any ongoing personal stuff, talk about hobbies, whatever. Be a human for the start of it. I cannot overstress how important this is. Talks like this are your window into your team-mates personality and what kind of incentives they respond to. Similarly, you have to expose your opinions and motivations to your teammates here so they understand how to respond. Managers absolutely need to lead the way and be more transparent here. I usually offer one of my many cute stories about my 4 year old daughter and her ongoing absurd antics, or talk about upcoming pet rescue work, or ongoing tech projects I take on the side. I listen more than I talk, when I can.

1. If there are HR concerns raised or to be raised, I start with those. These include things like inter-personal interactions, performance, etc. I'm blessed with teams that seldom have these issues, but when new team members join you can use this time to help establish team norms.

2. I make sure to answer any HR or complaint questions they have. This is also where I ask about career advancement goals and how they feel about progress. This may take the full amount of time.

3. I try to summarize how their progress so far is matching the career goals we set at the start of the evaluation period, and make suggestions if I have any.

4. We then carry over to the remaining time discussing any sort of directly work-related things if they want help or advice with that.

5. If the employee wants to talk about work, we can fill the remainder of the time talking about personal things. For example, the other day a friend of mine offered to look at a magic deck I put together as I got back into the hobby.

6. I always end it with a phrase pretty much verbatim, "As always, if you come up with other questions you need answered or if there's anything you feel uncomfortable talking out loud about, please email or slack me. You can also email or slack my manager, their email is blah@blah.com."
That question is so broad. It entirely depends on what you want to use DNS for, and authenticated data allows it to be trusted for more use cases. Right now we have a system that from a security standpoint can’t stand on its own (given the internet community’s fight over DNSSEC), but yet is more widely deployed than pretty much any other protocol.

Shouldn’t we harden that, and allow it to be used independently of requiring systems to connect to some other centralized system over HTTPS?
Yes, but the RDP backend doesn't send them to the client that way anymore (and hasn't for years) - instead, it renders them locally and sends the rendered bitmap.
The problem is no one can think of one. As is often repeated here, there doesn’t seem to be any use case for blockchain that is superior to other technology, other than a cryptocurrency. And even they are rife with problems.
I've asked this question to a person I know who is an academic in economics (not a world-renowned economist, just someone who does economics at university), for what it's worth, and what she told me is--in my paraphrased understanding--that if a market goes up "naturally," or by the usual forces people regularly expect (usually around jobs), then wages tend to also go up so housing and other goods remain mostly affordable relative to local wages being paid.

The issue in cities and areas like Vancouver and Seattle and San Francisco--ones that aren't just hubs for high-paying technology jobs but also ones where overseas capital has made inrushes--is that wages haven't been able to keep up with the outside capital. So property of all types (it's just that most people only directly care about residential property, but commercial property also goes up and that increases the cost of other things in the local economy) rises in price while wages don't, so a major disconnect starts to happen.

This is a two-paragraph summary of a nearly three-hour conversation we had, so there's a lot of nuance I've left out. Zoning, development, density, and all of the rest around property use also affect prices and, according to her, probably more than inbound foreign money, but the added money has an influence.
A good overview of different hypotheses for Alzheimer's was published in Nature a couple months ago [1]. I recommend reading this before jumping on the latest HN theory. This article includes evidence for and against HSV.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05719-4
Denver seems to pay very low, considering the cost of living these days. I think they refer to it as the "Denver Discount"
I think you hit the nail on the head. The vast majority of blockchain ideas basically sub a blockchain in the role of a traditional database.

The "killer app" for blockchain technology is a currency.
Do you? Article says that subsidies to milk farmers are virtually non-existent these days and they dump the excess milk.
The British Empire was final, as were the other colonial powers; the Soviet Union was eternal, the Third Reich was supposed to last a 1000 years. Meanwhile, shift happens.
I setup sway couple days ago from source (with wlroots instead of wlc) and agree with the statement that sway now has the best hidpi support on Linux. I have UHD 15.6 inch laptop monitor and use FullHD 21.5 inch external monitor.
Setting the scaling properly was super easy, and the performance is much better compared to my previous Xorg setup. The only thing missing for me currently is tray icons support.
This is an implementation detail that you have no control over. From the point of a view of a process, io is synchronous. This is very limiting. It's better to keep decisions of concurrency in libraries rather than bake it into the language.
Stalin is supposed to have said: "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic."

Khashoggi's murder had emotional force, while the war in Yemen did not, because the media was able to focus on one person's story and make us empathize. Also, as far as the US media were concerned, they were able to identify with him as a US resident and a reporter. Not surprisingly, news organizations heavily cover attacks on their brethren.
Because the amount of trust required is significantly reduced if the provider uses a block chain. Without a block chain you need to trust that the provider will not change transactions retroactively. With a block chain you only need to trust that the provider will not censor transactions.
> Can anyone imagine ANY uses for a centralized blockchain?

I haven't seen any compelling use for either a centralized blockchain (i.e. one entity controls committing the blocks) or a closed blockchain (i.e. access is limited to a group all of which have known identities). Only in the open, peer to peer, case does it seem to have any value at all.
> the UK

Probably not for much longer, given the rather interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexplained_wealth_order
So I don't understand.. is cotton seed naturally edible, just needs processing? Lots of things need processing but we don't call them inedible. Some edible mushrooms have to be boiled to cook out a toxin. Fish needs to be deboned, some fish can kill you if not prepared properly...
Guess dynamical websites aren't supported?
There might be an option to swap your nvidia card with your integrated GPU through some kernel modesetting scripts if your bios doesn't disable the integrated GPU.
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The location seems to have been sent out to do the geo location lookup, but do you think it also sent up that you’re there frequently, or anything else about your schedule?
The tweet from the article is correct: "blockchain" is only popular because Bitcoin is an extremely profitable pyramid scheme / money laundering service. There are no use cases that aren't (already) better served by existing technology. We have:

- databases

- distributed databases

- distributed hash tables

- cryptographic signing

- authentication

I've heard all kinds of ideas that are just bad. Verifiable check in systems (use an app and a database), services were actually delivered (scan a barcode and use a database) supply chain tracking (scan a barcode and use a database).

Do you need Sybil resistance from proof of work because your consensus system is public and trustless? Cool Bitcoin is your jam. Just try to avoid building an unusable currency this go around, although I can't imagine a single additional use for it, and to date no one else can either.

Oh and also try and avoid broiling our planet with your energy use. Earth backup system is not yet online.
Emacs has dedicated functions that let you handle such cases more conveniently. For example, in your case, the function regexp-quote may be useful:

(regexp-quote "\\") ⇒ "\\\\"

In addition, structured data are often better represented as trees. In Emacs, you can use the function "rx" to translate Lisp forms from a dedicated tree-based mini language into regexp strings. The primary advantage is that you can more readily reflect the logic of the intended regular expression in this way.

For example:

(rx (or "a" "b")) ⇒ "[ab]"

and:

(rx (and (or "a" "b" "test") "c")) ⇒ "\\(?:test\\|[ab]\\)c"
I can point you to a few examples of centralised blockchain designs that make sense, but one that is (imho) easy to understand is what Loom Networks uses.

Essentially, users money is kept in the public Ethereum blockchain so all the cryptoeconomic security properties are assured but the games are developed (and played) in a centralised side-chain using a technique called Plasma that doesn't charge users per tx and has very fast block times (~1 second iirc).

Plasma is a way of extending (for scalability or any other reason) a main-chain such as Ethereum with a new app-specific or industry-specific blockchain, in such a way that the users can always trust their money without having to fully trust the side-chain owner's best intentions.
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True that. Before Chobani Americans had yogurt, but it was all that runny stuff that people from other countries wouldn't call yogurt. So same situation basically.

The shawarma poutine sounds brilliant! Perfect use case of cultural appropriation.
I think the typically way they address this is by promoting people. This is why you have subroles in a job. e.g. soft. eng. I, soft eng II ... You can have yearly and even mid term promotions as well. The promotion aspect of it saves face for everyone. So you go to your boss or you talk about promotion opportunities, you may even talk about the market. This is especially relevant when your company is hiring. Then you see how it goes. Eventually if you don't get the raise or promotion you leave.

But a really good reason to switch jobs is to increase the size of your network.
To add on to that when there's a big inrush of capital into real estate usually there's people coming into the area along with that money which brings money into other areas of the economy. If the properties are just being bought as offshore cash dumps and investments there isn't the same influx of money into other areas of the economy.
FTA: “I bought the first Samsung Gear watch. That’s the only tech product I’ve bought in all these decades that I sent back after one day. I couldn’t get anything out of it except the time.”

Pure Woz! He says this at a Samsung event!
SFH sellers (and agents) dont seem to have accepted the change yet. No NWMLS data to back it up, but list pricing has stayed roughly at the same crazy high levels of spring 2018. Units are instead sitting for weeks or months. The rare ones that are relisted are reduced by maybe 1-2%. As you said, will be very curious to see what May 2019 looks like.

PS: IIRC it was the may 2018 sales and inventory data that deviated from the recent trend lines. Slightly earlier than June.
I don't think those things are comparable. A blockchain is a data structure. A social network is a product involving (many) data structures, including graph-based ones. If you talk about a social network I generally understand what you're talking about. Not so with the term "blockchain."

I think part of the parent's point is that, at their core, blockchains are really relatively simple. But because they're data structures and people confuse them with actual products built over blockchains, there is a lot of semantic overloading that goes on.

When people refer to blockchains they may be variously referring to distributed consensus, the cryptographic primitives, the proof of work, the Merkle trees, the cryptocurrency or the end product built involving all of these things. These are all components which can be decomposed from the blockchain, which belies a general ignorance and lack of critical engagement with the concept for many advocates.

To be clear I'm not saying blockchains don't have viable use cases. Rather I'm saying there is a lot of noise inherent to any discussion about them.
You need to already have or find a network of "experts" to staff the cafe but there are loads of people out there. You can schedule different sorts of repairs on different days but a lot of electrical goods only require some basic faulting-finding and then spares from the internet.
We are trying out https://dawfin.com, which has a pretty nifty 1:1 management feature. Similar to 15Five, managers can create 1:1s, reportees can review and pre-answer prior to meeting, manager and reportee can go through 1:1 and see previous 1:1s notes. They put some quantitative type questions in there as well - hopefully they will put those on histograms in the near future so we can get some over-time perspectives. Overall, tools like these help streamline meetings and provides historical records in case I need to go back and look at older meetings.
There's kind of two issues at least. One is the continuous-discrete issue and the other is the moment issue.

As for the moment issue, the short story is that as you get into three or four moments, there isn't a general maximum entropy distribution anymore, except for some special idiosyncratic cases in the case of three I think. So the normal is, in some ways, the most conservative distribution you can have in a general, unspecified scenario sense. You can specify more moments, but then there isn't a single maxent distribution you can specify that would apply across all third and fourth-moment scenarios in the same way that would apply for the first two moments.

As for the continuous versus discrete thing, there's some caution that's warranted, but a lot of the maxent principles apply, and there are similar, closely related principles (minimum description length, which has been shown to be equivalent to maximum entropy inferentially in a sense) that generalize in the continuous case. If you think of everything as discretized (as is the case with machine representation), there's some work showing that the discretized and continuous cases are sort of related up to a constant (doi: 10.1109/TIT.2004.836702).

I realize this is a bit hand-wavy but it is a HN post.
He may no have been a reporter, he most certainly was a journalist.
Maybe if you took the first article as being serious. It sounded like satire to me and given this follow up, I assume it is.
Problems with infinite scroll
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I am not an expert, I just took the edX blockchain for business last year and have experimented with the Pact contract language (lisp like, it is implemented in Haskell) and Exonum.

I like the term Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and my interest is in permissioned (private) systems for use in business, potentially tied into AI (my placeholder site: http://hyperledgerai.com). This is on my free time, and in my free time I have become more interested in neural networks combined with symbolic AI code.
There's a big difference between a housing market that's exploding because of a lot of people moving to the area and one that's being largely propped up by outside purchases that don't get occupied. In a normal housing boom when a property is bought someone comes along with the money and spends money in other areas which boost the rest of the economy too. In the case of properties bought for investment/capital control dodging it all flows into a single area with less of the add on benefits.
The diplomats and Foreign Office well understood the negotiating position, and probable consequences. Which is why a selection of senior figures have resigned over the last two years. Just one example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38498839

Britain appears to have gone with the intent of negotiating by political dogma.
I'm not sure the idea of manufacturers wanting things to fail is as reliable as it sounds (it is a common assumption). Having worked in manufacturing, it was generally a case of not wanting something to cost any more than it needed to when competing with other companies/countries so you didn't spend what you needed to in order to get a better motor/circuit design etc.

People like Miele on the other hand, spend a great deal on reliable design but then their goods can cost 3x more than others and lots of people don't want their goods to last forver, they want to upgrade to something that looks modern and trendy.

Different business models!
An estimated $2.11 billion U.S. sales. I would think that has to impact milk sales. [0]

In their market research of consumers, the same article found that many people are intentionally consuming less dairy.

...nearly one in five (19%) Americans claims to be consuming less dairy for health reasons.

[0]http://www.nutritionaloutlook.com/article/us-non-dairy-milk-...
Norwegian news: https://www.nrk.no/mr/joachim-ronneberg-dode-i-natt-1.142576...

2015 nytimes interview:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/world/europe/wwii-hero-cr...
On the title page, below the “September, 1978” date, it is handwritten “(i.e. February, 1979)”.
Even worse. You mostly get run-time errors when the built machine supported that feature, your machine doesn't, and the features aren't separated into multiversioning or loading different shared libs.
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