skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's essentially Trump's response to climate change haha. We're already screwed so let's just keep on the same track. Personally, I find that nothing in life is certain, but I certainly thing that we can increase our statistical chances of success by making good decisions.

Also, you'll certainly feel different about dying once you are 65.
I take the argument that from an economists view point negative population growth is a very bad thing indeed. But from an individuals point of view actually not. Because the economist only cares about total 'GDP' and is absolutely uninterested in quality of life. Because quality of life can't be monetized.

From an individuals point of view lower population means fix resources are spread less thinly. There is less competition for jobs so you can command a large share of the pie.
> And the off-the-shelf battery is user replaceable (from outside!) with a single set screw.

This is an incredibly terrible idea. "Replaceable from the outside" also means "can be stolen from the outside", at which point you only need a single jerk with a screwdriver to leave people locked out of their homes or businesses.
Building a live video streaming website – Part 2 – The Application
I mostly agree with you, but I still think it makes no sense to not have a regulated title. I mean you can't become a civil engineer if you don't study civil engineering, why is it different for software will remain a mystery to me.
See also part II (https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/art-spirit-in-mathemati...) and part III (https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/art-spirit-in-mathemati...)
Tender loving care
Most "journalists" don't know jack about what they're writing about and lack any sort of integrity, so they confidently espouse random bullshit and/or propaganda. MSM fail.
Seems humorous to choose the place you live based on regional conversation topics with cab drivers.
It's true that many board vendors use out-of-date kernels and rarely update their software. But community editions like [Armbian](https://www.armbian.com) are usually kept fully up to date.

I've been using multiple ARM-based SBCs as desktop computers over a year now and have really been impressed with how software support has improved. It used to be only older versions of Firefox would run. Now most boards that use Ubuntu 18.04 (which include most versions of Armbian) will run Firefox 62.
I wonder how they know it is modifiable? Without splitting the population into “folks we told to exercise” and those who we did not, you can’t really know how successful such a program is.

People that feel good and aren’t sick will be likely to exercise more, so there are confounding factors.
Untraceable in a legal/administrative sense, it could still be traced using forensics.

In the US the lower receiver is the component that is legally considered a firearm. They're required to have serial numbers and are subject to the same laws as a fully functional gun. The other components are just hunks of metal in a legal sense and may be sold and manufactured without restriction. If you are able to fabricate a lower receiver by yourself you can buy the rest of the components you need to assemble a fully functional rifle without any records of its existence or creation.

According to the BATF a block of metal doesn't become a lower receiver until it is more than 80% complete. This led to the creation of a market "80% lowers" that can be legally sold without restriction and completed by the buyer. The hardest milling is done by the manufacturer and they are designed to be completed by inexperienced users with common tools. There's even a company that will sell you a CNC mill preprogrammed to finish milling the receiver.
Exactly. And I've spoken with several people who have been emailing the admins about this - and they just continue censoring without providing reasonable explanations (incorrectly citing abuse). HN has become extremely political - and how many aren't posting anymore because they were banned? Probably a lot! I've met at least 3 people who have reacted like I said, "do you watch Fox news," when I had actually asked, "do you visit HN?" There's a leftist article like this one at #1 nearly daily.
Cruise is owned by GM.
Brilliant. We can get broken stuff quicker!
That pretty much sums it up. jQuery animation can be pretty atrocious. Granted, CSS transitions/animations can also be atrocious if certain properties are being changed at the wrong times.

jQuery is going to select and manipulate elements, but it's not going to compensate for when the developer does moronic things like creating DOM elements a bajillion times with HTML strings in jQuery every time something changes, animating things in improper ways(like animating dimensional properties that cause extra redrawing before postrender), etc.

There's nothing wrong with using jQuery. I just find that I don't even need it and would much prefer to just use existing APIs in its place. If there's a compatibility issue, I can install a polyfill that's much smaller than jQuery ever will be.
I think craigslist listings tend to be on the expensive side because more expensive listings stay up for longer.

I rent a 1500sqft condo in this building for 3k a month (listed at 2M)
https://bccondos.net/1238-richards
> kicks businesses out of food stamp program on dubious fraud charges

> Mejia violated the agency’s rules, which prohibit retailers from establishing informal credit systems with their customers.

> many of them, like [Mejia], were probably unjustly caught in the crosshairs

So which is it? Is the charge unjust and dubious, or did he violate the rules?

(Not making any political point myself - just can't even work out what the opinion of the article is on whether he was doing something that was not allowed in the system he was using.)
It's not pedantic at all. I'm ~40 and don't exercise at all, yet I'm still perfectly fit. I presume it's due to doing groceries by foot several times per week, having a standup desk, and carrying the kid around. Perhaps genes help too. But the point I'd like to get across is: going to the gym isn't the sine qua non of making you fit. You can get enough "exercise" by simply living without a car, standing, and walking.
I'd say one of the issues with Haxe was always tooling. I don't know how it is now, but when I was looking at it a few years ago, debugging it wasn't really possible.
Having children at all is a severe negative impact on the economic prospects of women of any age. Once you have children you're out of the career grind for a few months and you get back into the game with a lower participation rate (fewer hours, for example).

The impact on education is easily avoidable by doing exactly what the parent commenter suggested: having children in extended families so the mother isn't the sole or primary caregiver for the new child. This frees the mother up to finish school, continue her career, etc.
Flame/clickbait article. Ignore this author.
>the lower receiver is the "gun" portion that is serialized.

AFAIK this a problem only under American legislation where the firearm is legally defined by one part, which in AR-15's case happens to be that lower receiver. Here a permit is required for the receiver, barrel, bolt, carrier and all other "substantial" parts, and our gun legislation is relatively lax in comparison to other EU countries.
Show HN: Langton's Ant visualisation with React
Well, that’s probably exactly what happened, and now Apple is cracking down on this sort of app. They can’t just refuse to pay out that $14 mil to the app developer - these are bad user experiences that trick people into agreeing to subscriptions, but they aren’t clearly illegal. Apple does need to go through their own app review process when they want to boot an app, making sure there is a clear rule the app is not following.
Ok, what entitles anyone to be able to publish their software in the repository of a for profit company? Why should it be open for free to everyone?
You don't want pay that fee? Cool, there's Android and many other open platforms to program for.
I will never understand the sense of entitlement people have against Apple. You are free not to buy Apple products and services if you think they are overpriced.
Plus, no, it's not subjective. It's objectively low compared to many other access or licence fees a developer might pay in heesh professional life.
Show HN: Stop a/b testing – here’s something better
What do you think of Elixir?
> entitlement-type programs that are built on a ponzi scheme approach to ever larger inflows of tax revenue to support them over time.

Stop repeating propaganda please. Entitlement programs are just simple insurance programs. There is nothing ponzi about them.
Apparently, family planning is rocket science.

What is your rational definition of "appropriate resources"? Public school? Public school in a better but more expensive district? Extracurriculars? Tutoring? Private school? Fully supported university education? Love is not rational... it's giving your all and more for someone that matters.

Workaholics are not inherently good parents, but good parents do go the "extra" mile to improve their child's life.
How do posts become dead? Is it because of downvotes, or due rather to some form of editorial intervention?
I remember when I had calculus in school and the textbook was a huge book weighing like five pounds...and my mom's calculus textbook from the 1950s was this tiny little thin book. But they hadn't added anything to the subject of calculus since then!
Hi there. The bandwidth measurement is purley from our JS bundle. We are saving roughly 32kb (47kb - 15kb) from our previous article bundle with jquery... so 32kb x 5 million (unique pageviews) = ~160gb so actually more than I stated in the article. Now we do use a CDN but the idea is that we would have the lowest js footprint possible especially b/c of things like 3rd party ads which we unfortunately can't control.
It's like what happens when whisky fans discover single malts and start dissing Johnny Walker.

Making a consistent product year over year with inconsistent raw materials, in high volume with wide distribution, and maintaining prices most people can afford is very difficult.

Sure you can get better coffee if you spend time doing research and sourcing beans and roasting equipment, but that doesn't mean there is no place for Starbucks in the world.
We need to be smart about where we want to invest housing in. People are living in cities now and Columbus has been bigger than Dayton for quite some time. Columbus will hit 1M people soon. Columbus has a diverse set of industry and is more of a service industry city, Dayton was always a one industry town.
The City That Had Too Much Money
Uhh he did violate the terms of acceptance, nothing nebulous at all here. He violated, they actually gave him a process to try and prove his violations were not and he failed at that and was banned.

Very misleading title.
It seems easy these days to find a complex, "powerful", "cloud based" security system.

What I've been struggling to find is a reliable, simple, easy to use, residential FOB system for 1-5 doors and 1-5 users.

Problem statement: my father-in-law has never locked the door in his life; if I want to change this habit, it has to be as simple and easy as possible. A FOB would be ideal - just tap his keychain/wallet/whatever and go. But I'm struggling to find something that isn't wireless and complex and server/cloud based... :-<
No, I understand that, and maybe this is just a tangent, but the parent post seemed to be implying that the app was using the fingerprint itself, and I was trying to get a clarification. (And I'm honestly a little skeptical of the story.)
Intentional, I'm sure.
Most likely, the the charge is unjust. There are many such algorithmic processes across the country that also accuse people of fraud without any evidence, based solely on weak, inferential, correlation of indirect data... and these accusations come with criminal and civil penalties. It's just another indictment of America's two-tiered justice system, where the poor are guilty-until-proven-innocent, and often just brushed into prison with little or no due process or representation.
Just a few years ago there were some spectacular deals if you didn't mind a (major) fixer-upper: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cheap-detroit-houses-auction_...

While you're unlikely to find anything like that today, the prices vary widely depending on which part of the city you look at. According to Zillow, the median price is $41.5k but the range is massive (i.e. low 5-figures at the low end to (I believe) low 7-figures at the high end)
Cigar smokers typically don't inhale. It's more of a oral cancer risk.
London has a second home tax, https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/mar/31/stamp-duty-sec...
and a luxury home tax
https://www.cnbc.com/2014/12/04/luxury-homes-tax.html but they also had to add rules for proving money was not laundered to buy things earlier this year for the UK
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2018-06-... though it sounds like a workaround is to use shell companies in different countries to buy property.
There are a lot of people who use not enough time, money, etc as an excuse. If your doctor told you the only way for you to see another year was to get in shape and eat right, how would you prioritize then? Would you still go to the movies? Go out for drinks and food?

For the people who absolutely can't afford it, there's a lot of good information for free online. My point is that for many of us, we treat professional help as a luxury or explain it away rather than embrace it as a necessity.

The real wealth in life is your health.
We're adding as much as we can as fast as we can

This is not even remotely true. Much of the city is still zoned exclusively for single-family housing, although that may be (very slowly—too slowly) changing: https://www.sightline.org/2018/08/14/vancouver-housing-of-al....

About two-thirds of Seattle is also single-family only: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/amid-seatt....

Those factors alone likely explain much of the housing shortage. Make it legal to build the housing that people want to live in, and the housing will be built.
Mine wanted to get paid. Can you imagine it? Building the best product ever just wasn't enough.

P45's all round and the issue was solved, permanently.
What's with the real estate photography trend of trying to make everything look like a circa 1998 3D Render?
Cigar smokers don't inhale through the cigar, but they inhale, just like second-hand smokers inhale.
No, it is actually that flat Earth just got really popular in the last few years. There is a lot of money and promotion force behind it. It seems like at least one group is trying hard to make their opponents view points be seen as synonymous with believing the Earth is flat... Pretty good disinfo strategy!
The best business to start in 2018 is B2B
Extracting heart beats from video with this technique only works reliably if the target is almost stationary, so a high framerate would help. However, high framerate requires bright lighting.
Ending Sales of Myo, Preparing for the Future
Or maybe they will think that the Linux subsystem is very good that they adopt it as the "main" system. Then Windows becomes Microsoft's official Linux distro.
Did it actually? Phoronix is generally a pretty questionable source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture) nor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaby_Lake nor even Coffee Lake list SHA intrinsics. It starts showing up in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Lake_(microarchitectur... and Cannon Lake pages.
Orleans – Distributed Virtual Actor Model in .NET
I had to stop reading at this point: “cloud-based [...] secure”. For me being cloud-based means that you don’t take security serious enough.
In case anyone's wondering: this is not Quantum Supremacy, yet. Just theoretical proof of a quantum advantage of quantum calculators over binary computer for some specific subset of problems.
Very interesting nonetheless.
1. Undocumented server setups with passwords saved in their own password manager and refusing to hand passwords and proccess after being fired.

2. Hacking the servers after being fired and deleting the data

3. Insulting the guy from the marketing/sales/customer service department for lack of technical knowledge.

4. Asking the woman from the customer service department to be a cheerleader to up his motivation while he fixed the customer's problem.
Britain put comms satellites up in 69 (to the present) called Skynet.

So hardly the first.
Open Sesame
Yeah it is interesting, and it could also be a big boost to plain olde speech to text in cases where you have video if the errors were non-correlated (which I wasn't able to determine from skimming the readme.)

edit: now I see it is being used to match audio samples, not to generate text so it wouldn't create an independent value from the audio in this arrangement. Other than i.e. speaker attribution which they mentioned.
I like DruPal’s TV show on MTV
Could someone explain to me why this question has gotten so many upvotes? Are bad experiences with developers common?

My impression is that most of the time perceived bad experiences with developers comes from being a bad manager.
Awesome stuff. Not just for urban feature mapping and intelligence gathering. But all kinds of scientific and economic research: forestry, land use management, and poverty prediction

http://sustain.stanford.edu/predicting-poverty/
I’m working on a simple and free way to generate a press kit for your company.

https://presskite.com

The tech is cool and most of the early customers we have are realizing how important it is to be able to describe and pitch their company in a succinct and captivating manner.
I'm starting to feel like I should expand this into a manifesto.

<sarc>
Yes, let's give the clueless tech recruiters more ammunition to screen out otherwise qualified candidates after someone with a blog stumbles across your site and suddenly recruiters are doing machine learning-matching on resumes against "the manifesto"
</sarc>
For non-UK readers: according to Wikipedia, P45 is slang for firing an employee.
GM moved the "headquarters" of Cadillac to New York for some stupid reason, but they recently moved it back.
Seeing Sounds: molecular clues for synesthesia
no demonstration video?
A new way to measure nearly nothing: Ultracold trapped atoms to measure pressure
I don't think it's possible to "get off their delivery list"; they just get dropped on the stoop/porch/entryway, one for each mailbox. It's not like they're ever addressed to anyone personally.
They keep them going as long as they are profitable. They track a metric called “store contribution” which is the profit sent to corporate after all the store expenses. The highest volume stores are grossing about 40+k/week with contributions in the realm of 500-700k/yr from one example I know of.

Moderate stores are doing around 25k/week. Stores below 10-15k/week tend to be at risk of shutting down or having the location changed. A 15k/week store can become a 30k/wk store just by getting a drive through.

There is also a distinction between “community” stores and higher volume profit stores (eg by highway entrance). Community stores get to be a little less profitable but build a “second home” for those in the community to hang out at, while non-community stores bring in profit by being in a high traffic area.
Early-stage SaaS VC slip snaps recovery as public software stocks soar
He violated rules, rules that were set up to avoid fraud. This is what happens, when one reduces everything to a set of rules.

There are actions that are not fraudulent (as the case with Mejia), but considered fraudulent by rules set up by the agency. This is a case where agencies hide behind rules, algorithms, etc.
Dude, just mentioning the name of the company isn't private. I am not sure why but I am incredibly bothered by this secrecy. There is nothing to do hide. The cafe exists in PUBLIC space for god sake!

I bought a toothpaste from a store but I feel like I shouldn't disclose the name of the store for their privacy. They're a private company!
Surprised to be reading about this 5 years later
> How do you propose that someone attain a high degree of fitness without regular exercise?

There are some personal factors involved, two people performing on equal level on the treadmill test does not imply they exercise with the same regularity.

For example, I use my mountain bike for exercise, but on the treadmill I'll probably be beaten by the person that exercises by jogging even if we exercise with the same regularity.
> It'll be compiled once for every Cpp file that includes it.

but are you going to mmap stuff in all your .cpps ? Most of the time when I use an external library, it does not get out of a single implementation file, so it being header only does not really make it worse
So no more Myo armbands from now on? I presume they're working on their smartglasses now
Elixir doesn't affect most of the operational aspects of Erlang, and it certainly in no way affects performance. You're still running on the BEAM, except now you actually have more apps running (The Elixir runtime runs as an app).

Syntactically it cleans some things up, adds some niceties, and annoyingly makes atoms require a prefix of ":" (annoying because atoms are central to Erlang's readability).

Personally, I don't find the changes to make a big difference when using the BEAM, and I prefer the familiarity of Erlang's syntax. It's also the language all of the documentation for the BEAM will use.

If you absolutely can't get your coworkers to ditch dynamic/gradual typing, Elixir or Erlang are still great choices and way better than Python/Ruby. Otherwise, try Rust.
Best way to learn it?
The 1809 update took ten minutes on an average notebook with SSD here. MS did some serious work in the last releases to reduce the offline time for updates.

See e.g. https://insider.windows.com/en-us/articles/were-listening-to...
This is what I have at home: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009Z19E0C

It's not perfect, but it's reasonable. No cloud, and no traditional key option/alternative (that was my requirement: if you want to prevent lock picking/bumping, don't have a key option at all!).
No developers are often terrible.

Source: developer
I do wonder what the impediment to continuing sales is. Was the armband a loss leader of some sort? Were the sales not high enough? Were there widespread product failures?

It always seemed like a rather neat concept, but I generally noticed that even out of all the people I know who love playing with cutting edge prosumer tech like this, none of them had a Myo armband. I do wonder if perhaps they found no real market for the technology and are intent on actually pivoting to something else...
The F-35 has components made all over the world, but was designed in the US. Is that plane metric?
A jerk with a box of matches can jam several locks right now.
The Rare Humanism Behind Paul Allen’s Technological Vision
I had a boss once who conjectured that when you point a finger, there are three pointed back at yourself. I often come in to "rescue" projects after an initial developer or team, and more often than not I find just as many mistakes on the management side. For example - if the developer(s) have set up the production environment using their own personal AWS account, or set up DNS in their own name, yes, they screwed up, but that's the company's IP that management has failed to secure. Problems go both ways.
That's generally true already, though? It's pretty trivial to make a lock unusable: just fill it with super glue.
The 5 Developers I Never Want to Work with Again
Phoronix is, once again, wrong. Skylake does not support the SHA instructions. The only currently shipping x86 CPUs which support them are Intel Goldmont (Atom) and AMD Zen (Ryzen, Threadripper).

Mainstream support for SHA in Intel CPUs will come with Cannon Lake, or whatever the next microarchitecture revision they release ends up being.

* Yes, Cannon Lake is technically shipping as the i3-8121U, but that isn't really relevant to anyone here.