skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do body-weight squats to start, but do more of them. Then grab a couple 30lb dumbbells and hold them while you squat. If you can do 100 squats holding 30lb dumbbells, you are way ahead of the curve.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/951456001

You're overcomplicating the issue to make it seem more complex than it is. It's dead simple: when people don't have homes, build more homes -- then they'll have homes.

If you're trying to solve mental illness or something that's another issue entirely, plenty of homeless AND housed people are mentally ill; attempts to claim that homelessness and tangentially related factors like mental illness are somehow "inexplicably intertwined" are just rationalizations to justify why you're not actually working to solve the problem.
Ask HN: Has anyone else had a bad experience at Stack Overflow?
I don't want to go into the gnarly details, just say I've found their treatment of me as a fairly new user to be pretty bad. The seemingly infinite list of rules are opaque. You can lose privileges with only a guess as to why. No feedback is given to a new user as to what they did wrong. And finally any inquiry into this is met with open hostility from the "meta" community.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has had a good/bad experience with SO.
Agree to disagree?
It's kind of a form of virtue signaling (edit: or at least tribalism.) Like saying: "I'm about to say good things about the state of the world, that don't jive with your current feelings about things. I know, I know, we're on the same team, and none of what I'm about to say is at all attributable to that awful politician we all hate."
I’m curious how this would be better than existing techniques in the countries of interest. It seems like the listed limitations are quite large.
Notice also that the roof has separate timber supports. It appears the the walls are not strong enough to support the roof.
My best sketchy guess is that:

1) The American media is rallying around one of its own. This means more headlines but doesn’t mean much about what action ultimately gets taken.

2) Incredible incompetence on the part of the Saudis, resulting in being caught completely red handed. They’re so unable to come up with a convincing lie about what happened that even Donald Trump can’t deny it was a state sponsored hit.
> they should decide based on the data requested

I agree with this -- of course a request can be rejected if it requests something that is explicitly exempted in the law. The metadata of emails to public agencies is currently not exempt from Washington state law.

> And in this case the data requested is none of the requesters business since it involves the privacy of other citizens.

OK, but that is not your or the state government's decision to make. The law does not allow for the government to make a unilateral judgment on whether something is "none of the requesters business" -- isn't it patently obvious how this could be abused?

> If I were a civil servant faced with a request that releases information that I felt would infringe on some other law I would definitely not decide to be the one to make the call and release it without a sign-off.

Sure, if you don't know the law exactly (most employees don't), then you consult your agency's FOI officer, who would then tell you whether the request is valid. If it is valid, and you decide to reject it anyway, you'd probably be fired (I don't think most state FOI laws provide criminal penalties for violating FOI).

I'm not a Washington historian, but I'm assuming the FOI law was passed because legislators had actual scenarios and use-cases in mind. For example, being able to request the emails sent and received by a government employee is useful if you want to know who contacted that employee about an issue, such as a regulatory enforcement action. Maybe there are clear-cut cases where a received email is obviously not work or issue-related, such as emails from that employee's mom. But what if the mom is herself a lobbyist or other influential official? Or how about an email from a guy talking about going golfing and getting a few beers? Is that just personal? What if the guy emails every week about going golfing on his dime, and the guy happens to be a businessperson waiting for regulatory approval on some project?

Apparently, the myriad of ways for unwanted behavior to be expressed via email are so plentiful that legislators decided to err on the side of transparency, because it would be too easy for officials to shut down requests and deny transparency all but to those with the means to sue (usually, corporations and journalists). It is not up to a civil servant to decide otherwise; likewise, the law protects the civil servant from liability for following a lawful request.
Google "elephant curve".

Only those with income in top 75-99 percentiles have not followed the richest 1 percent.

West bitches about income inequality because our working class and middle class have low productivity growth. In the rest of the world incomes have kept up.
Email is really difficult because retention law and regulation is based on a topic.

To meet federal requirements, information about procuring equipment with certain grants must be maintained for 10 years. Caseworker notes for a minor who is a ward of the state may be required to be kept for 20 years after the 18th birthday.

If a record is deemed in scope and topical, an employee could be committing a crime by deleting that email. As a result, the easy answer is retain.
There are states with ‘closed primaries’, where certain elections are only open to registered party voters - ie a Democrat would not be allowed to vote in the Republican primary and vice-versa.

This, and ‘because that’s how we’ve always done it’ are probably the main reasons party affiliation is part of voter registration.
Vista Pro! Thanks for reminding me of that, spent a good few afternoons playing with it back in the 90s.
Relax. It's clearly a euphemism for Saudi Arabia.
You yelled at a restaurant manager for putting cheese on your salmon? Wow.
What's so safe about pen & paper? Here in Eastern Europe, every time somebody ought to win elections but they seem like they don't, you always get two vans full of ballots who support the said candidate. Every time. Everybody knows they are fake ballots and nobody can do anything about it.

I would actually think voting through a blockchain with a solid proof function (obviously not mining for 30 minutes because phone batteries aren't very durable) is the much, much more secure scheme. Especially if executed over encrypted channels like TLS.

...Although with the levels of influence some people have, I wouldn't be surprised if they can catch the 4G traffic at least and fake that too (influencing all ISPs would be impossible even for them). But I will leave that exercise to the blockchain technologists, they seem to have invented mostly tamper-proof comms -- or so they claim?

Sure there are challenges but the physical voting is IMO well-documented to be very easily corruptable and fake-able. Well, at least outside the so-called "first world countries" it is. You guys can still believe in incorruptible democracy if it makes you feel better.
Haber and Stornetta used one to hash and timestamp documents to prove they said whatever at a given time for legal purposes. Some of the hashes are published in the NYT. Satoshi built on their work in coming up with Bitcoin.
I wonder how much the UK public remembers the first Britons in space Helen Sharman, curiously it was the Soviets who sent her to space.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Sharman
Only if it also becomes an anti-state movement can it have positive effects. Anti-war and pro-State is still pro-war.

Anti-war leftists in the 60s were pro-State and decades later we still have the same problem even when leftists presidents run the country
Syria isn’t the gulf.
Ad hominem would be if I tried to dismiss an argument with an unrelated attack on someone's personality. In this case I'm not even talking about their personalities or making unrelated accusations, just reporting what happened. Reporting their stories in their own words can't possibly be ad hominem and I'm not even accusing them of lying - they clearly told me what really happened, that's how I'm so sure they were never in danger.

I'm well aware of what self reported crime stats say but my entire thesis in this thread is that women routinely make wildly exaggerated claims so why would surveys of what they think change my mind? A huge disparity between self reports and actual criminal cases is exactly what I'd expect to see
They skimmed the fat so it could be sold as cheese and other dairy products, yes. Americans basically didn't even reduce their dairy fat intake, they just increased how much $$ they were spending on it across more dairy products.
Anecdotally it has become increasingly hard for me to function in my Brooklyn neighborhood, despite having paper wealth (equity) from being here early and a decent job.

Absolutely every little thing is so expensive. I can’t even really afford to go to the bar for a few pints.

So, yes, I agree with you completely. Even if real estate prices aren’t an issue, the influx of price insensitive residents can make an area infeasible to live in.
Back in 2012 efficient meant a whole different thing in .Net - it mostly came down to "this thing is probably fast."
Please, have you ever been to Vancouver or Seattle? Anyone who has ever been to any of these cities would never hold those opinions. Huge vacant houses with no one living in them, an entire sub section of the real estate industry that speaks mandarin but won't bother talking to any of the locals, schools that cater entirely to wealthy Chinese. The speculation tax is going to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, precisely because of mass foreign home ownership.

You'd have to be living under a rock to miss the signs of the times. Willfully ignorant, perhaps.
Rather astounding that people would downvote a post defending the experience of genocide victims from being confused with subjects of a lazy adjective use.

Edit: Oh, I forgot this is HN...
Homomorphic elections is an idea that has been floating around since at least 2004 [0]. Some even have proof-of-concept implementations to go with their papers [1].

It doesn't need a blockchain (and predates blockchain), and it has some very nice properties, such as not requiring electricity proportional to how much an attacker might spend, and uncoercibility (as defined in their paper).

I think elections are poorly suited to blockchain for several reasons:

1. There is an authority (the government), so the lack of centralized trust of a blockchain adds nothing.

2. The core of a blockchain is preventing double-spends (double-votes) by picking which version of the truth is correct via some input proof-of-something. Unfortunately, there's more value in subverting an election than securing it, so it seems likely if the US uses $20k of computing power to secure the "vote blockchain", a malicious actor will simply spend $20m of compute power to reverse votes or otherwise stall out democracy. It turns out requiring work to secure something works much less well if it's not money. On the flip side, if we have to spend more for each election in proof-of-work computation than any attacker might spend, we quickly also are losing.

3. Blockchain's cryptography does not provide nice properties like uncoercibility, and those things would have to be baked on top, and yet can instead be built separately more simply (as proved by academic research like the one I linked and the hundreds of papers that cite it).

All 4 of the properties you mentioned are totally unrelated to blockchain technology. You could already get all the above if the government just ran an api that let users digitally sign and publish votes and check votes signed with their key, and that publicly exposes a full audit log. None of that requires blockchain, all it requires is that citizens get a private key (also required if it were a blockchain), don't have multiple, and that the private key isn't publicly associated with them for anonymity.

When you say "Blockchain would help because you could vote on your phone", what you really mean is "digital voting with cryptography to make it secure would be nice". Blockchain is irrelevant if all you want is a mobile app and cryptography that excludes the generals problem.

The actual problem is not a technical one in the first place. Elections are a mess for largely human reasons. Pretending that all we need is some magic technology to fix this problem is being wilfully ignorant.

[0]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/105.pdf

[1]: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/civitas/
I think the glib answer is that that is science. It is the best we have at making sure we don't stay stuck on biases. It is just frustrating, because it would be nice for the answer to be immune from the thing it protects us from.

That is, I would much prefer if science was immune to bias. Evidence is quite clear that nothing is free of bias, though.
True! I was speaking more around Canadian companies.

I believe Calgary has the highest number of corporate HQs in Canada.
Some people would probably claim the latter. The blue pee was temporary, and mildly disappointing from what I remember. But I'm assuming it's reasonably safe if it's included in chemistry sets...then again, mine also had mercury in it..
It seems many don’t realize that Vancouver is the only major Canadian city on the west coast whereas in the US you have several. In Canada there are three major cities: Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. If you want to live on the west coast with great weather where are you going to go? Lots of migration in Canada alone.
FTA :

>>> 4) People in developed countries have more leisure time

which is justified by a decrease in the number of work hours iin a week. As it occured to those guys that if the number of working hours decrease it's because unemployment increases. And, in my country, unemployment is not exactly leisure time, it's stressful time, ain't money, must find a job...

>>> 8) Death in childbirth is rarer

Well most of the progress were down in the 19th century, so they're counting mostly insignifcant things (statistically, I don*t mean childbirth is insignificant at all, got kids)

>>> 9) People have been getting taller for centuries

That's in europe, i.e. a small part of the world

>>> 17) We’ve rapidly reduced the supply of nuclear weapons

didn't know that, it looks much better than those anti-nuclear guys said to me last time. Good news indeed.

>>> 18) More people in the world live in a democracy now

That's so wester/occidental... Who says that democracy is such a good news ?

>>> 19) More people are going to school for longer

What about the other countries ?

>>> 22) Access to the internet is increasing

Read the exact opposite 2 days ago (lost the source though :( )

...
could you discuss further why you believe vegetable oils to be ubhealthy? foods?
Optimization and performance measurement
It's common in financial publications, and in other publications with numerically literate audiences, to focus statistical graphics on the region of interest (except in bar charts, in which bars are expected to sit on a baseline of zero). For example, stock charts, one of the most common plots in financial publications, follow this practice:

http://google.com/search?q=GOOG
>> The U.S. spends more on arms and armies than the next seven biggest spenders combined.

I think that is one fact Trump turned around to use as his talking point. That seems to be one reason Trump seems to be annoyed with NATO about. He claims US has to spend that much more because NATO and other allies are not spending enough. Or so he says.

Honestly though, what doesn't compute is following events/articles:

1. this article about antiwar movement

2. the airstrikes in Yemen by Saudi

3. SV happily taking investment of a few dozen billions of dollars from Saudi as posted on HN just a little while ago.
https://qz.com/1426370/silicon-valley-is-awash-with-saudi-ar...
Yes, we are about to start the process of seeking out venture capital. The article you linked is interesting because that's along the same lines of how I came up with this idea. Initially, I wanted to launch FreeTaxi, the world's first free taxi service to take down Uber. However, it has too many moving parts for now so we changed gears and started working on FreeWater first. Please take a look at FreeTaxi if you're interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQS2UyjbVI&t=75s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbxpGejFI_g
Syria is the Levant, Gulf countries are countries in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) and in the Persian Gulf.
Isn't that essentially Github?
Yes. When I say “between governmental employees” I mean between them & anyone.

This is a normal expectation to the point where there are lots of rules about what public servants can even use private email addresses for. This was a big deal of course in the 2016 campaign.

This is likely a cultural difference, I view the data that Matt requested as mine because that governmental agent is acting in my name.
Turning that off is non obvious too. I needed to when it got a bit deranged due to variable working hours and gave me travel times to the same location multiple times a day.
Side question: why do VCs never disclose who their LPs are?
Agree with all the points except for the first. I find biweekly 1:1s to be the perfect frequency.

My manager is very experienced and has great insight, and as an IC this time is very valuable to me. But agree weekly is a little overkill
>What would he pressurize your lines with? An air compressor? He'd have to dig up the lines or disconnect them first and gas from the line would likely escape in quantities large enough to discourage such tricks.

On the gas meter on my house anyway, the underground pipe mates at a valve. It doesn't seem hard or particularly dangerous to shut that valve off, disconnect the meter, connect whatever, then open the valve again.
My understanding is that the IPCC estimates put the costs of climate change at ~2% of world GDP, and more aggressive estimates still have it under 10%.

Is there a reason that cost would eliminate all of the gains cited in this article? Or are you basing the expected impacts off of another source?
The scenario you propose is possible through using Google, and/or many other services that collate public records of people's names and addresses. Try Googling your name and one of your cities of residence some time.

> someone as a favor looked someone's new address up for a friend which resulted in a murder.

A government employee who looks up someone's address for a friend is not covered by FOI laws. Just as FOI doesn't protect cops who use the DMV database to look up other cops they like/hate:

- https://www.wired.com/2012/11/payout-for-cop-database-abuse/

- https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-pines-police-o...
I consented to a search
> Spending is about input, not output.

Spending is the measure of intention. The US intends to be the world's healthiest war cult.
Valtrex (valacyclovir) is commonly prescribed for people who get cold sores. Taken as needed at the first sign of an outbreak (e.g. before it’s visible but when you feel it coming) it can often prevent or reduce the outbreak.

Your PCP should be able to do this for you. You’ll just have a bottle on hand and you’ll use it for only two or three days whenever the outbreak happens.
All of BC is relatively expensive compared to the USA, with Vancouver as the epicenter.
A nice optimistic view on the development of mankind in this world. Its probably very human to think mankind is the only kind that really matters, so mankind = world.
Your pricing is wayyyyyy too low.
I’m sorry you are in a position that makes you feel that way. At my company (less 20 people) we’re hard not to hire people we don’t want. Ergo we want to retain the people we have hired. So one thing we’ve found effective is talking about hopes and aspirations in a effort to best align staffing requirements for growth with existing staff’s goals.

For example, we have staff that do A, B and C currently. As we grow, we know we want to add in D. So I’d usually rather have existing staff grow into D if they want to and hire someone to fill in the previous roles of the existing staff (since as they add D they can’t still do all of A, B and C if they’re also doing D).

Obviously this only works when your existing staff can grow personally at a similar rate to the company’s needs. But when possible, we try to make that happen.

For reference a short tenure for technical staff at my company is 5 years. I take that personally as a compliment.
"“Bad actors” doesn’t simply mean money from rulers in the gulf who turn out to be cold blooded killers." - like we all did not know that before the referenced event?
That's a great point! Global income inequality has been dropping steadily:

https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality
I'd say Google Assistant on Google Home is best. I own both Echo and Home and found Home to be the best at recognizing the questions and answering to my satisfaction. For example, I ask: "How much time it will take to go to Fifth & Mission Parking Garage by Car" and Home says "in current traffic, it will take you X mins." whereas Alexa concedes defeat by saying she does not know the answer to that. It seems to me that 5-10 years in future, Google will have a terrific Assitant that understands quite complex questions and will be way more helpful with the answers.
That's what the tail call optimization is for, it optimizes the recursive function into a loop.
Is $2000/mo a lot or a little? Sorry being in SF I seriously can't tell.
Taken by itself I don't think population growth is a positive or negative statistic. People are living longer, death by disease is down, childhood mortality and death by pregnant mothers is down. These are all good stats.

How population affects climate change seems to be the biggest negative externality.
So these people in Victoria #2 wouldn't be able to participate in the economy of the rest of Canada? They couldn't start corporations that could buy real estate, sell products and so on? What if they wanted to drive to Victoria #1 and go shopping?
#DarkPulsar and other #NSA #hacking tools used in hacking operations in the wild
I feel like I've reached a point where I've moved jobs a little too often (avg 1.5 yrs last 3 jobs)
President Obama tried this with the reset - it ended up with them interfering in our elections.
Toronto has the highest number of HQs.

Calgary may have a higher number per capita - or - they may 'technically' have more HQs because of the vast number of shell companies that exist for complex resource extraction events. Kind of like Delaware in the US.
Anti Triz-journals
It is a lot. Especially considering the tech industry salary is under $90k for a sr engineer, and a normal professional person probably makes $40k-$60k/yr
As a sidebar, the US has its own 'supply management'-style policies in place for markets like sugar, where Canada's access was limited to 0.1% of the market, pre-USMCA. [0]

I wonder what will end having greater economic impact in the long run: the relatively minor 'tweaks' USMCA makes in these markets, or the extent to which Mr T has shaken the foundations of Canadians' relationship with the US.

[0] https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/agriculture/f...
I'd be curious what you think are good languages at processing text. A sibling post points out that you are probably just not using some functions that would help. To that end, look into them. I suspect the problem is that you are wanting tools from your current toolbox to look a lot more familiar, though. Hence why I am asking what languages you think are good at processing text.

Elisp is odd to me, because you need to get used to thinking in terms of buffers of text. Most commands require a trip through a buffer. Which is not at all bad, but is very foreign to my expected view.

That said, once you get used to basically programming how you interact with a buffer, it does get very fast very quickly. And can often read rather nicely.