skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with all of your points -- the delivery ingredients are "good enough", I don't need the perfect piece of broccoli for my dinner. But I do like having some control over how dinner is prepared, I find a lot of restaurant food to be way too salty (especially in the $12 price range of box-meal delivery), so I like being able to prepare it the way I want to.
Ah, the “you just want people to die” argument. I wondered when that would show up.

How about a largely deregulated area where you can mix housing and business zoning. Like we use to with downtowns. At the same time get rid of the caps on building height. Tokyo has tall buildings and earthquakes. Allow SF to modernize. A 60 story apartment building neutralize the cost of the property.

Another option is to make SF a stronghold for the rich. Nothing wrong with that either. Push the poor out to locations they can afford.

Few will die in either scenario.
I'm not sure I understand how Amazon can offer something like this. IANAL, clearly, but isn't anything one or two degrees away from "java" something that Google just fought a long court battle over? Is Corretto different because it is running inside Amazon's data centers? Was the Google blunder that they supposedly used actually Oracle (acquired from Sun) JDK code inside their Android/Dalvik?
In my (non-expert) opinion, one of the most important parts of the linked DPA is where Google claims that they are a Processor and not a Controller under GDPR.

A Controller has discretion of what processing takes place and how it is used. A Controller also has greater responsibilities under GDPR to both the data subject and to the authorities. If Google wants to limit their exposure to GDPR (and I see every indication that this is their current strategy), then they need to make sure they only carry out the processing activities outlined in the DPA.
SF just passed 300 million/year measure that's supposed to help the homeless and that's in addition to the 240 million/year of funding that's already there. Both of those combined exceeds the budgets of most cities. First I would say, let's figure out how to use that money so that it's actually working. 540 million/year is enough to give the 7000 homeless in SF 77,000$ per year. Let's put that to good use and make sure it doesn't end up in administrative waste before throwing more $ at it.
>promulgation

Did you mean proliferation? (just trying to avoid falsehoods on HN)
Yes -- boarding houses. It was expected that your rent would include at least an evening meal shared with the other residents. And like with many university dorms today, it was against the rules to cook in your rooms.
I once heard a Google employee mention this himself, specifically after the Google+ breach coverup came to light: "Honestly, I don't think it was the right thing to do but it definitely was the better business move. And announcing the deprecation today definitely tries to cover it up. We just have a better PR team."

I'm not claiming one is better than the other and that's not a discussion to have today, but I agree with him 100%. Google, after all, invented the business does have a hell of a PR team.
Sure. You could also just pay a little more for raw ingredients and buy sustainably sourced, eco-friendly palm oil, which does exist.
The conclusion is not terribly surprising. Who knows how many xenoestrogens are in our environment, causing endocrine system disturbances and hormonal imbalances.
True, but few of them waste 1/10 as much as the government and they all work off of willful contributions.
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If stomping on the brakes isn't the appropriate reaction, then the car was going too fast in the first place.
I mean, it's literally no secret that Google collects user information, contents of emails, browsing history, etc and uses it to target advertisements to users. If you use a google product or service for more than 5 minutes, you literally see it happening.
>vegetable oil

but what if it's just regular sunflower oil or something of the sort?
I'm very curious to do one of these tests myself, but I'm also terrified of being in some large database that could be abused to my detriment someday. This fear might be unfounded, but I'm not really sure.

The whole thought of being targeted because someone found my DNA circumstantially near the scene of a crime, or discriminated against because I'm predisposed to some sort of medical condition, gives me pause. This might be senseless paranoia, or there might already be enough data from random family members taking tests, but you never know.
Please provide a source for this claim because it is commonly repeated and completely counter to my understanding.
It's possible that innovations established in the the area that is absent of regulation may save lives, possibly more lives than would be saved by applying the preexisting regulation to that area.
Well, for a SNES/NES/Atari/Genesis/etc. classic device, the issue might not be getting ROM images but doing so legally. Sure, I could find a torrent containing the entire NES+SNES library for making retro-Pi... but that doesn't make it any less piracy if I don't own original carts for all of those games. The fact that so many classic PC/DOS games either have been put online by the original owners for free (such as SimCity or the Zork trilogy) or can still be purchased on Steam or GOG.COM (like Sierra's Kings Quest/Space Quest collections) makes this sort of device far less valuable from that angle.

Furthermore, that leads into a question of "Why should young people care about the copyright of 20+ year old games?" ... which probably is actually a very good question deserving of serious examination instead of mere snark.
> I ask because I see many young people homeless these days, and it isn't clear why they are homeless.

The people you see on the street have drug abuse and mental health issues.
It turned into an interesting discussion actually, thank you!

> To practice things that can be extended to the wider population maybe?

I didn't read the full article you referenced, but from what I know it is true that surveillance has tighten up in Xinjiang. Why do you think that happened? Why does Chinese government needs to "control" Uighurs, and not other minorities that are living peacefully in other regions of China.

I don't know what exactly is happening out there, but naturally you'd need more security when the there's danger to public safety. I wouldn't say there's no wrong-doing of the government, but bottom line is, I don't really doubt the primary goal is just anti-terrorism and make that region safe.

> How come people just disappear and nobody knows what happens to them?

Well I don't know how could people just disappear in Xinjiang.

But it reminds me that, recently a friend of mine asked me "How could a person just disappear? How scary is that" after she read this article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/world/asia/china-fan-bing...

Apparently it sounds like the Chinese government "made" her disappear. Well, I only found it funny and I told her "It's fine, she just disappeared from media. Her agent probably knows her whereabout but won't tell the media as she's being investigated and there's no official result." Fan Bingbing reappeared just a few days later when the investigation ended, as most of us expected, and she made an official announcement about her tax evasion. Throughout the entire time I didn't feel anything scary at all, but that's not the impression if you only read the NYTimes report.

> But saying it's all biased and therefore made up

I wouldn't say they all made up facts, but simply selecting the truth to report and finding a way to report it that supports their existing belief can also make a huge impact on people's perception.

I also don't believe most professional news reporters would just make up facts. (The "Self-individual media" in China is way too different, plenty of them do make up facts;) So, a much more likely scenario in my mind, is that they interviewed unreliable sources. To depict that in a more extreme but easy to understand way, just imaging if reports interviewed a terrorist in middle east, and ask them about America. Plenty of people left China in the past century (very small in percentage but still a big number because of the large population base) because either they really hate Chinese government or they're trying to get refugee visa. They also have much closer relations with western media. But anyway, it's just my guess.
> The DEMO project's goal [3] is to provide commercially available power plants utilizing nuclear fusion

That's not true unfortunately. Yep it's planned to be attached to the grid, but it won't be a production-ready power station. That will be PROTO [1].

Basically the whole schedule slipped more, US pulled out of ITER so they had to scale it down, then it was delayed, so as things stand now DEMO will still be a testbed. Some recent DEMO design notes can be found here [2]. A bit dated, but if anything an optimistic outlook can be found here [3] at page 8. Note that DEMO is though to "resolve" some issues still.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTO_(fusion_reactor)

[2]: http://www.firefusionpower.org/NAS_EU_DEMO_Federici.pdf

[3]: https://fire.pppl.gov/eu_demo_Stork_FZK%20.pdf
If there's one homeless person and you're spending millions of dollars on them, perhaps you should stop?
It did, and Bethesda had time to iron out the kinks in the code that Obsidian used.

But Fallout 3 used the 3rd party Gamebryo engine anyway, so the engine wasn't really developed by Bethesda either.
There's nothing dishonest about omitting irrelevant qualifications and experience from a job application.
Even temp agencies will not take you for the same reasons often - you're too qualified for an entry level role, but no one will hire you because of a lack of recent experience - the min wage, and temp places dont want you, because they assume you will leave as soon as you find a better role.
You'd think they'd have bigger fish to fry at this point.
I can see why online ordering would look attractive to a small pizzeria but you would still need to market that feature.

As a test pilot you could probably use a small WordPress plugin to see if anybody tries out the added ordering medium.
Still no integers,

no strict typing,

no sane module system.
Looking forward to the Rust implementation, compiled to Web Assembly :)
Exactly. Surely we can figure out ways to incapacitate without killing. There are already options (eg tasers). If for some reason the existing tech isn't effective enough, well then too bad, that's what you get until we invent something better. Take all that govt money pouring into militarization of police and instead use it to innovate in non-lethal methods.
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Also OpenFL and Apache Royale
I’m sympathetic but this is too strong: what needs to die is dogma. TDD as a way of thinking about the API you’re writing is good but anything will become a problem if you see it as a holy cause rather than a tool which is good only to the extent that it delivers results.
It looks like a lot of people went straight to "Google said they don't scan your documents for advertising purposes" and skipped over your actual question, which was "does Google scan everything I do in Chrome when I'm logged in even if I pay for GSuite" and I'm pretty sure the answer is yes.
What about TDD requires not understanding the code?
My mom found out she had a brother she never knew about. Her father had another family from before her birth. Pretty crazy stuff.
I'm sure insurance companies would also be interested in matching names to genetic data.
> the land they are built upon costs so much

The land costs so much because so many people want it. So many people want it because they want a place to live. If you build up, you provide places to live with less land, reducing demand on lane. It doesn't matter if it's high value condos being built, you're still providing an increase in the housing supply, which reduces prices for the entire market. If the high end market gets more supply, prices fall there, allowing more people access to that market- which reduces demand in the next-lowest band of prices, repeating the process.

I'm desperately trying to find the article I read on it but Portland is actually a shining example of this working. (Someone tell me I didn't make that story up in my head, because I swear I saw it here!). Portland allowed high end condos to go up and low-end rentals went down in price.

The problem is that NIMBYs elect politicians who won't allow real development, because they want their houses to be "investments". But you can't have housing be a "good investment" vs the market, with prices of housing constantly increasing faster than inflation, while also having your children buy houses at the same price (inflation adjusted) that you did.
wow, what is going on with this website? Takes a few seconds to load and then it puts safari into a chokehold. I had to tap out and could only see the first row of items.
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Are those numbers correct? If so, that's insane. For $77k/year, SF should be able to house every single one of them with money to spare.
I led an Oracle to Postgres migration for my company's primary databases, and this is an excellent list of things to look for! It really can be done as long as you just use Oracle as a DB, and haven't invested too much into the Oracle ERP universe.
Port some FOSS they're already depending on a lot on OpenBSD on hardware you certified to work. Self-hosted machines and bare-metal servers from at least one third party. Charge for licensing (say "license") the binaries with support included while putting the modified source in a repo somewhere for the masses to benefit. Use money you don't keep as profit to repeat the process for more software. Alternatively, after an OpenBSD port, rewrite the same software in Rust with all checking on (eg integer overflow) plus thorough equivalence and fuzz testing. I chose these two because they have excellent documentation along with helpful folks that would probably love to help out any team actually making something like that happen with real, production-worthy, open-source code.

wepple is right about security requiring tons of knowledge and experience to do right in general. That said, even inexperienced programmers with no security knowledge can vastly reduce the number of hacks and downtime their customers deal with by following my recommendation to use safe languages with minimal or no runtimes on secure OS's. Obviously, there's stuff they'll miss that requires experienced folks to spot. So, bring in security consultants for reviews and/or do bounties early on when revenue is low or you're still on investment money. Then, as you grow enough to afford more people, hire at least one, security expert with lots of proven experience in avoiding and finding flaws in the type of software you're selling. They can also help with ports in between security reviews to get more ROI.
OP indicated the reason for the conclusion - "...found myself with substantially less targeted advertising once I left"
Hope you’re not offended, but it sounds like you simply don’t care enough about this to make a change. There is a definitely a way to source from sustainable producers and/or change the recipe, but it will come at a cost. This is true in many businesses.
Go to the Craigslist front page and find an item you can build a company around. Here are ideas: http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5304ca1d6da811c54d9...
>You observe this and the conclusion you make is that, 'many of the 'homeless' people are absolutely not homeless and simply know they can make much easier money off of people coming/going from bars and restaurants.'

The homeless population in Indianapolis congregates around the homeless shelters, not around businesses where police will tell them to keep it moving. As such most people here never witness the real homeless, where San Francisco you have tents alongside billion dollar businesses and police walking around people asleep on the sidewalk.

My point is, this article is shaming people for 'judging homeless' and that in some cities, the visible 'homeless' are often not homeless and are in fact con artists.

"Hey how dare you judge someone" well, when the ones many people are exposed to are scammers and not legit you get conditioned to be extremely wary of any person presenting as homeless.

Again, we passed a LAW here to discourage these scammers from making money by making it a crime to panhandle at intersections https://www.wthr.com/article/panhandling-law-loophole-lets-r...

And they are working on legislation to go after the panhandling downtown as well https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/14/indy...
Found out both my father and I possibly had a tendency to iron overload (or haemochromatosis). Blood test then found both of us to have very high iron stored in bodies.

High stored iron is linked with all sorts of bad stuff in the body, particularly CAD.
I omit irrelevant info from my resume to taylor it towards it's intended audience. I would downplay and even flat out lie to an employer to avoid becoming homeless.
The interesting thing is that traffic congestion for cars in the downtown core didn't change at all! The study found that average car travel times on adjacent streets vary by less than a minute compared to before the pilot.

https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/8fe2-King-...
This is a very PC-centric way of looking at things.

The 68K processors did not have a concept of protected mode. It just had user mode and supervisor mode[1]

[1]: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2784/how-...
So a limitation of the data model of a free app turns into a rant about the fact software is no longer focused on providing useful tools but instead have become a way to trick people into using a surveillance system...

Ok, that’s good and all, I can get on board. I don’t see how that makes it a gender issue.
The budget is ~$270M: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/29-million-incre...

The number of homeless people is around 7,500.

This also doesn't include medical emergency services, private organizations, federal & state programs and many other sources of money. This is just the budget for the city program.
This talk about Rosie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTiYDrb0zg is also quite nice
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If I recall correctly video games have the fastest turn around for a profitable startup . Understanding the space could be done in a few years .
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I'd agree except that democracy, by name, was invented before the industrial revolution.
When the Soviet Union collapsed and China became the last political power playing on the same level as the US.

You'd think that after all the recorded historical examples of populations being duped into believing some other group of people is subhuman - countless cases since the Ancient Rome to the XX century, all of them discussed on history lessons in western schools - you'd think people would be less willing to accept another round of the same propaganda classifying a whole society as inferior. It's sad that we still can't avoid that trap.

I've been to China and met Chinese people. They're normal. People, like everyone else, with problems like everyone else, with dreams and fears and passions, like everyone else.
https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/testing/discrimination

> Several laws at the federal and state levels help protect people against genetic discrimination. In particular, a federal law called the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) is designed to protect people from this form of discrimination.

> GINA has two parts: Title I, which prohibits genetic discrimination in health insurance, and Title II, which prohibits genetic discrimination in employment. Title I makes it illegal for health insurance providers to use or require genetic information to make decisions about a person's insurance eligibility or coverage. This part of the law went into effect on May 21, 2009. Title II makes it illegal for employers to use a person's genetic information when making decisions about hiring, promotion, and several other terms of employment. This part of the law went into effect on November 21, 2009.

> GINA and other laws do not protect people from genetic discrimination in every circumstance. For example, GINA does not apply when an employer has fewer than 15 employees. It does not cover people in the U.S. military or those receiving health benefits through the Veterans Health Administration or Indian Health Service. GINA also does not protect against genetic discrimination in forms of insurance other than health insurance, such as life, disability, or long-term care insurance.

With regards to law enforcement, they can already perform a familial search in CODIS that will hit on related family members if present in the dataset [1]. One would assume the CODIS dataset will expand a greater rate than 23andme's, considering law enforcement resources.

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/services/laboratory/biometric-analysis/c...
No it's not. I left off 80 percent of my resume when I needed to apply to jobs that were "below" me. Its what you do.
Don't get us old guys started on the number of floppies...
I don’t belive they scan the contents of your documents/emails, but I do beleive they use metadata and behavior.

I’m conflicted because part of me thinks using their paid services encourages them to pursue a more Apple-link business model where advertising dollars are not the end goal, but it just doesn’t seem to be their mission at all.
Why don't I have the instructions and my code on the same page?

Seriously, I need all my information visible to me. What's going on here?
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Word of warning. Take promethease with a grain of salt.

For example, promethease predicted a deletion in my genome (didn't actually observe a call, just inferred the deletion from linked sites) for a highly pathogenic disease in my data. However upon further inspection of the loci (I've done deep deep sequencing of my genome) it was a false positive.

Promethease is very very useful, but it shows you all the data including some of the more hairy sites. It is a great starting place but if you find a deleterious variant that may impact your health, follow up with your health care provider.
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"How should we spend it?"

Give people money. Unfortunately, you could only do this effectively on a national level. In San Francisco, $40k isn't even enough to cover cost of living.

You could also give people housing vouchers, but you need to have available affordable housing for that to work.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-expensive-is-san-francis...
I get that PEGs are more powerful than regexes, but it seems the example of componentizing is weak at best.

I can do this very easily on the command line or in a .<shell>rc file:

ipv4component='[0-9]{1,3}'
ipv4="$ipv4component"'\.'"$ipv4component"'\.'"$ipv4component"'\.'"$ipv4component"

$ grep -E $ipv4 ...

I am bad at regex, so I'm sure the example is a poor definition, but the idea is there. I can make variables that hold components of a regex, and since a regex is just a string I can compose these via concatenation.

If I did this a lot, I could build a small helper script (or probably just a set of shell functions) to maintain a library file of regex components that I can use in the shell with grep.
Have some technochoclate.
Ok, we'll s/production-ready/developer-preview/ the above.
It described me as "nondescript Northern European".

It's not wrong, but I was expecting more.
Don't generalize from yourself to other people. Duolingo has been very useful to me.
Does this have any correlation to regular aerobic activity?