skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>He points out that despite only making up 16 per cent of the country’s entire population, Māori make up over 50 per cent of the prison population. It’s this culture of prejudice and division, he argues, that has allowed Mongrelism to thrive.

Oh no, I feel the need to be the ranting Pakeha. There's always bloody one ;(

Note that this doesn't state 'Maori commit over 50% of the nation's violent crimes', but instead walks right past that and talks about a mysterious prison population that somehow just came about. Maori commit crime at a disproportionate level to their population, they are incarcerated at a greater rate almost wholly due to this. This is occurring because of socioeconomic inequalities that need to be addressed and remedied on a cross-generational timespan. Starting with improved early childhood and educational outcomes and working outwards from there. Not starting with kids viewing gangs as an attractive life choice.

As a demographic, Maori are at a notable disadvantage. On an individual basis, every fuckwit locked up for violent crimes deserves to be there.

NZ does have proven bias in it's criminal justice system, but painting a picture of NZ culture as 'of prejudice and division' shows a lack of understanding and narrow lens. Article's got my back up because small-town NZ is terrorized by gangs and by romanticizing them, as I feel this article does, it lends a legitimacy to plain criminality that actively sets Maori at even further disadvantage.

The piece is capped off with this statement:

>Working with the Mob is a singular lens through which to look at the social dynamic of the country. It is also true that there are hugely positive things happening for Māori and Aotearoa New Zealand is at the global forefront of addressing the difficult inheritance of colonialism.

Can't help but feel placing that statement earlier, where more article readers will actually encounter it, would be less ass-covering and more honest journalism.
I agree - I'm writing code to submit VAT returns online and am impressed by the clear documentation and REST API provided by HMRC:
https://developer.service.hmrc.gov.uk/api-documentation/docs...
I thought the problem with Crossrail wasn't that the track wouldn't be ready, it was that the stations wouldn't be ready?

In that case, you could concentrate effort on key stations and only add the remaining stations to the timetable when they are available.

(I don't know the actual details so I may be missing something. All I know is that there are Barnett consequentials for Crossrail that hands money to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but nothing for we English who don't live in the South East).
I saw this video about LA a few days ago and it is very sad how these tax incentives are ruining entire states. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTic9btP38
Anything other than speculation benefits from stable value.
There seems to have been some wider failures in the market here. The article states that prices rose elsewhere, whilst crashing in Chicago. Why did no one arbitrage. Why did the farmers feel pressured to buy the oversupply. Cornering the market like this /shouldn't/ have worked.

I'm actually kind of surprised there isn't some law somewhere banning primary producers buying their own product.
Think about a mine buying in raw ore and then selling it, could make the mine look more successful than I actually was. Considering investment by the elite before the 19th century would have been direct into these kinds of operations, I'm surprised enough weren't burned to push for a law change.
Is there any scientific evidence behind "the real benefits come when you get (2) maxed out while keeping an N-Back of 3"? Sounds really curious to know.
Growing number of companies expanding paternity leave options for new dads
As someone who moved to Firefox on android just a couple of years ago. I stuck with Chrome for the longest time because i didn't know that Firefox had extensions, or that i could play Youtube in the background. For the longest time I never saw why I should bother.
The same could be said for the Microsoft Office file formats.

Or PSD, for that matter.
> I systematically disable merge commits on every repo I manage.

Do you have buy in from other team members for this?

Also what do you do if master needs to be merged back into develop? Do you really rebase develop and make everyone fiddle with all their feature branches?
There are low caffeine varieties that can be bought just like there are high caffeine ones. Robusta tastes truely awful and has a lot more caffeine. Pure Arabica has considerably less and some varieties are weaker still. Combined with the fact that a lot of decaf is really “low caffeine”, natuarally low caffeine coffee is a a better choice I think.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_caffeine_coffee
Another suggestion would be websharper.

I'm not a web developer, but I have found it extremely simple to write some basic web apps using this.
cloudfare also does ssl termination, so it will have access to the traffic between their edge servers and the origin ones.
Its not 99.9% vs 75%

It is more like 75% closer to 100% than 99.9%
This actually achieves neither of the 2 objectives I think it's meant to achieve:
Kids will go, "what on earth are you talking about", or enjoy it as a pointless story and
Adults who try to understand kubernetes will go, why is this talking down to me? How do the meerkats keep the pods up, how do the fish talk to the pods, how does the vultures talk to the fish?
People who have vested interests in keeping it that way: NIMBYers. People who currently own homes and want to see their habitable “retirement plans” grow indefinitely. And god forbid we build apartment complexes greater than 5 stories all over the Bay Area. We wouldn’t want anyone’s glorious viewshed of the surrounding yellow hills to be blocked.

Of course, increasing housing density highlights other problems: terrible traffic and poor public transportation. We’d need to make large investments in both housing and transportation infrastructure if we’re ever going to make headway in the CoL problem.
I've never been at the forefront of upgrading my Macbook, and that seems like a wise decision now. Still, increasingly poor versions of OS X present a clear end of the line for my 2011 Macbook Pro.

Some time ago I was forced to upgrade to Sierra, because LinkedIn's website stopped working in Chrome. (I don't use LinkedIn much because it's awful, but a lot of clients find me there.) Turns out LinkedIn felt my version of Chrome was too old to support. But why was Chrome too old? Doesn't it update automatically? Yes, as long as the new version supports your OS, and apparently Chrome had stopped supporting Lion quite some time before. So I had to upgrade, and although I would have preferred to upgrade to Maverick, Apple only offered the option to upgrade to the latest version: Sierra.

If Mojave is such a no-go, upgrading to the version just before Mojave may not be possible, so I might be stuck on Sierra until my Macbook collapses, slowly watching websites drop support.

Obviously my next machine is not going to be Apple. I'm probably going to get a ThinkPad with some version of Linux if I can find a nice one.
if someone doesn't want to they don't need to write most of the Redux boilerplate, my last project a colleague wrote out all the boilerplate you normally see in a reducer - 100s of lines, and then I had to go write a new reducer of the same level of complexity and managed to write it with maybe 20 lines of Object.Assign and some values lookup.

For him he found my code harder to reason about because it was not explicit everywhere, but for me his was harder to reason about because I had to read the same thing over and over again with just different names.

But I wonder which one devtools would have handled easier, probably his.
Are you going to suggest that I should remove the "Made in Notepad" animated GIF from my homepage too? You monster.
They need to merge them sometime, the have two overlapping products, both open source, and it does not make sense to keep them both.
I think you are allowed to take photos in public as well. Even surreptitiously, in most jurisdictions. Though like anything else, I am not sure how systematic that can be.
What a strange bar graph, where each column is color coded to a year rather than just putting the years on the x axis.
Overall, this is trying to give more support for pushing functions to Kubernetes using Knative as the method. I believe that there will be some support built in to GitLab for supporting Knative functions. I also know that this already works with OpenFaaS and OpenFaaS cloud, whereas Lambda normally is not deployed directly to Kubernetes, although you can use GitLab CI to do this.
What makes you think regular employees have this access?
Yes, and we should all do our part to hold each other up to the standards we expect from this community
Which is a very dubious "power" in a language not designed for the academic exploration of programming itself.

General principle: the more "clever" a thing is, in terms of making intricate use of the language's expressive power, the more incompatible, confusing, buggy and slow it is.

Another general principle: if your language gives you wheelwright tools but no wheels, nobody's wheel will fit anybody else's axle until conventions are established. And those conventions will make the open freedom of tools obsolete in practise. And they will be a hidden burden of learning to use the language.
both sheets need to be metallized to reduce diffusion across the film.
It seems to me like Apple has been on the road to slowly abandoning the Mac for quite some time. Newer Macbooks are unpopular, updates to OS X have problems, and on the whole, the platform just doesn't get much love from Apple. They want us all on iOS.

I'll be moving to Linux instead.
Yes, as soon as you use the "orange cloud" they have access to traffic, which lets them insert their value-added services for content delivery - and apparently also store and analyze the content of your traffic.
The agile community is currently an amorphous blob of people connected by words like "Agile!", "Scrum", "TDD" and so on. Agile was stolen from its creators and mutated into a corporate version - which I have to say I find pretty darn funny.

Point is, that info is certainly not included in any of the Agile resources I've seen. The only one that handles some of this is Ambler's D.A.D, but I didn't bother reading that for a simple reason: after seeing various Agile methods (mostly Scrum) fail so much, I've come to the conclusion that Agile development processes do not represent a real-world solution.

There's always an excuse why Scrum fails in practice, but in the end it requires such a paradigm shift from our typical development approaches in order to succeed, that it's about as useful as a diet plan that only works on super-athletes.

XP is in zombie mode for a decade, Scrum is only good for mobile apps and small websites, Kanban is not even a way of making software. What are we left with? Scaled Agile, LeSS, which even the original Agile people bitterly complain about? These won't work either, but I know some consultants make a crapton of money selling them to corps.
> That's just how it works in a "normal" library so why would it be any different?

Because these are not physical books. You can give access to them to as many people as you want at the same time.
> Alot of big companies do fine (financially) with the waterfall methodology.

Because it works for them. Right tool for the right job maybe.

I see companies trying to switch to Agile without even considering that they're applying it to the wrong projects, like big infrastructure ones. It's a buzz word and they have to go for it to look good. That costs.
These are Mac icons, not Windows, but they're also small 32x32 pixel artwork.

https://iconpush.github.io
We had the same situation in the UK until recently, thankfully the new API-based system has opened it up to other platforms (eg Xero) and works very well.
It helps to spread the word. Too many people stay in an abusive relationship for too long. Those people need support, not blaming.
Some companies patent all their ideas, including the ones they don't use. This creates a chaff effect where you can't be sure which ideas you should copy.

There are certainly trade secrets that aren't patented but the whole point is that they aren't protected as much.
I just became a recurring monthly donor because of this. It's a good way of raising awareness and making others contribute to the cause.

You're free to pass on this "deal".

Also, what makes you think that the anonymous donor did not throw in some amount unconditionally as well? We don't know that.
Out of shape? Why deep learning works differently than we thought
The fact that they can analyze this data for a blog post on Black Friday as opposed to limiting its use to security, network improvements, etc.
> C standard library

is an mostly an ancient POS
While this was definitely true five years ago, I'm happily writing C# on a Mac with Rider today, having a great experience. Except for when looking up old documentation mostly relating to .NET Framework, I never feel like a second class citizen anymore.

Today, the old "run visual studio on Windows" constraint is more of a "you probably want to code in something that understands the language well, so Visual Studio, VS Code or Rider – but you really don't have to".
One time I was stuck in Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for 9 hours for a layover and wrote a similar script, macchanger and all :)
Show HN: Seelog – travel statistics based on geotagged photos
The UK is happy to take employed americans. Just pay £12,000 every 2 years for the privilege.

https://twitter.com/mysonabsalom/status/1072223868717289473

People sidestepping that fee because they're "digital nomads" are not welcome.
Maker DAI is one of the asset backed stablecoins (in this case the asset is still in crypto - there are other stablecoins where the asset is outside of the crypto sphere). What made Basis really interesting is that it was purely algorithmic, i.e. it was entirely self contained with its own monetary policy issuing in effect both stocks and bonds.
I thought this was going to be a cool kit for brute-forcing room number/last name pairs which seems to be an increasingly common hotel wifi auth method.

My guess is most hotel wifi access pages lack anti-automation (I've seen CAPTCHA on airplane wifi, but never hotel wifi) and there are enough Smiths/Lopezes/Kims/Lis out there that if you try each of those against every room number (100-1000) you could reasonably get free wifi in minutes. An optimization could include changing MAC address between each attempt to defeat rate limiting on the part of the access point.
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Yes. People can be generally pro-development and also oppose development that just consists of sticking tall apartment buildings here and there while leaving public transit, auto infrastructure, and other public works as an exercise for the indefinite future.
Absolutely. I can tell apart my country's official government sites from scams because the legit one will give warnings about it being potentially dangerous... Certificates that won't work, services that can only be used during business hours, and similar dumbfounding behaviour is all over the place.
What is big data analytics? Definition, types, software, and use cases
> I think remote workers should be seen similarly.

And by all means talk to your congressman about passing such laws

I for one will be not paying my income tax this year, as I bring income to the country when my landlord/restaurant/cinema pays taxes.
How to bind and visualize data with d3js – HelpDev
Agree not sure what the target of this or the point. I guess it's cute and it's art, but I think it misses the mark badly.
Apple to invest $1B in new Austin campus
> Windows: no clue

I think UWP apps are sandboxed by default, so something like Xodo PDF could be a possibility.
Sure thing.

But I wanted a community for devs that want to become entrepreneurs and not for random dudes that want to make money at all costs.

Some people like me, that have the same problems, some people I coule relate to.
So what you're saying is, to help the environment, we should be developing strains of wheat, corn, soya, etc with caffeine to reduce pesticide use?

We could then further help the environment by dispensing with beds and the bed making industry!
Ask HN: Your most useful purchase of under $100 in 2018?
I’ll drink water if I want liquid without caffeine in it :)
What they’re calling “bonds” are actually callable binary futures.

They either pay you 1 basis when called or they expire worthless, if Basis economy will stagnate/contract for 5 years in the row.

Additionally they rely on unregulated crypto “exchanges” to make secondary markets in these futures.

I think the reason they’re calling them “bonds” is because binary futures and prediction markets are illegal in US (falling under CFTC jurisdiction).

Similar problem will apply if they were real bonds - then they're falling under the jurisdiction of the SEC and will have to be registered with them or get an exemption from registration.

EDIT:

For those who think that MakerDAO is better than Basis protocol, it's not that Maker got CFTC license to operate a Swap Execution Facility (SEF)[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swap_Execution_Facility
My read is Apple is most definitely on for ARM Mac and this is too little, too late (I assume that's your reaction as well). Doesn't seem like much IPC increase and mostly just catch up on both features and process.

I'm sure these Intel chips will make their way to Macs whenever they ship (2019 or beyond), but its likely * Cove is the last new Intel arch Apple uses if they can release some A-series Macs by around ~2020. It seems like the only interesting IP Intel may have to Apple is Optane (theoretically), and the only value Intel offers Apple for more than the next 12mos is Xeons slated for Pro machines.

When you consider that the trend is integrating everything into SoCs, and their features are more tightly designed according to actual usage up the stack in OS and apps and use cases, and they're shipped on a strict yearly cadence, and their R&D benefits from a massive market of iDevice sales, and their value is inherently better captured via device sales and direct customer relationship... it's kind of nuts that Apple is still with Intel.

That's not even accounting for the 10nm delay, nor Intel's weird market segmentation of features, nor Intel's margins, nor Intel's clear organizational issue (per article) of decoupling IP & process that add risk to the roadmap.

Even if Intel gets to EUV before TSMC (they won't), it's just not structured right. This can't last much longer.
Fear. Fear! FEAR!! They are fucking terrified of us. We're terrified of each other. We're terrified of darkness, of strangers, of foreigners, of immigrants. We're terrified of the future and past and even the present too. It's on the news all the time, on the TV all the time, on the internet all the time. Governments, militaries, intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies, celebrities, sports teams, any kind of event you imagine...

Terror is the currency of today.

Fuck, what a mess we are in.
And Germany pays for the bases there. It's not so different.

The US puts the military where it wants to because it serves the US's interest. Don't believe for a second that it's to "protect Europe."
Yeah, for transactional use cases. We could place stable DAI in a smart contract and be sure that it's value was going to not change (except minimally) against the dollar. We also get all the benefits of block chain infrastructure (borderless, cheap for even large amounts, etc). We can program DAI in a way that isn't possible with USD.
It's nice to know how your users use your apps and web-sites, but I think it's morally wrong to track user interactions in such detail. User testing is more effective and they know they are being watched. It's probably a good idea to show a disclaimer that says everything the user does on the site will be recorded, or better, have the user opt-in to being recorded.
Agile is such a vague thing that it's impossible to say whether it works.

So let's take Scrum, which is probably the face of Agile, whether its parents want it or not: Scrum doesn't work either for a lot of projects. Typically the implementors are blamed, but if a method consistently fails to be implemented correctly by a large segment of projects, I put the blame on the method myself.

Maybe the real problem with software is that it's become too unstable because of market forces and all these methods designed to tame that are just a band-aid. Releasing a new version of an OS yearly seems to be a pretty silly idea...

At the current level of complexity and churn, everything seems to deliver less than impressive results in the end, but people are kind of used to perpetual crappy software.
yes. I have been using it specifically for Django. You need to install the official python extension though.
Internalizing and normalizing animal abuse and exploitation with Kubernetes.
Quoting a 2012 interview with Taylor: "I don’t have security to make myself look cool, or like I have an entourage. I have security because there’s a file of stalkers who want to take me home and chain me to a pipe in their basement."

If you wonder how much damage a stalker / obsessed fan can do at a public event like a concert, just ask Christina Grimmie (who was many, many orders of magnitude less famous or visible than someone like Taylor)
Didn't know about the Culver City expansion, neat! There's a tremendous amount of tech talent in LA, I'm surprised they don't already have a major presence here
It would violate more than just the GDPR. Europe has tried mass surveillance, we know first-hand what kind of sickness it leads to.
How to ship a highly dynamic web3 app as a static website
How to fix scholarly peer review
iptables. I actually block some websites by setting some rules in /etc/rc.local like:

iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -m string --hex-string "|08|facebook|03|com" --algo bm -j DROP

Not joking
Agree. Sorry for flame fueled post. Still, old but vivid MS memories. The key point (for me) ie. 8 years ago was really hard to efficiently and error-prone to do most of the task on MS platform. Hope the UNIX tools will ported soon too.
DAI is purely algorithmic as well. It's all smart contract based issuance. But it is asset backed rather than some fiat system.
What is it with Hotels and shitty, restricted wifi in the west?

I can't say I've stayed in a lot of hotels, but of the ones I have stayed in, it's only ever been an issue in the West.

Perhaps that's a part of the reason I enjoy holidays in East Asia. I get the feeling wifi there is a just a thing, you get access to it, it works. And nearly all the hotels I've stayed in also offer a free phone that you can take with you if you need data outside of the hotel.

Yet, in the west, you're lucky if you get some paltry free allowance. For a business who's aim is "make your stay enjoyable" they're doing a pretty shit job of it.
A vertical mouse for roughly 20 bucks. I had developed a strange tremor in my hand, so I decided to change the way I hold my mouse. Found the vertical mouse, which immediately made the tremor disappear. The mouse is bulky and ugly, but it took about two minutes to get used to and seems to be much more ergonomic.
People who'd want to spend cryptocurrency might want cryptocurrency's advantages, without its volatility.

People who want to invest/speculate in cryptocurrency will often want some proportion of their portfolio value to be as stable as USD. But, actually holding true USD at exchanges/banks could be more complicated, requiring interfacing with legacy banking systems & regulations. A stablecoin allows USD value to be handled at exchanges (and transferred) in manners almost wholly analogous to other cryptocurrencies.
Thanks for CrossPlane, this will work if you guys stay true to your mission. A frustrated cloud user. Personally I will support you guys and GitLab any day.