skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blue aprons should seek to have some subsidies from states or insurance where they can provide healthy meals to SnAP users, or elderly, or offer it to apartment complexes where they know how many units just want "blue apron sunday dinner" or something
Some fiction from this year I would recommend:

Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse #1) by James S. A. Corey - I enjoyed this whole series. I like that the physics of space travel is respected among the politics/mystery. Each book in the series is a bit of a different genre set in the universe.

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novak - Eastern European folk tale akin to Rumplestiltskin.

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green - Contemporary fiction with a scifi bent. Ultimately hopeful, it explores the consequences of viral fame.
Science is racing to stop another CRISPR baby from being born
Maybe version two will have a fart spray auto loader.
That's getting into territory where you could get sued civilly for the damages done to their car.
I wouldn't call 12 Rules particularly "deep" in content, it's mostly anecdotal stories, bible quotes, and Christian Conservatism.
Half the time they'll just leave a not in the post box saying delivery attempted and to pick it up at the post office. Most new communities are switching to locking post boxes which have parcel lockers so that does help a lot. Problem is theres usually only two parcel lockers and during holidays they just toss the box at your door.
Oh my god. As of right now, I was blissfully unaware that this group of towering idiots actually called themselves the 'Intellectual Dark Web'. I thought it was an ironic editorial twist.
What happened if I said "peanuts, butter". I expect two items, but will Alexa give one?
Yeah, dude. It would be awesome. I could instantly know if you’re a douche or a nice person, refuse service to you because you parked across a handicapped spot for no reason, or just choose to have conversations with the best people and ignore all the boring dudes.
In text parsing, this whole machine learning would be implemented as "ignore white space as delimiter" ( that's how I implemented it on one of my projects)

Ps. I'm aware this will not be a popular comment
Which makes it perplexing that it's on the HN front page. A list of very personal and petty gripes aren't all that informative. Especially when half of them seem to show a profound lack of familiarity with Python.
The hurdle isn't clean renewable or CO2 sinks, its Republicans. They don't want to vote on latte lefty soy-boy stuff like this. Which leads me back to my previous comment. Call it defense spending and scoop it out of the air.
I recently programmed an application for a test bench of electric motors, where I could basically translate the flow chart I was given by the engineers to a state machine. Out of the state machine I handled all concerns like UI, hardware controlling and persistence via events.
Maybe you could find a bunch of other funds with slightly different positions in the same companies, and then form a linear combination that cancelled out the differences.
> They have one thing in common (mostly) - they think they're right about every situation. I don't think the general public thinks the same way.

I’ve witnessed a similar phenomenon on HN, where we have no shortage of computer programmers who believe they have solutions for every problem in economics, medicine, politics, and so on. So it must be some sort of generalizable phenomenon.
You can't add methods to integers in Python, but they're still objects in the sense that you can call methods on them:

>>> i = 123

>>> i.bit_length()

7
Reading ASP secrets for $17,000
It’s funny how things tend to get less black and white if you actually look at pros and cons and listen to arguments. The fact that there actually are pros and cons to most things means they are not black and white.
I was going to say something similar. I love Electron, they have an awesome rocket and have made it to orbit so they are winners in my book. That said, they are poking at a different market than SpaceX is, which is the small rocket, small payload to orbit. Yes it's a market, no it isn't particularly high margin (at this time, these tend to be cube sats with more modest budgets).

What is worse, they still throw away the rocket once they launch. A "gas only" Falcon 9 rocket (which is to say they have the means to launch and relaunch over 10 times) is ultimately going to be the most cost effective path to space. Not sure Electron can get there from here.
Russians Took Aim at Black Voters to Boost Trump, Reports to Senate Find
> Write your application logic in easily testable vanilla JavaScript and use React for rendering application state into DOM.

The question is, should the logic be in the central core of the application, or should it be spread around among the components?

The concentric structure of a cleanly architected app will suggest that the app logic should be centralized, while the framework should just be an implementation detail. However, centralizing and abstracting away the logic makes for code that is 1) harder to delete; 2) harder to code-split.
One fun psychological hack for this - paint an eye above or on said locker.

This is backed by research. For example: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-22270052
People steal PLANTS from neighborhoods around here. Plants, planted into the GROUND. There are worthless people everywhere in this world.
Isha Foundation
This does happen in many places, but I think you underestimate how much of the US is spread out over large areas. Suburbs are huge places. For example, here in Chicago, the suburbs extend for at least 20 miles in every direction... so to say this is an "Easy" challenge to solve is underestimating a bit for companies like Amazon or organizations like USPS.
Yes, to be fair: hunchentoot is a webserver in CL, the "easy handler framework" is one option how to use it and I have never seen it in production - it is a convenient way to get started.
Filming the way these cameras show which include part of the street would probably be considered not-ok in many jurisdictions.
Actually, I think we should take into account who we're doing business with when we do business. Make the world a better place: Support good people doing good things.
> 7 (pass by reference) is another totally-wrong one.

Yes, specially cos it is not "pass by reference", but "call by sharing"

http://www.effbot.org/zone/call-by-object.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy#Call_by_sh...
Can't tell if I sense sarcasm or not? Too many folks "talk" about how they're so against data collection, mining, cookies, etc. but use these same tools on their own sites/apps.
Pachyderm is hiring expert JavaScript engineers to build our enterprise front-end
Escape From New York?
Or just stop using the old pip, and use pipenv instead.
https://pipenv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

This will allow you to to this, and lots of other stuff.
This Tech Billionaire Believes in Biblical Principles
Blair, I’m working on exactly the solution you’ve alluded to in your post.

Knophy.com is going to change the way we think about monetizing content. I haven’t posted on SHOWHN yet as I’m not quite finished with the prototype, but check it out and please email me at my username at gmail.

Our thoughts (from what I can tel in this article) and goals greatly overlap and I’d love to work with you both as a creator and to get your feedback on how the site works for you.

It’s absolutely time we give the power back to the individual, and that is the core philosophy of Knophy.

Oh, and also-all of this necessarily NEEDS to be open source and as decentralized as possible. So few can’t possibly be looking out for the betterment of the many.
So, now those gossip protocols must now go through a central service, which has government oversight (I mean, think of the children!).

Any such traffic that are not destined for that central service is dropped at all ISP borders.
The SEC actually has a pretty concrete definition of what a "Penny Stock" is:

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=f4effbf9fb932f767e...

That being said, there's also the common usage of the term which blue apron arguably falls under.
While Musk has personally been a bit odd lately

I think Musk has shown something a little higher than eccentricity for as long as he's been in the public eye. I wouldn't want to be his friend, date him, marry him, or have him as a family member.
Most departments are understaffed. Turns out all the negative press against police is having long term impacts on how many kids want to grow up and become a police officer.

Also property crimes always take a backseat to more violent crimes.
I think you're stark raving mad if you believe the left is responsible for the hatred going on in the world right now, but it's honestly not important where it's coming from so much as the fact that it's very hard to start a new social media website right now, because you're immediately hit with questions about where you stand on free speech, in a way that Reddit and Twitter (and others) never had to deal with.

Every new social media company is basically planting their flag very far in one direction or another (either blocking hate speech or leaning in entirely).
Parcel picking seems a huge problem in USA.

I am from India. I didnt know about this untill recent. I gifted Kindle fire stick to one friend in USA. They package was delivered and had note "Placed on Back Porch". I didnt notice that properly and then found it was picked up :P My friend didnt get it.

Thanks to amazon who bared the loss and recent one more again.

Hope govt. comes with some strict laws to fix this before it turns to huge.
Getting robbed is just the opening salvo in getting fleeced. The second round is the insurance company. Yes, I know insurance fraud exists, so one way the insurance companies "protect" themselves is to issue a check for a fraction of the value of the items stolen. They know most people will not replace the stolen items. If you do replace the items, then you have to re-submit your claim with the receipt to show it was actually replaced. They will then decide if they want to reimburse the difference from the original payout.

You're also left pretty defeated with the lack of response from the police, then you have the beat down with the insurance company. Asking the individuals to go after a civil suit is just too much. Had I known about it, I might have done it. The police nor the insurance ever suggested this was possible. Even still, what are the odds of actually receiving any payment from a civil suit win?
The author raises some good points about a few gatekeepers controlling the majority of the audience, but then condemns recommendation algorithms and believes no one has attempted to solve the discovery problem. How does one miss the obvious when it's right in front of their face?

Discovery is fundamentally hard because its success is judged by two parties whose interests align on paper -- for publishers to find a receptive audience, and for a consumer to find enjoyable content -- but the market is so vast that a missed match isn't just that, but often a match for a different pair. And consumer attention is vast, but ultimately finite, in that it suffers from oversaturation and requires novel and exciting experiences to stand out from a sea of similar offerings.

So platforms use recommendation algorithms to try and guess the sort of stuff every person likes, and try to surface content they're more likely to appreciate, instead of surfacing something completely random. Content that's brand new has no data on its audience, so a chicken-or-egg problem occurs where popular content can bubble toward its most fitting audience, often growing until it can't, while never-before-seen content languishes in a popularity vacuum, desperate for out-of-band help.

The classic out-of-band help is word of mouth. Sponsored, promoted content is a kind of in-band help, allowing platforms to make money and producers to jumpstart their exposure, but has the same structural properties as popularity: those most equipped have the potential to rise the most, while those least-equipped are disadvantaged once more.
@jdb here on HN had, at one time, installed a very conspicuous camera housing on his house although it had no camera in it.

Psychological deterrence.
Are you after monkey patching, where you can add new methods outside of the class definition? That's not really a standard feature of all object orient languages - Java doesn't do that, for instance.

Python integers are definitely objects:

(3).real # returns 3
(3).imag # returns 0

Python's lexer/parser made different choices than Ruby's, so the parens are needed here.
obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1597/

If anything is out of your few commands, just save work elsewhere, delete the project, and download a fresh copy.
In some states, once you get a renter, it is very hard to evict them. Many abuse this.
In the video we see many people stealing from porches with video cameras, and the author mentions that the police didn't take action even with video evidence.

While I think your suggestion would reduce the chance of theft, I think you overestimate the accuracy of the risk-benefit analysis happening in the thieves' minds, as well as the actual risk involved.

I mean, the activity is already dumb from a risk analysis point of view.

But if they don't know of a package, they won't try to steal it. That is the area that I do think would do well.
There might be a technicality here, though. The camera is 'hidden' in a place with no expectation of privacy -- his porch. It's the thief who places the camera in a place where privacy might be violated.
then thats what the article should be about, not an arbitrary share price metric
Lessons Learned at Instagram Stories and Feed Machine Learning
Spiking attractor networks
I think the books are all pretty good, but the narrator of the books changes at some point for the audio books. The first several ones have a stellar narrator.
My experience from trying it out a few years ago is that you do all the work. Nothing comes prepared, so basically a box of ingredients + the recipe. I would think it would be a good way to learn how to cook. I hated this, and would rather have all the prep work done for me (e.g. diced onions instead of a whole raw onion). Also I didn't like all the packaging/ice packs/bubble wrap. It all seemed really wasteful compared vs. going to the store with reusable bags.

That being said, the food/recipes were good but the portions were pretty small for two people. I think this would have been perfect when I was single and had a lot more time on my hands.
I'm pop
Nah, to do that you need to curtail people’s freedom. What I’m proposing is simply that we privatize large parts of society and exclude people from the private areas based on their tendency to be bad actors.

It’s not about restricting freedom. It’s about enabling free safe association for everyone who opts in. Like a massive HOA.
The Boring Company is getting ready to open its first tunnel
6.71, on a Pentium III.
> really hard to follow (Art of Computer Programming),

No it’s not. Knuth is a very clear writer.

The hard part is doing the trickier exercises.

Of course, it’s also a very long book. Most people only read particular sections and generally use it as a reference..
Ballistic reentry doesn't really require any human intervention. The Russians have been doing it that way since Yuri. The craft wasn't reusable but it is so simple that you can build another for probably the same price of recertifying an old one.

Making a manned, multi-purpose vehicle like the Shuttle really starts to get expensive when you just want to launch a big satellite. Sure, they perform a bunch of science up there but that's as secondary goal to getting the main payload into orbit. The Shuttle had good goals in mind but turns out its just cheaper in the long run to make something that won't last more than one launch.

What sounds like a more attractive option, owning and operating a semi to make round-trip deliveries cross country where the driver goes sight-seeing along the way or to buy and ship a shipping container that makes a one-way trip?
> 1 (versions) and 2 (installation) have to do with the ecosystem, not the language.

How exactly do I use Python while entirely avoiding the Python ecosystem?

I get what you're saying but you're also massively nitpicking. His point is correct.
Former University of Alabama Student Alaa Mohd Abusaad Facing Terrorism Charges
im sorry but im not seeing it, is it your handle@gmail?
Statistics on KubeCon 2018 North America and Jobs Listings
What is a namespace binding? Can you explain at a low level what that means?
The Inevitability of Serverless
> and i wonder why they would
It's easy, actually:

import asyncio

@asyncio.async # SyntaxError in 3.7
def my_coroutine(...): ...

And since asyncio is one of the strongest reason to migrate to python 3.x, I bet far less than 99.99% of code written for 3.4/3.5 can be run on 3.7 with no changes.

Luckly, 99% of changes were trivial. Other 1% is a nightmare.
Nice, I posted a link to the video yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18704553)

I really like the reactions of all the folks who picked up the package. The 'fart spray' was a really nice touch. I was also thinking that if you could aerosolize some cyanoacrylate when throwing that glitter bomb, it could make for some good times. But there is a line you don't want to cross or you'll get people into revenge mode. Glitter and farts seems pretty harmless.
>Meritocracy is seen, universally, as a good thing - the people who work the hardest get the most

As far as I know, when the term was coined by Michael Young it was not intended to be a positive at all. To me it's strange that people see it as a positive, even in the theoretical principle, which for better or worse never actually manifests itself in real life.

Meritocracy turns out to be a lot like the harm principle - it is in a sense "hollow"[0], a principle which everyone would agree with, and to be used like a vessel to carry existing ideas (the definition of merit, absence of the effect of societal and external factors, that those with more merit can and will use their power wisely and justly etc.), which are taken as givens; any existing structure is deemed to be constructed through merit if the person advocating meritocracy is well positioned within it. A structure is not meritocratic if the person is not positioned well within it. Its proponents continually add ad-hoc specifications to the conception of merit.

For instance, when people point out that those who work hard aren't at the top, the response is "working hard is not working smart, and only working smart has merit", even in cases where there is little scope to "work smart".

When people point out that merit is hard or even impossible to objectively quantify in the case of several branches of a project that depend on each other, the response is that certain branches of the project (usually the factors the respondee is responsible for) are more worthy of merit than others.

When people point out that the concept of pure equality of opportunity is untenable because it requires correcting discrimination already in society, and that new inequalities arise with regard to ownership of assets even if everyone starts off with the same, the response is that the system is already set up the way it ought to be and we shouldn't worry about the process by which merit is accrued.

[0] Smith, Steven Douglas, The Hollowness of the Harm Principle (September 2004). U San Diego Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-07.
You can buy MIPS processors starting at 80c. I dont see that as an irrelevance.
You can only bid up to a cent difference. So if every new bid changes the entire valuation of your company by at least 1% then it becomes very volatile.
That isn't that much of a fix, because you can add hole digging/filling in any amount to the schedule of any socially necessary worker. Someone who digs and fills a hole in the course of welding a pipeline will engage in more labor than someone who just welds the pipeline, but they will both accomplish the same goal of welding the pipeline.

You might say, "by labor I mean the difficulty of accomplishing the task when operating at the greatest possible efficiency," but an idealized, infinitely smart programmer could write perfect, bug-free code as fast as they could type, and an ideal physicist could make all possible theoretical inferences instantly.
Full disclosure: I work on this: https://www.getboxlock.com/
Outgrow

In my case it was a combination of that and quality problems. (This was Hello Fresh, not Blue Apron though). We had a lot of great meals, used the "family plan" so we'd have left overs, but there was some kind of inflection point where we started have regular issues with the meats. In a period of about 6 weeks we had 4 or 5 problems. Beef that was open and dropping it's liquid out. 3 chicken meals in a row where it gave off a foul odor of sulfur, indicating it had spoiled. We had issues with other fresh ingredients as well, though these were the only ones that ruined the meal completely.

Each time, Hello Fresh customer service was good in giving a refund and even a meal credit, but it was too much. You can't plan your meals when there get's to be a 1 in 3 chance your food is spoiled. We cancelled, but by that time we already had about 20 solid recipe cards for dishes we loved and could easily do ourselves, so we didn't bother looking for another meal service. Maybe we will if/when we get bored with our choices again, but it would probably be temporary given the premiums paid.

I'm looking towards Amazon's purchase of Wholefoods and what that might do for meal services to bring the cost down substantially, then I'd consider a regular subscription.
It's extremely reductive to label the ideology of Marx and that of the Nazis as two sides of the same coin.

Yea, planned economies suck and systematic mismanagement can have devastating effects, but you think that is comparable to an ideology of racial cleansing?

You think that the idea of democratic workplaces is the same as the idea of creating a master race? Governments do a lot of awful things, but at their core can you really say the ideas and tenets of communism are the same as Nazism?

It's not ironic that the symbols of communism aren't abhorred the same way as those of fascism, it's just that there's a little more nuance than "anti-capitalism is evil".
If you google Elijah Wood, under "People also ask:" one of the options is "is elijah a wood" and I wonder if that's from text to speech that misunderstood.
I thought the Blue Apron recipes were too complicated, used too many pans to wash, and wasted too much packaging material. I found no time savings when was all said and done. I have an easy enough time following recipes from books like America's Test Kitchen cooking for two [1], etc, and spending 10 or 15 minutes planning meals each week. Plus, I probably spend quite a bit less, and if I meal plan correctly, I'll do some form of big-batch meal one night that then becomes leftovers or other meals...

I did like not making dinner decisions, though, when the meals were things I liked.

Note: I haven't used the service in nearly four years.

[1] The Complete Cooking For Two Cookbook: https://shop.americastestkitchen.com/8da852d4663a41e4f978fa4...

EDITED: added link to book I was referring to
The point I was trying to articulate was broader than individual relationship advice. It's more about recognizing and respecting the work everyone does -- especially the work that's taken for granted.
Itst not really a lack of manpower. It's that most of the time, evidence is grainy security camera footage. What are they going to do with that?