skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please post your calculations. I imagine the per capita difference isn't huge. It's probably not "a whole magnitude more."

I know a lot about homelessness. Among other things: I had a class on Homelessness and Public Policy many years ago. More recently, I spent several years homeless. I still blog about it and still talk with homeless individuals regularly.

Your argument doesn't look like a good faith argument to me. It looks like a case of "how to lie with statistics." That makes it difficult to engage with you.
I don't really like Fortnite, but I'm really really happy for Epic's success. PUBG was a flaming dumpster heap that only caught on because the Battle Royale mechanic is naturally fun and people were clamoring for that type of game. But it was an unqualified mess from a subpar developer, and that always annoyed me because gamers deserved better. Now Epic has been rescued from sliding into obscurity and they've got massive coffers to continue working on Unreal 4. Couldn't have worked out better.
Right. PUBG is still immensely popular with hundreds of thousands of steam players daily, and I believe it saw player growth in a recent month.
End users can compile iOS apps from source and install them without paying the developer fee. It could be distributed as source.
Stealing tokens from localstorage or cookies means the attacker can run code in the user's security context. Why would they limit themselves to stealing tokens? Using them outside of the browser would be stupid, anyway, as it would risk tripping reauthentication, IPS, or whatever.

HttpOnly is a joke, and people should stop claiming it helps with XSS. It does not help. It's security benefit is at most neutral. In fact, people often seem to think that it prevents XSS, and get lulled into a false sense of security. For that reason, HttpOnly seems to be worse than neutral.
GiveCampus (YC S15) needs Rails engineers who care about education
Yes it's tragic. Typical SF sight (pile of garbage on sidewalk with e-Scooter, and hypodermic needles, + my cute dog): https://imgur.com/a/vUwkfGd. A lot needs to be done to fix this. CNN covered this too (warning: gross injection-wound imagery) https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/27/health/drug-use-san-francisco...

We need to REPORT the ISSUE with the city - use the "311" phone number to report people behaving suspiciously or who obviously need support. This generates METRICS.

Then, the CITY can use the metrics to justify ACTION. Politicians can feel "safe" by responsibly spending $$ beaucoup bucks $$ without fear of voter reprisal come election-time.

The PEOPLE can use the metrics to justify SOCIAL CHANGE. Why does the US face this problem? Is it because of our "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality? How can the US adopt a holistic social approach, to accept and respond healthily to the fact that some people have harder times than others? There needs to be a change in attitudes.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think it was PUBG that came up with the battle royal concept. I believe H1Z1 had battle royal mode before PUBG existed.
What’s wrong with an offline softwallet?
NYC is about an order of magnitude larger than SF in many different ways - for example, total population (8.6m vs 880k people) and area (302 vs 46 square miles). So comparing absolute number of homeless people between the two cities is not likely to be a useful thing to do. Your link does however demonstrate that NYC has a slightly higher percentage of homeless population than SF - .9% vs .7%. So I tend to agree that there's something else that contributes to it being a larger conversation in SF than NYC beyond just the number/percentage of people.
System requirements have doubled over time (e.g. the minimum RAM amount went from 128 to 256 megabytes). What gives?
5 Killer Questions to Woo Prospective Customers
Extinction is a bit too strong of a word here - the combined minke whale population (AFAIK, minkes in the northern and southern hemisphere are considered separate species) is numbered in the hundreds of thousands; Japan kills a few hundred a year, last year Norway caught 342.

Full disclosure - Norwegian, living in an area where whaling has been performed for hundreds of years, currently have about 12-15 pounds of whale meat in the freezer.
I think it is commendable that Epic used some of this profit to change their Unreal Engine Marketplace rates in favour of the developers.
Similar to their store that is mentioned in the article, the revenue split is now 88/12.

This change will be applied retroactively to all past transactions [1].
My understanding is the split was previously 70/30 as common in other online stores—those should be some hefty payouts for some developers.
In my opinion this is going above and beyond and would make me feel good about supporting Epic through purchase of cosmetics in Fortnite if I played the game, for example.

EDIT: I previously mistakenly referred to the UE Marketplace as store, which is now at best misleading since they did launch a proper game store last month. Thanks to jsnell for catching this.

[1] https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/epic-announces-unrea...
I've never understood why these documents are meaningful in any way. The people at the DMV aren't qualified to judge whether these documents are forgeries, and certainly not in the ~5 seconds they spend looking at them. Anyone with a printer and Microsoft Paint can produce one of these in two minutes.
Legalize Meth? Some of the most utilized “gateway drugs” are already legal (opiods et al). The police rarely arrests homeless drug users, and there’s plenty of foundations to supoort them. I don’t think the issue has to do with legalization...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimdalrympleii/public-d...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/health/san-francisco-opio...
That data (1000 gallons for a gallon of milk) comes from Natural News, which is... not a very precise source. A cow consumes, worst case (2000 lbs, lactating, it's hot) ~80 gallons per day. That same cow produces 3-4 gallons of milk a day.

On top of that, most of that water is excreted again - otherwise, your cow would gain 640lbs a day. Or, with the 1000 gallons/gallon of milk scenario, some 12,000 lbs/day

Assuming that that water is tap water is also... well, a most pessimistic assumption.

If you wish a quick sanity check of your numbers, US milk production is ~25 bln gallons/year. Roughly ~70 mln gallon/day. Assuming it took one day at 10kW for a gallon of milk, that'd be 700GW continuous energy consumption for our annual milk production. This is a substantial part of the total US energy production.

Second check: Assuming really cheap energy ($0.09/kWh, 10kW, 24h), that gives us a milk energy price of ~$21.00/gallon. Just the energy. This does not quite match, either. $14/gallon if you go exclusively with wind energy, which is IIRC the cheapest right now.
I'm thinking candy crush was pre-league of legends. It brought in $1B revenue for 2018, which is the highest ever and still growing.
Is it even more odd that I can't figure why they did not reference the literal movie 'Battle Royale' that the concept was roughly based on?
Between a wedding, maternity and newborn photos (x2), I can tell you that just because you're paying somebody to take pictures, does not mean you have any copyright. People (esp. small-time people) are starting to sell the rights but it's far from a given and it has to be stated in the contract.
>For decades Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, exclusively sold censored music albums, yet nobody rioted over that, we all just knew not to buy our CDs there.

Maybe you didn't riot over it. I thought it was blatantly censorious.
FastText is essentially a linear classifier and it's not surprising that it would train quickly. As for the prediction metrics, I imagine that will depend on the type of data and problem you're working with. Linear models perform very well on certain types of problems (I've had great success with SVMs on text classification problems personally) but for more complicated tasks, I imagine that the deep learning models would perform very, very well (relatively).
It doesn't seem that simple. If I get a tattoo of Star Wars or R2D2 or Iron Man there's arguably something not 100% "It's now mine to do whatever I want with". I'll get a tattoo of Darth Vader on my back, take a picture, print it on a cereal box and sell Darth Vader cereal.

If you agree (maybe you don't) that I shouldn't be able to sell cereal with a picture of my Darth Vader tattoo on the box then what's the difference? That Darth Vader belongs to someone other than the tattoo artist? If that's the argument then why does the tattoo artist have to give up their design but Disney does not when it's drawn on someone?
TF2 was arguably Valve’s first testbed in this space.
What’s the difference between “faking it until you make it” and “learning on the job?” I don’t think I have had a single job in 20+ years where I didn’t spend the first six months in Imposter Syndrome territory.
D'Arcy Thompson's 'On Growth and Form' is worth a read.

As a lapsed biologist, I would say he's right that in biology, shape results from the interaction of physical forces and the properties of materials. But he misses the point that the properties of materials are governed by genes. There's no gene that makes a sea urchin spherical, but there are genes such make its skin flexible but inelastic (or whatever), and it's spherical because of that. Evolution is perfectly happy to form the shape indirectly by selecting alleles of those genes. But a notional anti-Thompson who thinks genes are everything would be missing the point that lots of shapes are impossible, because there's no plausible combination of force and material which would produce them.
Syncthing has been good for me
I feel like optimizing your actual app as it runs in Chromium (Javascript, DOM usage, resources, etc.) is the right approach here.

The Chrome dev tools are superb for measurable insight into this.

App size is one metric, but
as long as you’re within a few hundred MB on reasonably modern hardware, that shouldn’t actually be significantly affecting performance in most cases.

Discord is a great example of a complex Electron app that is very performant.
As a developer I also have to have rights to code transferred to company in contract even though company pays me for that code. So you basically have to have contract for it, it is not by default you pay for it you own rights.

Though it is kind of funny when it goes for a tattoo, just never thought about it. It is not like you want to have contract for a tattoo unless you are LeBron...
I was really hoping to see a summary comparison of the performance(s) of the different models at the end, e.g. accuracy vs. complexity vs. execution time, etc.

Here's a summary from the end of each section...

1. TextCNN: "This kernel scored around 0.661 on the public leaderboard."

2. BiDirectional RNN: 0.671

3. Attention Models: 0.682
I used to be on SDF and at the time (99-02) recommended it to everyone who needed a place to put a webserver for a small website.
I prefer to keep my data on my own machines. I have a freenas server and use syncthing to synchronise photos between my phone and the server, with a cron script to organise the photos into folders.

I wrote a blog post about the setup a couple of years ago: https://www.jonblack.me/using-freenas-and-syncthing-to-autom...
> If you haven't seen the need for an apolitical currency yet you probably never will.

I do see the need for such a currency.

But if this one of the principles crypto enthusiasts believe in, why I do see so little being done to make it a viable medium of exchange? Did everyone just caught up in the gold rush and put their focus on seeing just how much fiat they could get for their BTC?

In fact, in the past year I've seen less news about BTC and more about the hordes of offshoot alt-coins that appear to have been released for the sole purpose of separating speculators from their money.
Ah, yes. Downloading updates from HW manufacturers... Nothing like obtaining kernel mode code over unencrypted http from a random server in Taiwan or even China.
"Be your own bank" they said.

Turns out that's actually really hard.

Your best bet is to read an opsec guide for bitcoin, and try to avoid using any third party services at all
I’ve found that some CNNs consistently beat fasttext in terms of model quality. But I’ve beaten those CNNs and fasttext by doing transfer learning with ULMFit and fasts I. But if we’re talking training speed, fasttext is indeed aptly named.
packagefs aggressively caches decompressed data and builds a bunch of indexes in RAM, and that's where the larger requirement comes from. It's not very well optimized for memory, though, probably someone dedicated enough could bring the requirement back down to 128MB.
This problem has me considering that TOTP/2FA is inherently less secure than password only. If you're using a password manager and that site has a unique password, you're almost certainly secure as long as the login process has rate limiting against brute force.

Once you add in 2FA/TOTP, you're looking at the rate of resets skyrocketing as well as social engineering getting much easier because it's so plausible and frequent that code generators are lost.

* SMS reset is so bad it's comical. Hackers went from having to crack billions of possibilities to having to catch a six-digit number sent not even to my phone, but to my phone number. I've spent a lot of effort getting my number out of services who demand it as a reset option when I turn on 2FA. If you're using it as single-factor reset, I'm much safer with 2FA off.

* Email reset makes TOTP and passwords pointless. Just get access to the email and it's as if neither of those ever existed. No reason to even have passwords. Use magic links like Medium does for login. It's the same thing as a password reset with one less thing to remember.

* Documents like passport or license mean instead of cracking a password with 40+ bits of entropy, all I need is the person's real name and Photoshop and some motivation.

* Personal information like last 4 of credit card, birthdate, SSN turn those publicly available bits into passwords themselves which are also far easier to get ahold of than any password.
> You skipped over the skill part.

I personally know more skilled musicians (three) than I do photographers (one). The music industry is dominated by luck precisely because there is such as a colossal pool of artists to choose from.
It may be too obvious, but something you can do that a staggering number of electron/CEF/etc devs don’t is to write highly efficient JavaScript. This leads to craziness like the desktop Spotify client eating nearly a whole gigabyte of memory after browsing albums and artists for a minute or two, which is by no means necessary.

Make performance a high priority, don’t just stop once it’s working.
Could you continue with the knowledge of how to easily not procrastinate?
Should have clarified - this was a direct response to the parent comment, which talked about someone taking his / her picture, not about the linked article.
They're using in-band signaling. This speaks to poor implementation and decisions on it. There are a lot of other simple numbers that could've been used for invalid. -1 comes to mind.
I still have a BeOS 3.5in floppy in a drawer somewhere, so this announcement produced a little nostalgia for ~1999 or so. That said, it's sort of hard to imagine lots of new OSes springing up, they take a lot of care and feeding... I would think the obvious choice would be to somehow to support packages from another OS (say Snap or Flatpak apps from Linux), so that you could overcome the need to port everything (or have no users).
The whole point of Intl.DateTimeFormat is to intentionally not give you the specific format your boss wants, because your boss is almost certainly wrong about how a date should be formatted in many cases.

You tell the API you want the date and the hours and minutes, but not seconds. It localizes the result correctly for the vistor’s preferred culture (language-country).

If you show someone from England “4/5/2019”, they will think it represents a date 31 days after someone from the USA given the same string.
I have used in the past, a distant past, both for ftp, sftp and ftps and sincerely I'm not much attracted...

On setup cryptcat and ncat require almost ZERO setup, and you still need to have ssh on the over side unless you are restricted by some common crappy webui so...

Also, I see no reason to saturate the link apart of try to milk more performance at the expense of all others, servers and network hardware are not there to be abused but to be used... It's the same story with people that abuse http range to start multiple downloads of a single big file trying to milk a bit of performance...

rsync performance are not much rsync related, they depend on network, encryption and compression you use, disk I/O, ... per se it's pretty efficient. Certainly if you can incremental send a zfs snap via mbuffer is far more efficient but that's far more efficient than any kind of logic file transfer...
Still, seeing white people living in such a bad conditions is striking.

Please don't take out of context my comment, it's just what I think. I am brown by the way.
> 1020 liters per liter of milk

> 1.25 to 1.44 kg of feed to produce a liter of milk ... 1kg of wheat requires between 500 and 4,000 liters of water

Not sure which specific sources of random data-points you've picked from around the internet, but generally to arrive at the figure of x litres of water per y litres of milk, a full life-cycle analysis is done which would typically account for feed production and feed transport. So there's going to be a lot of overlap in your figures.

Secondly, the energy requirements for getting fully treated drinkable water to residential taps is going to be significantly different than that required to supply agricultural water for irrigation, etc.—at least a portion of that should be untreated/reclaimed waste water.
Ask HN: What are the best Nootropics in terms of long-term win/lose ratio?
New map reveals ships buried below San Francisco
Nah.

> strong religious feeling or belief

Religiosity
It accomplishes little. The tests are a subset of the things the students should have been learning anyway. The idea was that by measuring performance teaching could be improved where needed. The actual result was that the "help" given to classes with bad scores has been to overtrain some tiny neural nets to respond to very specific stimuli without teaching them anything beyond the specifically measured behavior. Even the students that pass often haven't mastered the material. They just can take the test. We opted to replace accountability with process and reaped the usual results.
”Tech companies” is a wide umbarella. An enterprise-oriented SaaS can justify a high multiplier like that, because their churn rate is low. Video games are a much more volatile business, and the valuation multiplier reflects that.
I understand your wariness.

I am using your population numbers and dividing by the numbers in my reference.

The per capita rates are:

SF: 6857/884363 = 0.00775360344

NY: 78676/8540000 = 0.00921264637

The reason I said this is not to lie with statistics, but to show that when normalizing for population the rates are still worse in NY.
Soylent is vegan and nutritionally complete, so there are definitely cheap-to-produce ways to make it work.
Taming the Chaos: Can we build systems that actually work?
The data disagrees with you, unless your definition of crisis is sufficiently idiosyncratic.
That's why I added "outside the hardcore gamer ecosystem". PUBG was incredibly big yes, but parents weren't asking questions about their children's addiction to PUBG and talk shows didn't have long segments about PUBG.

Fortnite became a place for people to hang out: https://twitter.com/anoopr/status/1071921080485457920
One of the problems is that a lot of athletes are massively tattooed currently.

Tattoos were used since thousands of years for a particular job (apart of decorative purposes): They excel hiding needle marks. Tattoos with a pattern of multiple repeated x6 or x5 darkened areas arranged in a star or a circle could be particularly useful to mask a weekly routine of steroids delivered around some point of interest. In that sense some designs could be better than other and became equivalent to any other industrial secret for their owner.

And this is only a part of the history. Tattoos showing trade marks or copyrighted art are another problem.
The book Angela's Ashes is a pretty solid read. Life in a poor area of Limerick Ireland.
Thanks for posting! If I had to guess, the post dropped down because it tripped the flame war sensor, which I understand to be based on a ratio of comments/upvotes. When this happens inadvertently (not a true flame war), you can email the mods (hn@ycombinator.com) and ask them to look into it. They're very responsive!
Understood and point taken. Thank you.
You missed the point where I was describing the Byzantine Generals problem, of which Byzantine Fault Tolerance solves, and BFT solutions are at the core of almost all blockchain protocols. Software imitates life.
Vegetarian diet and mental disorders: results from repres. community survey 2012
Not silently. There's a voice alert, "Priority Left" or "Priority Right", and a red light. But with other alarms active, it's likely to be missed.

Airbus statement on sidesticks. [1]

Boeing position on sidesticks.[2]

This is a long-standing controversy. The F-16 fighter was the first aircraft produced with a sidestick. But that was so the pilot could control it during high-G maneuvers. Airbus's use of it has been controversial for years. For a good overview of the Airbus control system, read "Fly by Wire", by William Langewiesche.

But that wasn't the problem with Lion Air.

Airspeed. Attitude. Vertical speed. Altitude. If the pilot is operating on wrong information for any of those, they may lose control of the aircraft. All large aircraft have more than one of each of those. But when they disagree, or fail in a common mode, big trouble.

Whether some other data source like GPS or inertial should be used to back up those is an open question. GPS can and is jammed. Inertial systems drift. Both are complicated. The classic instruments are so simple. But they rely on tubes to holes in the aircraft skin, which might become plugged for a number of reasons - ice, maintenance covers, insects, or dirt.

[1] https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/app/themes/mh_newsdesk/docume...

[2] http://archive.li/x0Pn8
Can you share some info about ‘career consulting’? How does one go about finding a career consultant? Do you work for clients direct? What are the deliverables? Meetings by the hour?
The impression I get is that the video game industry is extremely hit / miss.

Hence the large graveyard of publishers and developers who at one time made excellent, well-selling games. (E.g. Interplay Games)

Money comes cheaply at times of hits. Money comes much more expensively at times of misses. So it behooves Epic to build up a war chest if they can.
Looking through other user's replies, all the above for me. Everywhere I can back up photos I do.

iCloud primarily but all the old family photos I have scanned, retouched also are uploaded to Ancestry.com, Facebook....

These are, as I say, family photos (a couple photos are scans from tintypes — so some quite old). There are no privacy issue for me (quite the opposite, I want these shared with far flung relatives). So I try to copy them as many places as I can think to. Hoping of course that future generations of the family will still be able to find them somewhere.