skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and presumably living in TN doesn't make one more likely to be fraudulent.

Is it really a safe assumption that all states have identical rates of fraud? Different states have very different economic and social situations that could pressure somebody into committing fraud. Some states are suffering more than others with prescription drug abuse. Some states have industries that result in more disabilities than other states \cough{coal mines...}

In West Virginia 8.9% of the working age population receives disability, while in Hawaii only 2.8% do. In Tennessee, 6.5% of the working age population is on disability. The national average is 4.6%
I used to think the same way about native first and forcing devs to adopt Linux. The whole "No Tux, no bucks" thing (which has had pretty much zero impact since it's not enough bucks). But, over the years, and especially with Proton being so good with Steam, I've completely switched. If Linux gaming is to be a thing, then there needs to be an adoption first perspective.

So, yeah... maybe that means most devs will just say "my Linux support is just it runs on Proton probably, good luck!" but the thing is... there are games on Linux now. Lots of them. Lots of good ones. I was playing The Witness last night by just pushing play on Steam. No winecfg or winetools or separate DriveC Steam installation. No messing with drivers. I pressed play, the game loaded, I played it. I've repeated this loop in the last few months with most of the games in my library. Endless Legend is back in my rotation again. All of the dumb anime Japanese games where they don't even know Linux is a thing that exists suddenly work. It's glorious.

Wine/Proton may be the lazy way to develop for Linux and might not give people the coveted title of Linux exclusive gamer, but it's working really well if all you care about is playing games and not installing Windows.
As far as I understand it's also one of the reasons modules are a thing... or at least people want them to be.

Precompiled headers are a pretty ugly solution and the way they've been implemented in the past could be really nasty. (IIRC in old GCC versions it would copy some internal state to disk, then later load it from disk and manually adjust pointers!)
Generally speaking, business listings per capita of a specific industry is dictated by zipcodes. One city can have multiple zipcodes though.

I made a few searches online and was surprised that new york / new jersey was not among top 10 zipcodes.

https://welcomematservices.com/top-10-zip-codes-for-pizza-re...

If you really wanted all the listings I know the national-restaurant-association (NRA) has all of this data. You can also find the full data set on yelp as well. https://www.yelp.com/dataset/documentation/main. the json data set indicates a category value you can use too. Zomato didn't have the data source, kaggle's datasets were limited, didn't find anything on data.gov worthwhile. You can also find number of people living per zipcode from public datasets on data.gov

Also, Hoboken, NJ is technically two zipcodes.
Well, the first life form was just a test of how cleverly you can abuse physics, so yeah.
Do those have enough thermal mass to make a difference?
Yeah, I can understand the debate about hedonic adaptation as it relates to hobbies and wealth- what's the point if your happiness is the same- but whether or not my happiness remains the same, I cannot accept the idea that fitness, health, and wellbeing are thus not worthwhile pursuits.
Comparing PS4 Pro to PSVR, VR gaming is still niche. You can escape your "shitty little apartment" with a TV, ipad or iphone, which looking at the sales numbers, is what people are doing.
But with a large enough hashrate you can potentially go back many blocks..
Around here, the dressing is really, really cheap. For about $9 you get great dough, really cheap stuff on top.

If you want top quality ham, organic tomatoes, etc, there is no restaurant in town who does that.

For $17 you can get decent dressing though.

If you put the decent dressing on top of your (great) $3 dough you bought from the restaurant, you get a decent pizza ($17 street value) for $9 spent.
Well, the reality is that "attacking" a coin is much more difficult than just spending 3$ on something.

You also have to actually do the double spend transactions, and hope that the person that you are stealing money from doesn't do anything about it.

It is that step 2 that is actually much harder than a nieve attack might suggest.
I imagine it is because the percentage of people using iOS is so small that it can't be considered a monopoly or worthy of anti-trust by any stretch of the imagination.
What about artistic value? You know, actual 'art'?
Anything "masked" by ECC is part of the design.
Out of curiosity what makes this more tempting for you than a laptop? Is it just the slightly better portability combined with it seemingly being "good enough" now for productivity work?
Proof of Stake is a perpetual motion machine. You can't safely tie consensus to something (stake) which is determined by consensus. That's circular reasoning and ungrounded.
Related and also very interesting: The Physics of baking good Pizza [1]

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08790
It's tough when your competition can give away their product and fund it through their bottomless pockets and money they make on other products.

I used to work for a great company in the developer tooling area, one of the big players came directly after us, ramped up a team, started copying our features and gave the product away for free. We were still doing well when I left, but it'll be interesting to see how it goes over the next few years.
Often punishment is the result of violating a written or established rule.
I actually just had a conversation with my wife over whether we were over protective. my kids are 7 and under and I don't let them ride bikes on the street without me. Other kids in the neighborhood zoom around all day long without helmets on bikes and scooters and are fine to this point. Many of their parents are also... not great. We agreed that we are probably over protective and that may have a slightly negative effect in regards to their independence but I could never forgive myself if they went out without me one day and did not come back, or got hit by a car.
Django's ORM doesn't select *, but it will select every column unless you tell it otherwise.
I recommend three things for wrangling compile times in C++: precompiled headers, using forward headers when possible (e.g. ios_fwd and friends), and implementing an aggressive compiler firewall strategy when not.

The compiler firewall strategy works fairly well in C++11 and even better in C++14. Create a public interface with minimal dependencies, and encapsulate the details for this interface in a pImpl (pointer to implementation). The latter can be defined in implementation source files, and it can use unique_ptr for simple resource management. C++14 added the missing make_unique, which eases the pImpl pattern.

That being said, compile times in C++ are going to typically be terrible if you are used to compiling in C, Go, and other languages known for fast compilation times. A build system with accurate dependency tracking and on-demand compilation (e.g. a directory watcher or, if you prefer IDEs, continuous compilation in the background) will eliminate a lot of this pain.
Julian Assange doesn't have to be an agent or officer of any intelligence service for Wikileaks to be used as a front. He could just be a useful idiot.
This is an earlier article referenced in the recently posted[0] article "SQL is no excuse to avoid DevOps"[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18845412

[1] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3300018
Glad you appreciate the GitLab experience! I agree with you that loving the product is what it is about. I am happy everyone gets free repos across the board now (whether at GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket) since repos are basically commoditized at this point. In my opinion (shaped by our CEO Sid's perspective), all roads lead to compute.
> When she made the decision to stop, she didn't have a rational basis to make that decision, rational means you can connect a decision to logic.

She explained the rational basis in her write-up, which you quoted. The rational basis at the time of the decision was that her actions appeared to her as bordering on those of an abusive parent, which was not her intent, and consequently that stopping her son from licking his hands wasn't worth the cost. Based on these facts she made the rational decision to stop.

> Whatever you choose is going to have consequences.

Choices do have consequences, but there is no need to choose between "multiple truths"—only between multiple actions. If two or more "truths" are equally consistent with the facts, equally valid, then there is no reason why you can't defer judgement pending additional information. The fact that you chose to act in a way consistent with one version of the "truth" and not the other in a particular situation does not imply that you believe the first version to be true and the other false. You could turn around and choose the opposite action the next time without the slightest hint of hypocrisy.

The key point I'm trying to make here is that, having chosen to act in a way consistent with one particular version of the "truth", one should not then lie to oneself and pretend that this version is true, excluding all other possibilities, in the absence of evidence. It's OK (and rational) to admit that your action was chosen arbitrarily, and that you still don't know which version of the "truth" is real.

> What if you don't even know what you're ignorant of or that you are in fact ignorant?

Then the first step is to admit that you have a problem. Recognizing "unknown unknowns" is a hard problem, but it's an important skill to learn.

> If you are comfortable with irrational ways of gathering information, like listening to your gut...

If it has a history of providing useful information, it isn't irrational to pay attention even if you don't know how that information was obtained.

> So is your next argument going to be that "going by your gut" is a rational approach?

Just "going by your gut" without considering other factors isn't any more rational than acting purely on instinct or emotion. It is, however, one component you can use as input to make a rational decision. Acting rationally does not mean you disregard instincts or emotions or "gut feelings" or any of the other hard-to-quantify aspects of our existence. These things are important and exist for a reason. They aren't always right, however, and that's where rational thought comes in. Giving full reign to one's impulses and emotions, without filtering them through the lens of reason, is harmful both to oneself and to others.
Sure, but you're not going to give Microsoft money because you like them and want them to do well, and that was probably the main motivation behind paying for private repos. It was never purely a value proposition of, "private repos are worth $8/mo", it was a value proposition of, "Github is a valued part of the community and I'm willing to pay a token subscription fee in exchange for some token extra features". Partially because, well, it takes money to run Github and if people don't support them, they'd go broke and have to find some big corporate entity to acquire them.[1]

Sure, that motivation started to erode the longer that Github stayed around and the more money they made on their enterprise products, but there was never a sudden shift that forced anyone to reconsider the question until Microsoft came in.

[1] Editing with footnote: This is also one reason Bitbucket struggled despite having free private repos. Atlassian is big and corporate and widely resented already, so they couldn't even offer that value proposition anymore than Microsoft can.
"prestige" is exactly what smart criminals are attempted avoid.

"Prestige" is how people end up in jail, or otherwise...
He definitely uses mist/fog in the 3D rendering process for some of the images. Follow him on Twitter to verify that.
Every few months I go and read this series over again: http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...

For me it's basically pornography: a beautiful fantasy that I love pretending is real but is actually completely unrealistic (at least in my case). The idea of ditching my laptop and traveling the city with a thin client, not caring if it breaks or gets corrupted because all the data is sitting somewhere up in the cloud, backed up and taken care of. No fans, no worries of processor power or RAM, incredibly flexible form factor, instant-on and everything full screen by default, notifications that just work and work in a unified and consistent way. No distractions, just zen working in a park with a fountain and a chocolate croissant.

Problem is I do web development and app development, neither of which are terribly feasible on a tablet. A man can dream though. A man can dream.
Get them to 90% of the market share.

This is where Microsoft blew it. Instead of taking over all the business desktops in the world, they should've left it just at a huge fraction, but got their customers into their own tightly controlled walled garden.

Get them to cripple other companies by withholding (or threatening to withhold) OEM-priced licenses if they work with a competitor.

I'm reminded of how they'll not let you publish your app if it uses a different browser engine.
Try out high fidelity VR... they've nailed it already:
https://highfidelity.com
Success, and control. This is an unfortunate side effect of our civilization. Out there in the real world, between the laws that protect us, corporate interests that manipulate us, the haves that have more say, the neighbours of which we don't - and can't - know more than 0.1%, the jobs that are so hyperspecialized that not many of us contribute an atomic piece of value to anything - between all that, we find ourselves with little real autonomy. Little influence on the environment. Little space to grow. And we can't have that, we can't have autonomy and fun, because that would be destructive to the fragile fabric of society. This is the one aspect about progress that depresses me. We're slowly morphing into a civilization-scale organism, where an individual does not matter, and is nothing more than a single cell is for one's body.

(People from smaller towns and villages may disagree; but this is how living in a 21st century city feels to me. It's a wonderful place, but also a straitjacket.)

Given all that, I can entirely understand the kind of escapism that tries to make you feel that you matter, or that you're a part of something that matters, or that you and your friends have some meaningful control over the shared environment, don't have to deal with as many people, escapism where there's no jail time attached to half of the fun things one may do.
> It's an incredible escape mechanism

This argument keeps coming up, but it's not substantial enough. Not everybody wants to escape in that way, nor do they need to.

A good film, beautifully and cinematically realised to incite powerful emotions; a fun game that engages the player to the extent that it's suddenly midnight and you don't know where the day has gone; or simply a good book that you read in bed until your eyes are sore.

Or hell, just flicking through Facebook/Snapchat/Instagram/reddit/HN (circle as applicable).

> And if you are not a creative type you can pay 0.99$ to get a virtual pet dragon and hangout with your friends and play a bunch of crazy stuff

Sounds tedious. We've had those kinds of things already — Second Life, Small Worlds, Active Worlds, Habbo… their popularity comes and goes, but they're hardly mainstream. Most times people want to do something together, it's for the sake of communicating feelings and ideas; sitting across from avatars of my friends is so much more contrived than just talking to them through voice chat, video chat, or text messaging that I don't see that most would bother.

The pet dragon sounds more fun in AR, roaming around my actual house rather than requiring me to enter a limited virtual world by shutting out my ability to see the actual world around me. Even then, I don't think I could persuade my fully-grown adult friends to come watch me play with a 3D tamagotchi, mainly for the reason that … well, it's utterly stupid.

Going back a bit:

> be immersed in a place where you have a ton of power at the tip of your hands with 0 limit on your creativity

What you're describing sounds basically like 3D artwork. The majority of people aren't creatives who could draw stickmen let alone do great and massive 3D artworks; that's so much more intimidating, I don't see the general public dropping thousands of dollars on equipment to ignore whatever art software they've decided on. That's another thing: it's not as though zero limits on creativity is mutually inclusive with the concept of VR; it depends on the software available, and not everybody may be in a position to buy the best ones.

I don't see "an incredible escape mechanism" as the killer app for VR, nor do I see these examples are being what will drive the masses to VR. If anything, it's possible to do what people proposed in VR using AR, without the need to have people forsake the real world and their sense of security with it.

Those of us who want a 100% escape mechanism are fewer and further between than we may imagine, and I suspect many are driven by the technological impressiveness of VR rather than the daily utility.

I believe VR will have specific uses like gaming, art, simulations, and training. Maybe people with high levels of stress or mental illness could benefit from entering another world, too. But the masses? It ain't gonna happen.

Finally, I doubt FB is working on virtual worlds. It doesn't help their business in any tangible way. They want data that they can use to sell things; if they wanted data from our sensory perceptions, they'd just record our voice and video chats.
What do you mean by "manually adjust pointers"?
I feel like there is a shockingly large amount of bad code floating around
Starting an Open Source Project
In your use case, the equivalent looks more like AR, having a PiP of the show on the corner of the lens while going about your day.
Or, you know, cat.

https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=479
Can you use it in-app? No? Thank you, I'm not interested. slams door
Would be neat if something like this (3 ports, decent CPU) came with the ability to be PoE powered.
I have my mom's old cookbook. Stuff works as long as you realize that modern butter has a about 2/3 the fat as 1950's era butter. And store bought eggs are about 2/3 the size of ones in the 1970's.
Doesn't help on the Instagram mobile app I'm afraid.
That goes back to the original demonstration of 10BaseT (10 Mbit). It blew everybody away, definitely one of the great Valley demos of all time.

I want to say this was Bob Metcalfe, but not 100% sure he was involved.
My initial thought was that sometimes you want to install it to your hardware, not just a USB stick. If this is a finished install that lacks the installer, then you wouldn't be able to use it to install to a hard drive. I could be wrong tho.
Actually they were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie#cite_note-15

And that's beside the point anyways. Selfies exploded after digital photography became mainstream since one no longer needed to buy film. You could say that selfies happened because a physical burden was taken out of the picture.

In contrast, you could say VR is a type of technology that _adds_ physical burden: today I can walk down to T-mobile, buy a new phone and get a free TV delivered to my house that I can then use to watch Peppa Pig w/ my kids. VR can do that too for, what, $1600 for a family of 4? Except I can't actually see my kids laughing with the thing stuck on my face and half of the devices have a high likelihood of breaking in 2 weeks in the hands of toddlers anyways.
I posted this below, but I think it's also good here, because it's a fun anecdote. I have a 10Gig run on 200+' of Cat5E in production that works well with only a few hundred errors a year. Running fiber or Cat6A into that room would costs thousands. This is mostly a credit to the interface designers, who let us get away with stuff that we totally shouldn't.

The Cat5E run is nearly perfect, entirely away from power lines, and clean direct from one room to another.
That's a good answer. Thanks!
Not remotely comparable. They can still see around them, their peripheral vision allowing them to notice when there's somebody next to them, in front of them. They can detect dangers to avoid through sight and sound, and they can easily glance up to see what's coming ahead.

Also: they're out and about in town doing things, moving between here and there, maybe going to meet someone at a café for lunch, not stuck in a building with a headset on.

Totally incomparable.
They kinda gloss over one point - the ones that passed/semi-passed are the short ones.

For a 1m patch cable noise rejection, cross talk & similar length isn't really an issue.

Like it or not manufacturers get away with it because in the vast majority of situations a cat5 or even a failing cat5 has no real world consequence. It fails the standard yet still works in practice - on a physical level. Plus the network stack built on top of that has further fault tolerance.

If it's a long cable at the edge of tolerance or you're in a mission critical datacenter then yeah maybe worry about this stuff. Everyone else just grab a patch cable off amazon.
> GitHub bans repository over use of the word "retard"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118

https://github.com/nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baa...
Kinder gym followed up by a couple years of artistic gymnastics is a great base for any active kid. They will quickly age out of it (unless they want to seriously compete) but the base skills will help them in their other athletic/active pursuits.

Also, in our experience, individual sports/activities, such as, dance, figure skating, gymnastics seemed to teach [our kids] a lot about personal responsibility. In the individual sports/activities, it seemed their coaches/instructors really made it a point to enforce/promote individual personal responsibility more than team based sports/activities. In hindsight, this is unsurprising, I guess. I say in hindsight, because at the time I was mildly concerned they were missing out on not being interested team sports.

Don't forget clubs too. FIRST Robotics was a big win for my girls.

And most importantly, good modeling by parents and other family.
Unless there is margin trading, then you can simply just short the coin.
Some clients do have this rule, actually!

It is a pretty interesting solution, that seems to work out OK.

For example, most Bitcoin cash clients don't accept reorgs longer than 10 blocks, as such a reorg is 100% an attack. This protects the network against large reorgs.
GitHub Developers is now PRO.
https://blog.github.com/changelog/2019-01-08-pricing-changes...
>If Progress(A) means taking stuff from a minority group, then sorry you don’t have the right for that either,

Hold on, let me check something...

"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

I rather think we do have that right. Human rights for minorities are indeed a thing, but they aren't a thing that gives you (or anyone else) a fully general right to rule over the majority, nor a fully general right to treat the government as illegitimate when it uses its constitutionally enumerated powers to go against your ideas.
Okay, mark me as one of the lucky 10,000.
Is your claim that manufacturers should be allowed to sell products with complete fabrications on the label because most of the time it is "good enough"?

That certainly requires a creative reading of what I wrote. No, I'm saying that the test specs may be rigged to favor high-end cable manufacturers, and we may all be paying too much for cables as a result.