skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s taking advantage of price differences between residential and commercial property. Many locales do not allow leasing out a house as a business location but they do allow running a business out of your home.
The don't need to understand the internals for this: just knowing that every save you do will be stored forever as-is makes you double-think about what you put inside
It is explicit in the freedoms it grants you, one of which being the freedom to distribute copies. The intent is pretty clear. The RH workaround to that is that if you exercise this freedom, they will not do business with you in the future. You got to exercise your freedom, but only once. The GPL doesn't have recourse for that.
I’m actually surprised there isn’t a library called libemacs. It would fulfill the mythos and be really useful for a lot of tools.
Sorry, I should have phrased that better.

When I said "reduced economic activity in the EU", I mean as a whole. This is an over simplfiication, but imagine a situation where everything is 20% more expensive than the normal asking price, this leads to less purchases being made as a whole. It doesn't matter if you're purchasing from outside the EU too, because it's still 20% more expensive. The overall economic activity in such an area is simply reduced.

The trade numbers simply are the way they are because importing doesn't really reduce the costs either. It should also be noted that exporting products outside of the EU has additional fees that make us less competitive than the alternatives outside of the EU too, so our exports are impacted too.
Gotta boost your credit scores in China somehow!
The standard commission rates for booking.com are 15% in fact. There are ways to push that up due additional marketing (preferred status takes it to to 18% and had requirements on average review scores last I checked).

So I don't know where you're getting your impression from that booking charges more than those 15 percent, but you may wish to recheck your numbers.

Can't comment on ease of use on the supplier side.

Source: I know that because I used to work there, ran the infrastructure eng and prod teams.
For the people in this thread wondering whether this is ok: double dipping is never ok.

Once you get to a level where you have financial decision making power, don't pick a provider (even a great one, even at a competitive price) if you have a meaningful financial interest in them. The incentives are all wrong and it leads to badly run companies. In this particular case, it's so far over the line, it's pretty bad.

The board might not be able or want to force him out right now, but long term the tone has been set.
now i'll get to laugh at my dad for being with kpn of all things. and i will no longer have to listen to his arrogant bs about xs4all. praise the lord.
That's not similar at all. McDonald's (the company) owns properties and leases them to franchisees, which is quite different from a WeWork officer owning properties and leasing them to WeWork (the company).
If you already acknowledge that it's just a bullshit job because people need to make money to live, maybe they could do something that is not actively harmful.
Cutting out the middlemen and their asinine trackers might also help reduce the number of third-party scripts and random HTTP requests on the page. This will make the page load faster, especially on mobile. Which is known to help increase revenue.
Facebook is terrible. But as I was grieving, it was a lifesaver
Concept design for a post-LHC future circular collider at CERN
I noticed a few things.

1) My digestion improved after about a week. But during that week, I became really frustrated that my typical 'elimination' time completely changed i.e. I was used to going to the bathroom in the morning, after coffee, but now found myself having to go in the evenings.

2) My productivity took a massive nose-dive until I got used to not drinking coffee, and then, despite all of the blogs I read on the subject, it did NOT return to "coffee-baseline". I no longer felt like there was a funk, but I also was clearly not performing at the same level as while I was drinking coffee.

3) I noticed I started getting depression like symptoms after I had completely weaned off of it. I don't think this would happen to everyone, but I think one of the primary reasons I was drawn to coffee in the first place was that it seems to have an anti-depressant effect on me when I drink enough of it (really any caffeine/stimulant does this though)

4) I primarily drink coffee during the first 8 hours of my day, so after a month of cold-turkey, I found that I had an intense time trying to stay awake around lunch time, with a second-wind of energy returning to me around 2PM. I found that I felt more energetic in the last 4 hours of my day prior to bedtime. Because of this, I found it more difficult to get to sleep, because I had grown accustomed to that exhausted feeling I would get near the tail end of the day, so adhering to a set bedtime was a challenge.

5) Probably the biggest gain was a massive boost in right-brained thinking. What I mean by that is, while drinking coffee, very clearly defined, left-brained tasks (like researching a problem, coding, writing something down, exercise, etc) were what I preferred to do. But after eliminating coffee for a while, I found that I was thinking a lot more creatively about things, and daydreaming more. Coming up with unique ideas for things I'd like to do/make. The problem with this was that I no longer felt the drive/motivation, or the mental acuity to actually do them. I felt like I could have better conversations with people, and was friendlier overall. I just basically wanted to draw pictures and hang out with my friends all the time. I enjoyed lunch more and noticed the subtleties in food a lot more.

There were a lot more very small effects. Ultimately I returned to coffee/caffeine. If I could work in an industry where I could maintain the same standard of living but could rely on purely physical strength and skill, rather than mental information work, I'd probably eliminate stimulants altogether, and be healthier for it. I just find that to be competitive and basically maintain my job, I need the stimulants as a crutch, because there are so many more people who are better at development and naturally interested/motivated in it more than me.
By foot is also nice and less stressful, I will say bike commuting gets easier as your confidence builds but as you say it's highly location dependent.
The rich, the richer
>What are local minima, in relation to the real life? Are those the "places", mentally speaking, where one feels like they're failing?

They are places where you're doing OK but can't seem to make progress to "better than OK" by moving a little away from them (e.g. for many steps away from that situation, things are getting worse -- you need to travel a lot to get out of the "pit" you're in).

Consider someone obese. They feel worse when doing exercize/diet (compared to e.g. munching a pizza), but the feelings they have are not the best they could have related to their weight situation -- they'd feel best if they could persevere and eventually feel fit/healthy.

Saddle points are those where you can't seem to make easy progress on one direction (one aspect, e.g. how you feel about your health) but you can on another (e.g. how much money you make).

It's a little more involved (because if you're obese you're always best to lose, whereas a function can try both increasing and decreasing values to get out of a local minimum) but that's the gist I think.
You may be interested in what Birkbeck has been developing: https://github.com/BirkbeckCTP/janeway
I have had each model year revision since 2015 Retina Macbook, and it's not so much the keys themselves but the fact that the keys are basically flush with the case which bothers me the most.
You mean advertising a Widget to someone who has just bought one? Yeah, I can see how that would be counter-productive.
> At the very least, we should be treating the brine so it’s safe to discharge into the ocean.

This amused me as I pictured people mixing newly produced fresh water with the brine and releasing this "new" seawater back.

Seriously though, I guess I assumed people were at least turning this stuff into salt. I watched a documentary on salt production (Italy I think) and they just got sea water and evaporated it in huge salt beds.

I kind of assumed the sea salt (Malden) I buy has been created using the same process.
Ads that are not in context, do not convert, unless they appeal to a majority (e.g. the big brands).

Note that ads can still be targeted, except that the article's context (or whatever the user is looking at) can be used instead of the user's profile and you're not violating anybody's privacy. And on the web this works great due to the long tail, available articles, movies, searches, etc. telling you a lot about what the user wants, without having to profile that user. It's not like on TV where the content has to appeal to a wide demographic, quite the contrary.

The problem with ad exchanges is that they are designed to violate the user's privacy by leaking user data on purpose, like the user's IP address and now with GDPR they rely on good actors, because the ad exchanges can't control who gets that data based on consent, with the threshold for vendors signing up being really low.
Also take up working on things funded directly or indirectly by some other more valuable industry.
How to argue with extremists
I don't see the rationale for their claims that the license is non-free? There's nothing discriminatory on the face of it. Plenty of acknowledgedly free licenses make commercial users uncomfortable (e.g. the AGPL).
Interview with Jimmy Nguyen: Bitcoin SV, original intent, and crypto's future
Less than 10 billion euros for something that will do amazing things for science? Where do I donate?
Honestly, everything Hollywood portrays is ridiculous. It's not like doctors and scientists have been singled out. How about the manner in which soldiers are portrayed, as unthinking meatheads high on testosterone. There is almost zero nuance.

I can hardly watch films nowadays. I get bored. And I get bored because the tropes are so tired and predictable, that you can tell what's coming. It's cheap and lazy. Were they to focus on better storytelling, I might maintain some interest.

I can see there's going to be some conflict between realistic portrayal and the limitations of the medium. But, all to often so much detail is thrown out that there's little of substance remaining. For really bad cases, the film is a barely intelligible collection of nearly unrelated scenes.
Where Computational Immunologist Meet
Console Log – A weekly podcast about the state of JavaScript
A PostCSS plugin to add CSS rules `width` and `height` automatically
Does this include "remarketing"? From what I read it's much more effective. For those that don't know, remarketing involves showing ads to only people who have visited your website, or interacted with your brand before. Is this considered targeted?
I disagree with this idea. The best way to learn git is to read the git book, in this order: chapters 1, 10, 2, 3, and the rest at your discretion. This way teaches you about the internals first, and if you understand the internals the rest of git is pretty intuitive.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
Roughly 100M Indians have moved in search of work from their native place
Bloomberg is saying that this was disclosed in last year's bond prospectus. To me that's the minimum required but it's probably just better to avoid the appearance of any sort of conflict of interest.
I think even Amazon suggests other cellphone models "because I bought 'Y phone' recently"
Citizens United is a conservative non-profit organization, formed expressly to influence policy. Examples of a for-profit company engaging in free speech would be the New York Times Company, or Michael Moore’s film Fahrenheit 9/11.
I don't get it... This is for devices that already have a reflective screen.
> this salty-ass junk

Do you mean sea water? The amount of fresh water the human race will extract from the oceans will be what fraction of a percentage point of the total? Not accounting for, of course, the fact that most of it will make its way back to the oceans.

If pumping it back in has a local effect, then by all means try to mitigate that. But the idea that we're producing 'toxic waste' by creating saltier sea water is absurd.

What is with journalism today?
What do you dilute it with? You just spent a bunch of time and energy seperating water from it. I guess we should ship/pipe the brine to wastewater treatment facilities, and mix it with the treated waste before discharging it back into the ocean/river?
Just to be clear, "brine" isn't "salty water."

> This untreated salt water can’t just hang around in ponds—or, in worst-case scenarios, go into oceans or sewers. Disposal depends on geography, but typically the waste does go into oceans or sewers, if not injected into wells or kept in evaporation ponds. The high concentrations of salt, as well as chemicals like copper and chlorine, can make it toxic to marine life.

> “Brine underflows deplete dissolved oxygen in the receiving waters,” said lead author Edward Jones, who worked at the institute and is now at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, in a press release. “High salinity and reduced dissolved oxygen levels can have profound impacts on benthic organisms, which can translate into ecological effects observable throughout the food chain.”

It's an actual waste product that has to actually be responsibly handled. It's not "just the salty water from the ocean that we can dump back in however we want."
> In fact, the study concluded that for every liter of freshwater a plant produces, 0.4 gallons (1.5 liters) of brine are produced on average.

How does removing water from solution makes more of that solution?
It isn't working well on Firefox for Android (at least not for me). It is very laggy, so much so that I would say that there is no shiny effect at all.
They should be aware that some wifi channels are not legal in all countries.
I was curious about the contents and contentions points of the oath so went looking and one of the files you link to is a 404:

http://www.loyalty.org/oath.txt
That hasn't been true since at least 1983.
Too much VC money chasing too few deals. They didn't have a choice, he could have just gotten the money elsewhere.
More generally, the idea that you can conquer complexity by writing only small components overlooks the fact that the complexity is found in the interactions of the components. Modularity is necessary, but not sufficient, for success in software development.
What that means in practice is that corporations that are friendly to the establishment can say whatever they want, and those that oppose the establishment are subject to prosecution.
That's amazing, best of luck. Will the revenue info be public? Are the current subscriptions close to replacing what you were making at your fulltime job? Hopefully sustainability is not far off and I look forward to the day when you can hire other prominent contributors such as emersion.
RHEL is free software. It's not free of charge though.
Let’s build your own server-side JavaScript run-time with Rhino
Complex systems, even when think you designed to avoid complexity, are unpredictable when shit happens. Any system which is hard to completely understand is likely to fail in unforeseen ways, and possibly be difficult to recover from or to know how to change to keep it from happening again. Sadly I see these types of failures all the time where I work, though not quite the same scale. One time a simple DNS update brought down our operations worldwide, even in places thought not to be connected at all.
The issue with the food is about the regulations on their import into the UK, having been in the EU for so long most of those rules are just the EU rules or really old out of date rules that were superseded by the EU food regulations. If there's a no deal Brexit all those EU rules go away and boom suddenly there's a big question about what food is legal to import.
Huawei's new campus is designed to look like a group of European cities
The best way to learn git is to learn what's happening at the DAG level. That way you can think about what should happen on the DAG and then think of how you can use git to achieve that. For example, a fast-forward merge and a reset can be used to achieve the same thing.

It's also very important to learn to use the reflog. When I was learning to climb they told me I'd never get really good until I'd fallen once. The same thing goes for git. People are really scared of it because they think they could lose work or something. Thanks to the reflog and the way git works, that's actually quite difficult to do.
Seawater (edit: and air, too. one of the problems is the brine has little dissolved oxygen).
huh I always wondered about what they did with it. especially now that plastics are showing up in a lot of table salts...
I think its a clear conflict and shareholders should protest, but this happens at every level of the economy. I used to work buying small businesses. Its common for business owners to also own the building in a separate LLC. And its great to hear them complain about how they always get paid last, when they have been paid every month through rent.
Seriously? I typed 'FOIA' into Google, here's the first result: https://www.foia.gov/

There is a big blue button labelled 'Start your request'. I hope you can figure the rest out, heh.
Netflix raises monthly prices on all of its US plans; here’s how much you’ll pay
I always wonder if this really works? Amazon uses it a lot and all I get ads for are products that I already bought. Which is pointless.
So ebay doesn't have to prevent people from selling illegal guns? YouTube doesn't have to prevent people from illegally distributing copyrighted material?
Yahoo mail has a MAJOR security flaw
an acquaintance told me this:

A while ago I bought a new phone number. I went on Yahoo! mail and typed in the phone number in the login. It asked me if I wanted to receive an SMS to gain access. I said yes, and it sent me a verification key or access code via SMS. I typed the code I received. I was surprised that I didn't access my own email, but the email I accessed was actually the email of the previous owner of my new number.

Yahoo! didn't even ask me to type the email address, or the first and last name. It simply sent me the SMS, I typed the code I received, and without asking me to type an email or first and last name, it gave me access to the email of my number's PREVIOUS OWNER. Didn't ask for credentials or email address. This seriously needs to be revised. At minimum Yahoo! should ask me to type the email address or the first and last name before sending me an SMS which contains an access code. This would mean that new owners of a number could gain access to the email of that number's previous owner without being asked any type of security question, or to even type the email address or at minimum to type the first and last name correctly. Please revise this, Yahoo! I am a concerned Yahoo! user, and no I did not look into the email, I logged out. This has happened before to people's Yahoo! accounts. How can we ask Yahoo! to change this?

Simply requiring users to type the email address/credentials before receiving the SMS would solve the problem.

I have contacted support and though Yahoo! said their engineers have been informed they haven't fixed this so far. How should we get them to fix this? Petitions?
Builder of $200M Turkish Chateaux Project Goes Bankrupt
/* This function computes the expansion rate of spacetime. This version contains an additional factor that causes it to accelerate to allow for rapid testing of other aspects of the physics engine. This MUST be removed before the production release or spacetime will accelerate forever and experience heat death instead of reaching steady state. -God */
My question is, after 3 keyboard replacements will the Apple Store simply hand you a new/refurb MBP of similar specs?
Quitting a substance which you are physically dependant on is difficult, the easiest way for caffeine at least would be to start by restricting yourself to 1 cup in the morning for a month or so. You can then start making this one cup weaker and weaker. This should minimize the negative effects of withdrawal.
I remember that bit of fun all too well... or I am going senile...

Back when these things were new and shiny, I had a power supply go and I was pretty sure it was just a fuse. Easy change.... except for the fact it was, as I quickly learned, a de facto fossil inside a beige-ish (as I dimmly remember) block of solidified goo. I was wondering why it was so hard to get the power supply case off...
bit tongue in cheek but ever been to a mall? at least here its all aimed at women.
> A company is not an organization of people who come together to exercise their free speech.

Except for news companies, entertainment companies, education companies, advertising companies, companies that place advertising, and companies whose interests need to be represented to elected officials and the public, sure.

And think of it from the other side. If the New York Times gets special free speech rights for journalistic reasons, who decides that they qualify as special? Does the government get to decide what counts as journalism? There's no mechanism for that either.

As to international concerns:

- Many of the things I mention (like deciding who gets especially free speech) are broad concerns, not ones specific to the U.S.

- Because of the principle of freedom of association, people from other countries are free to stay away from companies or countries, at least to the degree their governments allow that freedom.

It's fair to be concerned that corporations have negative impact at times. But large companies also use free speech to promote social, health, and environmental causes all the time. We don't complain about pink ribbon campaigns, global warming awareness initiatives, partnerships with nonprofits, sponsorships of publicly produced content, and other corporate speech like that.
I hadn't thought of that. I still think it would be helpful in prod, though.
My assumption was that those security "challenges" were related to expansion (wordexp()) per se; not to the
way wordexp() was implemented in this particular case.
The current version replaces the perl subprocess with an sh subprocess. Doesn't seem like much of an improvement.
Thank you! I didn't know there was a term for it.
Fog?
It drives me nuts during interviews talking about test automation because people are very particular about the type of testing whether its unit testing, integration testing, acceptance testing, or whatever.

In my mind you only need 1 kind of testing: feature tests. Does the application provide the expected output for a given input and/or configuration. The application does all that it claims to do in a very precise way or it doesn't. Everything else is extraneous, though you may have to test the application in wildly different ways with wildly different means of automation to validate all feature support.

Feature tests are executed by running the application with a given input and configuration and comparing the result against a known expected output. Provided sufficient feature coverage this is enough to test for regression. While the feature tests are running each test runs against a clock so that dramatic swings in performance can be qualified with numbers. When that is not enough, as in the case of accessibility, have people (actual users) perform feature tests.

Other problems like bad design, redundant features, or poor code quality are qualified using code reviews and validation tools, like a linter.
I don't think that's cynical at all, just pragmatic.

I used to run infrastructure for Booking until a couple of years ago. I'll honestly admit that there's lots of tech debt. AMA - but I'll say that I'll provide no response time SLO due to work travel.