skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? That's not how the qualification works. If it's no bigger than a 4-unit building and is going to be your primary residence, you can still qualify for a FHA loan at 3.5% down.
Author here. Acceptance criteria are hard to lock down, especially in new projects. The whole point of research is to explore domains and to expect a lot of dead ends.

I’m unsure what a concrete acceptance criteria will look like given that we want to encourage researchers to explore.
"We are testing beta features on different customers based on regions."
this will take off if and when the market lets it ie, banks need to have mortgages that have >2 people, standardised contracts and housing _designed_ for co-living. it's a big difference between sharing a nuclear-family-designed house with friends and sharing something that has alone-space and communal-space.

personally, i think co-housing will take off. It's pretty standard in Norway for instance IIRC.
Not to mention before that with women wearing pants as the rebellion, suffragists and others - that was a rebellion against gender. You might say those were different as "not really a part of gender" but the past would vehemently disagree with you.

Look at photographs of secretly female soldiers - to the modern eye it is obvious enough to serve as documentation but then her comrades didn't know until after injury or death because they expected women in skirts and dresses not uniforms.
I’ve been designing/coding games since I was 11yo and have a degree in gamedesign & dev. The hardest part isn’t the technical side of the game’s AI. It’s finding the balance of an AI that makes the gamer feel powerful enough to be fun- but not too powerful to become bored - and not find it too hard that he/she becomes demotivated. Obviously every player is different so finding a balance that can keep the gamer excited enough to continue is extremely hard. Getting the emotional-experience side of the player into the sweet zone is hard. One would say ‘why not make the AI such that it adapts to the user’. Which is 50% of the answer. But the challenge then becomes that you don’t want good players to be at the same level as bad players when the AI creates a similar experience for both. You want both players to enjoy the game, but not in the same way.
Spock and Sherlock are fictional. I simply meant them as an example of autistic personalities reaching acceptance in popular culture.

Pick any other fictional character who is neurotypical and extroverted: the people who want to emulate them are almost certainly a pale comparison. But, those archetypes are popular in culture, and accepted.
*technically 3:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kinect-dk/
How does that fit into games like Dwarf Fortress where "fun" is in losing? Does winning count as achieving whatever goals the players set for themselves before reaching game-over?
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This got dark fast. I was just trying to say that autistic personalities weren't universally hated.
Since the Tragedy of the Commons is mathematically sound game theory (it essentially is
a multiplayer generalization of the Prisoner's Dilemma) any critique really has to challenge the relevance of game theory to the real world, which is something of an uphill slog, even given the known problems with rational choice theory.

EDIT: And the extent to which the modern environmental movement relies on it is nothing to do with the details of the motivating example, it's entirely at the level of the broad game theory and desire to interpose an regulatory force to rearrange the incentives by internalizing externalities so that the payoff matrix for individuals no longer promotes universal defection, enabling the more optimal outcome to be acheived.
AFAIK the rental amounts count for 75 cents on the dollar against the mortgage total, and you need to either have experience being a landlord or have a signed letter of intent to show the underwriter.
>In particular, good ray-tracing with acceptable noise levels comes at around 500 rays a point. RTX cards are capable of 2 rays a point.

NVidia has that temporal denoising algorithm though. So noise is smoothed between space and time. When you have 60-frames per second, you can "recycle" old frame's raytracing data for the current frame.

As long as the raytracing lights rarely change, it'd work out pretty well. The fast-moving lights would probably have to still use rasterization techniques, but the demos of the temporal-denoising algorithm from NVidia are very impressive.

FYI: Blender Cycle's denoising is still kinda bad even at 1000 or even 5000 samples (at least, when you look at low-light areas close to walls). You gotta zoom in and look, but artistic CGI requires many, many samples before raytracing looks smooth. Its a major advancement for NVidia to come up with a raytracing denoising algorithm that works well for video games on only 1-ish samples per pixel.
I thought for a moment that Spotify uses Opus, but it turns out that they use Vorbis. Wonder why a switch isn't on their roadmap.
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Please don't get personal in comments here.

Also, could you please stop creating accounts for every comment or two you post? This is in the site guidelines, and we ban accounts that do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but should have some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. There are legit uses for throwaways, just not routinely.

Lots more explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
As a mod for r/CrohnsDisease, it really sucks that this is how most people are first hearing about the disease. Those with IBD already have a difficult time with people not believing they’re sick or that symptoms aren’t that bad since they’re not visible. Now Crohn’s will be associated with this fool using it as an excuse to steal a bunch of money... such a huge disappointment.
In general, no, but at this point _continuing_ to advocate for a No Deal Brexit is extreme.
This was a strange article for me to read. It starts out with a long discussion of Node's "single-threaded compute / multi-threaded I/O" model as if it were a problem for compute-bound applications. But multithreading doesn't magically make compute-bound tasks go faster. Multiprocessing does, but you can fork a Node server so it runs across multiple processors quite easily.

(Keeps reading...) Ah, about halfway through the article they talk about introducing multiprocessing using the `cluster` module. But then they say the process is tied up until the request is fully received, bottle-necking the process based on client speed, which is not how I understand Node to work at all. Sure, the slow connection will tie up a socket and memory, so a buffering proxy makes sense, but it shouldn't affect compute. Maybe it's a limitation of `cluster`? My experience is with `worker-farm`.

Which brings me to the second oddity: CPUs are fast. What is Airbnb doing that takes so much compute? Perhaps server-side React is slow? On my own, admittedly low-traffic Node site, I use jade/pug for templating, and the initial template compile step can be expensive. But then I cache the compiled template and everything is too fast to care about thereafter.

I don't doubt that they had a problem, or how they fixed it, and I enjoyed this deep dive. Nonetheless, their reasoning about the underlying causes don't ring true for me.
"all they can deliver is the "I got money to burn"-i8"

Well, I'm not saying it's a fantastic car, but given the existence of the i3, I think you are overstating your case.
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They are very likely to be vulnerable.
Each U.S. Family Trashes 400 iPhones’ Worth of E-Waste a Year
This blog post is so watered down and manages to digress at every possible point that it is almost impossible to read. The only useful part of the text are the URLs.

Also, this:

> A vulnerability, or vuln for short, is a bug that makes software go wrong in a way that reduces computer security.

Does anyone actually use this abbreviation?
Google is making it easier for AI developers to keep users’ data private
Perhaps blockchains’ lasting impact will be as an overused plot device in future period pieces set in the early 21st century.
This just doesn't fit with political reality. When has "you all need to sacrifice deeply for the greater good" ever gotten a politician elected outside of wartime? Even then, it's often not a winning strategy. And as destructive as climate change is, it's far too abstract and distant in the future for most voters to voluntarily sacrifice for it. Especially if someone else running for office is telling them they don't have to.

The only real hope here is innovation.
> It is entirely orthogonal. Of course a well-designed microservice is easier to test than a monolithic ball of mud, but a well designed monolith is also easier to test than a poorly designed spaghetti of microservices.

I would also add that a well-designed monolith is inherently easier to test than a functionally equivalent well-designed microservices architecture.
This is a nice window into the extensive remote reporting into your activities on any given Microsoft software nowadays.

The calculator phones home and reports when just about any major action is taken that changes modes or opens menus or the app itself. It reports, with the full string, when you paste something invalid into it. Looks like it reports the number of times in a given session you've pressed each button.

It looks like it does not, however, report everything you do in it, just how many times you did anything.
The US federal government does not have the power to do that.
Any fans of the fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson are nodding their heads at this news. Communal living is a big theme with his stuff.
Lawmakers. This is Facebook's attempt at "nothing to see here!" They're laying the groundwork to argue there's no need for regulation because they're proactively making privacy-oriented changes to their platform.
Secret document reveals (UK) police 'blacklisting'
Supposedly it was done by an ex-police officer that doesn’t seem to have a particular specialization in the subject.

They were of the founder’s wife’s choosing.

Quite possibly they did more harm than good.
It could be more nuanced than that.

Some Chinese manufacturers have been known to have a "night shift." Which is to say that during the day they produce a manufacturer's products, and during the night they produce an off-label or unauthorised version. These phones all had Foxconn labels on them, there was no Apple branding or logos. It is possible they were unauthorized but not "stolen." As I said, it is a nuance, and one I imagine Apple's legal team wouldn't be distracted by.

PS - I am in no way defending anything. Just simply explaining there's other possible explanations for how unauthorised devices exist.
Victor Hugo was born to make Tolstoy seem laconic. Tolstoy can be prolix, but Austerlitz and Borodino are critical to the action of the novel. Waterloo has a minor plot justification inn Les Miserable, but most of the twelve chapters on Waterloo are just Hugo's excuse for spinning his theories.
Why is nobody talking about the convicted felon, Omar Dhanani aka Michael Patryn, who is a co-founder and majority shareholder of Quadriga?

Dhanani is very much alive, and is known to have been involved in money laundering schemes. If I were an investigator in this case, that is the first door I would go knocking at.
I've started this project about two years ago. I was looking for a TMS to setup basic QA processes in a company i worked in. I've checked several different applications and thought: why all test case management tools has such weird user interface. It can be much better and i have all necessary skills to do better. So that's why i'm here - to introduce a product i did.
It frustrates me too that for every tuner that gets too excited with their camber there are a hundred shitboxes with bald tires and janky emission systems that stopped being effective sometime in the Clinton administration, yet for some reason the tuners are the ones commonly vilified.
Here is a link to the non paywall version: https://outline.com/LXTJCD (the HN "web" link didn't work for me)
You can still commit fraud and die of Crohn's Disease. I'd still call this a conspiracy theory (I'll also say that "conspiracy theory" doesn't mean untrue, though we tend to use it as a substitute for "crack pot"). But to quote Sagan "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

I do agree with this part:

> It's clear there's a massive fraud

But that doesn't mean he's alive or that there was a coverup in his death.
Well done! That read was unpleasantly verbose.
From the code referenced, it seems like this might be the commit that fixes this issue: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/ba9748e78ec7e9c0...
Oh, there’s lots of missing fiat in this case too. Not just crypto.
It was a debugging symbol that a Microsoft developer either negligently or heroically included in a public release... so that explains away the "nobody would be so stupid" argument. You are aware of how the Intel ME killswitch was located right? A commented xml file included with the flashing software helpfully informed anybody willing to look that a field was related to the NSA's High Assurance Platform program. This was after ten years of security researchers pointing at the fact that this was a backdoor. For whatever reason both Intel and the NSA were happy to let the public remain needlessly vulnerable all that time... But yeah, I'm just like one of those water fluoridation loons. The NSA wasn't at all hamfisted in the intentional weakening of elliptic curves and blatant RSA bribery, this isn't an obvious pattern emerging.
As somebody not even working within the light-cone of this field, what is going on with emojis? It seems like everything I read about unicode has at least a mention of them. Are they that important to users? Particularly technically challenging? Interesting from a theoretical standpoint?
Go is heavyweight: its runtime doubles your memory usage and gives you an incredibly slow garbage collector, it also gets fast compile times partly by not optimising much. Source-wise it has a boilerplate problem practically as bad as Java's just in different ways.

Meanwhile there are lots of frameworks in the JVM world, some of them "heavy" with features, but if you want frameworks that are much smaller, github is overflowing with them.

Kotlin eliminates most of the boilerplate, leaving you with a slimline language, a powerful runtime and a wide choice of libraries. Go doesn't have much to compete with that.
What?? WWI was one of the biggest turning points in history. Virtually everything about global civilization for the last 100 years has been deeply influenced by that conflict. After WWI, nothing proceeded as it had before.
Yes, to make it easier for vigilante justice to find, and kill someone some unlucky sap who looks like Gerald.
FWIW, here's the version I just read: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/162/3859/1243
Cognitive Physics – Computational Minds
For AAC or MP3:

ffmpeg and a makefile with a pattern rule is pretty reasonable; (substutite any make-replacement if you prefer). If you are doing AAC, make sure you use the Fraunhofer FDK AAC not the builtin one (the builtin one used to be terrible, but is now somewhere between "okay" and "pretty good" but the FDK is still considered better last I checked, and your distro may not have an up-to-date ffmpeg).

ffmpeg is pretty good about preserving metadata.

If you want ID3v1 tags for MP3 (only needed for older players), then pass -write_id3v1; there's little downside to putting the id3v1 tag on there as it's quite small.

Links for basic ffmpeg encoding; it shows with .wav input but ffmpeg can read flac just fine and should preserve tags: 1,2

For Ogg output, oggenc can read flac directly and preserve tags, so I've never tried using ffmpeg.

I however, ripped my CD collection to a single flac per disc plus a TOC, and abcde[3] will automate that, including a musicbrainz or CDDB lookup for tagging.

1: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/MP3

2: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/AAC

3: https://abcde.einval.com/wiki/
For rare diseases there is no such thing as bad publicity. This might even lead to someone with IBD being curious enough to get checked out.
I really doubt that this is how most people are first hearing of Crohn's disease.
Oh, I agree with you on that part. It's probably a good thing. But why am I paying the full price for the car if I don't own it? Because it seems like I'm renting an apartment for which I need to pay for repairs.
I can empathise with this. I dated someone with IBD and had many sleepless nights when I found out the ambulance was on its way.

Invisible illness is terrible.
Looks great. Even got yourself a genetic algorithm in there, eh? How well does it work?
What about the quality of service guarantees provided by Uber-for-X platforms? Both the service provider and the service consumer can see each other's social ratings and feedback on these platforms.
A whole new set of customers become willing to engage with a more diverse set of service providers solely because of the quality of service guarantees (and not just convenience of the tap of a button) - AirBnB and the recently YC-launched VanGo are good examples.
I do have an electron app on the Windows Store which is not particularly popular. I don't think Electron is just the reason why you were rejected. They might reject you once but keep trying might work. Do provide reason why your electron app is using something native that a normal website cannot achieve.
The FBI/private companies have specialized tools for tracking Bitcoins throughout their lifespan. All the data is out in the open so there is no hiding unless he converted to Monero anonymously.
Surely plastic surgery and contacts are cheaper than $137MM. I'd guess a new identity with valid (enough) passport is less than $137MM as well!
Interesting. Thanks for the reply.

>"A "pricing search" knows which specific flights it goes through and you just find the fares (keep in mind the carriers file like 600 fares for planes with 20 seats)."

Wow why so many? This seems excessive?

Could you elaborate on:

>"But in addition to the immense amounts of fare and rule data that pile on your if you search 400 itineraries out * 400 back you also have the seat availability system. No carrier had (probably has) a system that can answer the amount of "seat" queries that a single low fare search causes."

I didn't understand the "400 itineraries out * 400 back you also have the seat availability system" part. I din't understand the math and how it enables a "seat availability" system.

Lastly are all of the limitation really due the legacy Sabre booking system that the carriers all use? I guess I didn't realize what a huge innovation ITA was.
> If I understand correctly - to get the whole password keylogger must be specific to this bank site (to understand which characters are provided), and must be active on at least 4 logins. In my book that's a big improvement.

The difference in difficulty of keylogging 4 logins, and 1 login is, in practice, small. Once your computer is pwned, all bets are off.
That points to a tumble service address where it disappears forever in Monero land?
It can be permanent, but that's a fairly rare (but known) case.
I think it's a reference to the early days of USSR, when many in the West were gushing about the "new and better" society that it was supposedly building.
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> I have nothing against this publication, and if it helps people out, more power to it. I do wish more people would realize that creating an identity based on your race/parents' nationality is not a prerequisite for anything, and you can still be whole if you don't. The corollary is that if you feel something is missing, and you decide to pursue an identity based on race/ethnicity you may still end up less than whole. Don't assume this path is a solution to your needs.

> No matter what anyone tells you, you do get to pick your identity. Don't let anyone convince you that you are incomplete if you are not in touch with your ancestral heritage.

Hi — there's a lot of wisdom in this post and I find the term 'third culture kid' fascinating. I agree with you that 'culture' and 'identity' is far more multifaceted than just your race, ethnicity, or parents' heritage. I think we all create our own cultures. And that's the beauty of it today: folks are going deep on different parts of who they are. Some of it might be their ancestral heritage. Some of it might be the culture of how they did school. By no means are we trying to dictate 'culture.'

What we've found from the stories we've published is that people relate to them. For example, our story on Netflix in India is about writers struggling to pitch their ideas — something many entrepreneurs can relate to, not just writers.

Not every story will speak to everyone in the same way because we are all different, but by archiving the stories that we think might not be told otherwise, and paying journalists well so that we as a society don't continue to devalue great writing, we are hoping to create a space where these stories resonate, for whatever reason that might be.
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Glad it's finally fucking time to do something about it, asshole
Buying a fixer upper is still risky, not to mention buying it with friends and trusting them to not flake out on the deal.
Honest question - why do people use Chrome? It’s from an arguably as-evil company as Facebook. Alternatives exist. What’s the draw?
And I'm sure your ads are targeted accordingly ;)
Don't worry, it's for your safety.
Economically wealthy but time poor --> customer

Economically poor but time rich --> servant

Serfdom 2.0 Ladies and Gentlemen
maybe your it overlords just send out updates via a patching solution, i doubt they'd be silly enough to run a browser unpatched in 2019.

right?
The article mentions XX and XY as differentiating sex, but rejects it because "some individuals" aren't XX or XY.

I would think those numbers are vanishingly small enough that for athletic categorization it would work well enough. And for the few that don't then you add another criteria.
Electron Apps are basically already malware
I like the moves all of these brick and mortar stores are making online. Walmart, etc. They are slowly but surely catching up, so much so that I this Amazon dominating everything is not guaranteed. Walmart and other brick and mortar stores might develop strategies to effectively compete... which will be great for consumers to be able to get everything online delivered or store pickup... with lots of deals offered. That all seems positive. Amazon dominating to me seems like a negative.
I've experienced similar, although I ended up switching from citalopram to fluoxetine. I've woken up crying, punching the shit out of the pillow next to me (luckily sleep alone), screaming... the dreams are visceral. How many times I've woken up and felt the sheets because my entire body had the sensation of taking a huge piss in a dream, that intense feeling of relief.

Never got withdrawal symptoms from the first round some time ago, unless you call a second bout a withdrawal. Sleeping at night has become a bit of an adventure.
Oh really which service would that be? ;)
Authentication is a service that is obviously used by other microservices, otherwise it would have no use.

But with microservices coupling is as loose as possible.

Your authentication microservice provides an interface (REST or whatever) independent on the underlying implementation and it does not matter how it implemented. As long has the interface 'contract' is fulfilled you can re-implement it from Java to Rails, or move it from here to there, if you wish and that is completely transparent to all other microservices.