skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if you really want to remove the risk of a gatekeeper to freeze your money you shouldn't rely on Coinbase, which is a gatekeeper like all the others.

Instead you should do transaction verification yourself.
As far as mild-moderate concussions go, there is unfortunately not much to do by way of treatment besides low stimulation rest.

I hope this person was okay. Concussions are truly hell when they don't clear up nicely.

Side note, I was told once by an occupational therapist specializing in brain injury that most concussions are from standing up from a crouch in the kitchen and hitting your head on a corner of a cupboard (MVA/sports are very common too). I didn't believe her at the time, but I don't write it off either.
Fake Lego Manufacturers Apprehended in China
This could be done, but as a question it's malformed. Musically, the same interval may appear in an ambiguous set of contexts: sure, it might be part of a chord, but it's also a counter point line that just happens to be crossing another in a way that sounds interesting. You can tune the chord right only by mucking with the scale of the counter point melody. Probably half of music is the practice of crafting ambiguities like this.

There is plenty of music that stays within a single key and exploits proper rational tuning -- go listen to barbershop, for example. Voices can do this trivially (so can a handful of other instruments -- trombones come to mind), it's only devices with fixed strings or holes that are tied to equal temperment.
The concept of a “stand up” generally doesn’t work for remote, because remote often means “9 hours time difference”

Regardless, standups are stupid. It’s another ridiculous process invented by managers to look like they’re doing something.

If developers need to know what others are working on because it affects them, they’ll ask.
My point wasn't that bad things can't happen when cyclists run red lights, and nowhere in my post did I justify running red lights. Again, when a cyclist runs a red light the potential harm is mostly on the cyclist.

You can find plenty of real world examples of cyclists harming others from running stop signs or red lights, e.g., the Chris Bucchere case comes immediately to mind:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Bicy...

The number of these cases where bad cycling caused harm to others is much smaller than the number of cases where bad driving caused harm to others. That's my point.
They were not employees and so had no health insurance

The gig economy casts light on the fact that America fundamentally fails to take care of its citizens in this important metric. Gig work would be less problematic in the US if we didn't expect employers to provide healthcare.

My life works at all when it shouldn't because of gig work. There are myriad issues making my life challenging, from serious health issues to sexism and classism. I get aggravated when I see people who are part of the problem in that regard vilifying the gig work that has allowed me to survive, problem solve, get back into housing etc.

Certainly, there are abuses. We should strive to make gig work a more positive thing generally.

But we should also strive to not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Why is that bad? A family lived in the city for generations, and now due to the tech boom and a property bubble they should be forced to move?

It makes a hell of a lot more sense for FAANG to open offices somewhere else.
> For similar reasons nobody reads Stendhal any more

Speak for yourself. Charterhouse of Parma is one of my favorite novels.
LinkNYC [0] kiosks have two security cameras (one above each ad display on both sides). Would it be somehow, or very, paranoid to imagine that these kiosks are also capturing IMSIs using a method similar to the one described above?

If you join the wi-fi network that any kiosk advertises, you will definitely “re-attach” when you encounter a new kiosk (so some MAC related tracking is possible).

But... do municipal CCTV setups usually go beyond video only and attempt to track people using various methods around bluetooth/MAC/IMSI?

Is it probable? Improbable? We’ll only know in N years when someone leaks about it..? Has it already been done?

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkNYC
Needs a [2011].
1. This article was written in 2011 (it's 8 years old). I was confused why they were going with eventlet, but the age of the article explains why.

2. Even for 2011, 1k rps with an average latency of 100ms seems laughably bad. I have to be missing something here.
ISL is also free. http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
I spend a huge amount of time coding as a startup founder, but also a huge amount of time doing 10 other things too. Owning your own business tends to mean doing a lot of everything, with coding just being one of those things.
So they survey 13-19 years olds, who mostly don't have credit cards, and find that they prefer shopping in physical stores. Does anyone expect that to continue once they no longer need to ask their parents' permission to shop online?
It doesn’t seem that shocking to me that teenagers and young adults spend more time in shopping malls than people who are in there 20s and 30s.
If I'm ever a math teacher, this story will be an exam question ending in 'what was the man's pin?'
I’m guessing they’re referring to FAANG
/r/hapas seems to be filled with more self-pity than hate. Reading the comments, these are actually mixed-raced kids talking about the racism they face from not only their peers, but also their own family.
They still consume far more per head, so it's not a scalable solution as a model for countries to emulate. 300 million American people use more oil than 1 billion Indians per head
Privacy.com lets you do it.
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You’re trying to make people disgusted by this situation but I’m just not because the only thing even more disgusting is the alternative : those African children having no job and starving. Brb, Off to buy some Gillette razors to keep them employed !
My bad, fixed. Thanks
> I never earned any money from this hobby and have no plans to change it

Except for the bug bounties you've received, presumably. Unless you consider those a separate part of what you do. All great work in any case!
It’s a Leftist fetish. They say they don’t want anyone in charge — or delude themselves into believing “we’re all in charge” by unfurling the Democratic Socialism banner above Leviathan. Strangely in a screed about promoting competition, the Warren team reveals a core tenet: they won’t tolerate even the perception of competition with the state. Witness the piece’s pearl clutching over large companies “acting like governments,” whatever that means.

They agitate for making the state the biggest, baddest bully on the block: “It’d be a shame for something to happen to that nice tech company of yours.” But then when the eschatology of historical determinism kicks in, I guess the Elizabeth Warrens of the world will quietly abdicate.

It’s a worldview riddled with holes. Maybe it is a form of masochism.
> No one on our team is an Erlang expert

Perhaps that has something to do with it
Didn't the mall owners kill them? "Going to the mall" was a thing for Gen X; then younger people were explicitly unwelcome... Did anybody think kicking the customers out of your store was a good marketing strategy?
A Dot-com is less than $10 a year. Problem solved.
Nuclear is dead end tech. Renewables are cheaper than nuclear without the PR problems or risks, and getting cheaper all the time. The future is solar, wind, and hydro with a lot of energy storage and long distance transmission.
Good point, that is not possible in my country though.
If you take a sample of all houses across the US and look only at their prices, yes, there's lots of affordable housing.

But that picture ignores demographic shifts and jobs. If you look at the prices of houses relative to jobs available in the area, the picture is much worse.

In small towns and rural areas, there's lots of really cheap houses. In the town I grew up, you can find tolerable houses for sale for $100k. But there are no jobs there. Even at that low price, you're unlikely to be able to afford it at any sort of local wage.

Meanwhile, in the city where I live now, the median home price is $750,000. If you aren't in one of a shrinking number of vital industries like tech, that's also unaffordable. Over the years, I've watched friend after friend get priced out of the city.

The main problem I see is that jobs are moving much faster than physical infrastructure and housing can keep up with.
Why would someone that could boot a system from floppy have to "format the hard drive" instead of just setting a new password?
If the posted limit wasn't supposed to be a limit then why do you get a ticket for exceeding it?
I wouldn't bet against it, 50 billion in 1500 would be about 50% of the GDP of the largest economy of the time (China). It's Apollo program funding level.

http://www.newgeography.com/content/005050-500-years-gdp-a-t...
Looks sweet. I might actually use this. A few questions:

1. Why a custom JS-based CLI tool for deployment? What does it do? Why not something like plain SSH?

2. What is the plan for this? Presumably you'll want to monetize the project? Will you ever add ads to my sites? Or will you offer premium features?

3. What's the reason for the NoSQL DB?

4. Your CLI tool only allows .png files as images. Is there a reason you don't allow any other types?

5. Is there a limit on the number of sites you can have or the storage you can use?
Huh. That's strange – in my home country (Norway), they've been struggling with lower growth than expected. [1]

Personally, I stopped using their service due to not enough of a value-add compared to my main bank (Sbanken) and Revolut's questionable HR practices. [2]

Which country are you in?

[1] https://shifter.no/bankfenomenet-revolut-sliter-i-kampen-mot...

[2] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/revolut-trade-unions-labour-...
> and zoning a lot of the city centre for hotel usage ..

This assertion makes no sense. Barcelona is covered by an excelent public transportation network, including national, regional, and commuter railway services right in the city center, and there are entire blocks that are still unocuppied or including vacant old warehouses.

Barcelona's main problem is its populist government that uses anti-tourism political stunts to cater to radical socialist and anarchist pressure groups while screwing with the local's lives.
I read over and over how companies skip PayPal or remove PayPal and are startled by the lost business. (No direct experience though)

For example, https://fman.io/blog/paypal-vs-stripe-for-small-businesses-i...
What exactly is dead end tech here? Dye sensitized solar?
FineLine: Log-Structured Transactional Storage and Recovery [pdf]
Elsewhere:

> However, akiya owners are taxed more for empty plots of land than for having an empty property, according to real estate expert Toshihiko Yamamoto. This is a deterrent to razing a vacant home.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/asia/japan-vacant-akiya-ghost...

If true, this would go a long way toward explaining the 13% figure.
If you're able to make a faster service handling many concurrent requests in Python, you indeed should've never used Erlang from the beginning, because you clearly didn't know at all what you were doing. This article is spot on in that regard.
Not at a pedestrian crossing. I see this all the time in Cambridge. If you run a red light at a pedestrian crossing the most likely thing that could go wrong is that you hit a pedestrian. Hopefully they won't be badly injured, but they might be. Please don't do this.
>> To my knowledge I follow every applicable traffic law.

Don't hedge it. Either you follow the laws or you don't. There are no irrelevant laws. Too many bikes think certain laws are not applicable to them, the biggest example being speeding. The laws are applicable to all.
> unemployment hasn't been this low in 20 years.

This is not really accurate. Unemployment is at a 40 year high. (where "unemployment" means "percent of working-aged people without a job")

https://www.theatlas.com/charts/B1SUWjSx7 (that big drop is people losing their jobs). The last time the numbers were this bad was back around 1979.
Performance and quality is something you can mentor. I work my ass off to make sure my devs have a plan to get better at their craft and learn from others. If they're not doing well I tell them immediately before it grows into a shitshow.

Bad values is a slightly difference conversation. If the dev has a bad attitude, refuses to improve, lazy, etc then you can only coach that so far before it's time for termination. It sounds harsh but a good managers job isn't just filling seats. You need to make sure the people on your team force multiply each other, and that your best devs are happy enough to mentor the up and comers. Low values people spoil all of that and need to go, even if they're high performers.
Them not being able to utilize Erlang well seems to be the gist of the article. The rest seems like a post-hoc rationalization.

It's fair to switch away from a technology your team doesn't know well and doesn't want to learn. Maybe that should have been the title.
Gee whiz, you mean it's a good idea to choose a language/framework one knows well for implementing production services? Or maybe bring in an Erlang expert as a consultant to fix things?
With the same thinking, you should also praise sweat shops in developing countries - better to earn $0.10/hour than no income at all, right?
Would you care to list some of them for us?
Renewables will, at best, allow us to maintain our current energy expenditures in a more sustainable manner. (If that.) But they are incredibly space inefficient. Nuclear is the only avenue for increasing our energy production by an order of magnitude or more. (Not to mention, there is no such thing is a solar powered attack submarine or aircraft carrier.)
Sometimes using the right tool for the right job also means making sure you have people who can use said tool.
Uber will soon joins unprofitable companies worth more than $50B
>programmers find it more performant
>plusses speed
>minuses uses more CPU
what?
My understanding is that by using public blockchains for payments, people can in some cases figure out who you are and what you've bought by tracing the transactions. Is this correct?
Interesting, over here I would say et Dukkehjem (a doll's house), Vildanden (the wild duck), and Peer Gynt are his most known works, probably not-very-closely followed by en folkefiende (Enemy of the people). Fascinating.
Not to be confused with a censer sensor censor, who censors the censer sensor's central censer detections.
>This is Uber’s central challenge as it moves from the cozy confines of the Bay Area, where venture capital and private equity firms fund futuristic projects, to the rigors of Wall Street, populated by more risk averse mutual funds and wealth managers focused on financial performance. The latter group has never seen anything like Uber — a company that’s already valued as a screaming success even though the business model remains very much a work in progress.

A subtle but interesting and informative perspective on how two different groups view these new class of well established, former unicorn start ups.
Yes, I should have included the context that I deal with a fair number of used PCs.

Sans that code and master password, though, you can mess with someone by setting their BIOS password. The master password is still useful even if you're the original owner.
Wind instruments and bowed string instruments have perfectly harmonic timbres during the steady-state sustained phase of the note. The piano is noticeably inharmonic because it's a percussion instrument (the strings are hammered, not bowed).

See:

https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/harmonics.html
Of you're going <10% over the limit you normally won't get a ticket in my experience.
Please apply the principle of charity.

In context, my question calls for stronger evidence than ipse dixit for this charge of monoculture.
Very refreshing to see a come back of simple, static websites.
What's the underlying reason for people wanting to use PayPal? Hooking it up to their bank account (yikes) and not having to have a credit card?

Are there analyses available on what type of products/services have this problem, and what customer base primarily wants PayPal?

I refuse to do business with PayPal, due to the many many horror stories of them holding money hostage, issues with charitable donations, utterly opaque dispute resolution, etc. (I've had issues with them myself, as well, trying to make donations.) I'd love to know alternatives, not just to the features of PayPal (for which there are many), but for serving the customer base of PayPal.
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Hacker news ain't that different. Pretty much every article I see here that mentions Facebook or any other company is full of outrage. Just 2 days ago there was an article on the Facebook fine [0] and half the people were demanding that Facebook should have been dismantled and the executives should have gone to jail.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19759490
An interesting paper about systems on the edge of failure is "'Going solid': a model of system dynamics and consequences for patient safety" by Cook and Rasmussen: https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/14/2/130

There's a good overview in this talk:
"Architectural Patterns of Resilient Distributed Systems" by Ines Sombra
https://youtu.be/ohvPnJYUW1E?list=PL1Fqq0rxeNehyA4eWbuCwizkq...
I was recently at an annual meeting of local fisherman where they had to pay dues but the platform they use for their website and due payments had stopped using paypal insisting on accepting payment thru cards only. guess what, 80% of the people said paypal worked just fine and its not our problem, its either cash or paypal, we aren't handing over our credit card info to another online website. I was shocked but that seems to be the norm in non-tech circlss
> The key issue (at least in Europe) is that Airbnb has reduced the access barrier of landlords to a tax avoindance revenue stream.

This baseless assertion is patently false. AirBnB is only a middlemen in a business that's heavily legislated and monitored by both law enforcement and pressure groups. Local governments award and manage permits for local housing which are based on quotas, and in some jurisdictions actually force tax rates close to 30%.
> As a buyer, I know PayPal has my back, and that I can see and easily cancel any subscription.

I avoid negative option billing like the plague. There are too many companies who force you to do something ridiculous to cancel it, like calling a "customer retention specialist" between the hours of 10 and 4 and being put on hold for 20 minutes. If I have to subscribe, I want to know that I can turn the money spigot off easily and online.
> On one hand, it's great this can be researched to avoid a bad hire like above, but I guess I also feel sorry for Joe or Jane Cop who was dismissed from the job for using cocaine or shoplifting and now it's easily searchable 25 years later for everyone in the world[2]. Is avoiding the former situation worth the latter?

Yes of course
Millennial headlines are somewhere near Florida Man headlines. Also wait till Gen Z is knee deep in debt for the reversal headline.
OK fair I could have said the same thing in a more neutral tone
To answer an earlier Ask HN, this is the kind of comment I save to reread in the future by replying to it.
If nobody forces people to go there and artificially limit their options and competition, yes, these are better than the alternative (dying from starvation). Is there anything wrong with the logic there?
Interesting fact. Circa-1910 (from memory) there was major anxiety about immigrant Japanese workers taking low-wage jobs in the US.

To the extent that Japan was encouraged and did "voluntarily" limit migration.

How the wheel of time turns... different players, same games.
It’s bad because the tax rate you pay on your property should not be tied to how long you’ve owned it.

Right now two different families living in identical properties in CA can be paying vastly different property taxes depending on when they bought (or inherited) their house. This is manifestly unfair.
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Hidden benefits have nothing to do with it. ICD is primarily targeted toward billing (claims). As long as providers are paid by separate payers (regardless of whether the payers are private insurers or some sort of government single payer system) there has to be some sort of consistent coding system to describe patient conditions.
You should be able to pump the breaks with a pedal in the case of a power breaking failure. That doesn't mean the car can engage the break via other means.

What gets me is electronic parking breaks, as that feels like it goes against the while purpose of the parking break.
AKA: "Mall owners rested on their laurels while online shopping arrived. Those that didn't go bankrupt now realize they need to improve"
Any sort of git/GitHub integration features (or planned) ? Eg, I saw mention of code/theme editor, and working git into that would make some sense.
Plenty of 13 to 19-year-olds have credit cards. I got my first credit card when I was 17 (I applied the week after I got my Social Security number [they weren't assigned at birth back then]).

I would not be surprised if every teen-ager on my block had either their own card, or one that draws on their parent's account in their name. I know the parents at work talk about re-loading their kids' pre-paid cards.
Short version:

How? We had a intern build it.

Why? Intern didn't know erlang.
Why do most emacs-devel members use Gnus?
I think the Amazon review is rather dramatic, and probably not in a position to comment on style. I thought both Goodfellow and Geron were good. Goodfellow is deep learning for academics coming from a different field; Geron is deep learning for software engineers.
That's a really good summary / perspective. The more I read the Challenger Launch Decision, the more I was convinced that mistakes like the Challenger are unavoidable. We can try to reduce the risk, but given that we're always operating with limited resources, we just can't eliminate all the risks (from the design and implementation as well as the decision making and operation).

But "normalization of deviance" is also partially how the science / the engineering works. The science and engineering is pushing the boundary and turning what used to be unknown into known and tested through experiment / experience. Learning from experience is fundamentally how the science and the engineering work. So it's really difficult to tell when it's a normalization of deviance and when it's a normal scientific/engineering process.
How Teenage Hackers Became Millionaires
"My parents got here before" shouldn't entitle you to a lower tax rate than anyone else. This is feudalism.
It's not 10 days; Net term is a month, plus 10 days, so you get paid once a month, 10 days into the next month.

Edit: That totally disregards that it's paid via Payoneer, so you'll also have delays in transferring your money from Payoneer to your pocket, which could take days more.
Your statement is incorrect, which your provided source clearly acknowledges.

Only idealized waveguides produce perfectly harmonic timbres. Idealized waveguides do not exist in nature. The closest thing we have to the sound produced by ideal waveguides is digital oscillators driven by a highly accurate clock playing back a single-cycle waveform. The result is close enough and is often described as an organ like sound.
FWIW, I deleted my Facebook account around the time Farmville came out. Believe that predates the HN opinion of fashion by a bit.