skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's getting awfully frothy around here. I keep getting reminded of headlines like these (except that the numbers are even more insane now):

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/26/business/excite-home-to-ac...
The picture of the device in question makes it look like it might be some COTS product; perhaps the vendor Hertz has been buying from all this time decided to throw in the camera and Hertz just decided "well fuck it, it's not like we're paying more for it, so we'll just leave it switched off"?
>> What's would you do instead of the stack-based API?

Did not see you answer the question here. You have a strong opinion, what would you like to see instead?
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I find it sexist that you're complaining about her using the words "this guy" and "don't be him". Would you be writing the same comment if the blogger was a man? (Not even joking. There are far more gendered comments by men in this HN discussion that didn't get this kind of response.)
A Google Now Open API Is in the Works
Is this compatible with what Facebook has done with Hack?
Found an easier to use docker setup [1]. Took around 5 minutes after downloads to setup in a docker-machine vm on a mac. Quite nice little gui, just make sure you change localhost and port to the correct docker vm ip (or hostname if you're on a droplet or something)

Only commenting because I found their docker setup to be far overcomplicated (uses fig and I couldn't be bothered figuring out what I needed / didn't)

[1] https://github.com/codeskyblue/docker-gogs
Is there anything in your life other than work at that point? You are either at work or a bunk bed on wheels.

How is that healthy?
Those people could use the equity they've amassed in their property to pay the property tax, such as through a reverse mortgage. Although "house poor", don't forget they are still quite wealthy.

It would make sense for governments to formalize this arrangement and allow deferring of property tax payments until the house is sold.
That assumes a 15 minute meeting only steals 15 minutes from your day. It's usually closer to an hour once you factor in the work-free buffer zones surrounding it. (Cf http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html)
TED Day One: Mars Isn't a Good Backup Plan for Humanity
Are you suggesting women are getting black eyes as much as children are being spanked? Is getting spanked 936 times a year as a 4 year old less violent than getting a black eye as a grown woman who has access to friends, cars, the police, weapons, means of negotiation, and so on?

Indeed the numbers we have are only indirect estimators. That was my point. Who cares what the numbers are if we are not going to do anything to protect the defenseless from being beat up daily and by the millions.

I won't even address your disrespectful disdain of this issue by suggesting it matters what part of the hand it is used to hit a defenseless human being, or where they are hit, but I will compare it to asking if the rapist used a condom, and which orifices were involved.
Did You Know: 83% of Users on Pinterest Don't Have a Moustache
About 'correctness' and 'small size' ... as soon as they'd add unittests as extensive as V8, JSCore, or SpiderMonkey, it'd grow big quite dramatically. :-)

I'd be interested to see how ES5-compliant MuJS really is. My guess is probably different from what they claim.
Don't purchase Xperia phones in the future?
That rent control has bad outcomes is uncontroversial. The question is, are they worse than forcing people out of their homes.

Obviously for many people, "People with money can't have something they want" is a better outcome than "people with less money will be required to leave their homes and go to less desirable places." You can, of course, disagree, but there is nothing strange or puzzling about this value judgement.

You can say "that's how capitalism works, tough shit" but SF has found a power which is in this case mightier than the market: law.

If it were the case that eliminating rent control would cause rents to settle somewhere reasonable and such an exodus would not happen, then that would be a compelling argument.

But HN instead argues that those people deserve to be forced out of their homes. Obviously if eradication of rent control is landlords' condition for building new construction, they intend to raise rents further, otherwise they would not demand the ability to do so. You may think that's fine, but you can't really say it's unreasonable for the people who lose in that situation to oppose it.
Same idea, except `use \Foo\Bar\Baz as SomeAlias` is already reserved for namespaces.
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The assumption is that without rent control, average prices would be lower. Therefore someone who couldn't afford to move previously now could.
Seemed like a good idea at the time... And there's all of 3 phones to choose from if you don't want a huge screen. Love the battery life, but unless you're in broad daylight it takes worse pictures than my 4S did.

My next phone may very well be running Windows.
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> [...] there is this sense that you have to say something to justify whatever choices you've made.

Whenever I somehow get time to work on a new "weekend project", I go through that every time. I know better and should stick to the rivers and lakes that I'm used to, but when working with (often) sub-par code in my day job, I always have the itch of trying new shiny things.

After I get that out of my system, I often keep my own "standard" stack and force myself to just say "No" to the new tools that are not fit for the project. At that point, I've probably wasted the entire weekend playing around with tutorials and fiddles to see that going through the learning curve isn't worth the time.
PHP has had type-hints for parameters for several version, but they could only be used for classes. The new types-hints cover the 'scalar' values (aka not object) and are int, float, string and bool. They allow a function to declare what they types of the variables it receives should be like:

function foo(int $x) {
// x is guaranteed to be an int.
}

The type-hinting for scalars has two modes:

* strict - the parameter passed to the function must be of the exact* type.
* weak - the parameter passed to the function will be converted to the correct type.

The strictness depends on what mode PHP was in when the function was called. This is the right choice as it:

* Allows library authors to write their code in either strict or weak mode.

* End-users to write their code in either strict or weak mode. Or even without using scalar type-hints.

* End-user to be able to choose when they are writing their code do they want their variables to be converted to the type expected by the library automatically, or do they want PHP to give them an error if they accidentally pass the wrong type of variable to a function that is expecting an int.

*except for some widening rules, e.g. you can pass an int where a float is expected, as ints can be converted into float without data loss (for ints less than 2^53).
I think it's actually pretty easy to implement a mutex with a semaphore. The opposite not so much. If you want extra debug checking, you can wrap the semaphore with another construct that sets the owner field on lock and checks it on unlock.
It's very clearly not sarcasm.
Industrial Microbes founders here. We all worked in biofuels for many years and are excited about new green ways of manufacturing. Some of the chemicals we want to make actually absorb carbon dioxide during their production. It's a great time to be designing and building using biology.

Let us know if you have any questions!
I'm amused nobody brought the word Gentrification to the comments yet.

Yes, the arcticle does not mention that word. Neither the comments there or the comments here.

But this is what giving up rent control encourages: gentrification. And it's really bad.

I'm not a US citizen, I don't live there, but I've visited SF quite a few times. You can see gentrification happening yearly after every visit. It's sad.

Perhaps the discussion should not be "rent control" vs "no rent control" and really "how to effectivelly control rent prices".

In Brazil, landlords are allowed to raise the rent every year by the same ammount of one of the country's inflation indexes. It's not perfect, but people seem to be more or less happy with it.

Also the rent price can never be more than a small percentage of the property's declared value per month (if you want to change the declared value, your ownership taxes will change accordingly). This helps a bit.

This is just an example of my point: stop thinking binary - yes or no - and start thinking how.
No, it's not Artificial.
How about a Python SDK? :D
Those poor people!
Hearing Sappho
CSS3 transition problem with frequently changing values
I wonder if the ones that aren't resolved have been communicated to the LibreSSL team?
5 Major Problems with Power to Choose – #3
> I would say that women are about 70-80% as financially independent as men, due to the gender pay gap.

That pay gap is for all women, not unmarried women. Young unmarried women living in cities generally make more money than men.
This one is even older, but I'm still not sure its the original http://www.gamedev.net/topic/128827-variables-vs-html/page-3
Suburbs exist only because of government subsidies - they wouldn't be built in a free market because they are just too damn expensive. They require massive public funding for infrastructure - roads, water, sewage, side walks, etc, over the course of decades. At the same time, that infrastructure is only used by the residents of the suburb by design. They don't permit through traffic nor do they allow for mixed use. The problem isn't growth in a free market. The problem is just the opposite in fact.
Additional fine print. It is your responsibility for informing your guests that there is an active camera in the car.
It seems like green card holders, who in some cities can vote in local elections, can not vote in SF.
I live in Somerville, MA, which does not have rent control. My rent has gone up by at least 10% every year for the past 4 years. This is not sustainable.
You're completely ignoring equity.

Mortgage payments are based on the loan amount, not the value of the property. Excluding transactions costs, if you buy a $X house and have $Y month payments, then the property value doubles to $2X, you can sell and still buy another house that costs $2X, add $X to the down payment, and still have a $Y/month mortgage.

So if you own a home, not only do you have mobility, but if you move to another house of lesser value you can extract equity without increasing monthly costs.

Now Prop 13 is what restricts mobility for homeowners, because property tax can be 10x on a new purchase if you've been in the old house long enough. Rent control and Prop 13 both need to go.
If you want high-quality palette try libimagequant: http://pngquant.org/lib

pngquant's method is superior to octtree:

• it uses Voronoi iteration to get local minimum and minimize effects of axis-aligned subdivisions

• it uses sort-of gradient descent to optimize subdivisions

• to some degree edges and noise are included in histogram weights

• does not need to throw away any bits of precision (most implementations just naively discard 2-3 bits, because of RAM limits in '80-'90s)

pngquant undithered:

http://i.imgur.com/fOkZDjA.png

vs leptonica's:

http://www.leptonica.com/figs/tree-nodither.jpg
I don't know who you're referring to, but just because one person managed doesn't make it fair for the rest who didn't end up doing as well.
Boeing eyes satellite deal with tech giant this year
They have not:

"The OpenSSL group do not tell the LibreSSL group about vulnerabilities that they are fixing in upcoming releases."

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=142654095813320&w=2
That doesn't sound like it'd be difficult to map to the DNS. Something like a record per mapping with each record containing a pattern and a template ought to work -- where does it get difficult?
Again, on the list - but if someone were to do one we'd be happy promote it ;)
If we can replace nuclear with other clean sources, such as solar and wind, until the time that we can safely dispose of nuclear waste, then yes, I'd say that's progressive.
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"The International Food Information Council (IFIC) describes its mission as being to "communicate science-based information on food safety and nutrition to health and nutrition professionals, educators, journalists, government officials and others providing information to consumers."[1]

"In reality, IFIC is a public relations arm of the food, beverage and agricultural industries, which provide the bulk of its funding.[1] Its staff members hail from industry groups such as the Sugar Association and the National Soft Drink Association, and it has repeatedly led the defense for controversial food additives including monosodium glutamate, aspartame (Nutrasweet), food dyes, and olestra. It also runs the corporate-friendly website, Kidnetic.com, with games and recipes for kids.[2]

"While the group's name implies that it operates internationally, on its website IFIC states that its primary focus is the U.S. "Based in Washington, DC, the IFIC Foundation and IFIC focus primarily on U.S. issues. It also participates in an informal network of independent food information organizations in Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, Japan and Latin America," it states.[1]"

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Food_Info...
Many European cities have 30km/h zones where the term jaywalking makes no sense because people has always priority over cars.

I really thing life is better in cities where people has priority over cars. But it is also true that the lower population density in a city, the higher dependency on cars it has.
What interview question to ask when hiring a UX Researcher
"The city needs people who make less than X to live here (teachers, social workers etc). We shouldn't have a homogenous city of software engineers and bankers."

This is mistaken. The cost of living is routinely taken into account when people are deciding what wages they will demand. If literally no teachers can afford to live in your city, and you wish your children to be educated, you'll have to pay a lot in order to import a teacher who can then afford to live there. That drives up wages to equilibrium.

Furthermore, if literally no teachers can afford to live in your city, and you wish your children to be educated, you might very well decide to move to somewhere with a lower cost of living. This drives down demand to equilibrium.

The only argument in favor of rent control is that it reduces short-term volatility of rent. This only makes sense if moving entails huge negative externalities. You do see people making this argument (they talk a lot about long-term community cohesion).
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I saw this in a code base once:

Line above commented out seems to fix Bug 34541

This makes for an impressive code land mine and creates some seriously unhealthy superstitions.
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I think this is the right answer, it's pretty high level, and maybe more nuanced than "it's my tribe" because there's always infighting amongst the tribe, but it cuts to the chase, this whole attitude is endimic to the human condition.

Sometimes maturity cuts through it, but IME, sometimes it takes maturity and intelligence (though not a huge amount of it), and on the rare cases, there's something more, like a primal competitive nature.
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If the drip coffee coming out of the US these days (think: Blue Bottle) is "watery" then I'll take it with extra water, thanks. Just got a Blue Bottle down the road here in Tokyo, and if you can get over the 450 yen pricetag and 90 minute lineup then you are rewarded with a delicious cup of Joe.
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Debian unstable has official ffmpeg packages, and as soon as the next release completes, those packages will migrate to testing and future stable.
> My point is about the clause in the GPL that enforces developers to enclose the source of their entire software, not just the library.

I'm well aware of it. Everybody is. It's a term of the license. Just like "You must pay us $5000 to use this library" would be.

> And lets not nitpick here, the GPL isn't exactly subtle about these things.

Nitpick about what? Subtle about what? What are you talking about?

> No. It's their right to choose whatever license they wish, but it's also my right to not choose their software.

It certainly is.

But you said it's "bad". But it wouldn't be "bad" if they hadn't made it available under a free license at all.

This seems like a hypocritical and extremely entitled attitude. Under what moral code is it bad to offer alternative prices for alternative terms?
He wasn't trapped, he was greedy. Only to him, he was trapped, because the other people were being greedy for wanting market rates.
Also, we already have use strict; as an easter egg ;)
It's not hyperbole in the least bit, I've seen it first hand.

A lot, maybe most by now, of my friends who live in SF cannot afford to move at all - they really are trapped in their current lease. It's often even worse because rent control encourages so many off-the-books subleases, so they can't directly deal with the landlord for fear of being caught. If the lease holder decides to give the lease up, they're screwed. This has happened to more than one of my friends who lived with someone else who had the lease and then moved out. The original leaseholder kept the lease as a courtesy, but it's actually a liability to them and they won't do it indefinitely. It's a shitty situation for all involved.

One argument against rent control is that it drastically drives up the price of the available units because there's such a reduced supply, exactly because the "trapped" can't move. This is a vicious cycle that causes even more renters to become trapped.

With subsidies instead of rent control, the available rental stock would be bigger, renters could choose from more options, and not be penalized for needing to move. Subsidies would still have an effect of increasing demand and ability to pay, thus pushing up prices a little, but the price inflation would be spread across the whole market, rather than concentrated on just the small portion of vacant units.
I think the part where you said "best bits" is debatable.
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What about is tiers based on storage?
Considering how many things are allowed to take pictures of you in your car (red light cameras, EZPass, ALL OTHER TRAFFIC CAMERAS) I'm going to go ahead and assume a judge would determine that a person in a car with windows and a windshield and whatnot has no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Both of these laws are designed to benefit people who moved here long time ago and make it economically harder for new people to move here. Whether they are landlords, renters or home buyers.

Prop 13 makes new property buyers pay more for property taxes.
Rent control makes new renters pay more for rent.

As long as there are more people benefiting from these 2 laws than hurting, they will be in effect. It would be interesting to see organized efforts in changing these laws.
Well, I had hoped they had changed their ways, but I guess we'll see what the damage is.
To put your point in other words, Newtonian mechanics isn't wrong. It's a system of measurement that is only useful at certain scales.

Imagine a yardstick that is only marked at full inches. You can use it to measure things in the scale of a couple of yards, a few feet, and many inches. You can't use it to measure anything smaller than an inch because it's not marked for that scale. You can't use it to measure anything more than a couple of yards because that's unwieldy. That doesn't mean that the yard stick is "wrong".
Sorry, but if you are after optimal extraction, as nice a cup as the AeroPress can make, it cannot compare to a proper, temperature-controlled pour-over using a system designed for proper extraction (Hario V60, Kalita Wave, or even Chemex if made in sufficient volume).

The reason is simple: It can't handle the temperature because it's made of plastic. Anyone could make a cup of coffee in a pour-over that tastes the same as the AeroPress. However, those who put the time into making a proper pourover know better.

The best cup of coffee, for most of us, is supposed to have a certain amount of those bitter elements that the AeroPress is too cool to extract. Optimal extraction occurs between 92 and 96 degrees C. 74-80C is just too cool for optimal extraction. I've tested the SCAA findings in countless experiments. Their research, based on double-blind taste tests, is well done, and in my experience, quite accurate.

The information on the AeroPress FAQ, which talks about the grounds on the bottom of the bed brewed using traditional methods being much cooler, is just plain wrong. Ridiculously wrong, in fact. Just measure the temperature of the finished product. If proper preheating is done, it's going to be closer to 90C, probably higher.

To each his own, but the "Perfect Cup of Coffee" it is not.
Divorce rates would tend to decrease if marriage rates decrease. Can't divorce if you aren't married.
It's so tempting to engage this conversation on its premise, it's such a popular idea to say there must be something bad about people who have more money, but this article is so unscientific and has so many problems it just hurts. It's like eating bacon and marshmallows; so satisfying to do, but so bad for your health.

The very headline is a push-poll, suggesting the answer before a question is asked. The first piece of evidence is trash data. The consequence for breaking traffic laws is a fine that hurts poor people more than rich people. There's no direct evidence presented between breaking traffic laws and being "mean". The interactive questionnaire asks a bunch of questions about whether you would do things that hurt unspecified mega-corporations. Monopoly money is fake money that's part of a game where the rules are specifically designed to pit opponents against each other so they'll do mean things, it's impossible not to play monopoly meanly.

What does this all mean?

NOTHING.
Is there some reason a landlord can't pay a tenant to move out of a rent control situation? So they can renovate and clear the market?
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You can ask him to add them, he's pretty responsive to requests.
Most electricity is generated from coal and other fossil fuels.
Trust me when I say I'm on your side here. But, let's not forget that computers do little more than add numbers and transmit data. It is the application of this technology that adds economic value to society. And those applications are driven by human desire. Societal change is more effectively influenced through social representation, and there are many avenues to achieve that, but I don't believe creating software in an office space is the most effective one.

I wish things could be different, but without financial freedom, we are destined to build what other people deem valuable. One of the best things we can do is work with people whose values align with our own.
Yep, some things can be quantified, some can't. Ironically, programmers who steadfastly insist on objective data bristle at the thought of their own productivity being measured. (Lines of code per day? Bugs fixed per day? No, no, code is an _art_ that can't be reduced to some number. Just everything else in the universe can be!)
I'm one of those poor, suffering people, "trapped" by my rent control.

If this is confinement, then I'll admit that I much prefer confinement to the life of freedom I would experience when my landlord kicks me out in order to get a richer tenant.

Thanks for your concern, though. It's really touching.