skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that figure you quote from the WHO worldwide? The article we are discussing is about the UK - I agree that there are different situations in different countries.

In the UK there has been a lot of talk about how austerity measures have effected people at the bottom of the food chain - people's pensions cut, social welfare limits etc.
Yeah, I hope they can find some middle ground; there's a definite need for AirBnB. I remember back when I worked at a Motel 6 and all the hotels in the area would sell out on weekends when there was a popular event. The hotels were also able to charge "surge" pricing so to speak, and some people had no choice but to pay the huge costs. AirBnB could have handled the overflow. So maybe some regulations could allow for special events. I think that was original use case, anyway.
Impressed to see that it doesn't necessarily get all the sample images provided on the site right - obviously would be tempting in a tool like this to pick images there that are guaranteed to be correct, but for example the image of a bicycle wheel disc brake gets classified as a 'bicycle chain', and the typewriter as a 'computer keyboard'. Good to demonstrate the failure modes, rather than attempt to project complete infallibility.

I also like the secondary classification it does of people, looking for a 'notable person' match.
And, you can put a bullet in the end of a pipe pretty easily. It doesn't have to be a good gun, after all.
If you leave your gun lying around and someone commits a crime with it, I'm pretty sure that's criminal negligence.
Designer applies for JavaScript job, fails at FizzBuzz, then writes 5-page long rant
> Death for you _is_ a binary switch, and once you're gone, you are gone. Games do a good job portraying that.

Yea, I think this culture is way too obsessed with the idea of binary opposites. It's just as hard to demonstrate that what seems like two distinct and opposing things are actually the same thing, and it's just that you've allowed yourself to grow into this mind that believes otherwise. You can see every life as something that is in a constant decay towards death, and you can see everything that has decayed to contribute to the creation of new life. Stars don't have life or death, yet we come from them. At some point our own complexity perplexes us, and is that where we draw the line?

As someone who has as well, dealt with more thinking about death than most people ever will in their life, I don't know if I'll ever see how I see things get expressed in a video game. I just don't think it's capable of being expressed.
unfortunately, they work.
A Critical Look at Growth Mindset Theory of Carol Dweck
Ask HN: What is the easiest way to comply with corporate minutes?
What is the simplest way that you use to keep the required* corporate minutes of shareholder/director proceedings?

When there is not a lot going on in terms of funding, board changes, etc., I'm wondering what you use out there. Is there a template?

[*] at least in California, section 1500
Here, hazarding a guess:

Palo Alto's real estate prices are among the highest in the nation. To afford that kind of real estate you have got to be a pretty big achiever; you've got to be book smart, emotionally smart, and capable. Unfortunately these traits are not 100% heritable. Yet the expectation is placed on the children to achieve at a level comparable to their parents. Living in an environment with identity-level expectations that are impossible to satisfy is miserable.
3D printing isn't going to harm the neighbors. It has the potential to disrupt existing product development and manufacturing economics if people can easily and accurately create copies of physical objects at home. If 3D printing becomes common, we will have to re-think how we regulate intellectual property around the design of phyiscal objects, in the same way that digital music and cinema have forced us to re-think how we pay for and get paid for those goods.
The post originally had a paragraph in the beginning explaining why I thought the algorithm was a 'lie'.

I explained that Haskell had quickly become my favorite language over the past year. And I started partly because I saw these overly simplified algorithms and thought they were beautiful. Only after working with Haskell for awhile do you realize these algorithms are kinda 'lies'.

But, I realized nobody would care about that, and they would want me to get right into the algorithm. So I deleted the paragraph.

That's why I gave the post that title.
There are many things a reasonable person would expect of a short term rental. It is unreasonable to expect a contract to enumerate every one of them. For that matter, no cancellation policies create extremely perverse incentives.
"This is why single-page applications have grown in such favor over the past few years; they allow quick agility at the UI layer without the need for API changes."

I haven't seen anyone else comment on this sentence, but I'm baffled by it. The first and second parts don't seem in any way connected, nor at all in keeping with my experience of building SPAs - the UI layer is often intricately complicated and every bit as hard to iterate on as an API!
Your mom won't even hear about the education or enterprise editions. At most she'll hear about home, phone, and pro... and maybe not even the latter.
I suspect the reason business owners don't opt for a service charge in lieu of gratuity for front of house employees is due to payroll taxes. "Adjusting prices accordingly" vs adding a service charge would, in most cases, screw the employee and reward the business owner, who might give a slightly higher wage to his employees, but would be tempted to pocket the difference as profit.

Under the current system, so much gratuity is left unreported/underreported due to cash tipping. Business owners have no incentive to keep track of employee tips paid in cash; otherwise, they would be required to pay payroll taxes on the tips going into their employees' pockets. This is changing, as more and more transactions are conducted via credit instead of cash, so tracking is easier.

Under a service charge model, everything would have to be tracked and reported, resulting in a higher tax burden to the business owner. In the food service industry where profit margins are thin and reputations can be shattered overnight, it's tough to find a comfortable space between tax law, ethical employment practices, and keeping your business afloat.
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Anecdotal, but I chat with a friend from San Francisco and he was telling me recently that he was feeling down because a funeral was coming up. It was about the 6th or 7th death of someone close to him that he had experienced, about half of them being suicides.

I can't even begin to fathom what that must feel like, I don't know anyone but older family members who have passed away.
In Germany sales tax changed once in the past 20 years. Everyone noticed it.
Eve is tradewars with graphics. All the stories that are told about the crazy hijinx in EVE take me back to 2400bps modems and tradewars.
Read the Takeshi Kovacs novels by Richard Morgan for some interesting ideas about this. In them, you can back up your mind and switch it to different bodies. If you get killed, you can restore your last backup but you lose any memories from then on.

Where do these bodies come from? Well one form of punishment is where they back up your mind and sell off your body (why waste it?)... When you get out of prison, you end up with a different body. Bodies are expensive, so getting out is only viable if you are rich.
It's not clear that anyone has the legal means to stop you from hosting your friends for free.

Besides, couch surfers typically stay in the same house as the current resident, and he/she has to maintain good relations with the neighbours.

The apartment adjacent to mine recently got turned into a short-term rental place. Most of the time there's no problem, but every couple of weeks an extremely loud group of tourists comes over and treats it like a party house, making tons of noise, blasting soccer games on the TV with associated loud cheering, etc.
This is disputable.

Please check out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908197

And a great book on the topic: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674022416/ref=oh_aui_detai...
> Windows is one of the top 5 most profitable software products in the world. Trust that they know how to make money.

Monopolization of the markets. I do trust it, but only when I do it. ;)
I don't believe this problem should be solved with regulation - AirBnB should handle it better internally. For that matter, I would advise you to ask the landlord ahead of time in the future and to only pay with AmEx - they side with their customers the vast majority of the time in the case of charge backs.
This is why we don't microbenchmark languages. Usually if you dig a little deeper, you find that actually the difference between the languages is mostly just that one of them does one thing badly.

This by the way is MLton's worst case scenario. MLton is designed to perform full-program optimisation (unlike almost any other compiler I've seen); the gap is supposed to grow as the code gets larger (read: more realistic).

Sadly due to its design tradeoffs (it's a compiler) it's totally unsuitable for the big ML projects (interactive theorem provers).
From years of my experience, both in big corporate tech and startups, smart Engineers will always find business reasons to sell you their tech-debt free perfect rainbow unicorn architecture.

Even worse, if you're then not equally technical as a manager you will never know whether you've made a solid choice by aligning with or against the engineer's view, and even worse your engineers will quickly take on a "see, I told you so" stance should things work out not perfectly under an agile model.

Edit: I should add that I am an engineer myself.
Spark is now Particle
It's great to see Elm crediting Om for some of its ideas. The cross pollination between the Elm and Clojurescript community is great. Looking into Zelkova (https://github.com/jamesmacaulay/zelkova), an Elm style signal library for Clojure, right now. It's a great time to be a fan of stuff like this.
VirtualBox is affected in a different/partial way. Summary: Patch to 4.3.28, released today.

The vulnerability is not mentioned explicitly in the change log. It only shows up as one of 32 bullet points "Floppy: several fixes". The actual changes are recorded only as "2015-05-08 12:58 Changeset in vbox [55753] by vboxsync: FDC: Fixed DRIVE SPECIFICATION command".

The fixed file from the QEMU project is:

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=hw/block/fdc.c;h=f7...

VirtualBox's equivalent file is:

https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Devic...

There were some changes related to command buffers five days ago by Frank, but they only address FD_CMD_DRIVE_SPECIFICATION_COMMAND (in a slightly different way than QEMU's developers did it). The VirtualBox source code diffs are at:

https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/55753/vbox

Compare to the QEMU diffs at:

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=e907746266721...

The vulnerability does not affect the current VirtualBox FD_CMD_READ_ID or the versions of the file going way. Maybe because it might have been forked as far back as 2003? Crowdstrike did point out that the vulnerability was present from 2004. But the vulnerability manifests in two bugs, one of which appears to affect VirtualBox and the other not.
I don't use their products, so they may not suck at business, but they suck at getting my business. And given how successful Apple has been at courting both consumers and professionals, I don't think it's at all ridiculous to argue that maybe Microsoft needs to tweak how they present their products to the world. Especially their most successful products.

Or I could use your logic:

Apple makes even more money and they only offer one version of Mac OS X. They don't suck at business. Microsoft does. QED.
This seems like the sort of thing that can work for Google because Google runs on Google software, which runs on Google hardware. They control the full stack from top to bottom, so they can decide where to put the doors and where to put the monitoring.

Most companies run on stuff that is not their own. Microsoft Exchange running on Windows running on VMWare running in some 3rd party datacenter is a fairly modern way to host an email server. In that situation, everything is out of your hands BUT the network edge. You don't audit Microsoft's code bases, you don't specify how Webmail works, you don't control the discovery, disclosure, or patching of critical vulnerabilities.

Sure maybe the firewall/IDS/VPN only keeps amateur griefers out, but there are way more of those than APTs.

And folks will only have limited insight into the internals of all this 3rd-party software. But if you have a gated network, then you can use a tool like NetWitness to characterize and alert on your traffic--and just your traffic.
Regarding 1, I agree that machine code (and machine-code equivalents) for probably all architectures are not Turing Complete if we are to be rigorous.

In that case, regarding 2, any encoding from a Turing Complete language into machine code must inevitably be an approximation. That says nothing about the source language.

Regarding 3, I mostly agree - if you can comfortably accomplish your task in a language that is not Turing complete, then making the language Turing complete is a bug not a feature. That is true whether the task is programming or markup.

I would say that HTML is not a programming language because it is not very good for programming; it is a markup language, because it was designed for markup and is much better for markup than for programming or most other tasks. Turing completeness is irrelevant.
I was fascinated by what they reported. I liked the comparison between my height and other measurements the site gives, including movement of tectonic plates. But I was disappointed that the site didn't report anything about longevity trends in our lifetimes, because those have been some of the most striking and unexpected trends of all.

Many people posting here on Hacker News seem to think that health in general is declining around the world, but exactly the opposite is happening. Girls born since 2000 in the developed world are more likely than not to reach the age of 100, with boys likely to enjoy lifespans almost as long. The article "The Biodemography of Human Ageing" by James Vaupel,[1] originally published in the journal Nature in 2010, is a good current reference on the subject. Vaupel is one of the leading scholars on the demography of aging and how to adjust for time trends in life expectancy. His striking finding is "Humans are living longer than ever before. In fact, newborn children in high-income countries can expect to live to more than 100 years. Starting in the mid-1800s, human longevity has increased dramatically and life expectancy is increasing by an average of six hours a day."[2] If I remember correctly, there was a previous Hacker News submission of an article in a series on Slate, "Why Are You Not Dead Yet? Life expectancy doubled in past 150 years. Here’s why"[3] That article gives a lot of background information about why mortality and morbidity are going down, and thus life expectancy is increasing at all ages. Life expectancy at age 40, at age 60, and at even higher ages is still rising throughout the both developed countries and the still developing countries of the world.[4] It's not just newborns and young children who have better life expectancies than ever before, but everyone in most countries.

[1] http://www.demographic-challenge.com/files/downloads/2eb51e2...

[2] http://www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/2010/humanlongevity....

[3] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_...

[4] http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v307/n3/box...
If you booked using a credit card, a chargeback is a potential option. You may be blacklisted from using the service in the future though.
I used to live in Irvine which strikes me as very similar to PA (I live Mountain View now). The pressure put on kids there is incredible. And it starts from a very young age.

Frankly the kids are way, way sharper than most adults I meet. Even in the bay area.
Another step forward towards the post C/C++ world.
> Servo is definitely going to have better performance (and I expect security).

Is this clear? The multi-core rendering surely can't be used for every page.
As an aside, I just read (well, listened) the book and it was amazing. Truly one of the best non-fiction books I've ever read. It's both hilarious and incredibly poignant, in a way that never feels overbearing or out of place.

I highly recommend listening to the audiobook version narrated by Adams himself. It's quite excellent; Adams is really a perfect narrator. You can find it on YouTube, since I don't think it's available for purchase anymore.

(On the bright side, many of the animals mentioned in the book are doing better these days.)
You are assuming that Airbnb hosts give up their entire place. I never been to any Airbnb where that was the case, it is anecdotal evidence but without presenting the numbers you can't really make that argument. On the other hand I was in CS hosts apartment alone. This is also just anecdotal evidence, but I think in this topic these details have nothing to do with outcome of that voting.
Alarmist headline for an obscure driver, that, while included in the kernel, is almost certainly not running on your production Linux server. Seems to be related to products from Ozmo Device Inc. that push USB data over a layer 2 Wi-Fi Direct connection: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/staging/ozwpan/
I commend you on the approach and this is something I was very much looking forward to. However there are a couple of constraints that will prevent me (and I think other people) to apply:

- need to visit Estonia to open a bank account

- filing taxes with an accounting software in Estonian only

Solve those 2 issues and the only one left is the unavoidable double taxation complexity: you could try adding more information to the site about this subject, for example stating with which countries Estonia has currently established treaties to avoid double taxation.
Go package for automation of Junos (Juniper Networks) devices
> First, in terms of raw energy, I'm pretty sure finance has bitcoin beat.

This is a painfully disingenuous response. It's obvious that the system servicing billions of people and businesses around the world would dwarf the energy tab of a system that services a relative handful of niche users. Why even bother with such a clearly flawed comparison?

> The cost of all the energy used will tend towards the price of the subsidy+fees, and the subsidy is being phased out. In a few decades the subsidy will be almost gone.

Yes, the subsidy will drop but the energy costs will continue to rise and the fees will obviously have to rise to compensate for the absence of subsidies (otherwise the miners will be losing money).

> If bitcoin completely replaced finance, would it really use more energy than saved by finance stopping?

Finance will never "stop". Demand for consumer financial services (like banks, loans, credit & debit cards, etc) would remain pretty much the same, even with bitcoin at the core of finance. The cost of "mining" dollars is negligible compared to the ancillary financial services that people actually care about, so replacing dollars with bitcoin simply adds the extra energy of bitcoin mining into the mix. If bitcoin were cheaper than the legacy system, then why is it that all bitcoin companies prefer to use "offchain transactions" (aka non-bitcoin transactions) whenever possible? The answer is that the blockchain is incredibly inefficient compared to the legacy financial system. Payment gateways like bitpay that have no choice but to interact with the blockchain have spent lots of money building trusted node networks in order to roll their own double-spend detection heuristics because relying on bitcoin's inherent security is too slow for the needs of an actual business. The only problem bitcoin solves is "decentralized" which isn't a problem for most people.
You're right, dang - I just took a look at FAQ now. It appears that the submission could have been penalized because we shared it among our friends and specifically asked for upvotes.
Nice. The low poly style looks like the design pendulum swinging from harsh Minecraft cubism back to a middle ground.
How can I do object level permissions with Phoenix and ecto?

I can not find anything about advanced security features in the docs (not only because the search on the site is broken).
A fast HTML implementation for the first 1,000,000 digits:

<a href="http://www.piday.org/million/">π</a>

Takes advantage of memoization and lazy evaluation.
I'm not convinced either about 3D printing having a Napster moment. But Napster does provide another good example of how scale totally changes things. The music industry didn't really have a serious problem with personal mixtapes or copying a friend's album. (Not saying they necessarily liked it but it wasn't a public issue.) Napster, on the other hand, that let you trade songs with 100,000 of your closest friends...
Do you have some sort of deal/sponsorship with any of the product suppliers?
China establishes its first national 3D printing lab
Any reason that needs to happen with a blanket ban and not just building bylaws. I feel like the goal should be that different buildings try different things, until we figure out what "no one around me may use airbnb" is worth in terms of higher rent. Then people could do what works for them.
Teenage years are already tough years for many people. Being forced (by accident of birth) into such a self-described high intensity, high competition environment sounds pretty horrible for those not predisposed to more "average" levels of achievement. Looking around, all that's visible is young and older people all high achieving, and then if your scores or whatever slip a little, you ask, "Is there any place for me here?"
He's an ex-economics teacher (now retired) that does pretty well in the market. I'd say he's in the category of hobbyist who likes reading finance news, too.

Thanks!
You don't have a consulate in California? Pick up locations in US are not very convenient for half of the country.
This is not the end...

I must admit, I loved the movie. Went to see it twice, actually. (Watch. Contemplate. Repeat.)
Gopart: Type-agnostic partitioning for Go's indexable collections and strings
This is interesting to me. Are there libraries for storing and doing math on floating point numbers with 17+ million digits?
Why is Haskell so slow at this?

As far as I can tell, my Perl implementation at http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=276112 is doing something similar with similar amounts of laziness and no optimizations build it. Yet I can produce the first 50,000 primes in the time that this takes to produce the first 10,000. And nobody uses Perl for its speed!
Funny. I'm also in Sweden and most people I know tend to either leave the small change on the bar or round up to the nearest reasonable round number when paying by card.
There are at least two startups working on this idea. eg http://synbiobeta.com/pembient-bioengineered-wildlife-produc...

Personally I think it's a bad idea, as it's demand which drives this not supply. fixing supply may only increase demand for the 'real thing' even more.