skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, a department I worked in had over 1000 vm's up with nothing installed. That's what you get when you have high turnover, huge cash flow, and management that didn't care.
Grandparent comment is talking about 'control freak' management, not an employee managing his personal desk space
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life support / hospice 4 years ago
The data for North Dakota might as well be divided into east and west. I believe the number for the eastern part of the state, but the western part requires a much higher wage. Witness how much McDonalds is paying in Wiliston, ND.
Is $20,000 a hard number. What if you make $20000 this year and would like a raise. That would automatically be detrimental, forcing you to either not take it until that raise is >20% over $20k.
Then since is rent money, and you would have to income taxes on this additional money over $20k you would actually need 20% + 15% over 20k just to break even on what you were saving in rent.
Thanks to everybody who took the time to answer. I'll look into the various proposed solutions. Thanks.
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On the other hand, according to [Numbeo survey](http://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/gmaps_rankings.jsp) , US has one of the lowest income to property pricing ratio worldwide. Whereas in the third world and developing countries, people are also struggling to afford a place to live.
This type of C++ code makes me sad. I can follow along and figure out what it's doing, but I really have to slow down and think about it. C++ template metaprogramming has the ugliest syntax of a "real" programming language that I've ever seen. Brainfuck might win for hardest to follow code, but god damn it, C++ is really trying.

IMO, Lisp did metaprogramming the right way, 40 years ago. It's built into the language and doesn't look like a hacked on cluster f*. Anybody familiar with regular Lisp can follow along with Lisp metaprogramming, and it's far more powerful than what's available in C++. And nowadays, the performance is even competitive.
His biggest challenge is the primaries, where turnout is low and dominated by ideologically extreme party members (in theory, the more ideological you are, the more motivated you are to vote). For example, I read several years ago that the Tea Partiers accounted for half of GOP primary votes, even though they are a small portion of the electorate. His competitors are towing the extremist line, for example competing with each other over who can be most hawkish; he's not and it may cost him. Also, Fox News (and the Wall St Journal) have enormous influence among those voters and the desire and track record of nakely using it to promote their favorites; it's difficult to win without being on their good side. I'm not sure of Paul's status with Fox, but his positions don't seem like a good match.

Opposing or equivocating on gay marriage, no matter what the rationale, and some of his other more conservative ideas, will be a tough sell in the general election.
They are complicated enough; and different enough from other languages that they lead to unexpected behaviors. It is just easier to say, "everyone must use semi-colons". Then I can add linting into our build process and reduce risk of bugs.

One quick example is the very contrived example that follows.

return
{a:1, b:2}

That is valid JavaScript. It is evaluated as an empty return and an unreachable expression. Probably not what was intended.

I've sent copies of the rules to people and explained them numerous times, but at the end of the day it is more productive to just use them and move on to something else IMHO.
A two bedroom unit is for a family (a couple with a kid or two kids), not for a single person. Why would a minimum wage employee lives in a two bedroom unit?
But in what region? The whole point of the post is how much it varies depending on where you live.
> As far as I know he is pro-states rights when it comes to abortion and gay marriage.

Presumably, this refers to a different Senator Rand Paul than the one that sponsored the Life at Conception Act with the explicitly stated motivation to ban abortion federally. [0]

[0] http://www.rawstory.com/2013/03/sen-rand-paul-introduces-fet...
I've read your comment. I might have responded if it weren't for the stuff such as "like the USSR did". Sentences like that make it obvious that any discourse would be futile.
So I live in one of the red states, and I live in one of the more expensive areas of that red state (but by no means the most expensive of those areas). But the vast majority of the state is pretty rural and correspondingly cheap. Maybe not Blue-state (on this map) cheap, but definitely tan -- since I know more than one person that gets by on $15-20 and has a two bedroom or better.

No surprise, extremely rural areas are cheaper and states with massive urban areas are more expensive. Wyoming is cheaper than Colorado despite being similar-ish states next to one another. In Wyoming, you're glad to see another human, in Colorado, a similar sized state with 10x the population, there's a lot more people around.

There's a similar pattern with Oregon and Washington.

So it's basically a population map [1] with a few outliers - Alaska, Hawaii, Pennsylvania and perhaps Michigan and Illinois.

It would probably just be better to focus in on those weird states and show why they're weird -- above or below their expected categories.

1 - https://xkcd.com/1138/
When you need to do 63 things... maybe you need 63 dependencies
I set up one of these deliberately in younger days...

As a bored government employee in the early 1990s, I become fascinated with the WWW. I was a network admin (NetWare 2.15c), and there was a fat, unused internet pipe and several unused phone lines. I started to mess around with Linux (Slackware kernel 0.97 I think), and after two weeks I had it talking to a Hayes modem. Voila, instant ISP! A little while later I installed Slirp, and it became my personal dial-up connection for many, many years.

Before I left that job in 1995, I moved the server (headless) to a broom closet (wrong of me, I know, I know). Knowing gov't culture, no one would mess with something like that. It was up and running at least until 1998 or so, at which point I moved to another country, and when I moved back, I no longer had the dial-up number. I like to think it is running to this day.
Ultimately, your 'justification' is just an assertion that if it doesn't come via the scientific method, either its not true or its not science.

I wouldn't call the idea that "Knowledge is good", wisdom is better than ignorance, and freedom is better than slavery, etc. counterevidence. But I believe they are true things which I cannot prove via any sort of experiment, in particular because 'good' and 'better' are of necessity subjective.
Astroturfed accounts and votes are not ok here. Please don't do that.

A small number of reposts is ok if a story hasn't had attention yet (see the FAQ linked at the bottom of this page), but please don't make new accounts to do that, or to vote for it.
Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning about algorithmic trading?
I'm a developer interested in cryptocurrencies like everyone and recently stumbled upon what I think is the neatest exchange for purchasing and trading all sorts of digital monies (https://www.virwox.com/index.php).

They also have a trading API enabling bots, and it got me wondering if algorithmic trading strategies could be used on this smaller stage to learn something about the market, economics, and automated trading's possibilities (and pitfalls).

Does anyone have any resources for undertaking a project like this - using an API to pursue an automated trading strategy?
Usually with caps like this the break is phased out. So if you make between e.g. $20k and $25k, maybe only x% of your rent is paid for, where x is between 0 and 20.
Right, this would be much more meaningful if it was calculated on county or district or some other fine granular area. States are far too diverse for this to be interesting.
Hey everyone, dev here. This started a personal tool but I thought it would be cool if you could browse other people's snippets. I don't spend much time hacking on this anymore but feedback would be appreciated
I take it the image is of the doctor.
As deet said. A practical example of pitfalls with high-rise condos is where there's a swimming pool inside the condo structure. Every time there is a crack, owners will get a $20,000 or more assessment each to fix it.
It is actually not possible to enforce type checks at compile time, due to the dynamic nature of data (e.g. you can generate a DataFrame from JSON files whose schema are automatically inferred by Spark, or generate a DataFrame by loading a table in Hive). There is simply not enough type information available at compile time, unless we rule out all these cool use cases.

There's one past attempt at making it more type safe by using macros. However, there are a lot of caveats for that to be used in practice. https://github.com/marmbrus/sql-typed
Sure, and the method by which government makes decisions certainly is not the scientific method and should not weigh in on such matters.

But still, even if you constrain yourself to such a definition of what is right, in reality you still may be wrong.

For example:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/odds-are-its-wrong
and
https://plus.google.com/+ChrisReeveOnlineScientificDiscourse...
and
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/13/8591837/how-science-is-broken
Depends on what you mean by a "good job" and what you're doing with the results. 80-90% recognition isn't good enough if it means when you search for a term it doesn't show up because the OCR saw "rn" and wrote "m", or if you're having it translated, or having it read aloud with a text-to-speech synthesizer.

In my tests, we were seeing accuracy problems of 10-15% of lines needing correction, and this is a book that was primarily headers and text.

Sometimes this is character-level issues, like I cited above.

Sometimes this is dust, debris, shadows or markings being confused with text.

You get a little closer by running spelling and context checks against the words, but it's never 100% accurate. And if you aren't looking at the original pages, or you need automated systems to search/parse/translate/etc. the text, you need it to be 100% accurate, which means you need a human editor.

OCR isn't a solved problem.
Can confirm. Putin is Scaramanga.
It really does seem like a total design-hipster move to build a silly rollover-centric UX without an obvious way to just get the pdf.
HTTP/2 does not allow communication from server to client. Server push is another matter, not really controlled by server or client. So you'll end up to polling server. This might be a bit more effective than HTTP/1 polling, but websockets will be better.
primarily systemd, journald, dbus.
If they were locals they were probably just used to it.
They wish they had invented it, but when "dong detection" is a prerequisite, it guarantees that they wouldn't.
How is it anonymous if I have to give you my number. Is there a way to text from a web client?
Put simply science is necessarily about 'is', and cannot be about 'should'.

(When confronted with that, a typical rejoinder is that there is no 'should' -- life, consciousness, agency, will is all an illusion, all is meaningless and it reduces to physics in the end. The problem with that view though is that you have to throw out truth and knowledge too then)
They were certainly funding research into it.

http://wan.poly.edu/KDD2012/docs/p552.pdf

> For instance, our observation on a typical
weekend (summer 2011) from a representative online video chat website (Omegle) indicates that 35% of the videos broadcast by this website have nudity in them. ... In this paper, we present a new approach to misbehavior detection in online video chat systems that significantly improves upon the state of the art in terms of its increased scalability while also achieving higher accuracy.

> This work is supported in part by the unrestricted gift funds from Chatroulette and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) through grant number CiC 1048298.
One thing to keep in mind with HTTP/2 server push is that a server can only
send a push in response to a client request.

This was the difference that I was not aware of, thanks. So HTTP/2 server push is just opportunistic, while WebSockets are real-time push with a persistent connection.
The one thing that screwed me over is that the Upload by default compresses the files to lower res. I lost some high-res photos this way.. this should not be a default setting.
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I have a two year old Lenovo S431 running Linux Mint 17.1. For the most part it runs flawlessly. My only complaint is the wireless card. I can't connect to comcast wifi networks when xfinity wifi is turned on, and in general, the wifi range is horrible. I wanted a thinner, portable laptop, but from what I've read, a lot of the newer Lenovos that aren't part of the business line (like the T series) have wifi problems.
Call me crazy, but are there any studies that show exposure to genitalia during childhood leads to psychological damage of any kind? I suspect there isn't, and that this social taboo is, to some degree, absurd. Seems like this social taboo leads to a lot of damage and cost, while likely being unwarranted.

I mean, I suspect people in general don't want to see dongs in Lego Universe or really any non-sexual game, so efforts should be taken to prevent it. But it shouldn't need to go beyond normal moderation. The only reason Lego feels the need to go beyond that is because of the social taboo. In what I imagine a "normal" society to be, dongs in LU would just be laughed off as a joke, and the builder banned for breaking the rules. Nothing more.
The problem with this theory of course is that Google basically doesn't do finished products, things sit in beta for half a decade and maybe they'll bother to take that label off the product or kill it or suddenly charge 4000% or whatever.

Google needs a clearer product pipeline, right now there's "we're not showing this to the public", "arbitrarily special people who are mostly press can see it" and "it's out in the wild". That's too flat for the public and doesn't really engage the developer part of the pipeline.

I/O is a public event, it's broadcast worldwide, live. It's the most consumer-level/press-level developer event I've ever seen outside of WWDC.
- Single-parent families, with a parent living on minimum wage.

- Students.

- People are expected to leave their parents house at age 18. But without a proper trade skills, they can only earn minimum wage.

- etc.

But we may be missing the point here. Since this article doesn't seem to take into the consideration of other living expenses, even if we're talking about a family with two parents and kid instead of a single person: the family may still struggle to pay the rent plus bills.
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> John Kim has very broad experience with roleplaying games, fantasy and otherwise.

The completely lack of concrete ties to specific systems makes it hard to tell, but the generalizations he makes seem to be, at best, only valid of games designed to operate in a simulation-oriented manner like D&D, rather ones designed to operate in a more narrative-oriented manner (FATE, among others.)

> He certainly does not have a worldview comprised entirely or mostly of one or two RPGs

If not, he certainly seems to have a narrowness of understanding on the particular subject similar to what you might have of issues in programming languages when you had an experience of more than one or two languages -- but they were all statically-typed OO languages with Algol-style syntax.
The Mercator distortion automatically decreases as you increase zoom levels. Street level zoom is only noticeable really close to the poles so even micmerdo staion looks fine.
We are absolutely talking about the current legal landscape. If you want to discuss polygamy in a spherical cow universe, that's fine, and I've already said I have no in-principle objection to formalizing polygamy.

However, a union between three or more people (or multiple concurrent marriages) is in an engineering sense a very different mechanism. It has more moving parts and more complicated parts. Most critically, its interfaces to the outside world are different.

It would require substantial root-and-branch changes to a massive amount of existing legislation in every country and state. Using a different word in law (while accepting colloquial use of the word marriage in everyday parlance) is a practical necessity.
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Worst yet, this is happening worldwide as investors realizes this is a not heavily regulated investment methods.
It's software, everything is possible :) It is fairly straightforward to add compile time information via a simple case class definition. There is still a dynamic type check that json matches the case class, but the spec of the structure of the data is done in one place, not spread out arbitrarily over the query code base.
For anyone else wondering what the criteria for "affording a two bedroom apartment" is, it looks like they define it as having the yearly rent cost be less than or equal to 1/3 of your yearly income (pre-taxes).
A lot of parody sites get posted to HN. I can't remember the last time one of them made me laugh, but this one did. I think the title is the best bit.
JetBrains' MPS Projectional Editor [video]
This is pretty much the situation in the UK for the last few years, although the rents are closer to 10% the property value. Where I'm from, a nice area but pretty limited job prospects in any industry, a 2 bedroom apartment sells for £150k ($220k) and rents for £800 ($1200) a month.
So, an individual buys a one family home, at a convenient location, with the intent of renting it out as an income-producing property. The person pays extra money, since a more desirable piece of property is more likely to stay occupied and produce rent.

The owner gets it ready for rental, and selects a rental price. The rental price covers the costs of buying the property, improving the home, paying taxes, and a percentage to ensure repairs and upkeep over time, with the hopes that a portion of the money dedicated to upkeep will eventually become profits, depending on tenant churn.

Someone shows up seeking to rent, and just happens to make less than the magic number (under 20K for example), so the owner has to forfeit the portion of the price that covers taxes and upkeep.

The owner is expected to make a decision that will turn a potential source of income into a potential burden, which risks falling into disrepair. How then is this decision expected to play out?
Dell XPS 15. Awesome build quality, very very similar to the Macbook, but slightly cheaper, and still had an option for a hi red screen. And you won't have everyone assuming you're running OSX.
A one-bedroom is an even bigger luxury than a two-bedroom. You can get a roommate and share a two-bedroom.
Which is strange because there did exist a multiplayer game made by a hobbyist where you could build using Lego shaped bricks. And if I remember correctly Lego is the reason that game stopped existing.
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It is, click on a state.
> However, a union between three or more people (or multiple concurrent marriages) is in an engineering sense a very different mechanism.

Forming, adding to, withdrawing from, dissolving, and otherwise handling unions of three or more people, including in dealing with how the members of the union deal with their rights and powers vis-a-vis the property and prerogatives of the union as such between each other and in interfacing with outside entities has been dealt with fairly extensively over the past several centuries in the evolution of partnership law. And most of it can be viewed as a fairly direct multiparty generalization of the two party way similar things are dealt with in existing marriage.

There's no real reason that a generalization of marriage law to handle multiparty relationships that reduced naturally to the same handling for two-party cases as status quo rules would deserve any different name.
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I have always wondered why the government is involved with marriage at all. Seems like it would be simpler if we set it up like this:

Everyone pays the same taxes no matter what, and you better write an explicit will and testament to control who gets your stuff when you die/can pull the plug on your vegetative state. Ie. no special benefits/drawbacks for married people.

If you want to get married, great---go find a church or a mosque or a ship's captain; it's none of the state's business. The government doesn't recognize the institution of marriage as anything special. Marriage would be an entirely private association, like joining the Elks lodge or something.
Why do airplane windows have tiny holes?
What does "defamatio" have to do with dongs?
Can I just say this is an abuse of Twitter.

Seriously, if you want to use more that 140 characters, use something else.
It wouldn't be fair to compare the US to socialized countries like individual European nations because most European nations aren't world powers policing the globe and have much more economic and political stability. Most socialized European nations aren't experiencing social unrest or widespread disagreement about social policies.

The US on the other hand has much more disagreement. The USSR consisted of many countries dominated by the Soviets who didn't agree with many policies of the government. While the US isn't taking over other countries and making more US states, the states are already similar to small countries.

As we concentrate power more and more at a federal level we take away sovereignty from the individual states. This, in my opinion is very similar to what lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union. They spread themselves thin and forced everyone to assimilate under one political ideology. This only works when a large portion of the country agrees with said policies.

While the US will probably never suffer the same fate as the USSR, I could easily see us spreading our selves to thin across the globe, mismanaging money, and pissing everyone off, thus leading to economic decline and loss of faith in the political system as a whole (this is already happening).

America won't be able to handle socialism. We want too many things.
I wrote a mini-survey of distributed bug tracking in 2008 here:

http://evan-tech.livejournal.com/248736.html
this is really not my area of expertise but you pose a great question that I'm trying to justify for myself: perhaps Lego has legal responsibilities? you know, the same way I have legal responsibilities not to expose kids to genetalia.

for instance, if user of age shows a pornographic picture to a minor in minecraft, what are the legal implications?

edit: another comment suggests minecraft handles exactly this by not running their own servers. let's say for the sake of argument they didn't.
I have a feeling that the sort of "psychological damage" they're worrying about is precisely the fact that "exposure to genitalia" makes kids more likely to violate the social taboo and show their own genitalia, and that makes the anti-pedophile groups (and others of prudish nature) horrified.

The reason that kids are building dongs is because they know it's a taboo. If the reaction of others upon seeing it was not shock but a mere "Oh, a penis. So what?", I doubt they would be doing it.
Given the number of kids walking around all the naked people at burning man, and not paying the slightest attention (well, after the first day), I doubt a replica of a penis in Lego would have any impact, negative or otherwise. Total waste of money policing that sort of stuff.
I really hope that this will be collected in a data set that can be used for research. I think the analysis and observations will likely be eye-opening for many non-black people.