jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I don't know why you think value doesn't exist until a transaction.

Value is determined by what the market actually pays, not by someone’s model of what it would pay. That isn’t the value - that is an estimate of what someone would receive if and only if they sell at that moment. Contesting an estimate doesn’t change that.

Whenever prices fall, do you propose paying cash to homeowners to reimburse them for all of the overpaid taxes?

Forcing someone to take a loan on a volatile asset that they can’t sell without losing their home is a brutal policy.

> I'm focusing on the millions of houses in California that have went up in value by huge amounts since the last market snapshot for the tax basis whose owners are millionaires.

Ok - so you just don’t care how many other people get hurt or displaced as long as you get to take money from some millionaires?
Oh yeah I didn't realise there was an FPGA there.

Still, it's a pretty weird niche. An SD card is not very reliable for computing use. If I spend this much I'd much rather have something a bit more reliable. Like a "SCSI2SATA" adapter which then connects to an SSD. It would have much better random write performance too I bet. But I haven't been able to find such a thing.
More the carbon footprint, yeah. But also general concerns about how much the crypto industry is about "converting energy into value and an asston of waste heat".
I don't think so. The concept of having spare land, sure. Private ownership of land is and always has been a social construct, subject to limits imposed by both society and physics. To claim that it is "sacred" is to misunderstand the nature of society.

Accordingly, modern (sub)urban land ownership has very little to do with Spanish and English colonial land grants or US settlers. It comes with huge social benefits and is encumbered by extensive permitting, taxation, and use limits. You'll notice that Vinod Khosla isn't interested in exchanging his Half Moon Bay property for, say, an equivalent amount of land in North Dakota, where he might be permitted to block public access all day long.
They released a fix for existing devices, replaced affected devices that had been bricked, and included the fix as part of the manufacturing process for new devices being built.

It was certainly very inconvenient having to reboot systems while we waited for a fix to exist, fortunately we didn't lose too many disks before the fault was identified, which reduced the man hours involved in the DCs.

I'm not sure if any part of this is a scam. A bug, certainly.
If you need another speedup consider LuaJIT which is used at CERN for heavy number crunching and data analysis, see http://cds.cern.ch/record/2157242?ln=de.
E.g. on slide 14: LuaJIT took 5.3 sec, C++/GCC 5.7 sec, PyPy 7.6 sec, Julia 35 sec and Python > 2 hours.
Any idea how this affects peeron.com? Will they develop their own marketplace?
Could one not walk up to this beach by foot following the road built? I ask this because the article said the previous owner charged for parking not access. If so I don't agree with the judges assessment because that would mean anyone from the public could just walk to this beach and use it as they are arguing it has always been open to the public which seems true to me from what I've read.
This is so amusing to me. I imagine their team goes to great lengths to obtain training data, clean it up and feed it to their ML algorithm.

Yet the most critical input data - direct feedback from the user on the traits that shape their interests, is completely ignored/not collected.
Buy: Coinbase or Okcoin

Store: generate address keys on an air-gapped computer, best option is a linux live boot instance, encrypt the keys with a strong password and store on write protected media in a safe place. Make sure to have several backups of the encrypted storage file and for the love of bits do not forget the passwords. NEVER LET RAW KEYS NEAR AN INTERNET CONNECTED MACHINE, when you are ready to transfer funds out of the secure wallet(s) decrypt them on an air-gapped machine, sign your transaction, and then copy that over to a connected machine to broadcast.
What you've outlined is what's on his bio, which is interesting sure. But I am willing to bet that there is a much more interesting backstory to this. Nothing bad per se, but perhaps he will one day tell a story of how Silicon Valley burned him a couple of times and left him pessimistic about how much one can really disrupt entire industries.

He is basically trying to find a little niche to mine for a small win, not change the world. That's so fascinating to me.
I sit in one of our glass offices directly next to a lot of windows: http://i.imgur.com/FZmvSZB.jpg

I don't have any issues with glare or anything since all of our windows have nice blinds that anyone can adjust, some of them even have two sets of blinds (regular and complete block-out blinds) if you would like to make the surrounding area as dark as possible.

Not all walls of our offices are glass too, we should've mentioned that in the blog post but it seemed pedantic. All offices have glass doors but they also have walls (painted with white board paint!), here's what my office looks like from the door in the previous picture: http://i.imgur.com/2n3nDkc.jpg

The only way I could get distracted by something that's happening in an office on either side of mine is by climbing up and looking at the 12" of glass on the top of the wall that's designed for allowing light to enter rooms that aren't facing windows (which I've definitely done before, it freaks people out, hilarious)

To be honest though, compared to the open work environments I used to work at any amount of glare is worth the change :)
You mean "a very small subset of all books exist in the more expensive form of an audio book". Just check the library closest to you: 10000s of books, 100s of audio books.
It's like an apartment complex owner, expected to provide a certain level of "security" in the form of locking doors, fences, lights, live guards, etc ... but then a tenant complains that the self-locking building door is keeping his friends out, that the fence prevents him from entering from the otherwise most convenient path, the lights keep him awake, and the guard patrol is preventing him from growing pot plants on his porch. The tenant then solicits signatures for a petition unlocking all the doors (ALL of them, closets included), removing fences & lights, firing the guards, and otherwise removing hindrances to growing a pot farm ... and then being surprised when most of the other tenants insult the idea.
> Maybe you're right that non-young-male-Americans are genetically incapable of liking comic books as a medium

It doesn't have to be genetics. It could just be that the opportunity for a cultural development that would favor broader popularity of comic books in the US was missed -- the development of that culture is not independent of things like the currently existing set of other media options, pre-existing cultural perceptions of pictorial media, etc.

The cultural popularity and associations of particular art forms are path dependent.
I was at a Neo4j intro meetup earlier in the week. They do market it as a primary DB. Maybe the capabilities are different now.
Python 2 is not nice as soon as you face something containing unicode chars.
It was outsourced to freight companies. The same companies that deliver and put together your Pottery Barn furniture. There was nothing special about their 'white glove' delivery.
The remote is from a toy sub with a syringe like mechanism for buoyancy. It is a complicated designed toy but cheaply price and fun to play with inside an aquarium or the pool. Looks like real sub too.
There are plenty of mission driven private sector companies. Find one with a mission you align with. For me, it is really rewarding to help people create and upskill tech careers at Pluralsight.

I regularly hear stories or see posts online about people going from low wage jobs to a web dev career within a year using Pluralsight. Making an annual income nobody in their family has ever gotten close to making before. Transformative.
For most people, I bet it's more of a marketing term. When people hear "contactless", they might think that someone can steal your credit card number or charge you just by being in the same area.
The estate tax is a disgrace, but this is overly cynical. Buffett is giving away far more than he'd pay in taxes, even at the 55% estate tax rate.
> If I have 50,000 CHF in a box in my cupboard, what value is it beyond a small amount of fuel to burn?

You are so close to understanding the true value of bitcoin.
- occasionally accidentally truncates the database

If you're going to do this, at least write to a temporary file, fsync the file, rename into place, and fsync the directory. But I recommend SQLite any time someone is tempted to write these lines.
yes. I had read this one some time ago. My question still stands, what made muslims go from inquisitive science seekers like the one in the article, father of robotics, to "science=bad". This sentiment is continuing to this day with almost all the religious preachers who find it "incomprehensible" that science can exist in the same plane as religion. To explain my point, the "talk of the town" is usually whenever the weatherman comes on the news and says something like "we forecast heavy rains for 2 days then sunny day for a week". As a person who "gets science" i know what this guy just said so i'm like "ok. fine so prepare for a jacket to work" while the religious folk say "this is heresy. do you know if god wants, god can change night into day, rain into sun in the blink of an eye. saying what will happen tomorrow is saying you are not a believer in god because god can end the world today and there be no tomorrow or god can make tomorrow a sunny day when this guy is saying it will rain".

You know in india and pakistan, in present times, 2020 and coming 2021, there is "always" a fight between science people and religious people on the "appearance of crescent" on religious days. the science folk say the motion of moon is calculated and we can precisely know for next hundreds of years if on a particular day the crescent will be visible from a location but the religious folk refuse to accept.

what i am saying is what made these religious folk distrust and hate science ? did someone tell them don't promote science or it will eat their lunch? or something else?
"Represent" in the public and media mind share.

What the technology actually is capable of, and is doing today, these are different things.
Taxation is just theft, There is no fair way to apply theft.
Can you explain how chunky graphics differs from non-chunky graphics? I'm not familiar with this term.
The whole thing is just so weird to me, that it's just hard to even know what a convincing explanation might look like. My current best guess is that the NYTimes journalist felt that they had to write something after the whole kerfuffle we're all too familiar with, and somehow all they managed to come up with was that really sad piece of SneerClub-grade innuendo. You could call it a "revenge" piece from that POV but that's really pushing it, even calling it a hit piece goes way too far. The New Yorker actually published a way more respectable critical piece on Scott, many months before the NYTimes did.
empty interface{} and struct tags really shine when used as a library author, or authoring a bit of extremely reusable code that’s pervasive throughout a codebase.

Think things like json encoding (entirely réflection based), or writing a set of functions that can operate on something more generic. It’s not scary and it’s not really that slow, you just need to be very particular and choosy in your application of it.
Jimmy Carter tried this and got vilified for it. You don't get into positions of power by telling Americans how to do more with less. You get there by telling Americans "More, more, always more, more for you. More, more, more. I promise."
"so let's test them while blaring a foghorn in their ear"

I hope I don't get yelled at, but damn that was funny. That stated it so perfectly.

The only "stress" in software development that I see on the job is trying to meet deadlines that either aren't realistic, or now moot due to (substantial) changes in requirements.

Bugs are normal. Prod issues are normal. Code that won't work as you envisioned or intended is normal. Problems that are hard to solve are normal. Any or all of the above sometimes require extra hours to resolve but that's not even in the same ballpark as "will I be homeless soon".

Phrased another way: being without money is not that stressful. Being without a way to make money is extremely stressful.
Man, don’t feel this way. You are great, young and capable. Fuck the job! There will be many opportunities for you and with hard work and a little belief in yourself you’ll capture them.

Do you know how many great entrepreneurs, professionals and artists got started at your age? A LOT!
“Society as a whole” cannot decide anything, as “society” is an abstraction, and a leaky one at that.

If an individual can’t decide for another, no assemblage of individuals can legitimately claim that authority either.

I certainly don’t want to live in a place where it takes hundreds of years for the majority to finally decide that, for example, racial minorities really do deserve equal protection under the law (or a hundred years to reach the point where it is not legal to enslave them).

Surely you see the problem.
needs photo and video upload
Can someone with more 3D skills than me please make a video of the Cybertruck smashing though a normal truck ICEing a supercharger bay.
I think the kind of people who would be concerned about this sort of thing don't buy iProducts.
Wait, what was your mother angry about? Seeing a half naked man/woman or was it the content of your comment?
I can confirm that (1) is in fact wrong. I have apps that when I run them and then 'exit' the battery gets chewed noticeably faster.

Half a dozen apps is not very many apps. In fact, it is a ridiculously small number of apps for a device that is "all about the apps".
A little over 180,000 are private repos
That's actually the point of the article - law enforcement does have access to tracking data, but the barriers to access are high.

By storing a user's data in an easily-accessible, unencrypted way the barriers are low enough that private investigators, stalkers, and other unsavory types have a similar level of access to someone's data, but with none of the legal hoops and hassles.
Biggest mistake was taking me to a private signup page instead of showing me at least a product teaser. Clever though!
There is a big problem with that. Your newsfeed instantly becomes more boring by being less diverse.
What a relief! Maybe now this celebrity gossip will get off the front page.
One possibility is that, as in the US [0], the London taxi industry has a lot of sway in politics. I'd guess that the taxi lobby had a lot to do with this decision.

“Any London politician wants the black cabs on their side. They carry a political and electoral clout that is way beyond their numbers. There is nothing secret about that,” says Daniel Moylan, who was deputy chairman of TfL under Mr Johnson. [1]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/07/31/the-t...
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/41a0ff40-a383-11e7-9e4f-7f5e6a7c9...
You missed personal finance in that list.
I'm not sure if you are recommending doing away with regular curriculum completely or supporting it with your curriculum. I am all for latter because that's the change which is feasible, former is not.
I'm currently stuck on a mix of shared hosting and VPS with my asp.net apps. I'm really keen to move to something simpler that also fits with my git-workflow. AppHarbor looks very promising and much simpler than Azure (hopefully cheaper too!)
Deploying .NET web apps can be kind of a hazzle

hassle
"Conversion Badass", not "Conversation Badass".
The best discoveries of these startups, like in any industry, will be copied by the market leaders — the countries of today.

That seems to be patently false. If better ways of governance really were infectious, governments would be roughly converging in their policies. At the very least, for example, similar governments (let's say western democracies) might all have universal healthcare.
We're working on Mercurial support too. There are loads of .NET and C# projects on github though: https://github.com/languages/C%23
I have a Windows version. I don't know if it runs under Win7 but I think emulating Win95 is easier for most people than emulating an old Mac platform. If anyone is interested, let me know.
I do. The new ASP.NET MVC stuff is really nice, and I suppose the biggest draw for me is that I already use C#/F# on a daily basis, so using ASP.NET is just a matter of learning the API.

If your only experience with ASP.NET was with the old, ASP.NET Forms-based stuff, I understand where you're coming from -- my first development job was writing ASP.NET Forms apps on .NET 1.1...it wasn't pretty, to say the least -- but you should really give the new ASP.NET MVC 2 (or 3, which is almost RTM) a look.
Follow the OP's advice: don't remove IE unless it is unused! You may lose a convert by removing it without explanation.

My parents navigate the Internet by clicking the arrow next to the address bar, and clicking the webpage they want to use. The last time I tried converting them, they also used work-related webpages with ActiveX controls, which no sane browser would ever support. Tech is slow outside of the tech industry.

My parents' Chrome usage would be a play in three Acts:

Act 1: Confusion. "Where did my Sites go? The ones that were on top. I used to click something to click the sites, but now that's gone. There's no arrow! I have to open History? I didn't have to do that before. Where did my Homepage go? What's a 'tab'?"

Act 2: Judgement. "I had this the way I like it before. I don't think I can get used to using this. And I couldn't use the Work system, so I have to keep switching between things."

Act 3: Trashbin. "That Google thing? I uninstalled that. We didn't like it. And we couldn't use it for Work."

As they say, the best user interface is the one you already know how to use.
The planned obsolescence came from the huge strides the market was making. I don't care that old Pentium 3 chips don't last for fifty years, because they are already relics twenty years later.

Making consumer goods bombproof when they will be comically obsolete in a decade or two seems like a waste of time, money, and resources.
Really nice - especially seeing as a lot of things I'd actually find in a supermarket are there.

Is there any way to get a database dump of some sort? I managed to find a Open Food Facts API on Github, but I'd imagine it might be better to be able to export data so I'm not chewing up resources on Open Food Facts' server.
It's hard to even research certain topics these days without google leading to a useless stackoverflow page. Yes, most questions have been 'answered'... But years ago and those aren't the ones Google leads to.

The overall quality of stack overflow has decreased dramatically over the past few years. These days, when I go there mostly I have the chance to help someone from India do his or her job and tell people to stop using obsolete database interfaces and leaving their code wide-open to SQL injection. It's not very rewarding, educational, useful or entertaining.
While traveling through Sikkim, locals told me that both China and India were vying for Sikkim’s loyalty and India secured it by employing huge amounts of people. At the time I visited (2010) the anecdote I recall hearing was 70% of the workforce is government employed.
Prolog implementations are too heavily reliant on the stated order of predicate rules in order to make execution progress. Many predicates are non-terminating or extremely inefficient when faced with goal inversion, but are often 'fixed' by simply reversing the order of some of its rules (but making it useless in the original direction in the process). This is disappointing when trying to maximize prolog's biggest potential: building true total relations that can project in any direction with a single definition.

There are technical reasons why the pursuit of term reordering is problematic, namely 'cut', which is a kind of out-of-bounds alteration of the program's execution. Previous attempts to get rid of 'cut' apparently ran into other problems. IMO the root of the issue is that prolog has no way to declare a "closed" predicate, and then optimize execution based on their presence. I think cut papers-over (heh) the lack of "closed predicates".
> In that link they don't use the word race.

The link specifically describes a (potential) move away from using the word, showing examples where they did and describing some of the history of when it was used. The comment you replied to even told you which specific image in the article to look at for an example...
The transport capacity of busses isn't even in the same ballpark as the capacity of a subway. Subways (and surface rail) are the most capable mass transport system we have by a very wide margin. Busses only make sense to close gaps in the train network.
If anyone is looking for an alternative to PeerJS, I highly recommend simple-peer by feross: https://github.com/feross/simple-peer

I created multi party P2P audio/video chat in ~200 lines of code a while back, here it is: https://github.com/ScottyFillups/p2pchat (see room.js and all the files under client/)

Demo page is here: https://scottyfillups.io/p2pchat
> I suspect the "IP reputation" site you referenced is utter bullshit when it comes to its "Proxy Detection".

It very well could be. That wasn't an endorsement by any means. The problem from what I can see is if services like that are convincing CTOs to use their lists it becomes relevant (even if the info isn't accurate).
It's not an "either/or" choice...

These companies treat it as though if you can't recite a leetcode answer line for line then you're no good.

A software developer skillset is a lot more varied than reciting 5 leetcode answers for algorithms you won't ever use in production code 99% of the time. And that 1% of the time you do? You're just going to Google the algorithm again anyway.

It's an almost pointless interview exercise.
I've seen the same claim about obscure mobile apps.
Are they better alternatives than Facebook's platforms?
Plot twist: New Intel CPUs discovered to be running Minix on a RISC-V core.
Well it's safe to say that KFC's marketing department got you exactly where they want you to be at.
Interesting that your contractor jobs haven't also filled with non-technical, biz type work? Lack of desire to deal with accounting, client meetings, all the organizational aspects of running a business have kept me away from contracting or consulting.

Might be time for me to revisit that, this being the year when I really think I need to start something new. I have no idea how to make that switch though.

Are you contracting through your own business, or someone else's?
I self apply and I also use sperg only on myself. Hell, I use the r word self applied if I'm with friends... if I'm with people that might be offended though I call myself "advanced" but I just imagine the finger quotes and tap them with my feet a little bit splay and quiet twice but I think frequently people miss the timing of the joke and slur.

But if someone compares me to anyone from Big Bang Theory I go off on a rant until they are glazed over about how I'm not trying to diminish the atrocities of slavery or how wrong minstrel shows are but also this is for sure "nerd face" and then wait... just wait... for way later in the party and say bazinga.

Just kidding with the bazinga thing. I'd never say that. It disgusts me.