jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I bought new construction, my builder went bankrupt, and Bank of America sold the land to a new builder for pennies on the dollar. When the new homes started going on sale for half what I paid, I did the math on how long it was going to take at historical real estate appreciation rates (roughly 3%/year).

I stopped paying, tried to work out a modification to reduce the principal with Bank Of America (who completely botched it), they transferred it to a "specialty servicer" who specializes in modification (who also botched it), and then ended up just letting it go into foreclosure.

Was 3-7 years of less than perfect credit worth it? It appears so. Houses in my old neighborhood are still significantly underwater.

This isn't isolated though. ~17% of homeowners are underwater, and appreciation has slowed to a snail's pace, meaning those people aren't going to be able to sell for a long time [1].

From zillow:

> In the fourth quarter of 2014, the U.S. negative equity rate – the percentage of all homeowners with a mortgage that are underwater, owing more on their home than it is worth – stood at 16.9 percent, unchanged from the third quarter. Negative equity had fallen quarter-over-quarter for ten straight quarters, or two-and-a-half years, prior to flattening out between Q3 and Q4 of last year.

> While this may not seem very notable (after all, overall negative equity didn’t go up, merely flattened out), this represents a major turning point in the housing market. The days in which rapid and fairly uniform home value appreciation contributed to steep drops in negative equity are behind us, and a new normal has arrived. Negative equity, while it may still fall in fits and spurts, is decidedly here to stay, and will impact the market for years to come.

[1] http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2015/03/zillow-negative-eq...
Remember the New Economy? No, a lot of us don't. See, that's the problem.
The most interesting alleged fact is that these agents used the credentials of C.G. (a DPR employee) to steal 20,000 BTC from Silk Road. That caused DPR to suspect C.G. of the theft, and DPR then paid one of the agents even more BTC for a contract hit on C.G. (which the agents were trying to fake).

Better than The Wire!
I have often thought that Aaron Greenspan's attitude towards California money transmission law was a little aggressive, http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20141022/the-common-se... , like, this guy is ranting about obscure laws and there is no way that the government would really abuse this legislation to shut down reasonable businesses.

Then, in this complaint, I read

""On March 4, 2014, FORCE asked one of his co-case agents on the Baltimore Silk Road Task Force to run a query in a law enforcement database for Venmo, saying that he wanted to collaborate 'on a suspicious money remitter, Venmo Inc. Venmo has since registered with FinCEN, but I want to know if they have state money license remitting licenses in California and New York. Can you check? If not, I want to seize their bank accounts (need to identify them) a la BRIDGES and [M.M.'s] seizure warrants for Mt. Gox.""

Wow. Nope. Aaron Greenspan is exactly right about the effects of this legislative mess.
Absolutely. Note that the attack on Pearl Harbor killed about 2,400 people, while high estimates of the death toll for the Nanjing massacre are in the 300,000 range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
For them apple haters: http://phys.org/news125073871.html
The article seems to suggest it is mostly of historical interest. The researchers seem impressed by its effectiveness for a medicine of that time.

It's of further interest because it seems to have come out of a tradition of medicine that was based on something similar to the scientific method.
> You won't be granted access to secret information if you happen to look like the CEO.

Tell that to this startup: http://onevisage.com/ovi-technology-page/
You're ignoring the history of prohibition (of alcohol and drugs) and the 'war on drugs'. Not to mention the 70's, the connection between recreational drugs and 'hippies' (a subversive anti-war class). Not to mention the fact that up to now the 'war on drugs' has also been used to restrict the rights of certain social classes (it's been well documented how the laws are designed to criminalize certain classes/ethnicities disproportionately).
This mostly just makes me glad I was never part of the demo scene.
If you feel the meed to deny your partner something that brings them joy, even though you think it's bullshit -- that should make you think twice about the relationship.

The desire to control your partner that is displayed by many people in these diamond threads is a really unpleasant character flaw.
The translator bots have dirty minds. Give them the golden rule:
"Do to others only what you would have them do to you."
and you get
"I did it with other people, and you want to try."
The only obvious one I can think of is Duke.
"The real question obviously is what is A?"

A is any entity.
> He is scummy guy. Ok. Agreed. But like eru said, you make your code available under MIT license. You can't have it both way of putting your code under a license like that and then complaining when someone uses it in a way you don't like. It seems very hypocritical to me to be angry if he is using your license properly. If I put $100 dollar out to charity and they don't use it in a way I see fit, that is my fault, not theirs.

That's almost true, but not quite. Does the MIT licence allow you to remove attribution?
> it's that media is using a metric that the average person has trouble comprehending.

Isn’t that a clear case of disinformation?
That generics would allow for better Type-safety is only true if one compares it to using empty interfaces (or some other type less thing).

But it would actually lead to less accurate Type-safety than if one had a different sort method for each sortable type, it would lead to some amount of "duplicated" code but that is a different matter than Type-Safty.
You’re defending the internment of hundreds of thousands of people including children because some Uhigurs were picked up by the US in Northern Alliance training camps?
I've tried several times to switch the URL to https://www.hiringlab.org/2019/11/19/today's-top-tech-skills..., which is the source that this one is copying from, but our software insists on escaping the apostrophe to %27 and hiringlab.org won't unescape it, resulting in a 404. I don't think I've seen that before.

Edit: never mind, taking out the apostrophe works! URL changed from https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-..., which points to this.
>is now behind a walled garden that requires that you create an account

I am not sure I get it.

If you land on quora from google you can read the question and answer (whether either make sense is another issue).

If you click (while being on quora) on another question listed, then it prompts you for "Continuing" and logging via google or facebook.

You can still type a question mark at the end of the address in the browser address and hit ENTER, the linked to page will load fine.
You raise a fair general point about Python dependencies, but that issue is usually related to poorly considered use of third-party dependencies or the need to distribute binaries and leverage C bindings.

But here we have exactly the kind of project that should be written in Python, forked and cloned by you, then tweaked and maintained as if you wrote it yourself. From a brief glance through the code, and taking the submission title at face value, this project is a refreshingly appropriate use of the right language. I offer this as someone who writes Python and Go, generally preferring Go anywhere possible.

I plan to poke around some more in this repo to see if I can easily replace my use of Hugo with this, since I use only a tiny fraction of the features in Hugo and have found it challenging to hack on it as a low-priority weekend project.

For turning personal blog posts from markdown to HTML with some general convenience functions around maintaining the front-matter and templates, I can’t think of something more appropriate than a Python script sitting inside your blog directory with all of its dependencies except the interpreter itself checked in with your templates and content.
Each hash input generates a code sequence that has to be executed 1000s of times in an inner loop. The code sequence is different for each input meaning there is no reason to save the JITted code as the next hash will use a new code sequence which you cannot predict.

data = input;
for (1..10)
{
JITtedCode = CodeGen(CryptographicHash(data));
for (1..100000)
{
data = JITtedCode(data);
}
data = CryptographicHash(data);
}
output = data;
And LinkedIn as well...
Yes, but the whole point of that movie was him finally having to face death. Spock's solution was still fatal. Not accepting defeat is still a good approach, but there are ultimately limits. Kirk can outsmart people and klingons, but not mortality itself.
Oleg Kiselyov's ssax for scheme is very neat. I have been using it for some time as a more easily programmable XSLT. I heard a rumour that there is a Haskell port as well.

Anyway, here is the web page: http://ssax.sourceforge.net/
I wouldn't be depending on a government policy to protect my own privacy online.

Just like posting to Facebook, anything you post online is up for grabs whether it's malicious or not.
On my laptop I hold command+control and hit left or right arrow to move a window to the next space. I also can press CMD+1,2,3,etc to move to that space so I can quickly move to a specific space.

Edit: I just realized CMD+Control+L/R arrow to move windows is a result of running SizeUp. Sorry about that.
I suppose you may be right, people who have been thinking "I'll have this very soon" for an entire year are right to be annoyed. But you also have to realize you're a tiny tiny slice of the devices these guys are going to move, and by that definition are also a vocal minority.
Yeah, MacPorts and Homebrew are both great options if you want to build packages from source, and your needs aren't too obscure. Lots of people, even in the Linux world, love source-based packaging systems.

But I'm massively impatient, and I want my packages _right now_. :-) So I prefer binary packaging systems.
I'm not so sure it was that great of an idea. Do I really want everyone to know that I secretly checked out the video of Miley Cyrus taking a bong hit? Or that I visit the Fark 5x a day?

Not everything that can be shared should be shared, people. :-)
"Thank God for Mississippi"
I think they should at least consider selling it or focusing on promoting its API to allow developers to develop better/cool stuff.

Btw, a post regarding its competitor
http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=2014670
That man can use few words but they are good words and so we can know what they all mean. If we have to use words that are not as good we have to say them more, but we do not need to know as many words.
Note how people went straight from assuming he "just didn't have singing ability" to "you're lucky to be born with singing ability"

It's suprising how often years of hard work is trivialized as "luck" or "inherent ability".
Most of this advice is fine, but the working from home and using spare time on your project is dubious. I'm sure the OP isn't advocating working on your own project on company time, but you need to avoid even the appearance that you may be doing so. Just be very careful with it; the last thing you want to worry about it is IP disputes or lawsuits.
>Running out of oil, which will in turn start a whole host of problems.

It starts getting scary when oil production vs demand becomes disproportionate. Aka, peak oil.

>Someone hacking the pentagon or whatever, and detonating all the nukes at the same time.

I recently watched Hackers Wanted and one of the interesting things the movie pointed out was that when terrorists start becoming hacker savvy, a new war front will be introduced into the world.
Nothing's wrong with Chicago, and what you write reinforces the point that often fonts are built for specific requirements, and then used by others in aesthetically inappropriate situations.

Just as Comic Sans was made for screen use by MS Bob, Chicago was made for use on a 1-bit screen - but then both were used in print, and they both suck in print, and even more so at sizes larger than on-screen.

(By the way, that's interesting about the designed-in ditherability of Chicago - thanks for that.)
US residents only
Hrm. I hadn't noticed. I just looked at my bill.

It might be regional, or based on availability.
Finding a cofounder that you 'click' with is damn difficult no matter where you are.
Yeah, this is an astute observation. If they're taking a cut of the transaction, I suspect they'll still fall under KYC (either because the legislation today is sufficient or because it'll be changed as soon as they become a threat).
That's not what most people think of when they think of a trail.
> So a good cpu design, just like AMD and Intel have

The design seems to be very different, in that it's far far wider, and supposedly has a much better branch predictor.

> fast ram

Is that a property of the RAM clock, or a function of a better memory controller? The RAM certainly doesn't appear to have any better latency.
Regarding pricing: I would see myself using that to play D&D once a week with my friends. So, less than 10 people, but 1 4-hour session a week.

Unfortunately, free tier is not enough, but $99 for that is a bit too much.
> abusive practices from management

I think these Google workers see their demands falling into this category..not saying I agree with every bullet, but it really doesn't seem that different to me.
GNU units supports normal unit conversion, such as meters to feet. These conversions all obey f(ax)=af(x), that is, if you have zero meters you have zero feet. If you want to convert something that breaks that rule then you have to give a definition in the database as a general functional form or as a lookup table. And you have to use functional syntax to perform the conversion. Some examples in the database include dB, wire gauge, shoe size, grit size for sandpaper, ring size, musical intervals, and sugar concentration. I call units defined using a lookup table or general functional form "nonlinear units".

Zero degrees Fahrenheit is of course not equal to 0 K, but
conversion of absolute temperature is not presented as the best example of this class of unit conversion. It's highlighted because everybody asks about it. Temperature conversion was for years, before I figured out a way to support it elegantly, the most requested missing feature. Yes, it's a little strange to call affine transformations "nonlinear" but there is no special "affine unit" feature in the program.
Even as someone who is white and has not experienced racism large and small my entire life, it is still stunning the privilege skin color gives this group to aggressively storm a government building without being beaten, gassed, and shot.
Can fail behavioral or design interviews while passing coding and not get hired. Can also have written what you thought was good code but have been given too many hints. Or, could have written good code to the question asked, but took so long that interviewer didn't get to a second question and you wouldn't ever know that.
It's funny, because as a scientist I though "why in the word is anybody even talking about this paper, it's way too preliminary to be of general interest." No other tiny, flawed study like this would generate hype unless it had been picked up by some rumor machine.

And I guess the reason is that we have a terrible executive that doesn't understand basic science and has weaponized his followers to politicize science to their own ends.

To have the President is the US be the source of rumors is such a shame. We have fallen so far as a country, to such pitiable depths of poverty of mind.
Linux' hardware support for laptops is basically an inverted parabola. It starts off bad, then gets good, then goes bad again, as new bugs seep in that never get fixed (Wifi becoming unreliable, lockups during suspend/resume, audio issues, ...).
A better source is the College Board’s own announcement [0].

[0]: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/about-ap/news-changes/cor...
Because otherwise we'd have a revolution over the inequalities in our societies.

People don't mind that much as long as everyones pie is growing.
That's kind of ironic, considering they don't provide a scheduled reboot feature for their own gear (which often needs it for IoT usage).
I got it through word of mouth from people involved in projects, but I did a Google search for you and came up with many public trusted sources:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/hydrogen_europe_-...
https://hydrogeneurope.eu/hydrogen-storage
https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/gas-grid-operat...

Were we stand in 2021 is that policy is already on the books and funds being distributed for these projects. So hydrogen ready pipelines are definitely getting built. Whether they will prove useful remains to be seen.
The GPU ISA (yes, GPUs have ISAs) is undocumented.
These were among the suggestions that I tried. I think the virtual env failed because of Big Sur, but not sure.
That still just seems like a band-aid (sorry, I don't have a constructive alternative in mind).

If Massively-Evil-Plan™ increases profits from 10% to 20% then even after a 4% fine on revenue, real profits are still 15%. A company only motivated by profits and fines (which seems like a reasonable assumption if we're using laws like GDPR to deter "heinous shit") would be crazy not to continue with MEP™.

It's really the same kind of calculation as with fixed fines or fines based on damage done. When profitable, they're still written off as the cost of doing business. The only material difference would be that a fixed fine effectively allows large companies to do "heinous shit" while imposing fines so large that a small company can't compete, whereas with a revenue calculation you instead just need to make sure that your "heinous shit" is scalable. That doesn't apply in practice though, since GDPR has an alternative €20M fine which would go into effect, so in reality GDPR just says that to do "heinous shit" you need to be able to do a lot of it scalably and profitably.

The natural direction one might take this is just to say that the fines must not be big enough, but until you approach 100% of revenue the potential always exists for a new form of profitable "heinous shit" to crop up. If fines of that scale are on the table then that brings us to the other side of the coin: A single violation of any anti-MEP™ law will nearly certainly end the business. If a violation of an anti-MEP™ law necessarily meant that a corporation was doing "heinous shit" then that could plausibly be acceptable (definitely up for debate), but merely not appointing a data protection officer in the EU violates GDPR and potentially subjects a business to a 2% of revenue fine. The law will not perfectly align with what a reasonable person would consider "heinous shit," and too severe of a penalty in such situations seems prone to abuse.
I've come to terms with the fact that in most markets a home is not the best way to use your money in terms of return. However, you get to live in it and that's priceless. And like you said, it acts as a savings account over time and that generally works out as people will eventually downgrade after their kids have left.

Another nice thing about owning a home is you can improve it (additions, adding bathrooms, etc) and certain additions more or less pay for themselves in terms of "getting your money back" over enough time. Again, probably not going to outperform the market, but you get to live in it. So even if the market tanks for a few years, I still get the benefits of whatever I've invested in my home.

The trick is to not overspend on a home. Too many people use all their savings to make a downpayment and then use too much of their income to pay for it. This can not only get you in trouble but also puts you at a serious disadvantage in terms of accumulating wealth.
Thank you for this. I've recently been enjoying the Kingslingers podcast (in-depth read-through of Stephen King's Dark Tower series), and have been actively looking for other read-along analyses of good books. At least for Kingslingers, it has significantly increased my enjoyment of the series.
So that's why Google created the Chrome browser.
I don't think anyone is advocating for abbreviations.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/18/coro...

Trump has invoked exactly the act you're referring to. I'm not interested in any debate, just wanted to let you know it has been done.
yep we only sold a small minority.
Yeah it's really terrible. The part about "we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo" is laughable. I understand they can't just be honest and say "we don't know how to use it", but the way they phrased it conveys a sort of hubris that a company as poorly run as Yahoo should stay far far away from.
[1999] Sure, but I'll believe it when I see it. Look, I've already tried about 10 different search engines, and even with the best of them (altavista) you count on having to click through a few results pages to find what you want. Web servers aren't psychic, you know. You get out what you put into it. There are already a lot of smart, well-funded companies working on this, so good luck.

People who Knew Search back then knew that tedium was part of the bargain, just like people who Know photo sharing today know that tedious sorting/tagging is inevitable if you shoot a lot.
It might be cool if the user could add a link to the image. They'd get a sudden burst of hits. AND, make it so I can pay as much as I want and my picture will stay up until someone agrees to pay more. You'll make a fortune off of people with egos.
It's a great change and a great tool, but:

Am I the only person who thinks the color scheme changes are bad? Subtle, but the greens and yellows are harsher than the pre-rendered versions. Not a defeater: just a tiny, tiny complaint.
It's not just a reference, the first portion of the book is good overview of the language and browser APIs.
I paid a dollar to put up a notifo ad. :)

edit: I paid another dollar and put up another notifo ad. :)
I'm not a fan of publicly-funded medicine, but I just had a thought as I read this. What if instead of one-size-fits-all socialized medicine, the US tried a hybrid approach that involved "medical vouchers." You pick the doc, the treatment, etc. You have $x to spend. You shop.

Seems like if this was done right it would increase competition and lead to better outcomes.
I saw it. Nice shirts!
Having the firsthand experience with a studio, I have to disagree. While the idea of a studio producing ton of ideas and scaling teams sounds promising it hinges upon hidden variables which are intrinsic to the studio model and are often detrimental in the long run.

Most of the successful startups are based on a pure, authentic vision of a founder who is absolutely convinced about their vision for the future. Unfortunately, this element doesn't exist in a studio environment, and the artificial placement of a "CEO" won't do this magic especially in the early stages. More often than not, this is an essential organic process because all of the other subcomponents such as product, hiring, culture etc. are determined by the CEO who is motivated by something other than metrics.

Secondly, if a studio plans to work on something more complex than a tiktok for dogs kind of app, a certain level of domain expertise needs to be present. This goes back to the founder-CEO problem where the founding team has already established some curiosity and knowledge in the domain.

Nonetheless, the article misses to pinpoint some very imperative limitations of the studio concept, I have outlined just few from my own experience.
Would recommend Countly. Not affiliated.