skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just your argument requires me to believe...

"In the past year, only about 340 units in SF were rented on Airbnb more than 211 nights, which is what Airbnb has calculated as the break-even point compared to long-term rental."

This just didn't sound right; and doing the quick math with the average one bedroom going for 3500.. To reach that 211 day number would mean that rentals on air bnb are going for about 200.

But doing a search in SF for air bnb the average rental is 422.. Now some of these are multi room, and some are just a couch.. but I can't seem to find a single 1 bedroom non-share for under 260.

This makes that 211 figure feel like its off. Which makes me feel that the 340 units is off.

Can we see the calculations used? Also is there a big jump in those units at 210 days.. 200 or 182..

I mean as a land lord if you only have to work half the year and make only a little less revenue; plus the positive of less liabilities I could see my self wanting to air bnb over rent out my unit.
JPL (& many other NASA centers) collaborate quite regularly with the International Space Community. ESA [0] being the prime example (Cassini-Huygens[1], MER [2], etc.). This also includes commercial collaborators as well like SpaceX, LMA, Ball, etc. The community is relatively small and quite professional about their work. They usually don't take shortcuts.

But to answer your first question, Yes. All HW & Planetary Protection practices are not equally applied by all collaborators. However, ISO 14644-1 [3] is now a 15 year-old standard, at least, for Clean Room work environments. Such practices and the HW & Planetary Protection Plans are for Project Managers & Principal Investigators to manage & implement. "Faster, Cheaper, Better; pick any two" [4] we always said in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at JPL.

Agreements are in place for all projects, and, it usually in the Principal Investigator's best interest to ensure his instrument/subsystem has the best HW & Planetary Protection Plan in place. It ensures their instrument/subsystem is operating nominally and has the longest usable life possible.

[0] http://www.esa.int/ESA

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens#Huygen...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover#Related

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanroom

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Goldin#Career
Happens with Cisco all the time too. Cisco acquires startup Y, founders vest for 4 years, founders leave Cisco and create Y+1, Cisco acquires Y+1, ....

It helps to get re-acquired once you have all the existing connections and the acquiring company knows you're not snake oil and aren't screwing them over.

There have been multiple Google->Startup->Google loops as well, but many of those are an acquihire-as-safety-net when the too hyped startup by too eager employees falls flat on its face.
Flight search digs up hidden fares
NASA Has Confirmed-Mars Has Liquid Water
You can get Java 6 bytecode from a Java 8 compiler but it will fail to compile if you used Java 8 features:

$ jdk-1.8-64/bin/javac -target 1.6 -source 1.6 LambdaTest.java
warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.6
LambdaTest.java:16: error: lambda expressions are not supported in -source 1.6
Runnable r2 = () -> System.out.println("Hello world two!");
^
(use -source 8 or higher to enable lambda expressions)
1 error
1 warning

Trying to heed the error:

$ jdk-1.8-64/bin/javac -target 1.6 -source 8 LambdaTest.java
javac: source release 8 requires target release 1.8
I had no idea. And it's starring Rowdy Roddy Piper! I'll have to check it out.
A lot of CNC machines still use floppies. There are some great USB interfaces (that emulate a floppy drive to the CNC controller) that let you use USB sticks. You still have to format the USB stick to 1.44MB (so... buy lots of very small ones) for it to work, but it's been much better since we've switched to these.
True, and practically speaking it's pretty standard from what I've seen in writing fields. Very similar to music such as on Soundcloud.

I think the only 'hangup' that might be in the conditions would be "without limitation" insofar as when does "the things we need to do to provide Medium Services" conflict with the content producer being compensated. As in, if "partner companies" and Medium are engaged in some compensation / revenue undertaking, at what point does an author on the platform have some "say" in the way the content gets used...e.g. a person posts a beautiful poem, Medium can print that poem in an ad in the New York Times to self-promote, and the author seemingly gets nothing, which doesn't seem appropriate.

Not saying that's the intent or anything, but I think healthy suspicion is helpful to all parties for clarity.
Can you take a a sentiment of certain trends in what people are talking about regarding [subject] and turn it into either better marketing or profiting off sentiments in the market?
Whenever I describe software engineering I typically use some form of "a true software engineer doesn't just make something work, he avoids &#%$ing over the next person to pick up his or her code."
> Doesn't that just defeat the whole point of devops?

> devops is a big waste of time

Devops is about culture, not about tooling.
Good point. If the phone OS supports encryption and allows this sort of auto-destruction of keys, then that's a lot better.

What we were discussing is abakker's proposal for something that "wipes the phone", and I think my comments are still relevant to that approach.

Of course, a suddenly unreadable phone is still suspicious, but if your plan were perfectly implemented, it might be impossible to prove obstruction of justice.
I just did the same upgrade (this morning). The size and weight increase are definitely noticeable and unfortunate. I'm hoping the speed bump and camera improvement will make it worth it.
Having just started to go down the 'log everything centrally' route (to keep track of when third party services are down, what actions User 1234 performed the day they reported an issue, and which transactional emails seem to have disappeared), can you explain how I'd change this from logging to metrics & monitoring?

One driver has been the lack of information I've had for debugging production issues (e.g. user X not able to log in against authentication provider Y) and so storing extra info is needed (vs the standard web server logs)
Fails on Windows:

the following errors and try again:

vm:
* The host path of the shared folder is missing: C:Projectsotto-playground
* The host path of the shared folder is missing: C:Projectsotto-playground.ottompiledppoundation-consulpp-dev

Error building dev environment: Error executing Vagrant: exit status 1

The error messages from Vagrant are usually very informative.
Please read it carefully and fix any issues it mentions. If
the message isn't clear, please report this to the Otto project.
I think a similar development can also be seen in countries without any tuition fees, but my sample size could be too small to say that with certainty.
How about instead of placing the blame on helicoptering, which may in fact be part of the problem, we consider something else: students being realistic about what failure means to their future.

We're in an era of hypercompetition, increased barriers to entry for even menial jobs, massive wealth concentration, vanished upward mobility (and easy downward mobility), stagnant wages, credentialism, offshoring/outsourcing, and vanished company loyalty. Viewed in this light, reactions of students to every negative statement or bad grade is completely rational: with the incredible number of people applying for each job, and the ever-increasing requirements to get one (looking at GPAs, etc.), students know that even minor issues now can mean large issues in the future.

Maybe students aren't hypersensitive; instead they're hyper-attuned to the realities they're facing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3999248

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credentialism_and_educational_...

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/11/how_elite_firms....

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/ernest-y...

Another thing I'd add, which is related, is that grit, while important is far from sufficient for success. It would be great if this was more widely appreciated. I wrote a short post on it: https://medium.com/@opirmusic/the-character-hypothesis-neces...

Side note: I tried to comment on the article, but the spam filter there is incredibly aggressive.
> Really, it sounds to me as though the main problem might be that these kids are coddled before they reach university and maybe have unrealistic expectations of themselves.

This is a problem I observed and experienced myself. Many kids (especially at elite schools) have been carefully honed to excel in high school and on tests so that they can get into good colleges. They start to think that they are massively intelligent and can do anything as long as they apply the same techniques.

Then they arrive at college, where all of a sudden a massive proportion of the population is at least as smart as them, if not smarter or harder working. Just as they are dealing with a bunch of emotionally roiling events such as living alone and having to make new friends, kaboom, their goes their overinflated sense of self esteem.
good... this is the purpose of going away to college. Helps to trigger independence and self sufficiency. The amount of people I know personally who had a TOTAL change in personality between the ages of 17 and 23... is just about everyone I know...
When security at Netflix needs to investigate for incidents, or to analyze data for anomalies, how do they go about doing it? If I recall correctly, Netflix is an Elasticsearch / Kibana shop right? Are there multiple clusters that they gather info from? How is visibility done for the overall org?

I'm genuinely curious how the security team goes procedures of analysis there.
That's always my first question. Let's have a pgsql "job", or a set of mongodb instance in cluster, backed by Docker. How do we orchestrate the data side ?
Do we need to have special nodes where the data live in and set constraints for that ?
Out of curiosity, where did you go to school? I've never seen anything as dramatic as you describe.
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IntelliJ IDEA's auto-import works fine for normal imports. But it cannot guess what implicits you need imported in scope any more than the compiler can.

The only implicit (I can think of) from the standard library that needs to be explicitly imported is ExecutionContext.Implicits.global. It's a form of dependency injection meant for working with Future and the error message tells you exactly what to do, but it can't be automatically imported because the thread-pool used is a pretty big deal and you should pause for a second to think about it. Other than that, the implicits you need are probably your own doing, because common libraries usually have a design where you get everything needed with sensible defaults.

In other words, if it's painful to import, then you should probably rethink it. This is actually a very good rule for Java as well. People too often rely on IDEs to do the boring parts, not noticing the stench until it is too late.
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I didn't say "the most accurate information."
Thanks. We missed this one.
> "Have you let your child fail today?"

That's something that is being taught in some schools.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16879336

(I submitted that four years ago.)
The original article already relies on finding multiple matches, in order to ignore the matches that don't contain the group that we're interested in.

Python's regex library, for example, can return multiple matches. It has three functions:

- `re.match`, which checks whether the whole string matches.

- `re.search`, which checks for the first location in the string that matches.

- `re.findall`, which finds "all" non-overlapping matches.

I was simply suggesting that the "non-overlapping" constraint in findall is a "bug", in some sense, because it exposes implementation details of the regex engine.

But, again, given that it is apparently a useful bug, maybe I am wrong. But that leaves open the question what the right spec for regex matching is, anyway.
> due to an association of exercise with team sports

And intrinsic competitiveness. I remember from my school PE classes (UK) that even distance running was always practiced as a race.

Anyone who runs knows that unless of course you're very elite, your performance vs other people is almost entirely unimportant to you. It's your own personal performance that matters, and this is as true on a solitary training run as it is taking part in a massive 'race' event such as a marathon.

Competing against yourself (trying to improve) is incredibly rewarding in a totally different way to competing against and beating other people. In a solitary sport like running, nobody gets to judge you but you, the motivation and joy that comes from the exercise and fitness improvements is almost entirely internal - to put it bluntly nobody else cares when you shave 5 seconds off your PB, but to you it's a wonderfully satisfying experience.

I always wondered why PE teachers never seemed to approach exercise and sport from this angle. They're really missing a trick as I believe discovering this would really encourage a lot more kids to keep exercising throughout and after school as a result.

As it happened I was always reasonably competent at sport, never the best at anything but good enough to be competitive at all the sports I played (at least vs other amateur kids). So for me it was OK to have a competitive element, but I can completely see that that if sport and exercise is always focused around competition, and a kid is consistently losing at everything they try, that's going to be a huge long-lasting turn off from exercise. Focusing more on 'this is intrinsically fun to do on your own' might change that significantly.
The Darkness Before the Right
Is there a video of the proto ?
Right. I'm surprised the author of this piece is surprised. As someone as apparently knowledgeable about education as he is, you'd think this would be top of the list. All the grit in the world doesn't matter if the places you apply to want a degree, the right kind of degree, the right schools, with the right grades, and most importantly, that the filters keep getting tighter and the requirements made more ridiculous (since the numbers of people who apply to any given job increases and you need a way to keep that pile of resumes manageable.)
Looking forward to the day where nobody can afford to live in SF unless they are also running a private hotel. That will be the new standard.
The Medium article says to visit the site for the standards.[1]
That yields:

MAX.gov Application Unavailable

If you are seeing this message and it is not Sunday 2AM-8AM ET then
please contact MAX Support by clicking here.
If you’re trying to access MAX Community, please use our snapshot
site: MAX Snapshot Community Site

"MAX.gov" appears to be some kind of in-house cloud service for the Federal government.

[1] https://playbook.cio.gov/designstandards/

Update: now it's up.
Yes, but the business team is more likely to be competent in evaluating the business plans than the government. After all, they've done this sort of thing before and they're incentivized to be objective and develop a popular, effective drug so they can rake in the cash.

The government has other priorities (diversity, "fairness in procurement", getting some of the money back in political donations, etc.). That's why incompetents like CGI Federal get massive contracts like healthcare.gov. They're clearly bad at writing software and excellent at navigating procurement.

I don't want the pharmaceutical research industry, bad as it is, looking like that.
Easy to reproduce, latest everything: otto, Vagrant, VirtualBox
Your misreadings are comical. He claimed that Apple's use of the crown was innovative (and it is) not that they invented the crown. He claimed that Apple's use of haptic feedback was innovative (and it is), not that they invented vibration. And across the board, review after review -- whether from tech press or watch press -- have echoed these claims -- Apple's implementations are innovative. By all means have at those windmills though.
I don't understand why so many people are so scared/not interested/afraid of system administration. It's not that hard. Why does it have to be abstracted? Bringing more and more layers makes everything slower, more complex for sure.
The only thing is really hard is configuring and managing an email server.
I think word is actually one of the better tools to do this.

This reads like someone who doesn't have an understanding of the enormous power that word has hiding under it's shell.
So Medium is Blogger meets Twitter.
What is the monetization strategy?
Maybe the root cause is the "devil take the hindmost" attitude that came in with Reagan and the general decline of the welfare state.

It's funny how the obesity epidemic started in the 1980's too...
Also when you throw rent control into the math.. the calculation used is non-linear and way below 211; very very quickly; because of flat monthly revenue of rent control vs. monthly increase in revenue from an upward market.
I would suggest you revisit the math.. or ask to see the data of who did the math for you.
Might be taking honesty to an extreme there :)
The problem is in the complexity of the problems solved at a University and a k-12 level. I think this is brilliant but it assumes that there is varied work to be accomplished by all members. Most of my projects in HS where all easy enough that it was difficult to say that more then one person was needed. Slackers could survive off their friends and the people who would get everything done on their own and then let the rest of the group copy.
Which country?
On the other hand, I'm not saying you're like this, but a lot of kids who are brilliant are incapable of working in groups, and that's pretty much what you have to do in real life.

Also, growing up, I would not allow that in my group there could be a slacker... report him / her, be a snitch, I didn't care, actually, what I did was help them so they can become better and do the homework.

But I didn't grow up in America where the smart kids just do the dumb kids homework because they're afraid of getting bullied, in fact, I learned about the concept up until I moved in here.
That information is out there, but it's much easier to focus on changing or improving things that don't involve management practices and organizational behavior, especially focusing on people who aren't part of the business yet.

There is a common flawed view that if you can focus on hiring the best people then you won't have problems with performance. It can also result in high turnover, and hinder performance when the rest of the equation isn't weighted heavily.

Focusing on things other than hiring also comes with politics, because it involves admitting that something isn't perfect with the organization.
Ok so I'm very, very wrong along another semantic axis but in this context it's absolutely irrelevant, using the definition given in the second paragraph:

> In the kinetic theory of gases, the term molecule is often used for any gaseous particle regardless of its composition. According to this definition, noble gas atoms are considered molecules despite being composed of a single non-bonded atom.

Unless you're saying that water (or any other molecule for that matter) can form inside of a star, which would open an entirely new field of chemistry, this is the definition to use when talking about astrophysics.
Honestly, the CIA should want you to too. The more randos listing fake intelligence activities that can't be easily discounted, the more time russian counterintelligence has to spend chasing down false leads.
Hmm, this is interesting: I usually share your sentiment when I read articles like this. I think companies are overly obsessed with hiring "the best of the best" and should instead focus on finding great employees, which is a different thing. Having said that, I thought this particular article avoided that trap and enumerated attainable attributes of good employees. As a B-player myself, I believe I (and many others) have nearly all of these attributes, never mind none.
But that's not winner-take-all, that's just a situation where investment must carefully be coordinated against projected future returns.

I am also waiting for an explanation of this winner-take-all idea. A couple/few posters have mentioned it. Sounds quite depressing.
Slightly related: the letter i on the keyboard looks wrong. It bugs me every time (it looks too high).
As an Indian I would say this action by the government was both very unfortunate and very un-pragmatic.

However, it would be worthwhile to note that it was the elected and relatively autonomous state government of Jammu and Kashmir which enforced this ban.

It seems there was a sense of panic in the J&K government because of the recent rise in terrorist attacks, and waving of ISIS flags each Friday in Srinagar. So they thought that some elements - of all shades/religions - might use this occasion to incite communal tensions between the Hindu and Muslim residents of state. Not a reason valid enough IMHO, but worth to note.

Anyways they would be held accountable for this in the next elections, so let's hope it never happens again.
Those posts are pretty well all off-topic. Hearing that a site is down doesn't gratify intellectual curiosity [1]. Hearing why it went down is different, of course, but that kind of article takes longer to appear.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Kotlin can inline lambdas (sometimes), which matters a lot on Android. For example there is no over head to writing your code so that it uses map and a lambda to writing a native loop.

In addition, because the code is inlined it can use the actual type of generic arguments. Not sure when that is useful.
Salty Water Flows on Mars Today, Boosting Odds for Life
Anyone have any ideas how long this will keep them going without having the start really monetizing? IMO, I think it's _insane_ that in 2015 companies can be given so much cash with a hope that they can become profitable.
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> 2.5 MLoC sounds extremely high even for a Mars Rover... Or is everything just written in Java and configured with XML?

Highly doubtful, Opportunity is at 4,000+ days of uptime...
I'm confused as to why this made the front page (and is still there).

The content isn't new or noteworthy.

I suspect some strategic upvoting but maybe I'm just paranoid.
Also housing.
ARC depends on malloc/free which isn't quite as deterministic as you make it out to be - precisely because malloc/free does not (typically) run in the background, it needs to update internal datastructures when it gets the chance, which can lead to considerable latency spikes.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say latency isn't the issue - the issue is that typically GC'd languages rely heavily on heap allocation because it's cheaper(!) not more expensive. Put another way: java creates lots of garbage, C/C++ does not.

If you wrote a C/C++ program that allocated as heavily as a typical java program... well, I'd expect performance issues that would probably be worse than java's.
I actually prefer C++/CLI to C#. I use it for my UI code and can seamlessly call my C++ code to do the non-UI work.
Trust me, if they're interviewing like this, you don't want to work there.
I have ran into several people who have had parents schedule and come in for (!) job interviews alongside their kids.
Wechats the same as my id here.
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