skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly agree but I have to quibble just a little:

American real estate is still insane. The housing crash was really just a small dip on what seems to be an unrelenting hyperinflation in real estate.

When government policies deliberately encourage insanity -- as many policies both in the USA and abroad (such as in China) do for real estate -- then the economy can remain insane much longer than you can remain solvent. It might remain insane so long that the entire rest of the economy reorganizes around the insanity, institutionalizing it into a permanent state of affairs.

I'm a bit concerned that this is going to happen with housing... that we'll end up with a future where most things are very cheap but real estate is so insane that some huge fraction of everyone's earnings just goes into paying rent or paying off a 60 year mega-mega-jumbo mortgage. Everyone will just accept that a starter home starts at $2.5 million.

As far as China goes: why can't its government just keep artificially re-adjusting the economy so that it can never fall for as long as its government exists? I don't see why there's a hard upper bound to Keynes-on-meth economic policy, and China in turn is so huge that this could distort the entire world economy. As this article hints it's probably one of the factors driving real estate nuts. The only thing I can see that could stop this is if other large nations and blocs like the EU decide that China's exporting of domestic economic insanity is hurting them and decide to start some kind of trade or currency war. But that's unlikely since the entire world is completely dependent on Chinese manufacturing power.
Online harassment is one of the greatest threats to free speech that we now face
Why is it called an exodus? Other than the central bank selling dollars, for every yuan that is sold there is a buyer on the other side.

Let me try a different narrative that could be equally valid: as the oil price has halved the Chinese are getting a subsidy of 150 billion dollars a year. Coupled with other commodity windfalls, the regular trade surplus, and a domestic slow down that reduces the potential return on domestic investments, they have cash busrting their wallets and must seek alternatives. Overseas investment (a.k.a. the money exodus) is the only way to keep the accounting identity true.
Well the CEO cares for that use case for sure as he left for Ferguson when he was asked to be around for some important decision making at Square.
It's not just Christians. It's pretty much any group of people.

See: lawyers, constitutionalists, Marxists, objectivists, free marketers, etc.

>A good majority of them believe, honestly and truly, that they are incapable of being wrong because...

their ideology tells them so.
I find the argument about area needed spurious. By using the same point, I could claim that there is no way automobiles will succeed in society, because of the enormous area that would need to get paved... except that doesn't seem to have stopped us.
I don't have any idea about an issue like this. Should I be anyway worried or it's just rumor/nonsense?
Like I highlighted elsewhere, did your Go server setup a separate multiplexed process for the PubSub channel and track the PubSub subscribers on each client connection? Comparing the client size to raw WS connections isn't accurate in this context. Horizontal scaling is nice, but you also have to consider the overhead in broadcasts that now are distributed over dozens/hundreds of nodes vs a handful of large nodes.
Ok, neat story, certainly.

But is there any indication that it isn't completely fictional?

Edit: similar info here http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/futures-...

It seems these stories tend to be apocryphal. Oh well.
What's irrational about disliking an environment hostile to developers? When you you do robotics, you want full control over the software, so the natural fit is some Linux variant, not OS X or iOS.
I've noticed more software bugs in the last couple of iOS releases than previously. Sometimes the top status bar (time, battery, rotation lock/silence symbols, etc.) will disappear, fail to change colour, etc. Sometimes apps think they're in landscape when the phone itself thinks it's in portrait, making the app half the height and twice the width of the screen. On iOS9 specifically, sometimes the touch digitiser just stops working and I have to force a reboot.

There's also small things that seem unpolished to the traditional "Apple" level. For example even 2 years after the iOS7 release, the size of the status bar at the top changes between the lock screen and the homescreen, which means that not only does text size change but also the number of symbols that show up near the battery display changes too if you're right at the limit of real estate there. Yes, it's minor, but stuff like that didn't seem to happen several generations ago, but I'm noticing it more and more.
As the primary maintainer of Pelican, a Python-based static site generator, I've given several talks on the resurgence of static site generators and in which cases they are (and are not) a good fit.

My most recent talk was two weeks ago at PyCon Japan. Following are my slides for that talk, in case that's useful for anyone who wants to get a better understanding of SSG history and advantages/disadvantages: http://justinmayer.com/talks/

Also happy to answer any questions here, of course. (^_^)
Yeah, right next to a reactor, so that a meltdown causes 10x more damage.
They talk about pedophiles, but the Westminster Pedophilia Scandal shows that not only don't they (the british politicians and intelligence agencies) not give a shit about pedophilia, they ARE the pedophiles.

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

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/07/29/the-child-sex-ring-aroun...

http://time.com/2974381/england-land-of-royals-tea-and-horri...
Volumes have been an underdeveloped part of the Docker world for a long time. It took a long time, but it looks very promising.
Yeah, so there is a solution to nuclear waste - in fantasy land.
I get a spam popup ad when I open this link. After closing it, when I click one "annotation" to be able to read it, it opens in a sidebar and all the others disappear. Closing the sidebar doesn't make them reappear. Reloading the page does, but as soon as I click on one inane annotation, all the others disappear again.

All in all, a very frustrating experience.

I recommend just downloading the original PDF instead: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.pdf

Then, you know you have the paper, and can share it with other people in the future, without some fly-by-night startup injecting spam popups or going under and invalidating the URL.
Linus Torvalds Had a Meltdown Over a PR
I guess I've already automatically consented to Google using my emails to train their algorithms. How does filing bugs work in the scenario where the machine learning can't figure something out? Is a copy of someones personal email attached to the bug report?
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Like maybe don't put a Soviet-style central committee in charge of the money supply?

It's depressing to me that modern economies like the US and Europe can be so shot through with central planning, and then when they produce bad results everyone pretends it's the fault of some freewheeling laizzes-faire policy that never existed.
Have you heard about that discovery called radioactivity? Different isotopes? Ocean water >>> fresh water?
Heaven over hospital: Parents honor dying child's request
>The only caveat is that methamphetamine should remain illegal to buy or use. The idea being that people will use "less harmful" drugs than methamphetamine because they are available cheap, easy and clean. The strongest possible justification for legalization of sale and use of drugs is to minimize usage and supply of the greatest of all evils - methamphetamine.

You seem to have an oddly demonized view of methamphetamine. The reaction on people is fairly similar to dextroamphetamine, which you probably know of by the name of 'Adderall', and we prescribe it frequently.

Meth is mildly neurotoxic and adderall is not, so it's definitely worse for you, but we let people do plenty of things that are bad for them.

Not that I'm suggesting anyone go out and develop a meth habit, but if you're arguing in favor or legalizing everything but meth you're already arguing in favor of quite a few things that can cause personal damage.

The violence surrounding meth is much the same as the violence surrounding most other illegal substances - driven by the actions taken to procure funding of the substance or procuring the substance itself.
I used to hold this viewpoint until I watched a video (I can't seem to find it now) that made a pretty good point. The point was something along the following: "I like book stores. I like going in and flipping through the books. Sure, I could buy the book on Amazon for $4 less, but if I keep doing that eventually book stores won't be around. And I like book stores."

Ever since then, I usually try to buy the book in B&N or wherever, provided that's where I am at the time.

(Something like a campus book store and textbooks, however, is an entirely different case...)
I disagree with your disagreement; who says your or others 'high standard' is correct ie the one true way? I mean where does this standard come from? Suppose you were an advocate of TDD, and perfection to you is 100% code coverage? Guess what, TDD is not a universally accepted standard, there's a lot of great software written without tests (I use TDD as an example only, please bear with me). Another example; suppose one holds object oriented design and analysis and SOLID principals to be the ideal of software architecture, well there are many advocates of functional programming who would love to argue the merits of OOP with this person.

So this appeal to 'high standard' is in effect egotistical masturbation in most all cases, in my opinion.

But perhaps I misunderstand what you mean by high standard? Work hours, properly formatted commit messages? Code documentation?
What's the relation between Docker Swarm and Hipache? Is Hipache discontinued? Is Swarm built on it? Is it compatible?

Also, is it possible to make Swarm answer to the same client IP with the same backend server during a 'session'? This is very important for database applications where the sync after each write may take some time and you don't want the UI to show different states from different servers until the system has settled. Hipache AFAIK doesn't offer this, IMO the biggest downside of this.
Waste stays very radioactive for millions of years. Even after that remains extremely toxic. Earthquakes, volcanoes, diggers can trigger an apocalypse.
So enjoying life is more important than "winning". Who knew?
I suppose we should wait to see if rust4homoslol produces a reliable citation.
What is Intel contributing to Chromium? That was a surprise.
1password across all versions is pretty damn quick for me.
I guess the Peter Principle extends to elementary school too.

If schools are set up to underserve the bottom 1/3 to 1/2 of each class (be it via pacing or competition), it doesn't make sense to work really hard to place your kid in better-and-better schools until they're in that bottom third.
You are totally right. You need to look at supply and demand in the states, many markets are distorted by a lot of baby boomers ready to leave the market and speculation from abroad. I think our future might be Switzerland, where that house will cost you $1 million, but it isn't going to go up or down very much.

Adjustments work when they are small, but if you keep adjusting, eventually your house of cards will implode. You'll either crash hard or print more money, perhaps crashing even harder. The US has done OK in making adjustments, because they just need to nudge it this way or another. China has meddled much more deeply in the economy, creating a lot more risk for a hard crash in the near future.
Hi there!

Note that pricing is not completely finalized just yet, and we will be offering different pricing tiers. In addition, a subscription to 1Password for Teams would replace the price of the individual apps, not add to it. So, you would be getting free upgrades for the client apps while you are subscribed to 1Password for Teams.

I hope that helps!

Rob

AgileBits
This is just plainly false. There are now serious photographers and movie-makers using the iPhone for serious photography. A lot of them.
Hipache is a reverse proxy, swarm is for managing/scheduling a cluster of docker engines.
According to the article, even though you can't see all the reviews, you can see at least one review or a rating: "Below each book on the shelf is a card with either a review or a rating from the site."
When the government decides that it's willing to do something as interventionist as bailing out literally everyone, that places a lot of political risk over the financial industry as a whole. One can't be sure that intervention will always be for the best, after all.

Safety will be more valuable than ever, so those with huge lump sums of existing Capital will have even more power. We could replace modern corporate finance with good old-fashioned robber-baron family-finance operations like Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Gould.
Molten sodium was at the heart of the Santa Susana nuclear disaster in southern California, which was covered up for fifty years. Needless to say, I'm skeptical.
Totally agree, sticking with the 5s due to size in jeans and one-handed use despite the desire and budget to upgrade. Have been considering upgrading to an old 64gb one since they no longer offer that
It's funny because despite most of this review going into very grimy detail about chipsets and transistor sizes and such (and other things which I honestly didn't understand) most of the comments are no different than what one would see on a less in-depth review from theverge, arstechnica or yahoo tech news.

I find it fascinating that Apple was able to get their process down to 14nm using the so called "3D process" up until now I really didn't understand why the qualcomm 810 was having so much trouble, now it makes a lot more sense.
It works in Japanese, though with more false positives than in English, I think.
Respectfully, as a person who once agreed with you, I would say that you can't possibly really know this until you actually USE a 6/6S for a couple weeks, all the time. You might be shocked at how quickly your hand adapts and finds the new size to be just as natural as the old 5S size. I was shocked.
Front end, back end, or (java,python,c#) for a job
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The money is leaving the Chinese economy to be invested in other economies, hence an exodus. One could say that the money could always come back when the Chinese economy provides more opportunities. Or those rich people could just emigrate completely, leaving China behind.
It's illegal in Australia for foreigners to buy existing homes though, so what they buy are off-the-plan units, and (from what I can tell) significantly (double-digit percentages) overpriced compared to existing stock, or even smaller developments that don't cater to foreigners as explicitly. Many of them seem to be bought to rent out, with the idea of living in them 'occasionally' or 'sometime'. I wonder how many of these investments make financial sense. (then again, just for portfolio diversification it's worth even paying for, maybe that's where the price excess comes from).

It's an interesting economic dynamic, in-explainable with orthodox theory, it's really about the circumstances. Which makes it difficult to analyze and model, too.
I liked this feature when I found it actually was a feature. For a while I thought it was my Razer mouse drivers messing up.
Yeah, the only justification for 'toughness' was the Young's modulus, which does not tell you how resistant it is to breaking at all. And by that measure, sapphire [1] is 2.5 times tougher than steel [2].

[1] E = 7.4e7 psi (http://rubicontechnology.com/company/sapphire)

[2] E = 2.9e7 psi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%27s_modulus)
might as well learn to play the violin
Good stuff. Thanks for the reply!
There are definitely not any intentional performance bottlenecks; that's just absurd.

The 4S is now 4 years old. That is a long time. The 4S is also 2 full years older than the first-ever 64-bit smartphone, the iPhone 5S, which really was a tremendous performance leap.

Try anything 5S or newer. You will be very happy.
Oh great, this wasn't obvious from a visitor's perspective.
Goals of Science vs. Goals of Scientists
Canada is funny though - with so much arctic and prairie land it throws off the calculations. That's not necessarily due to deforestation however (even though there is a ton of that going on).

http://www.biodivcanada.ca/380C93C6-737C-440D-BA5E-011787F42...
You're right - there's no one size fits all solution. I'm glad that phones have gotten bigger because they fit my use cases, and based on their popularity I'm definitely not alone. I am surprised that 4" phones have been lost - especially by Apple. Despite the low sales of the 5c, I figured we'd still see a 6c to satisfy those not wanting a bigger phone. It seems like a decent number of people are refusing to upgrade to a newer iPhone, and I'm not aware of any good, modern Android phones at 4" for these people to switch to.
I was hoping this was about a new and improved generation of venture capitalists
So basically, because pretty much every useful data-and-automation-based thing - especially on the social, not individual level - can be considered an erosion of privacy, should we just stop progress? That's the sentiment I feel radiating from yours and others' complaints about privacy here.
Don't forget the tax rates. Americans are eager to slap a tax increase on anything income-related (Prop 30) while eschewing tax increases on anything property-related (Prop 13), in effect building a rentier state, where decreasing number of working individuals http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000 is responsible for a growing list of expenses.
I am unaware of any kind of practical nuclear fission machine that doesn't require a high initial capital investment. Could you link some examples of commercially operating units? It has been a few years since I was in the field but I was unaware of any proven changes to the fundamental economics of the industry.
Emphatically yes.

The incentive is called actually giving a fuck about quality, and doing the best job you can.

This is thoroughly ingrained in Apple's culture, and NOT ingrained in competitors' culture.

2 year cycle? Nope. Apple's mobile products have a very solid 4-year cycle. Far superior to competitors.
Considering that no one will want to live near it, and not allow it to be farmed either, such plants aren't as space efficient as they might seen.
And please - like Google cares that you ordered that book from Amazon. Until they do.

Abuses of this technology are inevitable, but we haven't seen it yet. It's the source of magical "how did they do that" wow factor in technology that touch screens and thin devices used to have.
Think about it from the company/engineer's point of view: would you want to maintain the old version of the code (adding security fixes and the like) for years after it's current, for probably less than 1000 people per version? Remember that the old versions of code probably build with old versions of the compiler, old trains, etc. And you can't not maintain this code, since there will be bugs found, jailbreaks, etc. Every engineering team I know has more features than man-hours, it's hard to imagine them willingly making this tradeoff for such a small gain in their overall user happiness (people posting on HN are the exception, most people just update their devices for the shiniest new features)
I think all phones are too big - I have stuck with my iPhone 4s purely because it is so easy to carry around and does everything I want. Please Apple release an iPhone nano.
I imagine this could be useful for live demos.
you insist on the "you're the product" FUD nonsense

I like the phrase as it draw attention to the fact that the services offered aren't "free" but rather are paid via a mechanism that a typical user wouldn't think about. Sure it is shocking, but it is useful.

I'm not sure how it is FUD ... your data is being repackaged and sold off to the highest bidder. There's no doubt in that.

Spreading FUD is a demagogue's job, I would never condone it.

Congrats.
Tobacco and alcohol are legal and used because they were staples of the founding of the US. Tobacco was one of the chief exports of the colonies and the new US for centuries and made a lot of people rich and even more people happy.

Alcohol is legal in almost every country on Earth because you can make it out of almost everything. What might end up happening is regional fermentation variants are stigmatized.

Cannibis was persecuted and outlawed in the US because of extreme zenophobia against Mexican migrants in the US after the Mexican-American war. Heres a longer form history of it: http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/how-did-marijuana-become-ille.... Its the same bizarre backwards thinking that leads to republican frontrunner's garnering praise for wanting to build a concrete wall on the scale of the Great Wall of China to keep impoverished refugees out.

Pot got banned because it was gaining popularity and was threatening entrenched tobacco interests. The same thing happened to opium with Chinese migrant workers. The vast majority of the "controlled substances" that are not particularly life threatening (heroin and cocaine are probably the only outstandingly dangerous ones due to immediate bodily effects, the psychedelics are dangerous because of the behavioral changes usually) but were simply outlawed because they competed with US tobacco and alcohol for consumers drug addictions and habits.

So if pot did not exist, we would probably be a similar state to where we are now - migrant Mexicans would have probably used opium or tobacco, and we have already seen the reactions to both of those in the American historical psyche. We would just probably be pushing MDMA / Meth / LSD legalization instead. Meth most likely, since it also has medical applications.
Then it would be fair to complain if the company was a) new, or b) it was already a typical thing to do for them. Google keeps proving otherwise; applying "you're the product" meme to them is nonsense.
Thing is, catastrophic failure occurs if safety assumptions fail. There is nothing in your argument that improves my opinion of the current safety assumptions.
Yeah I agree, thinking of making that more obvious on the website as the API tools are super useful for testing and for one-off / manual jobs as well
Let me add that the accounting identity I am referring to is that the trade surplus must be balanced the capital outflow. Since it is an identity it must be true in the past as well. It is just that in the past the private sector (on a net basis) was not very interested so it was the central bank that controlled all outbound investments. And as a result the PBoC has a very large and visible holding of foreign reserves. Now the time has come that the private sector and individual Chinese want to invest the surplus themselves and maybe then some so we see the central bank's reserve holdings falling. At this stage the central bank may be happy to just get rid of some of their excess holdings (also if they don't intervene and let the exchange rate fall they will get even more squawking and name calling overseas). But if it persists to the degree that the central bank runs out of reserves it will be forced to stop intervening in the forex market and then the exchange rate can fall as much as the market wants to, which by the way will make the trade surplus even larger.
Imagine the day when it suggests an insult for a co-worker based on his or her perceived inferiority.