skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A "purely mathematical standpoint" is meaningless without context. You're arguing that paying money for something you need is a bad investment. Paying money for potatoes that I'm going to eat is a bad investment, but I don't have a choice. I have to pay for potatoes and I have to pay for housing.

Even your edit, which mentions rent, pretends as if the interest paid and the rent always end up equal. This is clearly not the case. Sometimes it makes more sense to buy, from a "purely mathematical standpoint." The benefit of mobility has a different worth to different people.
The essential point is that it's a grey area. We won't accept people behaving just any way at all but also we want to maximize people's freedom.

As much as people want to apply a hard rule, there is no simple answer to how to draw that line.
> is Google going to make their environment so compatible with other cloud platform?

Yes. Google's strategy with Kubernetes is to commoditize the cloud - making them all functionally interchangeable. Write to Kubernetes, and your app runs on AWS, GCE, Azure, etc...

They are betting that they can deliver raw CPU cycles, network bandwidth, lower latency etc. - better/faster/cheaper than their competitors.
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yeah I live in the usa and it took me over 3 months to see a specialist, i don't see how this is some inherent flaw of single payer

also people have an invisible waiting period in the form of not having the money to get things fixed so they put it off until it gets worse :^)
Words are immensely powerful, but they are not that hurtful unless you're a child who expects everyone to love them.

The pen is mightier than the sword because a pen will move armies with swords. Not because someone might get their feelings hurt.

Addendum: Speech is probably more thoroughly weaponized by calling for censorship that it is by calling someone by offensive phrases.
This is technically correct but fails to account for the time value of money.

If you took out a $200k loan at 4% you'd end up paying $343k for the entire 30-year mortgage. This seems outrageous, except that $1 in 2045 (when you pay off the loan) is worth substantially less than $1 in 2015.

For comparison's sake, consider a 30-year mortgage that is paid of this year, started in 1985 - $1 in 1985 dollars is $2.21 in 2015.

Your mortgage payment (assuming you lock it in) do not increase over the life of the mortgage, which means your monthly payments are - in inflation adjusted dollars - dropping over time.

In fact, based on an inflation rate of 2%, your mortgage payment of $953/month in 2015 falls to an inflation-adjusted $523 by the time of your last payment, and the total cost of your $200k mortgage is actually closer to $258k (2015 dollars).

https://ostermiller.org/calc/mortgage.html
You also haven't factored in home-owner government welfare: Here everybody aims to keep the house in as much debt as possible as long as possible because the interest can be written off as an income tax deduction, while the "repayments" build up to fund a second property purchase.

Granted this will depend on where you are in the world. Here, the house has to be a rental property to be able to deduct the interest.

It's a stupid game I don't want to play, but not playing makes me the automatic loser of it.
tl;dr, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as Leopoldville)
Right, but isn't the roadway's weight uniformly distributed along the length of the main cable?

Maybe a linear weight distribution favors the parabola, while a curved weight distribution (i.e. the cable's own weight when hanging free) causes the catenary? That makes sense to me, there's more weight per linear meter at the ends than in the center when considering just the cable's weight.
Belgian control of the Congo was rife with pretty extreme abuse -- the obvious, often horrifying consequences of conquest. But the influx of ambitious businesspeople and capital which they claim started the wider outbreak of HIV, is a curious case. Often people will hand-wring about vague cultural factors, but this seems like one of the most concrete major international disasters caused by rapid gentrification and international investment.

In many ways, whether you support e.g. more direct foreign investment areas in India and China or not, I'd prefer the conversations about costs to be as well formulated as this (I also suspect free trade and foreign investment in China and India has done a lot more good than HIV has done bad, even if you just count lives saved).
Probably the most important thing you can do is you can try to NOT be a helicopter parent.
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I can come up with moral and ethical objections for any given speaker; if one does not want money going to morally debatable speakers, they should object to all paid speakers.

I believe objecting to all paid speakers on campus to be a defensible position, but paying for a variety of speakers also seems to be a strong position.
Not only America - Germany and France are the exceptions, not America.
"buying the stock at IPO"

How could parent have done this? Can non-super-rich individuals typically participate in IPOs? If not, then the only option is to buy at the market price at open, i.e. after any said 'pop'.

(I'm not commenting on whether access to IPOs is a sure-fire way to make money.)
What do you mean? I would not expect to find the words "safe space" in the mizzou bylaws.
I agree that college is a chance to experiment and make mistakes. But I hope that they fail in making the changes they're advocating for.

It's good to hear people you disagree with. The students at Yale have been preventing opportunities to hear people they disagree with.
Those types of comments that lead off with a "by the way" of some witty quote has the effect of being dismissive in a pretty non-informative way. It's not that I think that's your intent at all; I have no doubts about your sincerity. Just telling you what effect it has, at least to my eyes. :)
Actually maintenance and repair can be modelled fairly easily (and as I found out I over modelled it) I used $5/sqft/year as a maintenance cost.

The parent was talking about the volatility of maintenance costs, not the average. Just like people in different situations need to adjust their investments to achieve the right amount of volatility, for some people it probably makes sense to shield themselves from the possibility of unplanned maintenance costs.

I have no clue how volatile maintenance costs are, but I don't think you addressed it in your reply.
> It's unbelievable what it has come to.

I don't understand your sentiment. Do you think that the drugs you take before do not have this many side effects, including suicidal thoughts or actions? Or do you find it unbelievable these side effects are now required to be spelt out in front of you?
IMO, the biggest thing in being happy with renting vs buying isn't the monetary factor, but in how ready someone is with owning.

Owning comes with a lot of advantages: home renovations, settling in and making something your own, building property value over time, a stable monthly mortgage payment, that pride that comes from saying you own something.

But it has a lot of other factors to: being responsible for repairs, landscaping, property taxes, less flexibility if you need to relocate.

The "renting is throwing your money away" line is prevalent, but is also a gross simplification of the rent vs buy decision.
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>This is where innovation and innovators will come from.

That's the really scary part - you'll have to sift trough these guys to hire someone one day, fortunately this doesn't represent 100% of student population.
I am not familiar with GCE so I can be absolutely wrong, but my way of thinking is that any time anyone says something can run the open source version anywhere, true, but when it comes to offering a paid service, making some technology native to the platform, means there can be difference such as customized APIs or customized features which may never get backport into the community/open source version.
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Maybe "inelegant" or "rough".
Yep, my 15" rMPB uses an 85w charger which maxed out the in-flight outlet on my last flight, glad I charged the battery before I left, MacBooks last forever!
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I can't recall the last compliment I received over the last month, but I can tell you with vivid detail the racist words that have been thrown at me over the last ten years for being non-white. One of my friends who is black can recall the exact time years ago when he was sitting on a bus and a complete stranger from across the street called him a nigger.

But hey, words don't hurt right?
Is it really infantilizing people to ask them not to wear offensive costumes? Is a polite request so absurd between adults?
The last I had heard of the term was in high school where a handful of teachers and administrators had a small rainbow sticker on the windows of their doors indicating that the room was a place where one would feel safe from discrimination. It was an anti-bullying movement that not provided a place to eat lunch, do work, etc. but more importantly gave victims a place to seek help and privately report offences. Bear in mind the system came into existence to fight homophobia.

The beast this movement has evolved into, if it has any relationship to the system I knew, has come completely off the rails and seems to me to be turning into the bully.
This is anecdotal (is it really that anecdotal?), but I have been called so many names throughout my life, and my response is almost always "go fuck yourself", whether said out loud (in so many words) or internally. I honestly don't care, and the bullies don't stop me.

Adults don't need institutions to protect them from name calling and hurtful words. Children do.
> In other words, a given advertisement might be tricking people into choosing the optimal option.

It could be so, in principle, but do you trust people who profit off not having your best interest in mind to do that?
Every debate takes place under a constraint of limited information; if you do not wish to base the argument on what may be anecdotal or flawed data, it would be advisable to debate the principle of safe spaces. Which is to say, that it may be more productive for you to ask or answer the questions 'are safe spaces moral if we assume a perfect implementation (as described by the proponent)?', and 'what conditions are required for a good safe space, or what makes a safe space bad?'.
$800? A month?
True, that's probably on the high side, I had a look on mySupermarket and it's around £2.00-2.50 depending whether you want factory/free range. Since all the supermarkets price match these days, they've settled on £2.25. Oraganic will set you back over £3.50. It seem the eggs I buy now from Morrisons are "Very Large" which have a slight premium for the size. If you shop at Waitrose then you're looking at £3-4.50.

When I can, I buy from farms which sell by the roadside and you can normally get a half-dozen for £1.30 or so.
China dominating supercomputers. Quantity or Quality?
Trust me, it won't be the only thing.

It's just the first roadblock.
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Having been around for quite awhile, going back to the days when Microsoft used to threaten startups (eg "We'll cut off your oxygen supply" was a threat I personally received from a MSFT rep if we didn't join their initiative that competed with us) anyone who wanted to have a viable product would host it on linux because MSFT would do things like make your software not run as well under windows as their software did, and stuff like that.

OF course since they also charged per user licensing for servers, if you're a startup you might as well use linux which is "Free" (at least free of cost, you still need human resources to manage the machines.)

Finally their confusing constantly changing product and development strategy left people worn out- once you were locked into one technology they would introduce another.

Open source basically destroyed all of MSFTs advantages for development in tech companies, and now you only use MSFT technology if you're only deploying on MSTF machines.

Oh, and MSFT killed the packaged software market-- which was completely dead, you really couldn't sell apps, until Apple created the App store-- because they wanted to own the desktop completely. There used to be a rich ecosystems of desktop apps but they were all killed- the only exception like Adobe and ... and I can't think of any other exceptions--were that way because they gobbled up smaller companies faster than MSFT did and got big enough to compete.

MSFT killed the desktop software market completely....again, except on Apple platforms where it was a level playing field. (but all the MBAs in eh 1990s would say "macs don't have enough market share" and kill mac versions, even though in cases where companies did do cross platform they often made all their profits on the mac, and had the larger sales of the PC washed away by the much larger support costs for PC customers.)
Everyone has their own lines for when a speaker is too objectionable, I honestly don't have a problem with someone protesting some speakers but not others.

I mean, isn't that precisely what protesting something is?

(That said, there are definitely I think good and bad ways to protest, and also reactionary protests that escalate way past what's acceptable)
This. A smart buyer can leverage up $1m at 3.7% interest, 0.7% real interest after accounting for inflation, even less accounting for the tax efficiency. Cheap money to be able to realize the appreciation of an asset that you simultaneously get to enjoy every day, and that gives your family a feeling of serenity.

Headline BLS inflation figures aren't very representative of reality. Bottom line is that if you pick the underlying asset smartly, owning a house is leverage, and leverage increases financial returns. The historical high quality of real property as an asset could change -- a lot of people in my generation think it has. But I suspect it has not.
Simian AIDS was discovered after human AIDS. How do they know the jump didn't occur in reverse?

Here is the first report of simian AIDS:
"Examination of the species-specific annual mortality rates of macaques at the center during the previous 4 yr showed a significant increase in deaths in 1980 and 1981"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC393899/

Also, it is convenient they do not share the mcmc traces. Based on these settings I bet they were ugly:

>"For each data set, at least 3 MCMC chains of 250 million steps were computed. Parameters and trees were sampled every 50,000th step. Samples were combined with LogCombiner (77) and between 10 to 30% of each MCMC chain was discarded as burn-in. MCMC mixing was diagnosed using visual trace inspection and calculation of effective sample sizes in Tracer (77). We report the posterior mean and 95% Bayesian credible intervals for evolutionary parameters."

http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1256739

Another thing, they write:

"Our estimated location of pandemic origin explains the observation that Kinshasa exhibits more contemporary HIV-1 genetic diversity than anywhere else"

This is totally circular. As shown in their figure S2, they used genetic diversity in a region as an indication of earlier presence.
Is this where we pretend that there's no history of racial grievances at Yale (or Mizzou), and that history started afresh the minute before this confrontation? An honest accounting of what happened starts with the fact that there is a long history that had people simmering. Free speech is a wonderful principle, but it conflicts with making students, particularly minority students, not feel alienated.

This started when someone at Yale sent a relatively anodyne email suggesting (but not ordering!) students be reasonably racially conscious in their costume choices (ie no blackface) [0], and someone who is "charged with setting the 'intellectual, social, and ethical tone of the College'" [1] decided to salt the wound and mocked the idea that students may be legitimately offended by cultural appropriation [2].

As mostly male white people, it's easy to defend free speech when it isn't your people or culture being treated as a costume.

If you're curious about Yale, imagine, for starters, how living in, say, Calhoun hall would feel if you're black [3].

Calhoun College, one of the 12 residential colleges at the heart of the
university’s undergraduate life. It is named for John C. Calhoun, a Yale
valedictorian-turned-politician from South Carolina and one of the 19th
century’s foremost white supremacists, who promoted slavery as "a positive
good."

[1] http://pastebin.com/TLGSdaTg

[1] http://silliman.yalecollege.yale.edu/people/masters-office

[2] https://www.thefire.org/email-from-erika-christakis-dressing...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/nyregion/yale-in-debate-ov...
Ask HN: I want to build software on top of existing websites, where is the line?
It's a tricky area as evidenced by cease & desist letters from craig's list among other things. For example, if I want to make something that helps people do some additional processing on the information already available to them is that okay?

Take CL's TOU:

"USE. You agree not to use or provide software (except for general purpose web browsers and email clients, or software expressly licensed by us) or services that interact or interoperate with CL, e.g. for downloading, uploading, posting, flagging, emailing, search, or mobile use. Robots, spiders, scripts, scrapers, crawlers, etc. are prohibited, as are misleading, unsolicited, unlawful, and/or spam postings/email. You agree not to collect users' personal and/or contact information ("PI")."

Say I make an app that helps people organize the craigslist postings they are considering responding to. It sounds like my users would be users by violating the TOU.
Should someone be arrested for saying a racist slur? I'm honestly curious about your opinion.
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I can't think of anything that anyone could say to me that would make me wish they had taken off my arm instead.
Depends where you live. I live in Ontario and fortunately for me there's rent control
> Adults don't need institutions to protect them from name calling and hurtful words. Children do.

That's a remarkably naive way of looking at the history of hate speech and hateful rhetoric both in the United States and globally.

(I'm not saying what happened at Yale approaches hate speech, but the idea that "words can't hurt you, and if they do you're just a child" is, well, pretty child-like in its understanding of social forces.)
I guess it probably also depends on financial well-being of the individual / family, and whether or not they're allergic to paying money for money and paperwork :)
But I'm buying a $500k house in 2015 dollars. If we peg the appreciation of the house only to the long-term inflation average of 3.22% over the next 30 years and I purchase the house today at current 30-year fixed rates of 4.09%, I'm going to pay a total of $868,713 over the lifetime of the loan for something which will be worth $1,178,775 (in 2045 dollars). I will have made $310,062 in 2045 dollars, while also having a place to live the whole time.

Even if we factor in other costs during that period beyond loan servicing, such as insurance, taxes, utility repairs and maintenance it seems unlikely I will have LOST money in the process.

It's not a terribly GOOD investment, but it's not a financially asinine choice either.
That's a really interesting historical perspective, thanks for bringing it up. That concept of safe spaces seems wholly constructive and positive. However I think the concept has been coopted by an illiberal leftist movement on college campuses. Its practitioners seek to shut down dissent on the topics of race and sexuality in particular. It seems to be a return of the political correctness movement. There was an interesting article on it recently: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/secret-confessi...
For the record, in the 1980s I started a campus liberal organization that eventually went nation wide. The Progressive Student Network. Our positions were totally in favor of free speech and totally defending "offensive speech" in particular.

One thing todays liberals don't seem to get is that marginalized people are the ones who get silenced when free speech isn't protected.

I never thought I would say this, but without Jesse Helms to kick around, liberals seem to have forgotten what they stood for. (we stood for human rights, unequivocally back then. But there was no right "not to be offended.")
The problem I identify is that such "safe places", from what I understand, discourage experimentation and new ideas by shaming concepts that may offend them.

I am interested in hearing your logic behind how this specific movement is going to generate innovation & innovators, as I think you are claiming (correct me if I'm wrong please). I think you may be mistaken if you believe this is just a challenge against the older generation- it seems to be a challenge against the ideas that do not conform to their criteria of having to be inoffensive.
No, this is where we acknowledge that both sides can be varying degrees of wrong and right, and that people can lose sight of their original arguments.
So who decides what is or is not offensive? Can anyone?

How is one to predict what may or may not offend someone?

What if I find your comment and tone offensive? does that mean that you have to now remove it? or that you'll censor youself in the future, lest you continue to offend me?

And if you attempt to question the genuineness of my offense, then I take further offense at you attempting to de-legitimizing my original offense taken.

To ground my point by way of example, consider this lunacy about the cry of "Japanese cultural appropriation" and how that is 'offensive':

http://cheshireinthemiddle.tumblr.com/post/131407267302/ginz...

Happily it was put to rest (by an ethnically Japanese person) but this is typical of the insanity that has taken over most campuses in the US right now

Yes, it is infantalization to request that others self-censor just in case they may cause offense to you.

there is no 'right to not be offended':

https://youtu.be/fHMoDt3nSHs?t=201
But the COST of the interest is in year 0 dollars. I may be buying Cokes in 2015 dollars, but if the price is set in 1900 dollars I'm getting a shitload more Cokes.
Well, the math matches his quote if you use expected values. What value should we place on an extra 0.001% chance the world continues to exist?
Do you think this experience altered the course of his life? Have any of your experiences with hate speech altered yours? It's not a question that can really be answered for sure, but I would like your honest opinion.

I remember being called a "white monkey" by a black girl in school when I was a kid. In that class, I was the minority, the only white kid. I don't think that experience affected my life negatively. Roll eyes, move on with life.