skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, did you even bother to read the article?

> Canyon Lake Ranch [...] soon will be a gated subdivision of 99 mini-mansions designed for buyers from mainland China. Some Chinese are buying homes purely as investments. Investments in the United States provide another advantage: a pathway to a green card.

Nov 23, 2015 - The Roots of China's Real Estate Rush
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/23/business/china...

May 15, 2015 - Want a Green Card? Invest in Real Estate http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/realestate/want-a-green-ca...

Sep 6, 2012 - Visas-for-Dollars Program a Boon to Hotel Developers http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/visas-for-dollars-pro...
This awesome logging machine looks like something from a Transformers movie
Brian Chesky (Airbnb) attended Rhode Island School of Design.
When I said not hard I should have said it is possible :)

Intellectual property is certainly a major way of avoid tax, but there are many ways of solving this. You could only allow each country to apportion IP costs on the basis of where income is earned. Alternatively, you could prevent deduction for IP licenses to entities owned by the parent company. Once you have the information of where the money goes then you can certainly tax it fairly.
Yep. The airline will almost certainly want you to have the credit card used to purchase the ticket to verify that you're "authorized" to claim the ticket, and the TSA will give you the third degree at the checkpoint, but -because the airlines are common carriers- you cannot be required to present ID to fly.
EasyCron – Great cron job service
Introduction to Cryptography, by Christof Paar. His book '
Understanding Cryptography: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners' also provides great insight to the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aHkqB2-46k
"The primary issue was I spent too much time telling OS X to shut up and leave me alone."

23 months ago, I disabled Notification Center, which unless my memory is playing tricks on me, stopped all interruptions (notifications) coming from Apple. My IM client can still get my attention by bouncing its Dock tile. I disabled Notification Center with the following command line:
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist; killall NotificationCenter

Since I'm still on Mountain Lion, I don't know whether the tactic described above will work on newer OS X versions. And since I don't know how to tell Software Update to install OS updates without interrupting me, OS updates including security updates tend to go un-applied on my Mac longer than they normally would.

Even after I disabled Notification Center, there were a couple of interruptions / notifications (of the availability of updates to Firefox) via a library called Growl that was linked or incorporated somehow into my Firefox app, but since that hasn't happened in over a year, I probably figured out how to stop it (probably by my spending $2 to install the Growl app from the Mac App Store and using that app to disallow notifications from Firefox).

Unless my memory is playing tricks on me, it has been over a year since any notification has appeared on my Mac, which is how I like it.
turdurine
Shanghai Hacker News Meetup (Dec 3, 2015)
Great businesses provide great customer service

Some principles worth following:

0) Be human - personable, friendly and honestly there to help

1) Be honest and transparent with technical issues

2) Be fair with billing issues

3) Be effective. Fast responses don't help if the question isn't answered

4) Empower your team to do the right thing - most big co's fail here.

5) Keep the feedback loop between yourself and your customers tight - everybody on the team should help out on support. Lots of valuable insight can be gained here. While outsourcing makes "support questions go away" it also cuts off an important feedback loop.
How about we tax companies based on revenue realized in the US? Also, companies that have 60% or more employees in the US would be taxed at a lower, (moderately progressive) rate and international companies at a higher rate.

It could be a sensible way to account for the fact that international companies realize huge profits in the US (big market, etc), without contributing ANYTHING to training workers, maintaining telecom, logistic infrastructure, etc.
This is a very naive view. Ancient kings were not elected yet were beholden to money just as much as modern politicians. The fundamental issue is that at the end any government runs on people with weapons who require money to brandish these weapons (otherwise they will have to do something else including but not limited to brandishing for their own interest or leaving the whole brandishing business for more productive endeavors).

For a short while you can make the people with weapons work for free with an ideology. But this won't last forever and eventually you will either have to pay them or forget about your government (see USSR vs PRC to see how both ways work).
Just to clarify: Intercom itself is amazing and the best way on the Internet to support your customers and treat them like humans. The problem is drip campaigns, which is only a small portion of Intercom. (And, Intercom's are triggered by actions, which makes them better than the average drip campaign).

(Nope, I don't work for Intercom. Just a huge fan.)
Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates Join Forces to Invest in Clean Energy Technology
Another way to put that is that it would encourage saving and investing. In the long term, that's better than encouraging spending, since the money would go towards growing the economy. (Assuming it isn't invested in beanie babies and lottery tickets.)
I'm calling it now: at least one major US retailer will miss their holiday sales projections and blame it squarely on EMV card transaction times.
I have an analogy, it might be wrong or hard to follow. However, I believe it shows why the article's argument is pretty nonsensical.

Suppose there were two possible universes - God had a choice when creating the world - and we're living in one of them. We have no idea about His choice, or what other possible universe there might be. How could we learn anything about another universe? Obviously we can't.

Can we have a better than even chance of guessing whether we're living in the better or the worse of the two possible universes? Per the article, we can! Mimicking the protocol described in the article:

* Step 1: We choose a random number, setting this aside. I don't specify how we choose this.

* Step 2: Then we evaluate the universe we're living in, which we do have access to, via whatever fitness function we want, as to how good it is. We arrive at a numerical score. Edit: This corresponds to opening the envelope to see what number is inside. Note that we don't have any information about the number in the other envelope! (The other possible universe.) None whatsoever.

If the numerical score is higher than the random number we had guessed, congratulations, we're probably living in the better of the possible universes!

if the numerical score is lower than the random number we had chosen, odds are we're not living in the better possible universe!

But this method of gaining a bit of information is just so patently absurd on its face. Obviously we haven't actually learned anything at all.

I hope this little exercise shows how ridiculous the steps outlined are.

It is clear we cannot actually gain any insight whatsoever into the philosophical question proposed, through this method. we don't actually learn whether we're probably living in the better of two possible universes, where we have absolutely no idea as to what the two might differ in (what number the other universe might have.)
You should care about the U.S. We live in a global economy (this isn't new). What's good for your neighbor is good for you (and vice versa).
Perspective is important :) Putting 1000 material design inputs on a page isn't something a sane web app would do. The same is true for a native app.

Re. "bloat" of components. I think it's important to remember everything something like paper-input is doing for _you_. As a developer, I no longer have to think about: validation, animations, a11y, keyboard, knowing all the MD spec configurations, labels, underlines, colors, fonts, typography, margins, composability, x-browser interop,... Sure, if you were implementing your own input, you could cut corners and/or leave out what you didn't need. However, if you were creating a highly reusable, highly configurable element, you'd be implementing the same amount of "bloat" yourself.
Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius - some of the greatest words penned on living a simple, elegant life. I'm more of an Epicurus fan now, but this book made me a Stoic for quite a long time.

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, by Richard Feynman - for someone who never got science, this book was a beautiful revelation of just how extra-ordinary our natural world is.

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, by Barbara Tuchman. Probably the best history book I've ever read. There's a reason the woman won two Pulitzer's - such a fantastic writer.
Polymer itself is 47KB. If you add the web component polyfills (16KB), that's 63KB minified and gzipped. I tend not to consider the polyfills because they're not Polymer and are a stop-gap that goes away over time.
There's a movie called "Travelling Salesman" [1]. It's available on Amazon's video service.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1801123/?ref_=fn_al_tt_7
No, what was written is that the kids are born smaller. Agreed most people would "error correct" the wording.
> Being poor means you have no cushion. Particularly if you are poor in an urban/suburban area. You are one unfortunate event away from being wiped out.

I think there is a more important distinction; really, one that is more valuable than any reasonable amount of saved money is. Family with the resources to support a person. I mean, most of the time, if you come from a middle-class family, you can't remain dependent forever, but you do have a place to stay while you get back on your feet, and you have a network of people who know people who can get you interviews for decent jobs.

I think this is a bigger advantage than it would seem at first glance; bankruptcy is dramatically less frightening if you know that worst-case, you can sleep at your parent's place, eat their food, and that they'll be calling all their contacts trying to get you an interview.
I feel like many of the general chroot principles in this article can be applied to containers.
The security screeners are not officers. Abso-fucking-lutely not. Their powers of detention and search are strictly limited to only those actions required to ensure the safety of aircraft from the things that would be loaded onto said aircraft. [0]

If a TSA agent needs to do anything beyond their remit, they must get a law enforcement officer to do it.

[0] The TSA's kangaroo court has been gradually expanding what the TSA feels it is legally permitted to do as time goes on, but -happily- Federal judges have started to take a really dim view on the TSA's (incredibly long-standing) procedural end run around judicial review.
Add a hidden argument to every function marked as capable of transient reference: a pointer to a pointer to a structure (just another object) which serves as a "stack frame". In that function, if you do reference stuff, build your own "stack frame" and use that to maintain a shadow stack. If you allow threads to transiently access objects between "sync points" this won't even be all that inefficient, as you will only be using it to track sub-graph roots as you make calls to other functions... for various reasons many of the more legit mechanisms have that same limitation anyway (where threads are only stopped to be scanned at moments they mark as safe). Maybe you don't consider this to be "good gc", but if your criteria is simply "precise GC with only a minor performance penalty" I don't see any reason to doubt that C is up for the challenge. (And as you are uniquely aware, one would hope that if you were buying the static compilation argument you are also likely to not stress a garbage collector much in the first place, so I would expect the shadow stack to get very little use.) Is there something I'm missing? I really would be interested in a more expansive explanation as to why building a GC with C as a compilation target (as opposed to as a library for people you are expecting to program in C) is considered such a serious showstopping issue.
Cofounder of thumbtack here. I grew up in East Tennessee, attended public schools through high school and then got my bachelors at the University of Tennessee.

For the record, I never went to a better school because nobody ever told me that I could.

My high school graduation rate was somewhere around 50%, and when the guidance counselors found out that I got a scholarship to the University of Tennessee, they pretty much made a plaque to commemorate the success and then moved on to the other kids.

It's a problem I'd like to work on in the next couple of years.

However, while I'm opining, I might add that I could be the exception that proves the rule.

All three of my cofounders were Ivy educated, and a heavy proportion of our early investors and advisors were either connections from their social network or people who they met at the various Ivy networking functions.

I'm really not sure what to say about it. It's just how the world works. People like to help people that they know, and when you go to an Ivy League school it just so happens that the people you share a dorm room with are going to be in a much better position to help you than my freshman year roommates at UT.

The UT alumni Association, bless their hearts, can't seem to see any purpose for contacting alumni except for donations and to organize football watching parties.

My most successful friends from back home are lawyers, doctors, and small business owners. My cofounders' most successful friends from back home are venture capitalists, Stanford professors, and finance types.
Dask looks quite interesting. Though I am running into some issues with merges and such.

My temporary fix is to use the chunking functionality of Pandas.
Physicists Prove Time Travel Possible by Sending Light Particles into the Past
This appears to be the abstract: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/25/7833.abstract

In the footnotes it declares "The authors declare no conflict of interest."

This is more a convenient excuse to post a link to the real abstract than "correcting" snark. To Ars' credit, they did link the paper's full ID number at the bottom, which is cool, but at the moment it 404s. Gripping had, it did give me great Google fodder to find the paper quickly so I'm still scoring them "wildly ahead of the conventional media".
Taking this at face value: one lives an inordinately stressful life (read: tries to be successful in a competitive, capitalist environment) and consumes caffeine to prevent the damage; as habitual caffeine use increases caffeine tolerance, one increases caffeine consumption, thus moving them asymptotically towards the breaking point. If one was less fortunate in the genetic lottery, the tolerance continues increasing beyond the point where it can be sated. Don't call it a breakdown; call it the obvious endpoint of a society that tacitly forces non-recreational drug use.

(I guess I'm saying the problem with The War On Drugs as a policy wass that it didnt go far enough)
https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI
https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partII

I took these to prepare for first-job interviews coming out of grad school. Got an offer from a company frequently mentioned on this site, so I guess they helped.
> There is nothing that I've read that describes what you said.

Literally the second (non-ad) result when I searched on DDG for "apple photostream": https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201317

From that page:

The subheading says: "With My Photo Stream, you can access the recent photos that you take with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, on your Mac and PC."

Under the instructions about setting it up is this:

> My Photo Stream uploads your most recent photos so you can view and import them to all of your devices. Photos are stored in My Photo Stream for 30 days.

I don't know what material you've been reading, but Photostream has always been marketed by Apple as a way to get photos from any of your devices, onto the others. Think of it like a delayed queue. Device A uploads the 5 photos you just took to the photostream. Devices B and C connect later (either because they were off, or had no Wifi, etc) and (depending on your settings) can download those 5 photos. After a month, the photos are automatically deleted from the photo stream.

In the world of iCloud Photo Library, the only reason to keep the "Upload to My Photo Stream" option turned on, is if you have a device that can't use the new Photos app (e.g. older iOS/OSX).

Based on what you're saying about "multiple PhotoStreams" I don't even know what you're doing. Are you sure what you're using is PhotoStreams, and not just regular shared albums? It doesn't sound anything like PhotoStream if you have multiple, long-lived collections.
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+1 for Dan's crypto1. I don't think crypto2 has been taught yet via coursera, as I've been waiting to take it and have seen it pushed back several times, and I've seen others say they'd been watching it get delayed for years. It does seem that Dan has been recording videos for part 2 in 2015 though (according to one of his students), so there's reason for hope that it might happen in 2016.
I used to say I moved to OSX because with who wants to spend N days configuring a window manager that could be spent on something productive. Now, every *.Nth OSX update I have to spend a day or two just unconfiguring the feature creap.
I always thought USPS would be a perfect partner for Amazon since their post offices would be ideal takeoff points for the drones. They are everywhere and they already deal with receiving packages.
Not a surprise.

Trends show that women in the U.S. and Canada are also having fewer children than in generations past and trending towards having children at a later age.

Canada

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2014002-eng.ht...

U.S.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/07/03/birth-rates-...
> What the heck do we implement?

return 4;

..or anything else you like ;)

The point of the paradox is that using any number gives you a non-losing (and possibly winning) strategy. (Modulo some assumptions that the opponent doesn't know your strategy, etc.)
California would still have 10% of the representatives, they would just have many more like everyone else. There would be no power shift from state to state.

So you are saying the problem is no one is held accountable now, but the problem will be worse with smaller districts because then no one will be held accountable?

I think having smaller electorates where you can get elected by knowing your constituents personally rather than via advertising and attack ads would be an improvement.
When Amazon first announced their intent to use drones, one of my friends started using a phrase: "Skeet shooting, with prizes!"
TL; DR: The author seems to use "COBOL" as a negative example of language reserved word complexity. Specifically, he points out ANSI COBOL 85 seems to have the most: 357 reserved words. He contrasts this with SystemVerilog, which seems to have 250 + 73 reserved system functions = 323.

He spends the remainder of the article describing thoughts arising, on said language complexity, from conversations at a “10 Years of IEEE 1800™ SystemVerilog Celebration” lunch, at an IEEE Standard Association symposium. The author uses anonymous hallway and table conversations with SystemVerilog luminaries as a platform for critical analysis of not only the current SystemVerilog language standard, but the IEEE process and committee by which it was formed and ratified.
I'm not quite sure this gets to the heart of what OP meant. In tech, MIT is probably better than (or at least as good as) most Ivies.
why not use yeoman?
> This is underspecified. Pick a random number in what range?

It is underspecified, but it doesn't matter what range you use. I mean, yes, it does matter in that it affects your probability of success. But you can pick it however you like and still do better than breaking even. Pick a random number in [-10, 10], then next time in [-pi^78, -5], then next time [0, 109487468742]. It doesn't matter.
You may be a racist.
This is CS50!

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-har...
vermocharen -- certainly works in some contexts. A coffee roaster, e.g.

no small feat to get even marginally-euphoneous words from an open, available code base.

Next up came
tintilu
picolera
fangon
I use Hugo for one of my side projects' static sites, and actually just today migrated from using HTML templates to Ace. (I also use it for my blog.)

My pros and cons of Hugo:

+ It's fast.

+ Like, really, really fast. I'm looking at <1s builds for a couple thousand pages which took around 5-8s in Pelican.

+ A lot of really nice out-of-the-box stuff like
markdownifying arbitrary strings, rss and sitemaps, etc.

+ Extensible front matter system. (I abuse it to stuff an arbitrary JSON object into each page.)

+ Did I mention how fast it was?

- Debugging is hell. Error messages are unintelligible and generally distract from whatever the actual issue is.

- The structure of a theme is sort of unintuitive, but that may be personal preference.

- Lack of support for more user-friendly templating languages like Jinja2 (this is likely due to speed, but I'd still like the options.)
Which Online Advisor Is the Best Fit for You?
Links,

Andrew Ng's ML Class - https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

Daphne Koller's PGM Class - https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm

Dan Jurafsky's and Christopher Manning's NLP Class - https://www.coursera.org/course/nlp
True that there's no uniform distribution over the reals (or even over the integers or the natural numbers). But just pick whatever distribution you like.
I think you're stretching a little to get from faster merchandise delivery to mob-rule government.

Or, your objections would have been valid against the railroad and the telegraph as well (both of those reduced friction tremendously).

I get the gist of what you're saying, but I don't agree that artificially limiting technological innovation, or improvements in efficiencies is beneficial at all.
Well, see Neo900 approach to this, where the GSM radio is completely isolated and monitored.
Engineering Software as a Service: An Agile Approach Using Cloud Computing

http://www.saasbook.info/courses
Data structure and algorithm – examples and implementations
If we're going down that route we'd might as well eliminate the letters c and x, use phonetic spelling and reverse the meanings of driveway and parkway.

Until the language is remade to conform to logic though, I think it's best to learn countable and uncountable distinctions. At the very least it's an advantage not to have others underestimate you based on grammar issues in your writing.
Wouldn't that pose problems for the navigation equipment?
It had an Android release, so an old version of bluestacks/equivalent and a pirated .apk should (hopefully) last forever.

I think you're right about iOS though.
"What is “I am a Buddhist” supposed to say about you? ... it signifies particular personality traits such as openness and agreeableness."

Interestingly, the present Dalai Lama is ranked as low on both openness and agreeableness.
USPS was worried enough to agree to start delivering packages for Amazon on Sundays, which must've required some interesting negotiations with their unions.
UPDATE NOV 28th: AMAZON IS a WINNER..corruption at amazon seller performance
Things universities should do to rein in costs