skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, one of the sub-themes of the article was that Chinese investors are underpinning this situation. So you've got a lot of players in the market with no interest in actually living in the city.

I think the effect you mention is probably a lot more relevant to the people selling at below market to speculators that approached them, because if they were assuming that they could finance a home purchase in the city with the proceeds of the sale, they're going to find their purchasing power significantly weaker than they were probably expecting (given that they just clear 3x their original investment, "YAY!"). On top of that, with many agents speculating themselves, and a lot of foreign investors on the buy side of the market, they're likely to find that they are now swimming with sharks having just sold their boat.

Additional commentary: If you find yourself in this situation, you might as well try to get a loan to buy a new house before you sell your current shelter from the elements. If you're no longer able to get a loan for an amount that would get you a house in your area, perhaps that's an indication that you should be very careful with how you proceed. It still may be worth selling, even taking a below market offer (conceivably). But now you know that selling your house is going to mean moving to a more buyer friendly market in advance of committing yourself. Or... if you're the gambling type, renting in anticipation of a bubble burst (though I think heavy foreign investment messes with people's expectations of what is too hot for a given market; certainly it is fickle, but can potentially prop prices up significantly above historical levels for a long time).
I wanted to use nanomsg 6 months ago. Google alone, at the time, had it as a better zmq. I had to really read between the lines at the time to figure that it was losing momentum. It was not an easy sense.

I'm glad this forthright piece puts nanomsg incontrovertibly to pasture. It's thanks to clear pieces like this that people are able to navigate the open source world and choose technologies which, if they may not be theoretically the best, have the much more important characteristic that they are long lived, alive.
> After that the seller's agent is pretty much in the dark for the rest of the process, the way I understand it.

It is possible that a seller's agent could fail to recognize a huge mispricing of the accepted offer, and if that is the case you are absolutely right.

However: The seller's agent failed to recognize a huge mispricing?! And lost all of those commission dollars (3-6% depending)? Totally suspicious. At best the broker is incompetent, at worst, corrupt.

BTW: During the previous housing bubble, several folks worried about "pocket listing', which could be a technique for pulling this off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_listing
I see that you don't write regex very often. :)
Is the PC & OS market still as MS-centric as it was back then? I know they still own the majority of the desktop, but with OS X out there, and more fragmentation to mobile, it feels like it would be much much harder to build an anti-trust case against Microsoft.
Because JScript was an MS-only implementation, while TS always has and always will compile to JS. There's quite a difference.

Also, could you elaborate "web breaking" w.r.t. compile-to-JS languages?
Not sure what you are talking about. Indians have been more than welcoming to other people. We have been screwed over thousands of years now.

Refusing to be screwed and looking after your interests isn't racism or xenophobia.
Yes, it's a tricky problem because "what does autoplay mean?" If you load up a page containing an HTML5 game, presumably you want the background music and SFX to work. But how do we differentiate those from an unwanted autoplaying audio ad?

I believe the Firefox devs settled on anything during/after a user interaction is allowed to autoplay. More at this bug (which I've been following for years, if you couldn't tell :)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659285
Who did WHAT WITH ROOT?
If only the Java type system were better. Mostly my complaints are around type erasure, and working around that becomes a large PITA and removes many of the niceties of generics in the first place!
The optionality of the assignment clause has value to the buyer which should be priced into the transaction.
Plus there is the fact that utilities are state-regulated monopolies... Until you have competing utility providers, it isn't much of a market.
Trivial point of logic: knowledge of the long-term risk of low-level exposure was arrived at by having this kind of low-level exposure and compounding it over the duration of those long-term periods...
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And don't forget QuickTime!! The all time worst media player.
So, instead of one app that sandboxes my FB usage, I would be using a different app (a separate browser) to do basically the same. It might work if Firefox is less of a battery hog then FB app.
Eh wait, what? Go to settings, update, click "refresh". That's it. Clean bloatware-free Windows installation. Works in win 8 and up.
Blogspam?

Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11037903 (86 points, 7 hours ago, 12 comments)
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> If "insight" means "tracking", this sounds very user-friendly.

I personally would like advertisers and content producers to know at which point it is that users tend to bail on watching their video, or will click through to the content. That might allow business users to receive useful feedback and actually optimize their funnel, instead of wasting my time with a shotgun, best guess approach.
I have been using Nvidia cards since the original geforce 256 in 2000. I purchased one of the first ATI 8514 Ultra cards in the early 90s. I own two R9-290s, and at work I use Tesla K40s. I follow GPU computing avidly as I do machine learning using mainly openCL (for my sins), precisely because I want choice in the market. It would be much easier for me to do CUDA. I resist for reasons of rejecting proprietary APIs.

I know exactly what I am talking about. I don't forgive Nvidia its sins, I actually prefer AMD, but I am not about to lie to myself that Nvidia is somehow an unsuccessful company, when it is worth 7x more than AMD, and AMD also includes an X86 line. It's a no-contest scenario in the eyes of the market, much to my chagrin, but I cannot deny the reality:

Nvidia is crushing AMD.
It doesn't quite work "normally," the play/pause button state is backwards, but yeah, it works good enough.
It wasn't meant as a counter-argument, just filling in a stance and expanding on it.

I do it sometimes, I apologize if it confused, probably should have replied to myself.
Yeah that does sound annoying. Have you tried contacting the extension maker? Perhaps they can add that to the list of fixes/features on their next update?
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What is holding up the major browsers from implementing es6 natively?
It sounds like you know a lot about this area, but an angry denunciation doesn't help the rest of us much. It would be better to share your knowledge and drop the snark.

An absolute dismissal can feel good for a little while, but a culture of dismissals is one of the worst things that could happen here, so we all need to moderate our impulses a bit.
Poll: Would you trust robots?
With a new generation of robots designed to work with humans on the way, a key issue in their adoption is the extent to which people would trust them - especially as much as a human doing the same task.

In that context, would you trust a robot to (you can choose whichever apply):
Deliver a pizza
Drive me to work
Perform surgery on me or a loved one
Identify criminal activity
Stop criminal activity
Buy my groceries
Mind my children
Teach my children
I wish Elm would product JS that is applicable to the Google Closure compiler. That would be very very useful.
I'd say that due to the input (JS), they also have a fairly limited set of IR constructs they really need to support. The B3 IR looks very simple for this reason. IOW, they figured out that for realistic code they don't need the full, heavy weight of LLVM and can just implement some simple basics.
Very cool site!

A few I liked:

http://donohoe.io/projects/crossword/#/router

http://donohoe.io/projects/crossword/#/mci

http://donohoe.io/projects/crossword/#/streaming

Thanks for sharing.
in this case it is, it's literally the same organism as they share the same roots. Though that would make it lonely again I guess.
Hmm, immediately flagged off the front page.

Burn the heretic!
Selective enforcement is never good news. Not in law. Not in contracts.
yep, this is on our roadmap
Solid pricing information for large quantities of batteries is hard to get, but GM recently disclosed their price to be $145/kWh, and apparently LG Chem's other customers are paying around ~$100 more/kWh [1].

Is your $0.11/kWh price just for the stored amount at $200/kWh? That conversion factor to kWh-stored prices is more favorable than I've been using, as I've been assuming about ~1000 cycles worth of storage, but then I don't really have a good number for that.

Since not all energy will need to be stored, and much (most?) can be used right away, then it will increase the overall cost of energy only by the X% that needs to be stored. So if solar is $0.05/kWh, and 50% can be used right away, then the overall cost for solar + storage would be $0.105/kWh on the generation side. Which is quite competitive already.

http://insideevs.com/lg-chem-ticked-gm-disclosing-145kwh-bat...
Many AV vendors have national security concerns.
No. At least the first page of the 1964 paper that makes a review of the previous work mentions the work done since mid-forties (that means, since around 1945) at Hanford.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PdfExcerptURL&_imag...

About that work at Hanford:

http://www.hanfordproject.com/atmospheric.html

"Classified studies done at Hanford revealed how radioiodine traveled through the food chain, increasing in concentration as it moved upwards into higher consumer species. Clandestine studies conducted at Hanford revealed how high dosage levels of ingested iodine-131 in sheep showed "virtually complete destruction" of their thyroids and those of their offspring. [3] Hanford officials repeatedly assured the public that, "not one atom" has escaped the facility. At one press conference officials stated bluntly that the facility was "safe as mother's milk" even as they were well aware of the possibility of compromising the health of both workers and the general public through Hanford's plutonium production activities. [4]"

And about Hanford as the facility:

"For more than forty years, Hanford released radioactive contamination into the environment while producing plutonium for the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War era. Although the majority of the releases were due to activities related to production, some were also planned and intentional."
>> It's much easier to author and publish an animated ad using Flash than HTML/JS.

I thought you just put a video tag and point it at the URL of a video file. What else is missing? ;-)
I find that landing page truly frustrating. I can't do anything besides watch the background video and "Star" them on Github.
Obviously user friendly but businesses don't care when they can't get their metrics.
Sadly most of that advice will only work for those that work in IT directly. For those that use IT as a tool in the box to get something else done, or as a internet appliance, most of the suggestions will not fly. They will just hit yes on every UAC, and approve every outgoing connection.
A large part of the "Atoms for Peace" and "Our Friend the Atom" were a result of Eisenhower's deliberate attempt to normalize the usage of nuclear weapons in combat.
> Its a fast developing nation

The benefits of development are very unevenly distributed. Some areas are the equal of any first world country...and others lag behind even the poorest African countries.

> India do not need help on the internet side of things.

The 800 million Indians [1] without internet might disagree with that.

I think you've forgotten just how freaking big India is. They have 400 million people online, which is the second most of any country (only China has more, with 670 million online)...yet they are so big that this is only 1/3 of their population.

[1] Indian population: 1200 million - 400 million with access [2] = 800 million without.

[2] http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/india-to-have-402-mill...
My observation is that the government tendency to keep secrets apparently does not (or at least in this case did not) extend to keeping the secrets from those who have enough information to detect that there IS a secret. Kodak's scientists could tell that nuclear radiation bursts were occurring, and so the US government told them the details of the nuclear testing.

This has implications on the kinds of systems that we want to set up to protect against governments keeping secrets that they shouldn't. If we make sure that certain groups can tell THAT there are secrets (without knowing what the secrets are) perhaps that provides an effective check on government abuses.
I don't know where this myth comes from that scientists have some sort of strong belief that no other form of life is possible, but it's not true. What we have is a lot of ignorance, so many scientists will often concentrate only on those forms of life (plural) we know exist because we share a planet with them, because those are the forms of life we can actually discuss with confidence, but I doubt you can find a serious scientist who will confidently proclaim no alternatives are possible.

There are good reasons to believe that ours is quite likely and good reason to be skeptical of alternatives, in the proper scientific sense, but certainly not disproved or something.
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>Skimming the 1998 Senate hearing linked in the article, the link between radioactive iodine ingestion and thyroid cancer was apparently unsure even in 1998, although considered likely by then.

Skimming certain recent senate hearings, one might conclude that global warming is quite possibly a dark conspiracy by climate scientists.

I have worked in the nuclear industry prior to 1998, and I can tell you that the risks were well enough understood by then.

If the risks were not suspected at the time of the tests, why would anyone be thinking of disposing of milk?
It implements a lot of features that are useful for web applications that Spark doesn't, such as Flash, Form Processing helpers etc...
Neat idea, but it won't be adopted in third world countries. Its too complex, and if it requires any maintenance, it will be thrown away once it stops working. That's a common theme with these kinds of devices targeting poor nations.
> And, IIRC, we have strong reason to believe that life that could live without O2 predates life that needs O2, and, in fact, it is life that made free O2 available, not free O2 that made life possible.

Yes, early life on Earth was all anaerobic. That started around 4.1 Gya (billion years ago)[1]. The Great Oxygenation Event[2] happened around 2.3 Gya - that wasn't the first appearance of photosynthesis, but it was the point at which it changed the atmosphere enough to wipe out most of the other life on Earth at the time. Obligate aerobes - organisms that need oxygen to survive - were later still.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_h...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
Firefox might have similar extensions.

It does indeed work. However, you might find that some videos don't load as they should. And, for example, gifs on facebook stop after one loop for one reason (since they are not really gifs, but videos).

But I remember similar issues with various flash-blocking extensions too.
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It would be interesting to see Youtube's statistics on this, because for almost every case personally on my mobile devices and every case I've seen others deal with, that bail-out point is "as soon as possible" if the ad can be skipped.
I'm sure there were strong suspicions. The practices of the era were... questionable in many moral, ethical and legal dimensions.

(http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet1...)

"From 1963 to 1965, at the Atomic Energy Commission National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho, radioactive iodine was purposely released on seven separate occasions. In one of these experiments,
seven human subjects drank milk from cows which had grazed on iodine-contaminated land. This experiment was designed to measure the passage of iodine through the food chain into the thyroids of
human subjects. In a second experiment, three human subjects were placed on the pasture during iodine release, and seven subjects were placed on the pasture in a third experiment. In addition, "several" individuals were contaminated during yet another experiment when vials of radioactive iodine accidentally broke. Cows grazed on contaminated land and their milk was counted in four of the experiments; in the remaining three, radiation measurements were made only int he pasture. (Category 10.001, Number 173)."

"During the 1960s, at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 57 normal adults were fed microscopic spheres containing radioactive uranium and manganese. These experiments were designed to determine how fast such spheres would pass through the human body after ingestion. It was believed that particles of this size could be produced by the atmospheric reentry and burnup of rockets propelled by nuclear reactors, or of radioactive power supplies. (Category 1.003, Number 106)."

"From 1961 to 1963, at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, 102 human subjects were fed real fallout from the Nevada Test Site; simulated fallout particles that contained strontium, barium, or cesium; or solutions of strontium and cesium. This experiment was designed to measure human absorption and retention of these radioactive substances. (Category 11.001, Number 186, Part A)."
Alright, we've put some quotes in there for you.
We're living in an interesting time. The first group to get a working qbit based computer will be able to break all current encryption. We will very rapidly have to switch to quantum encryption to protect ourselves.

You can be damn sure that the NSA and the other three letter agencies are working hard on this problem, and definitely would not share if they get there first (if they haven't already).
I think you'd also need a "Would not trust robots" answer to get a fair balance.
Does this mean Kodak has a lot of nuclear testing related information that can be had without going through FOIA requests?
> If "insight" means "tracking", this sounds very user-friendly.

What about a slideshow which has a video of the speaker, and changes the slides for particular timestamps.

At the moment you'll have to detect the playback event and just hope that the video is playing back at the "correct" speed, and change the slides based on a JavaScript clock.

While that works most of the time, it isn't what I'd describe as reliable.

Alternatives exist, like making the slides part of the video too, but now text cannot be copied out, links cannot be clicked, and so on...
Interesting talk from Facebook engineers about their iOS efforts over the years: https://youtu.be/XhXC4SKOGfQ
Feb 11th: Scientists to provide an update on the search for gravitational waves
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A lot of people seem to be so ready to read a different article that they aren't noticing what this one is about. This is not an article about "If a given planet holds life, how could we detect it?" This article is about "If a given signal is detected from a planet, what characteristics of the signal would allow us to conclude it could only be from life?" It's a completely different question. It's not about avoiding false negatives, it's about avoiding false positives. It is obvious that a planet could hold life, and we could fail to detect it; we're still arguing about whether Mars has or had life, after all! And we've actually landed probes on it.
>Meaning, don't sign legally binding contracts that you haven't read.

If we required this to be an adult that the world would be full of children. Granted, I personally want this. I would like to make 'I didn't read/understand the contract' valid reason to break a contract unless the other party could prove with clear and convincing evidence you read and understood the contract... but I realize this would bring our society to a halt and would require a significant rework to fix. We live in a society that abuses consent and to swap to one that doesn't will not be an easy task.
He's clearly not delivering enough value then, or he's not focusing on a large enough target audience. He's probably also not charging enough. Every single app that I've built has easily grossed >$30-50k each in less than 6 months after launch without having to do significant marketing. And we're talking apps built in <30 days.

The app store has a massive audience; you need to focus on large enough target groups. How many people use RSS apps these days?

Now that I think about it.. I should probably write an ebook on building profitable apps from a developer point of view.
"For years the state provided rebates for homeowners who wanted to go solar through a lottery system."

What the heck...
Good catch. Url changed from https://github.com/paulirish/The-cost-of-transpiling-es2015-....
In Scott Aaronson's book Quantum Computing Since Democritus, he off-handedly mentions the need for quantum-hard crypto and that perhaps something based on Wolfram's cellular automata would do the trick. Wolfram says he used one of his own cellular automata rules as the PRNG in Mathematica. Which makes me wonder, why don't we already use something like this in modern crypto? And, how exactly would we implement this if we wanted to do so?
Though I see what you're saying and it is a problem, that seems too dismissive. Like any other technology, it can improve over time.
No, I'm suggesting the timeline is wrong and the fogging either is apocryphal or occurred later during hydrogen testing.,
>>Same thing you're going to say to that 18 year old kid in the year 2030 whose life could have been different had he lived in a more connected India.

There is a patient suffering from a heart disease, medicine arrives in a few days.

You seem to be suggesting that another drug, which can relieve the patient of some of the pains for the next hour, but is sure to kill the patient in the next few months be administered to the patient immediately.
It looks promising. Is this solution sustainable or it's just a smart hack?
This looks promising. As someone who's struggled getting something like this set up for various teams in the past, I can say that we never found anything we LOVED ... if we were lucky, a mashup that worked good enough.
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Done, but in the future please include a URL the way https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11059143 did, and then we can act on your suggestion.
I wouldn't trust a robot with anything!
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Reasonable, added.
Amazon seems to be having success selling AWS as a landing point for things that are predictable and don't need instant scaling.

Edit: The context here is about non-tech Fortune 500 companies, Government Agencies, etc...and the very large amount of existing "non cloud" opportunity they present for the likes of Amazon. Think General Mills, American Airlines, CVS, Kroger, etc.

For example: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/dole/

Sure, it's odd they think running Sharepoint on AWS is saving them money, but they moved :)
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Yes, Facebook, full of incompetent engineers.

I'll never understand why HN is so desperate to believe something that clearly isn't true.