skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason it would never happen is that, at least in the US, the government has been in the business of trying to make owning a house accessible to people who probably can't actually afford it. As much as people like to cast aspersions on "the banks" for the housing bubble, the government deserves a lot of blame as well for actively promoting the ideas that everyone should be able to own their own home.

If they were to do what you propose, that would lead to some uncomfortable circumstances: the only people who can afford a home are the people who come from the middle class and up, which might not represent minorities in an appropriate way. And in such a case this does not bode well for politicians who are looking for votes.
If you can't write your own modulo function if don't understand the fundamentals of integer/floating point operations. Or are unaware of ceil and floor functions.
Wow, I had no idea Feinstein was so close to the assassinations. That's traumatic. I wonder if those events lead to her positions on defense and privacy which are so uncharacteristic of the rest of her party.
Or, just refuse to be one of the sheep?

Personally, I see nothing wrong with one internet picture for all these social sites. I wear huge women's sunglasses on my one picture I put out there. It's probally against TOS, but who really cares? There's always another website.

That said, I've never had anyone pick me on my looks.

I need to put in time writing, or talking. It's a pain, but I've never liked knowing anyone in the world can download my image.

Actually, I don't like anyone taking my picture. My only pictures in school was k through 8th grade. I wasen't present for picture day in high school. College did get my mug.

My hope is it will become socially frowned upon to take anyone's picture without their consent.

Whenever I see that Shutter bug at social functions--I just with they would put down the camera, or take it out at end of the hootenanny?
> But – and here is the great sleight of hand – the Bank has seen fit not to include house prices in its measures of inflation. So, throughout the 90s and 00s, they could then “prove” inflation was low or moderate and interest rates meandered lower.

Aren't rents included in the CPI? I would be surprised if they weren't since it's a pretty huge part of most people's monthly expenses.

Then it would either mean that the rents rose along with the house prices (in which case this effect is included in the inflation figures) or that the actual housing costs didn't increase -- it's just less profitable to buy and more to rent.
Why did you feel it's small? We believe it's a huge market. Software development industry as a whole is half a trillion market as per a Gartner report (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2696317).
In the UK (or London, at least), "house" means "a place to live", so it can mean appartment as well. According to my observations, most young people won't be able to afford an apartment either.

> my family enjoys a Manhattan penthouse with a rooftop

If anything, the intelectual dishonesty is pretending that it matters whether it's a proper house or an apartment; if you were to sell your NY penthouse, you'd be able to afford a good house almost anywhere on Earth, unlike many "lazy millenials" who will never own any property.
Reminds me of my previous physician. That person owned literally all the housing units on the same street where she set up shop.
Well, here in UK I could pay 1/2 of what I pay in rent on a mortgage for a similar home. Buying houses is just a lot cheaper than renting in the long run.
Unlike many European countries we do not have bus routes to the rural towns. It forces us to rely on our own cars, or a family member's good will. Until we can build the bus infrastructure, cars are here to stay.
I would add junk food culture.
That's just rhetoric. What does it mean? What lessons have been learned? What is it about generics that makes them the 'edge of the cliff'? Personally I couldn't live without generics, and would never choose a language that doesn't have them; otherwise you end up doing cartwheels with untyped references and reflection to try and write reusable code (as you see above). The idea that generics adds complexity is nonsense. It might add complexity to the compiler, but that's about it. For the end user and the compiled code it's easier and faster respectively.
Cool :) and the Parse Open Source Community is there too :)
Jack the gas price to $10/gallon, use the proceeds to fund non-car things.
No. There is no interface that "sortable" things implement, other than the empty interface, and no neat way to define one.

Numbers and strings support <, but there's no way to specify operators in interface, and no way to specify operators for other types anyway.

You could do

type Comparable interface {
Compare (x Comparable) int // -> -1, 0, 1
}

func Sort (x []Comparable): []Comparable {
/// ...
}

And whilst this Sort could work, how do you call it? []int isn't []Comparable, and can't be converted to one: you have to make a new array. Then, when you want an array of ints on the other end, you have to convert it back, which now involves run-time type assertions.

Even an array of something that implements Comparable isn't compatible - it can't be, because Go doesn't know Sort won't take Bar[] and put a Foo in it, if Foo and Bar both implement Comparable.

And, whilst you can define Compare for int, the other argument will be a Comparable, not a int, so you'll have to have a run-time type assertion for each comparison.

Conversely you might try

func Sort (x []interface{}, f func(interface{}, interface{})int) []interface{} {
/// ...
}

You still can't sort []int, and your comparison function can't know it's receiving int, so it will have to type-assert both arguments at each comparison.
I guess with all the pressures and cost cuts in QA you'd be better off sticking to Haswell Gen machine for next few years. Which are perfectly fine by the way - Haswell Xeons for your workstation and anything around the i7-4xxx for your laptop will do you fairly well for next 3 years or whatever it takes for Intel to put out a power efficient, stable and well supported part.
Parse Open Source Community on Slack bit.ly/1SxTVIi ;)
> I'm on a fully updated Arch Linux with the latest Git.

Same, actually.
Until recently we were living with a maniac who didn't need SSRIs to go manic. It is astonishing how ugly it gets, I've still got a broken mirror on the floor in the other room that we haven't cleaned up yet.
Not just class, but age. Those of us who grew up in the 70s or 80s were much less likely to have a PC in the house as a child. High-speed internet wasn't commonly available until I entered college (and even then, it wasn't something found in homes - just offices and colleges).
Does this actually expand current law? The government already has the ability to subpoena customer data, including encryption keys.

> The government cannot require or prohibit any specific design or operating system for any covered entity to use in complying with a court order.

This seems to specifically exclude one of the main concerns of the whole Apple/FBI thing.

I also don't see anything explicitly requiring back doors or security loopholes.

If a customer's data is encrypted and the service doesn't have the keys, I'm not sure how this bill would help.

Of course, if it really doesn't change anything, I see that as a reason to not pass the bill.
Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam had German nuclear files
When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption.
This makes the FBI's requests to Apple look like child's play. I cannot possibly see how our tech economy can survive once all these backdoors are in the hands of criminals (other than the US govt) and enemy states. Feinstein is especially known for her extreme stupidity but killing one of the last prosperous industries in America (tech), this is just simply too much. At least we'll know who to blame when no one wants to buy US tech anymore.
Would this outlaw PGP?
I think saying 'everyone can program' is not the same as 'everyone can be a programmer'. Similar to how saying 'everyone can (learn to) take care of their teeth' is not the same as 'everyone can be a dentist'.
The reality for a more typical household isn't a Manhattan penthouse, it's a choice between some gritty apartment a 90 minute commute away in Queens or a nicer apartment/dumpy house in Jersey, Rockland/Orange County or Long Island.
Time is money, you can spend that extra time however you wish, and working more can have a payoff even if it shouldn't. And not everyone can buy, especially if they aren't in high home ownership cultures (or can't afford the $1 million needed to break into the market).

Homes as a trick to saving or not spending seems vacuous, it's like the enforced marriage wedding debt hyped up about a certain tribe in the phillipines. If you need to be deeply in debt to spend money wisely, something is wrong.
How would this be enforceable with e to e encryption? The defendant could simply claim the private key has been lost. Then what??
When a major brewery in my town (Founders) relocated as they were expanding, they decided to move right across the street from the city's central transit station. Anyone (such as myself) that lives near a bus line can easily go to their taproom and not worry about driving. Not sure how much the transit station played into their relocation plans, or whether the land was just cheap, but it was a genius move.
wonder how reinforcement learning could do on that game?
It's really disheartening to read or hear almost any discussion about this issue. They're chock-full of broken analogies to meatspace that sound perfectly reasonable if you don't understand the nuances. The instant access, wide platform, and cheap copying that the Internet provides is unlike anything our species has dealt with before, and if you're not really informed on these issues, it's easy to lead yourself into what sounds like a reasonable position, but would actually destroy much of the modern economy.

My point being, the anti-encryption side has the support of nearly everyone who isn't informed about encryption and computing, which is a whole lot of people.
Ahh, never mind. The tar.gz is indeed identical, "only" the zip differs.
If you're a programmer, you can write FizzBuzz. Whenever I do a first technical screen, I always start with FizzBuzz - explicitly telling the interviewee it's just to warm them in before we get to the real stuff. No trick there.
Foreign money is coming into the market in huge amounts; new housing is often marketed in China.
Wait, you lived in downtown Chicago -- not a community by any stretch, but instead a commercial and tourism district that rolls up its sidewalks by 7PM -- and you call that "living in the city" and imagine that area descriptive of "city benefits"?

Hey, you prefer the suburbs and long commutes. Great. But neighborhoods do actually exist in a city of 3 million+. Commutes are minimal, with few taxis and sirens to rattle one prone to rattling. Let's not for a second indulge the idea that you made a fair comparison.
FYI: It scaled perfectly fine on my Android/Galaxy S5 so while it's scalable, I can't comment on how "easily scalable" it is nor if screen readers would have a problem.

I would think screen readers would have no impact. Text is pretty much text (utf8, etc...) and the scaling is handled by your font choice not your text choice.

^^shrug^^
Or you know... you could count the number of chapters that every character has and come up with the one that has the highest number of chapters as the main character?
MidiXML?

http://www.music-notation.info/en/formats/MidiXML.html
> Considering you need to provide fingerprints to request all sorts of documents, what would the government be able to do that they aren't already able now?

If they already have fingerprints, and now fingerprints are suddenly required for voting, that makes election fraud easier for the government.
The Continuous Delivery Dojo
Indeed. They mention the composition of the atmosphere, but the low pressure is conveniently forgotten about. The Mars atmosphere is like a vacuum: 0.00628 atm. Earth atmosphere normal pressure is 1 atm. Essentially, being on the surface of Mars is being in space. And what about the radiation? Mars has no magnetic field like Earth has. So the Solar Wind has free play on the surface.
> Meanwhile, my parents and their friends are leveraged to the hilt in housing, carrying mortgages that they will definitely not be able to pay off before retirement.

Are those mortgages more than rent in the city would be? At least in my area, there are literally zero apartments of any size for a rent that is less than my mortgage payment in a ~1700 square foot house.

I mean, it's not like you get to stop paying rent when you retire, either, and you don't have any equity renting.
Anyone can learn when they have a cold, and what to do about it. In the same way, anyone can learn to write a simple program.
Not everyone has the dedication and skill to become a great MD, and the same applies to being a programmer.
Never mind that comment, as established in a different comment chain, it's an inherent limitation of zip archives. .tar.gz archives are fully reproducible.
The problem you highlighted was:

> temperamental GPUs and GPU drivers

I think because Vulkan won't be nearly as niche GPU driver support and consistency will need to be much better than they have been for OpenCL. Where that stands for flexibility of the compute side I can't say.
Isn't a huge issue with generics the compilation time?

Much as I love Haskell, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that a big program compiles quickly.

That might be an individual issue with Haskell, but regardless, isn't type-inference kind of expensive in compilation-land? And wouldn't that kind of kill one of the big features of Go?
Telecommuting is no solution. People travel to work because it has economic and social benefits. Not everyone wants to provide office space at home.

I am in favor of telecommuting if it is offered to make life better for the employee or to improve the employer's profitability. However, I often see it advanced as a transportation policy. On that front, it fails because its objective is to reduce the amount of transportation that occurs. Since the beginning of time, humans have embraced transportation because it improves their quality of life. Any policy that seeks to reduce the amount of transportation that occurs is literally retrograde and reactionary.
RoboVM can also compile to OS X and Linux:

Usually this means iOS and the ARM processor type but RoboVM is also capable of generating code for Mac OS X and Linux running on x86 CPUs. [0]

There are several forks of the latest open-source version of RoboVM. This one in particular is targeting desktop/server usage:

https://github.com/ashleyj/aura

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7579737

[0] http://docs.robovm.com/advanced-topics/compilation.html
The benefit of transpiling es2015
The rays are ionizing and will smash apart the DNA molecules in living cells.
Chicago tried: https://www.wbez.org/shows/dynamic-range/the-short-sad-life-...
I do apologize. I didn't imply any privilege here and apologize if I came off as trying to treat this is a privilege perspective. My confusion comes from the rhetorical implication that current demographics in computer science are that way because those demographics are somehow just better at it than others, and also that any proof of this us stomped out by political pseudoscience. I'm asking where gp gets this impression.

I'm also curious what you mean by 'all studies should do so'. Do what, exactly? Analyze the demographic of white heterosexual upper middle class differently? I'm sure that might be interesting, but it's already a very specific demographic that fits class, sexuality, race, and gender identity. What other categories are being neglected that are skewing the view of demographic majorities in the technology industry?
Or if the driver drives a pickup truck one could go by bicycle to a point that is along the way that the driver takes and just put the bicycle on the truck bed when meeting. For the other direction it's the same. This should reduce the problem.
> In the UK the rent/mortgage price calculation is the other way round, especially in the hearts of big cities. Not only is the mortgage cheaper on a monthly basis, it's also not subject to arbitary increases.

What?! Maybe you're not including London, but AFAIK, mortgages to buy a flat in London are at least as expensive as rents, if not more; in addition, with interest rates being at historical lows, it's more than likely that they'll be a subject to arbitrary increases in the years to come.
That video reminds me of childhood, good old Tom's Hardware :)
While I understand what you are saying - Short commutes and not making forward progress lead to short term happiness - not everyone agrees with you.

Growing up, I lived closer to where I worked... I'd walk or bike to work. Getting older, I moved around and anything I've done in the longest time requires "long" commutes (30-60 minutes each way). I've been on both sides and am fine with either.

Given a slightly modified set of circumstances, I would probably pay a bit more to shave an hour or two off my commute... the added time and lessened stress (so many bad drivers on the roads... more time to play CoD...) would be worth it.

I am lucky enough to live on Family Property - so the economic benefits of having zero rent/mortgage can't be understated (and is a major reason I commute) but it does come at an expense in time commuting.
That's a theory buddy. The word "speculated" might clue you in. Maybe that is the case. It is plausible. Maybe he is 'craving for attention and coming up with stunts'. Also plausible. Unless you're a fucking octopus mind reader, you can't say for sure. We have no evidence either way. Which is what I am trying to explain to developer2, who seems to think he can attribute the octopus' behaviour to the "crippling reality of captivity". He can't. And in fact, humans are notoriously bad at doing this with animal psychology, we tend to anthropomorphize them.
Just look at gun control arguments to see why people think outlawing activity will stop criminals.
"If someone points to a bunch of barely started projects, they might have great ideas but in a business you also need to execute."

I'm not disagreeing, because I agree that side projects show passion, but I'm not sure a lack of side projects necessarily points to a worse employee. Someone could be a great developer in an enterprise environment, from where they obviously wouldn't be able to show you code snippets, but have no side projects because they might have other hobbies.
Desk - Cheap IKEA white laminate over honeycombed cardboard. I want something bigger and keeping hinting it might make a nice Father's Day/birthday present.

Chair - padded drafting chair with webbing back I got off Craigslist. I like being up high and hooking my feet on the bar. Otherwise I tend to slouch and put my feet up all the time and end up with a sore back.

Monitor - one of those 27" Korean IPS displays that we're all the rage a couple years ago. It started going black every couple seconds, so I threw it in the basement. Found a blog post about replacement power bricks and now it's good as new again. I also have the 23" LCD I bought to replace it.

Keyboard - the one built into the Surface Pro 3 cover.

Music - I'm in meetings most of the time. When I'm not meeting or listening to podcasts/NPR it's Celtic punk (The Real McKenzies mostly), industrial (KMFDM), or one of the SomaFM stations (Suburbs of Goa, Illinois St. Lounge, or Secret Agent).

Hours - 9:30 to 5:30. Sometimes earlier. Sometimes later. I have a distributed team spread around the world, so things happen at different hours.
This reminds me how much I miss those old clusterfuck interfaces of early windows day.

I find them much more easy to play with and learn them in details.
Why do you feel that decreasing your IT security will increase your security?
Handbook of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography [pdf]
So you think given the instructions in an interview:

'Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”.'

people should not be able to write the code? Just by hearing the answer 6 to 7 times ("By the end of interviewing 6 or 7 people") someone knows the answer?

"Possibly you, before you put together your list of interview tech questions."

No actually given the instructions I could write the code in one go. So I'm mystified as why someone applying to a developer position could not do this in your opinion.
I'm currently finishing reading Robert Caro's "The Power Broker", which is about the man who is mostly responsible for New York's choice to embrace the automobile over people, Robert Moses. In short, this choice was extremely conscious and in large part driven by racial and class based segregation.
The good ones always die and the assholes live. It seems like Feinstein has been trying to legislate that day away for decades now. Shame on her. She's obviously not competent to do her job and this is not the first bill to reflect that.
This :) I haven't ever heard of Adobe XD, so parsing that sentence about it's introduction was difficult
Sorry, I wasn't disagreeing with you.
In the absence of that paper, the only related thing I'm familiar with that claims a basis in evidence is Spolsky's [Hitting The High Notes][1].

The hypothesis there was that time spent on assignments and grade obtained are two essentially independent variables.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html
I grew up in a rural area which became the suburbs. I know that I didn't consider not having a car when I moved to the city. Fortunately someone stole my car, and I learned how much better my life was without it. It was one of the nicest things anyone had ever done for me!
In sane languages (see: Haskell, Swift, Rust), this is the case for all types. Having non-nullability only be the case for one type might be worse than having everything nullable, actually.
Show HN: Boost.Mixin – a runtime type composition/mutation library for C++
Worst practices should be hard
Politicians legislating for technology is the best real life example of the blind leading the deaf I've ever seen. We should add a constitutional amendment that requires the voting representatives understand the topic for which they're voting in order to have their votes count.
If there were a similar public outcry for the problem that you mention as for gender discrimination, it would soon nearly vanish.
Ask HN: Where is the best place to sell my website?
I have a website that generates over £100k a year in revenue and I am looking to sell.. Where would be a good place to locate buyers for a site of this size?
> c) without a car you can't get to 99% places outside the city, so say goodbye to weekend road-trips. No, that's not absurd at all - that's the invaluable freedom of movement.

Why? You can bike there.

A lot of people do weekend trips with bike and tent here, even families.

I know even a family that bikes every year up to Denmark and back for vacation (living near Hamburg), even when their kids were still little (you can buy carts to attach to a bike which can seat multiple kids + store bags)

And if you take your bike in bus or train, you can get literally anywhere in Europe within of a day.
And yet, people in these comments are still clinging to it. Internet memes are the new afterlife.
Hope you don't mind if I piggyback on your comment to mention the UI design tool I created called https://www.ux-app.com

Hope it's of some use to others.
What industry are your startups in?