skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need a Big Pickup to move one ( you won't be moving it all the time ) but a fifth wheel is easily available now and has more square feet than those little cubelets. I came really close to making a business of nothing more than hauling used fifth wheels up to North Dakota during the oil boom.
Prove it.

Where there is a buck to be made, someone will make it. All this talk of index funds ruining capitalism just sounds like a bunch of whiny fund managers not getting their cut.
Being priced out of their home is one option.

The other option is to ease pressure on home prices by laying down the NIMBYism and letting more housing be built in your community in a sustainable way!

This is the whole the point of self-corrective market forces: sure, you can choose to keep your low-density housing in a region that is attracting demand with great weather and strong industry, but prices are going to appreciate if you keep your doors closed to newcomers. Keep the door closed long enough and your self-defeating actions will force yourself out as well (see palo alto, where they now need to subsidize housing for anyone making under $250k/yr so they can have people like teachers and firefighters still live in the community).

The fact that taxes DON'T increase with demand distorts the self-corrective market forces that would otherwise stop people from closing the door to affordability.
Microsoft VS Code is MIT licensed.
Those are good. The only one I have worth mentioning was a conversation that went like this:

Manager: So you like caving?

Me: Yeah, I was able to go on a month long expedition last
summer to the mountains of Peru.

Manager: I can't believe your old job didn't fire you for taking a month off.

Me: I gave a lot of notice and had the vacation saved up.

Manager: That would never happen here. I have a problem leaving for a week.

In retrospect, I really appreciated the honesty. Declined that offer without hesitation.
Same thing for me.

While I'm looking for other opportunities, I'm mainly looking for something I would love doing with nice working conditions, and not another pays the bills type job, even if they paid a little more.
Definately can be a problem. What I've found helps is encouraging new users to actually not set too many reminders, to avoid burnoit when novelty wears off. Secondly is to allow individual sets notifications to be disabled easily to avoid removing/ disusing the whole app. Thanks for question!

Edit: also, the service allows a default 'no reply' to be set, so if the reminder is ignored, there is still data entered. For the weight example, the default could be the previous days weight. This makes ignoring a reminder potentially into a positive, time saving behaviour for the user.
A lot of secondary buyers are apparently coming from overseas
Ask HN: Developers who transitioned to project/product managers, are you happy?
I am a web developer and I am looking into opportunities to get into a product or project manager role. I know they're fairly different, but I think both would be a good match for my abilities.

For those who have made this transition, are you happy with it? Do you feel it's lowered your earning potential? Has your developer background given you an advantage over other project/product managers? Is getting a remote product/project manager position more difficult than developer jobs? Any advice for getting into one of these positions coming from a developer background?
Apply HN: Jury Board – helping attorneys win cases through jury selection
Problem: Scientific jury selection is limited to the largest firms usually making over hundreds of millions of dollars a year. When selecting juries, attorneys of other, smaller, firms have only the information they get through asking questions to make their selection. This can be greatly improved by providing attorneys with a tool that allows them to do data mining from social media and any other sources and aggregate it to a probability of how that juror is likely to vote.

A tool that gives an attorney more insight into jurors would be incredibly valuable to them. If you have millions on the line, paying even a few hundred to get information about a potential jury is a bargain.

While giving one attorney a strong advantage, thereby effecting the outcome of a case, can seem questionable, the justice system designed jury selection to be in the lose/lose quadrant of possible scenarios. Ideally a more equitable and fair jury is chosen by both attorneys eliminating those against them as best they can. This also means though should one attorney have an effective tool selecting jurors others are highly incentivized to use that same tool. This should produce a strong network effect for my product.
I'll concede that. But you have to admit this is an incredibly niche problem space.

OTOH the JVM will have much higher throughput on the other 99% of apps.

Don't get me wrong. I like Erlang. It's definitely in my top.. Uhm... 3 languages of interest. Being the only other language I know with Pattern Matching is a huge huge part of that.

For most developers I'd just be careful in making that jump. Because most of what this article is about isn't Erlang specific. It's more like a pretty small club of platforms/languages. IMO.
Things like this are why I often wonder why people hail court verdicts so much. We've clearly established that courts are rarely even close to logically consistent, yet a court ruling in favor of or against an issue being discussed is often hailed as absolute truth.
When React is big pretty much all their selling points go out the window.

I strongly disagree. If React's API were to get all big and complicated, that would be a concern. The tight scope and clean interface are definitely selling points for React compared to many larger (in scope and interface) frameworks and rendering libraries. But I really don't care about the file size, as it's far too small to be anything but noise in almost any web app where it's worth using a tool like React at all, and it's going to matter less anyway as JS build tools get more sophisticated and connection speeds increase over time.
It fairly reeks of "pet rock" to me ( and the HGTV show is the principal evidence for that ) , but I'm not exactly in the target demo.

The world need the Sears Craftsman house again.
How we use language vs reality. It's still a lot though!
Blaming Prop 13 is silly. Look at the rest of the state, housing prices are relatively sane in places like san diego, and downright cheap in the inland empire, orange copunty, anaheim, etc etc.

Oh, all those places have to deal with Prop 13 as well.

San Francisco(and the bay area overall) has consistently chosen to restrict their supply for housing for years. Obviously this would culminate into higher prices in the future, but to many people live in denial. They would rather pretend that AirBnB is the real problem, or that Prop 13 is distorting the market(but of course, rent control is not rolleyes)
They won't be able to do orbital flights from spaceportamerica.
The text of the link itself could contain copyright material. Google says the practical limit 10 years ago was ~100Kb, not sure now.
Is it, really? The entire current population of the Bay Area is tiny (7 million people across 101 cities, less than a million in S.F. proper). Compare:

Tokyo metro area: 37.8 Million

Mexico City metro area: 21.2 Million

NYC metro area: 20 Million

If demand where truly unlimited, then building up S.F. to Tokyo standards or above over the next few decades should be practical, since that level of demand would provide the funds for the growth. Of course, what is really going to happen is that demand will likely stabilize around or below the 15 million threshold for the entire Bay Area.
That's basically the purpose of public CDN-hosted JavaScript, like cdnjs [1] and what most major JS libraries do [2].

However, I think this is becoming less common with the increasing popularity of module bundlers like webpack. It's still possible with webpack [3], but it's not as easy as a 'npm i react' and 'import React from "react";'.

That said, a module bundler could easily automatically swap out local modules for modules hosted on CDNs in production builds (with fallbacks in case the CDN is down). I'm a little surprised this doesn't seem to exist yet, at least for webpack.

1. https://cdnjs.com/

2. https://code.jquery.com/

3. https://webpack.github.io/docs/library-and-externals.html
Maybe the active funds will reduce their fees to stay competitive.
All of these are reflections more on the company, through the interviewer. This list isn't just for startups.. I'm not sure where you get that idea. My worst experiences have been at large companies. The worst was Google ;).

If nobody runs, like I'm suggesting, then these issues will just continue. Hell, a week ago I ran from a nice job. The two interviewers were on their laptops, not paying attention. After the interview, I sent a rejection email to the internal recruiter and later got a very, very apologetic response and phone call. We're all humans, so why act like dicks about it?

The only time I've interviewed, I was 23 and hiring for a release engineer at an enormous bank on a giant global FX system. No training. No advice.. nothin'. Even though the candidate was technical, I got an unsettling vibe from him. We eventually hired him anyway since "weird feeling" isn't good on paper. Oh man, was he awful. For example, during training and meetings, he would be on his phone, texting constantly. He made a mistake while training him that caused an outage that eventually led to me getting let go.

A bit of interview training there would have gone a long, long way and should have been mandatory, or at the very least, offered.
FYI cpcat is my other account.
Gotcha, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. Makes total sense, thanks!
Genuinely curious, what's the use-case for this?
There's also https://i.reddit.com. It sports an older look but I find it just works a lot better than the new mobile site.
Microsoft Edge Putting Users in Control of Flash
Lobsters, now even better with developer hats
Well perhaps.

Access to an Internet connection to email mom and dad in the Midwest and ask for more money for rent is also a common preoccupation along the L train corridor set.
50 Embedded Linux Conference presentation slide decks on tap
Rados provides async APIs, couldn't you hook it to send git deltas between replicated copies? best of both worlds
The plan is to first focus on metropolitan areas, primarily in Los Angeles, where many artists and creatives tend to cluster. However, since we are focusing on residential garages as the physical venues to repurpose, we would be able to service different parts of the city quite effectively (since underutilized garages are fairly abundant wherever you go).
> aggregate it to a probability of how that juror is likely to vote.

This would require knowledge of the case and case law. Which would then require a full AI.
The sandboxing is interesting ... Each process is running in a directory on the same server.

Also there's some files that are visible that probably shouldn't be, including one named "codechecker-android-release-key.keystore"...

For the curious, try running the code block. You can uncomment/commment things out to see different results as there's a cap on the amount of stdout printed.

import java.net.URLClassLoader;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

class Solution
{
private static void printFile(String path) throws Exception {
System.out.println("File: " + path);
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(path);
byte buf[] = new byte[1024];
int len;
while( (len = in.read(buf)) > 0 ) {
System.out.write(buf, 0, len);
}
System.out.flush();
}

final protected static char[] hexArray = "0123456789ABCDEF".toCharArray();
private static String bytesToHex(byte[] bytes) {
char[] hexChars = new char[bytes.length * 2];
for ( int j = 0; j < bytes.length; j++ ) {
int v = bytes[j] & 0xFF;
hexChars[j * 2] = hexArray[v >>> 4];
hexChars[j * 2 + 1] = hexArray[v & 0x0F];
}
return new String(hexChars);
}

private static void printFileHex(String path) throws Exception {
System.out.println("File: " + path);
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(path);
ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte buf[] = new byte[1024];
int len;
while( (len = in.read(buf)) > 0 ) {
out.write(buf, 0, len);
}
byte bytes[] = out.toByteArray();
System.out.println(bytesToHex(bytes));
System.out.flush();
}

public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception
{
Class<?> clazz = Class.forName("java.lang.ClassLoader");
URLClassLoader cl =
(URLClassLoader) Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
System.out.println("Classpath:");
for(java.net.URL url : cl.getURLs()) {
System.out.println("" + url);
}
File local = new File("");
System.out.println("Local path: " + local.getAbsolutePath());

System.out.println("Files:");
File root = new File("/");
String list[] = root.list();
System.out.println("# root files: " + list.length);

//printFile("/etc/passwd");
printFileHex("/etc/codechecker-android-release-key.keystore");

System.out.println("# root files: " + list.length);
for(String base : new String[]{ "/etc", "/bin", "/sbin", "/usr"}) {
for(String name : new File(base).list()) {
System.out.println(base + "/" + name);
}
}
}
}
I'm surprised they didn't mention Jupiter's hexagonal storm and how it arises from fluid dynamics. Is the same force at work there as soap bubbles, honeycombs, etc?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-2007...
Mood would be self-reported, then the tag and message is sent by the user.

I've been thinking about business models. Data privacy and control by the user is important to me. I see the service as being something that users may want to put quite personal information into, so I think it's important for the user to trust the service.

My preference would be towards a business model where the user also values the protection of their data, and pays directly for the service rather than through their data being sold to a 3rd party. That said, I do also see a role for using aggregated, non-identifiable data as part of the business model, or acting as a middle man where a commission is taken for brokering data from the user to a 3rd party.
The math's a bit off since they don't completely reinvest every dollar they earn back into VC.. So if they put $100 in year one, and get $193 in year two, their investment in year two might also be $100.. Their endowment will mandate a certain asset allocation (that's been moving more towards VC recently as shown in the article) which prevents them from just completely reinvesting their returns upon disbursement.
The Evolution of Advanced Caching in the Facebook CDN
Swipe Buster Reveals If Your Partner Is Cheating via Tinder
@brudgers thanks for the comments. The contractors that I've been working with on this believe it cuts down on the overhead. They have to be somewhat tech savvy but they welcome takingaway the billing and collecting aspect of the jobs.
Fixsmarter wouldn't sell insurance but provide referrals and get referral fees. I think it could comply with the state insurance laws in that capacity.
The AAA is great but it is basically a mini-trial and very expensive to get through. This would be agreeing to resolve dispute internally so the parties would be giving up that forum. It would be like when people submit to the jurisdiction of the People's Court rather than going to state court.
Mechanic's liens secure non-payment on a job. Here, the money would be in place so that a contractor would not have to start a state court proceeding to enforce a mechanics lien.
Appreciate the feedback! I still have to fully vet all the issues that you raise but my preliminary surveys and interviews point to them working out.
Not really, the big index fund providers are smart and they even pre emptively buy companies likely to be added to the index, and they sometimes wait a bit before rebalancing to their index. This intentional randomness makes it very difficult to front run index funds.
Agreed. After seeing cars rooted and controlled remotely I'd rather have a car with no software at all. It's time for a new Luddism.
> why would you want the market fluctuations to be able to force an individual to leave their house?

To make room for newcomers with higher-paying jobs who, in some sense, 'deserve' to live there more than you do. Unpopular opinion, but that's how we ration every other limited resource; it goes to the highest bidder, not the first mover.
If you want to practice interviewing, feel free to drop me an email. I like to help others prepare for interviews and get new jobs. :)
Do you live in NYC but don't buy an unlimited card? I feel like that's an unusual use case.
One tough part of the load handling is that if the L has increased capacity, this could, in some cases, just make congestion worse in many other areas because many people need to make at least 1 transfer for their trips.

The tough problem isn't always capacity either. Small disruptions have cascading consequences. This is where I believe a lot of the limitations in service come from since there is rarely a day w/o a single problem. As many others have pointed out in the past, this can largely be traced to the topological properties of the subway lines. The MTA's insistence in growing just a few large bottlenecks rather than disperse them is telling of the problems we'll be living with for decades or centuries longer.

At some point, I think the improved bus service initiatives are our only real hope of directly addressing the transportation problems in NYC. It might seem ludicrous in Manhattan but it certainly has its place and in the other boroughs, it can be a huge improvement when line selection is limited.
The Golden State Warriors Have Revolutionized Basketball
> I took 40+ hours of Angular 1.5 code and converted it to React code in a single 8 hour work day

That doesn't seem like a fair comparison considering that when you first wrote that code, you probably had to figure out things unrelated to whatever framework you were using and didn't have to deal with that aspect when porting to React.

For example, if I rewrote a Django app in Pyramid, it wouldn't take as long as writing the original app even with the overhead of learning Pyramid, because I've already figured out the functional aspects of the app.

Generally speaking, learning frameworks isn't the hard part of writing an app, unless the app is trivial.
One of many reasons I prefer to build using Sublime as opposed to a big IDE.
Diversification is good for individual investors, but it's also a good way for an economy, or for a financial sector to hedge against systemic risks.

So if ETFs are taking over, it may be an improvement overall, but it's worth thinking through the black swans, the new low probability high impact risks that this creates.

Bloomberg has had a few comments about liquidity risks for ETFs on their site and in the Odd Lots podcast.[0] On the other hand, they've made these comments for a few years now, so maybe this is a chicken little story. Or maybe it only kicks in under certain conditions, like if we saw interest rates, demand for goods, and inflation spike, people start moving to other investments, potentially causing a sudden run on funds that are stuck holding only bonds without any real returns or way to offload them?

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-23/etf-liquid...
Apply HN- Hitchhiker's Challenge- a Worldwide Scavenger Hunt
The idea is for a 30-day virtual scavenger hunt with worldwide leader board and a real money jackpot for the winner. The jackpot builds like powerball based on number of players. The game resets and repeats a few times a year.
The game can be thought of as Amazing Race on steroids. Each day is a new round until a final round for the jackpot. A player is dropped into a virtual world somewhere in the universe with a map where dangers await. Each day he has to unlock a new treasure for points. In order to unlock a treasure, the explorer has to answer a question or solve a formula, puzzle or problem in a limited amount of time or that treasure must be found again.
As each treasure is found, the treasures become more scarce but greater in value. Clues, additional time, second chance, and level jumps can be purchased during the game. Players can encounter setbacks which will bring them back to earlier stages in the game but will not lose the treasures that they have received.
The discovery of the final, most valuable treasure ends the game and crowns the winner. The winner receives a sizable jackpot based on number of contestants. Other prizes also awarded i.e., most points, most time searching, etc. Players can interact throughout. Players can also challenge each other for their treasures.
After a final treasure is found, the game resets and a new competition commences with increased visibility and larger prizes. If the game can attract an audience so the prize can grow, I could imagine the news discussing it and making it big. It fits nicely into two exceptions of the Internet Gambling laws.
I talk better than I code and I’m not much of a talker so if you like what you’ve read and want to get involve, let me know. This is a side project I have been working on in combination with my startup-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444651. Not sure I can ever get it off the ground but I'd love thoughts on it.
If I knew swift I'd understand monads.
I wonder what will happen to London. Maybe the housing bubble will finally burst ?
> the houses would almost all be built for the very well off. The amount of houses you'd have to build before you started constructing truly affordable housing is immense.

Actually, if demand is so high, why would anyone bother with building a house for a single family, willing to pay say $10,000,000, when they can build a 120 floor building of small apartments for 25,000 people, each willing to pay $200,000 (on average)?
Leaving a job after the second day (or even the second week) doesn't need to have _any_ negative effects, you just leave it out of your CV.
Short answer: yes, and already happening.
Wow. That's just incredible. I seem to keep saying that the more I learn about Erlang/Elixir.
>> Estimates of sea level rise are very difficult and always changing.

Trust me, I'm pretty sure the people in the pacific islands are going to be a bit more paranoid about these changes than we are. And yet, some of the predictions have been wildly off the mark. Remember the United Nations Environment Programme who said in 2005:

Imminent sea-level rises, increased hurricanes, and desertification caused by “man-made global warming” would lead to massive population disruptions. In a handy map, the organization highlighted areas that were supposed to be particularly vulnerable in terms of producing “climate refugees.” Especially at risk were regions such as the Caribbean and low-lying Pacific islands, along with coastal areas.

The 2005 UNEP predictions claimed that, by 2010, some 50 million “climate refugees” would be frantically fleeing from those regions of the globe. However, not only did the areas in question fail to produce a single “climate refugee, by 2010, population levels for those regions were actually still soaring. In many cases, the areas that were supposed to be producing waves of “climate refugees” and becoming uninhabitable turned out to be some of the fastest-growing places on Earth.”

Whoops.

When I read stuff like this, it makes hard for objective people like myself to determine where the hype ends the facts start.
Ask HN: What are you currently working on? [April 2016 version]
Its always interesting to learn about things fellow members are working on. It doesn't need to be a startup or anything amazing. Your latest hacky code will do. :)
> I used the quick swipe left to collapse comment threads 100s of times a day

Same, though I found the "skip to next parent" button on the lower right was a good substitute.
I use Relay For Reddit and it works really well. Better than The mobile website and newest mobile official app.