skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more interesting to me how many people think money should, and inevitably will, trump all other interests.

Maybe if you're a 20-something programmer uprooting your entire life to live somewhere else after decades in a location because financial pressures outside your control make your home and everywhere near it impossible to afford that's not such a big deal.

But for fuck's sake, think about this for a second. Most people do have things rooting them to a particular location. Maybe it's a social circle. Maybe it's support network. Maybe it's their career, or their children's schooling, or their health and the local climate.

At the end of the day we as a populace get to decide public policy. Taking people being priced out of their homes as fait accompli because them's the market breaks is heartless enough, but then saying disdainful things about just how painful and difficult it is is worse.
The anecdotal example of Brooklyn is a bad example IMO. Everyone knows how gentrified Brooklyn has become. As a result, real estate prices for those areas are going way up. For those in SF, the same is happening to Oakland.

Also, having just got a mortgage, I can anecdotally counter that despite Quicken's claims with Rocket, getting a mortgage, at least a "good" mortgage loan is still incredibly difficult. Thanks to 2008, 2016 loans require a shit ton of disclosures. So, if there's a bad loan lying around, you best bet it's going to be hard to disguise it.

As for the < 20% down? That's not a sign of a bad economy per se. I'd factor that more to a generation of poor savers. NPR recently had a whole segment on how little the current generation of millennials saves.

Home prices increasing is due to the fact that it's a seller's market. But, rent prices are increasing as well. IMO you could look at it from a different perspective. Recent homeowners are buying because it's currently cheap to borrow and the long-term result is that they actually save money because rent is increasing at such a dramatic pace.

All said, I do agree w/ the headline, just not with the author's anecdotal proof.
I'd bought one of the first haswell notebooks to play around with tsx. Before I'd time to do so Intel found the tsx bug...

I hope to have time to play around with it one I have new hardware (I refuse to do performance development on virtual).

But honestly, most remaining performance/scalability problems in pg are more algorithmically caused. So micro optimization, and that's what I'd call tax/hle, aren't likely to biggest bottleneck.
godspeed! that's hard work, especially if you want to deal with MMX/SSE and the FPU.
Honestly "I have a right to impose a height limit on the neighborhood I live in" is the closest to reasonable IMO. The citizens of a place should be able to shape the place they live in.
I can't claim to speak for OP, but am also against most tracking. I would also tend to think that being against first party tracking would be an unwinnable battle. It also leaks less data than third-party tracking, since the third party can see your activity across multiple sites whereas first party can only see your activity on that site unless it's aggregated through a backend service (another poster mentioned the ability to upload server logs to GA). No matter what, they can see what you load from their site.

Getting to first party hosting of more intrusive analytics (scroll location, etc) I think rather than disallowing certain scripts/URLs to run, you have to get back to behavioral-based blocking. Doing that in an environment that you allow any JS to execute seems tough since sandboxing something that can update the page based on location can "talk" to another part that can report back to the server.

If you don't like intrusive first party analytics, just stop all JS.
> The reason you require licensing for insurance sales is because it's very difficult to track all of the individual instances of malfeasance.

And what's the reason for handing out these licenses based on butt-in-seat study time instead of a proctored exam and/or interview?
The American Enterprise Institute does too much lobbying for me to trust them as straight shooters. Looking at case-schiller [1] it looks a little worrying, but looking at construction starts [2] the market doesn't seem that overheated yet.

[1] http://www.multpl.com/case-shiller-home-price-index-inflatio...

[2] http://www.census.gov/briefrm/esbr/www/esbr020.html
I agree. Talking about there being a housing bubble like the one that popped in 2008 would need a whole hell of a lot more than mentioning how some of the most expensive places in the world are expensive.
Hi, Lob employee here! Mailform actually uses Lob.

Lob's focus is on building printing and mailing infrastructure accessible through our API. Mailform is creating an easy to use interface (via Lob) for customers to print their documents.
About ten years ago, I remember an article about a special tattoo ink that was encased in laser-sensitive capsules. When irradiated, the capsules burst and the ink was absorbed virtually completely. The thing that outraged me was that they were having a hard time selling it, as tattoo "artists" were refusing to have their "creations" be removed at the user's behest. Most artists were even refusing to tell their customers that removable ink was an option.

Since criminals don't have resumes, tattoos used to be their signaling mechanisms. As suburban kids began to make that signalling useless, a few years ago I read that criminals had moved on to painful eyelid tattoos. A quick Google search shows that didn't slow the posers down very much. I wonder how criminals signal how badass they are these days?
Cereal is a sugar delivery vehicle, but juice is good as gold.

Right.
this article kind of lags for a while (at least several months) as in march 2015 Bloomberg business wk just ran a cover story of the declining cereal sales across the board:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-26/for-kellog...

and the last several paragraphs about "breakfast-denying" seem biased as there are more studies to support the importance of breakfast.
If this really works, getting a tattoo will be no more edgy than getting your hair dyed. Tattoos will rapidly fall out of fashion.
>Seriously, you can easily read a book on the street in just about any part of the TL. On my block, the fixtures are 50->75% as bright as daylight.

I HIGHLY doubt that.Sunlight provides ~98,000 lux[1], while common street lighting is around 15 lux [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight
[2] https://www.use-ip.co.uk/datasheets/lux_light_level_chart.pd...
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Since the article stated that 50% of adults account for cinnamon toast crunch I'm thinking it's because we're realizing that even if we do eat it, we're still hungry within an hour.

After building the habit of eating a solid breakfast, I noticed others followed the same pattern I did; eat two big meals and feel too nauseated in the morning to eat.

edit: the eating two meals part was during my cereal phase.
You are talking about a game.

You mention "successes and failures" and say that it depends on this "fixed mindset" vs "growth mindset" stuff. And here you imply the same thing:

"With a growth mindset, every social interaction is an opportunity to improve. Saying something awkward is simply an indication that you need to put more effort into that area."

So, if you are trying to "improve", it must be improving at something, which makes it into a game. Saying something awkward in itself shouldn't be considered bad or wrong.

You never mentioned the other people in the social situations once in your article. Isn't that actually the most important thing? What if, for example, they're assholes? What if you just don't get along with them? Is it a failure that you aren't compatible with them?

It's like you are trying to create and improve upon some sort of mask in order to fool people that you are someone you're not. If you are able to do so, not say "awkward" things, as you wrote, then you have succeeded (and also if you have a "growth mindset" you can learn to "succeed" more often which is a vast oversimplification of the mind and damn silly as well). Otherwise, you failed, and you need to "put more effort into that area". Reevaluate what you did, basically, so you can improve your mask.

It's ridiculous, and it is a game mindset.

If you want to connect with people, which is what most social situations are about, you have to start being honest. Concentrate on what's important, which for most social situations is having fun, finding something you enjoy, and letting your mind run with that. Not be in this mental deathgrip of constant thought of self-improvement and self-evaluation that you're espousing.
Yes but distros accomplish that by being highly opinionated on the build process you use to build packages whereas Sandstorm tries to be unopinionated on this point.

Sandstorm will support ARM someday but it's going to require a large investment in tooling in order to be painless for developers.
> At the end of the day we as a populace get to decide public policy.

That's how we got to the NIMBY polices we have in many major metro areas and that has contributed in a major way to the financial pressures.
Very dependent on the workload. The optimization isn't specific to reads or writes, but in many cases your bottleneck when writing will be elsewhere.
If it's a self driven car then an controlled environment with hundreds of cars with new patch will test for couple of weeks before the patch is released. Chances are mitigated and the cars can be observed physically unlike satellites.

Also every technological advancement we are reducing fatality. We are not bringing it to complete zero but we are definitely reducing it.
Not every elliptic curve is the same: trough on ECC security
What do you mean by MySQL avoiding an additional database dependency?
> You're missing the distinction I'm drawing: If all funding for all transportation schemes was entirely user-derived, roads would survive

That's very intellectually disingenuous. Whether one form of transport could survive sans subsidy is orthogonal to whether they're receiving large public subsidies right now. You said

> public transit is directly subsidized in a way that roads are not.

which is flat out wrong. Yes, roads probably do not have to be subsidized, and they'd still be around at least for freight transport and the affluent, but right now, they are still heavily subsidized.
> he was hanging around my coffee area

What? Are they allowed to just enter hospitals as neither doctor, patient, nor visitor, and hang around promoting their companies' drugs? If so, why??
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Perhaps. I'll worry about such things after self-driving cars actually exist. Right now they are an engineer's fantasy, or a salesperson's exaggerated way of describing semi-automatic assistance features; who knows what the reality will eventually be.
> ARC was a bit of a "Hail Mary" and is problematic in its own right

I'm just curious with your experience what you are pointing to as problematic. Other than potential extra release calls in tight loops, the main downside I saw was it made the use of C structs way less appealing---at the same time, I wouldn't want to with manually memory managed C structs in GCD blocks.
I once watched a group of pigeons in a park fight for food. The biggest pigeon bullied all the other pigeons. I thought that was unfair... he was getting all the food. So I shooed him away. Immediately afterwards, one of the formerly bullied pigeons became the new bully.

Power is a funny thing... and I suspect people aren't so different than other animals in this regard.
There is a photo "showing the difference in glare between poorly designed lamps and full cutoff lamps."

That reminds me of a lens design I read about back in 2013 that used TIR lenses

https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-21-9-10...

Anyone know if this system is seeing widespread adoption?
Look for venture cafes in your area. Wework usually hosts one. They have some days where they interview potential companies to put them in front of VCs and Angel investors.
You're going cut corners either way, either because you made intelligent choices where to cut corners, or because you ended up being forced to do a shitty job on whatever you were working on when time/money runs out.

There is almost never enough time or money to do every single thing perfectly.
There will be some kind correcting mechanism for private companies and their valuation
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IIRC PHP has built-in support for MySQL out of the box.
It's really freeing to realize you won't die if you skip a meal.
If by "Cybernetics" you mean "Ancient thermopile-driven furnace control systems", then yes.
It's the loss of control that bugs me. When I buy a car I am not buying an ongoing relationship with the car's maker; I'm buying a physical object, which is then mine, and I'll choose when and how it will be serviced. The over-the-air auto-update thing is as though... well, it's like some mechanic from the automaker shows up at your house unannounced a year after you took your car off the lot; without a word, they haul your car away on a trailer for an hour, then bring it back and park it. Ta-da, hope you like what we did to "your" car, because it's done now whether you wanted it or not!
He probably means juicing, as in sticking fruits and veggies in a juicer and making something akin to a smoothie.
That's correct. UIKit isn't like, baked into Swift. Whatever platform you're writing for would need to provide to you UI components and then some.
There are many reasons to read the Quran aside from aesthetics. But I wholeheartedly agree.
AngelList and LinkedIn are your primary tools. The problem with angels is that they don't go around with an angel hat, unlike VCs. But they are everywhere in Silicon Valley. Go find a list of 100+ angels in your space from AngelList, then look them up on LinkedIn and find out who you know who can connect you. Then, pitch your network upward. You seem to know people at Google. Surely a few of them know more senior ex-Googler, who in turn may be doing some angel investing on the side.

Like everything else, this will only work if, when you demo your product, people love it and want to help you. If they want nothing to do with you, then of course all your networking efforts will be in vain.
While not mentioned in this article, perhaps real estate agents are also insisting that buyers bid over the asking price thereby inflating prices.

Last week I was told by my first buyer agent he would not write my offer despite being 3% ABOVE the asking price for property that listed that day. I then called the listing agent for the same property who insisted she wouldn't write my offer unless I offered 25% above the listing price. We eventually negotiated to 10% above as my first offer. There are only 10 offers on the property so it isn't as if they were flooded with buyers.

Is anyone else finding your own buyer agent or even the listing agent refusing to write an offer if it isn't well over the asking price ?

Note I am in the SF Bay Area.
I feel like I just hacked too much time. o.O
A much harder (for researchers to devise) but a lot more beneficial form of gamification is 'implicit gamification'.

Why do you have to move gamers away from their favorite Battlefield, DoTA, CSGO, LoL, Starcraft, or whatever games, in order extract value out of the huge amount of decision-making going on?

- Gamers play their favorite games.

- The decisions they make during the gameplay get translated into decisions about non-trivial aspects of scientific work. (This is the hard part).

- Those decisions lead to scientific progress.

I'd love to find out if anyone is working on this, or what is the state of the art in this area.
Really? Like what? I can think of things like snow (sleet, flurries, blizzard, powder) but not any direct synonyms. We can't hold a candle to the Inuit.
Here's an alternative: don't make time a factor while you build a foundation, then, when time does become a factor, simply extend the foundation as far and as rickety as necessary knowing at the very least you have a rock solid foundation.

Practical example:

You're building a CRUD app. Start by implementing robust logging, monitoring, testing, containerization (if prudent), and a proven framework-environment, then create all your endpoints and your client application.

When your app inevitably fails the logging, monitoring, testing, etc, will be a nice consolation prize.
>>The strangest thing to me is not that MySQL is more popular than Postgres, but that anyone uses Microsoft or Oracle at all. Not only do they cost a lot, but from a purely technical standpoint they are worse.

A lot of decisions are made holistically instead of a "purely technical standpoint". In large companies where there are still IT departments (e.g. use of Active Directory), MS is still very much the de facto platform, and SQL Server is the "logical" choice.
"While it was stopped" is the key.

It's hard to argue that a car stopped at red light violates anyone's expectation of how a human would drive.
Since the real economy (manufacturing / information) isn't growing, the money flows into assets (eg real estate or stock bubbles) When there's zero interest, it exacerbates the problem, because if you've got capital, it's impossible to find anywhere to invest it to get a return.

A nifty chart that shows this idea in a 3D graph:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/19/upshot/3d-yiel...

Hence you're incentivised to put it into assets. Basically you're not seeing assets (houses/stock) going up in value, you're seeing money go down in value.

My theory is that it has become far too easy (profitable) for middlemen to extract that value from people when they are attempting to invest. Maybe some academics should look into expanding the Principal-Agent problem[1] into the Brokerage-Agent problem. Most brokerages don't care whether the value of an asset goes up or down, only that the trade takes place so that they get their cut. This is what exacerbates the problem, not zero interest. Realtors are especially adept at convincing buyers to bid up properties based on their future value. Securities brokers know that when fear and hype push volume in either direction, it has been a good day; it doesn't really matter if it ends red or green because they get cut whenever trades take place, regardless of whether people are cashing in or cashing out of the market. Quantitative-based profiteering on volatility.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem
It was promised for Cairo (that become win95), under the name of Object File System.

Different name, exact same promises.
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Obesity problem as well. I know some people don't like to hear it, but breakfasts can easily go 800 calories and up. You are starting off the day in surplus.
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Uh...no, it's like the difference between the original Greek/Hebrew and the translations.
it's almost as if he's trying to tell us that not everything on the web needs to have advertisements stuffed into it, and not everything needs data that can be collected. Good article.
The project states:

"Panopticon is a disassembler that understands the semantics of opcodes. This way it's able to help the user by discovering and displaying invariants that would have to be discovered "by hand" in traditional disassemblers."

Doesn't every disassembler have to understand the opcode semantics in order to disassemble and make sense of them or am I misinterpreting that statement?

Also can anyone explain what the "invariants" are? When I hear the word I can only think of loop invariants and I'm guessing that is not what the author means here.
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And an insulin spike.
I can't believe this, but I created something like this in an ad-hoc way. I have a large amount of music, and I needed to be able to transfer them to devices (my phone) based on some sort of tag - I need work-out music, I need driving music, etc. Genres are inappropriate for this. The easiest way to transfer this to the device is have a directory full of links that point to the right files / directories.

So, depending on the need, I will either have two directories (files and tags) or a number of file directories and a tag directory. File directories can have whatever they want, and tag directories have either only tag directories (like workout, driving, etc) or soft links.

Tagging a file / directory is easy - just link to it. Untagging is just as easy. The links don't take up much space, especially next to the music. When I'm transferring the files, I either use a script to make a directory with the links replaced with their file counterparts, or I transfer with something like rsync that can do that itself.

I'm amazed how similar this project is to my own solution. It's nice to have a dedicated script for the whole thing, but the solution itself is very simple, and easy to script with.

This isn't born out of frustration - hierarchical filesystems are perfectly adequate for most tasks. But they have not been trees for a long time - we have links, which let us make any graph we want out of those trees.
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Dropping breakfast from my diet as a regular thing, something as simple as just getting started later in the day on eating, has been incredibly helpful in losing (and maintaining lower) weight. It's not the only thing of course; generally eating smaller portions, and moving my butt more are the other two keys. Obsessing over exactly what I'm eating and how much has never helped, but just eating less... it sounds simple, but it's what works.
I couldn't agree more that more attention should be paid to where the lights shine and how they affect night vision, but they don't even have to direct any light upwards to make It bright enough to affect sleep on the floors above.

Even with all the light emitted downwards, a narrow street with bright and closely spaced streetlights means that there's enough reflection off pavement, cars, building facades and windows, etc. that a huge amount of light is reflected back above the lamp.

Depending on where you and the trees are relative to the lamp, the leaves may lessen or exacerbate the effect. And overcast nights make it even worse because you get a second dose of reflection (from the entire metro area, much of which has been similarly "upgraded" to Hollywood interrogation spotlights... I mean, LED streetlights.)

It's not as if anyone was claiming this neighborhood was dangerous or scary to walk in at night. If I wanted to live in Times Square I'd live in Times Square.
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Wow, that's an unpleasant effect!
My point is that other currencies are not static. All the world economies are jockeying to have relatively weak currencies, in order to attempt to spur inflation and ease their debt loads. It's all relative. The US is not in some particularly bad spot, certainly Japan and Europe finance ministers would trade places with ours any day of the week. We have a remarkably strong economy (and everything else, really) in comparison (which is all that matters).
This would be a really good idea. The key idea from the OP:

"A comprehensive, accessible record of competing interests could be used to produce more-precise estimates of their impact on research findings. Using these results as a basis, tools could be developed to help readers to interpret individual studies and to flag up uncertainty caused by competing interests to systematic reviewers when they pool the results from multiple studies."

More detail here: http://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/1...
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