skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's crazy. I knew there was an exclusion of reassessment for initial transfer between parents and children (or grandparents and grandchildren in the event of deceased parents) but I didn't realize it just continued in perpetuity down the generational line. My original understanding was that the home could be transferred without triggering the reset in this manner once, and then subsequent times caused a reset.

Bad into worse just about sums it up. If it wasn't for Prop 58 and 193 you'd expect that eventually, decades from now once the majority were reset, that Prop 13 would have a chance of being struck down, but this just ensures that future generations have every incentive to keep homes in the family.

Thanks for sharing the link.
> until we stop using triangle meshes

Is this a realistic possibility? What would we use instead?
> That simply means you you could careless where you work as long as you get paid...in other words 70% of your time in life is going to be in misery...but good luck!

I don't come to work to be fulfilled. I come to work to be paid.
He sold a $40 printer. Then he was sued in Indiana for $30,000
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Check out Workflowy - it has done wonders for me in terms of implementing bullet-journal principles for my work tasks.

https://workflowy.com/
I am not familiar enough with the UK process, but could Scotland be a large enough dissenting body within the Westminster Parliament anyway to affect a vote like this?

Could be another reason for Scotland to secede from the UK, or at least another item to add to the 'Pros' column.
Can you explain what you mean? As far as I know, normalizing is a nonsensical process for a document store. You can only normalize a relational schema.
For police, I honestly don't get the sense that they're really overburdened. Sunnyvale rates as one of the safest cities in the US.

For parking, Sunnyvale is indeed surprisingly bad. For a sleepy town with nothing to do you often can't get parking downtown.
Can you jam the only non-encrypted part of GPS?
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No, it's not, the real reason is that Uber is half the price of a cab and will actually show up when called.
You live in Gaza?
>>This is an introvert's nightmare. I feel like going to a room and turning off all the lights just reading about this.

Wow! That sounds more like social anxiety disorder than introversion.

http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/mental-health-socia...
I'll throw my $0.02 in here, I think the issue with lithium is price spikes due to production capacity not keeping up with demand.
If I was on an aircraft doing a Dutch Roll [0], I'd definitely feel discomfort!

(Note for readers: A "dutch roll" is when the plane rolls (when one wing dips down and the other rises up) and yaws (when the rear of the aircraft moves in one horizontal direction and the front of the aircraft moves in the opposite horizontal direction) at the same time.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_roll#/media/File:DutchRo...
Let me paint a picture for you and you tell me if you think this is fair.

If you moved to the area in 2012, odds are you got a very good deal. If you moved in 2015, odds are you paid several hundred thousand dollars more for your home than your neighbor in a comparable home.

Do you think there is such a radical difference in infrastructure needs during that period to warrant shifting a disproportionate percentage of that burden to the person who bought only a couple years later? That is madness when talking about the kinds of dollars we are when things are percentage based.

Further, long-time owners in the area have been paying massively less than newer residents despite taking advantage of any new infrastructure funded by newer taxes thanks to Prop 13. Oftentimes to a comical degree.
That's the worst case scenario. Best case is that the cars are smart enough to fall back to navigating by road signs and stored maps, and there's no real interruption apart from maybe a warning light on the dash. It's not even that improbable; it's not uncommon to lose GPS signal in e.g. deep valleys, so any fully autonomous self-driving car would want to have some kind of fall-back scenario.
Really interesting. Shame that they can't deal directly with Israelis, with all of their start-ups and like-minded technology types.
"one or two such statistically rare case and write a report it". These are not rare as you are trying to imply. I have many friends and family members who went through road accidents. They always had to cry for help and people passed by on their vehicles. Every time I see a negative news online about India, people comes forward to defend their country with excuses. "This happens in every country", "This is a rare incident" etc..
Meta comment: I really hate it when people quote multiple individual sentences and respond to each one separately (usually with a single sentence of their own). It sounds flippant and juvenile.
Mind if I ask if this is your "forever home" or close to it? I'll bet there's a hefty divide in whether or not people are worried about it going underwater based on their outlook for how long they intend to live there.
What about the Intel ME? Is that on the Atom processor this uses? I only know of a few processors, mostly ARM, that don't contain this kind of insecure/privacy-invading feature.
If that was the problem then it would be easy enough to implement a damping filter in software.
Your mobile phone account could be hijacked by an identity thief
It seems to work for my personal account. Account Services -> Guest users. I haven't tried to add an account, but I see the interface fine.
> 1000 nodes, 2TB of data, assume standard crappy cloud network connection, use a 1GbE connection per node. The serial portion of this computation is the data distribution.

I find your statements confusing.

The whole point of things like hadoop is that the data is already distributed and the data storage nodes are also computational nodes. So there is no data distribution that takes 1/4 day or even 50-100 seconds. It takes 0 seconds because you just run the computation where the data already is.

My experience with HPC systems is more "Jobs are paused because the shared filesystem is unavailable"
No questions, just thanks for writing this up years ago! I've been using it ever since.
No, it's an argument not to waste time with pointless layers that impose no significant costs on attackers. Surely, you can't believe that "defense in depth" justifies arbitrary layers, or you'd also advocate for ROT-13 tunnels.
> used mongo for years before we got our shit together.

That's actually a legit use case. Use MongoDB while you get your shit together. I use global variables while I'm noodling around in code. Eventually I refactor.
If you can't deploy passwordless SSH, you have problems port-knocking can't solve.
I mulch. I still get insane amounts of weeds and they are usually far more aggressive and larger than the crop I'm trying to grow. I think it depends on the quality of your soil and weeds in the area (existing, from neighbours, etc).
I am pretty excited about cockroachDb. Its still in beta so not suggested for production use yet, but its being designed pretty carefully and by a great team.. check them out cockroachlabs.com
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Perhaps they should fund some audits of the open source projects they use. Which I suppose a bug bounty sort of does
forgot Ask HN, can someone edit the title ?
Yeah. I certainly fully expect a certain cross-section that is shaped just like that. Take "Nest" as an example. Unless the "smart" thermostat can somehow manage to burn my house down by turning the heat up way, way too high... then the fact that it's almost comically broken as a "smart" device doesn't really matter. Just keep pushing updates to it.

However, I think there's a growing surface area where our consumer expectations for iteration and features are going to bleed into places that were previously left largely untouched by such demands. "Smart" cars are probably a good example. There's growing and intensifying competition for the ownership of the experience in the cabin/cockpit of the car, and in order to draw lines of competition there's a lot of focus on how to integrate that space with the rest of your normal and your digital lifestyle. That ends up being a place where, to avoid ending up the subject of very public screw ups, some amount of rigor that's applied to the lower-level stack will also eventually bubble up to the feature/application level at the same time that enablement for features/applications (network connectivity, new kinds of input devices, etc.) will end up being forced into the lower levels of the stack. Or at the very least a useful set of stable abstractions and tools will be built to prevent today's software developers from having to care very much about applying that rigor and the abstractions/tools will just take care of it for them.
> Regulation can help against that.

You realize this is called 'predatory pricing' and is already illegal under federal antitrust laws? No new taxi-specific regulations required.
> MySQL

Why not just prototype with Sqlite? You don't even need a server.
No. My guess is they'll end up being another fad due to poor execution and bad user experience choices.
I tried to hack together my own personal stack overflow or Q&A system using a directory of text files and Sublime Text (any other text editor that has regular expression searching also work). Basically, each fact or note that I wanted to be able to retrieve would be stored as semi-structured text that is easy to search using regular expressions. For example, when I was first learning web development, I saved a note like this in my note file:

{
[how do you create a simple image button in html and css]
-> style:
.simple-button {
background-image: url(...),
background-repeat: no-repeat,
background-position: center,
background-size: 100% 100%,
width: 100px,
height: 100px,
display: inline-flex
}

<div class = 'simple-button'></div>
}

I had a directory called "knowledgebase" which had numerous files with similarly structured notes. In order to find the note above using keywords, I would just do a search of the knowledgebase directory in Sublime Text using the regular expression:

^\{\s*\[.+button.+css.*\]

At first I was pretty excited about the method because it actually saved me a few times when I needed to find some boilerplate Linux bash scripts and vim keyboard shortcuts. Unfortunately, the small bit of initial success left me wanting to add more features to the extent that I was never satisfied with the notation for structuring questions and answers. First I used the system for simple notes and Q&A. Then the notation had to support hierarchical notes, like a tree. Eventually, decided I was going to write a program to parse these Q&A files and expose them as a mobile application that I could search via voice. This seemed like a pretty good idea until I decided that what I really needed was to not only be able to search notes by voice but also create them. The whole project kept growing until eventually I dropped the whole note taking thing and turned my attention to the general problem of NLP for question answering.

If I had simply been satisfied with the original, simple process and stuck to it these last couple of years, I'd have a pretty comprehensive and useful knowledgebase by now. I realize that I'm too lazy to keep such a system up to date but hopefully I can adopt something similar as a commenting convention in my source files to make code fragments searchable.
Part of me wants to sneer in disgust, but part of me considers that we live and work in a tech industry that truly, honestly believes that "move fast and break things" is a great design principle, and maybe we don't want those people in charge of the foundation of the global economy.

I dunno.
I can never reconcile my respect and admiration of Israeli achievements in technology with my disgust at their horrible treatment of the Palestinians.
Machine vision is the same (or at least was before all this convnet wizardry that's going on these days). You could get something pretty good (say 80% accurate) in an afternoon, or something good enough to demo (say 90% accurate) in a week. Then it'll take you 6 months to get to 99% accurate, and 5 years to get to 99.9% accurate. And if you're analyzing one image a second, that's still more than three failures an hour, which is nowhere near useful for any kind of production system.
How do you know he doesn't intend on coming back tomorrow to post on another discussion?
Lol, you nut!
But that revenue will have to be saved for a few years before there's enough to build new schools with, hire teachers with, etc. Moreover there might be other budgetary needs that might want that money unless the money is tied to improving schools, streets, etc.
It might be, but we'll never know at all, by definition.
Thank you! Your comment is 10x more informative than that NYTimes article. NYTimes used to be much better but now it's just no different than other small newspapers.
The notion that only people who are currently in the medtech industry are capable of founding successful companies is simply not true. That’s not to say it’s not challenging, but as the Biodesign program emphasizes, innovation in medtech comes from thinking outside the box. By observing the problems in healthcare system as an outsider, even if you are a doctor, there is an opportunity to realize solutions that can have a drastically positive impact while considering the market, regulatory and reimbursement. Unfortunately our current healthcare systems is extremely costly and inefficient in delivering quality care. As you mentioned, there are biases towards status quo that makes it hard for many inside the system to imagine things being done differently.

You mentioned that “I can think of almost no reason why it would be a net improvement to the world if people were able to have their own personal breast ultrasound machine to monitor breast health.” In a world where 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in their lifetime, making low-cost breast cancer screening accessible to every woman regardless of their age, insurance coverage, access to healthcare, etc will be a great net improvement. There is published literature that demonstrates that by adding ultrasound screening, the number of breast cancer detected is doubled, and furthermore the number of cancer detected at an early stage is increased 3 fold. Not only this early detection results in saving lives, but it also results in significant savings for the healthcare system.

I applaud YC's efforts in giving an opportunity to medtech companies to think bigger, move faster and I am confident there will be even greater medtech companies coming out of YC every batch to move medtech industry in the right direction.
This is exactly why I'm now looking for a good Linux laptop. Patch Tuesday has become a crapshoot of whether I have to manually remove the Windows Updates that want to install Windows 10. Of course, I've already uninstalled and hidden them before. I've also disabled the option "Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates". But, they keep coming back.
Doesn't all this seem somewhat backward.

There's this victimization mentality that acts like poverty is this absolute thing that is meted out like a cursed rock, outside the control and agency of whom it's been placed upon.

Why don't we have more discussion about the causes that lead to the effect of poverty.

It's really more productive to see poverty as being an effect, or outcome of other causes or actions. Change the input and get a different outcome. And at a certain point it becomes a personal responsibility. If you want to help someone else, great, but the two of you have to be pushing in the same direction.

And likewise, external conditions do have effects, if it comes to light that someone appears to be needlessly and negatively imposed upon there's clearly a place in society for discussing how best we can optimize everyone's external conditions. Everyone faces obstacles, but placing blame wholly outside oneself is always going to be a losing battle.

>On top of it all, if a murder occurred in a child's neighborhood — in an area of about six to 10 square blocks — their score fell by 7 to 8 points.

This is so ridiculous that people can make a pronouncement like that, thinking it's a reasonable analysis, or indeed the only analysis.

We know that intelligence is a highly stable trait. Meaning for intelligence to be significantly diminished[0] requires something pretty drastic, like a serious brain injury or some kind of long term deprivation. There is no reason to think someone being killed within a particular distance of someone would have any kind of effect. Do all soldiers come home as dunces?

Something seems to be missing from the kind of people that write these articles. Hard to say what it is exactly, a more holistic view, better analytical capabilities, less pre-conceived notions, intelligence? something...

If they had whatever missing ingredient, then they might understand that an analysis that stands up to rigor is something more like,

People tend to self-segregate along a whole host of traits[1], intelligence is a trait. The trait of intelligence is linked to a propensity for certain types of crimes. Murder among them, therefore it follows that the people that commit murder are statistically likely to have lower intelligence, as are the people around them.

>Oh, another thing: Living in these poor neighborhoods makes you significantly less happy, less hopeful, and less healthy

Oh, another thing: Any analytical mind of any worth can clearly see that the inverse has just as much going for it, if not more.

It seems to clearly follow that people who are less happy, less hopeful, and less healthy would make their neighborhoods poorer. How a focus on improving happiness, hope, and health? Telling people their predicaments are caused by factors outside of their control is the last way to improve any of those things.

[0]7 to 8 points is half a standard deviation, i.e. significant.

[1]See Schelling's Macro Micro, for some of the mechanisms involved.
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Swift would be more expressive, I certainly had a grand time writing in it. I wonder if it can get HKT ahead of C#
> Interestingly (for me), when I leased my leaf the sales guy was talking about how Nissan could make a car with a much better range, but chose not to

Wait, what? How did he justify that? That sounds like saying Apple could easily make a laptop with much better battery life but chose not to. Why would they ever do that?
The only times I read about Gaza is when Israel had just invaded it, pictures of dead bodies and bombed out buildings. Having never seen any description of what it's like inside, reading its name brings up thoughts of suffering and sadness and nothing else.

Thanks for writing this up and taking those photos. I could not have imagined there are places in Gaza that are just like my own office. It looks like a great place to be.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11859233 and marked it off-topic.
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Verbling (YC S11) is hiring a senior-level growth person and a React engineer
DARPA is looking at similar

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21651925-...

It will really fk up a lot of low income earners.

But like a lot of these techs I'm hoping with freeish food, clothing and housing we'll pop out the other end with everyone better off.
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You're making arguments for pair programming which is different than mob programming. Pair programming is fine. I did it for two years. Like everything in software, there are tradeoffs, but I had no major complaints.
Yes, there always has to be some separation between your secrets (keys, passwords, etc.) and the non-secret parts (methods, protocols, etc.).

The point of avoiding security by obscurity was that people were always tempted to make the methods, protocols, etc. secret, rather than a few small, easily-changed bits like passwords.

Because you can't very well go around reprogramming entire systems, this means that the security fails in a very bad way when compromised as compared to other systems where you just reset the passwords/keys/etc.
And I found Charles Murray's recent explication of the topic rather compelling.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-guaranteed-income-for-every-am...
What is the idea? I can't tell from reading the link. I'm surprised this managed to make it to the front page.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11858667.
I am using your blog post about the mark and sweep-GC for my program! Thank you for publishing it! Very informative, entertaining and to-the-point. Thank you!
No contradiction. It's talking poor neighborhoods, not poor individuals. It's claiming that if you're black, there's about a 66% chance you grew up likely living in a neighborhood which is at least 20% poor. That doesn't contradict the Census data that 26% of blacks and 10% of whites are poor.

For example, using the Census figures, imagine the extreme case that blacks and whites lived completely segregated in their respective racial communities, and the poor within each race were totally uniformly distributed within their enclaves. Then in that case, 100% of blacks would live in neighborhoods that were greater than 20% poor - in fact exactly 26% poor. And 100% of whites would live in what would be deemed non-poor areas -- all white neighborhoods would be exactly 10% poor.

So what we're seeing in Sharkey is merely the secondary effect of a non-uniform distribution, not a change in the underlying poverty rates.
So we're really just arguing over whether the term is a singular and specific, or can be a more general concept. To me, including nonidentical behavior that has similar effects on society is the better choice.

Furthermore, the actual text of the first amendment does not define freedom of speech, but explicitly references it as an external concept.
Is there a reason they couldn't work for Israeli companies? Do they even know any Israelis? I'm fascinated by this.

edit - so many more questions:

Besides the curfew, were the girls treated / educated the same as the guys?

Did people have modern hardware? Do you know if it was difficult for them to obtain?

Did any of them work as software engineers for local Gaza based companies?
My general feeling is that MongoDb was designed by people who hadn't designed a database before, and marketed to people who didn't know how to use one.

Its marketing was pretty silly about all the various things it would do, when it didn't even have a reliable storage engine.

Its defaults at launch would consider a write stored when it was buffered for send on the client, which is nuts. There's lots of ways to solve the problems that people use MongoDB for, without all of the issues it brings.
But that was only because they had to stand on their tippy-toes and tilt their heads back to avoid drowning in PagerDuty alerts. ;-)
Isn't 'feeling something with your inner eye' a part of how 'processing external stimuli combined with my internal state' works?
This is basically how the game is played. The other half is that managers hire their unqualified friends into those same high level positions no questions asked. No hoops. no career development carrot and stick bullshit. Welcome to office politics. You are a fool if you jump through the hoops. Smart employees will just go get the job they want somewhere else.