skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, the size of new homes has risen from 1600 in 1973 to 2600 today. It's not like all factors remain the same. You can drive through old neighborhoods near me with 1000 sq ft houses that sell for $40k because nobody wants a house that small. I'll bet a lot of the homes being built in Palo Alto right now are not small.
feature requests

An understated problem here is that opening an issue to create a "feature request" is seen by Github as a "contribution", one on par with actually fixing bugs.

We've got people going around opening hundreds of issues for silly things like variable names in products they don't even use, presumably with the aid of some bot.

Nearly everything written in C or C++ has had a issue requesting the build system use autoconf, an issue requesting the use of CMake and a issue declaring scons is the best. Even if you liked all these tools, it would be absurd to satisfy all three requesters.

None of these people are "contributing" in the way someone fixing a bug is.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11980557
> With an increase in immigration and a cheapening of robotic workers and kiosks... where is this decrease in unemployment and increase in labor-force participation going to come from?

I don't know where it would come from (perhaps the same magical unicorn tooth fairy who would remove balkanization, inspire durable construction, and give us more passenger rail), but the US would look a lot stronger if it had it.

This includes politically stronger; poverty, disengagement from the labor force, and high inequality are not good for a country's political stability.
Sorry, as I keep saying in this thread, the excellent client-side password strength checking library zxcvbn (https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn) is under 400 kB compressed including dictionaries, checking against
"30k common passwords, common names and surnames according to US census data, popular English words from Wikipedia and US television and movies, and other common patterns like dates, repeats (aaa), sequences (abcd), keyboard patterns (qwertyuiop), and l33t speak"

Thus, it is, as a matter of fact, quite possible to do reasonable password strength checking on the client side with a footprint that's a small fraction of many of today's ad-infested websites.
Or 3 month Euribor is now -0.281%, so with say 1.2% margin for bank the current interest would be 0.92%. Obviously with no guarantee for it staying that low.

http://www.euribor-rates.eu
That's backwards. We got rid of the gender bias.

Very long ago, computer programming was seen as being like typing and/or secretarial work. It was seen as being unmanly. Compare with nursing and kindergarten teaching.

A woman might get assigned to invent COBOL instead of being in charge of an aircraft carrier.

Well, we got rid of the sexism. Happy now? Hmmm, guess not.
> In the case of something with GPL components like Android, some modification is even expressly granted!

The GPL granting permission to make the change (so that it is not creating an unauthorized derivative work in violation of copyright) does not guarantee that doing so does not void your warranty to the extent that the law of the applicable jurisdiction allows manufacturers to set conditions for voiding warranties.
Just set up a corporation that issues shares according to these rules. You'll need to personally guarantee the loan for the bank, but otherwise they won't have a problem with it. You could also remove the bank, and say the builder has 100% equity at the start if you can get them to agree to it.

It seems like it'd be a better idea to continue paying rent and just buy some shares in an REIT with the difference in cost with rent and rent+shares. And let's be clear: You would pay higher rent in your scheme, so said difference is nonzero.
Yeah its basically a VPS provider, with all the connotations that come with that.
This will probably get buried deep in the thread, but...

Lease to buy is a thing, more or less as you describe. However, it removes liquidity for both the buyer and seller (buyer cannot exit easily, seller cannot exit easily). As a result, mortgages are more popular and more-or-less functional identical.
You need to change society to succeed at it in any obvious way.
> This actually makes me wonder if open source is the right thing for many projects.

This is why the term "open source" is confusing, and I'm annoyed when people use it. If you're referring to software freedom, free software is necessary for a free society. If you're referring to the bazaar model of development, then I agree that some projects don't need to work that way. What's important in free software is that there can be a community of users, but it doesn't matter if the original developers decide to be part of that community.
Surely if it's so common, then manufacturers have already had to devise methods for diagnosing such negligent damage beyond canary stickers that will fall off during normal wear.
Or MS has fuzzed it but hasn't devoted as many computational resources as Google has. They say that fuzzing-produced bugs have come out regularly over the years, so clearly no one else had before applied as many resources as Google did...
There are rent to own schemes, although less flexible than what you are describing. The amount of money renters would have to spend to get a relevant portion of the equity would be substantial. Landlords aren't just going to start giving away capital for free.

The current Price-to-Rent ratio in SF is 45.88. So lets say your willing to pay an extra 50% of your rent to gain equity you would end up gaining about 1.1% of the units equity per year at market rates. This is somewhat unfair because SF has one of the highest price/rent ratios but 50% increase in rent is also very large.

With an average tenancy around 2 years most people are going to own extremely little equity while the property accrues all sorts of minority owners which would be nontrivial to manage.

The only real benefit I can think of is it provides some insulation against cost of housing increases but at the downside of exposing you to housing price decreases and trading cash for an extremely illiquid asset. Who is going to want to buy 2% of a house/apartment?
Password strength checking is (properly understood, in my view) providing help to the user, not enforcing some silly and annoying "password validation" rules.
There are very very few homes being built in Palo Alto right now.
https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Layout-Overview
>Part of being a free market

We are talking about the United States, not a free market. In the United States, the stated policy of the central bank (hint: free markets have no central banks that control interest rates and pick winners and losers) for the last 8 years is to inflate housing prices. The FED and the big banks still have trillions of dollars of worthless derivatives on their books that they have not "marked to market" because they are derived from mortgages on homes that are underwater. The FED has taken over 5 trillion dollars onto its balance sheet in the last 8 years in order to artificially inflate housing prices (not including off-balance sheet loans, guarantees, and other tangible efforts taken to prop up banks and home prices).

This is the opposite in a free market. In a free market, housing prices would plummet with demand and credit availability, and would reach an equilibrium with income. This is impossible in our centrally controlled economy that runs on debt service in which even a small bump in interest rates or a small drop in assets prices will cause the whole scheme to fall apart.

Edit: The Downvotes without replies are somewhat amusing. I can't decide if its out of ignorance of the financial system on the part of those who read the hacker news, or cognitive dissonance. I suspect a mix of both. I welcome anyone who thinks any of the above is inaccurate to chime in.
Sometimes I feel one needs to add <sarcasm> ... </sarcasm> because people just don't see it and will downvote you anyway.
Proof-of-concept near-vaporware to suck in gullible VCs. Just like all other dumb crypto startups.
Is this an apples to apples comparison, pretty sure we are not talking about only rentals available on the 1960s.

Median house sqft has increased - how do the numbers look if we compare not just median rent, but median rent per sqft?
Isn't the cloud awesome?
The USA is at 'peak' , we can roughly say this, not because of anything America is doing, but because the 'rest of the world' is coming online.

50 years ago there was 'America', the 'Soviets' and 'Europe'. Everything else was a footnote.

What we've seen with China 'coming out of nowhere' in the last 25 years is about to happen 4x with the rest of the world.

America and Europe's share of global economy is falling fast, and it simply has to do with electricity, plumbing, democracy, knowledge and productivity gains in the rest of the world.

India is coming on a little slowly, but surely.

Pakistan is 180 Million people. Nigeria almost that - and they have oil.

Africa is a billion people.

There are a lot of Asians outside of China, India and Japan.

As they start to become connected to the global economy, relative power shift will happen.

I don't see the emergence of any new 'superpower' and America will likely remain the only 'superpower' in the classical sense, but it won't be as powerful as it is today - relatively speaking.

If you look at the growth of Japan after WW2 - a period of fast growth, then slowing down as it approaches parity with the west - this is what the underdeveloped world will look like, but a little slower.

Also - a very important point - a lot of real growth is not measured in the GDP.

For example, the value that is created by governments is measured simply in 'government spending'. But $1 of gov. spending hopefully creates more value than $1!

For example, if the US Gov spent $50B and created this amazing national public transport system that everyone used, and cost next to nothing - the 'economic surplus' would be massive, but the GDP would directly be down. Why? Because the only thing that would count towards the GDP would be the $50B spent by the gov, not the $Trillion in value derived from it. Obviously, there would be indirect business benefits ... point being - the GDP is not necessarily the best way to measure things for many obvious reasons.
Mortgage rates are close to zero already. What scenario do you imagine would drive them even closer to zero? And in such a scenario, why would anyone bother making loans?

Market dynamics are not magic. If it's not profitable to lend money, no one will.

The only way I could see rates hitting zero would be if the government started charging interest on money sitting in banks. Such an event would not be a sign of good housing opportunities so much as a sign of significant economic struggles.
In your favorite common lisp. It will result in an error, specifically a `SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR`.

Just because it calls itself a type error doesn't mean it is. If you don't catch the error until your function actually runs, it's a runtime error, not a type error. Type errors are all caught before the program runs, typically in a compilation step.
Just don't get too addicted to that line of credit. If the bank yoinks your ability to borrow when cash is tight, you'll be hurting.
Have you considered switching to a less beurocratic team/company. I used to be in a place where I'd fight the system. Most felt the system was good enough.

Moving to a team where your personal values are aligned with team values, may be you won't need to have those discussions.
Sunny weather? That's what you get in places like Barcelona, not London definitely.

There's a ceiling made of what seems to be solid clouds 10 months a year, including light rain as the default weather status throughout. This June has been atrocious (we just had the heating on for a while this evening) and last year we didn't have summer bar a week at the end of June.

But yeah, fog is very rare. It's just clouds, always. Grey grey grey and wet wet wet. OTOH you don't have to constantly suffer 30°C with 80% humidity for +4 months a year, which is nice if you're not on holiday.
Grace Hopper might have rather been in charge of an aircraft carrier. Ada Lovelace might also have wanted to do other things.

Opportunities were limited for women. Don't assume that computing was the first choice career for those women.
This is the right answer. As far as I can tell, the only reason to buy a home is to lock in a particular home for your family over time at a stable price, which this equity structure does not address. Otherwise, you can just invest in real estate in financial markets.

(Tax incentives skew these incentives towards ownership.)
ahem Free software existed long before Linux, "Cathedral and the Bazaar", Netscape and so on. It started with the GNU project in 1984. While techincally correct to say that "open source" started then, it implies that the whole free software movement came out of that one group. It didn't.
It really comes down to how much extra time would it save me in the end, or what is the opportunity cost of building the project. If I spend 40 hours building something that will save me 10 hours a month in time it is well worth it to me. However, if I spend 40 hours to build something and it is only going to save me a few minutes each month, that worth really has lost its value to me.

On the flip side, never underestimate that others don't have the same itch. Set up a quick landing page, run a $20 Google ad, and see if others are looking for something similar. It may have more value than you think.
Are you suggesting that there's some underground scene of consumers intentionally zapping their electronic devices and then demanding warranty service all the while twirling their moustaches in the manner of a Snidely Whiplash.
So 32bit netbooters and upgraders will have to move on when 18.04 ends support in 2023? That doesn't sound too bad - time to move on.

My last 32bit system (a Thinkpad R51) didn't support PAE, so effectively stopped being supported by quite a few distros 4 or 5 years ago as their 32bit kernels and installers moved to PAE only.
"After all, it's not politicians who fed the world, it was Haber & Bosch. It wasn't environmentalists who saved whales from extinction, it was whoever invented that synthetic whale-oil substitute"

The politics vs technologists is a false dichotomy. I dont know specifically about Haber and Bosch, but a lot of researchers get their funding from the government. SV would not be what it is today without government funding.

Not specific to your comment, but I feel like the whole 'how can we make the world better' discussion has become 'our side is better at it'. Who cares who's better, what can we/I do?
You'll never be able to collect phase shift info from such a setup. Not only will each phone's DSP algos delay the data, but the jitter in transmission and reception will just kill any chance of it working properly.
> I would rather use a self-hosted solution though

Me too. It surprises me that there aren't any great open source alternatives. Evernote's OCR was at times magical (it does a very good job on my hand written notes) and I've always wondered if they licensed that or built it.
Unemployment rates are double for women (vs. men) in computer/mathematical occupations as of last month, so "the unemployment line" is not a completely wild guess. [1]

But that's not the point. A supply of women with both the qualifications and the interest exists. We ought to be seeing a representative sample of that supply, and we should do what we can to avert bias within our organizations.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea30.htm
This is disgusting propaganda. It is so disgusting, that I have to comment here, although the thread is rather old, so sorry.

Or is your comment satire? Hard to say these times ...
Sadly, such things don't pay the bills.

(Unless i missed some sort of karma/like/wow monetization :) )
Why would you say such a thing.
It'd be interesting to see this merged into mesa, for some comparisons against its three(!) different CPU renderers (llvmpipe, softpipe, and OpenSWR).
tbh we don't really know OP. Although It could be that the words OP uses might be offending.
i'd say an untyped (well, weakly typed; every language has some notion of types) language was one like C where you can construct a value of some type, and then treat the block of memory in which the physical representation of that value is stored as some other type.

that said, eric lippert has a good blog post on [defining our terms more precisely before even asking the question](https://ericlippert.com/2012/10/15/is-c-a-strongly-typed-or-...)
Islamic mortgages are exactly this. You have an incorporated entity (shares distributed between yourself and the bank) that owns the house and your "mortgage/rent" buys more equity from the bank. It's still just a mortgage structured to hide what it is. If you set this up with a "landlord" instead of the bank, it's the same thing and the landlord is still going to charge you a premium (aka interest) for assuming this risk, and assess your creditworthiness before entering into this kind of contact with you.
Quite possible. Personally my decision to buy was based on a desire to finance the development of an interesting new operating system and p2p network -- so I paid cash to a company that is doing that -- so the purpose was clear from that angle.
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> That part of religion, a psychology that is resistant to the chaos and disappointment of the world is definitely something that's positive about religion and there are no alternatives in other discourses that are equivalent.

Have you heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism or are you trolling?
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But is this anything to do with "cheap & simple" vs a takedown notice that resulted in the entire server been taken offline? Redundancy really has nothing to do with this?

i.e. would another provider have acted differently?

If you host all your websites on a single box - then is there an expectation on a server provider to get an engineer to go into the box to turn off "one" site - vs just turn off the box?
Top 5 in Cachet in no particular are probably
Benchmark, Andreessen, Sequoia, Greylock, Accel. KP comes after them. It used to be number one. Not anymore. There are so many angels, good old/new VCs (YC, LightSpeed, FirstRound, Union Square, SocialCapital etc) that calling out KP for prestige doesn't make sense anymore.

Getting funded by KP now means => You raised money from a good VC firm. Nothing more. Years ago, it was more like - "Wow, you guys raised money from KP? You must me special"
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Generally, you wouldn't write to the same log file. Prepending/Appending the instance name to the file would be enough to make it unique.
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What's next, houses with doors or windows aren't private?
I agree. Work/life balance is absolutely part of the problem - just like maternity leave and other work environment factors. All of this leads to attrition and a chilling effect on sourcing. But we should still be solving for bias at the interviewing stage.
No, not common, but as the OP noted the evolution of MEMs based microphones might make them a lot more common. As the author notes, they are more like holographic cameras than what many people think of as "regular" cameras. By converting the imaging into the FFT domain the resolution gets better "everywhere" the more sensors you add. (If you have ever cut up a hologram into smaller and smaller pieces you can see this in action, as the full image is still there, just lower resolution). It would also be interesting to illuminate a non-active source with sound beam. By using two, slightly out of phase, ultrasonic sources he might be able to reveal depth detail of the surface being imaged.
Here is a link to the project's website:

https://www.humanconnectome.org/
There are two classes in the scatter plot -- blue and red points. These can be separated by a line. A line has two parameters, for example, a slope and an intercept (although, other parameterizations are possible). These line parameters are the x and y axis. The lighter and darker areas of the heat map indicate better and worse lines, respectively, for separating the two classes of points.
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"pushed away" is so negative.

How about "pulled away"? Maybe it isn't politically correct to desire being a stay-at-home mom, but it happens rather often. Sometimes this is an unexpected turn of events, with changing life priorities. Sometimes it is the goal right from the start.

I met a woman in college who literally said she was getting her MRS degree. That is, she went to college to meet a suitable husband and become a "Mrs.", as in "Mrs. Doe". It happens. This is real.

It's not a problem to be solved unless you have a negative attitude toward homemakers. People choose their own path in life. This might not meet your standard, but your standard might not maximize life satisfaction for everybody.
One would be the non-standard equity breakdown which might make getting a mortgage loan from a bank more difficult.

Another would be keeping people 'in the system' long-term, otherwise it doesn't really work (if the original landlord tires of it, what stops them from 'just reverting' to the old system?)

It's an interesting idea, but it'd be hard to test out.
You can't compare 3 month term interbank loans to a 30 year term mortgage. 30 year tbills are around 2.25%.
Much much less than 1%
A significant proportion of Harvard Business School graduates (though by no means all of them) are people who are “ambitious” in a way primarily defined around money, social status, and power, rather than curiosity or societal contribution. They’re going to inevitably be drawn to whatever field looks most promising for a lucrative and influential career.

It would be nice if we could economically rearrange society to amply reward careers in research, teaching, government, public-interest law, community organizing and development, providing social services, and so on (not to mention just regular jobs in factories, agriculture, retail, food preparation, etc.), so that doing work that benefited society was more attractive vis-à-vis zero-sum financial hocus pocus, predatory legal engineering, aggressive marketing/propaganda, internet surveillance, quasi-legal fraud, etc.

[My recommendation would be to dramatically increase taxes on land, inheritances, long-term capital gains, and carbon emissions, and redistribute the proceeds evenly to all citizens. And also to return anti-trust law to its roots and aggressively break apart monopolies and monopsonies, separate different types of financial activities to reduce conflicts of interest, and to dramatically increase funding for government regulatory agencies which are currently infinitely outclassed by industry.]

But that doesn’t seem to be in the cards, in our current society. I’m not sure what can be done to help e.g. the kind of business school grads who have already decided that personal success is more important than general social welfare.
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Exactly! The code base is going on 15 years old and was built with no knowledge of S3 or it's ilk. For that reason each WWW server has to have a local copy of all the assets (or at least a significant portion).
I don't understand your point? Is it the same guy who lauded graduates going to finance and then doesn't like grads going to startups?

Because if it isn't the same guy, then what are you talking about?
any chance you can show us some of the source code? curious to know how to build these type of graphs.
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