skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Alright, these situations are sad, and sometimes unavoidable due to what is essentially "bad luck". I can't imagine being caught in the vicious cycle.

Social and societal safety nets are supposed to help with "bad luck". We all have bad luck from time to time, but imagine if all your close friends and relatives had died... you'd be in a really hard spot.

> Why should "the poor" have access to mortgages? Lending to poor people (NINJA loans, predatory loans) was a root cause of the housing collapse. Do people really think giving the poor mortgages is any kind of solution?

The issue is that there is a limited supply of affordable rental properties in many markets. This means that people who do have the money / credit to get loans can charge a huge renter's premium: there is a large segment of the market that simply doesn't have the option of getting a mortgage if the rent is too high.

> It's a pretty common refrain on HackerNews that the "banksters" and (mostly, in reality) shady mortgage brokers took advantage of people by providing them with loans they couldn't afford. But, other times, this is seen as a good idea?

Because they often pushed people towards larger loans than they could afford. Someone who can afford a $300k house was being pushed toward a $500k house with a ballooning payment.

I'm all for poor people being able to buy homes they can afford. We'll ignore the fact that land value is correlated with location and the implications of that; but yes: home ownership should be in reach of every income level.
Zurich is a glamorous village, it's the worst of both worlds. It's expensive and posh like a big city, but doesn't have the verity range or range of quality.

I plain and simple disagree, and further, I think that is insane. I can't even begin to imagine what that statement could possibly be based on. For example, Pittsburgh, PA is a collection of villages, and there is just no way Zürich is anywhere close to that, in fact it's light years above and beyond. Compare New York and Zürich for instance: New York is an overcrowded, ugly, filthy dump of concrete and asphalt, and then compare Zürich, it's clean and green and elegant, and I can't think of anything it doesn't have. Have you actually lived in both?

That could be a problem in fussier countries. If Hewlett and Packard tried running an electronics company out of their garage in Switzerland, the old lady next door would report them to the municipal authorities.

That is just not true for Switzerland: you can run a single person company or even a GmbH out of your bedroom or garage and nobody will say a peep, especially not the municipality, whose tax commission will be more than happy that you started one, because you'll be paying them nominal tax no-matter-what. Have you actually tried it? Almost every village in Switzerland has more than one such company in a residential building.
Can you give me more information on what you did to get that setting changed? I emailed them yesterday asking them to stop sending me packages with Amazon Logistics, and the rep denied that such a setting even existed and just sent my feedback to their shipping department:

> I'm really sorry about the problems you've had with the last few shipments. Unfortunately, there is no way to request a specific shipper for your Amazon orders.
For people want to learn deep learning seriously, the big O of investing your time in deep learning, tensorflow and python are like O(n^2), O(nlogn), O(n). So although thanks for the author to make it happen, I would recommend to learn python.
Do people think Facebook will ever enter the cloud hosting market?
This demonstrates how small most computing requirements are. Bigger faster systems to do what? Store an address book? Calculate taxes? Print invoices? Most of our computing needs could be performed by a small embedded computer no greater than a raspberry pi.
The first sentence on the page says it reduces stress and anxiety.
* that'd pass as a cockroach to an average person*

I think the roach Turing test would need to pass as a cockroach to another cockroach, not a human.
Apart from complicating it, we're talking about an auto shop, not a tech company. I doubt they have lots of computer engineers hanging around.
I meant government as in government agencies, not strictly under the direct control of the actual group of humans making up the government.

I guess "government" interprets to different things in different countries, what I wrote above is a very american viewpoint.

In my country (SE), a member of government can be relieved of her duties if she even mentions that an agency should act in a certain way (as the government only should make up policies and not interfere in the daily businesses of the agencies).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerstyre
Blogoptimisation.com Now Up for SALE
There sure are a lot of people who don't live here and carefully explain our attitudes to us as though the filters of bias are somehow pure perception. I used to get annoyed by it, but now I just find it endlessly amusing.

If I were as clever as a feminist, I guess I could call it Eurosplaining.
Removing jobs entirely seems less exploitative than lowering pay, somehow.
And? How does that dispute what's put forth in the article?

"The percentage has spiked by almost 10 points since 2007 — in 2014"
this is my single largest complaint about JSON... I NEED comments.
Would love to see a similar analysis of New York City. I am working with the City on figuring where to plant how many trees.
Well, I am seldom the first one to shout greedy but in this case they really could focus on creating a better appstore experience for free but did not.

They already own the app distribution on iOS completely and is already making huge amounts of money (I would guess) on that 30% cut. Do they really need to make the extra money that comes of this?

Sure, it will make their revenue go up even more but at the expense of users and smaller developers. That is what I believe, but if that really is what is going to happen I guess we will find out.
does anyone know how this compares to wal-e ?
Awww! I'm touched! :)
The official page about the Dragonfly telescope with both the news coverage and the academic papers:

http://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/instrumentation/dragonfly/

An example with the details as it used only 8 lenses:

http://inspirehep.net/record/1278457

Previously on HN with some good comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10991628
Which is how they have always measured it, as far as I am unaware. While you may not like the measurement, this allows you to make actual comparisons to past years data, instead of comparing two different metrics.
Who are the morons using document.write?! SHOOT THEM
This is part of the wider issue of who is responsible for driverless cars.
I buy insurance for a car that I drive, and the company charges me based on risk factors (age, where I live, how often I drive, etc) and the driver alone is ultimately responsible for the actions of the car. If I hit someone I am responsible and liable, if I'd been drinking I am prosecuted and the family of whoever I hit has a focal point to blame.
But with a driverless car there is none of that, where is the agency, I may have asked the car to take me from A to B, but would it be valid for me to be held liable for actions the car takes on the route that I have no control over?
This almost leads to fatalism, there will be people injured and killed, but there is literally nothing we can do to predict when or where these incidents will occur. I agree that there may be a strict statistical case for them, but I can see why it will be very hard to get past the human aversion to them.
Show HN: Learn SQL with Confidence
She needs to talk to a social worker because she is not claiming all her senior benefits. First the minimal SSI is 733, a bit above her regular SS check. Second, she automatically qualifies for almost free medicaid.

Plus when you qualify for either of these its easier to get other poverty benefits like food stamps, housing assistance and a free cell phone.

Sometimes people go into victim-pity mode and dont claim everything available.
I've never taken an economics class so forgive me, but hypothetically, what would the effects be if everyone was given citizenship today? All jobs in agriculture, construction, services, etc. would require minimum wages and benefits and the costs of many basic things would increase drastically. Imported produce would be much cheaper than domestic, making it ineffective for farmers here to compete. That would severely reduce the number of agricultural jobs here, further reducing the low skill labor market. What do you do with all these people, who now qualify for unemployment insurance? Not to mention that low income people can no longer afford basic goods and services, and housing prices would go up.

Perhaps I'm way off base, but would appreciate some clarification on these issues.
I presume you mean "we don't currently work with startups". This is more of a financial issue than an ideological, enterprise only issue, right?

I'm assuming if Grail (http://www.grailbio.com/) who launched in 2016 with $100,000,000 in funding were knocking at your door you would be more than happy to work with them?
Typical left-leaning article. In the totality of law enforcement shootings, the vast majority of people have been white, 26% have been black, the rest a mix.

Black Lives Matter is a false narrative.

Blacks make up 13% of the US population, but have a disproportionate percentage of young men involved in crimes. Young black men have no family life. As of 2016, 79% of all black children are born to unwed mothers. Those children grow up with no father present in the household.

No father equals MASSIVE instability. The ideal is a man and woman raising children together. Blacks lack this.

In almost every one of these shootings, after the dust settles, it's learned that the person shot had a record, had a warrant, was wanted for other crimes, was carrying an illegal or stolen knife or gun. The recent Charlotte incident showed the man was carrying a gun that was both stolen and illegal for him to possess as he was already a felon.

I've no problem with peaceful protests, but when your civil rights are no longer being civil, you lose your civil rights. If you start looting or damaging property, you get shot and deservedly so.

It's come to light in Charlotte that quite a few of the black people being arrested have out-of-state driver's licenses. This shows a growing trend. That the violence and looting are not organic. The local are being agitated by outside influences.

This is all being done by people with money, like a certain rich Hungarian in bed with certain high-level Democrats in this country. None of this is accidental. Professional agitators were found to be active in Ferguson, Charlotte, Baltimore, NYC, you name it.

Were I in charge and you were looting, I'd turn a tractor-trailer load of German Shepherds on you. Time to take off the gloves. Notice that in Russia, this never happens. Like him or hate him, but Vladimir Putin keeps a tight reign on civil discourse and political activities by the populace. People can peacefully protest, but when they start to act violently, they need to be quelled very quickly.
I believe part of what the author was trying to lead to is that the housing crash/current situation has more people electing to rent then buy homes, so the demand for renting is down. I don't think she was arguing to bring back the shitty loans for the poor, just that more people are renting.
You'd be absolutely shocked at how little a vast majority of Americans are in interested in paying taxes to improve their communities from the smallest to the largest. I don't really get it because I've lived here my whole life and you can pretty much 100% guarantee the more a locality taxes their populace the better the quality of life is, at least in the states. I live in a town (Boulder, CO) where this isn't the case and it's such a breath of fresh air.

There's such a prevalent "the federal government is less efficient than private business" attitude it's mind blowing. This despite the fact that in any area where public competes with private public wins here every single time (ISPs, Infrastructure, Criminal Justice, etc)

edit. oh yeah and the army of "well at least the poor here aren't literally dying of starvation en masse"
well it helps them to talk down about American and over exaggerate the issues here so they can ignore what they don't want to see at home.

There are enough horror stories everywhere that people fail to acknowledge, first world problems pale in comparison what people suffer in the non Western worlds. From complete lack of some basics we considering necessary to every day threats to their lives and property, should they even have the ability own anything.
They mention upper middle class. Should not the middle class have access to home ownership. Other than that I agree that across the western world there is an unhealthy obsession with homeownership.

I live in Norway and I am just waiting for housing market to come crashing down. I am a homeowner but I really don't want to be one. It is just that the economic incentives created by the tax system makes it stupid to rent. It shouldn't be like that because it causes an over-investment in property and runaway prices. Countries like Germany which has not been so overly focused on home ownership has much healthier housing prices.

If feel like Russian roulette. You got to figure out that right time to pull out and go renting before everything comes crashing down. But if you pull out too early you pay a heavy premium and getting into the housing market will be so much more difficult in the future with even higher prices.

Makes you wonder about the whole free market pricing. Back in my parents day the whole housing market was socialist. Government set the prices. As any socialist system, it caused a lot of waiting lines to get housing, but man it was so much cheaper. Despite making way more money than my parents did, they could afford a much bigger house than I can today.

The free market seems very poor at stopping asset bubbles. I think we need a new way of handling assets in the market.
> I'm an ENTP

top bantz
They're microcontrollers, almost certainly written in C, which is compiled to a firmware binary and installed on the chip's flash storage.
Not to nitpick, but do you think points #1 and #2 had to do with the adoption of TCP/IP vs IPX/SPX?
Seems reasonable to me. The government should be held accountable for those atrocities.
Not quite the same, but I found out a few months back that when I was promoted last year HR wrote it down as a demotion.
document.write('<script src="https://example.com/script.js"></script>');

Since when is this valid? Last I recall, you had to break up the `</script>` end tag into two strings.

I think a better solution to this problem would be to remove `document.write` completely. It's useless. In all cases, you're better off using something else.
Was about to ask the same question. I haven't heard of Barman 1.0 before.
I will not be that sad.
1) When you drop everything you are doing to mentor other developers

2) When you get asked by the business to do something you question what they are asking and the motivation, and then determine the best course of action based on their motivation rather than delivering the specific task they asked.

That's it really, it's nothing to do with your coding ability but more to do with your mentoring ability and problem solving skills. This is what is valuable to your colleagues and the business. Any answer related to coding ability is missing the point, it's important, but after a few years most people are the same programming level - it's just some people can help at the team or business level which is what makes you senior.
Can anyone comment on how well the Debian template works for Qubes?

The last time I used Qubes it was pretty much Fedora-only, which I'm not as comfortable with and it was one of the reasons I don't really use it at the moment.
Well, found below code in https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js

function getScript(src) {
document.write('<' + 'script src="' + src + '"><' + '/script>');
}
Some Like It Bot: Algorithms are getting better at entertaining us
I disagree with the sentiment that it's just a type.

I understand that you don't need much plumbing, but you're still following a pattern that you have used elsewhere when working on these.

The beauty is that there's usually exactly one way of doing it (so by definition it is the simplest way). But if you're coming from a language based around mutability and are just in front of an Haskell REPL, I don't think you find this very easily.

In my mind patterns are about agreed-upon architectures for dealing with common issues. Another example that comes to mind in typed FP languages are wrapper types to prevent misuse of values (wrapping user input, unwrapping via "escape" calls).

When you have a problem, usually you'll have one or two canonical solutions come to mind. Those are the patterns for me.

Though given how simple everything usually is, it involves a lot less boilerplate. Choosing the right type is still essential.
> Free monads permit unlimited introspection and transformation of the structure of your program; Free monads allow minimal specification of each semantic layer, since performance can be optimized via analysis and transformation.

That is not true and this overselling of the Free monad is hurting the concept.

The Free monad is nothing more than the flatMap/bind operation, specified as a data-structure, much like how a binary-search tree describes binary search. And this means an imposed ordering of operations and loss of information due to computations being suspended by means of functions.

You see, if the statement I'm disagreeing with would be true, then you'd be able to build something like .NET LINQ on top of Free. But you can't.
I've heard libertarian describe many viewpoints to be honest, so people's gut reaction can be quite confusing.

On the one hand, I've heard the term "libertarian" applied to what could also be called a classic liberal position (ala Adam Smith), which favors minimal government interference but recognizes the need for government structure for many things. (In which case, a decentralized government could be part of such a vision.)

On the other hand, I've heard the term "libertarian" applied to what also is called anarchism, which favors no government at all because reasons / The Man or something. I've also heard libertarian being used to describe what I would call fascist-capitalism (if you are the type of "libertarians" who also hates democracy, you possibly fall in this category).

The former I personally find naive, the later I find repulsive, and neither frankly has much to do with the Adam Smith position at all.
Bottom 10% in US live considerably better than OECD bottom 10% average (#4 of OECD countries) and better than top 10% in a lot of countries [0]. Perhaps that's what drive the optimism in the US.

[0] http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/05/daily-c...
Fly-Along Companions Offer a Way for Older People to Travel
Why do you think "well it's worse other places" is some sort of defense for our callous handling of our social safety nets? All while every other industrialized nation shows a better way (see: Healthcare)
Or, rather than have to give you a promotion HR said, "hey, let's just make them think they were always a Senior Engineer this whole time!"
Year ago there were still many POS (point-of-sale) computers at retail stores running with "Subiekt 4" in my town in Poland. I even saw one in supermarket.

DOS program from 1995. http://www.netsetup.pl/s4/img/Image2.gif Connected to old EPSON parallel-port dot matrix printer (those printers were still surprisingly expensive).

I remember editing "Subiekt 4" to change VAT tax from 22% to 23%. 22% tax was hardcoded. Over years there were many more tricks to keep it running, for example "Hyperthreading disabler" program.

Year ago they were still running it in Dosbox but now it's migrated to "Subiekt GT".

I prefer old DOS program because it was easier to copy, just xcopy program folder to pendrive. New version uses MSSQL, and you have to reinstall and activate online. And database sometimes breaks.
Thanks for the pointer. I'm already using BEAM in a project, so that wouldn't be a bridge too far for that one...
They seem to be offering their services for cases just like that, so if you throw some money at them they will probably give you what you need.
I guess it is a great time to start researching basic income and other new economic aproaches for society.
In my experience, it depends on what the criticality of the issue actually is, and whether it's an improvement or whether it corrects a defect. I'm reminded constantly that our job isn't to drink coffee and crap code, but that our work is done within the context of a larger organization. We may not like some of the compromises we make for our coworkers but we need them to do their jobs as much as they need us. To do something properly, it behooves us to consider their professional needs as much as our own.
The New Face of Immigration Is Changing the Housing Market
The Next Industrial Revolution Could Put Millions Out of Work
... Just as every other ones
If 1/3 of population is >50 years old, a random subset of this population is expected to have 1/3 of >50 years old as well. After reading this title, one could get an impression that this part is un-proportionally big, which is not.
In theory, if you have two GPUs you can assign one to your gaming-vm via PCI-passthrough and use the other GPU for the rest of your computer. Then you could either use different monitors for gaming and normal work or connect both GPUs via a hardware switch to the same monitor(s).

In practise there are some issues with the specifics (like the XEN version and patchset), so it's not a turnkey solution (yet).

As long as you are only playing casually: I vaguely remember a HN article about someone using steam's inbuilt streaming and running the games on AWS GPU spot instances, at a significantly cheaper price than building an equivalent gaming pc.
Live 3D Visualization of a WebRTC P2P Network
Cosmic JavaScript Product Tour: API-First Cloud-Based CMS
This was around when Numpy and Scipy were taking off. Pandas, scikit learn, theano, started development soon after.
This is a big leap for Machine Learning in R. R keeps moving forward in so many ways. We now have native dplyr into Spark and now a TensorFlow library from RStudio.
I don't think so because I remember in 1994 that many companies were running Microsoft NETBIOS. Microsoft was already winning the server war before TCPIP became the default choice in the late 1990s. At one time, I remember having to install extra software (Hummingbird?) to get a usable TCPIP stack on MS Windows. However, I don't remember exactly which version of Microsoft Windows I had to do that.
It wasn't as big 7 years ago. I don't get what's so hard about this to understand? The statistic grew from ~25% to 33%. This is noteworthy.
The colour and settings remind me of the movie "Brazil".
Both AWS and Spring have changed and grown a lot over the years. Spring Boot is pretty much a reinvention of the Spring developer experience and Spring 5 will be pushing reactive programming into the limelight.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal. So do many members of the core Spring team.
Wakefield is no longer a Doctor... quit calling him one.
"Hands up who wants to trust their health to the untested assertions of a pharmaceutical company"

Well, that depends. Do I have a mild case of acne, or am I dying of cancer? My willingness to try an untested drug is likely to be very different in those two scenarios.
The UN plans to launch its first space mission five years from now