skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. A paid off home is a social safety net against homelessness for an entire family and many of their social circles. Even if all of them are unemployed, all of them have a roof over their heads.

The state provides this safety net in Germany. When both my parents were unemployed, we didn't have to move out of our apartment. The unemployment benefits were enough to pay the rent.

> 2. A paid-off home frees up cash flow. It allows the owner to divert his earnings into other activities or investments or reduce the amount he has to earn monthly.

Having to pay off a home binds cash flow at first, compared to renting.

> 3. Real estate can be borrowed against. Try that with stocks. If you are an entrepreneur, your home is likely the asset you will use to acquire bank financing for your business.

Can you borrow against a house you have not paid off yet? I think you shouldn't be able to, since the house is already a security for your mortgage. If you use your money to buy a house and then borrow to start a business, that seems horribly inefficient to me.

> 4. With unskilled / low-skilled jobs vanishing left and right, homebuilding is one of the few markets which still relies entirely on a giant low-skilled workforce. It's one of the few sectors that can keep a lot of people productively employed. I think there are valid arguments against stimulating homebuilding to reduce unemployment among low-skill workers, but there is nevertheless a societal logic here.

Houses are still being built when everyone rents, they are just large apartment complexes. In Germany, the low-skilled workers you are concerned about are mostly immigrants from poorer countries in Europe, they would move somewhere else if the housing industry stopped employing them.

> 5. In a time when wealth is centralizing as never before, investments in real estate distributes wealth locally. I think there are valid arguments against public policy to distribute wealth, but there is a societal logic here.

In Germany, the state distributes wealth directly. (see 1.)

> 6. Finally: taxing a home is very counterproductive to the well-being of the middle class and the poor. I'm sure in Germany the interest on a mortgage isn't tax deductible as you say, but I'd also guess that steps are taken to refund the property taxes for the lower classes. Otherwise you simply tax the poor out of their homes - a form of confiscation.

You are assuming the poor own their homes to begin with, this is not usually the case in Germany
Or if Python's your thing: http://www.kylem.net/stuff/sieve_eratosthenes.html
they should focus on being THE platform for key influencers, "thought leaders" and celebrities, mover-and-shaker types, kind of like Yahoo did with Katie Couric!
I mean, if you like Scala, you'll most likely like Kotlin, there are a LOT of similarities between the two.
I don't think many people still use anything other than their phones for portable music players. Doesn't make sense to carry another device.

Heck, lots of people given up on compact cameras, where phones are still (and will be for the foreseeable future) subpar in quality, and they will carry another device just for music that doesn't really add anything?
I cook with more peppers when I feel indicators of a possible cold or flu. It seems to help. I have also read claims of it eroding arterial plaque and lowering cholesterol. Only non-suspect study a quick Goog turned up was a NIH study on lowering cholesterol on rabbits(it did!).
Rising Inequality: Barclays Warns ‘Politics of Rage’ Will Slow Global Growth
Algiers was nice in every way. Wish I could have read a book over tea there one last time.
I'm not part of the group that wrote the paper. I'm just a guy on the internet.
Show HN: Wardrobe services for engineers
I still use my classic 5th gen with Wolfson DAC daily - it's plugged into my car. My hard drive did fail and I found a guy on eBay that took out my hard drive and replaced with 500gb ssd card. All lossless, all the time. It's awesome and extremely light too.
Who’s Accountable When an Algorithm Makes a Bad Decision?
"mpv -speed 1.1 file.webm" ... get 10% of your watching things time back, it does pitch correction, often its unnoticeable.

Technology can work in your favor too!
Yeah - there's a ton of immutable URLs on the web. All of CDNJS/JSDelivr/Google Hosted Libraries, most of raw.github.com, all Imgur & Instagram images, all YouTube video streams (excluding annotations & subtitles), and all torrent file caching sites (like itorrents.org). There are probably some large ones I'm forgetting about, but just mapping immutable URLs to IPFS could probably cover 1/3rd of Internet traffic.

Check out https://github.com/ipfs/archives to learn more.
interesting - but why would i use jsonlogic instead of javascript ?
In 1994, I registered bikeworld.com and helped my dad put his local bicycle store chain online. It was wild from day one. We didn't even have a proper shopping cart for the first few months--you had to fax or email your order and credit card--but the orders just came in. I was fresh out of the early days of Silicon Valley dotcom startups and I begged my dad to let us take some VC money and go big with this thing. I wanted to do a printed catalog (all the big players did one at this time) and hire some marketing people and front end designers.

Dad wouldn't have it. He had run this successful brick and mortar business since 1971 and there was just no way that he was going to trade away ownership for cash to get growth that he didn't want. The stores afforded him amonthly draw that supported him and paid for a nice house and the freedom to pursue his hobbies. He was in his early fifties and all of the tough years taught him to recognize the good thing he had.

It was a great lesson for me and his experience as a businessman is a big part of the reason why I never pursued entrepreneurship myself, opting instead for the stable life of a salaryman.
Thankfully a wikipedia editor has categorised the various articles based on the scale mentioned in the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale#Capsicum_pepper...

ie. bird's eye chilis 100,000–225,000 SHU vs ghost pepper 1,041,427 SHU
> You have to actually make something good in order to get customers to come back.

Well, that's not strictly true, is it? You have to make something which actually feels good. And iPods definitely ended up doing that.
Main> majscale

[(1,1),(9,8),(5,4),(4,3),(3,2),(5,3),(15,8),(2,1)]

Main> map (\(x,y) -> (432.0 * (fromIntegral x)) / (fromIntegral y)) majscale

[432.0,486.0,540.0,576.0,648.0,720.0,810.0,864.0]

That's pretty cool. The whole major scale comes out as whole numbers in just intonation. (In 12-tone equal temperament it doesn't, because 12TET uses the 12th root of 2 as a uniform division of the octave.) This looks like your explanation isn't just a neat trick, it's likely to be the reason why 432hz was proposed as a standard in the first place.

Main> let scale = [(1,1),(16,15),(10,9),(9,8),(6,5),(5,4),(4,3),(45,32),(3,2),(8,5),(5,3),(15,8),(9,5),(15,8),(2,1)]

Main> map (\(x,y) -> (432.0 * (fromIntegral x)) / (fromIntegral y)) scale

[432.0,460.8,480.0,486.0,518.4,540.0,576.0,607.5,648.0,691.2,720.0,810.0,777.6,810.0,864.0]

..and if we construct a more chromatic scale, not all of them come out quite as whole numbers, but we don't have any repeating decimals or anything like that (though we would if we included weirder intervals like 8/7). Nice.

edit: This works for a just major scale constructed starting from A. If you construct a scale from a different root note, it might not work out quite as cleanly.
In this case, what was the initial innovation that was at least as important as the iPod? Who made it?
I don't follow you. Are you saying that if I detune my guitar enough, then it will grow an extra fret?
Why stop at one?
Fuck Marry or Kill Zoie Burgher, Amanda Cerny, Jenna Marbles, Navanin Kavari
>If we're assuming the existence of non-sucky smart glasses or contact lenses [1], why exactly would anyone use a smart watch?

For the same reasons we use smartwatches with our phones today. It's more plausible they'd fit a great cpu, cellular phone, gps, etc on a watch size, than they'd fit it in a decent glass frame.

So the watch could handle most things, plus there are interactions that can't be done with glasses (like measuring one's heart rate, or similar).
Someone else mentioned targeted display ads already, but Twitter also licenses their full data set to Google (and others) previously for millions.

1 - http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/05/googles-slippery-slope-if-...
Steve Jobs deserves a great deal of respect but I do think you're forgetting the less great parts. They had lackluster updates, products which went years too long without a meaningful update (e.g. all laptops for the half decade prior to the Intel switch), the iTunes UI started getting worse in every release around the early 2000s, until a few years ago their attitude about security was borderline negligence, they shamelessly ignored long-standing customers who kept them alive through the dark years[1], and every cloud service they offered until the last year or two was a user-hostile disaster.

The key, of course, is that a few big wins make up for a lot of that but the other side of that lesson is that most people will do better with consistent solid execution rather than spreading themselves too thin trying for a huge win. Apple could easily have been Palm or SGI if one of those long-shots hadn't paid off.

1. Our Apple higher-ed rep used to respond to critical bug reports by asking how many Macs we couldn't purchase due to that bug.
There are several different Clipper beeps:

* One beep - successfully paid fare

* Two beeps (different) - successfully paid fare, and you're about to run out of money on your card

* Two beeps (equal) - tagged off (e.g. on Caltrain or San Francisco Bay Ferry)

* Three beeps - read error or insufficient value

There might be others. Indeed, they've introduced a quieter "here is a Clipper reader" beep to help visually impaired people locate them: https://vimeo.com/183916243
Why couldn't the attacker page pass on the 2fa token immediately to Google and log in as the victim? Then the attacker would have a month or so, not 30 seconds, with which to abuse their account
All of their strings are fairly mellow sounding. If Rotosound/Yes is your style, you might not like the Thomastik sound. But they are very low-tension and flexible!
As I write this I see 92,108 reasons why they did this, plus a lot of us talking about it. It simply works for some projects and they took the chance that it would work for theirs, and if it didn't, it would of just cost them some time and whatever that video cost them.
>People wear traditional watches to bed because they have waterproof watches and couldn't be bothered with taking them off

What does the watch being waterproof have to do with wearing it in bed?
Sam Altman interview on Mixergy
People love to waste their time talking about high sampling rate audio whos effects can't be demonstrated in blind listening tests.

At least people can actually hear the difference between a=432Hz and a=440Hz. :)
A social annotating website?
And even that isn't good enough when you get mitmd.
It also makes the deserts' relative cold months more tolerable. Probably not a good idea in northerly parts where sweating on a sub-0 day/night might be a hazard.
Is this true? At least within the niche of security and crypto academia, I find Twitter to be a very useful tool.
I'd rather play Doom I on Phobos than Doom III anywhere...

In all seriousness, though, complaining about gravity not being right when you're fighting demons and your health is a percentage number? Gravity is the least of the 'real-world' concerns. It's just a gameplay device like any other.

Has there ever been a hospital drama where the doctors are frantically running around saying things like "Quick! This man is down to 12% health and falling rapidly!"?
Been considering the same problem here - how to allow some sort of user-defined rules/ logic flow? The UI is indeed more difficult to (well) do than the data representation of said rules. Anything you can share?
I believe that eventually software development may move in general to structured serializations rather than plain text. The main thing holding that back is just that programming is defined by cryptic colored text and they are afraid they won't look technical enough if they don't stick to that. I am a programmer myself btw and of course I use text editors.
Good suggestion on how you should focus on technology that's 12-24 months out, and not more.
We should invest resources empowering people that have a higher chance of advancing our society.

Just like people believe that a guaranteed minimum income --or other forms of arbitrary wealth distribution-- is not a good idea because it encourages people to work less, this would be the same thing but across generations.
But that makes no sense--if you want high social mobility (and you think college grads should be paid more), you want both those numbers to be lower. The article treats it as a problem that they're similar.
I'm used to seeing junk on Fb and constantly ignore it; I don't think Twitter suffers from that.
Dunno about people in general but I build up a tolerance to chilli surprisingly quickly. It's not about eating super hot things, but about eating things with a nice warmth on a regular basis. Over the course of a month I can go from "jalapenos are hot" to "a forkful of habanero is nice" with little increase in subjective heat, and then if I stop eating spicy food for a couple of weeks it'll reset back to the start.
They are liable in the sense that they report to a board chosen by their investors. So if I bought or invested in company XYZ at a valuation that assumed a lot of growth and company XYZ suddenly stopped pursuing that growth I would probably vote out current management. So yes most companies are beholden to investors; don't raise money if you don't want a new boss.
Look into the business process management, workflow engines, projection editors (Intentional Domain Workbench).
Allowing user-defined rules comes to mind. AFAIK `eval()`-ing user input is can't be done in a safe way. Probably OK on browser but not on the server.
Let's Refactor Some Bad Code: Part 2
Sounds like NYC as well. So where do all the cool kids go now?
The US could use such an OS to run healthcare.gov.
Garry is bar none one of the best investors I've ever had the privilege to have worked with. Garry is down to earth and a great advisor. Highly recommend working with Garry to any entrepreneurs.
The main problem with healthcare is it is still semi-tied to employment/employers. There should be huge breaks to take out independent insurance not breaks for companies to offer it.

Tying health insurance to a company is an ancient and legacy system that needs to go away. It makes entrepreneurship much more difficult and leads to things like ageism and making it difficult to change jobs or start companies.

We don't get other insurance from our company, not auto, not life, not home, why the hell do we bind our most important insurance to employment?

ACA was a start in that you can now actually get coverage (though not that great). In 2010 when I went fulltime on my business I got denied for about a year, under 30 and barely ever used healthcare. The same companies I was insured under at fulltime jobs wouldn't cover me individually. I was blown away and a bit scared, I knew then how bad the system before ACA was and it isn't much better now.

The main cause of price disparity and risk is tying it to employment, we take the costs and hide them in insurance and employers backroom dealings, noone knows what anything costs because noone pays it directly.

We need insurance companies to be consumer facing not employer facing, we need new competition in new insurance companies that are like that (more like Geico, Progressive, Nationwide for health not just auto rather than these employer focused companies in Aetna and Bluecross et al).

We need to unlink healthcare from a job! It is becoming easier to start companies in any country where healthcare is not part of the normal benefits of a job. In the US we could start by making it illegal eventually to provide healthcare from a job (but providing extra money for it is ok). Eventually people will move to independent insurance or some public system like medicare for all. That way when you leave your job or start a company, it doesn't involve a heavy burden/risk on your health and insurance.

Side note, every year since ACA has started I get my plan cancelled at the end of the year. They have rules in raising rates so they just end the plan and force you to jump on a new one. So every holiday season I get the joy of signing up to another freaking plan. I have no idea how this doesn't add tons of admin costs across the board. What a waste. And you can only join on enrollment not like every other insurance ever in that you can join at any time. The current insurance companies are trying to kill ACA and they were not setup to be independent insurance companies, we need better competition and a directive to remove healthcare from employment. Health insurance is the most non-independent and non-consumer friendly product in the US because it has never seen a real market, it is largely an employers service not individual consumer service.
The Nomad was pretty much just a rebranded Samsung Yepp YP-D40.

It had 64MB of flash storage and a parallel port connector compared to the 5GB and Firewire 400 that the iPod had, the Nomad/Yepp YP-D40 was fairly decent compared to a lot of the crap that was out there, but it didn't deserve a premium price.
The issue is one simple item: "When you take someone's money, their priorities are now your priorities"

If you can bootstrap your business with 30k and make a 20k profit every month, then why do you need 1 million dollars from investors?

When you take the money, it's just a golden handcuff and ties you to that person for the future. If your business lasts longer than 20 years, that may as well be an additional marriage with kids.
> I wish it had won out, it was superior in every way

Uh, a 64MB SD card is a lot smaller than a 5GB hard drive. The iPod stored 93x more songs. If the SV-SD80 had been able to store 1000 songs instead of ~11 songs, then navigating them would not have worked at all. The iPod was in an entirely different market.
Are you still using it? If not, what did you switch to for expressive, "fast" (faster than python) language?
Wow, not to distract but my mind is completely blown by how completely unusable that website is on mobile while not obviously broken. The sharing widget makes it completely impossible to read.
Cialdini is a salesman with credentials who's spent most of his time studying good salesmen and selling other salesmen on the idea of learning how to sell better.

At the end of his big bestseller Influence, he goes into a long-winded moralization about how he hopes his work helps people resist the terrible influence of immoral salesmanship... for example by being mindful of the "secret weapons" of Social Proof and Authority and Scarcity.

of course, he writes this in a book (a NATIONAL BESTSELLER as it says on the cover) that is literally covered in testimonials and promotional blurbs from "thought leaders" with credentials, mainstream publications like HBR and Fortune, praising Cialdini, PHD for revealing "little known secrets of Master Influencers" yada yada yada.
> But unless the music also contains some 1Hz modulation (or a power-of-two multiple thereof) then the 432 base frequency isn't related to anything fundamental in musical terms.

Presumably the music's timing is based on seconds, though, right? That might conceivably mean that primeness could potentially matter. I don't really think that it does, mind. But I'm not so quick to think that it doesn't, either.
Hah, pretty much!
I don't see the big deal. It's just a restaurant, it will be replaced by another one, and even if not why does it matter?
Facebook is the new FedEx. Name a technology, Facebook's probably using it!
How to Retrieve Deleted Contacts After Android Factory Reset
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/927/
Not to mention the lack of certain titles on MacOS.
I'm not sure about its identity but think that it's helpful to see annotated json file e.g. configuration https://annot.io/github.com/mattermost/platform/blob/master/...
Speaking of Metal, understanding the rationale behind keeping a non-interoperable API with other ecosystems couldn't help me from expecting a revolutionary universal low-level graphics API. I've suffered long enough in the GL madness to lose my sanity.
My sense is that while Twitter has been able to hire some very talented engineers (incl. but not limited to those I know personally), the high-level technical leadership hasn't been particularly successful.

Is there room for an independent 'moonshot' team reporting directly to the board?
But what if the code was just the same as the data. The code could process other code as if it were just data.

What would THAT language be like?
Sibling rivalry is a serious condition where your young child is trying to harm or murder your new baby.
Nice. I've wanted to do something like this, as I have a theory about the car pool lanes being worse for traffic. When traffic is bad, car pool lanes are just as backed up typically.

When someone wants to get in the car pool lane upon entering the highway, they tend to do so fairly quickly. This can cause a shockwave as someone flies from one side of the highway to the other. The same thing can happen in the opposite direction when a carpool lane driver needs to get off, and this issue is compounded even more since you can't always (legally) exit the carpool lane.

So I thought it'd be interesting to play with a simulator like this, add/remove carpool lanes, or lanes altogether, and see what results.
Don't be gullible. They have no proof that Russia performed those hacks (I assume because you're on HN you understand that it is impossible to trace those attacks, and that identity is easily spoofed on the internet).
It's a pretty big gap between "don't treat preemies who might be perfectly normal once stabilized" (case in point: my kids) and "you should think about not giving a kid a death sentence" that CF entails.
It's a common misconception that Haskell is slow to compile but not really true, see for example: http://www.shimweasel.com/2016/10/24/fast-tests-and-static-l...
> Enjoying extreme spiciness has nothing to do with enjoying food.

Thanks, finally an honest answer to this question. This I can get on board with.
While I do that (it's the only time I have anyways), I also gotta mention that it did reduce some of my sleep, especially after White Christmas, that one really got to me.
Pebble is rather good, I would say it is easily the best price:quality smartwatch available out there.
This question gets asked regularly, and every time Facebook's spam detection service, Standard Chartered's (never-seen) codebase, and maybe one or two other firms that no one's ever heard of get invoked. These are seemingly the only examples.
Source code is a structured serialization. And it also happens to be plain text.

Edit: or were you referring to data rather than logic?
This is fantastic news for entrepreneurs everywhere.

Garry has been instrumental to the success of my company from the earliest days when we were back in YC W11 through to the present day - I'm so excited for all the new founders who will get an opportunity to work with him as a result of this new fund. Garry is not only an extremely kind person, extremely smart,but also completely understands what it means to have ups and downs as a startup since he's been there and helped hundreds of other companies through those ups and downs. So when you need someone in your corner he's there every step of the way. If you're an early stage founder I couldn't recommend Initialized and Garry more highly - super excited for what Garry and team are going to build.