skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could also look at it the other way and say you have sunk costs either way, either on rent or on running costs for your (owned) property: mortgage interest, property taxes, maintenance, opportunity cost for your down payment.

The question is how do you invest the extra leftover money: in home equity tied to the property with running costs, or in other investments (stocks, bonds, your own business)?
The idea that owning a home is a great investment is an article of faith, not evidence.

Imagine if large public companies owned most of the housing stock and rather than buying a house you invested in these companies. Instead of bearing all the location and liquidity risk of owning a house, you would spread that risk over large numbers of markets. In fact being stuck owning a house in an unfavorable market can keep someone from moving, which reduces labor mobility.
I would actually argue with on on the iPod. Back when they came out digital music players were still considered a kind of cutting-edge gadget, not something you'd expect a random punter to carry. It was in many ways the iPod's success that created that environment.
There has been a "hertz" war in the bagpipe world for the past 200 years with the pitch raising steadily higher over the decades. Ancient pipes' "A" were historically tuned at 440hz, but modern pipes are tuned around 476-480hz!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe
A lot of those are significant though, EQ maintains relationship to pitch and tone, delay is directly related to rhythm, etc. The main issue is that most of these are relative to inputs, etc, with a few exceptions.

Edit: An exception would be trying to 'fatten' the sound of an acoustic guitar and using a 25-35ms delay, which puts it close enough that it's not perceivable as a delay, but will provide a noticeable effect on the tone of the guitar.
Clearly that is the medical code for being struck by a Mahi-mahi, which can reach nearly 60lbs and travel at speeds above 55mph.
/end sarcasm
It's just that I know how I work and it would not fit my model. If I have a problem to be solved I sometimes just go for a walk with my dog thinking about solutions. The client knows about that and is fine with it.

> TopTal

I had my bad experience with their application process as a developer.

I also have the other perspective as I have hired some devs from their and they do great work!
Wiki says:

"The genus Zanthoxylum belongs in the rue or citrus family, and, despite its name, is not closely related to either black pepper or chili pepper."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_pepper
32 things you shouldn’t say to your boss
Yep, let's include that as well!
I purchased the top bluetooth headphones reviewed on Wirecutter, and they were so preposterously bad that my only possible conclusion was that the reviews weren't objective. My friend had the same experience with same headphones (JLab Epic).
There's a lot of conclusions being drawn here and not much data analysis.

Just going off the chart, it seems that poor college grads are more likely to be in the top half of the income distribution, while rich college dropouts are more likely to be in the bottom half. Isn't that good news as far as social mobility goes?
Our team was just hit with this:

const x = Object.freeze([
{id: 1, value: 'foo'},
{id: 2, value: 'bar'},
{id: 3, value: 'baz'},
])

...

//Bug in the code
x[0].value = 'test'

First comment on the bug report was:

'This shouldn't be possible as the array is const and frozen'.

their data structure is poorly suited to be immutable

An array of object seems completely reasonable. Even an array of objects, where those objects themselves have keys which are objects/arrays doesn't seem unreasonable.

We'll just have to agree to disagree.
Maritime archaeologists discovered 40 ancient shipwrecks in the Black Sea
This will not be at all well-received here, but in the interest of answering the question earnestly:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/2hczx1/adolf_hi...
DARPA’s robo-boat tests parasailing radar
AWESOME NEWS!!! Very fortunate to call Adrian a friend, truly an incredibly kind and generous human. He gave me a lot of really good advice when I was working at DigitalOcean, so I can only imagine how much of a benefit he will be to AWS. Awesome awesome awesome.
preparing food is one of the more social activities and one which people have been doing together since before they called themselves people. maybe you should try changing how you go about it?
The "us vs. them" attitude that appears to be underlying this article in my opinion largely is to blame for these problems.

Engineers often don't respect business and look down on management.

Instead of learning to talk and - more importantly - understand the language of business, developers frequently don't care about business requirements at all. Hence, more often than not they're not taken seriously and don't get to have a say about the direction a software product is going to take.

Instead of pushing back against unreasonable requirements or questioning why a particular requirement is even necessary in the first place, many developers resign themselves to acting passive-aggressively and keeping their mouths shut.

Why don't more software developers found their own companies if they're legitimately unhappy about their work environments? Why is it that often companies founded by software developers end up being the worst offenders in this respect?

It's also cherished, enshrined principles like 'reusability' that can lead to over-engineering and consequently both a deterioration in quality and failure to meet business requirements. As an engineer you should always be asking yourself: "Does what I'm about to implement have any merit or do I just think it does? Am I perhaps even just doing this as an exercise of proving how clever I am?"
others are good programmers who will trample invariants to get this week's feature done.

That doesn't sound like good programmers tbh
> How does a physical repository of human knowledge defend itself against this?

Multiple copies stored in multiple diverse locations in multiple ways.
This becomes the chilling effect that one must never criticize their former employers, regardless of what happened or how one feels; they are to be treated as above reproach. Which is exactly the worry.
Denial is proof. At least when discussing sensitive topics such as racism. So we can agree that there's at least a possiblity > 0% the US State Dept. might have twisted an Ecuadorian arm or two?
What was your experience like?
And if it did, how would that work or operate?
Regulating IoT is going to be impossible when tiny little devices can be shipped undeclared. Even if it could be policed effectively it would destroy the economics of some of these cheaper devices.

Instead, how about ISP supplied modems/routers have sensible defaults(and have the admin password reset)?

Much more cost effective.
Why Iceland is the best place in the world to be a woman?
You are my new hero.

I've become interested in Lisp every couple of years. This fall I even learned Clojure and implemented a Lisp interpreter in Python. I searched a lot for any open-source Lisp implementation in assembly, but found none. Here it is!

I thought a lot about bootstrapping, too, since apparently almost every compiler is written in C these days. Somewhere I got the idea that in the 1970s someone wrote a compiler in assembly and that was used to bootstrap the first C compiler. Guess I'm a romantic, but for me it's important that we know how to get where we are now. Having a high-level language implemented in assembly is quite essential to that, IMO.
If you want to be a visionary, go out and have some accidents!
When I was about 10, I was down in Mexico doing some volunteer work. Someone gave me a small green pepper. I bit into it, and it was incredibly juicy. I remember feeling a burst of stars in my mouth, a short pleasant flavor, numbness, and then a feeling like a firecracker went off in my mouth. I drank a lot of water, but my mouth burned for a solid hour.
It really depends on where you live. I live outside of Philadelphia. My mortgage, taxes and insurance is less than $1200 dollars for a 3 bedroom house. I'd pay at least $1200 to rent a crappy 2 bedroom apartment and rent just keeps going up around here. Consider, even If my homes value stays completely static (according to Zillow it went up a 5 percent this year), in ten years time I will be paying considerably less mortgage than what that apartment will rent for.
Don't you know that the "Fuck you, pay me" crede only applies to tech workers.
A quick google search brought this up, which might be accurate[1]. It suggests that 2020 is when it is supposed to be enacted now. The Wikipedia article [2] seems less concrete about it, other than to say that there's bipartisan support for not implementing it.

[1] http://www.cigna.com/health-care-reform/cadillac-tax

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_insurance_plan
Stop doing it for nothing
Of course I won't contest that, but Snowden's revelations did nothing to change that knowledge.

We have always known private companies keep all the data they can get their hands on and use it to sell ads.
on its own.
How is that? The main thrust of the article (including the chart) comes from an academic source which doesn't appear to be opinion-based at all.
He basically popularized it, and I was surprised someone wrote an entire article on this without mentioning that fact.
How peeking at A/B tests ruins them
Documents show that Apple has permission to sell three new portable computers
> Do we want every soldier, employee and contractor working in our government to use giant data dumps as a legit way to lodge their objections?

Yes, that is exactly what we want them to do when faced with criminal activity within their organizations and a non-functioning whistleblower program.

> Does anyone else think this Snowden as a hero stuff is a bit much?

Given that he risked death or life imprisonment to expose criminal activity in the organization he (indirectly) worked for, then no, the "hero" stuff is not a bit much.

If someone is a hero for risking their lives on a battlefield on the other side of the planet to "protect our freedoms", someone should also be considered a hero for putting their life at risk to protect the freedom of the American people from tyranny.

Now, if you disagree, you could say that his life or freedom was never at risk (it was), or that the government programs weren't unconstitutional (they were unconstitutional), or that the whistleblower program was a working alternative (it wasn't). But as long as you accept the basic facts of the situation, you really should consider him a hero.
Where's your source for all these assertions?
I would reconstruct the Haskell Prelude (the language's built-in library of foundational types, classes, and functions) from scratch.
Many distributors won't stock products that are not UL listed.
What are you looking for in your portfolio?
To be precise: Google's hardware 2FA support will work with any security key supporting the FIDO U2F protocol.

Yubikey devices are U2F compatible. (And in my opinion one of the best devices out there, thanks to PGP/SSH smartcard support.) But there are also cheaper versions on Amazon that work just as well if you're on a budget.
Personal attacks like this are not OK on Hacker News.
That's incredibly not true. Sure you have to put in some work to get funding, but if you have a good enough idea+team+story+market, or existing product with traction and lots of room to grow, no one is going to expect you to cover your cost of living.
There is a saying that if someone says all of their exes are crazy then it is not them but their exes. Likewise if all of the media has conspired against trump them perhaps trump is to blame.
MixesDB: A crude but detailed wiki of (mostly electronic music) live mixes and radio show archives: http://www.mixesdb.com/w/Main_Page, what sets it apart is the track listings.
I spent three months in meditation retreat some years ago. I'd never heard of this phenomenon. At some point, I started hearing various tones that weren't coming from outside. They eventually became quite loud. I noticed three tones in particular, and wrote some code to pin down their frequencies.

I discovered that they were C, E, and G, where the A would have been 432 Hz (or very close to it; certainly much closer than to 440). Some internet searching turned up this phenomenon. Apparently ancient Hindus and Buddhists heard similar tones during meditation, and related them to various points in the body.

Maybe there is something to the notion that it's related to our neurology or physiology in some way.
Kissed Against Her Will: A Timely Case of Victorian Assault and Abuse of Power
Aran Blocks: What you would get if Lego and IKEA had a baby by Aran
Why isn't there some browser-level identity / authentication you allow access to like oauth?
This is one of the most HN comments ever. Without getting into the nature-vs-nurture debate for the trillionth time, "Actually, mostly a matter of genes because this is by far the biggest influence parents have on their kids" is a totally preposterous statement. Genes are certainly AN influence, but I think my parents' encouraging my nerdiness, buying me a graphing calculator in high school and surrounding me with computers my whole life had something to do with how I got interested in computers and subsequently developed a career out of it.

That's just not an option for a lot of kids, and that has zilch to do with genes. But hey, keep thinking Ayn Rand's not full of shit, Hackernews :)
Learn ES5 first, you will need it(majority of JS code out there), ES6 is just sugar over ES5, so knowing ES5 will make it easier to understand ES6.
Someone stole my identity on Upwork
I started working on contract for a large software corporation about two years ago. At first it was very disorienting but I slowly began to "learn the ropes".

One of the first, somewhat shocking, things I realized was that if I were to somehow rewrite the project code in such a way as to reduce the number of people required to work on it, no one would thank me. In fact, people would likely have gotten upset with me.

The folks who lost their jobs wouldn't thank me; the contractor who makes money from their billable hours wouldn't; the company managers wouldn't (their "stake" or whatever would be diminished by having fewer personnel under them); etc...

Basically there was a kind of local optimum: the code had to work and be maintainable enough so that no one looked too bad, but it couldn't work too well, nor be updated too easily, because then people would lose their status, revenue, or even jobs!

The internal logic of the system was mostly unconscious and hugely wasteful. I estimate (and I'm not the only one) that any three of us on the project could start over and reimplement the thing from scratch to feature-parity with the original in three months. (It is not a complicated or innovative thing.) After that, less than half of the current team could do the same maintenance and development. The rest of us could go do something else... But no one is interested.
If you like those you might also like http://slatestarcodex.com It's Yvain's (from LW) blog. It's gotten quite popular, with lots of mainstream media referencing it.
You shouldn't have been modded down since the origins of this idea come directly from Kepler's Harmony of the Spheres.
> Hmmm but it doesn't look so bad when you consider that 67% of poor college grads are at least 50-percentile in wealth

Where does it show that? The chart you linked to shows income quintiles, not wealth. I couldn't find it in the article either, but may have overlooked it.

A wealth visualization would be quite appropriate here though, as a high income does not necessarily lead to retaining wealth. Some suggest that those who grow up poor struggle to manage their money, so it would be interesting to see if those who came from poor families with higher earnings became rich themselves, or if they remained poor.

> I'm sure is even better when you compare poor high school dropouts vs. poor college graduates, which is why a college degree may still be worth the money and the best pathway out of poverty

I'm not sure what you are really going to glean from that comparison? People generally don't drop out of high school without a reason. Usually, those reasons are what also lead them to do poorly in the workplace. If you try to compare education and income like that, you end up with a bias towards those whose situation did not provide the problems that resulted in them dropping out of school and doing poorly in the workplace.

What may be revealed here is that rich kids have more opportunity. They have all the reasons to drop out that the poor have, but additional reasons such as having a golden opportunity at the family business or within the family's social network. The latter does not negatively impact their future because they dropped out for positive reasons, not because they had a deeper problem that was holding them back in their schooling and continued to hold them back in the workplace.
Keep going with the down votes...

Shall I give you a couple of hundred comments for ammunition.

On the other hand, if you disagree with my perspective, man up and present an alternate perspective.

How is that?
Congratulations, Adrian!
I would like phones to support a duress finger. If you try to unlock with your duress fingerprint, it disables fingerprint access, requiring your long password.
I suspect the temperament makes a dramatically larger difference than shifting every note sharper by a bit less than (95.7% on a log scale) a semitone compared to A440.
Not true at all. The general opinion of investors in Silicon Valley is that is that after a seed round, founders should take a salary where they aren't worried about their bills but aren't getting rich.
We ban accounts that continue to post like this; please stop.
For me the most suspenseful game would have to be Dead Space.

The start of that game actually scared the crap out of me.
That is not indicative of social mobility, the tax liability on the poor and the middle class in the US is considerably lower than in Europe.
Wages are on the other hand considerably higher.

This holds true even for low income jobs, McDonalds pays nearly 10$ an hour in the US vs 4.35 GBP in the UK, or 6.50 EUR in Germany (there are comming minimum wage changes in Germany so it will increase to about 8 EUR in 2017) and US those workers are taxed at considerably lower rates.
Enumerations in Swift
Why not sapphire instead of stone? I guess it's stone they don't go into much detail about the medium used even on their website and the two videos explaining the project.

A company called Fahrenheit 2451 makes sapphire disk that can withstand high temperatures and supposedly lasts one million years.

Fahrenheit 2451 is still tying to get funding but they seem to be able to make/grow the disks already.
Smartwatch sales are tanking
If we start down the legislative road for all elements connected to the Internet, where is that going to end up?
I say many of these things daily. And, at least some of them, are appreciated.

"Bosses" aren't special snowflakes.
USA network used to do this.
But people moving to take jobs aren't people moving to start companies. I lived in Toronto in the late '80s and found it to have a pretty decent startup culture. My wife worked for Alias at the time.
Having lived in jurisdictions that limit annual rent increases via a rental index and jurisdictions that do not, I prefer the former. In America such action is dismissed as a price control, unfortunately for me.
There are more males at a very high IQ than there are females.

There are also many more males at a very low IQ than there are females.

I don't know why people downvote the parent comment, just because it's not exactly fair that people aren't born equal, doesn't mean we have to just sweep it under the rug.
US-Canada also has that element of small-versus-large - the US looms (I imagine) much larger in the Canadian consciousness than Canada does in the American one, just because the US isn't so defined by that one neighbor.

Maybe more like Portugal-Spain? Hard to find examples like that where there haven't been any wars in a couple hundred years, and there's also that linguistic/cultural similarity.
The courts are busy deciding if he is a conman. That's when his racist comment against a judge came out.
Snapchat's value was its disruptive threat to Facebook.
Oh hey, thanks! It was not a complaint, but I wasn't sure if perhaps there were other factors (concern about representing life-saving activities via your icons, for example).

There are some security apps a family member is working on, and having some more related icons would help make his app better. We were talking about it this morning, and then this post arrived.

Thanks!
Citrus, like the other guy said.

For a long time, importation was forbidden because the US is very protective of its citrus crop. We had to bring it back over from China.
Yes, but there's a reason why the crappy 2br costs as much as your house. That reason might not appeal to you, but it exists and has a specific monetary value.
Topically applied capsaicin ointment has been used to alleviate [osteo-] arthritis pain. Basically, it overstimulates the pain receptors, and they attenuate to a lower level.

Wearing gloves is a good idea while processing capsicums, but also quietly chant to yourself "Don't touch your eyes. Don't touch your eyes. Don't touch your eyes."
I've heard before that access to funding is a huge problem.
> Residential properties usually have short term leases. You have minimal incentive as a tenant to plant flowers, buy shrubs, etc. You have minimal inventive as a landlord to make the house look any more attractive than it needs to be.

That's because homeownership is a norm for long-term residents here in the USA. If long term renting were as much (or more) of a norm, an average renter would experience the same incentive to keep the place in an aesthetically pleasing state as an average owner, and landlords would have to make their properties much more attractive in order to have tenants.
How does this work? I can't find any examples and I also don't really understand what mechanism makes your npm module work.
> What you're talking about is the marginal tax rate

Yes, this whole comment thread has been discussing marginal rates. I thought that was clear from mentioning tax brackets in both my comment and refurb's grandparent comment, which mine is in comparison to.

I've edited the comment to be really clear that this is not an average rate.

Edit: Whoops, and I left out FICA taxes and it's too late to edit the above comment again. That adds another 7.65% (W-2), up to $118,500; 1.45% above that, and a little more at the top rate.
Super! Thanks.
Root – A robot to teach coding
I'd like to see Elizabeth Warren deprecate 401ks and raise the IRA contribution limits accordingly, while legislating that employers can contribute to them directly. Immediately remove employer-tied retirement plans, and you'll see expense ratios of funds plummet when you can have any fiduciary host your account.

Its absolutely silly we still tie retirement accounts and healthcare to employers.
yes, yes. The burn is important. I was just trying to stress the importance of flavor. The best is when it is so hot but so good and the only thing you can do is keep eating. You know that it is really going to hurt when you stop.
Running the Gauntlet: NetHack vs. Angband (2007)
What's the average house price tho