skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To your last point, how not to feel like a sucker, I take a lot of quiet pride in my own ability to choose. Whether a moral choice is popular/respected or not, you at least have sovereignty over yourself--it's empowering to know that you make moral choices on your own, and that you have strength to choose what's "right" no matter what other forces might try to sway you.
You might want to check out one of the companies that has a large codebase in perl. blekko managed to build a nosql database and a million-line search engine without much technical trouble.
> Have there been any experiments in legislating ceilings for housing prices? If so, what has been the effect?

As Assar Lindbeck put it, "next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient technique so far known for destroying cities." For instance, in 1970s when the Bronx was burning, a major contributing factor was New York City rent control. In some neighborhoods of the Bronx and in Harlem, fully a third of the housing stock was literally abandoned by its owners: it was easier to just walk away and let the building rot than to take any action to repair it and continue to collect rent-controlled rents.

Even notoriously planned-economy San Francisco has backpedalled from the price-ceiling approach, favoring instead a mandatory "right to lease at the same inflation-adjusted price forever" in all its housing contracts.
They're mostly in Brighton and way deep Dorchester. The commonwealth ave one is as ridiculous as the same price being advertised for a real 2br in a doorman building in Chelsea. This is akin to measuring salaries by the high end of glass door. Sure. Someone may have gotten that price, or it could be a lie, but you won't.
Vancouver.
That's not what he's saying. He's saying you can just basically hoard your income there and pay yourself a smaller salary. You could invest tax-free until you take it out.
Why is there an issue for changing the license to MIT?
Hey, that's an approach right out of the Washington Post article. Thanks for providing an example!:

“They don’t try to win the argument,” said [former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael A.] McFaul, now director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. “It’s to make everything seem relative. It’s kind of an appeal to cynicism.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-prop...

What you describe isn't something that happens. The U.S. government doesn't control American news outlets. If it did, I imagine that Trump would have received a lot less coverage and Obama quite a bit less criticism!
Netflix 4K for Windows 10 is only for Kaby Lake
HN will make this a SFO story because it's HN.

The reality is, rental housing is a canary and shifts quickly based on market conditions. The market is flooded nationwide, and if you look closely at newer projects, the better banks have slowed down investment.
Why would that be the result? I'd think that removing the deduction would depress prices, for single-family dwellings at least.
Because FedEx and FedEx Ground/Home Delivery are basically two different companies. FedEx Ground is RPS which became part of FedEx in 2000. FedEx drivers will not touch FedEx ground packages and vice-versa. They also are compensated differently. Ground drivers are paid on a per package delivered system and essentially operate as independent contractors. A friend of mine used to work for FedEx Services as a programmer and told me a story about our local Ground hub and how all the drivers chipped in to a pool so they could hire someone to load up their trucks in the morning so they wouldn't have to (some to sleep in later, some to deliver more packages in a day).
> Background activity such as push notifications can slow everything down for a few seconds

This is sometimes the case with native games too. I can sometimes get a few hundred millisecond warning when a text is incoming because of a sudden uptick in lag, even on an iPhone 7.
See, there we go again. Why is the problem the greenbelt? Between central London and the greenbelt there's a mind-blowing extension of small houses in every direction. There is A LOT that could be built before getting to the greenbelt. The greenbelt is only a problem if you want to continue building small houses.
U.S. says cybersecurity skills shortage is a myth
That's about the cost of a studio in DC.
The thesis made semiclear on Page 2 is that DB previously was staid and very German, and in what would later become their own view, behind the times.

> The bank's German clients were increasingly discovering the enterprising nature of international financial institutions and Deutsche had to be careful not to be left behind.

This is expounded on Page 2, but basically it led to global expansion of the bank in search of growth beyond what was possible with boring old German domestic banking.
"This kind of disrespect for your users' ability to notice crap is what I dislike most about lazy cross-platfom developers."

A lot fewer people actually care about UI minutia than you imagine.
> the WaPo article cites Wikileaks as "fake news."

The WaPo article doesn't mention Wikileaks. I just searched the page to verify my memory of it. Feel free to check for yourself:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-prop...
Does anyone know if this also applies to stevia and erythritol?
Presumably you've gotten your answer from the follow-ups, the system 'tips over' the edge and goes from being stable (always returning to the mean when the stimulus is removed) to unstable (removing the stimulus doesn't increase stability of the system).

The problem with it as a theme is that we really don't have a good idea of how the climate system operates long term, and by long term I mean geologically long term, not human long term. Even if we had pre-recorded satellite views of the planet and detailed measurements for the last 2,000 years that would be 2.6% of the 75 ky Ice Age cycle, and less than 0.0004% of the 50 My extinction cycle, or .000005% of the planet lifecycle.

For reference, 2.6% of a solar year is 9 days.

Humans measure time in terms of lifetime, its a very natural thing to do and since they typically live 70+ years, if you were to come to someone 9 days after you have first shown up on the planet and said "Can't you see, the temperature is a full 5 degrees warmer than it was when I started taking measurements!" And that human would pat them on the head and say, "Yes, you will see much bigger changes than that as the year goes by, it will get so hot you will will die of heat exhaustion if you stand outside all day without protection, and then later it will get so cold that you would freeze to death." And they aren't afraid and they consider it normal, because they have seen it many times before, over their whole life. But when the same person comes to them and says "The temperature is full 5 degrees warmer than it has been in 2000 years!", the fact that 2,000 years represents 100 - 200 generations of people (depending on how you choose a 'generation') it fills them with fear because nobody they know has ever experienced anything like that, its different, its scary, and its unknown.

Back in the day (we're talking the 60's) climate scientists would say "Gee, all of these geological records show that the climate changes in cycles, from very warm to very cold. And they noticed we were coming up on a time when the cycles suggest the end of the inter-glacial period was nigh and we should be looking for the leading edge of the next ice age.

Anyway, the planet has been warmer than it is now, its been colder, and it has changed with people present and without them present. The tipping point models have the climate becoming irreversibly destabilized after we pass it, what they don't say is what that means. Does it mean the planet gets really hot? does it mean an ice age starts? Nobody knows and the models don't help.
So USB-C sounds great. Too bad the laptop offering it has a crippled keyboard.
I shall then proceed to read page 2 :-)
Anecdotal evidence here. Throughout my life I have been on diets various time, never because of extreme obesity but like a lot of people in IT, I do not get enough movement and over time gain weight. Thus every 2 years or so I end up going on a diet to lose the weight that I have gained, and in the past I used to mainly drink (sparkling) water when I did this, and always had positive results.

Now I have been trying to diet again but instead of replacing my sugary drinks with the "zero" version of them (coke zero to be specific) I _seem_ to lose weight slower.

Could be a lot more factors in play, but my wife has been suggestion that even those zero drinks have a negative effect on the diet, so she will enjoy this article :-)
You protect existing tenants from new tenants. Existing units leave the equation for people moving or coming of age, who face much higher prices than they would if they were allowed to compete with existing residents.
Suriname Will Tow a Giant Bag of Water to Fight the Caribbean's Drought
Heh, I've had the opposite experience. Generally sites that completely ignore mobile are manageable on the phone, maybe I have to scroll around a bit but its not a big deal. Mobile specific sites however seem to "break" (or at least annoy me) spectacularly and frequently.

If I press the menu and your menu takes over the entire screen, seemingly like a new page, the back button should close the menu, not navigate off your site, especially if there's no way to close the menu other than navigating to a link. Floating elements that take up 20% of an already small screen with absolutely nothing useful on them and no way to get rid of them are broken. Redirecting a non-mobile link to the home page of your mobile site instead of to the content the link actually points to is pretty common too.
Thats one of the ways to cope with cognitive dissonance. Its obviously slander and trolling when someone says something bad about your multi $thousand purchase.

2016 MBP corrupting files _silently_ when using third party dongle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCCvEzqDq8U&t=76m10s
Try Cocos2d-x which is a multiplatform C++ implementation of the old Cocos2d-iPhone, SpriteKit was, at least partially, inspired from Cocos2d-iPhone.
> While it might be to their interests , podesta's emails were not russian propaganda per se.

As a technical point, real emails absolutely can be propaganda. Good propaganda isn't all lies, or even mostly lies. It needs to be believable, like a good con. This comment says it well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13045955
There was a good documentary about the financial crisis and the banking crisis from the view of a former German banker called Master of the Universe [0] (has been on public television, but I was not able to find it from a quick search).

In this documentary, the banker describes how the Germans were eager to learn from the US bankers in the late eighties and early nineties and how they did not question anything, but behaved like stupid sheep, who wanted to play with the big guys. They did not understand the products at all.

The phenomenon that makes this "German provincialism" and not just provincialism is that you can see a pattern here. You can spot it in different areas: the BND and the NSA, the entertainment industry and Hollywood, politics and the US president (especially Obama).

Germans have this schizophrenic trait, that on the one hand they think the US is totally nuts with all it's guns and broken systems and on the other hand very much care what the US does and what it thinks about them.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3129484/
This sounds like the same old rule that has existed for the last 30 years or more. If you want to build an app that uses graphically intensive animations, build as close to the metal as possible and do not rely on layers provided by the OS.

I learned nothing from this because if I was going to build a game like he described, I would suck
it in and get down to the platform's assembly language layer which for IOS is ObjectiveC and for Android is Java.

It would be far more interesting to read a review that explores the boundary of what works well in PhoneGap and what doesn't. Clearly lots of successful apps are built in PhonegGap/Cordova. We could have the same conversations about desktop apps or server apps. Too many layers make things easier to build but impose a performance penalty. It is wise to think before you build and do some architecture and engineering before coding. Writing code is NOT engineering.
> It's been years since I've used Lotus Improv, so forgive me if I'm forgetting the terminology. Laudable work for an undergraduate, but it always reminds me of the old adage - those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. ;)

I've heard tales of people I know presenting their work at a conference. At the end, an old Russian professor raised his hand and said: "Are you aware of this Russian paper from 1964 that wasn't translated due to Cold War tensions that already did this?"
Top Chess Engine Championship: Houdini 5 vs. Stockfish 8
This coffee shop isn't very interested in coffee
In late 80's US empire has definitely thrown international law above the board by organizing color revolutions,

The term "color revolution" didn't exist until the early 2000s.

US empire and its vassals (other NATO members)

NATO countries aren't in any meaningful way "vassals" of the US.

Might I suggest... reading a bit more broadly? To get like you know, a better grip on basic narrative history? Whatever sources you've been drawing from -- it seems you've got the polemics down pat, but your basic geopolitical awareness appears to be quite stunted.
This may be specific to banking, and it's a bit of a hypothesis by the authors, but here's how I understand it:

German banks have traditionally operated on the local level – mortgages, financing local businesses, sometimes a medium-sized manufacturer.

The opposite model is anglo-saxon investment banking: m&a, hedge funds, HFT, leverage.

There are cultural components to both these models as well. Under the first, a good banker spends his nights drinking too much beer with the small-town mayor.

Investment bankers spend their nights doing coke with some actress in a Hong Kong rooftop bar.

(both exaggerated for effect)

Now, the story goes, Deutsche Bank felt so inferior when they watched Wall Street that their traditional, stable business was relegated to second class. They no longer cared about the low end (everyday) market.

The two problems they ran into were (a) investment banking turned out to be a rather volatile business, and they no longer had the steady income stream to support it, and (b) they probably tried so hard play blank, without actually having the necessary structures/experience etc. Cargo-Cult investment banking basically. (Fargo-Cult?)
Bit of a side-note, but I would disagree about ROOT/CINT ever being a C++ compiler. It was an interpreter for a language that looked somewhat related to C++, if you squint quite a bit.

* All variables were hoisted up to function scope. This meant that you couldn't use "int i" in one loop, and "unsigned int i" in the next. This also caused destructors to be incorrectly delayed until the end of the function call.

* Use of templates required pre-compiled dictionaries for each type the template might be instantiated for. Any templates occurring in interpreted code would be silently ignored.

* Incomplete standard library implementation. std::abs(long) is missing, for example.

* const is silently ignored.

Not entirely relevant to the current discussion, but good heavens, I am glad that monstrosity is gone.
Well, since all the ice has been melting in the last decades, even ice that was geological ages old, that seems to indicate this isn't a 'normal' cycle by any means. Its disingenuous to suggest its explained by short human memory - the measurements are real.
I get 8-10 hours easily on mine. With VSCode, Chrome, XCode and Android Studio open.
Can someone tell me why I would want statically typed macros? Why not just simply type check after macro expansion phase? Seems a lot simpler and more intuitive.

It strongly feels like a case of everything looks like a nail when you really like hammers (static typing), but I am willing to be proven wrong.
Montreal is affordable, but I don't think you can attribute that entirely to rent control. Forty years ago it was the premier city in Canada, but it's had a serious decline since then. Perhaps not an absolute decline in population, but certainly slower growth than the rest of the country, and way less money than it used to have.
Link to the paper's publication : http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/apnm-2016-03...

Haven't picked up the actual paper yet.
I am having a very hard time understanding any climate scenario that would make Mars more habitable than Earth. Why should we spend a dollar getting to Mars?
For further comparison I pay hundreds less for an upscale (but not top of the line) 2 bedroom apartment in a Minneapolis suburb.
Someone made this same comment last year, or the year before. The short answer is no.

Humans stuck in their loops, frittering away their lives on the Internet.
The FedEx we know, isn't actually FedEx. Nor is FedEx Home.

FedEx is really the airline (all the time) or long-haul, inter-city transport (most of the time).

The guys who come to your doors to do a delivery are generally not FedEx employees, instead they work for a local franchisee who scored the winning bid to serve that particular route (similar to candy/soda vending machine "contract routes").

FedEx Home is another flavor of this.

As is FedEx Custom Critical.

In general, residential delivery is one of the more expensive operations a carrier can undertake (at least in the US). So almost everyone who does large volume is scrambling to find cheaper ways to deliver their goods to you, such as:

- FedEx SmartPost (FedEx on the long haul, USPS on last mile)

- UPS SurePost (UPS on the long haul, USPS on last mile)

- LaserShip (Pick up from local Amazon warehouse, deliver to last mile)

- USPS Contract Delivery Service ($carrier on long haul, independent contractor for last mile)

- USPS in general (FedEx, UPS, or contract carrier on long haul, USPS employee for last mile)
This is a good pots ...

But - the issues mostly boiled down to performance. As he noted, the issues were with older devices.

The landscape is changing quickly - and within 2 years, that equation will look quite differently.

It's not just that native will 'always have an advantage' - which is true - it's that JS will reach the 'decent threshold' for small game performance.

You only need 8Kb/s reliably for voice. After that it's just improvement. So once radios could cross 8K/s reliably - we had mobile phones. From there it just gets better.

I see this in those terms.
Thanks; agreed; exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about.

> the punishment for reading this stuff is the pain of living in a world full of people commenting who "didn't read the article." :p

Yup. And watch them take us blindly into calamity after calamity because they can't be bothered to click a link.
It's perfectly accurate and honest from any normal practical point of view. If I run my freelancing business through a C corp I have to pay corp taxes and dividend taxes or capital gains. It's taxed twice, and at a higher level in aggregate (assuming I'm making more than 75k) than if I'm just a sole proprietor. That's exactly why LLCs and S Corps exist, of course, and there are other ways around it, but it's still the case that the exact same amount of underlying economic activity happens, but one case is taxed more than the other.
If that's were true, it would be impossible for humans and other organism to regulate how much fat and weight they have because it's nearly impossible to balance the energy budget.

So, there's more than just thermodynamic at play here.
Probation? I thought companies already did do this. In many instances the labor laws have more leeway in the initial stages of employment.
that's cheap if it's a decent place in a nice neighborhood. i was doing 1500 (utilities included) on nob hill with 3 other roommates and 1 bathroom a year ago. and that was the cheapest i could find in a decent location, and that's including many of my emails that went unanswered.
Websites like this should be forced to actually link to the original study. No credits given that day (and still making money with other peoples content...).
There is a famous idiom in China, the good people won't live long while the bad people will live forever.
today, lambda (speed layer + batch layer) or kappa architecture (kafka streams) -- ymmv. not sure if I would build that infra out just for this single problem, but generally once that infra is in place it can be applied to many problems including this one.

edit: (assuming i can't get it working with a jury rigged cronjob and the usual dumb solutions that will still use the ruby code. i'd try a bunch of those types of solutions first obv.)
In the very, very long run wouldn't it be preferable to retain as much energy within the earth system as possible, instead of letting it float off into space and difficult to ever recapture?

I've never heard that argument. It certainly sounds very cold hearted, at the very least.
I just started using the Internet
As with many things, this is also more complex. This article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303694650_Primate_r... suggests that higher status animal in this particular group have a higher parasite burden.
You've always got blood sugars at some level.

If you put something sweet into your mouth (real sugar or fake) you're more likely to a) produce insulin and start metabolising those blood sugars, and b) have a 'low blood sugar' feeling and want to eat something :)

Edited for typo
Have you ever heard of the German Mittelstand? [1] Family-owned companies, long-term and low-risk business strategies, social responsibility, regional ties... I think that's the kind of provincialism the article talks about. Not bad, just boring.

Deutsche Bank wanted to become a global player. Doing investment banking in New York and London instead of giving a small loan to Herr Müller's crankshaft oil seal factory in Hintertupfingen.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand
I have seen reports that a lot of money is expatriated from China into real estate because it's easy to launder that way.

I don't know about rents, but overseas investment certainly drive up price to own in Auckland NZ and Vancouver, Canada, though the latter may have stopped due to changing tax policies. Auckland is as big as SF.

If you're investing in property overseas you want the value to be stable or increasing, though. I don't think these people are value investors who would jump into a market with declining prices because the houses were suddenly underpriced -- quite the opposite, I think some would rush to get out in that case.
There's at least one study which said that artificial sweeteners led you to eat more because your body had the impression to get sugar while having none, leading to compensate by eating more. So there's that.

Sorry I don't have a link to the source but I saw this on HN at some point this year.