skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, I won't read this until I can do so on a formally verified pdf renderer or an attacker might hack me further upstream. Oh no, I'm commenting using an unverified browser! runs screaming into the middle distance
There's nothing saying that increased supply always leads to higher supply in relation to demand, which is what affects price.
The recording is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KuAN41liTY
Audio Latency is an issue with RPi, so impractical if need quick response.

I've been instead using the mod duo custom arm board stomp box, which works great.
But what you're saying sounds to me very different from what most people in this thread are saying. You're saying, if I understand correctly, that eating stuff with aspartame will make you eat more (what happens if you have the self control to either not do that, or eat something like a carrot that has very little calories ?).

Most people in the thread here seem to be saying your body will find a way to use the same amount of energy, and store the same amount of energy, despite the energy intake being different.

Anecdotally, I've lost over 10 kg while not caring about aspartame intake (in fact I think it probably went up).
SF has a net commuter inflow so it's better characterized as the peninsular becoming more like SF when it used to be more like SJ.
I was responding to things like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13045831

I would have posted as a child comment, but I saw a lot of those kinds of things in the discussion even at that early stage. That's why I decided to post top-level.

But your point is well taken.
you can do multi-statement and nested transactions even in Rails
Yes, rents are set by wages as you have to pay them out of your wages.

Supply and demand also works for buying. Because central banks have ran with ultra-loose monetary policy since forever credit supply is huge and prices detach from wages.

What a total mess these guys have created. Easy on the way down, chaos on the way back up.
Look at the C++ templates, I think that some of the clusterfuck that is C++ template compiler errors would go away if templates were type aware.
Right click, inspect, delete, delete.
Look, if you want to willfully misunderstand "it's different but you adapt" as anything but "it's not actually a problem" that's up to you...

... but at that point the problem isn't with the tech
The NIMBY effect in SF is very real and there is lots of strong evidence from both academic and industry analysis. For example there are several indices of construction regulation and SF is usually near the top:

http://realestate.wharton.upenn.edu/research/papers.php?pape...

So despite this why is there a building "boom"? Basically prices (rents and sales) have gotten so very, very high that it again makes sense to build in SF. And as mentioned this "boom" is relatively modest.

To give you some flavor: the new housing (and office) construction is almost exclusively at the high-end of the market. This is because NIMBY and other policies have made it cost around $750,000 to build a unit of housing in SF. So as long as prices and rents can justify this spending taking into account risk, time, required return, etc. developers will build.
I hope this is sarcastic, you should put `\s` after it else people will get the wrong idea and think you're an idiot.
I've had the same experience as the author.

Though in fairness, I didn't see where an Android or Windows version was released.

If you're not going to release on multiple platforms, what the heck are you using PhoneGap for?
You need to erase from your memory all the other times all the banks threatened to leave the one country that waves through financial crime.
I agree. However, I doubt anyone who is actually investing resources in getting to Mars is doing so with climate scenarios as their sole motivator.
Man, a bank that doesn't know the difference is a bank I'd be withdrawing my funds from!
pgrebase seems very nice, thanks!
The reason why is probably because he assumes a negative thing that hasn't happened and then rants against something that isn't a problem while being a bit of a dick...
I had forgotten about this actually. Thanks for the reminder :)
Curious if anyone has tried using this for real time apps and what their experience was
This is a theory, but wouldn't dropping upper quartile rents automatically flow down to lower quartiles?

Let's say you have a market with 3 apartments for rent. $100, $200, $300 per month.

Luxury apartment is created and starts at $400 per month, but no one rents, so they drop it to $300 per month.

The guy renting a non-luxury apartment for $300 says "screw that" and moves to the luxury apartment. Plus, the guy renting the non-luxury apartment looks at comparables and says "jesus, a luxury apartment is $300, mine is maybe worth $200". And so on, all the way down the line.

Sure it's not a perfect example, but I can see how cheaper luxury apartments could cause prices to fall overall.
Getting "used to something" doesn't necessarily mean suffering, or compromising. In my case it wasn't at all.

I do enjoy this laptop a lot, thank you very much.
This is exactly the kind of hyperbole I'm talking about. Whales and dolphins and fish are not the totality of life in the oceans. There's krill and algae and bacteria and a bazillion other things.

Now, losing whales and dolphins and fish would be catastrophic (IMO). But that is not the same as losing all life. It is not that "some of the life in the ocean could adapt." Life in the ocean (and on land) will adapt, no question about it. It just might not be the kind of life we humans want to see. That is the problem.
Hell even having "false elections" could be a useful first step.

That, I think, would be potentially useful.
I had a 2 bedroom lease in Adams Morgan, one block off 18th, for $2500 last year. We've since bought a place a few blocks away, so I'm unsure if it's risen.
Very insightful article. I find it crazy how few people I know read. Successful people seem to unanimously agree with the article that books are "one of the best ways to engage with the world, become a better person and understand life’s questions, big and small".

From Warren Buffett[0] to patio11[1] to Bill Gates[2] to Patrick/John Collison [3][4] it seems incredibly rare to find a successful investor/CEO/founder who _doesn't_ read.

Yet for some reason almost no one (especially not my friends in their early 20s!) reads. I'd like to understand why, if anyone has any ideas? I think the obvious argument is social media and shortening attention spans, but it's probably more nuanced than that.

[0] Warren Buffett apparently spends 80% of his day reading
[1] "This makes buying books a stupidly high ROI, assuming you read and get value out of them." from https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/investing...
[2] Bill Gates reads a book a week, from http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-favorite-books-201...
[3]http://www.johncollison.ie/2013reading.html
[4]https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf

By the way, I'm working on a tool that makes it easier to keep track of what you're reading and discover who's read what. I'd love to chat with any active readers on HN and hear about your reading pain points (I'm at me@tristanhomsi.com ).
As you get older, it is always more difficult to loose weight. Your last diet will (probably) be the most difficult.
Sure: https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B01IQV5U68/ref=oh_aui_detai...

Although don't use it for 4k, as it is only HDMI 1.4 (4k@30hz). I am not aware of hubs like this with HDMI 2.0 yet. I bought a USB Type C => DisplayPort adapter for the 4k monitor.
Sure you can. You just cannot use standard cheap home policies. I have learned that someone somewhere will always write a policy. It may be crazy expensive. But they will write it.
Yup, you can do things that'll start getting close to the metal with Java(arrays to keep caches warm, avoid allocations). However at the end of the day it's a huge pain and you lose the portability you get with C++.
I have hands on experience: it's a great keyboard if you're not a clicky button-smasher.

I am not, so... works for me.

I'm guessing you're more heavy in terms of key strike?
anxiety == trauma

1. After 6 months - 1 year it becomes part of you. You can't get any better without a professional help.

2. Go find the best psychiatrist (not therapist) your money can buy and trust him 100%.

3. Therapy and medicine can make miracles! You can become another person better than ever! Free from your worst fears forever.

4. Be patient. Therapy need 2-3 year or even more. But with the appropriate medicine you can keep your life going.

5. Medicine made to help people. All the other excuses are bullshit. But WARNING! Medicine doesn't make you better. It just hides the symptoms. Therapy will make you better. Therapy will give you the explanation and the self-cure.

6. No-one EVER EVER died from anxiety. Someday your will just have fun with all these symptoms. Just trust your doctor.

7. Read Echart Tolle. Maybe meditation is not the answer but he can teach you the meaning of life. Mindfulness is a great tool. Learn what you are thinking!

8. Psychiatry is the only science. The others are just philosophies.

9. Are you still here? Stop crying for your money and give them to your doctor! It's really a huge investment. Be absolutely sure that life will give them back multiplied. Remember that money is the medium.

10. DONT QUIT YOUR JOB. DONT QUIT ANYTHING. Anxiety == trauma!

Me? After spending 5 years with all the pseudo-cures and pseudo-doctors even with homeopathy and other crap like this I decided to start with the best doctor I could find. 2.5 years of a great journey. Feeling great and I am in the process of quitting therapy.

Keep up, and be strong!
Of course the little detail here is that 50 tiny sprites apparently counts as graphically intensive.

Why do web developers constantly make the argument that Javascript is not slower than C (or Swift, or C++, or any native programming language) ? The difference is night and day, 5000% and up for simple things like drawing.
Exactly, you really need ACID only for important stuff, other data you can cache on workers where you run most of the logic
Really depends on the neighborhood.
Agreed, when I first heard about PhoneGap it sounded amazing, then I tried and the performance hit is just too great, even for simple apps. Maybe in the future it'll be better, but not yet.
Since when do hackers want touch-screens on their laptops? I feel like that's pretty much the least hacker-y feature a laptop can have.
"Researchers..." "...expert says" "A growing body of evidence..." "How Russia hacked the election" and other ambiguities :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word#Forms
My reaction was pretty much the same. Not really "oh no, it's work", but "if I'm going to code, I want to code something other people (and I) can use. For example, a friend and I had a few spare hours, so we made this:

https://www.timetaco.com/

That sort of thing seems like a better use of my time than playing a game. Then again, there are times when I just want to play a game, and I don't want to code, so I don't begrudge anyone how they choose to spend their time.
That is reserved for first time contributors. Most large projects get the small issues handled almost immediately by the core team, which removes the opportunity for people who don't know much about the project to learn by making a small change. The small issues in our project are marked "reserved-for-first-time-contributors" for a two weeks and them handled by the core team. If someone not in the core team picks it up during those two weeks, they just learned something.
Maybe, it could be that it doesn't scale linearly though. All I know is where the numbers are at now (or actually, a year or two ago).
Since you mention mindset, here are Derek's notes on the book : https://sivers.org/book/Mindset

The central idea of the book is revealed in it's description on Amazon :
Dweck shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we approach our goals. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are far less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed through hard work, good strategies, and mentorship. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.

And then Derek's detailed notes will help me understand the sub-ideas presented by the author as well as any relevant and interesting examples.
Los Angeles though... :(

One of my friends just moved here and is sharing a 5-bedroom home with 25 other people. I thought he was bullshitting me, and I still couldn't believe it when I went over. He's paying $600 a month to share a bedroom with four other guys. He told me it was the best thing he could find on 1-day notice. He pays for rent online, and he has no idea who the actual owner is, nor who is actually receiving the money.

I thought that kind of living arrangement only happened with undocumented workers (barring SF and NYC, which I've always considered to be ridiculous), who can't easily exercise tenant rights.

Now I really wonder how many of the apartments and homes around me are just completely packed with people who are splitting rooms.
Dead simple server to mock a JSON API
just to be clear I completely agree with that user.
In and of itself, the attempt to colonize Mars probably won't do much for the species. The value is in actually going through the paces: developing primary technologies, techniques, protocols, and doing research, especially observing how organisms (ultimately, humans) are affected by extraterrestrial life, etc.

If the worst comes to pass and the species needs to throw a hail mary, I have to think our chances of success would be improved (even if slightly) if we were to have these sorts of details ironed-out in advance.
Ask HN: HTML5 semantics reference
What's a good reference for marking up a website with good semantics and all the neat new HTML5 tags?
I thought we were talking about rent levels not home prices! Again how does low rates drive up rents?

Keep in mind that very few people borrow to pay rent while most apartments and their construction is financed by debt. At first approximation low rates would be neutral for demand but positive for supply.
Yep, the K interpreter is pretty mediocre (it is very small and the language is inherently pretty fast, but the interpreter is otherwise not very advanced¹) but being directly integrated with a very optimized in-memory column-store database means it smokes anything else. Even the massive engineering effort in a JVM+RDBMS simply can't compete with running K directly on memory-mapped files.

1. I believe they added SIMD support a year or two ago and got a massive (2-10× IIRC) speedup.
That's an odd change for a first-time committer to make, especially since the scope is totally unclear as the issue stands now. Are they expected to track down all contributors and get their permission? Check existing files for license references? Or just swap the LICENSE file out? It also doesn't seem like something where you'd learn anything about the project.
In general I HATE mobile sites because they're usually less useful than the real desktop site or break things like reader mode. I'm especially FOND of sites that try to implement their own gestures thus messing up scrolling or the system gestures. That means YOU imgur.

But I've never seen an app present me with the equivalent of 3pt text by default.
Many places are fine with a retractable cover that you can't fall through. They are like a flat thing on wheels, let you walk on it when closed.
Nope, not even airports if your flight is within the Schengen area.
Taking from people to give free backpacking travel to 18-year-olds (who should be able to work and save up enough for a rail pass on their own), because some overpaid technocrat thought it would "promote belief in the EU" or what not ... I can see why so many hate the EU.
Thinner and lighter only matter when carrying it around. Keyboards matter when you're using the computer. Most folks who use their computer 8 hours or more a day that I know tend to do more with the keyboard than they ever do lugging it around. So the keyboard really matters, even in small increments.

I'm also going to make what I think is a reasonable assumption and say that a vast majority of folks are going to carry their laptops around in bags. In which case, the 7 ounces saved (for reference sake, this is about the same weight as a 45 watt power brick, minus the extension cord) is nearly meaningless, and the half inch on each dimension will be completely meaningless.
But users run many applications at the same time.
I just don't think many people realize just how many people are actually sensitive to issues of non-native apps, they just couldn't name or put their finger on what the problem was.

Frankly I'm about to give up on Google because of their AMP pages and how terrible they work on an iPhone. It's to the point where I can't use half the search results. All because they decided to make it act non-native and implement their own special behavior in I-frames on their website.
>But much more likely is not the direct destruction of civilization, but rather increased political and economic tensions leading to nuclear war.

Ah, I see that you and I actually do agree that the much more likely case is not a Mad Max scenario, and I agree political tension is the greatest danger. The worst case scenario is we see innocent people needlessly die due to the actions of other people--whether it be squabbling over who caused climate change, or over newly found resources it created, or migrations of peoples whose homelands have been destroyed. I really don't want that to happen.

>Weather anomalies could destroy our ability to produce enough food to feed everyone.

That is a good point, and a great reason why we should stop altering the global environment. It may not be that the ability to produce food is destroyed in the long run, but in the short run we struggle to adapt quickly enough to a changing environment--a topic for debate but certainly one for worry. While I concede there's no evidence this will necessarily happen, the fact is we simply don't know what we're doing when it comes to global climate science, and we're historically great at screwing up the planet with unintended consequences. So we should stop.

>weather could get so extreme that it could directly destroy our infrastructure faster than we can rebuild it.

While of course anything is possible, can you link me to scientific evidence that this will happen. Of course, there is in fact evidence that weather extremes will increase, the likelihood of this scenario where we literally cannot sustain infrastructure on the planet anymore, that would require very extreme weather and a loss of current technology (there already exists technology to build infrastructure which can withstand harsh weather and earthquakes).

I don't have a problem with the science, but the doomsday or "Mad Max" alarmist scenarios are not based in science, and that kind of irrational thinking may do more harm than good--leading to even more irrational thinking.
I guess if the YoY before was > +8%, a new YoY -22% is a pretty impressive change, especially it confirms through 2017.
I need a GPU and as much RAM as possible to run VMs.
The new MBP, with wimpy graphics and 16 GB of RAM, does worse than a Razer Blade (also USB C, has been out since early 2016)
Apple advertises "up to 12 hours" battery life on the Macbook Air 13". I reliably get over 14 with work and web-browsing.
8% in a year is plunging. Factor in inflation, and 5 years at that rate and real rents drop 41%. That would be a massive decrease in a short period of time and it's hard to imagine it happening - which just supports the notion that 8% in a year is a pretty big drop.

You should be celebrating this news and not complaining.
I got used to not having a parallel port. Had to mothball my Zip drive, but it was for the better.
I GOT THE BEST PET FOOD
I was forced to look beyond those comments to try to understand the substance of the article. It bothered me, too. In fact, the author makes some great points, but ultimately I found that if you remove the emotion from this article it led to someone complaining they want to do things the right way, the first time. That's admirable, but the attitude behind it is that nobody in tech does this and the author is incredibly badly misunderstood by everyone in IT.

That annoyed me in The Fountainhead, and it bothers me in this prose also.

I think there is a big difference between being bothered by someone's comments and litigating them :-)
I would assume this means substituting artificially sweetened for sugar sweetened drinks.
So you're arguing that demand increased more than supply in the same period? By your logic, that's the only way that prices could fall while the new housing was built.
If you rely on http to ensure the one-and-only-one type of paradigm, I have bad news for you (because you won't be able to distinguish failure vs success case when you hit a timeout: did it not receive the request or did I not receive the ack?).

You should embed a transaction ID to ensure idempotence of your API call. Then you can make the request 1, 2 or 3 times without any risk. The receiving end will realize the transaction ID already transitioned state and won't cause multiple payments to occur.
Is there more information on why "single homeless" would "probably won't be entitled to housing."?

"Your council must help if you’re legally homeless, but how much depends on your eligibility, your level of need and if your homelessness is your fault."
on short notice and short term, you're competing with hotels which are astronomical on monthly terms, or impossible to find (because they could simply rent out nightly).
Gigster (YC S15) is looking for a Product Manager – Customer Interface
I agree with you. My parents are very, very toxic people. I still see them a couple times a year but the best thing I ever did for myself was stop trying to have any kind relationships with them.
We should start a thread purely for tech inspired band names. There is a local (quote a good) band here called "Snapchat Regret"...
Webvan jumps 66 percent in debut (2001)
It can be the primary reason, but it is generally one of a few very good reasons (performance is often another big one, as this article points out).

I will say its importance is somewhat contextual though. The 3 principal contextual factors that make this reason significant are: (1) A large, complex database/model, (2) A rapidly evolving data model (such as during development or prototyping and fast business requirement changes, and (3) a clear division between back-end and front-end guys on your team. Those are the most important factors, but they are not the only ones. When these factors are significant, you really want to encapsulate DB access from client work. The client should simply declaratively say what they want, and this enforced contract is maintained by the back-end team while the back-end team is free to implement the details, presumably better than the front-end team could. For example, if a query initially involves just joining a fact to a dimension, a front-end user might think they could simply write this in their ORM. But, if the model changes and this later requires 4 or 5 other joins to the get the needed data (because the modeler or business or whatever decided it to be so), then the client code can remain as is while the back-end team can rewrite the implementation details, maintaining performance and correctness of implementation as needed.
And now they want to abolish the electoral college so the upper crust of SF, LA, NYC, CHI (and more) can dictate what they want from candidates. Soon you'd see candidates touting "Vegan Rights" instead of "Rust Belt jobs"...not a world I want to live in. I'd rather middle America's vote count for more if you ask me.