skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Almost since the day programming was invented there has been at least one person out there trying to dumb it down to work for the average person and it always fails.

In a manner, one person succeeded - and he did it without "dumbing it down" - but rather by understanding and utilizing what was then known about how we learn things - particularly as children:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindstorms_(book)

Sadly, it seems that Papert's work is mostly forgotten by those who seek to re-implement it - and generally poorly in most instances, with few exceptions.

One of course being MIT's Scratch:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/117504922/

Though I still think Papert's language to be superior, as it is like LISP, is functional, and is a real language you type in an editor (vs "drag-n-drop" programming). In other words, it approaches programming closer to how programmers code.
No one in the industry uses blender though, sadly. C4d supports python scripting but that is python 2
Third Spaces are important for building local communities, but why must they be supermarkets? Time being zero-sum game, the challenge/opportunity isn't how to preserve artifacts of accidental discourse, but to create new fora that enhance the tapestry of social life.

Phrased another way, inefficient services sector processes are imposed upon us, and the preferable alternative is "opt-in" (e.g. farmers markets, bars, or what have you).

You might also find interesting the pro-feminist discourse around automating "traditional" roles. Preserving long supermarket lines exacerbate social inequities you may not be so fond of.
Yes, sites like those - even if with "wrong" info, alter the information asymmetry that estate agents had and that used as part of their profession.

Only seemingly unrelated, just in case, the classic from Frakonomics:

https://www.wired.com/2005/05/realestate/
"They would not be there if they weren't getting paid for it."

That's not true. There are nice people in the world.
This reminds me of the Great Programming Language Shootout.

Anyone here who knows what happened to that great site?
In New York Zillow seems to be very dependent on property tax assessment data, at least in my region. They also don't have a good way to distinguish between neighborhoods well.

That said, they do a pretty decent job overall. Property valuation is art and science, and is probably a lot easier in a place like LA with lots of tract homes built in similar timeframes to similar spec.

I live in a city founded in the 1600s. Housing within a 5 block radius is built between 1890 and 2016. It's not a market with a lot of flipping, so it's hard to value as a house that looks like mine (reasonably modern internals) may have 1960s kitchens and bathrooms.
I submitted the same thing 12 hours prior. Not sure why it wasn't de-duped? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13103340
Less work would be good if there wasn't capitalism. I already self-checkout in some supermarkets and it's alright.

If it where not for capitalism I'd rather self-checkout then have someone serve me and waste 1m of lifetime per visit to the supermarket.
I said the same thing when they first previewed Angular2: call it something else. everyone would still know it comes from the Angular team and it wouldn't have pissed so many people off.
Trivial. Stop policing facebook groups and curating feeds. Let everyone say what they want even if it's disgusting.

Also, let the police/etc read it, so that if you incite violence someone shows up at your door exactly as if you sent a postal threat-letter.

They already give people the tools to cope with this. You choose who to follow and who to block.
Thanks KindDragon. I'll try Conan.io this weekend.
Rl_json: Extends Tcl with a json value type
Are you serious? Have you worked in both places? The regulatory burden is really quite light here in the states and in particularly in the Valley and in SF. Having lived and worked in the US, Australia, Asia and Europe (and in the US in Boston, Austin and the Valley) I have to say there is no better place to start a business than the peninsula.
> In most markets comparables are acquired through an MLS database, and access to MLS is usually not free.

I don't think appraisers can use MLS listings exclusively when valuing a property. The primary source is typically public records data.
Based on comments in here, one would suspect they implemented this entire thing without trying to break it even once.
How did 'a' in "as" end up being lower case in the title? Becuase if it was copy/pasted that's curious bug.
The FBI isn't a world super power, but the government they are apart of it. What can country X do about the FBI hacking their citizens if the agency has the backing of the United States? Nothing really.
So, the piece in question talks about the history of racism and sexism in popular science, then goes into a brief discussion of what sort of personality traits scientists have, both as children and adults, and the subjective experience of doing science.

The author of this piece is bullying you for being white and male? And they're the same sort of person that bullied you as a kid for your interest in science?
They're correcting your grammar.
I agree, especially you see those videos on youtube where the kids are intentionally 'slipping' and throwing multiple jugs of milk onto the floor.
> I feel like most people just hate Maven because of XML

I see this a lot. I definitely don't want to go back to the days of J2EE/Hibernate XML hell, but there are places where XML isn't terrible, and Maven feels like one of them - it is easier to figure out context when in bigger files (as opposed to JSON and the like), and it is nice that you can get very easy/quick feedback about the structure of the document via XSD. But when I ask people why they hate Maven, they give some handy-wavy "but XML..." argument about it.

I understand some of the more valid knocks against Maven, and there has been a time or two where I've been frustrated with it, but most of the time I used it (and I used it over a period of 8 years or so), I've been happy with it. I know that tools like Gradle and SBT allow you to do more, but I've always come away frustrated when using those tools.
I don't find that surprising by any means. It's out of context and a near stream of consciousness memory rant of the only time in my life anyone has ever pointed a gun at me (:
It sounds like the careless actions of the general public really bother you.

That's accurate. Ask me how many times I wish I could find the guy that carelessly tossed a cart out in the parking lot (given easily accessible corrals) which subsequently bashed into the side of my car. Or found a packet of hamburger (with accompanying drippy juices) in with the toys. Or...

The moment you start kicking people out over subjective "rule-violations", you are eating into your own profits, pissing off people, and projecting your own morality onto strangers.

Leaving aside the misuse of the word subjective, this is why we avoid the "kicking out" part altogether and use financial incentives instead. It's no different than, say, ALDI charging you a quarter to get a cart (that you get back if, and only if, you put the cart away). Put stuff back where you found it like a civilized person, and there's never a problem.
Losing 10 jobs to automation would be far less concerning if the businesses and individuals that cut the jobs would reinvest a greater percentage of their newfound profits into social programs to retrain the 10 people who are now without jobs. Or into a fund for the much-vaunted basic income, even.
Lets keep in mind that DeepMind is a subsidiary of Alphabet that has to justify its existence (not tomorrow, but over time) with revenue. Interval research corporation is a good example of a very high profile research entity that couldn't produce revenue and shut down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_Research_Corporation

Retaining researchers who write papers is highly correlated with providing a de facto academic environment for them to work in. Microsoft research has become almost the most interesting place for researchers to go to in the last 10 years because they have developed the place to feel like a university department. Look at their research papers (public). Any overlap with commercial products looks providential more than intentional.

I'm obviously not talking of people like Jeff Dean, whose intent is to build, not publish papers. The big table paper was not the intent - building Big Table was the intent and when they were done, they ended up writing a paper about it.

If Google uses some of the DeepMind research itself, that's really good. DeepMind can make revenue from Google that way (if they have that arrangement). If they can't, it's hard to justify their existence as an independent financial entity - they're better off just being part of Google.
> If my assertions seem improbable, you have two options:

"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."

You didn't provide evidence, you linked to irrelevant popular articles and someone's homework assignment. Not only did I not ridicule your post, I was careful to follow HN's guideline of assuming good faith even though that seems to not be the case here.

> You mentioned you're from the heart of Walton-ville (You lived by Store #002? how interesting!). Have you spent any time in the midwest ghost towns surrounding their local Supercentre?

I grew up near Harrison, AR. Most of those "ghost towns" were dependent upon a single business that has either closed up or moved away, usually in the manufacturing or petroleum industries.

I've heard many people say WalMart has killed all of these towns, but I've never seen any evidence for it.
I think so I haven't used gitlab enough. Yeah libraries do need to become large enough but I think angular2 is ~19k stars & 2k watchers which is more than expressjs/express watchers but less stars, but it depends because I do sort of this role with expressjs/session which is pretty small 1-2k stars I try to help with what issues I know how to and to get all the information from the users to help debug. We have only had one issue (that I know of) of users negatively critiquing the library.
Redis is great for server-side caching to recall data that you normally get from a database often.

If you need client side storage, try jedis (a redis fork in javascript) or lokijs or pouchdb which are all client-side databases.
The price may be related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13107569
Can somebody explain a NAND shortage to me? Because without understanding it, it sounds like "we are out of bits".
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Funny how I just finish my Thesis on automation and its effects on globalization and the workforce the day before this comes out...
What is the point when you have Vim, Atom, and Sublime Text?
And yet we are willing to pay 2x for food from farmers markets, artisans etc. That food was made with processes that go against technological progress. Why not apply the same thinking to selling the food in stores? The cashiers can provide added value (socializing, helping with selection, etc) that we are willing to pay for.
The only difference is CostCo employs a "turnstile", whereas Amazon will build one.
Looks more like they are copying the syntax (surface structure) of the valley rather than the substance. Which is a problem in the Valley too (e.g. I've heard people worry that they haven't pivoted "yet" since their first plan is working out.)
This is naïve. In reality, the larger companies will be the ones that can afford the technological advancement, and they will eventually drive the bodegas, convenience stores, and small groceries out of business. The benefits that would otherwise accrue to the shop owners will accrue to the leadership of major corporations instead.
Except they won't, because nobody will pay for that. It's easy to find an alternative occupation - it's much more difficult to propose one that's reachable when you consider the starting point and economic reality (living costs money; retraining costs money; people low on the ladder usually don't have cash to burn).
I paid $265,000 for my house, which at the time had a Zestimate around $500,000. After our purchase, the Zestimate slowly rose over $950,000. While I understand we got a good price on our building, I knew the Zestimate was garbage.

A couple of weeks ago, the Zestimate dropped to $435,000. This would definitely be closer to an accurate value, but there's also no record of the recalculation at all in the graph.

At this point, it's basically noise.
You are correct they didnt have to agree to change anything. But there were other houses that were closer ( one of the comparables that he pcked was in a different neighborhood and was waaay cheaper ) and houses that were more similar so we pointed that out. He agreed and redid the estimate with houses that were closer both on distance and in size/amenities. All of this was throught the realtors ours and theirs.
I don't see any practical use for this. You're just sending text around. This breaks most OTP conventions, you lose insight from the Observer, etc..

If all you want is message passing you should just use something like zeromq which would allow for a lot more than just Elixir to Ruby.
Workloads have been reduced before.

The 40 hour workweek is significantly shorter than the 6 12 hour work days people used to endure.

Why not reduce the workweek again, to say, 32 hours?
It sounds like the demand sharply increased recently due to smartphones and other advancements while production stayed steady.
I've never seen a child physically punished here in Norway, in fact it is very rare indeed to hear a raised voice. Usually when you do hear a raised voice and see a misbehaving child it is a visitor or, occasionally, a refugee.

I remember being shocked when on holiday in Sweden, Gothenburg, a couple of years ago I saw an American (speaking American accented English at least) man slap a misbehaving child in the street.

In thirty years of living in Norway I have never heard of any child known to my family being spanked.

I think that the reason for no corporal punishment here is simply because children are expected to behave themselves and that it is assumed that they are, to a degree at least, rational beings who can be persuaded to behave instead of compelled.
Startup social network allows self-promotion
I see that you are the OP. You sound like English is not your first language. So, perhaps you just worded it poorly. But without knowing you well, the only thing I can respond to uis your actual words.

And here is the deeper problem: My remark that you owe veterans an apology has not been responded to by you. In fact, it was downvoted into the negatives and you are like the fifth person to come in here to essentially shoot me down and treat me like I am stupid and do not have a real point.

Meanwhile, you posit "if we could all just get along."

You do not even know how to communicate effectively or engage someone with skin in the game with genuine respect when the only thing at stake is words on a forum. That is your answer as to why military spending is not merely frivolous.

You have a long way to go before you, personally, are in any kind of position to advocate that we all just get along. Perhaps in your journey, you should note that Shaolin priests were fearsome warriors because they believed "A man of peace must be strong."
I always love the debate on whether great products are imagined or are discovered through experimentation (certainly a bit of both). This post details the advice I usually give to startups on this topic and I'm happy to answer questions and join the discussion.
That is something we have thought about a lot. Right now all designer on the platform are invite only. They have to apply, we review their work and make a decision. That has worked out very well for us so far.
Run C, C++, Go and Node.js programs as processes in browsers
Quite probably hand typed.
There's a javascript Redis fork called Jedis? That's extremely confusing as jedis is a common Java Redis client library...
"Let them learn to code"
A bunch of grocery stores here on the West Coast are replacing their self checkout lines and going back to checkers. They're saying that it's to "improve the customer experience" but people in the industry know (due to tests done by other retailers who bypassed the technology once they tested it, like Costco), its because of product loss/shoplifting. I know it's not apples and oranges but I do think that the loss margin is going to be so high on this that only Amazon will be able to eat this -- and I think they know this.
Wal-mart doesn't care about waste - I doubt any big corporations do. What Wal-mart does is just pass along that cost to every other customer, and in the end that is the only person you are hurting.
How does this scale. Would camera be able to follow 100 people at the same time?
It's more likely that Russia simply underreports malnutrition.

Anyway, got more specifics on the weather forecaster giving health advice on air pressure changes? I mean, other than, "watch out for rain"?
I, too, enjoy many of my social interactions while shopping.

I think that, per the grandparent, current initiatives are not grasping nor addressing the entire scope of the existing... "paradigm" -- sigh, to try to find a word for it.

To reduce it severely but pertinently, in the news recently, "studies show" that people who feel valued and that they have a roll in society, family -- in life -- they live longer.

And what happens when we stop interacting with each other? When that daily communication between work domains and social classes ends? Again, reduction to the almost absurd -- but we're living it -- we get President Trump.

Trump may end up doing ok -- we'll see. But the shock on many maybe liberal, Amazon Prime shopping upper middle class faces? Try actually talking to, with, and not at, the people around you, serving you.

When people stop to think about it, I think most find value in the people around them, much more than the things.

Not all value is encompassed in the fastest delivery for the cheapest price. (Which Amazon seems to be increasingly falling down on, anyway, per my recent experiences.)
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I believe the people above are arguing that his intent was to create a prank more so than to create a clock by moving a clock from its original case to a suitcase which is how bombs look often on TV. Along with that argument, people would often argue that Steve Wozniak spent a night in jail for building a fake bomb around the same age. They would also often argue that Wozniak is a white male & therefore would argue against race having anything to do with this; especially in the current tense climate in regards to bombs compared to the climate when Wozniak was in school.
That makes a lot of sense. I wonder if facebook is a more or less effective force-feeder of perspective than traditional media. The instantaneous, self-affirming discourse that goes on, I think, is probably more compelling.
I'm just not seeing it:

http://camelcamelcamel.com/Corsair-Flash-Voyager-Slider-256G...

http://camelcamelcamel.com/Patriot-512GB-Supersonic-Magnum-P...

The article claims consumer USB storage should be the first to suffer the price increases, but a quick plot of amazon prices shows the opposite, if anything: prices steadily decreasing.

I guess I should check back in January and see if the prices rose?
Thank you. This discussion has been ironic and maddening with multiple people piling on to attack me while implying I am merely too stupid to see that the point is "we come in peace and desire to all just get along."
I know what volunteering is: I do it myself. Every week I spend several hours helping kids with their homework at a local school. This is not at all the same thing as spending 8 hours a day working a cash register, dealing with rude customers without being rude in return, being expected to cover coworkers' shifts when they're sick, working during holiday hours instead of spending time with family, etc. etc. etc.
No 5$ plan so it's meh...
An appraisal is telling you what the market will bear for a particular property. What better indication of the market value than the most recent price agreed to?
It felt like every day I had a notification waiting to be opened about how badly we had fucked up.

It's interesting that the author phrases it this way, and dove tails nicely into a thought I've been having about interaction on the internet for a while. I don't say this specifically to the author, but generically, it's even something I'm working on being more aware of.

Social tools and other apps have turned notifications into a Pavlovian variable-interval reward loop. This makes negativity even harder to handle. But seeing the system laid bare makes it easier to make decisions about.

The notification loop sort of evolved that way with texts, but is also a purposeful tool of manipulation. We politely don't conceptualize it as "manipulation" because there is weight to that word, and we don't necessarily assume the app designer is acting in bad faith. But it's still manipulative.

Think of it like this: Who _needs_ to be able to interrupt you every waking moment of your life? Then why are you letting a single person more? Disable notifications, and just set a recurring calendar event to check email/twitter/whatever.
What is the conclusion? Should we care about threading for dom manipulation?
The response to his comment was immediate, unanimous, and unequivocal.

HN mods responded, the comment was flagged and killed and downvoted to hell.

Also, the way it was written may not have been the way he intended to come across. Read dang's comment, as well as his downthread comment.

All things considered, HN is definitely not a bad place.
You can say that, but I don't see many wealthy Americans parking their money made in the US in China, whereas there are a multitude of Chinese citizens investing in the North America/Europe as a means of safeguarding their capital.

I think that's somewhat telling in terms of which legal system is trusted more.
Software is eating the world and Amazon is eating software.
You can't really generalize about Reddit comment quality; it depends entirely on what you're looking at. Quality is strongly inversely correlated with sub size, so all the default subs are pretty bad. But there are notable exceptions to that correlation, like the consistently awe-inspiring /r/askhistorians
Simple. Step back and let people listen to, and say, what they want.

The police will undoubtedly come and arrest a few of them for what they say, but that's not your problem. Let the legal system handle the issues.

The only thing making this a problem is Facebook's insistence on curating what you see so they can show you ads. They made this problem themselves and could solve it in an instant by stopping the interference.
Amazon in Seattle is a large enough org that they can "beta test" something like this with 10k+ employees that don't work on anything related to it, and get basically the same feedback as opening to the public.
Schweitzer may have been a thoughtful guy but I think this case is a reach; after all the vast majority of Bach's work had no libretto at all (including for example all the organ fugues, and the Goldberg variations and Brandenburg concertos).

However a counterexample from my own life: I only learned German starting in my late 20s and when, 10 years later I heard the Matthäus-Passion and could understand the lyrics I wept...and I don't even know much about christianity.
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