skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting about this on a per-capita basis. Is ~$2K per citizen a lot? I wonder what comparable #s for the US and Russia are.

(Note that with 16,000-18,000 people doing the moving, it's very large per intermediary)
Looking for a Co-founder – H1 2017
This is an experiment that I hope will catch on. Biannual (first weekday of Jan and July). Equity offered should be 20% or more; since this isn't about hiring.

Use the following format:

- Project Name

- Project Description

- Equity offered to co-founder (%)

- Time spent to date (Person-days)

- Estimated effort required to reach alpha (Person-days)

- Links to the project if any

- Technology, Frameworks, Skills etc: (eg: "DevOps, Docker, Go" or "Sales")

- Email address (obfuscate as necessary)

- Looking for Funding? How much? (optional)
Oh I don't like the situation either, I'm just saying there's no need to be guilty! :)
That sounds like a very good plan. You get a Silicon Valley pay but a cheaper cost of living.
Totally agree! I'd move to Vancouver, BC in a heartbeat, but work out there can be hard to find.
> I bought a house for cash in Las Vegas after the crash and the bank never once asked where I got the funds to do so. I'm pretty sure they were supposed to.

Umm, no. It only. I, but that's frightening. You have a right to privacy in a private transaction like that. Where you will run in to a ton of questions is when you use a big chunk of money for a down payment on a mortgage. In that case the bank wants to make sure you didn't borrow the down payment and get in over your head.
This post is timely for me because it happens to encapsulate the way I've found a balance recently between test driven development and "test after writing" development that seems to be very effective for me.

As the article notes, writing all tests first is unreasonable because you won't know all implementation details until you have to make them; the tests I write first are thus functional tests, nowadays with cucumber.

Writing tests after coding is lacking, philosophically, because you often spend your time defining the abstractions and then just rewriting a verification of that abstraction in tests, plus some null checks.

The balance I've been using has been to write tests for abstractions I come up with, one my one. If an abstraction is decoupled and encapsulated, the unit tests come naturally. If i have to write a lot of mocks for an abstraction, that often tells me it isn't cleanly decoupled or simplified.

Furthermore, as you write tests as you go this way, you often find yourself writing the same support code more than once, at which point you notice it and find abstractions in that support code; this ends up explicitly giving you a view of what conscious and subconscious assumptions you have about what inputs you are expecting and what assumptions you have made. This is often enlightening.
There are groups of people that seem to think that sacrificing local experience should be shoved aside solely on the basis to add more Housing should be the most important thing.
What price range? Mine's around 250, but I haven't checked the innerwest. I mostly like the east because it's close(ish) to the beach and a lot of my uni friends stayed in the east. I could never justify Bondi or even clov, too much money, and the culture is too far up it's own a@@. Coogee is liveable though.
Negative gearing is only one piece of the puzzle. There is also a 50% CGT discount if you hold an investment for more than a year.

And yes, it applies to shares too, but it's not possible to get this amount of debt leverage for buying shares.

There is also 100% CGT exemption if the property is owner-occupied. The worst part is that it extends up to 6 years after you move out (e.g. to rent somewhere cheaper). So you can buy a property, live in it for a year (at which point it's deemed primary residence), then rent it out for up to 6 years, move back in for a year, rinse, repeat, and avoid paying any CGT when you sell. Obligatory: none of this is tax advice.
Can you explain we what you mean by "all the benefits that come with being a Canadian city" please?
Keep it up, and get a new mission! :-)
> You must grow at scale to make it worthwhile, and then you need distribution.

I am making the exact opposite point. It is easy to grow a few marijuana plants in your own home, or even easier to grow an outdoor variety in your garden. Two or three plants is more than enough for even a heavy user.

All this is beside the point though, because as many others have already pointed out to you, the cartels would fall apart if the US legalized recreational drugs. Kidnapping, racketeering, etc. are just not nearly as profitable as the drug trade. Some drug dealers might move on to other criminal activities (though many actually have a conscience and would not do absolutely anything for money, believe it or not), but you're denying historical precedent if you don't think that legalization would wipe out the illegal drug trade and seriously undercut the cartel's ability to make money. Why is it that gangs don't still control alcohol distribution now that prohibition is over?
For what it's worth, most GPS chips report elevation (however accurate or inaccurate that may be). It could be as "simple" as using the elevation data in the existing traces, assuming they didn't strip that or fail to save it.

Then again, for common elevation data, there are loads of other good sources which can be used in conjunction with OSM, not sure about licensing though.
Good article.

Trump seems to be completely confused when it comes to Russia. On the one hand, he says he wants to make friends with it. On the other hand he says he wants to greatly expand defense spending and build a new generation of nuclear weapons and delivery systems, which would enrage Russia. He also wants to greatly increase oil production, which would lead to oil prices falling even further than they already have in the last two years, and would be devastating to the Russian economy.

Any Trump supporters out there who would like to try to make sense of all this?
Since no one will I'm volunteering to sing at the presidential inauguration
This Year in Ruma, 2016
Anything less than 2 weeks is a gamble; I follow the time zone list closely and go out of my way to poke some maintainers of libraries we depend on when something like the Egypt change happens
Sure. But historic districts are not the majority of zoned land in any city. I mean, the imperial palace gardens remain in the middle of super-dense super-expensive central Tokyo, as do many other historic landmarks and districts in dense cities (and non-historical but significant landmarks too: nobody is removing central park from NYC either).

Actually, an even stronger argument is that, well, cities need more than housing. You need city planning and zoning because huge buildings need commensurate transportation, sanitation and water/power supply infrastructure. But neither this, nor preserving hundred years old historically important districts, are what people complain when they complain about zoning. You can plan for more public infrastructure at the same time you allow lots of new construction. Hell, you can tax the developers of the new buildings to front most of the public infrastructure upgrade costs, then distribute the maintenance over the now expanded population. People complain when a city fails to do this for years even in the face of strong demand pressure, because the lower the supply the more the real state investments of existing owners appreciate in the short term.
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Echoing. I started with the web hosting industry, then got into the web stuff.

I think a lot of web developers really don't understand hosting and all the ins and outs of it. And by a lot, I mean a strong majority.
Yep, my first thought was that all of those "behind-the-scene" photos were 3d-rendered as well. Are we being fooled?
Palantir could help power ‘extreme vetting’ of immigrants
As a southerner who has moved West, I contend that the South needs to fix a huge amount of its culture before there will be the thriving mix of industry and creativity you can find in cities like SF, Seattle, and Boston. Let's not forget that the south has not been the engine of the American economy since slavery was (de jure) abolished.

The South's peculiar mix of dominionism and right-wing fervor makes strange bedfellows of fundamentalists and rapacious capitalists. Low taxes starve infrastructure and the social safety net, and those are what drives stability. Without stability, entrepreneurialism cannot happen. Without entrepreneurialism, the closest you get are places like Austin and RTP: big, established companies moving people for tax reasons that does nothing to foster innovation.

Atlanta really should be the next big tech hub, but it won't be so long as the regressive politics and systemic racism of the south remain unaddressed. Charlotte would be great except that things like HB2 make the prospect of moving to NC a complete nonstarter for many in the already-marginalized LGBTQ population. The list goes on.
As an immigrant living in Toronto, I would say people. I have never been to states, so you can tell me if i'm wrong or not but Canadian people are really helpful, polite and courteous. You don't notice it till you go out of Canada. Also as a brown person, i have never had a single incident of Racism here.
And cost of living.
Celiac here, gluten, sugar, sodium nitrites, monosodium glutamate, caffeine, all these wreak havoc on my body. A lot of people are addicted to these, and a lot of people can see great health benefits by giving them up. Passing them off as demon food fads does little good and little to educate people. I used to joke on gluten free. I barely knew anything about it. Here I am now saying it changed my life. Being less dismissive might help others to find out about their health conditions sooner.
As well as negative gearing, there is also the main residence exemption from capital gains tax. Aside from the tax system, residences are also assessed differently from other wealth when determining if someone should receive the old-age pension.
What you said applies quite a bit to Financial Mathematics. The stakes are high and people look for patterns in the noise. They see patterns because if you look in 1000 random sequences, you'll find 50 statistically significant patterns. And they never publish their mistakes either. :-)
I grew up there and it really is great. Unfortunately housing prices have gone through the stratosphere and I'm 'stuck' in Seattle which although having a stronger tech presence, hasn't been hit as hard by the Chinese invasion.
The USDA DB has a lot of good info on total sugar content in foods. Not "hidden sugars" per-se, but still, having total sugar content of many foods in a single location is pretty useful. The full DB is available in CSV files as well if you click around on their website. There is data for 77,000 foods!

https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list
SF, Oakland, or Berkeley. My family and friends are in the Bay Area. The weather is nearly unparalleled. The food variety is solid. Transit is not that bad, if you compare the cities I mentioned to the rest of the US.

I guess the tech scene is decent, but the other factors I mentioned mean a lot more to me. (I would almost prefer it if the area weren't as much of a hotspot, actually...)
Top 20 Objective Questions on Evolution of Internet – InfoTechSite
Kathy Sierra gave an informative talk on the topic of learning at the 2015 O'Reilly Fluent conference. It's entitled "Making Badass Developers".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKTxC9pl-WM
Yeah, don't actually use this. It's vulnerable to stuff that's been out of style for 20 years.

Strong suggestion: try https://nacl.cr.yp.to/ instead.
In terms of business, I question whether most companies have the financial justification to implement math heavy software strategies, or novel strategies.

For many businesses, I wonder if their software requirements are generally boring with many parts of their problem already solved and implemented in the form of a framework, with a few libraries waiting to be glued together.

I also have the suspicion that for companies such as Cloudflare, where there is justification to implement either novel or math-heavy strategies, these kinds of companies trust very few people to make the business and technical judgment call to pursue a strategy aside from simply using off-the-shelf solutions.

But a lot of people may be screened on these matters without the company ever intending to take advantage of the abilities they test for. I really wonder how often Google takes advantage, or even trusts their employees, to make such decisions or exercise such abilities, as opposed to a few superstar Googlers.
No where in particular and everywhere at the same time because the beauty is in moving around.
Mingjie “Jack” Zhao
BC is by far and away the most impacted region. Let's list some quick housing prices examples:

NL - Amsterdam up 15% in 2016 [-1]

AU - Sydney up 17% over 5 years [0]

NZ - up 13% oct 2015-2016 [1]

BC - Metro Vancouver up 31.4% August 2015-2016 alone. BC (not just vancouver) housing prices have almost tripled since 2004. [2]

No, these new rules the BC government has put in place are not going to work. I've commented on the reasons before here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12873156

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12215490

[-1] http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Europe/Netherlands/Price-...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_property_bubble

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-02/the-rich-...

[2] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/26-slump-in-v...
Infrastructure boilerplate
Project: Isotropy (Isotropy.org)

Desc: Isotropy is an Open Source framework (tranpilers mostly) that enables developers to write backend functionality (such as database querying) using native JavaScript constructs.

//This db agnostic code
db.customers = [];
db.customers = db.customers.concat(customer);

//Transpiles into an insert
await collection("customers").insert(customer);

We have a full specification for all DB, FileSystem and HTTP/RPC APIs that map to native JS objects like Arrays and Objects.

Finally the idea is to enable full app development inside Browser DevTools, with a button that transpiles and deploys to a server.

Equity offered: 25%

Time spent: 200 days

Effort to Alpha: 30 days

Links: https://github.com/isotropy/simple-todos

Technology: Node.JS, Babel Plugins

Email: In profile

Looking for Funding: Not now
I recommend people review the Amazon/Office Depot reviews for that one. Plus note the 250 pound maximum weight (I wouldn't buy this if you're over 225 pounds).
I'd recommend http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equat... .

A couple of "lower level" explanations - http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/03/list-out-of-lambda/ (a somewhat easier start) and http://codon.com/programming-with-nothing - show where part of the power comes from.
also imagine when self-driving car companies start contributing their camera data. you could have pretty good coverage of textures and other things.
What’s New in Amazon Kindle Fire OS 5.1.1 Update? Let’ Find Out
No guns and free healthcare are two things that come to mind.
I realize the topic says "book" not "books" but I've got two:

"Hard-Core: Life of My Own" by Harley Flanagan

I've been a huge fan of the Cro-Mags for a long long time. I've had the extreme pleasure of seeing them about eight times now. But never with Harley. And until I read this book I never really knew why he wasn't there. I mean, you hear people talk, but they weren't there, they don't know what went down. This book is an absolute must read for anyone who has even a passing interest in punk. It's a look into the life of one of the most colorful and talented musicians the genre has produced. It's written in a very casual conversational style and consists mostly of string of anecdotes told from Harley's point of view as he's remembering his life from his toddler years up until early 2016. Even if New York Hardcore isn't really your thing I still highly recommend it. He manages to capture in a very raw and visceral way the NYHC era he is largely responsible for ushering in. And if you've never heard "The Age of Quarrel" pause whatever you're listening to now and go find it on YouTube or something.

"The Dark Forest" by Cixin Liu

I would include the first book in this series, "The Three-Body Problem", but I read that in December of 2015. All I want to say about this series of books is that you should go into them without knowing anything. Don't read a plot synopsis. Don't even read the little blurb on Amazon product page. Someone recommended I go into it blind, only telling me "It's good.", and I'm so glad I did just that. The moment you find out what the title is referring to gave me goosebumps.
My major issue with Gogs and Gitea is that they lack a cache to store the git history/log. So if you work with repos that have many commits (example, the git repo itself or the linux kernel repo), you will forever be waiting for the commit message for each file to load because Gogs/Gitea scans the entire git log for each file.

This was an issue when I tested Gogs a few months and I don't see any mention of a cache so I think it's still an issue.

For smaller repos though, Gogs works incredibly well.

Regarding this fork, it makes sense if the owner of gogs is not giving write access to others. At the same time it would be a shame if Gitea becomes popular and overshadows Gogs. I hope they can work out a mutually acceptable solution and merge.
it's very easy to feel isolated as a foreigner and seeing thousands of people squishing themselves into the trains every morning doesn't make it better.

I'm here now, have been for six months (on sabbatical; studying Japanese half-time). It's interesting...sometimes I feel isolated (as anyone would when you don't speak or read the language fluently), but folks here have been quite friendly and supportive. I've found it easier to make friends here than in SF (where I've lived for eight years). Inasmuch as you can generalize an entire country, people here are forgiving and curious and friendly...just shy/introverted and overworked.

The foreign people who do best here seem to be the folks who are a) at least a little bit outgoing and well-adjusted, and b) don't have unrealistic prior expectations of what "Japan" is. So many weirdo, socially isolated expats come here expecting one long manga/anime/kawaii/samurai adventure that will fix their broken lives, and they're disappointed to find a country of normal people who work hard, have families and lives, and mostly don't do any of those things.

Love the food and the baths and the transit though. Wish they would adopt insulation. And decent cheese.
I'm pretty sure Peter Thiel is a psychopath. Not as a derogatory term but as it is is defined in a clinical sense. Which is fine but what I find disturbing is that somehow we have allowed him to rise to such high positions of power. I think collectively as humans we should have done better. We shouldn't have made this guy a billionaire.

I don't really know what the article is talking about. Pretty sure it's clickbait. Hadoop could enable extreme vetting of immigrants. You don't need Palantir to help with that.
Thank you very much.
I was not aware of this before, and I think ask agent for help on english is ok, because the assessment is not a test on english.
After read your detailed explain, I think ask the agent write the report for me is not good, I will write it from scratch by myself.
Anyone who's english is not good as me, please dont do the stupid thing like me, dont waste money on rpl-it.com

Thank you, happy new year!
I thought about creating a syllabus of essential biz/capitalism/media movies for new grads tonight. "Network", "There Will Be Blood", "Office Space", etc.

Let's build this thing...
Your perception of your abilities often has little to do with your actual abilities, otherwise the loudest most confident people would always be the most qualified ;)

For instance, one of the side effects of weed is paranoia, which can manifest as self doubt. It doesn't change your abilities, it just adds self doubt.
My understanding is that non-union employees are required to pay union dues since they still benefit from collective bargaining. Some states & contracts have an opt-out.
I was paying ~$100/week for a 3 share in something called Dalgety Square in Ultimo which was a really nice building. That was close to a decade ago now though but I'd be surprised if it had more than doubled but even if it had it was one of the nicer options in the area so I'm sure there is a lot for less.

Understandable on wanting to stay east. Once I moved east I didn't want to go back but there are definitely options available if you do.

Though I did end up moving to Yamba this year for more space for my money.
Sadly true, but I wonder what that means because the layman in a democracy is called upon to be knowledgeable enough to identify whether their elected politicians are mismanaging projects, or if in fact this public transit project is doing well and on the way to success.
Objective Analysis has an entire report on this:
http://objective-analysis.com/Reports.html#Consolidation
> if cars could actually communicate with each other, rather than have to rely on their own cameras, to determine another vehicles position.

I wonder how useful it would actually be though. I don't think you'd want to involve such a complex a distributed system in a hard-realtime domain like deciding whether you're about to hit the other vehicle, the CAP theorem seems pretty unavoidable there.
One benefit I find with code coverage as a goal is that it highlights unused or unnecessary branches, and can encourage me to think about how my code is organized such that code is more easily accessible.

Put another way, those branches that are rarely touched or hard to get to can become a surprise when they are actually reached in some unique situation.

I guess in this case it isn't really the test itself that is useful but instead the requirement to at least hit each branch can cause me to design and organize the code better.
I saw someone driving a Model X in Austin this weekend, car still had dealer tags. He was shooting selfies and clearly documenting himself riding in a car that drives itself. I'm happy he's happy... but I have to say it was annoying to drive behind him.

The software clearly didn't follow the flow of traffic; it was rigidly locked in going the speed limit. That may be OK, but it was a very empty weekend and everyone was going 10-15 miles over the speed limit. So had quite a chain of cars backed up behind him and like a half-mile in front of him before the next car.

It was clear the Tesla software wasn't smart enough to close the gap by accelerating above the posted limits, or move him over to the right-hand lane where he wouldn't block traffic -- we all ended up having to pass him on the right.

I couldn't help but think, "Great... just what we need more of... simulated old people driving slow in the left-hand lanes and cars that encourage jackasses on their phones to take pictures instead of paying attention."

But... to be clear, I still want one. =P