skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of driving housing prices up, I'd expect growth in the stock prices of the bigger companies to be a bigger deal. If Google's stock appreciates 20% (or Apple's, or Microsoft's, or a rising market helps lots of companies out 5%), that affects a much larger number of people with equity than does adding maybe 100 millionaires.

Especially if the main thing keeping a lot of people out of the market is raising a down payment, not affording the monthly mortgage. To make a down payment, you "only" need a few 100k, not millions. It's in reach for people receiving significant equity value from their employers along with strong salaries, you don't need to get boosted into the ultra-rich.
When it comes to Glenn Greenwald, @noahpinion said it best [1]:

Is there a catch-all term for middle-aged white lefty dudes who are pro-Russia because their political outlook was defined by the Iraq War?

[1] https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/815104514046902273
Fake news isn't a new phenomenon, in the 1870s a satrical/comedic article in a New Zealand newspaper about an impending Russian invasion led to such wide spread hysteria that the colonial government almost bankrupted itself. To sate the public it had to invest heavily in naval vessels and build 17 forts to fight off the (non existent) Russian menace.

It's a wee bit hypocritical for the US to get so upset about these things though, considering all the elections that the CIA have been involved in, not to mention the stuff that Snowden revealed (like tapping the German Chancellors phone). Everyone knows that whatever espionage Russia is doing to the US the US is doing back in kind. All the powers will be hacking each other.
Do you know how weird that makes me look when I'm coding on my laptop at the airport?
You don't get to redesign all the cities of the world, and it'd be a mighty impressive feat to move all the traffic to the sky.

There's also a lot more sky up there than there is land down here.
Agreed on the last part. I saw that poll, as well, and couldn't help but shake my head. There's a serious problem with not just the news, but the way people interpret the words used on the news in their own ways, and then spread that interpretation outward without there being any significant checks on the spin getting out of control.
Rhythm of Food
Sounds like Chartouni is a great teacher. A lot of the things she is complaining about (like rubrics) weren't put in place for teachers like her. They are there for the 50% of the teachers that are worse than average.
To be fair: "The first sentence of the article directly linked this cyberattack to alleged Russian hacking of the email accounts of the DNC and John Podesta." so really WP already put this in the context of the election.
Does this make it a moo-t point?
I agree with the headline, even if the content of the op-ed is kind of a mess. Reminds me of Etsy's Code as Craft Speaker Series. My favorite talks by far were the ones that focused on pretty minute issues, such as how to do A/B testing at scale, or how to manage multiple CDNs. Not because those are issues I've ever had to deal with professionally, but because how the details are dealt with are not only interesting from a technical standpoint, but they provide concrete info about a company's values and expectations. In the talk about multiple CDNs, for example, I found it interesting that Etsy had built a substantial amount of infrastructure to auto-detect the failure of a CDN, but it was always up to the engineer on-duty to wake up and push the button to switch CDNs.

In contrast, sometimes the Etsy talks would have grander topics, such as how to be a better entrepreneur, which were often filled with platitudes that offered no real insight or actionable advice.

As a teacher, I tell students that the best way to make an impact is to focus on the details. Because if you even know the details of an important problem like world hunger or injustice, it at least means you've done some research. More importantly, students need to realize that if something is indeed a big, "important" problem, it means that many, many people have been working on it. If these problems could be solved simply by people thinking, "I want to end world hunger!", then they wouldn't be big, complex problems.
> Until I hear that the code was put on the laptop by its owners intentionally and for legitimate reasons, this sounds like an attack

Nobody is disputing that. But "electric company employee's laptop gets a computer virus" is a far cry from "the Russian government is attacking our infrastructure".
> On the other hand, I don't see why so many people think that battery life is so important.

Pretty simple:

1) Not everyone wants to constantly [think about] having to recharge their mobile device, or having it constantly connected. If you go hiking for a few days, you still want to be able to call 911.

2) Applications become heavier and heavier (yay all the ads, embedded browser, 3D stuff, cloud, crypto, etc). If you're on a plane and say play a game because you're bored you may end up easily using for example 40% of your total battery power.

3) The more you need to charge the phone, the quicker the battery degrades (LiOn generally keep working for 1000 recharges). Over their lifetime (that's roughly 3 years of daily recharging) the battery will degrade to less juice within a full cycle [1].

4) Batteries are not user replaceable anymore, so require a third party to perform the swap, at premium price and without full control of the user.

5) There's enough waste as it is, and having to swap phone every 2 years or so creates even more.

6) It also is quite a task deciding which phone to buy, and if you made a mistake or don't have that much money to burn you may end up with a phone not so well supported.

7) Finally, one has to swap their settings and data to their new phone. Sure, you can use clouds. They're free at the cost of your privacy...

A powerbank mitigates some of the above problems, but only so much, and they also suffer from degrading performance by age.

[1] Anecdotal example: my MBP 2010's battery had 740 cycles and is at ~88% capacity when fully charged.
Glenn Greenwald is being really weird about this Russia hacking thing.

Why?
The problem is that there isn't any real criticism. Much like their failed election campaign - they focused so much on character assassination, that any valid criticism of Trump could simply be dismissed.

If I had to argue a point in a university essay, and argued in the fashion the media has for the last year, any of my profs would have failed me.

You'd think educated professionals, in a supposedly intellectual, free society would do better. But nope, just "Putin is a dictator", or "Trump is a racist". It's these journalists' fault no one listens any more.
From the comments, see...

OTCA Metapixel - Conway's Game of Life http://www.instructables.com/id/OTCA-Metapixel-Conways-Game-...

http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern

https://thewalnut.io/visualizer/visualize/3631/987/
> - Dark theme. Customization = good. Sends a good message.

I'm not sure if the customization option would come anytime soon, but a dark theme would very likely come out in 2017 when Apple releases an iPhone with an OLED display. It most likely wouldn't come if the lineup is all LCD (as it has been so far). This is all about battery life, which Apple obsesses about a lot. Assuming there's just text on the screen, with LCD, black text on white background would be better for battery life, whereas on an OLED screen, having white text on a black background would be better for battery life.

Edit: While Apple has shipped (LCD) iPhone models with new versions of iOS and sometimes darker wallpapers, my point above is more about many of the Apple apps, including Settings, Mail, Reminder, and so on.
It's harassment of American diplomats, even outside of Russia. I find that low and disgusting.
See, this is exactly the kind of crap I was talking about.
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I was just thinking about that the other day, as it relates to kids and TV.

You definitely can still limit children's TV watching, but they're not dumb, and it takes more effort now that they know you could play an episode of their favorite show on Netflix any time you please than when your hands were tied by the broadcast schedule. "Sorry, you'll have to wait for next Saturday" was an easier sell when it was impossible for you to do anything about it (well, tape, but if you hadn't already recorded it there was nothing that could be done after the fact).
What the Python code is doing is arguably a form of run-time reflection. Format strings contain embedded variables and expression, and the format function evaluates them: hence reflection.

Format strings occurring as literals in Python source could be treated at compile time, like in Scala.
There's somehow a contradiction between the service you're offering and the name of the service. Postcard BOT feels impersonal, cold and automated, while you associate a postcard with something warm, handwritten, personal. There's a risk that your target market (postcard lovers) might get turned off by the name (bot).
That makes sense.

Seattle is spending 54 billion dollars over the next 25 years for a mere 62 miles of light rail.
Another attempt at articulating what I think is your point: languages have network effects. You're less effective programming in a language if others don't understand what you did. But the notation of OP is intended to not require network effects. Pseudocode is often intended purely to help one privately think through a problem. Even if nobody adopts this notation, it might be useful to you.

Does that seem on the right track? I don't mean to put words in your mouth.
It's not a matter of GG being white or black (not racially), it's a matter of taking his opinions/writings with a bit of salt, but taking them nevertheless.

As much as Noahpinion is entitled to his opinion, so is GG.
Python's string interpolation only works on compile time as well¹, this isn't interpolation, it's a runtime method in the string class, which Scala also has, in fact, with the same name (.format).

¹ (compilation in CPython generally occurs during initialization of the execution, though you can pre-compile files manually)
>Teachers in these institutions are given a level of respect we offer scientists, lawyers, other professionals,

those countries have lesser skewed Pareto, in particular becoming doctor/lawyer/civil engineer/etc. there doesn't result in such high earnings vs. other options, and that makes the other options feasible for capable people.

And while it may look like a zero sum game of redistribution of the capable people it is really not - having wide choice of semi-equal career options people will study&work in their respective career of choice equally hard vs. just slacking in the "looser" choices, especially the unionized ones.
>and I wonder what the motivation for the overdramatization of the Post's failure would be.

You shouldn't wonder. The Washington Post is, and always has been, the voice of the DC/Media establishment and the number one disseminator of their propaganda. Remember that the absurd "PropOrNot" garbage was published in the Washington Post after being turned down by several major media outlets that at least seek to maintain the semblance of credibility.
What does Ruby have to do with any of this?
its not the whole solution. Dont be sensational.

it can only take you 90% of the way there. You still need other transit options.
> Do you have any actual evidence to add to your argument?

No, just like you don't. The paper you posted doesn't cut it because it only discusses how much money was made, not the wellbeing of the fauna.

> $1.4 billion into the US economy.

So that's relatively nothing.
AI and bots are all the rage right now. The word "buddy" is associated with all sorts of malware [0]. I'd say postcardbot is a great name, particularly as the Facebook Messenger implementation actually is a bot.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=buddy+malware&t=h_&ia=web
Yeah that's just simplistic enough for lazy centrists who would rather not put into question their absolute support for the status quo and the official "truth". Iraq aftermath already caused enough turmoil for their precious minds, wouldn't wanna rack up the therapist bills by rocking the boat even further.
This is why every time there was a post about "banning fake news" on HN, I specifically gave WashPost as an example (knowing they've written pure propaganda/false stories in the past) and questioned "whether a site like WashPost would have its fake news articles blocked on Facebook, too", when they are caught manufacturing stories (which they arguably did here).

Because if such articles from the big media companies wouldn't be blocked, then the system would be biased and unworkable, and Facebook or Google will just find a lot of backlash against them over it.
"If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day... maybe you're the asshole."
> I lived through the 60's and 70's and I do not recall ever hearing this.

Really? I do: https://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970...

> Again, I just don't recall ever hearing this.

I think he's referring to either the "acid rain/forest die-off: http://notrickszone.com/2014/08/05/1980s-dire-warnings-of-ac...

or the rainforest (this article contains a bunch of environmental scares that didn't happen): http://notrickszone.com/2014/08/05/1980s-dire-warnings-of-ac...

Or maybe the forest fire commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH_MW0Bi7L4

Or maybe conflating them to make a point.
Sorry, Glenn, that's not fake news.

The intercept has plenty of "all hat" articles where the picture painted by the headlines doesn't necessarily match the content.
Idk, sounds sort of agist, racist, and sexist to me.
snowden lives in moscow now. And the US government did enough to annoy both of them that they decided to defect.
Absolute numbers. I saved at least 4 times as much in NYC. Don't take this to mean much since I am one data point.
Thanks for the tip :). I honestly didn't take that into consideration when naming the project. I'll see what I can do and if it's worth the extra effort :).
>Some people don't want that--they want the restaurants and nightclubs and parks with rotating art installations that only emerge and make sense when you pack people together.

You really think a neighborhood of 70-story buildings can sustain these things as long as people share bedrooms, but can't the instant that children and young adults have their own doors to close?

>More density means fewer people within walking distance of each café, park and restaurant.

Vertical distance costs almost nothing in terms of time, given modern elevators and scheduling. I'll skip the cafe because it's a 40 minute walk instead of 10. You'd really skip the cafe because it's 20 floors down instead of 5? That's, like, one minute on a really bad day.

>If you give each person more space, you reduce density.

Well sure, but the advantages of density really come from compactness in time/ease of transportation rather than space. It doesn't matter that the restaurant is far away from its customers on the vertical axis, because elevators are fast.
At this point there is -zero- evidence Russia hacked anything. Anyone saying that is cringeworthy.
I'm not a fan of Greenwald's style, and didn't enjoy his articles praising Jeremy Corbyn but once again he showed the importance of a balanced media. Where do we go for real news?
Kasparov on the future of Artificial Intelligence
I think people mistakenly felt that he was kicking their religion in the balls or something. It doesn't make any sense to me either.
Apple has been wrong about this sort of thing way more times than it has been right.
I agree. If anything, the idea tends to be a conservative one, given that conservatives tend to avoid problem solving of any kind at the federal (i.e., large scale) level. Conservatives fight against solving almost everything at national level, want problem solving to be smaller, more local. This tends to be an issue for progressives because rich localities have fewer problems (but many resources to solve them) and poor localities tend to have more problems (but fewer resources to solve them).
Those prices are not standard for Portland. There are tons of houses to be had in Portland for $300k-$500k. And many of those are in neighborhoods that most of America would consider insufferably hip.
It makes sense, but I also wonder how much they're really saving by building the infrastructure now and then having to maintain it. One of the greatest lessons SimCity teaches about infrastructure is that you've got to pump a minimum amount of money into the transportation department for your roads -- with very little wiggle room -- or everything seizes up and goes to shit. Even not being used, that stuff costs money, and I can't imagine that a half-trillion-dollar rail project won't need a ton of maintenance. I guess the rights-of-way issues would be much easier to sort out now rather than later, too.
REAL criticism is valid of course.

People are just tired of democrats calling anything who doesn't agree with them a racist/sexist/islamophobe when the VAST majority of conservatives are none of the above.
He's practicing journalism. Demanding verification from sources, particularly historically untrustworthy ones, is basic journalism.
What's the supposed link there? Much of my political outlook comes from the disaster of Iraq, but I'm not pro-Russia and I don't see how they would be related.
You're conveniently not mentioning that this would cause very similar issues:

if (some_cond) {
goto fail;
}
goto fail;
if (some_cond) {
goto fail;
}
if (some_cond) {
goto fail;
}
if (some_cond) {
goto fail;
}

Is it more obvious? Sure. But the real issue is that they weren't testing all of the important failure cases, not that they weren't using one code style over another. Coding style is not going to help you if one of those some_cond values is incorrectly written...
> If I had to argue a point in a university essay, and argued in the fashion the media has for the last year, any of my profs would have failed me.

I'd argue that elections have never been won this way. They've always been about identity and attacking your opponent. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but that the 2016 Democratic campaign was not unique in that regard. Hell, Trump's own campaign was run as a referendum on Hillary Clinton as much as it was anything to do with his strengths.
I agree with this. The notation might also apply to a smallish group of people, like mathematicians in a certain field who use it to communicate and work together. Notations are powerful like programming languages, if you can reuse an existing one or use ones other people you need to work with already know, there is an advantage to that.
If we can't create a common sense and universally accepted definition of fake news that's also specific enough, then no attempts to ban "fake news" should even be made.

In my book, manufacturing 90% of the story based on a "small kernel of truth" still counts as fake news, but perhaps others disagree.

This stuff can lead to war (McCain actually called this an act of war from Russia, after reading the original WashPost article), and in fact it has. Unsurprisingly WashPost was a big part of pushing the U.S. into the Iraq war as well.

https://www.democracynow.org/2004/8/13/washington_post_admit...

No lessons learned, it seems.
thanks for correcting me, actually my statement is not wrong that it has nothing to do with `.format` I was just mistaken about the python code, I tought it means the new stuff (i.e. interpolation), but I actually skipped the first code snippet.
yes, but the us =does have a responsibility to do wjat is best to help the economy.

your statement is good, but only in hindsight. we didnt have that forethought before the crash. its a useless statement.
There isn't any value in establishing an arbitrary boundary. A small clickbait blog with a story that is 100% manufactured typically has less effect on public opinion than a mainstream outlet that publishes half or quarter truths. They are both doing a huge disservice to the public and are ethically bankrupt, and shouldn't even be called journalists.
Define weird. Unless you just want to suggestively italicize some words and wink wink nod nod

I am pretty skeptical about the extent of direct Russian governmental involvement in the hacking of the DNC and Podesta's email account given the paucity of evidence. It would seem far more likely that Putin's regime turns a blind eye to certain activities either originating in or passing through their domain, as long as the target falls within certain parameters.

Don't get me wrong, I think a certain amount of firm resolve is due to be shown to Russia now and in the future, but I think there are many valid reasons for that without needing to invent them.
No doubt it's quite weird, but I am of the opinion that hardware should serve the code and coder, not the other way around. Maybe use a portrait orientation tablet with a bt keyboard for travel. I think there could be a small market for laptops with a portrait mode, too.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13293198 and marked it off-topic.
The Memory Models That Underlie Programming Languages
But again, within one line you've diverted from talking about the actual topic, Putin, to a random attack on a preconceived notion of what "Democrats" are. How is that relevant?

(All else aside, "the problem with Democrats is that they stereotype large groups of people" is a fantastically ironic statement to make)
No problem — that's context that may not have been obvious with the way the link was posted. Thanks for being willing to reconsider! Hope you'll check out Gomix, too. :)
Doesn't that mean, huge impending rise in real wages? Because if so, sign me up!
And closing down a school for diplomats kids...except it appears that didn't happen either. I am finding it very hard to believe any of the Russia vs US news
San Francisco is not nearly dense enough. It can support a lot more housing. Easily. It's just NIMBYs and cronies in the way.

Despite having significant growth opportunity San Fran is already twice as dense as Seattle. Therefore Seattle has room for explosive housing growth. It would need more changes than just housing of course. But that's to be expected and totally doable.

Cities are huge economic multipliers. We don't need more cities yet. The ones we have are perfectly great! We need to more efficiently use what we already have.

This housing crisis isn't affecting just "top tier" cities.
It's not just New York and San Fran. It's Seattle. It's Denver, Austin, and Portland. It's even Nashville!

Every city, top to bottom, needs to be doing more. And they need to start now as the longer they wait the more expensive the infrastructure adjustments become.
That is a logical fallacy, coldfire. You cannot conclude that because the ozone layer was a legitimate issue that anything else is. All things must stand on their own merit.

In addition, the legitimacy of of climate change wasn't his point. He was answering the original posters question, as to how anybody could not believe in climate change. In this, his points were factual. Those are the exact reasons that naysayers give.
> Personally I can't work without extreme autonomy - luckily I'm a web engineer where this is basically standard.

Do you work at startups? I moved from being a back-end web engineer towards operations and systems programming to regain my autonomy as at mid sized and larger companies (who pay better than startups) the developers were all micro managed.
It makes us look hypocritical. We are hypocritical. Who is the current administration trying to fool? The world or its citizens?

The petty finger pointing needs to stop. The low sophistication of the DNC hack just reinforces this. Besides, if you don't want to be embarrassed then don't do embarrassing things and then sulk when you're exposed.
I'm always surprised when someone backs up their claims.