skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to take into account all time periods from the time the interest rate charges started (beginning of loan) through to the time when the bank's loan is terminated.

They may have (potentially) had a few month's worth of being underwater but they were able to borrow at a lower rate also.

Further, there are several %age points of spread between what banks pay to borrow and what the mortgage rate is, further cushioning them. See the CIDOR here: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/canada/interbank-rate ... now compare with the mortgage rates a bank will charge.

EDIT: CIDOR under 1% but ratehub.ca says the best 5-year fixed rate you can get is... 2.42% .
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GObject/GTK also have GBinding's, which are exposed in PyGObject. Most of the remaining problems stem from things like List/Tree components that use complex models, though providing a derived model class that is backed by a reactive data store would handle that nicely.
Per a blind friend of mine, they are useful. Both for himself, and as cues for his dog.
>One of Trump's favorite tactics is to appropriate negative phrases like "fake news" to dilute its bite
When has he done that and it hasn't been fake news?

Do you think that fake news is just right wing news that is false or can false left wing news also be fake news? Hypocrites.
Why would Apple buy Spotify? Or Google, for that matter? Both already have streaming services. Spotify has some nice features but I'm not convinced they're worth all that much money in the end.
There's a tiny little bit of a difference between 'the villains kill various members of team good' and whatever this stuff is:

“Hey, Draco, you know what I bet is even better for becoming friends than exchanging secrets? Committing murder.” “I have a tutor who says that,” Draco allowed. He reached inside his robes and scratched himself with an easy, natural motion. “Who’ve you got in mind?” Harry slammed The Quibbler down hard on the picnic table. “The guy who came up with this headline.” Draco groaned. “Not a guy. A girl. A ten-year-old girl, can you believe it? She went nuts after her mother died and her father, who owns this newspaper, is convinced that she’s a seer, so when he doesn’t know he asks Luna Lovegood and believes anything she says.” … Draco snarled. “She has some sort of perverse obsession about the Malfoys, too, and her father is politically opposed to us so he prints every word. As soon as I’m old enough I’m going to rape her.”

Also it's been many many years since I've read the books, but I don't remember a whole lot of killing on the parts of the heroes; a quick check of the Harry Potter wiki confirms that Neville killed Scabior, Molly Weasley killed Bellatrix, and various monsters bit it; I'm also going to choose not to count the obvious other example on grounds of intent.
"If I want news, I can go to a news website/aggregator"

The one time I found twitter to be far superior is when I heard gunshots outside my apartment and found the location and a pretty good understanding of what happened within a few minutes.
Ruby makes working with things like HL7 super easy. Check out the super extensible HL7 ruby parser I wrote here: https://github.com/sufyanadam/simple_hl7_parser. It currently focuses on parsing ORU messages but can be easily extended to support any HL7 segment. Feel free to submit a PR :)
fancy words, exciting claims, and absolutely no detail whatsoever.

with all due respect, said politely, it is my opinion that you are a charlatan.
I wonder if anyone has ever used something like SuperMemo or Anki to learn the sounds (not the textual representation) or morse code, and to also do the same to improve their morse code recognition speed.

I'm trying to learn morse code myself now, and virtually all the morse code tutorial programs I've found use the ancient Koch and Farnsworth methods, which are fine as far as they go, but I'm hoping there's a better way.

Both SuperMemo and Anki seem to assume there's a binary "either you learn it or you don't" state for each item you're trying to memorize. But with morse code you can have many degrees of fluency. You could remember a character at a certain speed, but fail to remember it at a faster speed.

I'm not sure if SuperMemo or Anki have any ways to recognize or deal with that sort of spectrum of recognition ability, or to deal with it in a very dynamic way by varying the speed morse code characters (or words) are presented to the learner.
So, in short, if I walk up and press a button, I have no indication whether that button will give me an audible signal...

Probably for that reason, the audible signals around here are audible all the time - there's a slow tempo signal for "stop" and a significantly more urgent, higher tempo signal for "go".
The post sounds a little off to me too but why do you think no one would openly talk about the NSA before 2006? Nerds have been telling each other ghost stories about ECHELON since the 90s at least and Bramford's books and many other disclosers are even earlier.
> There are plausible reasons for major technology companies to come out against net neutrality that are in their own self-interest, not just good-will.

Sorry, just to clarify, are you saying that there are plausible reasons for major technology companies to support net neutrality because of their self interest?

(I found your statement a bit hard to parse.)
My house has a number of details that would never be put in a spec house, because only someone like me would be willing to pay for them. I expect when this house is sold, it will garner a 0% premium for those features.

For example, it has GFCI breakers for all circuits, not just the bathroom ones. For another, it has a stainless steel sill plate (which keeps wood boring insects from coming up through cracks in the foundation).
Did Congo’s crisis just get a lot worse?
Ideally, ePub would be "reflowable HTML plus baked-in things you would obviously want in a book made dead simple for author-editor-publisher workflows that will never involve a programmer in a million years". Proper footnotes that appear on the same page as the thing they're footnoting, for example.

In practice though this is still a shitshow even in ePub 3, 99% of publisher just ship a pile of endnotes, and consequently certain authors like Terry Pratchett are a god-awful experience in ebook format. Jumping back and forth every 30 seconds sucks.

There are work-around that can be done with JS or certain reader-specific markup you can use for iBooks to at least get pop up footnotes, but most publishing houses don't have the technical knowhow or desire to invest that much time in doing the right thing. There needs to be dedicated markup and a better standard for how readers should treat its display whenever possible.

A real failure of the standardization committee, and it will likely only get worse with a group that cares even less about books specifically. The standard continues to be driven by people more interested in gee-whiz features than solving longstanding problems in replicating table-stakes features of print.
> A potential European famine won't happen because the lacking quantities of food will be imported, to the detriment of all with less purchasing power

I can't believe that in today's connected world this would happen to the determent of other nations. Sure 150 years ago in Ireland type scenario but these days if a local populace was starving the government would shut borders on food. No democratic government would stay in power otherwise and I doubt a dictatorship could either. It's a different world.

That said purchasing power would be used by wealthy nations to buy any excess. But also I feel like in the scenario from the book there would be very limited excess so it's a stretch to claim there would be no European famine as you can't expect there to be excess food from any nation. Grass overs a hell of a lot of food production directly and also indirectly in things like meat production.
I knew something like this must exist! Thank you.

I can't believe there's an entire /8 block dedicated to this. That's like owning a square mile of land in downtown San Francisco.
The people holding them had some synched up dance moves, so they definitely had practice
Nobody's going to switch carriers because of free data. I think you're missing the point here
No, but they probably have a fairly decent small set of expensive failover servers for their web site and customer databases, and will almost certainly have a desktop to communicate the days' financials back to head office in a different state/country.

In a world where mesh networking is a reality, when a franchisee buys into a chain business it will come with local networking hardware, part-and-parcel with the branded window-signs and soul-destroying uniforms.

In my personal little dream-future, anyway :-)
Capitalism in a Bottle (2015)
Confirmation bias means they aren't strictly facts you're believing
I'll definitely look into doing a "Show HN" post once ready. Thank you for your feedback and suggestion!
Not Everyone in Tech Cheers the H-1B Visa Program
Guy Steele's talk, "Growing A Language", is very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
http://cancerpreventionresearch.aacrjournals.org/content/4/2...

>The mechanism is not known, but heme iron has a catalytic effect on (i) the endogenous formation of carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds and (ii) the formation of cytotoxic and genotoxic aldehydes by lipoperoxidation. A review of evidence supporting these hypotheses suggests that both pathways are involved in heme iron toxicity

The irony is, of course, heme iron is the highest bioavailability form of iron, and is one of the main reasons to consume meat in the first place:

http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/3290310

> Food iron is classified as heme or nonheme. Approximately half of the iron in meat, fish, and poultry is heme iron. Depending on an individual's iron stores, 15% to 35% of heme iron is absorbed. Food contains more nonheme iron and, thus, it makes the larger contribution to the body's iron pool despite its lower absorption rate of 2% to 20%.
Long ago I visited a company that made agricultural sorting equipment. They were trying to develop a new machine for sorting ears of corn. Among the requirements, the machine had to be capable of rejecting a dead rat.

My partners and I were bidding to design the machine... we didn't get the job.
I wouldn't have suspected that with your username ;p
The audience was doing choreographed moves during certain songs, so it was not random at all.
The parent comment makes no reference to right wing news, or even any judgment on the fakeness of left or right wing news.
It isn't that hard to coordinate professional dancers to do what they did.
That has more to do with familiarity than anything else.

A tale of two cities is an easier book for an English speaker than Les Aventures de Tintin.

Map applies a function to each item in a collection.

As pseudo-code:

Collection.map(function)

And in the parents example we have:

[1,2,3].map(&:to_s)

The only Ruby specific part is &:.
But imagine if you did a study about lungs of runners, but did not account for who smoked.
On macOS I recommend GrandPerspective:
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
The proportion of water is certainly not meaningless when considering the expected caloric intake of a food administered ad libitum. Satiety is partially controlled by stretch receptors in the gut lining and common sense will tell you it's much harder to consume the same amount of calories from a 2g/100mL sugar solution as from a 10g/100mL solution.
So it's like Calculus textbooks. 13th edition versus 12th edition: let's add 8 pages of new contents, mostly about the early life of Leibniz, but most importantly, let's scramble all the exercise numbers.
Since moving to Thailand I've come to despise concrete roads.

The Thai approach to road building seems to be:
1. dump/spread/compress boat loads of sand (yes you read that right, SAND) until you have a smooth surface that would work well for a kids sandpit.

2. Pour reinforced concrete slabs about 20cm/8" thick.

3. Wait for the inevitably overloaded trucks to destroy the surface.

I haven't seen a new asphalt road laid here yet, just re-surfacing so I'm not sure what their prep is like for that but the eventual result from abuse by pickups overloaded with watermelons/etc is less dangerous:

Asphalt tends to deform but keep a sold surface: the wheel tracks will be depressed, and the space between will become slightly raised (think like wheel tracks in the mud) but it can generally be navigated with care.

Concrete doesn't fail that way. It just cracks, the underlying sand gets washed away, and you have the wonderful experience of broken concrete with sharp metal sticking out the broken edges.

It doesn't help that Thai builders/society is obsessed with making things out of concrete.
It's nice that you created something on your own.

On Android I use DiskUsage: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/CrVcdEk
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Bootstrapping Side Projects to Profit by Nomad List Founder [2016 Video]
I ran a popular blog and message board for Dave Matthews Band fans called WeeklyDavespeak. Anecdotal, but I put an all female staff in place in charge of the boards and there was effectively no drama.

I ultimately had to take to boards down due to waning interest in the band and the continuing attention cost of keeping the server and message board software up to date.
The road is not predictable. A deer running across, a car cutting you off, rain, snow, a tire blow out, any number of random events can happen. It just occurs less often on a freeway than the city. You still have the solve the same problems, however, if you don't want a human in the car.
Is this honestly not trivial in 2017??? Given this didn't have to be perfect, there are 3-5+ ways to do this.
I figured the dancers were just doing it manually.

edit: after a few rewatches, there's definitely a few places where (non-Chinese) human timing seems unlikely but I'm still hoping it was manual.
Hogwarts guide to company culture
PDFs bake in a page size. For 99% of them, 8.5 x 11.

Your typical eink device (a kindle) is 6 inches diagonal, but there are also 6.8, 7.8, and 9.7 in somewhat common use, and more uncommon. Three sizes of iPads, dozens of sizes of android tablets, phones and laptops, etc.

You can't make a single page size display well on all of this -- at 8.5 x 11, a page will be too small to read when shrunk down to fit a 6in screen. Bake it at 6in and the pages are ridiculous on larger screens, but still too large for phones. You need a format that shapes the number and size of pages to fit the display -- enter ePub, which is based on HTML.
I am (in a sense) a mathematician, and you've made my day! Keep at it. Get to complex analysis, it's remarkable.
I find the differences between the left and right are that the right tends to tell what everyone else to change in order to fit in the with the group.

Whereas the left tends to ask the group to accept the differences in outsiders they work with.

This fits better with the reality of working with a large group of people from all over the world for short projects, you often don't have the time or political ability to make your collaborators conform, so you expect your group to make do.
Chaos, Progress in Mobile Payment Security
Ask HN: What are best online resources to learn Java as a complete beginner?
Please suggest the best online courses, books, blogs and other resources to learn Java. I am a complete beginner.
Also, please suggest learning paths or ways to learn the language effectively. I'm kind of lost on where to begin from.
I would be fine with not getting new OS features. The problem is that the repo system ties application software versions to OS versions.

I want to install SomeApp. My options are:

* `apt-get install someapp` and get v0.6.0.1abzrhotfix2 from 5 years ago

* Google to see if a third party repackaging repo exists, decide whether I trust the maintainer of that repo with root access to my machine, `apt-add-repo blah blah`, `apt-get update && apt-get install someapp`, hope that apt works and doesn't spit out a bunch of "Depends: blah blah but it is not going to be installed, you have held broken packages"

* Go to someapp.com, download someapp.deb if it exists

* Try to install it with the GUI, get an error, use dpkg -i instead, find out it has a bunch of dependencies, install them and hope they're abi compatible, also hope I don't get "Errors while processing:"

* Download source code, learn the flavour-of-the-month C++ build system, try to compile, fail, try to install dependencies, some fail because my distro only provides incompatible forked versions for political reasons, have to download the source for those too, have to either build statically or use LD_PRELOAD hacks

Meanwhile on other OSes, I can download the latest someapp.dmg/someapp.exe and a nice GUI guides me through installing it. It will probably work even if I have a rather old version of the OS, it almost certainly won't conflict with anything else I have installed, it will include everything it needs and handle updates in whatever way it thinks is most appropriate, and I definitely won't need to google any command line flags. And when I do upgrade my OS, I probably won't be forced to upgrade the app too if I've found a specific version that works exactly how I need it to.
I quite agree with you. I'm only saying that when you talk about bullying to third parties using the word "troll", sometimes the third party will imagine something less serious than is actually happening.
Californians are paying billions for power they don't need
I've played around with NativeScript a fair bit. It's very, very clever, but I'm not really sure what it gives you beyond just doing native development. Sure, you get to use JavaScript, but you have to write separately for each platform if you break out of their custom UI components, and debugging, testing, etc. etc. is more complicated and annoying that just writing in (my case) Swift and using native tools.
RAIN Rfid can do this for moving objects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1LykdRWTfk

View Technologies can track a moving RAIN Rfid tag to the size of a softball in a xyz plane in realtime.
The northern expressway in south Australia uses something similar made from bitumen.

Basically they lay a regular layer of non-porous bitumen, with side drains etc and appropriate camber.

They then lay the porous bitumen layer over the top. It's like a griller drip tray, without the delicious pork chops.
> A flight which does not start or end in the USA rarely has the need to fly over it. Europe/Asia - Central America would and not much else -- and there are very few such direct flights, mostly only to Mexico City.

How about Canada to Central/South America? There are nonstop flights from Toronto/Vancouver to several cities. There are also flights from Canada to southern Europe that pass through the US. Even flights within Canada (Toronto to Vancouver) pass over the US. And routes from Canada to Asia fly over Alaska.
Big fan of Fred. But I am struggling to connect all the dots on the FCC statement and what the various companies responses will likely be and how long that will take?...

Basically, there's new people at FCC, where will we see the effect of new policy first and when?

Is my Verizon bill going to double? Is my phone going to give me mild but painful electric shocks if I don't click on any fucking Google AMP links? Fred, what is going to happen?
Paying someone to perform work is exploitation, is it? I'm not talking some minimum wage less "room and board" situation.

You assume too much and know too little about the situation to make the comments you're making.
ARM cores have tons of blobs too. Especially DSPs and GPU parts.
Net neutrality only helps consumers at a big scale in the long run. It's not really beneficial in a direct way for any individual in the short run. So suppressing net neutrality is not something that a lot of consumers are likely to punish. Though it's clearly better for everyone overall.

The situation is a bit like drug addiction. Obviously it's better for a person's health to not shoot heroin. But an addict will always find the immediate benefit of one more hit more compelling than the vague, long-term benefits of getting clean.

Telcos understand this dynamic, and they're trying to play up the short-term pleasure - by offering so-called "free data" - in order to distract people from the long-term harm and drum up support for suppressing net neutrality.
Interesting, but as someone who develops on Linux all day long , I run Windows 10, not OSX. It's a much better host OS for Linux VMs.
ah, i grossly over estimated the % water in those fruits. interestingly though, fruit juices fall in the 80-90% range I just read.
Thank you very much for the suggestion. I never heard of Earnest Holmes before and I bought the book to learn more.
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I think the factors that make, or break, an online community are: The number of active users, the visibility of posters (so reputation is at stake), and the ability for the community to self-moderate.

There seems to be a magic threshold when the user base size crosses it and suddenly people are more disruptive. Based on my observation of a few online groups I've participated in.
I think "attacker" and "harassment" are both accurate but I feel that they are too clinical/adult/long/abstract for people to get angry about. You want words that a 5-year-old understands, and you want words that conjure an image.
Yes, but that's a different subject entirely. This article is just describing someone queueing up general political tweets.
Yes, I believe this is what happened to my friend with the rare disease of late pregnancy.

Even though she had a diagnosis, she was on a regular maternity ward.

None of the nurses / Drs. Seemed to really want to learn about her condition or make sure she was being treated correctly for her disease. She "didn't fit". Her death or the baby's death would have been "the cost of doing business".

Her doctor said 2 or 3 babies died of Choleostasis every YEAR, yet the nurses and doctors on the maternity ward were quite clueless.
Interesting that "drm" occupies almost all of the "drivers/gpu" space!
This is not quite precisely true. Everything is a generalized boolean, but not a boolean. Only T and NIL are of type BOOLEAN, which you can check with the function:

(defun booleanp (x) (TYPEP x 'BOOLEAN))
One tweet per 30 seconds is a 'limit'?
There’s also SpaceSniffer¹ for Windows.

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¹ — http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
To clarify, given the net is not neutral, Facebook will be able to provide better services because they pay internet providers some fee for extra bandwidth and reduced latency. While Snapchat would decide to provide worse services at a more reasonable cost to them.

This helps Facebook in the battle against Snapchat, but hurts Facebook in that they have to pay an extra fee. A similar argument could be made with other tech companies and their rivals.

Is this a correct interpretation?
That may be, in which case Python belongs in the same bucket. I'm not convinced, actually. Most of the "ruby shops" I know use it only for the most trivial of applications, being essentially rest-like proxies between clients and Java (or other language) services. But I don't know everything and anecdotes aren't data for sure.
>>>> Go, however, is like a Toyota Corolla or a Honda Civic.

>>The only problem with this argument is that everywhere - even in this thread - there are people saying that Go is a joy to program in.

Not sure why it's a "problem". I love driving my 2004 Honda Civic, and prefer it to newer, fancier cars. It's fuel-efficient, drives very well, and has not given me an ounce of trouble. So yeah, the comparison to Go seems very apt.
PUFR http://pufr.io (IoT security startup), and for the last few years I've been doing R&D on the design of a graph computing model that unifies some of the ideas above.