skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the problem is, if you've just spent 40 years paying a mortgage (which I assure you is probably a non-insignificant amount of your lifetime income in aggregate), you would expect to be able to recoup at least some of that expense, no?

In the US, your primary residence is usually your largest asset, and by its very nature, it becomes an investment that you want to protect. The depreciating nature of real estate in Japan is okay because they're a nation of savers. They have other investments to draw upon in retirement. This is not true in the US, and your home is essentially a forced retirement vehicle (unless you're just stripping out the equity all of the time, in which case you're screwed).

TL;DR It'd be fine if we pushed down real estate asset prices if people saved more and needed less income in retirement.
IBM is such a leader in cloud computing that they have their employees use Box instead of SoftLayer. Any company that can't even eat their own dog food are incompetent and should be avoided.
When you think about the number open questions in theoretical physics, and the fundamental importance they have to filling in the still large gaps in our understanding of nature, shouldn't your statement be qualified just a bit?
I was afraid this would happen when I saw they made a custom distro called LiMux. Maybe it was good in the beginning, though I doubt it given the reports I heard, but by now it must be horribly outdated. (Going to the "project site" as linked by wikipedia, I just get a blank page.)

Additionally, almost no workers will be using anything other than Windows or OS X at home. Having to find explorer or the "add column" button in libreoffice will be annoying at first, so users probably need more help to get started.

It's a sad state of popular systems remaining popular... Personally I use Linux both for ideological and practical reasons, and I recommend it to other power users and computer-related professionals (software or security people), but for users... until there are real advantages, I'm not sure I should recommend it for fear of them going "everything is wrong" when really it's functionally equivalent and they just have to re-learn where stuff is (the cost of change..).

There are exceptions, old computers mainly, but generally I recommend users stick with what they want in the desktop space. I'll just keep making remarks about privacy and modifying scripts in my OS to change whatever I want. If that doesn't trigger anything, they don't want to anyway.
> Better at what?

Mostly, better at interoperating with Microsoft Office. LibreOffice works really well, but if you need perfect metric-compatibility, or macros, then it doesn't quite suffice. Likewise for Google Docs (and additionally, Google Slides lacks numerous features desirable for building good presentations).
It's even easier than that. Instead of sliding the notification off the screen, slide it ever so slightly to the right. It displays this little gear thing, and you can block all notifications for that app from right there. I have a stock Nexus phone so YMMV.
I am glad he got help. I hope he got the right medicine and treatments.
Filtering has worked pretty well with email for spam. I don't see anything fundamentally different about harassment that would make it less responsive to filtering than spam, nor anything fundamentally different about an incoming social media stream than an email inbox.

Spam filtering works because the spam email has characteristics such as word frequencies that differ significantly from your non-spam email. E.g., none of my friends, acquaintances, co-workers, or companies that I correspond with ever have occasion to discuss my penis size, and so it was easy for my spam filters to learn that mail about my penis is spam.

I would expect that most people who get harassed on their social media feeds do not normally receive messages from friends or other wanted senders describing how they are going to rape them or kill their pets or children or things like that, so why can't a filter learn to block those?
Honest question, what alternative do you use instead? HN mostly links to news article, and I would question if current politics and ongoing events are more accurately written by news media and with less bias. I don't know about polish news companies, but its not uncommon elsewhere that news companies are openly biased towards one political party or bias their articles towards their main customer group (UK example from Yes, Minister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M).

We have books or research papers, but meta research generally acknowledge that researchers include bias into their work, often linked to the opinion of those that funds the research. Meta research is thus generally a bit better, especially the meta-meta-research papers, through it generally takes a quite political contested topic for that to happen which then further increase the risk of bias by the meta researchers selecting results that favors their side.
Or maybe this excessively paranoid person could just install Messenger and realize that no one cares enough about him to turn on the two cameras and four microphones and GPS or whatever to spy on him all day.
TN Visa Renewal Rejected Story- New Trump Policies in Effect
it's a little bit pink for my taste. There's a way to change the CSS, right?

im a huge fan of the Elm broswer. and have been using Elm with atom along with elm reactor. That has worked adequately. Most difficulties are ironed out by making sure the Elm code compiles. Then at least all the parts are fitting together.

But maybe I have written code that compiles, but doesn't express what I am wanting.
Just in case anyone were to be led to believe this:

Asterisk's code base is a pile of crap.

It's been getting a bit better over the years, but it still is terrible, tons of conceptual blunder, protocol implementations are only losely inspired by the specification, system APIs are used incorrectly, lots of code doesn't bother with dynamic string lengths, but instead simply truncates strings arbitrarily if they don't fit into some fixed-size buffer, ...

The only reason it kindof works is because bugs that happen often enough do end up being fixed at some point, but that's about it. If you know your C and POSIX APIs and you don't believe me, just go and have a look at the code, I promise you'll find a bug in less than an hour.
Bigger is largely a result of poor incentives. Insulation is really cheap with the median running less than 1% of new home sale prices.

US home prices in the US have an interesting history with several incentices to make homes more affordable resulting in higher home prices. 120 years ago most non farm houses where bought with cash, resulting in cheap and affordable housing being the norm.

PS: Like with cars the trend is for people with above average incomes buying new homes which means the used market tends to have older upsale housing instead of affordable new housing.
I don't know where you live, but in my area for each female-specific coding event there are 10s or 100s without restriction that are male dominated. Again, this is like claiming that the existence of women's only gyms infringes on your ability to find a place to work out.
Cool! Thanks. I'll definitely check out the video. We use MSSQL at our startup. Initially, because that's what the founders were familiar with, but it really is a nice database to work with.
> People might identify with the opinions of a politician because they already hold those opinions,

Agree and I think it is even more than that. It is about how genuine they seem. I've listen to Hillary, Trump, Sanders and Obama, and some just naturally sound more genuine. Obama seemed genuine, like he believed what he was saying, Trump and Sanders as well. But not Hillary. She said all the right things, she was very polite, and seemed to be personable with jokes and remarks sprinkled here and there. But overall she sounded fake and scripted.

I posit, hearing someone who seems to truly believe what they say is a solid first step in persuading others to change their opinions. Otherwise it becomes an uphill battle and it is just pandering to people who already believe and agree with the argument.
Interesting that wood is also sometimes used as a heat shield for spacecrafts returning to Earth, fire danger notwithstanding.
The newly released keybase chat supports this! It's not in the announcement, but malgorithms described the apis here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13600427
First. There is a difference between "texts" (SMS) and "notifications" (Apples own private system). Suing Facebook by confusing the courts on this difference is absolutely horrifying. I am no facebook fanboy, but push notifications should not be handled by the "Telephone Communications Privacy Act". W(who)tf wrote this confusing article. We engineers here have a responsibility to know the difference.

I am sure lawyers are laughing over whiskey somewhere.

"You see, Brickman had opted out of receiving texts from Facebook via the platform's notification settings."

then later in the article

"The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that Facebook's sending unauthorized text messages is a violation of the federal Telephone Communications Privacy Act (TCPA)."
FWIW, my $BOSS-2 had a PhD, loved LaTeX and even set one of our lower-level guys on writing all our company-internal docs in LaTeX. It actually worked out pretty well.

I imagine that an obviously-LaTeX resume (look for the ligatures, the correct spacing between sentences vice after periods, the clean, consistent grey across the page, the bold, clean margins) would play especially well with him. As you might guess from the preceding sentence, it'd probably play pretty well with me, too!
Heuristically finding content in html
Yes, no place is exactly like the U.S. And no two humans are alike either but that doesn't mean we can't test medicines, for example.

What specifically about urban environments in Japan and Europe won't work in the US?
I've had to provide secured smartphones to an organization, and unfortunately they needed to use Android devices for a specific mission critical application.

iPhones are easy to setup and hard to fuck up. You use DEP and it arrives from the factory with a signed profile for your organization. You deliver it to the user, they sign in, and the MDM takes it from there.

With Android, forget it. They were at the time using LUKS for FDE, and there's no segmentation in the OS. So you need need a third party container solution (either from Samsung or another vendor) to protect your data. So you need a pre-boot password, device passcode, a container password, and possibly more. It's a real shitshow.

Apple lets you take the same level of control that a company would have for free with the Configurator app as well.
Can confirm. I moved from downtown Detroit to Austin. Austin is great but the core of Detroit is also pretty cool (except for the weather). A lot of the popular restaurants/venues have sort of an 'underground' vibe, and typically aren't as crowded as one might experience elsewhere. New, interesting businesses and groups are constantly popping up downtown. I think of Detroit when I see "keep Austin weird" signs, because Austin isn't weird, it's just gentrification and rich white people. Weird is plentiful and welcome in Detroit. Also, the city remains diverse, which doesn't seem to be the case in Austin. But yeah, still lots of dangerous areas outside of downtown Detroit.
I appreciate your efforts to provide such a copy :) Apologies if my parent comment sounded negative, it was not mean to be!

A rising tide lifts all boats.
You can also press and hold for half a second and slowly swipe right on the notification to get a cog icon that will let you ban the app.
Ask HN: What is the perfect IT organizational/team structure?
A question that has intrigued and frustrated me for a long time. What is the perfect IT organization/team structure which benefits both the business requirements and those who work within it?

Flat hierarchy (ala Valve), full outsourced, small start-up, large multi-leveled corporate, or a hybrid?

Or is it possible this perfect mix just doesn't exist?
Transactional memory in Lispy Forth
>Am I the only one? Is there a solution to this?

No. Disable notifications. Both iOS and Android have this configurable.
Image Synthesis from Text with Deep Learning [video]
I didn't believe the premise of this article the first time I heard about it. But now that I've encountered it a number of times on the internet, I'm beginning to think it might be true.
> If the US election hasn't persuaded you that complete gibberish can be persuasive when repeated endlessly, there's nothing I can say that will.

I depends. Mass media has proven that false. They almost unilaterally backed one candidate and attacked others, spewed lies and misinformation, and they failed to make a difference it seems. I would argue they made things worse. Here is a multi-billion dollar apparatus designed to persuade people and control opinions and it has failed. So it is not always true. I think there is stuff that is more nuanced in how it works, not simply "repeat this X amount of times and you're done, you'll get Y% more percentage of believers".
Proof of negation and proof by contradiction (2010)
> In the US, your primary residence is usually your largest asset, and by its very nature, it becomes an investment that you want to protect

Why should it be an asset in the first place?
"The people of the city"

It depends on what proportion of the city owns their home. If most people are renters, of course they want the price of housing to go down! If there's one good rallying cry against capitalism as an effective means of societal advance, it's rent seeking and the conflicts it causes.

I bring it up every time this topic comes up, but NYC is not the only way to make a "big city". Tokyo is nice, high density, but there are trees all over the place. All for 1/5th the rent of SF.

A well designed big city is not one that just has taller buildings. It has better service distribution, so there are, overall, less cars. There aren't just a grid of avenues (that's too convenient for cars!), but many roads that are smaller.

Building development is not allowed to block out sunlight from other buildings. Street noise is handled by making only a couple large avenues, with most streets being extremely small and low-traffic. Yes, it makes traffic worse for some people. Don't have as many people driving all over.
You may not like Oracle, but I bet they'll be around, thriving for decades.. Sure the Oracle DB is being replaced somewhat by other technologies and a shifting market to SaaS, but they are transforming the company rapidly and acquiring a very impressive and diverse portfolio of companies and starting to make large dents in the SaaS market:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Oracle
Atheists, the horror!
Missing Canadian man found 10k km from home in the Amazon jungle
> There was a post-Cold War defection of an individual (Mitrokhin) who worked for the KGB in their archives and provided a large trove of intelligence.

The article refers to that; in fact it's how this agent was identified:

Barsky had in fact been trailed for several years
by the FBI. His name had been discovered in files
copied from KGB archives by Vasili Mitrokin, an
archivist who walked into the British embassy in
Riga in 1991 to offer up his secrets.
The Mysterious Disappearance of the Biggest Scandal in Washington
It's kinda ironic Rule 19 can be gamed as a SJW/PC-like dodge deployed by turtleman to censor Warren. I think ultimately it backfired in political algebra (it sure aint even precalculus, because it didn't help) for garnering her more press because of the ensuing media drama. Trying to censor the reading of a letter MLK Jr.'s widow sounds all kinds of bad.
I don't see the problem here. Even public displays of principle have a cost/benefit ratio. Meanwhile, what do you think it would imply, if they didn't even do the cheap stuff?
And you must be one of em Trump voters
Almost a bit ironically I am really surprised by the amount of agreement in this discussion. How is this a glitch in the human psyche oder something like that? Everything you remember is something you believe to be true and repetition makes you remember things, really no surprise or glitch here.

You tell me Mount Everest is 5742 meters high, seems a reasonable size for the largest mountain on earth. A year later you tell me Mount Everest is 6488 meters high. Seems reasonable and I have long forgotten that you claimed a different height last year. For whatever reason you keep telling me Mount Everest is 6488 meters high every Sunday afternoon, week after week.

I have no reason to doubt that what you are telling me is true and after a couple of weeks I will start to know and remember that Mount Everest is 6488 meters high. But then a couple of years later someone else tells me that Mount Everest is actually 8893 meters high. I object. To settle the issue we decide to look it up on Wikipedia and lo and behold the official height of Mount Everest is indeed 8893 meters.

This may or may not make me remember that Mount Everest is 8893 meters high but it is very likely that I will remember that 6488 meters is not the correct height and it might make me trust you less with regard to mountain related facts. Even without any repetition.

If you want me to accept a statement, the statement must be believable based on what I already know and believe to be true. And I have to have some trust that you are telling me a true statement. Repetition is only secondary, only required if you or I want that I remember the statement in the long term.

And if something is surprising or exciting or whatever, then one might remember something easily without a lot of repetition. The height of Mount Everest was never really interesting to me and learning the wrong height took some repetition. But then learning that Mount Everest is actually 8893 meters high and that I remembered the wrong height for years, that came as a surprise and may not take much if any repetition to remember.
What does Stephen Bannon really believe?
Function tip should give special mention to inline table valued functions
That's not true. OpenJDK is licensed under the GPL v2 with the Classpath Exception.
Yes land is the main cost. And yes I agree it's the infra that confers the value.

Yes and because the state builds the network we should tax land. Land speculators spend nothing when they see their land rise in price, it's all other people.

So to phrase it differently to hopefully meet in the middle: the land is the cost, but I'm not talking about how much it costs to buy some mud, wherever that may be. The cost is the cost per acre at a given location.

You also reference future changes. Perhaps, but we are in the here and now.
Jennifer Lawrence Learns Gravity Is a Fickle B***h in ‘Passengers’ Clip
I needed a smart phone when I moved to the city for maps and train schedules. At the time I moved it was just after a snow storm and hunting for parking was very difficult. I used the maps and GPS functionality to guide me back into the area I lived when I strayed too far. It definitely helped with the stress.
One of the first apps I install on my phone is ZXing's Barcode Scanner, specifically so I can scan QR codes. On Android, it's hands-down the easiest way to post WiFi details for a LAN party or similar (no idea how to do it with iPhones — maybe Apple sells some $99 AirWiFiScanner thing?).

I'll scan 'em to see if there's useful info there. I'm a little concerned that there may be some way to do something malicious with a QR code, but I don't believe I've ever seen a POC.

I'll also use them to set up TOTP. Incredibly easy.

Honestly, I wish that they were used more often. In my experience they work flawlessly.
Because that's how the system was built. Sure, tear said system down. But there will be consequences. You'll see consumption and tax revenues drop through the floor. You've got millions of homeowners 50+ who are expecting to use that asset value to live on, and that will need to come from somewhere else then (most likely social security and medicare topped up from federal tax receipts).

We're just arguing over how we squeeze the ballon; the size of the ballon stays the same (for the most part).

http://www.fanniemae.com/portal/research-insights/perspectiv...

"The Baby Boom generation possesses enormous home equity, which by some estimates exceeds $6 trillion. Despite this mountain of housing wealth, many Boomers will face financial insecurity in retirement. According to one study, between 30 and 40 percent of Boomers will have insufficient income at age 70 to adequately replace their pre-retirement earnings. The extent to which Boomers and preceding generations might be able to draw upon their housing wealth to enhance financial security in retirement hinges on multiple factors, including:

* the amount of home equity that older adults of different socioeconomic subgroups hold today and will likely hold in the future

* seniors’ willingness to tap housing assets in retirement

* the barriers that older adults might face in extracting home equity to finance retirement spending."

"For most households, a majority of their wealth derives from owning a primary residence, and the authors find that the proportion of households aged 65 and over who own their homes has held up quite well despite the housing bust and subsequent homeownership decline. Whereas the overall homeownership rate has fallen to multi-decade lows in the wake of the housing crisis, the proportion of older adults who owned their primary residence was 78.2 percent in 2012, slightly higher than it was in 1998 or at the peak of the housing bubble in 2006."
Digging into the code reviews of Guava is impressive: if you've ever felt a code reviewer was being too strict, that's probably nothing compared to Guava reviews. And it shows in the quality of the library.
Pepsi logo redesign document from 2008 [pdf]
> Which positions have been taken by Trump that you feel are so good that it should cut cross all biases etc?

Reforming the H1B visa system. I think Trump yelled about it and a Democratic Congresswoman from California put forward a fairly sane bill. We'll see what happens.
This is just what I was looking for, surprised I didn't find it already. Thanks.
Fix the github and gist dark menubar with userscript
https://github.com/devmessias/whygithub
Japanese people do not expect to recoup the value of the land they paid their mortgage for. They expect their children to inherit the land and live on it. Considering that mortgages last 40 years, a lot of them are paid off by two generations of the family.

Land in Japan is not really an investment. Investments are made with the purpose of selling them at some point in the future to realize gains. That's not how Japanese people approach land ownership. It's not how Americans really approach it either -- many Americans will say that their home is an investment but also say they want to live in it until they die, which means they will never realize any gains.
> You need to get 1 out of 100 applications from the app store, that competes for the one who can shows the most ads and be the least effective at decoding the picture.

The ZXing Barcode Scanner doesn't show any ads. IIRC, they give it away for free because they want people to use their (open source, natch) barcode library. I've been very happy with it.

This of course demonstrates a problem with the App Store model: neither Google nor Apple has a strong incentive or interest in directing users to the best, most secure, most privacy-preserving apps (particularly Google, who would prefer that privacy become a thing of the past): they would much rather that you buy something, or use some ad-ridden piece of nearly malware.
It's only sharing stuff with Apple if you allow it.