skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, if you live in the city, you are more likely to take an interest in what happens, and complain to the city council, or vote (in places where that's possible).
"Microsoft was a difficult search since it appears in data science ads that mention other Microsoft products such as Windows or SQL Server. To eliminate such over-counting, I treated Microsoft different from the rest by including product names such as Azure Machine Learning and Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit. So there’s a good chance I went from over-emphasizing Microsoft to under-emphasizing it with only 157 jobs."

Read the methodology, Luke.
Even if you know that using said VC money bankrupts whole families the world over?
Seems to be good, here are some iperf3 tests over the link:

OPi with no build flags:
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr
[ 4] 0.00-120.00 sec 290 MBytes 20.3 Mbits/sec 165 sender
[ 4] 0.00-120.00 sec 290 MBytes 20.3 Mbits/sec receiver.

OPi with optimal build flags:
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr
[ 4] 0.00-120.00 sec 366 MBytes 25.6 Mbits/sec 141 sender
[ 4] 0.00-120.00 sec 366 MBytes 25.6 Mbits/sec receiver
Is it any wonder that the youth distrusts media. The confidence seems to be disappearing quicker than a picture on Snapchat.
> The way Uber treats its people is a separate issue.

Why should that be the case? If you know one part of company X is against your interest, why support revenue of said company at all then?
This is all true, but there's a point beyond which it stops being musically/artistically relevant.

I've probably been doing this stuff as long as you have, and I'm not actually sure where that point is any more.

I actually hate the sound of most of the Beatles albums. I think they sound crap by modern standards - tinny, rattly, clogged-up, mid-heavy mixes with no deep bass.

Put them up against a modern trance single mixed ITB and the latter sounds huge, dynamic, cinematic, and infinitely more polished.

Which is better? It depends...

The Pink Floyd albums hit a sweet spot by being musically ground breaking while also being the first examples of hifi multitrack recording in its modern form.

Now I tend to think ITB is fine for electronica and dance, because sometimes you want polish and a slightly unreal shine. But for rock, country and maybe even hiphop the older hardware is going to give you more character, bite, and depth.

Ultimately they're just colours you can use. If you have talent, it doesn't matter if you mix ITB or not.

If you don't, it doesn't matter either.
I agree overall, but as a liberal I view them more like the religious right in relation to conservatives, ie they represent a rather small, specific, if vocal group of (neo)-'liberals'.
> As a non-game developer...
2+ BR apartments rent for less per square foot than 1 BR and studios. If demand for 1 BRs isn't being fully met, then there's no reason to consider building larger apartments.
I've downvoted your comment because the article is referring to a very specific localized housing bubble in Toronto due (potentially) to the behavior of foreign investors.

This is not an article about startup or the US stock-market bubble.
Where does one cloud end and the next cloud begin? The boundaries and distinctive traits of clouds only exist in our minds.

We can build mathematical objects that look something like clouds according to the observable characteristics deemed intrinsic to our definition of "cloud". We can't simulate real cloud systems with arbitrary fidelity because the the mathematical foundation we've invented leads rapidly to intractable computation. "But supposing we had infinite computation" is magical thinking.

Still, the universe gives us clouds. It's operating on different foundational principles.

Now, moving from sky clouds to things like electron clouds, we have the added problem of what appears to be "true" non-computable randomness (not just chaos) underlying it all. Many worlds doesn't rid us of the randomness problem but merely shifts it to the problem of deciding which branch we inhabit before/after an event.

We can still hang onto the notion of mathematics as discovery by recognizing it as a process of self-discovery about how our brains perceive the world.
This is a very simplistic view of markets, ignoring the fact that demand can be both cultivated and suppressed, elasticity of demand, and sufficiency of supply. Supply and demand give rise to Strange behavior (in the sense of equilibria following strange attractors), but claiming that all interaction is tampering is just the naturalistic fallacy over again. It reminds me of people who object to doctors because they believe medical intervention runs contrary to God's will.
> Why won't the men compete for the jobs the women are getting?

Because different people are suited to different jobs. Why didn't (and don't) women generally compete for manufacturing jobs? Because being a creative designer or HR professional or pre-school teacher or dental hygienist is something much preferred for certain types of people. Just look at the numbers [1].

Men not only don't want to do certain types of jobs, but in many cases can't - they're not well-suited for them. So even if/when they compete, they'll lose to less experienced women just entering the workforce. And vise-versa for other types of jobs with flipped genders. There are gender differences, plain and simple. You can argue why they exist, but for this discussion it's not as relevant at this point.

I would like to note that the next "industrial wave" could affect women pretty hard as well: artificial intelligence. Recruiting and HR software, health-care robotics technologies, therapist chatbots, etc, could upend the female-dominated jobs listed in [1].

> Alternatively, the men could stay home and take care of the kids while the women work at the jobs they have, providing the stable two-parent household.

Heh, I guess you haven't read many women's online dating profiles for what is acceptable in a mate and what isn't. You generally have to be higher up on the ladder (education, wealth, status, etc) to attract a woman for mating in the first place. How this manifests in data: 80% of guys are "below average"! [2]

But who needs data, ask your grandfather if he could have "stayed home and taken care of the kids while the woman works" and he'd laugh at you and tell you to stop being a sissy. They may not have been able to explain it, but older generations have typically understood more about human nature than we give them credit for.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/occ_gender_share_em_1020_txt.ht...

[2] https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0...
Can you recommend magsafe-like USB cable that works with 2016 MBPs? When I looked for something like this I found only a cable made for the 12" macbook that could not charge my machine.
I once was on the phone for hours with Time Warner Cable about a $50 security deposit charged twice, that was a mistake on their side. Turns out I was paying someone elses bill! At the end I explained to the supervisor that I will keep calling back until they fix this, not because I don't have $50 to spare, but because this is their messup and it's a matter of principle. They put me on hold (for about an hour) until their technical team fixed up something on their billing system.

It's a pain to do this, and most peoples time is worth more, but if noone does it, we will be (in fact we already are) living in a scam society, where everyone is making money on everyone else's lazyness to track things down. When you call in, you are doing good not only for yourself, but for the company as well as every other customer.
If you stop learning, you stop growing, financially and, much worse, intellectually. People who refuse to learn have to make peace with the fact that they remain in their exact place for the rest of their lives. However, I do ask myself, how can someone who works from 5.30AM to 8PM afford to spend any time to learn?
> Doubtful.

Honestly, it depends on what you're looking at.

In graphics power for example ALL macs suck. Even when you spend 5000$ on a workstation you barely get something that can hold even with top-of-the-line pc hardware.

MBP: 2977 - http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+Pro+450...

iMac: 5714 - http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+R9+M395...

Mac Pro: 5178 - http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=FirePro+W9000&... (in D700 variant)

Mind, the last one is a high-accuracy cad work graphics card, but if you're looking for raw graphics performance for 3d development for example, all of those are easily outperformed by a piece of kit costing 190$:

Any PC: 8508 - http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+10...

And thanks to Apple being Apple, upgrading is not an option.
I wouldn't call it "cannibalistic", either. From what I'm reading, it doesn't prey on its own kind, but rather on other types of bacteria. Humans prey on other mammals, but we don't usually call that cannibalism.
Photos overall is a trainwreck. Options are hidden and hard to find, anything beyond "tag this image with your auntie's name" is way harder than it should be... and this without ever mentioning the dreadful "I'll quit when I want to, not when you tell me to" backend process.
I've never seen an ad in Windows 10 -- but I installed a start menu replacement. Linux just simply can't support the hardware in my laptop appropriately, I don't do much gaming but I appreciate the option, and the subsystem for Linux is actually good enough for my needs. There are plenty of small issues that make Linux as-primary-OS not a great solution.
I replied to another commenter expressing your same view here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798051. My comment asserts your core view is inconsistent both with apparent human sexual activity and how evolutionary pressures work.
not only that, but new housework can be invented out of thin air to fit any sized time or money budget/surplus, which is what the entire home improvement / remodeling industry exists for.
I wonder how many individuals there are in the world who have sufficient space for this, something to use it for, and the ability to maintain it? A bit like musing about the potential global demand for high-end yachts.

It's not on anything like this scale, but I recently acquired (sort of by accident) a Revox A700 reel-to-reel tape deck from the mid-1970s. Even though it works, it could be the most useless object I've ever possessed. It only does one thing (I guess two if you count recording and playback separately) and that thing can be done with higher fidelity by a free smartphone app. It weighs 25kg, draws a lot of power, is fiddly to use, and is probably one of the most complex pieces of consumer electronics ever made in terms of the number of distinct components it contains that can fail. What is the purpose of it, today?
JFYI it has been recently revived (actually more ZX80 like, since it uses only discrete components), article on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13314741
They'd have to remove the account requirement too. Just `appstore install foo`.
Neighbourhoods I grew up in were
lit and ...

This is often a generational thing. Most people move to a bigger dewelling when the form a family and stay there until the end of their life. Often young families move to newly built areas, where almost everybody else is also a young family, whence lots of children. 3-4 decades later, the children have moved out, the parents are still about but in their 70s and 80s.

* . * . * .

I have discussed the issue of empty properties in London with builders and developers, and they generaly laugh at the suggestion that many properties are deliberately left empty. What does happen though is that the top end properties are difficult to sell -- there are just not that many people who will pay > £10 Mill for a flat in London, overlooking the Thames. So they stay empty for a while, simply because nobody can afford them. The owners would love to rent them out, or sell them on. And if you look at what gets build now in London (e.g. Nine Elms, or Docklands) it's not large luxury flats, it's almost exclusively studios, 1 and 2 bedrooms, i.e. targeting the lowest end of the market.
>First, they were a computer company driven by a man who loved computers ("first" here is the Jobs return era) ... then they became a Computer company who also made a phone. Then they became a computer company who also made a phone and a tablet. Then they became a phone company who also made computers and tablets.

>Now they are a phone company who presides over the death throws of an amazing operating system that is going to be killed off to make it more like a phone. The new "features" every cycle are more "lets put this phone feature on the desktop"

I don't know much about this area, other than the little I have read, but didn't MS do somewhat the same thing - "lets put this phone feature on the desktop" - with Windows 8? Not sure if they reversed that in Windows 10. Interested to know.
They just recently started supporting OpenBSD officially as well.

I immediately switched. This way I wouldn't have to deal with the generally more messy and weaker[1] OS that is FreeBSD, nor would I have to use old pf syntax.

[1] "Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security": https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/16/0121213/theo-de-raa...
I've just had one small $5 VPS with them for about a year now. No downtime, no complaints. Since my needs are so basic I think I could probably get away with one of these $2.50 offerings, however the problem - and it's the only problem I've run in to with Vultr so far - is that downgrading VPS plans isn't possible. You can only go up.
Seconding that. I have a hard time understanding why professionals would look down on an OS that gives the user pretty much all the power, which, let's remember was the seminal idea of personal computing.
Interestingly, Linux comments are about 5% of the thread, which is also roughly the market share.
If you use certbot-auto to install the client, part of the installation process involves compiling some crypto library (IIRC) which tends to fail on low-memory systems, hence the need for swap.

Packaged versions of certbot (from your distribution's package manager) don't suffer from that problem and have fairly low memory requirements.
Weaponization?

A variation put into the Earth-Sun L1 and used to direct focused steams of solar particles onto an earthward target....
I own a semi-attached house in Toronto that I purchased last May with my fiancee. I have a few critiques of this article related to the context it places Toronto's housing market, and some of the souped-up language used.

Why compare the Toronto housing bubble with that in Japan or the US? You don't have to look further than Toronto for a direct comparison; [housing prices in Toronto decreased by 40%](http://www.torontocondobubble.com/2013/02/toronto-housing-bu...) between 1989 and 1997.

Second, a bully offer is not an "aggressively high" offer by definition. A bully offer is simply an offer that is submitted before an agreed upon offer date. He offers no evidence to his argument that houses are going for 6-figures above the asking price.

Last, ideally these statistics would have been given in context. Don't pull two historical housing bubbles and then compare their growth to Toronto's. Rather, pull all fast growth housing markets and compare their behaviour to Toronto's. In other words, how often is this growth not a bubble?

I'm 32 years old and consider myself very fortunate to be able to own in Toronto. This will allow my family to live in the city I love. Many of my friends are facing the choice where if they wait and growth continues they'll may be priced out permanently, but if they buy into the market they may be sitting on a bubble. There was tons of bubble talk when we bought, but we were more worried about being priced out.
I'm happy Vultr customer and I can only be happier. I was looking for other providers recently for my personal needs, as I don't need that much resources and there were other providers with less that $5/month prices, but now I'm not looking anywhere.

Sweetest thing is hourly pricing. Sometimes I need Paris VPN for few hours. I have some scripts, so I can launch new instance with configured OpenVPN in 2-3 minutes, use it, then dispose and I would pay only few cents. Impressive, if you ask me. That's what cloud is for.

Network speeds are quite good, vultr has lots of features (want to install OpenBSD from your own ISO via web 2.0 KVM, no applet nonsense? Or Windows XP? No problem at all), and prices are just so low now. Also IPv6 works fine. I don't know about their support, I never had to contact them yet, but otherwise it's awesome service.
> but what front-end stuff needs that much power?

The old "640k should be enough for everyone" argument. I'm amazed after decades of continuous performance improvement in computing people are still making this argument.
It sounds like Paris is regulating to beat a problem that is at least in a a significant part caused by regulation. Paris has very extraordinary tenant protections, even for people who weren't actually tenants and who don't pay their rent.

The article [0] I read is in Finnish and now behind a paywall, but it explains that a woman more or less out of her good heart allowed someone to stay in her flat for a time while she was on an assignment in another country. The person staying in the apartment never really paid any rent, but became a "tenant" so that it is impossible to evict her. The owner has to refurbish and fix the apartment at her own cost, while the person staying there is protected by law and lives there and pays nothing. And makes a horrible mess which the owner has to pay.

It is obvious that such examples send a very strong message: if you're away for a year or two, DON'T give your apartment to let. Keep it empty. If you plan never to use it, then sell it. But if you intent to come back it, just keep it empty. Everything else is too risky, due to the regulations.

Then it's now fashionable to frame this as a xenophobic "rich foreigners come and hoard our apartments and cause housing shortage". The actually guilty to the shortage is local, populist regulation.

[0] http://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000002659821.html
I've downvoted your comment because the article is referring to a very specific localized housing bubble in Toronto due (potentially) to the behavior of foreign investors.

This is not an article about startup or the US stock-market bubble.

Addressing your actual comment by paraphrasing Burton Malkiel: "The market can invest irrationally for a surprisingly long period of time."
Oddly enough, I found that reading the article carefully made me consider switching to Windows LESS.

The author's primary issue seems to be the fact that Apple hasn't been packing the punch that is necessary for him, and that especially with his wanting to get started with VR the entire platform is a no-go for him atm. No arguments there.

But curiously, he spends the bulk of the article either explaining or talking about the things that he had to compensate or now has to deal with as part of his swtich: The fact that apps aren't as polished (and neither the OS itself), issues with installing drivers, Windows Bash that doesn't work quite 100%, etc., etc.

I switched several years ago as I was finishing college, and like the author am extremely disappointed in the fact that my MBP can't really do it for me when it comes to VR. Yet, as per his article, it seems that in just about every other meaningful way the Windows experience for me (and him) is worse.

More broadly speaking, just about every article I have read touting how great it was to switch "back" to Windows seems to follow this general trend; it seems as though everyone who switches is glad to be using machines with more juice behind them, yet it is clear the computing experience itself is worse. I can't help but feel that had there just been better graphics/ram options on the current mac lineup, that pretty much would kill any of the justifications I see for the switch.
Man you would absolutely hate to work any job that requires a serial connection then. Because let me tell you about the serial-to-USB adapters I've used... I wish I had the luxury of saying that I categorically refuse to pay more for something that sticks out of my computer that I think should be built in.
The rocket ship rise of real estate in the GTA and indeed the entire Golden Horseshoe has certainly been bizarre to witness. I live in Hamilton and commute into the GTA for work. We bought our modest 3 bedroom townhome here in 2015. About four months ago our neighbour (who had a basically identical home) sold their unit for 100k higher than we paid. This week, a comparable home was listed for about 180k higher than we paid. So, in under 2 years, the current market value of our house would have seem to appreciated by almost 200k. This is a solid hour commute (by car) from the Toronto core.

So yeah, I'm not too sure whether to be extremely happy or extremely worried..
Is it even possible to chose a photo out of your photo librry from a browser's file upload dialog? I don't think it is, when the photos are in iPhoto. How many steps does it take to get a picture off your camera, into iPhoto, then exported, and finally uploaded to Craigslist?
Context. cd_cd is probably not talking about welfare beneficiaries in South American barrios, and neither am I. The article this thread is about focuses on a US phenomenon.

You know nothing of my life, as I know nothing of your life. Do not presume to know me because of where I live. I only know your attitude as expressed here in your comments, and that attitude is awful.

Given context, I assumed you were yet another US conservative with a bad attitude about poor people because he saw a mother with junk food in her shopping cart once.
PC penetration is about 10% in asia and africa. Is it exotic about talking about gadget which 90% of population does not own?
This is rad. I've long wanted RE20s for my podcast studio, but they're approximately all of the money--and I'd need four, to standardize, so dropping $2,000 on microphones isn't in the budget. Now I'm wondering if I might know anybody with some older/beat up ones to part with...

Right now I'm using GLS Audio ES-58s, which are knockoffs of the Shure SM-58 but around $39 rather than $100 (and, to my ears, have an audio quality closer to the Shure SM-58 Beta, itself more like $160). And they're basically indestructible, which is nice.
Sure, your objective is a standard operating system, and that's a neat project. I'm just saying that a high-level language operating system provides many more opportunities for different kinds of trade-offs than found in typical commodity OSs. These aren't trade-offs you can make if you're going to support legacy code or traditional OS abstractions, without jumping through a lot of unnecessary hoops.
Indeed they are; Vox has improved the Q factor of the left wing echo chamber like nothing since the rise of huffpo.
A 'solution' that ignores predictable externalities is rarely a sustainable one. That's like saying my solution to the problem of too-expensive trash collection is to offer a lower-cost, more efficient alternative, in which I dump all the trash on your land and hope that I make a fat profit before you notice.
For those unfamiliar with US geography, mizzou is not in California.
They do accept paypal and bitcoin, if you don't want to give them your credit card information
Believe it or not this is actually very common. In fact a lot of people who integrate Stripe recommend this pattern. They recommend to never delete customers and cards in Stripe, instead just remove the subscription from the customer.

The idea is, if the customer wants to come back and reactivate service they don't have to provide billing details again.

I don't do this though. When customers cancel my startup, I delete the card and cancel the subscription in Stripe but leave the customer.
I see, thanks for the detailed response.
People complain that Apple uses proprietary ports. They ditched MagSafe for USB-C and people still complained.