skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point, the design has held up surprisingly well!
I don't follow your logic here. Smaller condos obviously cost less in absolute dollars, but they aren't viable options for families. So we are still left at a housing inventory that is great for speculative investors and individuals, and not much else.
Oh, really? I guess I was just misremembering things. Thanks for correcting me here! (not sarcastic, genuinely happy to be corrected when I remember things wrong)
When people say, "All the manufacturing has gone to China!" show them this video, and say, "No, they've gone to robots".
Discussion on reddit from 2 days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/5xf7sf/a_russia...

Apparently the $10k includes electrical, windows, etc.
BTW, whether a character is or isn't a homograph depends very much on the font. For example, Cyrillic letter 'и' has no obvious visual counterpart in Latin... but as soon as you use cursive, it becomes 'и'. Which is visually indistinguishable from cursive 'u': 'u'.

Same thing with the letter 'т': in cursive, it becomes 'т', which in many (but not all) fonts looks the same as cursive 'm'.
"Sadly quantitative evidence (i.e. statistics) also don't prove anything."

Still better than a single anecdote on the internet.
I really want to see some comments from SREs (or similar) at major companies on this. It seems like a lot have a rollback first, ask questions later policy, and I'd love to hear about how they mitigate or flat out avoid the problems described in this article, or if I'm just mistaken.
So...how exactly do the rest handle it?

By not renting the property in the first place?
I'd be interested to see how the process scales up to larger structures. That house is smaller than my apartment!
> Integration of Cloud storage directly to the desktop?

This was done extremely poorly, though. Among the big sync providers (Dropbox, Sync, Box, Google), iCloud Drive is easily the worst.

The iOS app looks like something an intern cooked up. Hardly any iOS apps can read or write from the drive. There's no way to share anything in your drive. There's no way to share anything into your drive, either.

While Apple introduced the ability for your Documents folder to be stored in iCloud, macOS has completely lost control of the Documents folder in a very Microsofty way: Mine has turned into a rubbish heap of various application data that I didn't ask for. Savegames, virtual machines, "My Music", "Microsoft User Data", etc. — it's so unusable that I ended up hiding the entire folder and creating a new one that I could use for, you know, documents.

The iCloud services that are hidden away from the user seem pretty great, but the way Apple decide to expose the Drive is terrible. It's almost like they don't want users to actually use the drive.
Realistic+and+Detailed+Animal+Paintings+on+Stones+by+Akie+Nakata
Have you looked into ProPublica or The Marshall Project? They're non-profits who focus on investigative reporting. ProPublica is general news but The Marshall Project focuses exclusively on the US's criminal justice system.
Thanks! I was already thinking that 4 people with a bunch of bricks can quickly raise a wall too.

edit: 2 people, 7h (including a 40min break), one wall: https://youtu.be/gSM70WGbTiA?t=25 This is what the innovative part of the project is competing against.
>Also, what PC alternative has a MagSafe equivalent?

The Surface Pro uses a MagSafe style charger.
I can't agree here. Windows 8 was not usable as a web developer, for me. Windows 10 is something I don't mind using as my experimental box (I still use OSX for day-job tasks).
Oh it will crash 100% there is nothing to be scared about
Huh? It's very easy to input Han Characters on modern systems. Most people type it a phonetic alphabet (eg, romanizations like Hanyu Pinyin, or indigenous phonetic alphabets like Zhuyin) and a little program pops up, giving you a list of matching characters, and you select them. Googles ones are very good (they even know regional varions in mandarin pronunciation).

It's entirely conceivable for a programming language to be made with Han Characters - because it's a solved problem to input Han Characters on keyboards.

Or Have I missed the point of what you wrote entirely?
There's a viewpoint out there called "property rights". It means that the owner has the ability to live in his property, rent out his property, make it into a orca preserve, or use it as a temple to the salamander god.

Weird, I know.
For people asking about the amount of energy we're talking about, the energy density of a magnetic field is |B|^2 /(2mu_0). It appears that the described structure has something on the order of the cross section of Mars, and I'll assume that it's depth is in that ballpark as well. For a fictitious uniform field that would require on the order of 1.6e19 J, which is roughly 1.2 times the total electrical energy output of the US in 2001:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=4%2F3+pi+*+(radius+of+m...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.617%C3%9710%5E19+joul...

Assuming you had no losses, so say ideal superconducting coils, that's how much energy you have to dump into magnetic field. You can do this as slow as you like, so with 1/10 the US electrical energy production it would take 10 years to build up that magnetic field. Hypothetically, if you had thin-film plastic PV cells (like cellophane thin to be reasonable to build and get into space) with 100% efficiency covering the footprint of this system (Mars) you could generate enough power to charge up this field in 471 seconds:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1e19+J+%2F+((solar+powe...)

Of course the big story here is that efficient thin film solar in space could generate obscene amounts of power.

I'm not sure on the depth of the field volume required, so that might make it easier, too.
Disabling email attachments from your email server is also a good idea.
sounds surprisingly realistic if you consider that this is a proposal to create an artificial magnetic shield for an entire planet.
E.U. Lawmakers Call for End to Visa-Free Travel for Americans
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13730876

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13773875

Another submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13781515
There is no better time to be a woman in Tech from a hiring perspective. Two of my female classmates from college who are more or less the same as me ( a male ) are inundated with offers from top tech companies in the valley, not even exaggerating. Meanwhile, it would be a minor miracle if recruiters even call me back.

there are other issues like pervasive culture of sexual harassment in tech but getting hired is not one of them.
Cool tech, but...

Curved walls only look good from the outside. Design looks like something someone who has never built a house before drew up. Things like a sofa that can't face the TV screen, or ostensibly a bathroom that you have to walk through the bedroom to get to.

Also everything looks very narrow. I want to see them build a real house this way, something with full-sized doors (36"), full-sized washers and dryers, something with 2 levels, something with actual electrical outlets (I see none in the video or pictures).

I can slap together a shed without plumbing or electricity in a day. Boasting about the price, showing electrical appliances, but not including the electrical wiring... let's be kind and just call that some "optimistic marketing." I mean... It doesn't even look like they have a real foundation... And small point... if they are going for speed, why are they using a roller to apply paint? Spray would do a better job and cut the painting time more than 50%.
Can it be done with hosted mail solutions like most startups use? (Gmail/office365)
Yeah that's possible but there's still laziness. Anyways I didn't want to shift attention much - just use it as an example to clarify what I mean.
This attempt to eli5 could be improved.
Wait, a UBI won't pay enough to live off of? UBI beneficiaries will all die? That could be pretty cheap.

Also, you assume the economic value of a basic job is zero. Is providing child care for working women really worth $0? How about building infrastructure? In fact, this could be a net gain for the treasury if we replace overpaid government union workers with basic jobbers.

If you want to argue that the BJ is somehow more expensive than a BI, could you provide a back of the envelope calculation showing how that would work?
Re-evaluate whether the kind of privacy offered by tor is your number one priority. A lot of journalists have notes and work product and contact info they need to protect, but they're not living deep undercover. The information stored on their computer is far more sensitive than the list of sites they visit.
Me too. Low fee index funds always seem to be the generic answer but after reading many articles and a couple of books about it, I am still not convinced. It seems to me that the rate of return has a lot to do with when you enter/exit the market and it is well known that you can't time the market so how is this different than any other gamble?

There was also a popular article(NYT?), which I can't find the link to at the moment, that showed me that only if you invest in the market for around 30 years or more, can you get a decent return. To me that makes sense if you want to leave your kids a little something after you're gone but not for your own lifetime.

Can someone educate me on this? Does everyone reply "index funds" because it is fashionable to do so or am I missing something here?
If we really can crack automated delivery it will drastically change our economy, I think it would be hard to dispute that. The whole idea of a "retail store" makes less and less sense as delivery costs fall.

And I'm pretty sure we'll eventually crack automated delivery, but as they mention, the problem is that existing buildings are not configured for it and it will take a long time for them to get reconfigured, particularly since apartment entrances/roofs, etc are all shared resources.

The author's company, Savioke, seems to be targeting hotels, which certainly makes sense as a go to market strategy, but further reinforces how this would likely struggle in more typical settings for the foreseeable future.
Neat, but I think with sufficient planning and management you could also build a traditional house of that size and complexity in a day. It would probably be a box rather than this unusual shape, though.
> Linux is still as bad as it ever was. It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. I've been using Linux on laptops since Redhat 7 (the first one from 2000) and a Dell Latitude C-series.

This is so far removed from my world as a daily Linux user. I put Fedora 25 onto a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition and everything worked perfectly out of the box. The OS looks gorgeus, and I now have the tooling so perfected to my workflow that I would be absolutely gutted if I had to change OS. In fact, I would likely turn down a job if it meant having to use Windows as a daily driver. MacOS I could likely get on with ok, but would miss the customizations I have on my linux machine.
I don't think your censorship and invoking the site's authority to shut down conversations because you don't agree contributes to thoughtful discussion.
Older employees, and some managers, I found prefer email in many cases. I still request them to use slack
Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces
Also, isn't there a shockwave effect?
That the lean startup methodology might in some ways apply to other businesses, does not make them startups.

A single hot-dog stand will not do something that will change the economy, create 10K jobs, attract investment, R&D etc..
I fully agree. It would solve a lot of problems we currently face in technology, but there are two issues that I see:

1) Doctors, surgeons, engineers (actual professional engineers, not people with comp sci degrees who call themselves engineers), lawyers, etc. are called professionals because they have professional colleges of their peers that oversee things like ethics and can revoke licenses, etc. They're self-regulating.

This works because for things like medicine and engineering and law, there is a large barrier to entry. You have to go to a recognized school and pass an ethics/comprehensive exam. This isn't so with programming. There's almost no barrier to entry.

Any kid can open up a tutorial on MySQL and call themselves a back-end engineer. Unless the software industry is willing to require formal qualifications on all their hires, this will remain a problem.

2) One of the great things about software is the democratic aspect. Software is great precisely because any random kid can open up a tutorial and notepad.exe and start writing code. To rectify problem #1, you'd to a certain extent kill the democratic nature of learning which is a large part of why many people are in the industry today. I also think that a large portion of people who work in software would be highly resistant to this sort of thing, to say nothing of the difficulty of enforcing ethical behaviour if you can't see what's going on due to proprietary licensing and obfuscation.
Thanks for taking the time to respond, really appreciate it. You mentioned hourly billing, but the OVH plans you reviewed are monthly[0], and all the pricing you listed on the site is monthly.

We're trying to go in a different direction from hourly, and instead offer very deep discounts for annually. So customers can get 8GB RAM for $6.49/month ($77.99/year) and have stellar performance with a provisioning time of about 10 seconds.

[0] https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml
Turn your new-tab window into a huge Billboard for guests of the Tim Ferris Show
Markets are created by God as much as the Hemilaya mountains.

Sure, we could make Mt Everest look like whatever we want it to, but we'll be fighting nature to do so.
arcfide,

What are your thoughts on J vs APL? Also, is APL your preferred language for most kinds of problems? When it is not, why not?
One example I like for K is: Maximum subarray sum[0]. The canonical K solution (sorry, my APL is too rusty to translate) is

|/0(0|+)\

Yes, this is the complete function, and it is the efficient O(n) solution; A K programmer is likely to recognize it immediately (using eyes for pattern recognition). Now, if I were to rewrite it in infix/paren syntax, it would become:

mss(x):=fold(max,0,scan(lambda(a,b) max(0,a+b), 0, x))

This is not at all more readable (arguably less readable) than the K version, and it's inherent, in the sense that the K uses your organic pattern matcher (supplied by eyes and brain) much better than a haskell/lisp version ever will.

Similarly,

,//

Is flatten; If you were to write it verbosely, it would be

flatten(x):=converge(fold(concatenate,x))

While this may be more readable, the K syntax (as does the APL one) gives you a concise, well defined, pattern matchable version. (Which doesn't actually need documentation - the implementation is 3 chars, so if you want to know how it behaves on an empty list -- just read the implementation!)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_subarray_problem
Plenty of other jurisdictions have similar laws. Adverse possession is a common law legal doctrine designed to prevent the non-use of resources by an absent owner.
An unusual recommendation perhaps but recently I've been thinking of starting a small online business. Investing in that seems to offer the better risk to reward ratio. It also doesn't require a large capital to start. Consider that perhaps?
A number of years ago I found a crypto flaw in a Samsung component they shipped on their Android phones. Due to carrier update delays it took nearly two years for all the patches to roll out. Apple on the other hand can go from notice to patch available in weeks.
I really hope squatters take advantage of these apartments.
I mean, who actually looses in such a scenario when people don't even know they have inherited an apprtment?
Does anyone have resources on how one should design their changes to run side-by-side? I have not been at large companies and don't have the advantage of institutional knowledge to help here. Book, articles, and practical examples would be fantastic.

And since it's often hard to generalize, I work today with Elixir and Postgres. Anything specific around this stack would be exceptional.
To keep Tor hack source code secret, DOJ dismisses child porn case
For all the environmental damage they caused, I'm not convinced that CFCs were a net negative. We have better alternatives now, but the refrigerants R12 replaced at the time were really really nasty; how many lives would you be willing to sacrifice to avoid damaging the ozone layer?
Management fees are labor income. Interest is investment income. I have no desire to eliminate any of this, except for the portions that are economic rents.

As an example of the portion that is a real rent, consider the management fees you pay on 401k investments over and above the management fees paid on equivalent public symbols. (E.g., my last 401k's S&P index fund cost 30 or 40 bps more than SPY.) I favor eliminating this rent by banning 401k's.

Is that what you had in mind?
Thing is, switching the "world language" becomes a more expensive endeavor as more content exists in it, and more speakers understand it. Last time that happened - when French was replaced by English - the numbers were very different. Sure, many educated people spoke French, but nowhere near as many as there are English speakers today, even in proportion to world's population. And it was not nearly as dominant for content: science was mostly done in national languages, and so were books.

Two things changed the landscape a lot. First, universal school education, which in most countries includes at least some rudimentary English, vastly expanded the number of people proficient with it to some extent. And second, the amount of cultural and scientific interchange has skyrocketed, with both effectively standardizing on English as the common language.

So, short of some kind of near-extinction event that would unwind our progress a couple hundred years back, I don't see a high likelihood for change. It seems that we're in the beginning of the "common language" era, and English - or whatever it evolves into over time, anyway - is going to be that language.
Your claim might be false.

"After a study by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research last year found a massive increase in the number of virgins in [Japan], some academics criticised the way the research was reported.

Of 5,000 single people surveyed, the government department found 42 per cent of men and 44 per cent of women had never had sex."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-couples-s...
I was just thinking this morning how all the stuff we get from china should be the first things we try to automate so we can't stop contributing to child labor.
Can Startup Nation be an incubator for Palestinian high-tech entrepreneurs?
If you're in the U.S., you should learn about tax-advantaged educational savings accounts, such as Coverdell accounts:

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc310.html

If you're completely new to investing in general, you should learn about basic issues of investing, such as the impact of fees on the long-term returns of investments. For example, directly opening a mutual fund account with a low-cost provider like Vanguard is usually a much better deal than going through the sales people at your local bank (who will gouge you on fees).
This seems like something a 5 minute FizzBuzz-esque programming assignment as a pre-filter could easily fix. The goal seems to be a barrier that only serious applicants will even bother to attempt, and that's fair. But when that barrier then becomes a 4+ hour time sink for the serious applicants it becomes a problem. There are plenty of hackerrank style sites where someone can show a bare minimum of competency without costing either side much time.
Proton decay, proton decay.

Always the same thing.

The Kamiokande experiments are amazing.
>Here's the problem with that idea: How do you convert your abstract high-level description into a set of specific operations? First you need to parse your specification, and parsing natural language is already hard. [my emphasis]

If that were true it would be impossible to make a flow-chart based interface to a "compiler" that produces an executable based on the flowchart (without any keywords, variable names, etc). But plainly it is possible to make such a flowchart->executable compiler+visual IDE, so you are incorrect regarding the claim that the specification needs to be parsed lexically. Functionality does not depend on lexical parsing. It's that simple.
Sydney and Melbourne have similar housing bubbles and vacancy rates, despite having extremely oppressive tenant laws.
So anyone with a painful experience is not allowed to participate in discussion? Are you going to ban rape victims from working to improve handling for rape cases next? You aren't even approaching these people from a neutral position and evaluating their data honestly, so if anyone should be disqualified from commenting, I think it is you at this point.
No. some configurations can be solved perfectly but as you get to higher mine density it becomes probabilistic.
Politico is more oriented towards hill gossip for politics junkies than news.
Among the APL language families I would recommend are Dyalog APL and J. J is great for some of the ideas it has implemented and to gain a flavor of Iverson's vision of APL as it evolved. Dyalog APL is, IMO, more practical, and we are quickly integrating as much of J into APL as is reasonable.

Personally, I am highly biased towards using the APL symbols, and not to get "sucked in" to the idea that using ASCII symbols is easier. I think the APL symbols provide important visual and pneumonic information that actually makes learning better over time than trying to use ASCII. There is built-in APL keyboard support on Linux, and Dyalog APL comes with a good IME for Windows and Mac, so there's no reason not to use the symbols anymore.

I don't know that you should avoid any of them, but I would encourage you to use dfns if you can. Using a lexically scoped syntax is going to give you a better idea of how "good modern" APL is written. A lot of APL's don't include the J innovations or they don't have structured programming features or lack lexical scope, which is a bummer.

So, overall, go Dyalog. I'm highly biased.
Haha, I remember that. My maths teacher DM had a mate in the factory who eventually got me a speccy out the factory door, but it was a longgg wait.
Spectrum was a fun machine. Basic was ok for very simple games. I never did learn z80 assembler.
The check digit gets used today by e.g. JavaScript in input forms to indicate a typo in the card number.
"The $30 million investment fund gathered by Sadara, which is backed by first-rate investors including George Soros, AOL founder Steve Case, and former eBay president Jeff Skoll, as well as Google, Cisco and the European Investment Bank, has so far backed six Palestinian companies, three of which are start-ups."
I don't see how any of that helps the situation at hand: how can I use my existing property to give an acquaintance a roof over their heads?
Ask HN: Publishing on closed source software
Are there any good resources for understand the restrictions on writing on software?

I have several years worth of work on benchmarking various distributed databases I've had the opportunity to work with. I wanted to aggregate it up into a series of blogs talking about my experiences.

I seem to remember certain restrictions out there such as not being able to release benchmarks on SQL Server. I'd hate to put all the effort in this if there is a chance I might be asked to take it down.