skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, because there are cases of real estate in NYC, SF, and London being bought to merely keep money from loosing value you conclude that capitalism has failed?

The reason for this real estate bubble (money loosing value) being the ECB's and the Fed's inflationary policies and low interest rates (hence a consequence of state action)?

And as a remedy you propose the state or city should buy real estate to keep housing affordable (rather than changing regulations)?

So that some pseudo hipsters in Berlin's fashion quarters can keep living on social welfare (ok I'm taking that one back :) but I can tell you the taxpayers of Southern Germany, Hesse, Hamburg (and Saxony I believe) aren't amused to finance Berlin decadence [1].

I can only appeal to your computer science skills to analyze the situation rationally, rather than buying into social-romantic nonsense.

[1]: since over half the residents of Berlin have their hands in the pocket of the state in one form or another, the strategy of the Senate of Berlin seems to be to "buy" their electorate with money they get from other German countries, when actually Berlin rents are much lower than in all other big German cities
That's pretty cool, I've been looking for something like this.
Sadly this article doesn't say if he can eat cakes or cookies without dangerously high blood sugars. This test could say quite definitively if he is cured or not.

Usually term "reversed" is used in context of Type 2 diabetes, meaning that patient can have normal range blood sugar without any medications, but patients still cannot eat cookies/cakes without blood sugar spiking to dangerous levels.
Hmmm no. The balloon (and the sphere) are pushed in the direction opposite to the sum of the forces applied to the surrounding fluid. Since the surface of the fluid is always orthogonal to those forces, there is no reason for a floating object to move in any direction but up with respect to the surface of the fluid. In other words, the fluid is not sloping, it's your head that's tilted :)
I'm pretty sure interviewing Gallowboob and taking what he says at face value is a pretty good example of being manipulated by a professional shill.
I read there was a TypeScript Compiler that would output CC copatible type annotation comments.
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Here is a little bigger app as well http://www.syntaxsuccess.com/viewarticle/migrating-my-angula...
You shouldn't be downvoted - that is a legit criticism of a game that has been rather long in development. At least it's not development hell like DNF or Daikatana, the people building it seem to genuinely make progress, even if they rebuild parts more often than might be necessary. The question is if these symptoms will sink the ship before they reach shore - their situation is obviously different, but no matter whether you throw a bowling ball, or a paper airplane, both eventually hit the ground.
NATO not sure it's allowed to stop Russia cyberattacks
Tell that to my mother. I'm serious here: it's easy for you and me -- heck, I'd just collect it via DBus, reverse Spotify's local storage or scrape it from the web player. But that takes effort and expertise, something very few people on this planet are both capable of and willing to do, unless it's clear that the service is going out of business soon. Furthermore, hacky exports like this will not be importable on other services either.
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I said there was no evidence in a specific user's claims, not that there was no evidence anywhere. See my third paragraph.

There are two problems. One is that astroturfing and shilling exist. The other is that some users are too eager to see an astroturfer under every bed and a shill in every pot.

Both problems are destructive and we need to deal with both and not pretend that one subsumes the other. On HN the approach is simple: (1) if you think you see abuse, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate; and (2) don't accuse other users of astroturfing and shilling unless you have evidence, and keep reminding yourself that an opposing view (e.g. them liking/hating $BIGCO while you hate/like it) is not evidence.
What One Man Can Do Another Man Can Do.
This whole post can be (unintentionally) TL;DRed by a single Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

The phenomenon of people discounting significant advances as "not AI" is not new. I'm surprised it hasn't gotten old yet.
Donations to elite liberal arts colleges in the U.S. are drying up
> "The result goes a long way to rewriting the historical and socio-political message of the Mercator map, which exaggerates the size of imperialist powers."

> “This is the start of a three-year effort to decolonize the curriculum in our public schools..."

Decolonize is guilt-inducing newspeak for injecting propaganda into school curricula. Also,
my peers and I learned about Mercator's pros/cons and other projections in elementary school.

> "The Mercator projection had “fostered European imperialist attitudes for centuries”, creating an “ethical bias” for “western civilization” against the developing world."

Baseless statement.

Everything is viewed through the lens of oppression and race war. The real reason of the ubiquitousness of Mercator is barely mentioned in the article. From the comments "Mercator was made for mariners who navigated by dead reckoning. Holding a compass steady course on a sphere will produce a curved path. On Mercator it is a straight line." Gerardus Mercator was aware of his map's shortcomings and merely followed the engineering rule Form follows function.
If you're comfortable coding to something as low-level as Vulkan, it shouldn't be hard to use whatever API the PS4 or XBox has. You'll want to customize for the hardware regardless, since it's a bit underpowered compared to PC, so the only difference will be your API functions don't begin with vk_
I want to have a basic understanding on the topic, and implement something small, maybe a side project.
> "Go away and think" just means the programmer who wrote it couldn't be bothered to take a couple of minutes to be clear

I haven't had the luxury of working with a lot of experienced veterans, but I've seen and been burnt by rookies who couldn't be bothered to read code other people wrote or written without their favorite framework/language. No amount of comments would deflect those types.
By holding onto our kids so tightly, are we holding them back?
They announced plans to use new generation of graphics APIs a long time ago. It's only now they made it clear they prefer Vulkan to DX12. So I'd say it's their work as usual, except they at last made the clear choice (or at least made it public, they probably chose Vulkan in the past already).
Honest status reporting and AWS service status “truth” in a post-truth world
Desktop link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
I'm seriously wondering at this point how many college CS assignments meant to be completed in Logic Works (or some equivalent) have instead been implemented in Minecraft. If Minecraft existed when I went through college, I imagine it's one of the things I might have attempted (at least for the simpler assignments).

Kudos to any teachers that use Minecraft as a neat visual aid. That would have been awesome.
Seems like this would be ideal in cases where you are waiting for file sync in multiple locations which I assume a lot of banks/corporations do.

Interesting it seems to be marketed as cheaper memory. You'd think at first they'd try and rip super high margins out of banks/corps by selling it as "persistent" memory.

Although I guess if your waiting for file writes in multiple locations the network overhead makes the actual write sort of irrelevant.....
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Ah, sorry. I got ya.
True. Naval himself contradicted this towards the end of this podcast though, when he takes an example of a person who said a lot of interesting things, and then said that thermodynamics is not true, and then Naval says he has to discard everything this person said.
> not being able to move to another flat because of high prices

Berlin's "high prices" are less than half of what you'd pay in, say, the unfashionable parts of Brooklyn.
This was a problem solved in 1983. Read RFC 882 and RFC 883.
To add on, my previous post was referring to "economic profits", which is different from nominal profits. A sublink from above clarifies this further.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition#Normal_pro...
Affordable? Maybe.

For everybody? Not without magic.

Economics of housing is econ 101: if there are more people than available apartments, prices rise so that at some point the number of people who can afford to rent becomes equal to number of apartments available to rent.

You can't house more people without building more apartments. That's the only way to provide housing for everybody. It becomes affordable as a side effect of building more apartments.

The other "solution", as practiced by NY, SF and apparently Berlin, is to artificially keep prices down with government regulations like rent control.

This strategy has been torn to shreds by Nobel-winning economics but more importantly it's clear that it doesn't work. SF's city government keeps talking about "affordable housing" since forever and yet we get to be in the top 2 of the most expensive US cities.

If Berlin follows the same "keep prices down, don't allow more buildings" strategy, it'll end up much more expensive 5 years from now.
Comfortable doesn't mean you always have time and resources to do it for N target APIs which are completely incompatible. Game studios clearly benefit from avoiding reinventing the wheel and duplicating their work. That's the whole point of lock-in proponents. They want to tax developers, to make cross platform development more expensive, forcing at least part of them to limit their release targets. That's a dirty anti-competitive tactic.
> So it remains to be seen which one gets the love of game developers.

That's actually a fairly interesting question, given the percentage of games that come out for Nintendo platforms which are exclusive to that platform (or at least to the Nintendo family of platforms). There are all the first party titles, and then there are all the esoteric games which don't really fit the control schemes of the other platforms (but the switch is less unique in this aspect). I imagine games targeted purely at Nintendo platforms might use their proprietary API, especially first party games, which might get the API changed based on their needs.
Logic is a form a mathematics, and understanding logic is essential. Indeed, for many programmers, that's the extent of the math they know and use. And that's what limits them. There is so much more.
I find laziness (coming from more imperative, non-lazy languages) to be a huge source of implicit non-local behavior. Trying to figure out how efficient my code is without specific knowledge of how certain functions in the standard library work/how the compiler interprets my code is a impossible.
I have been working with scala for 10 month now. Don't have a problem reading my code or open source / coworkers code.
Go there tomorrow morning. See for yourself.
I wish the sites with the annoying "give us your email now!" popups would be honest. Just say, in plain language:

"You can support this site by giving us an email, which we will then add to a list we can sell to various entities. You don't have to give us your main email address. Just please use something other than mailinator (and their ilk) so it's an saleable address. This will help us stay open despite most of our visitors blocking our ads. We will send you a newsletter occasionally so we can pretend this exchange is not purely about money. Thank you."
1) How much sense do equilibrium models make when money, and, especially, debt, which functions as money, can be created at the whim of certain participants (central banks, banks, credit-issuing companies) in the 'equilibrium'? It's ironic to me that the logic and analysis of scarcity is associated with the least scarce, most easily created material (money/debt) in the universe. At least with physics, matter can neither be created not destroyed. Feynman: 'There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.'

2) If you put a Keynesian economist, a neoclassical economist, and an Austrian economist (just to pick three flavors) in a room together and ask them to sort out what they agree and disagree on, the assumptions they'll make are more about narrative than about rigor... which would suggest that narrative is more important than the rigor folks give it credit for.
The most important thing is not the code - it's the people that use the code. The more it helps people, the more valuable it is.
I don't see it mentioned, so does anyone know: Can I use this in parallel with malloc? Meaning, can one part of my program use this for allocating memory, while another uses the standard library malloc/free?
You can order Free Style Libre (online), starter package for $200 or so (check their website).
They probably don't ship to the US, as they're not approved there, so you'd have to use some mail forwarder.
I have a friend who strictly follows a low FODMAP diet, so I'm fairly familiar with it. The thing is, if you are following a strict gluten-free diet it is very likely you are eating lots of high-FODMAP foods! (have a look at http://www.ibsdiets.org/fodmap-diet/fodmap-food-list/ for example, if you want to check it out for yourself).

So I don't see how "avoiding gluten" could be confused with FODMAP issues in most cases.

Also, as I've posted in another comment, there's been more recent research, in a reputable journal, which has found a biological explanation of wheat sensitivity. See this article for a write-up:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160726123632.h...
I've seen many enterprise chooses angular just because of Google. React is the similar in this subject.

Popularity and some-big-company's supports is most important thing for them.
Care to elaborate and/or provide supporting evidence?
I agree with everything you've written. Emphatically, Apple haven't gotten it right.

But that doesn't mean the game wouldn't change if they did. They are moving a lot of units on what is not a great and must-have product yet - imagine if the product were a must-have one that got the things you've mentioned right instead of wrong. That would change the game. It's not beyond them that they might do so in the future, and, again, they are moving a lot of units as it is. Celebrities are wearing them.
Google started playing ads on their $129 Google Home just the other day (http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/3/16/14948696/go...).

Apple shows ads to older iPhone users (https://9to5mac.com/2015/12/11/apple-advertising-iphone-6s-t...).

how is this any different ? Actually Windows can at least be turned off.
This is what I mean about there not being a drop of evidence in what you say. Alleging that Microsoft created accounts on HN is a serious charge. How do you know this? You don't. You know none of these things. You're merely narrating your own perspective and finding an assortment of "details", as you call them, to fit it (some silly corporate partnership, a few stories you saw do this or that on HN's front page—Now it all makes sense!). This is not evidence, this is how imagination works.

It's really time now for you to stop posting like this. It's past tedious, and destructive of the community.
I guess that makes AlphaGo an AIdiot savant?
Yes, I admire them. I have some technical quibbles, as a fellow educator, but I admire them a lot.
I wouldn't call it a grand plan, but it is one of Google's five officially supported server languages and as a result there's a lot of work being done to build tools and libraries for it. Code generation and relying on language-agnostic building and packaging systems (bazel) are both pretty common Google-isms, which show how the company's development culture influenced the priorities and direction of the language.
In my view, part of the fundamental problem of current AI approaches for tackling general intelligence is the inability to collate and organize different systems and algorithms together in a coherent manner.

To use a flawed but useful mode of thinking: we've succeeded at codifying crystallized intelligent systems (far beyond human means), we've made some progress on fluid intelligent systems (at worst random search), but we have not managed to make any progress on the mediator of the two. We can build a million different single purpose neural networks, but we have so few meta-classifiers for knowing which network to use at which time (and can also change track their own self-modification). Watson is possibly the closest we have at this time, but it seems to work on static information which it cannot update or improve on itself.
What do you mean by "social" here?
Sure, but you can not directly compare prices, you also have to take earning opportunities into account.

And your example only supports my point, NYC seems to be even more attractive despite of the skyscrapers.
Project author here. I've been running/curating this newsletter for a few years now, but I recently overhauled the design.

Would love to hear anyone's feedback on the overall format and the types of tools featured.

I know each issue is a huge list, but that's basically because it's hard to figure out what not to include, because there's so much. Nonetheless, it's easy to scan and find stuff based on the category headings (which are different each week).
That's very very recent. Kreuzberg was cheap five years ago, and still is for most people who have been renting for a while; new rents mostly rise a lot faster than existing, for various reasons.
Very old, but still very applicable, IMO.
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Yes. The big problems since then are because there are now popular characters that won't fit in two bytes. Back in Joel's day, if you only handled 16 bit Unicode characters, you just gave up Cretan Linear B and similar alphabets you weren't likely to encounter. Today, most of the emoji, of which there are now 2628 [1], are up there beyond 16 bits, in what used to be called the "astral planes".

Unfortunately, Java and Windows both adopted 16-bit Unicode as their internal representation. So did the Python of the time. This led to a hokey scheme where two 16-bit Unicode characters are used to represent one longer character. Current language status is that Go and Rust are all 100% Unicode, Java still has the 16-bit hack, Python 3 is 100% Unicode but Python 2.7 has 16-bit or 32-bit Unicode builds, and C and C++ still require a lot of explicit work by the application programmer. PHP has some Unicode support, but doesn't really understand string encodings.

On the web, HTML is now almost entirely UTF-8. At least that's been straightened out. Mostly. There's still too much Latin-1 (ISO8859-1) around. Browsers still mostly support the old encodings, although Microsoft Edge apparently doesn't do so very well. Note that HTTP is not Unicode-aware; URLs, domain names, and HTTP data often have strings with other encodings.

The major databases understand Unicode, but it may be necessary to specify an encoding.
MySQL went through a 24-bit Unicode period ("utf-8" is 24-bit) but now supports 32-bit Unicode. This requires specifying "utf8mb4" as the encoding. For new work, use that for everything. Postgres uses "utf-8" for 32-bit Unicode. MongoDB has no idea what character set it's using; it only knows raw bytes, and the application has to handle encoding and decoding.

The current big question is whether programs should use UTF-8 encoding internally, and whether the encoding should be visible to the programmer. Rust uses UTF-8 internally, it's totally visible to the programmer, and you have to use special libraries to iterate over a string properly. Go tries to hide it a little; if you iterate over a Go string using "range", you get 32-bit "runes". Python hides the internal representation completely; if you iterate over a Python string, you get strings which contain one code point, and strings are subscriptable by code point.

[1] http://unicode.org/emoji/charts-beta/full-emoji-list.html
I'm some people and what I mean by AI is artificial intelligence. If needed I can be more precise with Weak / Strong / AGI or ASI.
Thank you! That might work for me - I could get it shipped to Japan or the UK.
The reasoning is that in a world without patents, companies wouldn't invest heavily in R&D. They would just wait for someone else to come up with a good idea, and then copy it. In a world where everyone does this, aggregate R&D investments would be much smaller than what they are now. Which would in turn reduce the rate of innovation and technological progress.

Or at least that's the argument as framed by defenders of the patent system, which generally includes most mainstream economists and policy-makers. However, there certainly are numerous groups, such as libertarians and socialists, who would dispute many parts of the argument above.
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Well the luck of finding a place that can deal with a middle-aged apprentice means I'll be collecting those skills for a while yet! I came across the opportunity whilst looking for options and directions for degrees to drive the career change. Well, that and deciding quite what other field I wanted to land in. Opportunity arose, I leapt. :)

Sometimes I'm glorified handyman, sometimes more significant, almost alwats learning more about old methods and tech, or previous centuries' restorations. I'm still collecting pieces of paper, including for some required modern things like electrics, that usually feel like basic commmon sense, until you see the folks in the class who are barely grasping it.

There's opportunities for specialising more as I go on.

Europe is littered with old sites, some owned by the large conservation charities are pretty formal in recruitment and role. Some of the individual estates and smaller organisations are more flexible probably because some of the niche skills are needed only more rarely. So I'd probably have never got near the National Trust without a 5 year run up.
Why is it unreasonable to expect the same now?
The economy has permanently changed - those jobs are never coming back. On the other hand, moving is far, far easier in 2017 than it was for those on the Oregon Trail or the Mayflower.

Transportation is easier - but lets face it, it takes money to move now just like it took money to move back then. This is the entire reason we can't expect folks to just be able to move. There aren't jobs coming back, so they have no income. If they are lucky, they make minimum wage. And to make more money, they have to save up first month's rent, deposit, utility deposits, plus the actual moving expenses. All this for a city likely to be more expensive than their rural location. It isn't much wonder why folks aren't moving more often.

Sure, one could find work in the nearest town, but that takes commute money. If one has a friend they can live with, that helps, but many don't.
I choose Babel over Typescript, because Babel implements default Ecmascript (afaik). Typescript is mostly type-safe and welcoming for non-js (c#, maybe java) coders.
Semantic locality and the Way of Unix
I think that the point was that even if specific posts aren't made by shills the world-view of commentators is shaped by them.

I think there is some truth to this. I don't frequent Reddit much, but I'd note that for a period a while back there were people here on HN who believed that the Pizzagate conspiracy theory was true. These were long lived accounts here who had commented on a range of issues, so they didn't appear to be shills themself.

But it is hard to argue that their world-view isn't influenced by shills on Reddit.