skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Europe you can get above 10% before tax with "peer to peer" lending at https://www.twino.eu. The company guarantees it and their financials looks healthy, but there is a risk of them being a scam or defaulting.

Personally, I would take your money for a guaranteed 5% and invest it in more risky funds, covering the losses or taking the excess gains.
Actually I'm not sure the exact opposite isn't what's more common

I see a lot of people basically caught up in the narrative soap opera of 'who gets to be in charge', and who the perceive good guys and bad guys are

And actually very little object level 'are we getting good customer service here?' analysis

I'm sure there's some drama behind who gets to be CEO at Netflix, but the strategy behind that game is largely irrelevant to me
> [].slice.call on the result of querySelectorAll turns that NodeMap (NodeList? I forget) into a proper array, on which all of the language's sequence manipulatory methods work as they should.

While true it's important to remember this creates a new, shallow array copy. It's not something you'd want to call often.

Also it may be better to use Array.prototype.slice.call instead to avoid the extra, empty array instance your shortcut creates. How much better is likely insignificant, however; it's mostly a personal preference of mine :)

> I don't know why that method doesn't just return an array to begin with, but this is how you get one from it.

I believe this answers that pretty well (I've had the same, frustrating question in the past): http://stackoverflow.com/a/2601582/242023
To disincentivize huge salaries for people who create zero value, and just move money from point A to point B.
I think the lack of venture is more complex than that; a mix of culture and regulation.

There are only 23 million odd Australians, but there is well north of $2 trillion AUD in our superannuation accounts.

Assuming they applied 0.5% of that towards VC, you'd be looking at $10bn AUD of available capital. At least one order of magnitude more than is currently present.

Also, last I checked, stock-based comp in Australia is tax-disadvantageous. I can't recall if it was FBT or something else.
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I even considered emailing you to ask if doing bingo card software localized to Brazil for instance was a good idea

I'll take the liberty of answering here: it's a terrible, terrible project relative to your goals when you consider the the universe of projects you can ship with the same skill set. Bingo Card Creator is fundamentally a CRUD app which spits out PDFs; life-time value of a customer is ~$30. There are numerous applications which, for the same technical challenge, sell to businesses for $50 ~ $200 per month and LTVs in the $1k ~ $10k range. Do one of them instead.
The main problem with most engines is how to cool them efficiently. These thermocouple skudderites are (according to the article) good insulators of heat, which is exactly what you do not want.
It's hard to be sanguine if you're beggared or bankrupted.

Keating being right, and Keating phrasing it as he did, are different things.
I was using global stores but recently moved to @inject. I needed a way to reset my stores on logout. Hence now i create a root store and initialize rest of the stores.
I think part of the problem is that they they're neither fish nor fowl. They don't fit into what people conventionally think of as a "neighborhood" with single family homes (or at least buildings that were originally built as single family homes and later subdivided into one or two units), and they also don't necessarily fit into an area full of large apartment buildings for economic reasons (if it's economical to build a 20 story apartment building with 120 units, why would you put a 20 unit building on the same plot).

We're watching the first part play out. At the end of our street, there's a garage that was built for a heating oil distribution company. Real estate prices are nuts (Boston area), and the heating oil company has either moved or gone under. The building owner is trying to redevelop it into a 4 story apartment (or condos, TBD) with 7 units. I went the the community meeting with my wife because she has domain expertise with the environmental side of such a redevelopment project.

People are having a fit about the building. It's too tall, it'll change the character of the neighborhood. What if the neighbors throw RAGING PARTIES on the terraces? What if they leave their lights on and they shine in the windows of the immediate neighbors? Can you put plants on the edge of the terraces to mitigate that? What if the new neighbors don't trim the plants?! The color the developers are proposing is too ... I don't know, but people don't like it.

The neighbors have been holding the developers feet to the fire over what amounts to 1) bikeshedding, and 2) what if we get bad neighbors? How much is it costing the developer to hold people's hands over these things? The only possible reason for doing this I can imagine is that there simply isn't a lot of unencumbered land waiting to be built upon, so infilling smaller buildings is the only way to go about developing unless you have the resources to develop something truly huge on a large ex-industrial parcel.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sympathetic to the fact that bad neighbors exist, and we like the neighborhood in part because it is quiet. Still, real estate prices are insane, and building more housing is the only way it's going to get better.

In the interests of full disclosure, we rent. Largely because we don't see staying here for more than another couple years (largely because we don't see a realistic way to become home-owners, so we're doing our part to perpetuate the property price problem).

We're largely insulated from any property value concerns that people may have about the new building. Still we like the neighborhood, and we do our part to be neighborly to the many owner-occupants we live near. We're as invested in the neighborhood as anybody who doesn't own is likely to be, but we do think the development is wholly reasonable and a great reuse of what is a hulking, windowless brick building.
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Bloomberg is a news outlet named after a billionaire...
Okay, but Clinton was subsequently tried in the Senate, as mentioned on that page: Clinton was subsequently acquitted of these charges by the Senate on February 12, 1999.
I would definitely recommend this youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q
Not allowing houses to grow helps to ensure the are smaller houses. Something you relied on to get your house, others will this rely on that when you move out. I see the sense in it.
Awesome app and concept!
This style of living is probably most popular with the elderly in my area (inner-east melbourne)
Gun manufacturers are explicitly immune from liability for the actions of their consumers, under the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_in_Arms_Act
Darwin is a boom-bust town and pretty much always has been.

It's entering a bust now because Inpex is wrapping up. I expect unit prices will fall sharply, now that there's a glut.

I was there a few weeks ago for the first time in several years and was basically amazed by how many new apartment buildings had been stamped out.
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Does the mean the amount of space vehicles (satellite, space stations, transport space crafts etc) will explode in next few years? I wonder if there any infrastructure to support this.
The author may be assuming a conclusion: does America need small apartments because they are cheaper, or are they not built because people don't want them, and low demand keeps down the price?

His economy of scale argument cuts both ways. Putting a few more units in a city does not appreciably increase the strain on infrastructure and density, but it does much more so in the suburbs where he seems to want them.

"Failures" in urban planning are not necessarily shortsighted blunders that arose out of nothing waiting to be found by journalists.
Similar - this and Julia and then the color cycles. Lots of hours as well with Fractint back in the day
Worth remembering is that Howard's magic stroke was to confuse the issue between refugees and immigration. A lot of people were angry we had 300k "boat people" a year, but never realised it was a handful of boat people and 290k legal immigrants.

I despise the man but it was a political master stroke.
>Who in their right mind would work for a company that doesn't allow them to bring their personal phone to work?

Uh, everyone in the military and the defense industry who work in EMSEC zones?

Literally hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions.
Just a note that the USSR space station program completely outpaced the US with Salyut & had automatic docking procedures for unsupervised unmanned resupply missions in the 70s. The core module for Mir2 became the core of the ISS.
Or just wholesale thrown out(or at least become obsolete), see Newtonian orbital mechanics vs relativistic orbital mechanics.

Newtonian orbital mechanics is not obsolete: Within the limits of its applicability, it's a perfectly fine framework and in use to this day.
Concrete is much better at noise insulation than dry wall and timber flooring.
> Fake news is specifically the creation of websites that look like legitimate news sites, with what look like legitimate articles, in order to generate click and ad revenue

You tie the term "fake news" into "generating click and ad revenue"[1], but what you really mean is that "fake news" is anything that doesn't come from the government.

If you don't think "Russians hacked the US election!" is "fake news", I've got a bridge to sell you.

[1] Generating "click revenue" is bad I guess? Except when The New York Times do it.
I'm beginning to look at the housing market in the UK, a bit like the diamond market. Where the market is effectively controlled by 1-2 companies that ensure the release of a controlled quantity into the market at any one time.

Developers have a huge land bank upon which they could develop high density cheap accommodation using modern commercial property techniques however this would destroy their market. It's better to release 200k of 'stock' per year in the market to maintain high house prices.

It helps that the government has pretty much stripped the ability of councils to build houses, and more importantly, the sale of council houses (right to buy). Bring in the fact none of these houses have a 'no second home' clause means they are bought up as buy to let facilitated by a change in banking regulation in 1996 that allowed buy to let mortgages.

So yeah, we have a housing stock problem. Start thinking about it like the diamond business and the similarities are quite scary.
I agree - I love reading about how the guys are able to bring ancient computers back to life.
I think the parent poster meant what we call a "Villa Unit". A small 1-2 bedroom house: fit 3-8 on a block. They built a lot of them in the 70s. See e.g. http://www.realestate.com.au/property-villa-vic-camberwell-1...
A lot of the animation examples are actually quite different in subtle ways.. Eg. the fade out example using opacity with CSS animations - the element still remains in the DOM.

https://jsfiddle.net/hbLebx2d/1/

Try quickly clicking the "Toggle" button too.
Science also doesn't rely only on the scientific method. It relies mainly on maths and logic. Here both philosophy and science meet.

What I mean is that every time this debate happens it's the same a lot of "what do you mean by that?" And "define achievement". My thesis is that as a tool to gain knowledge about the natural world philosophy is not helpful anymore because the parts that are useful, logic and argumental rigor, are integrated in science already. Philosophy is still useful in ethics and morals but not useful in epistemology and metaphysics unless they follow modern science, which very few do.
Bear in mind their launch manifest, right up until yesterday, assumed that no cores would be re-used and so they had a full slate of flights booked with customers guaranteed first-flight hardware, which they already had in production. They couldn't completely restructure their manufacturing and launch schedule just because they had landed a few cores, some of which we know have been damaged too much to be safely re-used.

Now they have proved the principle of booster re-use they can adjust their manufacturing and launch schedules to take advantage of that going forward.

If I were a SpaceX investor or customer I'd want the manufacturing pipeline and launch schedules to be based as much as possible on facts, not hopes. But now that core re-use is a demonstrated fact, they can be adjusted accordingly without posing unacceptable business risk.
To make the technical (and somewhat cold-hearted) argument: because it will correct a massive mis-allocation of capital in the Australian economy. This mis-allocated capital is being poured into existing residential real estate (80% of property investment is in already existing properties). It's capital that could otherwise be put to some productive purpose, like business loans for example.

The above is basically a stylised description of what has actually been happening in Australia over the past two decades: real estate loans have been crowding out business loans: http://i.imgur.com/g7a9QDL.png . The upper bound for sophisticated public discussion on economic policy is, IMHO, when pollies yammer on about 'productivity' (a depressingly low 'upper bound', and not without its own issues). If we are truly serious about lifting multi-factor productivity, then we should not be distorting capital investment decisions with crazy-expensive tax breaks for property investors.

It would be great if we could correct this problem, without serious macroeconomic upheaval, by gradually phasing in tax reforms. But that opportunity passed us by about a decade ago. The reforms still have to occur, mind you. It's just that now we pretty much have to eat a massive property bust (and possible crisis in the financial sector) first.

As for the reforms, my top 3 would be:

- Change capital gains back to indexation by inflation (rather than a flat 50% discount after 1 year of ownership).

- Get the States to slowly repeal stamp duty on property and insurance, and slowly introduce a tax on the unimproved value of land (say, over a 5 year timeframe).

- Simplify and repeal a whole bunch of zoning and land planning laws and regulations, at both the State and local council level.
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What makes you a professional if you have no experience and no degree?
Moving something that is currently at A but should be at B absolutely creates value.
Would it be illegal to write say an excellent grepping or sorting tool that I really want someone to use as part of a criminal activity, even if it had heaps of other uses?
> There is rampant theft though, see the recent http://norcalrecord.com/stories/511081584-synopsis-claims-ub.... as an example

This is not theft, but unauthorized use of the software.
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Ghost in the Shell 2017 movie. What do you think?
The Reserve Bank's legal mandate is inflation-band targeting; though they do keep an eye on exports and employment. It's a tricky act because raising interest pushes down inflation, but it also hurts borrowers, strengthens the dollar and hurts exporters.

The Australian rate is substantially higher than the Federal Reserve's. The Fed has a broader remit and is apparently perfectly happy to run nearly free money for years on end. Compared to the US, Australian monetary policy is quite conservative.
It seems silly to not include recovery costs, refurbishment, testing, transport to launch, etc. Those significantly eat into the '99%' savings.

I estimate those costs would be $20-25MM; still, a big savings on a brand-new rocket each time!
For the thorny Windows platform: how about using cygwin so you have the shell and regular Linux commands but use the Visual C++ compiler for a more native exe.
This was cuttingly compared to watching an episode of Columbo with an elderly relative with alzhimers by comedian Frankie Boyle (NSFW):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtWA3jQN1Pg
For unjitted interpreters writren in C Lua and few other lisp and Lua derived interpreters are perfect.

With jit added, luajit is perfect. This is a completely different beast. Also the self/strongtalk derived jits of course: hotspot and v8.
I have a hard time believing this "flight proven" argument, seems more like marketing.
The only reason this became law is because so many people tried going after the gun manufacturers.

With all the terror attacks in Europe using trucks as weapons, people might start going after the truck manufacturers. Then the EU will pass some law saying truck manufacturers are not responsible for people using them as weapons.

Cause and effect. It's sad, but some people try to blame the existence of the weapons. As if anything can't be a weapon! You can pick up a rock and attack with deadly force. Who do you sue then? God? This law exists because some people will always try to shift the blame.
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There are plenty of examples of people succeeding on a "professional" level with no degree in their field of work, or no degree at all. Especially in CS/IT.

"Being a professional" is about your ability and how you go about doing your job.
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They essentially say so in the article.

"Of the 400,000 web addresses JPMorgan’s ads showed up on in a recent 30-day period, said Ms. Lemkau, only 12,000, or 3 percent, led to activity beyond an impression."
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I live in Germany, the country with the lowest birth rate in the world. The population is still slowly growing due to immigration.

Even once the developing countries reduce fertility below replacement (which will not happen for a long time yet) with increasing life spans and improving medicine the world's population will still continue growing(slow growth is still projected in the year 2100), then stagnate and then one day very far from today slowly decline...

but it will still take centuries to reach the population levels of the early 20th Century (only reached 2 billion people in 1927). In the meanwhile we have too many, not too few, people around.
What do people such as yourself have against buy-to-let? It doesn't change the supply level (unless for some reason you need to buy and can't rent). I always thought buy-to-let seemed rather nice and progressive - a good way for ordinary people with a little spare money to invest and build up money for their retirement while their asset still benefits society by being maintained and housing someone. That seems like a great example of sensible British middle-class aspiration.
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This isn't false news, I just think you are misreading the article. It states that overall (the uncontrolled gap according to the study) the gap is 24% (not 76% fyi) but when controlling for education, experience and title the gap is 2.4%. Point being, a gap still exists, even when controlling for these various factors...which is reflected in the title: "Men still earn more than women with the same jobs"
Is this equivalent to encoding the ranks as decimals in a floating-point probabilistic PL? Like if a program uses ranks 0-9 in RankPL, could those could be encoded as probabilities 1/55, 2/55, 3/55, ... ,10/55 (assuming rank 9 is 10 times less likely than rank 0) in a regular probabilistic PL?
Rather, don't waste money on a (financially) useless degree. If you want to learn arts or history or gender studies, there are much much cheaper ways than to dump $100K on your education.

I got downvoted before for stating that position, but HN has been a little hypocritical on that matter. On the one hand, when discussing issues of automation, many state that there will always be enough of jobs, we just have to educate people better and in the right fields.

On the other hand, I often see the statements that people should be able to learn (and get paid for it) anything they want.

I disagree with both of these positions.
Pretty safe to say that those in West Germany were happier to lose to the US or UK forces than those in the East losing to the Soviets.
EU: 28 countries, one common language (2015)
Lazy college graduates get what they deserve /snark
You forgot to address the lack of experience.
That is the downside of having GCHQ in a small county town its hard to hide in plain sight.

Its easy to come up with a cover story in London for a math geek not so much in Cheltenham
If I had $10M I'd move back to Sydney. It's a nicer city. I do data science / machine learning and for work there is no comparison, SF is where it is at. I had to leave SF because I wanted to be a contractor and none of the visa options would allow it. I have recently moved on to a cheap tax haven (Boquete Panama) where I work remotely and get paid the same. My margins are so good here that I only have to work 1-2 days a month. I'm quazi retired at 31 and could never go back to normal working. I get to be very picky about what I work on and spend a lot of my time studying things that I'm interested in. I highly recommend this lifestyle to others.
FBI is claiming if you sell your grep tool via a site called HackForums, it is.
Howard's instinct as Prime Minister was the spend like a drunken sailor.

I note that you didn't mention his Treasurer, Peter Costello. The pair of them basically invented the Australian political norm, now dead, that government debt was bad and ought to be paid down as quickly as possible.

No to mention setting aside what is now one of the larger sovereign funds to cover future Commonwealth pension liabilities.

While middle-class welfare has done irreparable structural damage, painting them in a single shade of black or white isn't fair.

Some of the rot or failure to act started under PM Hawke / Treasurer Keating, PM Keating / Treasurer Dawkins, PM Keating / Treasurer Willis and continued under PM Revolving Door / Treasurer Roundabout.

Overall the Hawke-Keating-Howard-Costello years transformed Australia from an economic backwater into a much wealthier and more successful country.

Could there have been better choices? Of course.

Could there have been worse? Oh yes. Australia can't sustain US-style fiscal policy, no matter how politically attractive.
> There is no spice on mars.

Sounds like zero supply of something a colony might want to pay for. Trade goes both ways. I never took a guess at time frames this could happen in.
When I was in grad school, I took a middle ground: I determined to get a B or B- (if it could be done with reasonable effort) for all the courses. This let me have extra time to put into the courses I found most interesting and I would spend longer hours on those with the goal being learning rather than grades. It kept school fun.
I think we have all been guilty of negatively-named booleans at some point or other.
In the typical UK buy-to-let model, the renter pays more than the landlord's mortgage in rent.

The only thing separating a buy-to-let landlord and their tenants is mortgage availability (i.e. Existing wealth and income multiples)
You say lots of lies and the best you can come up with is Chernobyl winds and some hand waving about JFK?

That's not lots of lies.

Your comment smacks of the very conspiracy this article talks of.