skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe someone could automate a way to compare tests made on e.g. Netflix' speed test site[0] and speedtest[1]. If there's a huge discrepancy, then it'd be fair to conclude that the ISP is throttling specific connections.

[0] https://fast.com

[1] https://speedtest.net
This was a direct response to the commennt "I don't think there's any reason for us non-US-Americans to care at all about the US internet."

This change doesn't directly affect IANA, etc, but it will likely have knock-on effects which hurt everyone.

"IANA can be replaced by a non-US entity" - This would, IMO, signal the end of the internet. "Look up www.google.com" "which one?"
I'd wager that's exactly what they're thinking. This hurts consumers, it hurts potentially-but-not-yet-big tech companies, and it even hurts currently-established players in the short term, but on a not-too-long time horizon it cements the big players' near-monopolistic positions in their respective markets. What's $50mm/yr in "fast lane" payments to ISP's when it prevents others from disrupting your multi-trillion-dollar tech conglomerate?
It will affect you almost immediately when they stop allowing traffic that competes with their voice arms.

Facetime, Messenger, Skype, all going to get brutalized.
I think the idea is that fast lane will be default, and the slow lane will be for huge companies that refuse to pay a fee. Since the BigCos can afford to pay, it results in no ire from customers and extra, easy profits for the ISPs.
Do the people in the USA elect the leader of the FCC? If so, can't they elect someone better? If not, why not?
Not all instances are the same. You can't run a database on an m4.large, not any database you plan on running queries on.

So you need that m4.16xlarge to handle the load, and honestly, there's no single instance available on Amazon that I've found that can come anywhere near the performance of physical hardware when it comes to handling database loads. Right now I am running ten r4.16xlarge instances to do the job of two Dell R710s, at considerably reduced performance even still.
I bought and sold my home in Berkeley over a period of less than one year. I had no intention in "flipping it" - I simply couldn't tolerate my 1.5 hour commute.

I made money.

That said, it was such an emotional an psychological effort I'm not sure how anyone could ever do this to earn money. I had a very very large leveraged bet, that could have easily went south. Flipping is crazy.
Back to from Where It All Started. Back to Basics
I was expecting that presentation to be stuff you were missing, but the presentation is saying that essentially every feature they describe is implemented in PostgreSQL. Of the SQL:2011 ones, only one wasn't (temporal tables), and even the SQL:2016 features had partial support (with the summary slide at the end of other features they didn't do in detail having stuff that looks familiar in a PostgreSQL context). Do you have a reference of features not in PostgreSQL you are hoping to use?
I see you haven't met my 2000 corolla. :-)
> "Some people eager to make quick profits bought Donald J. Trump’s well-timed 2004 book, “Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life,” written with Meredith McIver. Some enrolled in the less well-timed Trump University, which emphasized real estate investment in 2005, at the very end of the housing boom; it shut down, amid lawsuits and recrimination, in 2010."

NY Times takes every opportunity it can to fire a shot across the bow at president trump. Yes, let's blame this on trump, why not?

> "There is still no consensus on why the last housing boom and bust happened."

Seems like there is. Folks were given loans they were unqualified for and had no reasonable way to pay off, some at the behest of the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_policies_and_the_su...
The obvious answer is don't wrap a good query in parentheses, use a second line:

var somestuff = from x in someList
where x.Id > 7
select x.Name;

var somestuffList = somestuff.ToList();

For what it is worth, I personally consider ToList() harmful. I've done a lot of LINQ performance work and the first place I start is with a project-wide search for ToList and start to delete and/or replace calls to ToList to things more appropriate. List is more often than not the wrong data structure for a query result and I've seen too many people use ToList as a debugging crutch without understanding its performance impact.
The flipper mentality played a role. But individual mom and pop flipping profits from actual houses were anecdotal and ad hoc. The systematic and deliberate and low risk flipping was of mortgages. Mortgage flipping was done at large scale by large players and was moving the market in large increments.

The big changes to the market when the bubble burst was an oversupply of housing. Mom and pop flipping does not create an oversupply. There's one property at the beginning and one property at the end (in most cases, though there are a myriad of edge cases). Instead the oversupply was created because the important product was in the B2B sector.

The bubble created an oversupply because housing was built as a precondition for generating mortgages. Every extra dwelling built during the bubble generated another mortgage or two for the mortgage market. Big national homebuilders built houses to generate mortgage loans to flip. Local and regional banks wrote construction loans to generate mortgage loans to flip.

The buyers of the loans flipped them off to pension funds and institutional investors. Wall Street loved it for very rational reasons. Individual homeowners were not driving loan prices down and real estate prices up. Sure they thought they were savvy rather than lucky when their house appreciated. But they weren't generating the message.

Pointing to an obscure book as causal misses years of nightly news and decades of standard best industry practice advice that buying a home is a way to accumulate wealth.
Well it formalizes the product manager role.. so like an MBA? Here you also get connections across the software industry. You probably learn some skills as well. Longer term it might help push you further up the food chain.
I don't know if you meant that rhetorically, but I think it's actually an interesting question. It'd be easy, but facile, to attach formal elegance and intellectuality to chess, but I'm sure there are equally elegant and intellectual video games.

In the context of this particular article, the socialization on display feels qualitatively different and superior (to me), to what I associate with even relatively social videogames.
> You can't rush or cut corners with something that will kill people.

Do you have reason to believe that safety-critical features of the Model 3 will not be up to par?

Tesla has a history of mechanical problems with their vehicles, but AFAIK, safety-critical stuff* works just fine. Your door might not open, but your brakes are pretty much guaranteed to work.

* I'm exempting autopilot from this.
Yes, I am confident that typical DFIGs as used in wind turbines do not rely on rare earth materials. The foremost reason to prefer the DFIG over RE permanent magnet generators is the avoidance of high-priced materials with uncertain supply. The introductory part of this thesis provides a decent outline:

https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/10443/2595/1/Chen%...

Your link about "Tungsten in relation to inverters" is talking about tungsten electrodes for welding in conjunction with inverter power supplies. It has nothing to do with materials in inverters.

You are talking nonsense about lithography in PV module manufacturing.

Are you just Cunningham's Law-ing a personal crash course on renewable energy technology and associated issues? If so, well played, but that's it for me today.
Oh, totally fair. Sorry, I shouldn't have well-actuallied you here.
A note for the future, if whoever posts this could please link the actual sales URL, it would help highly confused people. Like me.

There was no sale link anywhere on the site I could find (and I was there in the throes of the sale).

There was no mention of a need for an invite code to purchase a star. Or how to get one.

Even reading the documentation I'm still very hazy how a star is used other than real estate. There's no documentation about how a star code (assuming its a thing) is redeemed or associated or used.

The price points seem reasonable for the scale of what they're building. I hope they put some of the profit into better marketing and explanation coverage.
It really depends on the language. 'const' in C works differently from 'const' in other languages (even C++, which has some great 'const' use cases that make guarantees about whether values will change, not just about the symbol binding), they both work differently than 'final'. Similar confusions with 'static'. If all you want to say is "cannot reassign this symbol", then 'val' is great and sidesteps this whole history of readability and meaning confusion.
> rely on good enough code coverage to catch this

Wait, you don't enforce 100% coverage? (Sorry, couldn't resist ;))

I actually mostly agree, static typing is a huge boon for productivity, and certainly allows for less experienced (both new programmers, and new to the project) developers to become productive on a new codebase faster.

However, I think dynamic typing forces a certain familiarity with the codebase that can prove really useful. Yes, it slows learning down, yes it rules the lower end of the spectrum of developers out, but there are still benefits to this required familiarity.

Obviously, when codebases reach a certain size, this falls over. And even before they do, the drawbacks may be more than the benefits, but it's still something to consider.

My personal opinion right now is that these benefits don't exceed the drawbacks, that static languages are better, however I tend to flip flop back and forth on this every other month (or project).
Interesting article, but it completely fails to address the more recent trend of what the British call 'buy-to-let' i.e. buy, furnish, put on AirBnB. Granted, it only applies to popular travel destinations, but it is also way more profitable compared to flipping.
This article makes my blood boil.

>> There is still no consensus on why the last housing boom and bust happened.

Yes there is. There was widespread fraud on the part of mortgage lenders and investment banks. Wow, crazy. Someone give me a Nobel.

Pretty impressive of this guy to then hand wave around and say inane crap like "The problem for economists is that these changes don’t correspond to movements in the usual suspects: interest rates, building costs, population or rents." As if he's unable to stick his head outside of his office and interpret the world through things other than stock tickers.

Political pressure in the 90's led to deregulation of the mortgage industry, which led to the proliferation of "sub prime" loans, which led to a huge boom in home ownership since people who shouldn't have been borrowing money were borrowing millions, which led to a consumer spending glut, which led to easy money in the market, which led to people papering over losses by playing hot potato with bad loans, until the obviously unsustainable cycle came crashing down.*

We also had multiple wars increasing government spending, continued deregulation, unimaginable leaps in technology and automation, and huge amounts of consumer spending enabled by credit card and other forms of debt feeding into this cycle.*

But yeah, nobody knows, says the Nobel Prize Winning Economist, so lets blame it on the plebes who were stupid enough to think they could get a piece of the pie during one of the greatest wealth booms in history. Silly poor people, taking advantage of unsustainable growth for personal wealth is for the ruling elite! What, you're mad because you got left holding the bag after taking out three mortgages because your lender encouraged you to do so with massive ad campaigns? You were mislead about interest rate hikes by your local banker because nobody cared to double check his numbers? Sorry, but personal responsibility. Oh and by the way we need you guys to pay for all our bad bets because we can't possibly be blamed for this when our models said everything was going to come out rosy!!!

Seriously, things like this make me want to bring back the guillotine.

* To be clear, this is obviously a simplistic version of events, but it's still dramatically more accurate than any of the drivel in this article and actually manages to frame responsibility accurately.
>"To me, it seemed like trying too hard, like very lazily creating culture."

Hitting the nail on the head.

>Monson, Codeword's CEO, uses the music for a different purpose: his own privacy. He and his co-founder sit in a corner of the open office space, where they control the volume on the nearest Sonos speakers. When they want to discuss something sensitive, they turn it up.

And the bosses use it to opt-out of the open office plan they shove onto their employees, great.
I actually worked for better companies (with emotional attachment from developers), one top-end pioneering company that invited all developers at least once a year to Silicon Valley regardless of rank, and one in particular that refused G's acquisition multiple times and G was forced to make an alliance with it, and this company is loved by many at HN these days. Ranked higher on Glassdoor than G/FB, and more than 50% of departures to G returned back within a year, telling all of us it's not worth it. Also having friends at G expressing their jealousy at what I was working on that they could only dream about at G. Which is why I am targeted by those big 4 companies all the time, and couldn't care less.
Don't believe the lie that you don't need ops people in cloud. You're still running servers. So since you have the staff anyway, why not save 3-4x the cost?

Hardware failures are far less common than you believe. I lost one hard drive in 10 years and because it was a RAID array it didn't even fail.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm looking for something that is more interactive though. Ideally it should be like a love child of MS visio / LibreOffice Draw and vim ;)
Comcast successfully extorted payment from Netflix a few years ago by throttling their content until they paid up.
>> There is still no consensus on why the last housing boom and bust happened.

I always thought it was triggered by the Fed. They dropped rates after the tech bubble and then around 2006 they abruptly raised them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate#/media/File...

Mortgage rates roughly (directionally) follow that rate, and home prices vary inversely with interest rates. So they jacked up the home prices, waited for that to take effect and then pulled the plug once people were leveraged to a new record level of consumer debt.

There were other factors in play too, but even this article about house flipping - that was enabled by the easy money and related rising prices in the years prior to 2006.

All I can say is that they better raise rates very very slowly for several years or we'll see something similar happen again. Imagine what a 2 percent increase would do (that's tripling the interest rate) if it happened in a short time.
This feels just a bit like Sonos-sponsored content...
Median car horsepower has increased 50% since your car was made!
Git doesn’t need to be Complicated
Never wrote any Groovy? Java developers had no problem picking this style up a decade ago.
Sure, maintaining an appropriate monetary policy that's compatible with growth but doesn't lead to bubbles is difficult. Of course, when you wind-up with a bubbles, it's evidence you've screwed up.

I'm pretty sure my original post wasn't an uncritical call for a deflationary policy since this isn't the only alternative.
I used to call this "Kapitalism." It's a very different thing from entrepreneur-maker capitalism.

I've lived on the East and now the West coasts, and the manager caste ideology of the East is clearly why the West has completely dominated in innovative business sectors. Boston and Cambridge should be Silicon Valley and almost was, but the mentality killed it. Being a maker and a doer actually pegs you as a lower class, or at least that's the mentality I ran into.

I actually had people there tell me I should not "do." "Executives don't do anything." Direct quote.
I think there's a special hypocrisy involved in getting paid a six figure salary supported by some combination of venture capital and running an open market, and criticizing the system that pays you to do that, all the while spending money on luxurious shit like hand delivered food (which the vast majority of the world only does out of necessity, or otherwise cannot afford to do).

Capitalism has issues, society has issues, the modern phenomenon of worshipping the wealthy and "self made" has issues. I think it's possible to see those issues and want to address them without decrying the idea or system as a whole as this guy does.
Wow. Just because I believe that the government is an immoral actor or believe in 'conspiracy theories' like 9-11 being an inside job does not make me a white supremacist. Actually this type of belief system is just as common, probably more common actually, among non-whites.
It would be difficult to nail down, simply because it's not a across the board change that happened overnight. There have been various encroachments on our liberty and property rights over decades.

Simple examples: police confiscating money and small items during routine traffic stops with little or no recourse, overzealous use of eminent domain for questionable reasons, creation of various "fees" because local government can't get tax increases passed, etc.

There's likely more easily found but those are the first few I can think off the top of my head. Note that in some areas of the US this sort of thing happened and there was instant backlash against it in some jurisdictions. But in others the government moved along just nicely thank you very much.

People think of their homes as their "property" and maybe there is some basis in "freedom" in that. But most people don't "own" that property in the first place. Property can mean many different things and many different aspects of property are in a constant state of seizure by government for its own ends.
"how do we survive? How do we not die and have everyone lose their jobs?"

Pretty bad thought to entertain at the CEO level. You can justify nearly anything with that basic level.

What happened to Ford's "pay them enough to afford what they make"? Sheesh.
Microsoft's First Data Centres in Afrika to Be Located in South Africa
The fact that multiple posters in this thread have offered different facile answers suggests that Schiller is right and nobody really knows for sure.
I think it's weird that they didn't weight any of the charts by how many of each car were sold. It only measures how many car configurations were available.
The FCC is "ruled" by five people: two democrats, two republicans, and a chair. The president appoints the chair of the FCC and at any given point, there have to be at least two members of each of the two political parties on the FCC.

The the position(s) in the FCC are not elected, except indirectly by who you vote for as president.

(Please someone correct me if I'm wrong).
Great to see that these projects are popping up all over --- I'm also in a town in the US with municipal fiber. I get bidirectional gigabit for $50/month (early adopter --- the normal rate is $100/month). Our ISP is also vocally pro-net neutrality.
That does help a lot.

I'm happy to be dependent on my IDE.
That's one place I'll never be working at
Even a Novice Can Quickly Make a Bot or App on This Simple New Coding Site
This is poison:

it gives companies a veto over case studies written about them
What options are there for "the common person" to invest other than the stock market and housing, that anyone knows about?
Where should I get all the latest shows from ettv and ethd now?
Showcasing your applications with Docker in a single click
The article does not seem to be about "more recent" since it's talking about the bubble leading up to the 2008 crash.
Unfortunately no. The FCC Chairman is appointed by the President. Ajit Pai was appointed by Trump.
They might be referring to the update methods:

val array = new Array[String](10)
array.update(7, "hello")
array(7) = "hello" // simply calls out to update
Facebook and MLB partner to bring live streamed games to the social network
How many American cities actually have rent control anymore?
A and B are in a room with a mortgage officer.

A: hey B, do you want to buy my house for $270,000? I paid $200,000 for it but that was ten years ago.

B: Let me check. Hey mortgage officer, can I borrow $270,00?

Mortgage officer: Let me check. Well, prices have been going up so I think it's a fair investment. Sure.

B: SUre.

A: Thanks.

A walks out of the room.

C walks into the room.

B: Hey C, do you want to buy my house? I paid $270,000 but prices have been very strong. I'd like $290,000.

C: Let me check. Hey Mortgage officer, can I borrow $290,000?

Mortgage officer: Let me check. Yes, prices have been really good. This seems like a safe investment for us. Go ahead.

C: Sure. Here's $290,000.

B: Thanks.

B walks out of the room.

D walks into the room.

C: Hey D, do you want to buy my house for $315,000? I bought it for $290,000 but prices have been going really strong.

D: Well, let me check. Hey Mortgage officer, can I borrow $315,000? I want to buy C's house.

Mortgage officer: Let me see. Well, prices have been really strong - seems like a safe investment to me. Sure.

D: Okay, here you go.

C: Thanks.

C walks out of the room.

Question: if you roll around to A after you get to Z, then at what point do the musical chairs end? Who is responsible for the pricing bubble we have just witnessed?

It seems to me that it's not the flippers.
The Mono runtime is quite mature and capable on Linux as the Java ecosystem. Many very good GTK/Gnome apps have been written in C# over the years (Banshee, F-Spot, etc).

.NET Core is awesome, but don't forget that it's not the first time .NET has been available to Linux developers.
It's generally hard to do academic research on these sorts of things.

Since you need multiple teams, building similar software in order to compare.
Indeed, he is well qualified, and I find that he is an original thinker, able to go against the grain of mainstream economics and find valuable insights.

However, in this case, I find the narrative to be simplistic. It is almost shockingly narrow to pin it specifically on tales of house flipping. Yes, lots of people thought buying a house was a good investment, but the attribution to an enthusiasm about house flipping doesn't hold water for me.
The short answer is yes, I would be okay with it.

The long answer is that under no circumstance should I ever be allowed anywhere near a person-copier, whether it teleports or not, unless you would somehow enjoy being conquered and ruled by a ravening horde of me-copies.

The complete lack of political corruption would almost make up for having to be around me all the time. I think most people would probably prefer an occupying clone army/bureaucracy to at least be somewhat attractive. If you think it's bad having one "2" at a party, just imagine a hundred copies of that person that are all trying too hard to go home with you or your date (or both) rather than go back to the disappointing dogpile at the clone barracks, yet again. And now imagine that instead of that happening one time at a party, it's everywhere you go, forever.

Inspired by final chapters of The Forever War.
Probably best to link to the blog announcement, https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/introducing-launchpad-the-gr... , to give context of what this is about, instead of directly into the launchpad UI.
They're pretty common in US cities where they are illegal, but maybe Canadian municipalities are more serious about regulation.
Meet the PyCharm Team at PyCon in Portland, OR
I was disappointed when I didn't see my wife's book :(