skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, kotlin makes a much better candidate to be "the" cross platform language for server / client since it supports typescript as a first class citizen, and a native target is coming.

You could use the same arguments in the article you posted to posit that everyone will be developing on a Mac.

It's not very convincing to me.
2^16 hard ...
> Virtu only lost money one day out of 1278 trading days

Lost money trading. If they made $1 trading that counted though I assure you that day was a loser from a business perspective. I also have not lost money trading in 3 years, simply by not trading at all.

It doesn't really detract from your broader point, which I don't have a strong opinion on but that stat is a pet peeve of mine as it's fairly meaningless.
I wholeheartedly disagree that land in the US is anyone's birthright, with the exception of people of native descent, and they (painting with a VERY wide brush stroke, I know) generally didn't believe in land ownership to begin with.

I do agree that speculation has driven to some crazy things in the US housing market. Though I'm not against speculation in any market per se, when we see what banks, businesses, and otherwise shady actors were/are doing to manipulate things in their favor when we're talking about something as important as housing, it gets quite frustrating.

I say this as a guy who had absolutely no issues with purchasing my own home a year ago in a hot market (Portland, OR), moving from another hot market (Seattle). I've got no sour grapes, I got the house I wanted and never had to worry about where I was going to live with my family if the house I was renting would be sold to someone else and the rent skyrocketed. But I have seen first hand the real nightmare that the rapid turnover of properties does to the people that ACTUALLY live in them when the owners treat the property as a line item rather than someone's house.

It's a double edged sword: tighten financing rules and regulation and you make it hard for people to 'move up'. Make them overly loose and you get 2008 all over again. Then again, maybe if it was harder to get jumbo mortgages it would apply a pressure against unfettered growth of housing prices, reducing the expected outcomes from speculation. Or it'll just create some other unintended consequence...

Side note: Having your 9 month pregnant wife watch The Big Short while going through the mortgage process and being one of 11-15 offers on the first few houses you looked at is a really stupid idea. So. Many. Tears.
Nothing wrong with a max of two kids.

"According to some, zero population growth, perhaps after stabilizing at some optimum population, is the ideal towards which countries and the whole world should aspire in the interests of accomplishing long-term environmental sustainability."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_population_growth
I'm a non-technical founder and I came here to find a partner. I also went to meetups, talked to people in google groups. I've asked all kinds of people even contractors on Upwork.com. I'm still looking.
Doesn't have to be a user installed google app. Google analytics use is ubiquitous for mobile and web apps could easily be something Microsoft bundled into their os like for example candy crush (not implying that's the culprit) or something that carries over that pervasive track every click and mousemove type mentality.
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One reason is that Social Security transfers wealth from the young to the old. The shift in demographics may strain the program.
didn't know that you can buy historical stock market data on eBay. what search queries to enter?
Medicaid may cover it and the company is providing it at no charge to people that are uninsured and meet some other requirements (http://web.alsa.org/site/PageNavigator/alsa_radicava_faq.htm... )
The way I see it - the fact that alternative JVM languages are so underused is a damn shame. And if it becomes more acceptable to not use Java, then all such languages will benefit. For many reasons Kotlin is better as a champion of such a change.
what, no beazley?
A good book about medieval money is "Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe" by Peter Spufford: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1387158.Money_and_Its_Us...

Another interesting paper by Meir Kohn, this one about the evolution of the bill of exchange: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=151849
Not really the Baby Boomers fault, but bad decisions made over the past 30/40 years are coming to fruit. Right now only a hand full of cities have 'real' jobs and those cities have strict zoning laws (and NIMBY). So young people in the US, if they want to make any real $ need to move to those cities, otherwise all they will have are 'mcjobs'. I would not be surprised to see slums like the type seen in many poor countries start to occur near these cities in 20 or so years.
Wikipedia was a technology that was at one point capable of becoming a competitor, but the found their niche and stayed there. I am working on an app (sbnode.com) that I hope WILL become a facebook + twitter killer some day. I want this software (not necessarily SubNode) to become "commodity software" just like Linux is as a OS. I would like to see a world where most instances of Linux are running SubNode and sharing the load of being the backbone of a new internet built directly on content repositories and JCR standards. It's a lofty goal, and my small part has been to at least create a working example of what such a system would be like.

I have a lot of capability now in SubNode, but it doesn't yet 'federate', beyond what the JCR can do insofar as storage distribution. However it does show what an internet 'could' be like if most everything was build out of 'SubNodes'... or at least in the area of Social Media, having this kind of open standard would revolutionize the internet, and make Facebook and Twitter look like Bell Telgraph: You know, the old, unneeded, proprietary, manipulative, 'sell your data to the highest bidder' type of social media that the world needs to get off of.
The information rustc can hand to llvm should allow for great optimization, but llvm's optimizer has bugs that mean rustc can't pass much of it, or the optimizer won't make a valid binary (it will crash). Also, llvm's optimizer is way behind gcc's (way way behind intel's)for hpc type stuff. So clang is probably on par with rustc, but GCC or ICC (and certainly ifort) will outperform rustc in the hpc arena until llvm catches up.
That's a fantastic point. I actually was thinking about building it and seeing what happens, just as an experiment. Also, it would be a lot of work to upvote after viewing the article
Pretty interesting! His answer makes it sound like teen dating in Japan is simultaneously idolized and condemned. I wonder how a contradiction this glaring actually works without making everyone's heads spin. For example, does "the professor [who] endlessly talks about his first girlfriend and how she degraded with age" then try to punish his young students for enjoying what he once enjoyed?
Retirement home corporations are going to end up holding huge real estate portfolios because they'll take boomer houses in exchange for aged and end-of-life care.

Wealth concentrates, virtually without exception.
I think a simpler start might be in order. Most developers, let alone users, don't know when, why and how, to use ML. I created (with partners) the "smart reply" designs that are visualizations of ML results that are used by Google in Allo and Hangouts and were used it various other earlier Gproperties. The goal was just to allow people to understand how ML uses probabilities to predict possible futures rather than one off single guesses. You can see and play a bit with how probability trees create outputs and play around with them. They were also designed to be implicitly participatory and multiplayer, rather than just static outputs you could either use or not use. The hope was that more sophisticated users could get a mental model around this and maybe become inspired.

I think several other "lessons" like this will be in order to better get people playing with ML driven interfaces before the average developer really starts seeing enough value to use tool sets meant to visualize the NNs.
Why isn't this data out on torrents? Is it somehow copyrighted?
> I Lost Everything

I doubt that a person who can post about it on the internet did actually lose everything. Most likely he leads quite a luxurious life: he is a wealthy (compared to other parts of the world) American, most likely wrote his story from his MacBook and has a place to live. A lot of people can only dream about a life like his. His expectations is what makes him believe that he "lost everything".

P.S. Clicked on the link after writing this post. Yeah, the guy actually wrote it from his MacBook.
Overpopulation is not the issue so much as said population's individual resource consumption, particularly Westerners'.
We've had 14 hour workdays in the U.S. and elsewhere during the industrial revolution, and yet people somehow found the time for relationships and babies. What's different now?
> Trying to maintain a functioning economy is going to get harder with a shrinking able-bodied workforce in the near future, I would not want to be responsible for addressing that.

Japan has way too much fluff in its economy: People working with almost zero productivity, or completely useless jobs (purely bureaucratic) or facade kind of jobs (folks just hired to stand around) - it's actually very good to see the worker base shrinking, it will bring a lot more focus in the long run, hopefully.

> and not worry so much about indigenous population decline

Japan became a major world power when it only had something like 40-50M inhabitants. You don't need 120 Millions folks in Japan to be a powerful country. Like, not at all.
It's remarkable how when people talk about how there won't be any jobs due to automation they rarely, if ever, look at how there will quite likely be fewer people and people will be older.

That's going to take demand out of the system for many things and add demand for things where automation is hardest such as taking care of the old and infirm.

Some aspects of automation, like cheap autonomous meal delivery help, but taking care of people is highly labour intensive.

That coupled with lower productivity growth is going to have big impacts everywhere. The Welfare state might become unsustainable.

Places like Australia and the US with high immigration will delay these issues somewhat, but even there as the countries where immigrants get richer and themselves have fewer children immigration is likely to reduce in the next 20-50 years.
Mainly text files (using Notepad2-mod as editor) for short term or quick takes, and Evernote for medium/long term notes.
A start to fixing it might be a 40-hour work week.

The problem is extremely long hours are surely deeply ingrained in Japanese work culture at this point.
I'd always wondered about the trope "if someone sees my panties I have to marry them". That Quora explanation really put it in context.
> your hardware is probably supported these days

True. Support has gotten significantly better. It's not perfect, and the failure cases are much worse than Windows (and somewhat worse than OS X), but it's gotten better.

> you should not buy hardware that is incompatible with the operating system you plan to use

This is where you start going off the rails.

People did buy hardware that was compatible with the operating system they do use. It is super presumptuous and weird to try this sleight-of-hand in your argument.

> LibreOffice supports the formats and works great

You are now off the rails and airborne.

Nontrivial Excel spreadsheets break in LibreOffice Calc on the regular and it's significantly slower (!) than Excel besides; anything using VBA, which is still a pretty big chunk of serious Office users especially in enterprises, is a nonstarter for obvious reasons. The UI is also, IMO, a huge step backwards from Office and now that the Ribbon "but but it's different" is far enough in the past that pretty much everybody has switched, another UI switch is probably not worth it.

> with Steam and Wine combined your potential gaming library is HUGE

Sailing through the air with the mountain approaching.

Your potential gaming library is huge--and either indie (which is fine, but limited) or largely broken. Suggesting WINE to somebody who doesn't already know what they're in for is dirty; even gold-flagged games in WINE that aren't a decade old are often broken in ways your average mortal can't fix. If you enjoy being elbow-deep in a computer, this may be fine for you. Most people aren't. Your preaching ignores this. It shouldn't.

> Proprietary operating systems work against your interests. Stop using them.

You've hit the cliffside. There are no survivors.

People will stop using them when open-source ones are good at the things they want. Right now, they're still not, and exhorting people to use an inferior good (for the things they care about) is kinda just doing people dirty.

Don't get me wrong: I would like Linux and other open-source operating systems to be better desktop OSes for normal people (and some of my own projects are intended to help facilitate that) but still, in 2017, it is a raw effing deal for the majority of people to switch to it. This should change. I know you work on stuff to make that happen, and that's awesome. But it's still not something I think can be recommended in good conscience to most folks, even around here.

It barely works for me, and I've been using it on the desktop for fifteen years and have grown accustomed to the need to cultivate tragically low expectations around the whole stack.
I appreciate your comment and I mean absolutely no ill will by my response, but in my opinion, $400 a year (or ~$1 a day) is not even remotely close to a reasonable price, for two reasons:

1) my friends and I write to each other every day with more nuanced, researched, investigative journalism/analysis than the WSJ could ever hope to put out. I frequently release anonymous pastebins of my (hopefully impartial, unlike WSJ) analysis for free as a public service and I hope someone promotes them

2) the amount you quoted, $400, is somewhere around 1-2 months worth of total income for easily a billion people in this world. $400 would be considered an excellent monthly salary in a variety of countries, such as Thailand, Vietnam, Bosnia, Serbia, Albania, Ukraine.

So for likely the majority of the world, $400 would be almost unjustifiably high for words on a page that don't really offer any profitable or immediately actionable ideas
UnWISE: unblurred coadds from WISE
Show HN: Nginx virtual host traffic status module – supports html/json output
Using links is both better and easier.

amp html pages look great in links.
Own an Apple Watch 1. I wear it every time I go running for tracking distance and time, as well as watching my heart rate.

Aside from that I don't really wear it. Notifications on the wrist is nice, but doesn't add that much value. No apps of value either.
Ancestry.com, today, issued a response which refutes some of the claims in this article: "Setting the Record Straight: Ancestry and Your DNA" [0].

[0]: https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2017/05/21/setting-the-r...
The firmware from the international version of the Samsung Galaxy S3 which has unexplainable access to storage devices and such while the phone is powered down. I wanna know what was really going on there...
Oracle has been dragging their feet on adding new language features and their developer base is getting tired of the extremely long wait times. Having to wait until 2020, or longer, for values types, generic specialization and a proper FFI is ludicrous especially when you consider that these features could have arrived in Java 9 had it not been for the prioritization of Project Jigsaw.

As for Oracle trying to close Java - any attempt to do so would be a disaster. IBM, Red Hat and other major players in the Java space would organize and fork the language.
If you read all the way through, you'd see that they have since started and sold another startup. At least, that's their story.
Swift isn't even a stable language I can't even build projects from github that are only a few months old without doing some wank-tastic manual syntax conversion or using an old version of xcode

no one wants to be held hostage to apples nuttery if it's avoidable

even .net core and it's associated languages and frameworks are in much better positions
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> The Welfare state might become unsustainable

It's not "might become", we already know it's unsustainable. It's just that presently we are taking on so much debt to make up for the ongoing costs of it, but at some point the future generations of workers may wonder why they have to pay so much when they don't get any of the benefits.
Most of his configuration is invalid, due to his misconfiguration of group policy. For example, he disabled the Teredo policy. But here's the help text for that policy: "If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the local host settings are used."

He made this error countless times, rendering the entire experiment a failure.

Oops.
This is exactly my point. Japan has the opportunity to chart the way forward: to show the rest of the world how to do more with fewer people and a smaller impact. To determine what an economy looks like that deals efficiently with resources and provides for its citizens without relentless growth.
The key question is whether QC algorithms are scaling as predicted by QC theory, or at least better than classical algorithms for the same task. If the error correction is causing them to scale poorly, the design is probably infeasible for large-qubit calculations.

I expect it is scaling poorly, or IBM would have reported otherwise when moving from 5- to 16-qubit machines.
Why Brain Scientists Are Obsessed with the Case of Phineas Gage
Women also work more in the paid workforce.

Also people have reproductive control.

Also people are richer and have more choice about getting married and having 5 kids (of which only half used to survive to 5).
BTW for those who say that Scala interop with Java is as easy, can you demonstrate how to use this from Java?

https://github.com/tumblr/colossus
People have not made as much of a claim that "boomers are no longer buying homes and it could cause another housing crash". There's been quite a bit of press of "millennial are not buying homes and it could cause another housing crash".
>This is where you start going off the rails. People did buy hardware that was compatible with the operating system they do use. It is super presumptuous and weird to try this sleight-of-hand in your argument.

Make new purchases more intelligently.

>You are now off the rails and airborne. Excel is still largely unsupported and breaks nontrivial spreadsheets. The UI is also, IMO, a huge step backwards from Office and now that the Ribbon "but but it's different" is far enough in the past that pretty much everybody has switched, another UI switch is probably not worth it.

Which is why I mentioned MS Office in Wine.

>Still sailing through the air with the mountain approaching. Your potential gaming library is huge--and either indie or largely broken. Suggesting WINE to somebody who doesn't already know what they're in for is dirty; even gold-flagged games in WINE don't work particularly well a whole lot.

I suggested it to the HN crowd, who I expect to have a higher bar of troubleshooting capability.

>People will stop using them when open-source ones are good at the things they want. Right now, they're still not, and exhorting people to use an inferior good (for the things they care about) is kinda just doing people dirty.

You and people like you are the reason that it's not as good as it could be. I use Linux as my daily driver and it works extremely well. But if you continue to let it languish with a small market share because you can't be bothered to troubleshoot it for 10 minutes or maybe live without that piece of software you need so much, then it won't even go anywhere. Yours is a self defeating attitude.
I found it by searching for "historical stock market data" :-)
No. The client and his lawyer talked to me for about an hour and that was the last I heard of it.

But I'll ask if he'll give me the info. That's all public anyways right? I don't know very much about legal jazz.
Potentially productive capacity might rise rapidly due to automation.

Also the welfare state might be reduced somewhat to make it sustainable.

Or a combination of both.
> Not really the Baby Boomers fault...

Eh... when the housing market corrected in 2008, it could have settled at a lower baseline but it was politically urgent to make sure that baby boomers could still on their houses as profitable investments.
You know Japan already has more debt that it can handle right? It's not the solution.
Yes, if he had to match the author of the post in terms of financial commitment (or even throw in a non-trivial-to-him sum of money), he would have taken the startup more seriously and have been less likely to just walk away. The issue wasn't that he was a friend/family
Most contracts are 40-hour weeks, but they are not enforced. "Tada-zangyou" (free overtime) is the accepted practice.
I commute on an electric bike in the Bay Area. Electric bikes are awesome to ride, but here are a summary of the main issues I've experienced so far:

- LIES, LIES, LIES ABOUT RANGE -- I have a Gigabyke (gigabyke.com) which ships with an SLA battery (a horrible design desicion) and claims a range of 35 miles and a maximum rider weight of 250 pounds. Good luck. I weigh half that and when I got it new, I clocked in exactly 23 miles before the battery crapped out. In Palo Alto, on flat ground, with no wind, on a nice sunny day. It struggles up hills. They really should have said "maxmum range 20 miles" and "maximum weight 150 pounds" if they wanted to be honest to customers. I replaced the battery with an aftermarket Lithium battery and get more acceptable performance now, but that does take some EE handywork.

- REGULATION -- In California at least, it's technically a motorcycle if it goes past 20 mph. People hate seeing your electric bike on bike paths though. So you're forced to travel with 35-40 mph cars. On something that's hard-limited to 20 mph because of some silly law. The 20 mph limit actually makes them more unsafe. (This likely applies to a lot of US states. China doesn't have this problem; most electric bikes there don't have artifically imposed limits and are only limited by their motors.)

- RED LIGHTS -- they never turn green, at least in much of the Bay Area. You're forced to run them because the sensors can't sense you. And it's illegal to ride onto the sidewalk to hit the pedestrian crossing light button.

- HEAVY -- sure, they ship with pedals. They advertise that you can use them. But I'm downright exhausted after pedaling my electric bike for 100 meters. In short, if you are at risk of running out of battery, use a normal bike instead, which can be recharged by ... eating. I can comfortably go 100 km a day on a normal bike as long as I have food and water available, whereas most electric bikes will cop out at less than 40 km. So ... great for commuting, not great for recreation.

On the plus side, they're super fun to ride, make a commute on a hot day much more pleasant than a bike ride, are super-easy to park in congested cities, help you avoid inhaling large amounts of carbon monoxide on your rush-hour commute, and ideal for getting around large school campuses where you can find charging outlets pretty much anywhere. So I love riding mine, overall. Just pointing out that they aren't totally mature technology just yet.