skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally, McMansions are often not very functional. As much as I would appreciate more space, I've been in enough McMansions to appreciate how important a well-built and well-designed house is. Completely ignoring scale doesn't just make McMansions aesthetically unpleasant, it them uncomfortable or completely unsuitable for most of the things we use a house for as well.

If you spend any time in a McMansion, you will start to notice little things that just feel wrong. The fridge will be placed on the complete opposite side of the room from the island with the stove in it. Closets will be placed in the middle of a wall, creating a room where the bed cannot be placed against any walls. Rooms will be designed without any sense of a traffic pattern, and you'll find that it's impossible to place a couch in your den because it's basically a 30 foot wide hallway because of where the doors are. The dishwasher will block access to the sink when open.

A lot of these things are probably unnoticeable to the owners because of their lifestyle. I know friends whose parents have literally never used a single pot or pan that they own.

Around me McMansions seem to stay on the market forever compared to houses of a similar price. A ton were built where I grew up in the 2002-2007 time frame, and nobody wants to live in them. They neglect literally everything that makes a house a home for the sake of having as much space as possible. I would be surprised if the majority of them make it 50 years without being torn down.
To create the connections you have to consciously think and recall not only the topics, but also understand how they are connected and practice them.
Seriously, I thought this was the last place on earth were I would have found people saying that to learn something the best way is to read a book 5 times.
Because if you want to learn Java obviously the best way is to read a Java book 5 times, instead of reading one concept at a time, understanding it, recalling it, putting it in practice with exercises without looking at the book and connecting all the concepts.
I will continue learning in my way that for you is for some reason so alien, good luck in learning reading 5 times.
Random Roundup #18 – The internet's best things this week
I'd much rather have arrow keys to move the cursor around. They're always in the same spot and you only need one finger to use them.

Unfortunately, if you replace the keyboard on iOS you lose the quick dictation key because Apple doesn't let the third party keyboard initiate dictation.

Speaking of dictation, Windows is finally going to bring a dictation key to their virtual keyboard this fall so I'll probably switch from iPad to Windows for my tablet needs. I really hate all of the web browsers on iOS and Android.
Thanks for posting this; I had no idea about any of these. Is there somewhere where tips like these might be compiled?
Speaking as someone using 11 on an iPad Pro 12.5", I would take this (and will be taking this) over my Surface Pro 3. The screen is amazing, the new multitasking features are great, the battery life even on the beta destroys the Surface, I could keep going on but really this is a very laptop replacing device, for me. As usual YMMV, but seriously this can cover probably 90% of what I use my laptop for in a mobile setting.

Addressing my itch of curiousness: Why carry 2 phones?
A 100-year-old physics problem has been solved
I've seen supermarkets sell live basil plants for the past 20 years (probably even earlier but I wasn't paying attention) in multiple countries. Maybe they just picked the wrong example to start the article?
Moving Your E-Books to a New E-Reader
It's for weed. They're all for weed. Every "indoor farming" company is just trying to get capital and build a brand with a cover story for when marijuana is inevitably legalized. The only thing that it really makes positive ROI sense to grow in this kind of way in the United States is for marijuana. Everbody working in the indoor farming industry knows this, the whole "we're saving the world by growing basil" thing is said with a big smirk. (Similarly, big pharma has acres and acres of farmland just waiting to be used for this purpose.)
The charts in the article are pretty interesting. In some provinces the income mobility of the bottom fifth is better than some of the middle three groups (data which is hidden in the article but can be inferred). The article mentions immigration as a potential cause of this, but it would be interesting to figure out if there are other reasons why there isn't a general trend line here.
>If your desire is to go live in Libertopia, please do so. Renounce your citizenship. There's no justification in my mind, you have the choice.

That's like saying someone unhappy with having Sharia Law imposed on them should renounce their citizenship and live in Infideltopia. And as long as they stay, they are accepting Sharia Law, and should not complain about having their media censored, their private actions controlled, and their religious beliefs mandated.

>Then leave behind _everything_ this society has brought you. Let's see how you do. The amount of selfishness behind those comments is astounding. You are perfectly happy with reaping the benefits of said society, while not wanting to contribute back through the rules that have been established.

You're assuming that the positive aspects of our society are due to the income tax and the massive government programs that have been put in place. There is a lot of statistical evidence suggesting otherwise.

I would be perfectly fine not being covered by welfare and free healthcare guarantees in exchange for not paying taxes on private transactions. The problem is you don't want to give me that option.

There's no moral justification to deny people an option. The fact is you call me selfish, but it's you who advocates imprisoning individuals to advance your agenda for society, which is not a mutually agreed one. It's one that is imposed on a significant subset of the population.

>Yes, it's tyranny of the majority. Do you know why? Because it is the best system we have, for now.

It's not the best system we have.. There is absolutely no proof for your statement and plenty of evidence against it.

>In the mean time, we have agreed upon these rules for decades, and since it hasn't changed, it seems like your ideology isn't what people want.

We haven't all agreed to it..

>I mean, if you want the punishment to be rubbing your face in the dirt until you understand _why_ things are the way they are and why this is better than your idea now, I'm down for it.

Imprisoning someone doesn't help them understand why things are the way they are and why this is better.

Like I said, how quickly people rationalize locking up nonviolent individuals, when it helps them advance their agenda, is horrifying to witness.

>But since the two things you seem to value are wealth and freedom, and you're not willing to give up your wealth when you have to be punished, we can only act on the latter.

No one has to be punished. You want to punish people for not obeying other people. This is a conscious act that diminishes rights, and you have abandoned all moral considerations because it's not convenient to your agenda.
Does Microsoft Edge really have better battery life?
You seem to be defending against a claim the study does not make. They're not saying "smartphones make us stupid because Google's in your pocket!" Rather, the study is saying that by having your phone on the desk or even in your pocket, you will exhibit decreased mental capacity because your brain is using some cognitive resources to monitor for notifications etc.

This may be over-simplified but appears to be backed up by the general discussion on pages 10-11.
I know that I'm guilty of this - just voluntarily putting my phone in the other room causes withdrawal-like anxiety, followed by a greater sense of awareness.

Maybe future generations will see our management of information devices as backwards and unhealthy once we learn more about the human brain, the same way we treat smoking, child-rearing, and daily routines of yesterday as horrifyingly detrimental.
Howard Sueing: software engineer and instructor in new diversity program
This is nonsense. And therefore dangerous if used as some form of inspiration.

Great engineers do cost benefit analysis. They solve real problems.

Great engineers do not just write code for everything to inflate their own egos.

My apologies if I missed some form of too-subtle sarcasm here.
Interesting, thank you. Aquifer depletion seems like a modest problem on a 1k year scale, there's plenty of water around generally. But I hadn't heard of topsoil depletion before; I wonder how difficult it will be to produce it artifically? It sounds like something that will soon be in demand.
Books serve the same function as memory, but they did it better. Smart phones don't serve (much less improve on) the function of "attention", so I'm confused by your analogy.
They also pick different comparison groups for the projected income -- likely to give the appearance of linearity where there is some evidence the predictions aren't actually linear over the quintiles.
The "801 paper" (I think): http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~vojin/CLASSES/EEC272/S2005/Paper...
to add, the blog doesn't just go: "its horrid"

it goes: "its horrid because its trying to copy this style, here is what this style is supposed to be, and this is why it fails to look right here"

Its basically a wonderfully funny incident post mortem.

I wish my post mortems were so funny and illuminating
For anyone who's signing up now or asked to get an email notification when a report is complete, my ESP cut me off saying I'm having an unusual amount of requests. I'm contacting them to get it fixed, but be aware you might not get emails sent right now.
How the hell would you use a hydroponic system to grow any type of mushroom, that makes no sense
At the end of the article it says: PS. Get new updates/analysis on tech and startups

Why on earth would I sign up to a regular update from a person who simply lists all the ways in which it is hard to get traction? It's absolutely the case that you need to be clever to market a business and can't just throw shit at a wall. I welcome that, because it increases the barrier to entry.

This means that those who get it right can generate some serious revenue/profits and ultimately a sustainable business.
Eating Frog Eggs and Mukbang
Seeds are not free. Seed is a $100 billion a year market: http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/PressReleases/seed.asp
A huge part of their appeal is unusually low fares. Raising their fares to a point of profitability is going to hurt what many customers like about them. But maybe their increased usability is still more than enough.

Raising fares 7% may get them to profitability, but does it get them to the point where a $70 billion valuation is justified?
I don't see any pretence, I really don't.
> internet-controlled irrigation and nutrition system

Why? What happens when the network drops out on your basil cabinet? Is there any reason not to just put the logic inside the thing?

Other than that, I can see this functioning pretty well for large suburban grocery joints if it's limited to herbs. In fact, I seem to remember seeing something approximating this at a Canadian grocery store, I don't remember where.
Ask HN: What books should I read before I start my tech career?
I am a CS undergrad from a India graduating in 2018, and I'll be applying for jobs in the Bay area in the coming year. Are there books you would want someone to read before they start their tech career?
Until I hear that Xcode for iPad Pro is in the works I'll be holding onto my first gen Air. Otherwise there's no point spending a grand when my $200 touchscreen convertible Chromebook does all the tablety things I need and runs Linux beautifully.
Its still about memory. Attention span is a measure of memory. Writing stands for the absence of something (a voice or community). Smartphones compensate for so many kinds of absence at once.
Having a safety net and more homeless services certainly does not make anyone "want" to be homeless, but it does attract homeless people from areas of less support. I personally know of people who have literally been given a greyhound ticket to SF from e.g. Michigan[1]. At the same time, the roots of much homelessness, e.g. issues surrounding mental health, drug dependency, etc. are not solved with housing availability and clean needle deposits.

Not sure what the solution is.

[1] I'd like to see the numbers people have researched, as anecdotes do not make for good data.
First, most ACH transactions clear in the same day [0]. Second, that's also completely ignoring newer networks like clearXchange / Zelle, which clears in minutes [1].

[0] https://www.nacha.org/news/what-ach-quick-facts-about-automa...

"Specifically, the NACHA Operating Rules require that ACH credits settle in one to two business days and ACH debits settle on the next business day. Recent enhancements to the NACHA Operating Rules now enable same-day settlement of virtually all ACH transactions."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearXchange
Do you have to pay $10 per server you set up?

Also, by acting as the ISP, it also gets to be more protective of its log data than an outside provider might be.

It's not that an outside ISP couldn't provide the same level of service and speed at the same or less cost, while protecting the interests of the MIT community, it's just that I don't expect it's as likely.
Thanks for all the rationalization I could ever want for keeping my phone on DND 24/7
There's definitely a good bit of gatekeeping here
Or learn to live cheap. Mr Money Mustache is a good start.
This just made me go and investigate the rest of my menu bar items.

Option-click the sidebar icon: turn notifications on and off.
I keep my phone on silent and turn off all vibrations. There's no way to notify me of anything until I look at it, but that's a feature.
That argument comes from the wrong direction. It may indeed reduce system costs and improve overall availability, but those things are crippled by the commercial construction of US healthcare not the expense of doctors salaries.

Fix that by adopting healthcare systems from overseas, rather than increasing the mortality rate.
The behavior of quotes can and should be described in terms of how they affect the words they expand to (i.e. the argv you build), so yes, it clarifies all this.

For example, all the various wrong ways of quoting var="My File.txt" or otherwise incorrectly using such a name will result in variations on a wrong argument list:

execlp("cat", "$var", NULL); // cat '$var'
execlp("cat", "My", "File.txt", NULL); // cat $var
execlp("cat My File.txt", NULL); // cmd="cat $var"; "$cmd"
execlp("cat", "'My", "File.txt'", NULL);// cmd="cat '$var'"; $cmd
execlp("cat", "My\\", "File.txt", NULL);// cmd="cat My\ File.txt"; $cmd
execlp("cat", "'My File.txt'", NULL); // var="'$var'"; cat "$var"
execlp("cat", "\"$var\"", NULL); // arg='"$var"'; cat $arg

Meanwhile, all the correct ones result in the same, correct argv:

execlp("cat", "My File.txt", NULL); // cat "$var"
execlp("cat", "My File.txt", NULL); // cat 'My File.txt'
execlp("cat", "My File.txt", NULL); // cat "My File.txt"
execlp("cat", "My File.txt", NULL); // cat My\ File.txt
execlp("cat", "My File.txt", NULL); // cmd=("cat" "$var"); "${cmd[@]}"
execlp("cat", "My File.txt", NULL); // arg="'My File.txt'"; eval "cat $arg"

If you don't know which argument list you're aiming for, you basically have to go by guesswork and superstitions.
Gear VR Game Development – Creating a Space Shooter Game
You must know some very odd people.
In the near future we're going to see even more "information diets", "digital cleanses", meditative go-to-nature sort of breaks integrated into lifestyle routines.
She appears to be quite well-educated in the realm of architecture and its history. I personally enjoy her blog, but you don't have to be old and rich to be a snob.
Wake me up after the registered replication.
Maybe I lack imagination, but I have a hard time visualizing a doomsday prepper walking down an isle at Trader Joe's, looking for a pot of fresh organic basil.

"Damn nuclear apocalypse, it's been weeks since I had fresh basil! How can I feed my militia if I can't even bake a pizza?"
I know the economy is much more complex than let's say physics. But at least I would like economists to backtest things that happened. For example, the large tax cuts that happened during the Reagan, Bush and probably Trump years could be tested and it could be determined if the promised increase in investment and whatever really happened. At least the economists that make it to the media don't seem to have interest in checking whether their theories actually worked out.
Maybe it's the hardest thing
When I realize my phone has been out of reach for more than a few minutes my stomach drops because of the chance I've missed some catastrophic work alert that means our company's servers are all down... I probably need a new job.
It'd be yet another aspect of a healthcare system that gets hijacked by commercial interests, which is already the principal reason that US healthcare costs 17% of GDP when other countries deliver equal quality for 9%.
You can have good memory and low attention span. Other way round too.
Just be straightforward and let them know you have another opportunity elsewhere. They might offer you more or let you go. I had an experience, where I had feared letting the tyrant boss know I was putting in my 2 weeks, but I went ahead and just got through with it. Best decision of my life. You can read all about it here if you want: http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/the-opportunity/
The proliferation of video currently gets my goat. I like to read news, not watch it.
> The blog is sarcastic in nature. What's wrong with that?

It's punching down: the builders/purchasers didn't know/care how to make architecturally sophisticated dwellings, which is no reason to make fun of someone. The commentary applies equally-well to pre-fab apartments, shotgun shacks, suburban housing developments, etc. It's poorly-targeted.

It's also elitist a.f. "Look at these gauche bungalows, drawn up no doubt by someone who never heard of Falling Water, let alone ever showered"
This is sales 101. "Sell the sizzle, not the steak."
Thanks! I enabled IPv6 on my Google Wifi router. I see a Global inet6 addr in my ifconfig. IPv6 websites work. I can ping6 my machine from the outside. I can ssh -6 into my machine from other machines on the LAN. But unfortunately I still cannot ssh -6 into my machine from an outside computer.

It probably is firewalling all incoming IPv6 connections (?). The Google Wifi app has no settings about this. Googling and stackoverflowing for 10 minutes didn't find a solution. That's when I give up.

Sorry Google and the IPv6 community but I have more important things I need to be working on than dealing with this BS that never works the first time. Back to IPv4 and port forwards, which is working fine for me right now, and will let me get back to my work. :-/
ARKit – Much Needed Addition to Apple’s AR Portfolio
What makes you say Step Functions isn't ready for prime time? We've been using it (and SWF which it is based off) for about a year at decent scale and been generally very happy with it.
You're correct, will edit to reflect more accurate numbers
Gemalto Seeks to Patent Method for Secure Blockchain Identity
> If you spent years using Mathematica to explore differential geometry in 11 dimensions, not so much.

Sounds at least tangentially relevant to deep learning.
You really think the command line is of comparable complexity to simple text selection?
Robots Managing Robots: Nokia's Digital Factory of the Future
We can include all extremists alright. I've pointed out Marxists because Postmodernism is a child of the Frankfurt School. Basically the left cultural war on the west to facilitate revolution.
It doesn't have to make it "not a free tool", but in my experience it often does. Why even bother with an account system? Nothing on the front page of this site suggests an account is technically necessary.

Yet the owner of the site is presumably paying for a DB to store all this information. Why?

Usually there is one of two answers:

A) They want to sell you shit, and they need some kind of identifier they can use to unlock content

B) They want to collect info on you to sell to other people

Either way, that's not free. If it's A, I am being asked to invest time in a tool without being told it's potential limitations (there's nothing on the front page mentioning limitations on unpaid accounts), and that's a cost.

If it's B, I'm being data-mined, and companies only pay for data-mining if they think they can turn it into more profit, data-mining costs included. So if I'm being data-mined, it's because someone thinks they can use that data to get me to part with more money at some point down the line than I would choose to part with sans manipulation. That's a cost.

Of course, there's always option C) The site creator hasn't thought about why they need an account system, and made one because that's what all the other cool websites do.

Usually when C comes into play, you can expect account data leakages to follow due to piss poor security practices, and that's a cost.
#6 Competing with boredom is easier than competing with Facebook + Google

^ this one stood out as a particularly strong point -- there's a finite amount of time people have to burn on apps for non-utilitarian purposes, and social networks have been pretty effective at eating that all up.

To me it suggests that consumer applications no longer can afford to merely be fun or entertaining (unless they're good enough at that to compete with Facebook, Snapchat, etc for more than a week of usage). The focus really has to be on utility and solving pain-points that go beyond disrupting boredom and/or "connecting people" in what have become conventional formats.
You're not going to take funding away from DSGE models because it's mostly individual researchers writing programs for themselves.

Ricardo Reis argues that macro has largely moved beyond real business cycles with frictions[1]. I'm not as optimistic as him, but DSGE is no longer as prestigious as it once was.

[1] http://personal.lse.ac.uk/reisr/papers/17-wrong.pdf
I think a large part of the problem with fake shutters is that they are often too small and wouldn't fully cover the window if they were functional, so they end up looking awkward and out-of-balance
So true. And in-car GPS keeps your sense of direction from developing.

I've seen people stymied as to how they could possibly make a phone call without their phones. Payphone. Borrow someone else's. Not that hard.

I used to think this would only ever happen to geeks like me. Boy, was I wrong.
So then the title is misleading. It is not the presence of a smartphone, but over using the notification feature of the phone that causes the issue.
The Greeks would make performances designed to be performed in front of a live audience.

The comparison to today is not whether you can find someone who can recite a book on first reading, but someone who can recite a song the first time they hear it, or parts of a stand-up routine.
How to Design a Mobile App Without Paying a Dime
You are misunderstanding what I'm saying.