skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO the inflation of housing costs has many factors, but one of the ones that gets overlooked is the concentration of wealth near the top. Rich people need safe places to stash their money, and they end up buying real estate all over the country. This isn't just Americans either, US real estate is a popular investment all over the world. But when you are buying real estate as an investment where do you buy, not out in some no-name town in some flyover state. You buy in a place where the market is already hot and ride the wave. Thousands of millionaire investors piling into a market end up pricing out regular folks who just want a place to live.

I'm frankly surprised that we have not seen more real estate bubbles pop over the years. It's clearly unsustainable, yet somehow the market keeps going. Ask your parents if they could afford to buy their home today, even with their best yearly income. Most of them will say no if they lived in the city for a couple of decades or more. I know so many who bought their house for $70k-$100k in the 70s and now see their neighbors sell for $1m-$1.5m. It's insane.
First job out of college Inhad something to prove and worked my ass off. What I did was extremely measurable and I was easily doing 2x the work compared to the department average. Every single day.

1.5% raise the first year, made a huge fuss the second year and asked for a large raise (because my numbers of were insane) and only managed a 4% raise (promotion included).

I've been at a new job for about a year and have worked hard as always, but the things I am doing are much, much harder to measure. It's much more difficult for me to actually prove how much value I am providing. However, it's looking like I will be getting a ~15% raise shortly.

If a company wants you to stick around, they'll be proactive and show it. At least that's what I've taken from this...and I don't want to be anywhere I'm not wanted.
Really easy fix.

https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/issues/120

That section of code should be refactored though.
Its totally possible, but its considered a compiler bug if it does happen. In the same way that its possible to segfault java if there's a bug in the jit. There's an on going project to verify the semantics of the Rust language and its safe abstractions[0] which should make it easier to choose which optimizations are legal.

0: http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/
Don't many of the big tech companies have this with their stock options?

And I've heard that, with the Wall Street approach, your bonus is the lion's share of your income for the year. If true, I don't know if I'd like to go to that, given the propensity for letting people go in this field.
Good. And now stop changing Google. I don't want to be surprised every time I use your tools.

(Edit: And that holds for the doodle too. They are sometimes funny, but not so much so as to warrant making me lose focus. I'm working, not watching TV)
A Look at Chatbots in the Hospitality Industry
Why do you think that substitution is a good idea?
Housing that you live in (aka "consume") has not been a particularly good investment, IMO. What confuses many people into thinking that it is is that you often end up holding it for a long period of time, paying down the mortgage and when you go to sell, you have a large gain, where you started with a very small downpayment. For most people, that gain is also tax-free, so it seems like a magic windfall.

The problem is that over that long a period of time, inflation may have halved the purchasing power, meaning your gain is a paper one, you spent a lot of years fixing and maintaining the house, paying taxes and insurance, working on the yard, maybe did some remodeling, etc. If you'd instead invested in the stock market any surplus over renting, you often would have come out ahead.

Most people would find a way for that surplus to turn into lattes, vacations, new cars, and large TVs rather than into shares of VTSAX, so for them, homeownership is a good idea, not because it's a better investment than equities, but because it's a better savings vehicle than nothing.

I'm a homeowner and very happy about that fact for our family (for lifestyle reasons), but even in a steeply rising market (Cambridge, MA), my other investments have performed much, much better (even including the 2007/2008 crisis).
There's a phenomenal amount of it on 4chan.
It always stuns me to hear so many people blaming NIMBY movements for housing prices while completely ignoring the effect that good job concentration has on the local housing markets. Housing is insanely expensive on the east and west coast because those are the only areas of the country seeing economic growth. If everyone is required to be in such a small area to even have an opportunity to get a good job, then of course it will be expensive to live there.
Federal regulations apply in San Francisco, CA as much as they do in Binghamton, NY. You'd think withdrawal from broad swathes of the country to a few hub cities is the problem, driven by ever increasing automatization and volatility in the labour market.
Cyborgs on the rise? Imagine the copyright / DRM mess that will ensue, once this will become way more invasive?

It will be literally like "we own you now!".
Applications for Washington DC's PeaceTech Accelerator Closing Soon
easy for me to believe, the whole thing was so scammy. that chat was hilariously progandistic
perl6 grammars have to be seen in context of perl5 regexp.

Basically, regular expressions have grown to impossible to understand, write and modify. Mostly due to perl.

Yet, they are used daily by millions of developers, because they are a ton better than manual character checks.

Perl6 grammars are basically an attempt to bring developers another step forward.
Tencent Launch JOOX in South Africa
UniDoc v2 Released (Golang PDF Library)
Never found this particularly nice to use, at least this will drop their server load a bit.
Most likely this one: https://www.yelp.de/biz/funkloch-berlin

This tweet confirms there's a bar with smartphone ban in Weißensee: https://twitter.com/ennopark/status/567272387293761537

Only other "Funkloch" I found in Berlin is a youth center, so the above result is very likely the right one.
Doesn't that just further inflate the prices of homes in reasonable commute distance?
Agree, please don't mix this with serverless, ACI is definitely your server. Hyper Func or AWS Lambda is much closer.
I left more specific feedback in another part of this thread.

With regard to the screenless device, I do like having my phone be the centralized device of the entire thing, I just would like to make it a more permanent part of the car so I can just hop in and drive.

I am debating trying a spare SIM and an old device and just leaving it in there plugged all the time, but that just introduces an entirely different set of problems.
True, but did you ever scale down an already setup & running dedicated machine? With dedicated hardware it's always like "if it works don't touch, and we might need it one day anyway" :)
Yep - one of the things I recommend people to do when mentoring them is to read a sh*t load about other industries (I still maintain that buying random magazines is a fantastic way for people to learn) - those novel approaches will work wonders when creating solutions.

If you can sell an employer on the benefits of diverse experience, it can reap wonders.
Last time I tried using GAE beta with custom Docker containers (±last year) it was an epic journey of pain and confusion. The docs are split-brain between standard and beta and the rapidly evolving APIs paired with equally rapid out of date (official) example projects is completely schizo. [edit: I should mention, though, I loved that they have those example projects at all! It was just frustrating to constantly be battling api obsolence in their projects.]

GAE is great, don't get me wrong. But it's so much more than just Dockerized app hosting, and it's not so great at doing just that. If hyper.sh has any half decent onboarding flow thought out, it should be a clear winner.
Assuming no compiler bugs, no.

UB isn't something "caused" by optimizations, it's something that exists in the code before optimizations, optimizations can just trigger nasal demons. So you shouldn't be able to write UB in safe Rust assuming no compiler bugs.

(And assuming that any unsafe libraries being leveraged are bug free)
It's better but definitely not "extremely fast".

The mac from 6 years ago does it in 300ms which is still 3-10x faster than what you suggest is the norm for your setup.

The difference between 300ms and 3 seconds is the tipping point for being annoyed when you cannot connect to the first page you visit.
I don't think anonymity counts for much in this case. Anyone running this big of an operation has a huge exposure on more fronts than the cryptocurrency end of things.
So...I run one service (gratis, as it's a friend) that gets about 8K uniques a day. It costs $26 a month in AWS (it was $35 but that's apparently gone down, cool!) and makes about $400/month. That price tag is despite me not being particularly cost-conscious when rolling it out. It does use free tier AWS resources, but EC2 is not in free tier right now; we're talking about keeping DynamoDB at free tier read levels and stuff like that.

And, unlike the still-really-weird-and-ad-hoc VPS world, stuff like DR is a solved problem when-not-if you need it. The vig for AWS is consistently between 20% and 25% and you are able to leverage implicitly all the incredibly useful tooling and systems around you. If 20% to 25% of $26 is going to materially damage your business, you do not have a business.
There is a lot of overlap between people with neoconservative views and people with neoliberal views. Neoliberalism is purely an economic position while neoconservatism is primarily focused on foreign policy. Reagan is definitely a neoliberal.
A less risky route to ICO investing might be CoinStarter’s multi-stage process
Well, there was a lot of bottom-up work, but in this case Instant was pushed by Marissa. A lot of infrastructure had to be built, scaled and tuned before launch, so that the demos could actually serve the millions of users, their wonky browsers or ISPs, etc.
The dirty secret of the tech industry is that their leaders and investors are making a killing in Real Estate. VC owners and their billionaire friends have bought a lot of land and buildings in San Francisco, Seattle, and other cities, and are "forcing" their companies to move into these cities. This has the nice side effect of making another fortune for them. At the same time, tech workers need to pay essentially a large tax for living where the jobs are, and other types of workers cannot even live in these cities anymore.
Voluntary team lunches, voluntary employee weekend retreats, voluntary work after hours off the clock...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to have nothing to do with net neutrality.
BTC-E was run out of Bulgaria in the beginning, surprised this guy didn't learn from the dozens of arrests of Russian credit card processors who violated US gambling laws and went on vacation/lured to meetings into extradition areas like Greece or Turkey. This arrest was apparently over laundering Ransomware coins http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/07/26/btc-e-responsible-launderi...

BTC-E was famous for it's one word replies to technical support tickets like "works" and "try" when he wanted you to try something again, and of course the troll box on the front page that was a never ending source of problems like naive users being fished for information on their account details or tricked into pumping up the value of some altcoin.
Luckily, iOS 11 has brought / is bringing lane-guidance to Apple maps. This is a huge deal for me and makes maps.app a lot more tolerable and driver-friendly.
And all the flame retardants and anti-stick coatings on practically every surface we touch and interact with all day, every day. These are all hormone disrupters.
That is because we on the west coast have zoned most neighborhoods to single family housing, and that is a direct cause of our housing supply constraint and therefore our high housing cost. It would be trivial to replace a fraction of that housing with enough housing to meet demand if we rezoned.
Everyone on my team has an automated sit-stand desk. Just walked around the office and not a single one is in "stand mode", and that's not likely to change. It's a neat idea, and I've known people who swear by it, but in practice it's one thing extra to have to think about.
> adoption by distros

This has improved, and I think most distros now ship Rakudo (Perl6 on MoarVM). At least: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch do.
Auto complete is already an awesome feature to have, instant search is clutter, it creates too much traffic, and sometimes it doesn't work (nothing shows for a while).

Now it would be nice if google would stop choosing french as a search language because I live there, I have to set it up everyday and I don't want to enable cookies... I don't know if I can access google with english as default in some special page.
Nutritionally I see what you mean and definitely agree, people are taller than they used to be and until recently have lived longer. But all of the benefits a nutritionally diverse and rich diet brings are easily undone (and more) by also consuming enough sugar to become obese. This is why the current generation of obese kids at school have a lower life expectancy than their parents despite better healthcare and nutrition in their early years.

This is why I think that jumping on the "BPA must be the problem!" answer to low count question is a bit ridiculous, especially when people are becoming more unhealthy by the day. People who eat more processed sugary foods and drinks that come in BPA containing packaging are also more likely to be obese and unhealthy too.

Lacking physical work also does not account for all of the weight gain we are seeing at the moment - obesity rates remained stable in the '60s and '70s when we lived similarly lazy lives. (1)

1. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr043743#t=article
The NIMBY problem prevents the housing market from adapting to demand, it's entirety of the problem. Job growth and economic growth are not the problems. In places such as Texas with high economic growth housing is not a problem.

It just so happens that NIMBYs have huge economic gains from restricting the market from supplying what people want.
We would have been much better off if politicians left housing alone and just cut checks to the people they are buying off with all the interventions into the housing market.

Of course that would run into the problem that people love to push for giveaways from the government but want it to be slightly obfuscated so they can tell themselves stories about how they never got anything from anyone. Witness the uproar over "you didn't build that."

Rent seeking is a fact of life, I can accept it. But the hypocrisy and self righteousness of some rent seekers just drives me bananas.
Is that even in the case where the server is seized, or when "Dread Pirate Roberts" leaves his laptop with passwords & encryption keys open when being arrested? Or just by default if the attacker is looking at network activity but doesn't have access to the machine?
My kids played with it a few times on long drive to tell me where he spotted the police car(s), accidents, etc.

Kind of fun thing for your kids to do on a long drive. That might be why the cartoon like interface.

Like Pokemon Go, the constant network traffic + GUI interaction makes it huge battery drain. I deleted the app from my phone.

Google map's traffic info is very good. I suspect Google paid that much likely because potentially FB, MSFT or Amazon "might" get it and use it is a beach head to enter the Mobile Map App market. If that's the case, it is a very good play on Waze's part to get the high valuation.
Deepstream 3.0 – multi-protocol realtime between client and server
> Division by zero is UB. This lets the compiler assume it does not happen and thus it won't have to emit additional instructions to check for it.

Right, but it doesn't then follow that it can then "optimize" out the rest of your program. It could allow it to compile to what's expected and rely on the platform to handle corrupt program state. Which is what happens if you trigger run time UB anyway. It can also be implementation defined, because virtually all modern platforms trap on division by zero which would lead to more predictable optimizer behavior.
Enhance+your+partner's+sexual+performance+with+JLO’s+world+manhood+Enlarger
The Haskell introductory landscape has definitely changed.

Learn You A Haskell for great good (http://learnyouahaskell.com) is an excellent introductory book to read to get started with Haskell.

A drier but more in-depth read is http://book.realworldhaskell.org/

Also, when you hit monads again, the best advice I can give you to understanding them (99% of Haskell guides out there seem to be about monads) is to take this path:

Functors -> Applicatives -> Monads

And check out this link:
http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_...

I'm not sure those resources were around when last you tried haskell, but they're worth giving a read.

Haskell has M:N threading, and a strictness about types and semantics that's very refreshing to me. Yes, I could have written my most recent web project in some other language that would have been quicker (because it would have been simpler and likely more imperative), but I trust my codebase so much more with Haskell. Ironically it's my own understanding and clarity of thinking that I sometimes doubt now, but that's a good problem as far as I'm concerned, makes me think clearer.

[EDIT] - Can't believe I forgot, but Erik Meijer's series on Haskell is actually one of the first resources that actually got me really into it, it is absolutely fantastic, I actually watched the whole series before I read learn you a Haskell.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Erik-Meijer-Fun...
It's not so black and white. The changes mentioned may be a necessary evil when scaling; in this perspective, moving to the cloud makes a set of solutions (rearchitecting) happen sooner than later.

Also, an 8k server is a big unit. Cloud services are much more granular. This is a problem of bare metal - it's easy to overprovision because the base unit is large, and one ends up being happy of having an "overprovisioned" system, when in reality it's money down the drain.

Also, you don't count the management of the 8k server. It may (but not necessarily) be at a click distance; if it is, the management hardware (eg. one from a very famous servers producer) may have a poor software.

There are reasons why, in some cases (of course, not in all or not in many), cloud may be more advantageous than an "8k" bare metal server.

All in all, I think without numbers, talking about metal vs. cloud in abstract, generic terms, makes a poor argument.
How do you redeem your goods and services without somehow tying it to yourself? For example, physical goods need to be shipped somewhere. There seems to be a limited number of things that you can spend your cypto-currency on that would not somehow be traceable back to an actual person, no?
So, what happens with these things if you get an MRI?

The chip may get fried, but that's not my main concern. Does it attempt to move through your body? Will it succeed at doing that?
Countries with low obesity levels show the same trend [1]; just look at e.g. Denmark (18.2%) [2].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10655308
[2] (PDF) http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/243294/D...
> That's definitely not what that phrasing means

i invite you to learn about idioms! they're interesting.

equivocating over idiomatic language is basically a waste of time.
I'd be interested to see if this is actually true.
I also reached my limit on iTunes after it started giving me an error message when I tried to play a song with wifi off.

I've been using Swinsian, and am really, really happy with it. I also want to try this out, but for something similar to iTunes without all the terrible, Swinsian is A+++++.
I feel like something happened in the early 70s that just made progress slow way down. I keep seeing bad trends start in the 1970s - like stagnant wage growth (1971), increased inequality (1971) etc...
FYI standing long causes varicosity in legs. It is not a bad condition mostly an aesthetic issue, but I'd prefer not to have it.
For server software on *nix, listening to port "::" will get connections from both IPv6 and IPv4.
Do people actually put laptops in their laps?

My 12" ultra-portable sits on my desk at home/office. When commuting if I'm using it, it will sit on my backpack on my lap.

My 17" laptop that is heavier than my desktop, stays on the kitchen table.
What's your investment strategy? I recently started a Roth IRA and started maxing it out each year, but I don't know what else to do with my savings (that are extra over my ~6mo salary buffer + emergency fund, I mean). Dumping it all into something like VTSAX is something I've thought about for a while, but I'm not sure how well it works for long-term investment/"making my money work for me".
Prop 13 will go down as one of the biggest blunders in legislative history IMHO.

I get the complaint that people were being taxed out of their homes and that's not good, but in the end it just shifts the tax burden from the old to the young.
Check these out: http://backapp.us

Awesome standup chair with a balance ball that makes you move your back all the time and creates energy, and thus prohibits stiffness in the back and neck. They also have a standing board for a good combo.
I have to admit I find it pretty amusing this is news. About a dozen friends and I have had these for 4+ years, voluntarily.

I no longer carry any traditional metal keys and have modified my front door, vehicles, etc to open via my implants. Friends even upgraded 2 vending machines at our hackerspace to work with them.

In addition to access, I use one to store master encrypted backups of files I might need access to in a pinch and the other I tell everyone contains a vcard with my contact info, but really it just auto-launches rickroll on their phone when they tap it. The tags are all r/w and I can update them as I like from my smartphone.

In a couple weeks I am getting a temperature sensor installed under my arm designed for animals. While temperature is not a super exciting sensor, it paves the way for more complicated ones in the future and I can see how it holds up over time.

My next after that is an HID ATA5577 tag that I can use to clone the HID door cards of most offices.

Once beta units begin to be produced I plan on getting a Vivokey installed which covers the typical use cases of a Yubikey and will allow me to do 2FA, ssh, password management, and cryptocurrency transactions from my body as well.
Eat, play, be cute - that's a higher purpose I could get behind.
Winter biking is better than summer -- you can add layers to get warmer in winter, but never subtract to get cooler in summer. I've year round commuted for years in Boston. I am seeing more and more people ride all year. It's awesome.