skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> yet the lower demand for those properties as rentals doesn't deter the property prices from rising.

this is an interesting phenomenon, because it's the same mechanism (imho anway, as an armchair economist) as gold prices rising during uncertain times. The actual use of gold is little to none, and yet, as a store of value, everyone in the society agrees on its stability/valuation, even in times of gov't hostility.

If you look at property this way, chinese speculators are using the same line of thinking - where they actually don't want the apartment to be rented out (and thus, look/feel 'used'). The price reflects not the utility, but as a store of value.

I think the fundamental reason this is happening is that the chinese do not trust their own gov't enough to store their assets in a more liquid form. Or, perhaps there's really no other forms of storage that's not risky. And those who can't bring their currency assets out of the country then must choose real-estate.
It is racist and misandrist because it singles out _all_ white men. I don't know how I can make this any clearer. Would it be any easier to understand if you substituted "white men" with "jews"?

And by the way, in what way are _all_ of them part of the problem? And how does she know that? Does she know all of them? How should I call somebody who unapologetically makes disparaging and hateful statements about whole groups of a people?

The link with her thesis is that she wrote it. And by the way, let me just say that her thesis is special... and leave it at that.
Anthem protests led poll of reasons viewers tuned out of NFL
MotorTrend appear to have the first "drive" review.

It's extremely, extremely positive.

http://www.motortrend.com/cars/tesla/model-3/2018/exclusive-...
I wonder how this is any different in any other places?

For example in the USA, iconic places like LA, Miami and Chicago also are extremely boring and and look similar street by street. Especially LA. After hearing the hype for about 3 decades visitors will just realize it's extremely large ghetto connected with 8 lane highways.

Haven't been in Shenzhen myself but I used to live in Shanghai and visited Beijing and Suzhou often, all of which were really interesting places and didn't "lack character".
And if they didn't only name US and British designers.
That's a serious pain. :/ Glad you weren't shot, though.

(Is "road eager" auto-correct for something?)
Seems very similar to diep.io, especially after adding the classes and the rank ups.
1. I still need to grow my .gitignore file as I add more .el files of my own.

2. A similar scheme would be to maintain a directory called ~/elisp in git and make ~/.emacs a symlink to ~/elisp/emacs. And pretend that ~/.emacs.d/ does not exist.
Online works better for PR, "astroturfing", manipulation of fundamental attitudes and opinions than for explicit ads.

Buy some reddit, facebook and twitter accounts, and with the right consultants, you will move the world.
This seems a really neat idea. Can you please tell more about the stack that you would be focussing and the reasons behind that choice?
Czech republic is a multicultural success story?

There ain't a lot of terrorism in CZ, though the country is filled with hatred mainly towards gipsies and now muslims. Even the government in order to remain elected boycotts EU's directives about accepting migrants and anyone who's not white. I kid you not.
That is good to hear. I wonder why they didn't mention that (or most of the information on the FAQ) during the actual stream.
#blackhat2017 -ApplePay vulnerable to two distinct attacks
> remarkable! how did people ever live without this before?

In a sense, they didn't! When you're outside, the sun and sky already provide "a million different shades and intensities" of ambient light, depending on the time of day and the weather. Those fancy colored light systems could be seen as replicating that variety indoors.
Extremely poignant.
> Full Self-Driving Capability – $3,000 (requires Enhanced Autopilot) In the future, Model 3 will be capable of conducting trips with no action required by the person in the driver’s seat.

I think there are some huge caveats to this claim, above and beyond those here. A whole list of asterisks. To be selling, -today-, for $3,000 (on top of $5,000) a claim of Full Self Driving is hugely optimistic, and, I think, misleading.

How many years away, realistically, is full self driving outside of well-maintained sunny (but not TOO sunny!) roads? I don't see this thing cruising through a Pittsburgh winter any time soon.

It's one thing to promise, in the marketing sense. It's another to be charging money for it now when it's really yet another pre-order, this time with nothing close to a timeline.
> In your hypotheticals, if Ford controlled all dealerships then refusing to sell GM would be anti-competitive.

what? That's complete nonsense.

If I want to bring something to market, I can't just force my competitor to sell it in their stores. "Dan's Cars" could start up and force Ford to sell their cars in the Ford stores - crazy.

That's not how this works. If "Dan" expects to sell cars, then he has to do that himself, not rely on, or expect his competitors to do that for him.

How Dan's competitors sell their cars is frankly none of Dan's business.
Redfin launched in 2006, I think we can quit calling it a start up (as the CNBC article headline reads).

On a positive note, Redfin has a better UX than Zillow or Trulia. Hope they continue to flourish.
> I think the fundamental reason this is happening is that the chinese do not trust their own gov't enough to store their assets in a more liquid form.

Not really, it is as simple as "It is more profitable and equally risk-free to buy house than letting money rot in the bank."

People are still rushing to buy whatever government bonds as soon as they are available, because they pay good interests and are less risky. People in China are driven by pragmatism more than loyalty or distrust in the government.
Logistic regression can easily be made online too, keep in mind! sklearn has an implementation of online gradient descent, and vowpal wabbit is also excellent at those problems.

Naive bayes can be parallelized in ways that SGD can't, that's a whole other conversation.
The article is not critical of Amazon. It is highly complimentary of Amazon, and says that it is not monopolistic.

This is more like when a scam university buys up all search engines searching for its name paired up with the word scam, and creates 100 single entry blogs called "Superfake University: Scam or Not?" that all explain at extreme length how it's definitely not a scam although although the outcomes are so good that it seems like one, and drop every synonym for scam or fraud you can find in the thesaurus, paired with the name of the fake university as many times as possible.
Why does asking how someone is doing mean you're a cog, or that you're in trouble if you're still doing research?

Part of what a supervisor does is track progress across a whole team so they can keep other parts of the group appraised.

Another important job is helping people make tradeoffs between perfect and done as the situation on the ground changes.

Both of those require asking "how's it going?"
"road-rager", I'd guess.
The holiday that everyone forgets but the one they shouldn't...

Here's a toast to all the sysadmins, modern day Renaissance-people who keep the spice flowing from the shadows, often thanklessly.

Coming soon:the sysadmin revolt.
In a similar country to China, Let's say the last deal in a certain area was done for $1M 5 months ago. At this point all similar apartments in the area are considered or put on sales at this or a higher value. Then time elapses with no new deal but owners feel wealthy.
Agree about the lack of writeups for modern architectures.

For UEFI, I believe this article here has been posted on HN before: http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-programming/hello.html

A quick result yields various results across the internet: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uefi+bootloader+hello+world&t=ffip...
Tesla Model 3 first drive
The difference between Elixir/Erlang and a statically typed functional language is that it's built for distribution.

In a distributed system where machines register on a cluster and messages are passed constantly across isolated heaps, processes and entire machines transparently all of the assumed protections of a static type system break down. You can't enforce static types across a cluster anymore than you can across a JSON requests to somebody else's API without a lot of extra overhead.

Static types are essentially contracts and in order to enforce a contract like that on a cluster of different machines that would mean you'd have to exchange contracts everytime a new machine joined the cluster...for all modules and functions...with every machine on the cluster. And then you have to determine how to handle contract violations.

Clustered message passing operates more like request routing in that regard. Send to this machine, to this module, to a function named this, with this arity, that matches this pattern.

The Elixir gradual typing approach balances this reality extremely well in my opinion. You get type checking if you want it and can specify it in more detail...but it won't promise something that it can't guarantee across the cluster, across deploys and across changes.
road rager, sorry. Specifically, Dodger fans leaving the Giants game.
> You can also update the definition of a class and then force all instances of this class to use the updated definiton... all of this while the program keeps running.

Right. In fact, you can define a method to be run on instances that were created before the class was redefined, that updates them for the new definition. So if you add a slot to the class, and you need it to be initialized in some way, you can define this method to do what you need.
its still a minority. And even more so on mobile browsers.
The introduction of type checking in JS could just as easily be attributed to so many devs coming from other languages who don't want to leave their strong types security blankets behind.

The evidence for types preventing bugs is mixed. A strongly typed language in smart contracts may be entirely reasonable, but the rise of type checking in JS shouldn't be understood as evidence of anything more than many devs like having types.

And giving up types coming from another language feels like flying blind for someone used to having it. (Until you get used to it, imo, and realize that it wasn't helping as much as you thought.)

Also, the error here seemed much, much deeper than the lack of type checking.
You'll want to use a <dl> tag for that in html5, I suppose.
Amazon is like 5-10% of the US retail market. Most companies are anti-competitive, it's when they are anti competitive and a big chunk of the market that it's a problem. Am I missing something?
> If you want to get things done in .NET Core, use C#.

And if you want to get things done in F#, don't use .NET Core. :) Good thing .NET Core is merely the .NET du jour, not the only .NET.

> If anyone doubts this, compare the number of F# repos to Elixir/Scala on Github.

Challenge accepted. It turns out that GitHub's advanced search page can answer questions like this directly:

Projects written in F#: 4,246 (https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=language%3AF%23&t...)

Projects written in Elixir: 4,667 (https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=language%3AElixir...)

That's less than 10% higher. Plus, I'd guess there is a bias against closed-source projects in that result, owing to the nature of .NET.

Scala is indeed a lot higher at 38,424 projects, though I wonder how many of the complaints about F# from C# users apply apply equally to Scala. (e.g. Poor GUI builder support, no native compiler, etc.)

F#'s language representation on GitHub is also nearly equal to that of OCaml, a much older language.

I'd say that's a pretty good showing for a new-ish language. Not everything's going to pop to the top like Swift, which IMHO is a "people in Hell want ice water" reaction to Objectionable C.
C++ files are documents too.
You should check out the rather prolific and open development of Star Citizen. They are building in what I would considered a great compromise between feature focus and long term technical investment.

Some context to why they need to have strong systems in place is that they intend to deliver new content continously into the same platform/engine/world over the course of at least a few years.

So their focus is on fast and efficient asset pipelines and the ability to scale, and to that end they have built some very cool technology, but never without a direct purpose that aligns with those goals.

It is a great example of pragmatic development. They didn't do network optimization until they had to, they didn't use microservices until it made sense, and then only where it made sense, they have made some nifty tools but only to solve problems that had actually manifested.

Not without their failures of course, but we get to learn from those even more so.
Big enough for name recognition, but obscure enough that most people don't know offhand who founded it?
Instant install is just a better experience. Going in and out of the App Store is a pointless step.
> both Microsoft and Apple are big players with products and services which are not so intrusive as Google/Facebook/Amazon

Haha, funny. That was true with Balmer, Microsoft's current CEO transformed the company to consumers worst nightmare, they are worse than the three you labeled as intrusive - with them you can opt-out, and it's just a website or phone OS, but with Win10, Office365/2016 you and your lawyer, your doctor, your bank clerk cannot opt-out and leak your private data.
RIPod.
Wrinkle: "scratch your own itch" make the game you want to play (not the game you want to make)
One consideration in the law's distinction might be that the driver features on touch screens are designed to reduce required attention (or at least consider it during design), while typing a text requires a lot of effort and distraction because phone UX can assume your focus. Touch doesn't really matter, though; you can get similar distraction manipulating even a relatively simple radio, and people do hurt themselves playing with the radio.

There is also a front passenger to consider, though I do concede that point when alone.
Personally I have grown so tired of analytics and advertising my personal idea would be to build a plugin that doesn't block anything. But instead it simply visits websites on random topics over time and clicks ads here and there. Slowly degrading the data shitty advertising companies have and ruining ROI. I am starting to do this manually and randomly clicking ads.

I honestly need to start doing that on facebook due to their new policy that every 2-3 posts need to be some "suggested" garbage

Honestly I am burned out by the constant barrage of terrible ads on most websites and social media in particular.
This was my first time seeing the site. If it used to be good, it looks like its gone down hill to me.
You’d lose a lot more companies than that - vast swathes of content producers would go under.

Their bottom line absolutely would be affected.

This dream would be the single most destructive thing to happen to the internet
uh, for chromecast, they have an open API and you are responsible for making your android app compatible with that. There are no built in apps for chromecast.
Yeah, fair point. Fortunately I've only once ever had to get service for a Lenovo in the 10+ years I've owned one. But you're not wrong.
The Rise and Decline of the “Sellout”
No one will demand it. You're just giving your users a worse experience. App store developers are people who have given up on speed. Y'all think a 30 second delay between screens with several pointless clicks is an acceptable user experience. It's sad.
And that's their choice.

If I go to the trouble of building a store (bricks n mortar or online) then I'm going to sell what I want to sell.

I built the fruit store, NO, I don't want to sell live Aardvarks from my store, and it's preposterous that you think you can force me to do that.
You also control Model S' settings via its 17" touchscreen but in model 3 the placement is weird
Apple removed anti-censorship apps from China App Store
India is exactly the same. Collusion between developers and politicians is creating an illusion that everything is all right and prices are going to go up again so a minority with surplus money left is still buying.

I have two personal example. Despite my reasonable arguments my family invested close to 1 crore (10 million) Indian rupees in property for a meager 3% per annum returns in rental income. I feel the pinch because a significant part of it is my hard earned money. Sometimes you just can't help it.

Then there is a friend who is buying another flat because he has accumulated some money by living outside India. He thinks he will sell it at a higher price in couple of years.

Any evidence based arguments about history of real estates failures are simply ignored. Everybody thinks this India is different.

Reason just fails when competition between neighbours takes over to hoard more and more.
Not sure what we can get from this article as there are so many variables... What "digital" spend was cut: paid search? online video? paid social media? brand vs. product oriented?

What was the impact of non-marketing drivers like distribution, price, promo, competition, and the economy?

What was the impact of (new) ad creative?

Maybe take it as they are under pressure to cut expenses and cutting marketing, digital and likely non-digital, certainly helps.
Additionally, I'm pretty sure one of the conditions is also to make the Play Store the primary (if not only) preinstalled source of apps for the device. This conflicts with Amazon's own app store, which is integrated into the Amazon app (as distributed by Amazon; the one on the Play Store omits this feature).

Hell, the whole Play Store is basically a direct competitor to Amazon's multimedia offerings. While Amazon's own behavior is scummy, it's also unsurprising given the situation.
It's not clear that globalization will have this effect, though. For example, a study "In search of homo economicus: behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies" found that individuals from cultures with more "market interaction" tended to make higher offers in an ultimatum game [http://authors.library.caltech.edu/11498/1/HENaer01.pdf].

Another study, [http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....], contains a short literature review of "the effect of formal institutions–including markets–on trust" and concludes that existing evidence is inconclusive.

(these studies are about market institutions, not explicitly globalization, but one could imagine that globalization could involve more market institutions; my point is just that globalization involves all sorts of factors, some of which are probably pro-cooperation and some of which are probably anti-cooperation, and it's not immediately clear whether the final outcome will be more cooperation or less)
It's amazing how quickly people forget the value of a good awning, double-hung windows, and the high ceiling you mentioned. To be fair, there were days when it wasn't too hot outside but the apartment was sweltering.
> you can get similar distraction manipulating a radio.

You can manipulate a radio without looking at it. You can't do the same with a touchscreen. There are laws against texting and driving for a reason.
Again, maybe it's just me, but I think touch matters because with physical dials I can find them by feel and manipulate them without looking away at all. I'm sure as you become more familiar with the touch screen, it gets easier, but I can't see how it would ever be as easy without looking as a physical button is.

I'm not saying that every single control in the car needs a dedicated physical button or knob, but really basic stuff that I'm manipulating all the time, I want real buttons.
DevTools – how to run and debug Node in Chrome
Yes, that's one of the biggest things I've always disliked about the Model S when I've been in them, but at least it's not the only way to do things.
It's not just Rob. Channels don't return errors and network operations can always produce errors.
well also nobody cares so much about digital marketing when it comes to buyIng stuff that is pretty much commodity.
You can see the utility as a store of value in international investment properties too. A part of the problem driving prices up in my locale. Chinese and other international investors seeking to store wealth will purchase properties here, and they will pay prices that the local market wouldn't. That drives the prices up, as locals with property want a piece of that international cash. Meanwhile the property can go underutilized and the community it is in gains nothing.
> These behaviours such as “autoSpaceLikeWord95” , “useWord97LineBreakRules” and “useWord2002TableStyleRules” are not defined.

Amazing that these things can be part of a standard, it even has the propietary names(Word97, Word2002), it's just pure malice to propose that horrible software functionality as a standard. I guess the 6k pages really made it hard to properly review it.
Hosted by Kaggle now: https://www.kaggle.com/c/imagenet-object-detection-from-vide...

I don't really understand the press release on image-net.org. Maybe they meant the last competition hosted by the same group?

Edit: See page 84 of the PDF linked here: https://www.google.com/search?q=kaggle+site%3Aimage-net.org

Ps- screw you Google for not letting me copy links to PDF search results via my phone
Put in my info to watch the vid thinking they'd use my existing reservation. Nope. Charged another $1k.
It's so positive, it reads like one of those puffy videogame reviews.
It's been many years since I've met a glance-free radio. Even the barebones tape deck package usually has source buttons, you have to glance if you're looking for a station, you invoke the part of your brain to remember the frequency of the station you like or was it preset 6, etc etc. If you're just seeking from steering wheel buttons, sure, but then you also have a timing distraction to push the button to stop and oh crap I missed it and now I have to tune back. And tuning toward a specific destination with the Tune buttons (tap-tap-tap-tap or tap-hold-miss-static-tap-tap with many glances thrown in) is about as distracting as texting, I'd wager.

There's a lot of "higher order" and potentially distracting UX in manipulating a radio, versus a hot/cold switch. I don't think touch screens add much; I honestly think the control rearrangement capability actually improves UX for distraction purposes, like directly tapping a visual logo, for example, which is a lot faster to recognize than a frequency or channel number or dragging a virtual "tuner" along the "spectrum" with a Tune+ button.
For all of Elon's attempts to "unsell" the Model 3, this review says it's fantastic enough to sell itself.
Lemniscate
Would fast and heavy internal gyros be a feasible alternative to bolting? I'm thinking that if the safe cannot be reoriented across all three axis, it'll be very hard to move.
Why not turn the question around. Since this is a post about Elixir & Phoenix, why do you think it's not better than F# and Akka.NET?