skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is an unfair comparison, because by choosing to buy a house rather than rent, you need to account for the opportunity cost of not investing the money you're paying into the mortgage in a stock market. Using the calculator here, over a period of 10 years with a measly S&P 500 annual return of 4.66% if you started out with 125k down payment and invested a mortgage payment of $3125 each month, you would have ended up with 927k. It seems to me that what you ought to be comparing is the growth of index funds (what most people should be investing in), and housing market in your area.

Regarding the example of people losing money selling a house in Detroit, it seems to me that by renting and investing the money you would have been putting into the mortgage, you are better able to diversify the risk of your housing area depreciating in price. However, there are areas that experiencing housing price growth better than stock market return, so there are advantages and disadvantages to renting vs. buying a house. By no means is it as clear-cut as you portray.

[1] https://dqydj.com/sp-500-dividend-reinvestment-and-periodic-...
I don't think we should just accept it but the reason is because Google effectively controls the web. If Google implementes a feature then either everyone else follows suit or loses another user to Chrome. No other company has that kind of leverage.
This isn't higher-kinded types, it's associated type constructors.
I agree - but this is going to get forgotten about in a month, Equifax's stock price will be back where it was in 6 months (or less) and everything will continue as before
I don't know what displays they have there. But I'll mention that it's very interesting to see the "trail" it has etched across the western side of the continent. Vast geological topology and constructs are now attributed to it. As well, its forecast future path is interesting.

Just like the Hawaiian spot has left a chain of islands and sea mounts in its wake, the Yellowstone hotspot is -- slowly -- on the move.

IIRC, there was another spot that moved through the southern U.S. and broke the then extant mountain chain that curved westward from the current Appalachian chain. The famous open-air "you pick it" diamond mine in Arkansas might be attributable to it.

On a separate note, its National Aeronautic and Space Administration. Not just "Space". The next time some political bozo complains about the Earth "not being its mission. As well, studying the Earth provides NASA and others insight into what they encounter and will encounter on other planets -- out there in space. Meaning not just direct visitations, but also interpreting collected signals (telescopes et al.)

Anyway, in addition to that, I'm glad SOMEBODY is studying the Earth. We didn't develop our modern society by turning away from the facts and experience in front of our eyes.
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Looks like Reason has the same PATENTS license as React, for those wondering:

https://github.com/facebook/reason/blob/master/PATENTS.txt
That's exactly what Filecoin / Sia etc are doing, no? It doesn't make it any more worthwhile for the individual participants providing the storage though
You're correct. It performs terribly. On my 2016 macbook it takes 20.48 seconds just to load the interface from refresh according to Firefox devtools. Yes, a lot of this is network traffic. It's still terrible for a chat app. I have PS4 games that start in 20 seconds.
Google Europe has 6000 employees in Dublin, so it is a bit unfair to cast it as some kind of brass plate operation.
You seem to be surprised. Ever work at a bank or gargantuan investment company? Same deal.

"Look at how incompetent they are" is more like "Look at how our industry is." They're a representative sample.
I live near Yellowstone (as in going there, seeing the sights and going home is a day trip with time to spare) and always tell people that we're the lucky ones. If the Yellowstone volcano ever goes in our lifetime we'll die instantly. If it goes off, most of the populated world is going to die anyways, might as well be the first.
I recommend this lecture about the history of ketchup, which explains the relation to soy sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iYwUh1Hdho
Can't wait until this is noticed by a manager with a PhD from protestant theology and decided to be used/implemented :D

Referential self-punishment. Self-removing code during runtime based on a predestined moral functor.
Actual, not theoretical.
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Academic excellence: Golden Germany
Achieving the technology required to colonize space would also allow us to maintain our existence on Earth.
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That's from the programmer point of view an implementation detail. The main interface for the programmer is the function READ and it returns data, not a stream of tokens.
>What do you mean by, "you can't touch their money"?

If you had the number of my credit card, my account number, my social security number (or the local equivalent), my address or my name, or whatever else, short of my 2FA device and my internet banking credentials, you won't be able to steal anything. (And at that point, you might as well walk up to my house, break a window and steal whatever the hell you need while I'm somewhere else, why bother with hacking.)

If the 2FA device is just a phone, there's a few things you can do, otherwise not really. Are you going to deploy a fake cell tower to steal the code? Probably just conning the cell company support person would be good enough. Not sure whether they'd mail a new SIM to a different address (and they'd probably let me know). Maybe they'd give it to you if you presented an ID. You could have a fake one made, I guess. It would be a bit weird if you didn't speak the local language though. Quite a lot of effort compared to copy pasting a credit card number. Not something you'd do on a large scale.

>And, if you are extremely persistent, you can spoof identity documents and hack bank accounts.

Yes, but against a determined attacker that singles you out, you are fucked regardless of what you do, especially if it's your bank or similar service provider that screws up even if you don't.
Most of the sand is mined to make concrete (cement + sand + rocks + water = concrete). I think they use much smaller amounts of much higher purity sand for making silicon.
Based on the roadmap [1], they are about to change function call syntax to be more like JavaScript. It seems like good stuff, but beware unstable language.

[1] https://reasonml.github.io/community/roadmap
You use this for high-level parts of the app. You drop down to HolyC for anything it can't handle.
There has to be a wait somewhere. That is, the browser can't update anything until it knows what to do. So between the click and that new assignment is wait, yes?
>>Don't blame the companies for exploiting loopholes. Blame the law.

The companies may be acting legally, but the question is whether they are acting morally.

We generally expect that of people. Corporations are people, right?
Perhaps EU laws have complicated things here, by making it easy to operate in other EU countries without establishing, yet not having changed tax laws accordingly? (Merely speculation.)
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It's actually quite striking if you handle Sahara desert sand its amazingly fine and smooth, I imagine other sand deserts where the sand is wind blown for eons is similarly smooth.
The site states

> Powerful, safe type inference means you rarely have to annotate types, but everything gets checked for you.

Why did they create a new language? Isn't this what they made Flow for? Or does Flow rely heavily on annotations? I did not follow up the development of Facebook's projects recently. This is the first time I have heard of that.
In college a teacher told us that before internet they had to wait a month just to have a reply with a catalog of papers from another university; then more months to get a print of their selection. Now they have the whole series in an hour. But for the consumer market this went the opposite way.
Fair, but that's a significant portion of Chinese cuisine in restaurants around here.
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HolyC is awesome.

Aw, Terry's YouTube channel was taken down. He did so many walkthroughs of HolyC and his dynamic programming engine.

Oh well, 353 videos were archived at least.

Thank goodness for archive.org!

https://archive.org/details/TerryADavisTempleOSYouTubeChanne...

HolyC: https://archive.org/download/TerryADavisTempleOSYouTubeChann...

Flight simulator: https://ia801506.us.archive.org/2/items/TerryADavisTempleOSY...
Given the power Facebook have, does Zuckerberg even need to run for president? I think that's the problem with these huge companies.
Hi, Mz. I'm glad to read of this positive change.

Sending you best wishes! :-)
Yes, it's native. It's written in Go.
It's unrelated. We're trying to track it down still. Sorry about that
> Give incentives for people to produce.

Even in US there is only one Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, etc. It seems like these global monopolies are a new phenomenon that requires to rethink past economic ideas.
I mentioned this the other day on a related thread and received 15 upvotes. Seems like there are many interested parties. I'd pay $20-99 for this service.
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The transition will be seamless and already planned, no worries.

Btw, for more justification on the syntax change, I've written a short answer here: https://www.reddit.com/r/reasonml/comments/6v2olv/new_syntax...
My degree is completely unrelated to CS. Although I do have a strong math background which possibly helped...
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I had no idea self driving cars had to be kept on a leash....
Misspelled properties? There's a module for that, using the same underlying technology: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/tpyo
Try out eul:

https://eul.im

It's a native desktop client for Skype, Slack, Facebook, WhatsApp and many others. It's only 4 MB, it has minimal CPU usage, and it can handle hundreds of thousands of messages without lag.

Facebook support is coming tomorrow, WhatsApp is going to be supported next week.
Is this a good thing?
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I've been using messenger.com to great effect for the past couple of months. I can justify completely blocking facebook.com most of the time while still being able to talk to people

Highly recommend
The vulnerabilities have public proof of concept code. You literally get a shell on the machine. I wont link examples here, but they are east to find.
I really wish it didn't have any sort of logic around checking the user agent. I often spoof mine and it's annoying when messenger.com doesn't load because of it.
This is so great.
Just like corporations, people don't actually end up in jail because they don't act morally. They end up in jail because they don't act within the boundaries of the law.

There are plenty of rich assholes out there who would screw people over on a deal (for example, one well known New York real estate developer..)
It's a pretty good hypothesis with some backing in the genetic record and the timing of the event, the wikipedia says somewhere between 2000-20000 breeding individuals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
Not sure where humanity was on the evolution timeline for the last Yellowstone eruption, but our ancestors somehow got through that, too.
Suddenly, I'm feeling like it's time to re-read Catch-22.
Yes, but it doesn't have to be this way. That is the whole point of the article.
Yup. Why would anyone choose to build headquarters in a place that blatantly disregards dire existential threats to its people and economy with demonstrably catastrophic results?
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And even if they did have formal engineering education and formal CS degrees and formal whatever most(all?) would still be incapable of writing/designing/implementing bulletproof code.
Can you explain what are these tricks? Asking for a friend. A link is fine too.
I have no specific knowledge about anything in Florida or anything to do with Uber and no way to check the accuracy of your accusations but may I ask if lack of action against service providers in such cases is because there were no laws to be broken or because decisions have been taken not to press charges or because more evidence is needed?
This is weird. I was skeptical at first, because I could have swore it wasn't this inefficient, but then I just went there and experienced similar results on a 2016 chromebook; 19.83 seconds.

Could it be all the separate CSS files they're linking?
Which union?
I'm not seeing the claims that you are refuting about California in the quoted text. My point was just to illustrate that most states are not two party consent.
Wasn't it discredited with the finding of human remains above and below the ash layer in India?
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> On another note, I tried to pay my taxes through an off-shore location, but I quickly realised I would get jail time for tax evasion.

There is nothing wrong with establishing an off-shore company and paying taxes there (or not paying).

Don't confuse company/yourself. Even if you do the off-shore scheme, you'll need to pay taxes for the income you repatriate. It is a good idea, however, if you want to save/invest money without it getting sodomized by yearly taxes.
Which is frequently much, much worse for companies than a higher tax on profits. Low margin businesses more than high margin businesses like software.
Yes, the first prototype of React was written in SML; we then moved onto OCaml.

Jordan transcribed the prototype into JS for adoption; the SML version of React, however great it might be, would have died in obscurity. The Reason project's biggest goal is to show that OCaml is actually a viable, incremental and familiar-looking choice. We've been promoting this a lot but I guess one blog post and testimonial helps way more.

There's inevitably gonna be a bit of doubt at the viability of Reason at first; but to make an argument from authority: Jordan and the team made ReactJS take off even though everyone hated it at first (browse the first HN/Reddit threads; they weren't rosy). I was there to witness it too. I'd like to say we're rather experienced at handling the social aspect required to make such project take off potentially, at least. Technically speaking, deferring to OCaml is a safe bet.

What it means for Elm/ClojureScript: https://reasonml.github.io/guide/what-and-why#dont-like-reas...

We've explicitly listed Elm & ClojureScript on our Why page as good alternatives to check. I've personally used both. The world is big enough for more of such languages.
Also, I stubbed my toe yesterday! And look at Hurricane Irma! Does the perfidy of robots know no bounds?

How about some evidence that the things you point to are in some way connected to increased automation.
Hey...context matters. When you're talking about your own tendencies (whether you're likely to be serious or joking), who you are matters. When you're supporting your argument it doesn't.

If you call that exacting standards, so be it. I call it reading comprehension.
> I know it's extreme,but no there is no law about a murder for hire tech platform, just laws against various types of murder, all distinguished by the criminal intent.

Rico?
Middle Eastern countries are importing sand, even Dubai are importing from Australia. There's even the sand mafia.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160502-even-desert-city-d...
Ocaml's two decades old. We're doing the very opposite of inventing a new language. I'm on the team and I personally am not capable of creating a language (not to mention recreate an entire ecosystem?) at the same level as OCaml.
Reminds me of this satirical paper: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18315
Yes, if you're making $50k a year. But not if you're an entrepreneur pulling in $1m a year. Everything involving intellectual property rights is generally very fluid and easy to move around.

A smaller scale example would be living life as a perpetual traveller°: an internet based entrepreneur who makes $200k a year and bases him/herself in a jurisdiction that does not tax income. Or who travels around between countries to avoid tax.

Instead of paying 40% tax on $200k (= $80k gone, poof) you put that in your pocket and use that to pay for travel expenses. "Going into tax exile" essentially ends up paying for itself, and then some. That is why companies (and individuals) participate in tax avoidance.

°: exception; this doesn't apply to Americans. You get to pay US taxes wherever you reside, above a certain income threshold.
Which wasn't the couterexample.
I think ClojureScript's growth won't be impacted. Those folks do their own thing. There's a lot of innovative stuff in that community. Particularly fascinating watching the alternative approach to building good software by intentionally pursuing means other than static typing. That said, I tend to be on the static side of spectrum. There's a good amount of overlap between Reason and Elm. Elm may have a wider scope, is built for apps specifically, which I love. On the other hand, Reason is OCaml and OCaml is OCaml, which is great. Exciting times.
Right. Though the Ads thing the post mentions uses Reason natively (aka ocamlopt). Not on the server, but as a tool for the front end.
The scheme you are suggesting is money laundering. The reason it might work for some big names is that those have stronger reasons to bill the off-shore jurisdictions.

For example, a Starbucks LLC in "NewTown","Small-EU-Country" is fine billing an "off-shore" company for the use of Starbucks name.

The same is not fine if you are opening a local coffee shop.
I posted this a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15207727. Shows you the steps to sue Equifax in small claims.
Thank you for sharing.

Do these services care that your app lets the user side-step their apps?
What do you spoof it to?
In Bill Bryson's book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, he talks about the dangers of Yellowstone and how catastrophic the eruption would be, however, he also points out that these potential eruptions are often preceded by a period of elevated signs of volcanic activity, which as I understand, Yellowstone is not currently experiencing. Of course, geological timelines are impossible to predict, but until I read that book, I didn't even know Yellowstone was dangerous and wouldn't have found out until reading this article.
His example wasn't perfect. But say you create an app. You can definitely hold those intellectual property rights (+ sell it on the App Store) through a foreign company.

Different countries have different laws to combat the use of foreign companies, though. It might end up not being worth it because there are other costs associated with setting up an entity (e.g. some substance requirements)
So releasing the pressure will cause the dissolved gasses to come out of solution, triggering the actual eruption? Sounds dangerous.
How does this apply to other countries? Aren't you supposed to get residence in some country before losing the residence connection of your original country?

That being said, there are countries with loose taxation like Thailand where you can establish residence and avoid taxes as long as you are not operating in the country itself.
You don't agree with a project that a government is developing, so it's not legitimate for them to tax corporations. That's the only connection I can see.
They always talk about taxing giants, but in the end we get market entry barriers for the small startups.
So basically a basic income scheme financed by people with financial interest for the law to be one way or another.
> I don't know what displays they have there. But I'll mention that it's very interesting to see the "trail" it has etched across the western side of the continent. Vast geological topology and constructs are now attributed to it. As well, its forecast future path is interesting.

There's a good display of this at one of the visitors centers within the park.
How can you know something is unrelated and yet still be trying to track it down? Are you running two versions of the code, in production, where this live action comparison is possible? Because if not this response reeks of Google/Microsoft engineers who always shift the blame.
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I hope you don't ever feel like you have to migrate to anything we release! Even inside Facebook, there's flexibility in what tools you use and you're free to choose any tools that get the job done.
Not a tax advice or whatever. No idea if this works, but at the very least it seems like it used to. Do your own research. Just my 2c.

Here's what you can do. Be self-employed in a certain EU country. Have a company (or any other structure, hell, make it a non-profit if you want). The company finds clients, pays you for the work, bills the clients etc. Since you are self-employed you choose the flat exemption (wouldn't want self-employed people to worry about paperwork :D), so you are only taxed on 40% of your revenue. This works out to about 12% including healthcare, etc. The company pays you exactly the maximum limit for the tax exemption, invests the rest into whatever you want, nice office, job training, business trips (i.e. vacation), ends up with 0 profit.

Depending on the country where your clients are, you might be forced to pay a some taxes there, but eh, you can live with that.
I think the mod was only talking to pmarreck. Your post was fine IMO.
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Get paid through anon. crypto and spend through anon. debit cards? This is already a solved issue.
It would be interesting to see a built-in plotting style that doesn't give patent lawyers the fits. The patent office still requires monochrome plots.
Thank you very much. I saved your comment and going to refer to it from time to time.

I always said that AMP is solving a real problem. I just not entirely happy with how they went about solving it.

My main criticism of AMP is that I see it as a missed opportunity to make the web(all of it) better.

If for example instead of creating AMP Google used a well know , open source tool like Lighthouse to benchmark websites and only let sites with certain score into their carousel, I bet that most of news web site would get rid of all but most necessary JavaScript really fast.

Instead they introduced a new format, so now publishers have to maintain 2 versions of the site. It also locks users into Google "platform", not an evil thing per say, but definitely a self serving aspect, for which they get criticized.

It's a complex issue. To give credit where it's due, the fact that AMP and team were able to help people like you speaks volumes in their favor. I just wished that we could work towards fixing the original web, instead of trying to invent a new one.
Well, ethereum doesn't exactly have that good of a security record.
I think that is a big part of it. There appears to be no consideration that those "hard working" ants are not pure good for the colony. They're burning significant energy. And if that energy is being burned in counter-productive or non-productive ways, they are a net harm to the colony, not a benefit.
I'm not a lawyer, but it doesn't seem to me like they work in the same way that software developers do, with management breathing down their throats to do things in less time and telling them to cut this or that corner. If anything is seems more like the opposite with the lawyer directing a lot of his staff to do legwork.

If anything I'd think accounting is a better fit, but even then, I can't say I've met many people in the software industry who think very highly of any sort of existing test or certification; why would this one do so much better at measuring actual skill?