skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does seem super weak sauce. Also, the "striking" 6.2% included 2008, who's to say that the even among the 1.2 X median people, that the economic hurt wasn't enough to explain the delta there?
So you have a guy with a proven track record of companies that manage to make products that 15 years ago were thought to be impossible to make, that is personally invested in those companies, that does so with a clear intention of bringing some much needed revolutions in the whole transport and rocket industry, and he should be fired...

Besides, shareholders bought shares of a company whose stated purpose is "to accelerate the advent of sustainable mobility", not "maximize profit for shareholders".
Where can I buy a board with this?
I assumed it would stop generating electricity (and therefore resistance) when the batteries are topped-up. I didn't even realize they're mechanically disconnected as needed.
Wasn't the observatory trashed by the hurricane? I suspect PR won't need the balloons once they get their infrastructure back online.
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Well. I think hip replacements are not natural. The other three are just "man made" versions of things that readily exist(ed).

But perhaps we have different definitions of natural :)
Rich people invest in property because they have enough money to view a million dollar condo as a diversification strategy. Property can be a good investment, but shouldn't be your only investment.
Can you explain? Webpack actually uses modules from npm. Distribution is a separate matter to bundling. Not sure what you’re getting at.
Objectively, you haven't understood the efficient market hypothesis.

Subjectively, the house tiles and batteries were never meant to take off, SpaceX had rockets to orbit before they ever got a NASA contract, the subsidies on the car were negligible in the scheme of things, and also available to anybody else.
Many of those who have high incomes would prefer to build equity rather than hand it to landowners. However incomes only rose only modestly above inflation while real estate prices have doubled and even tripled in many places.

We're really in trouble as a society if essentials like education, healthcare and housing continue to eat an increasingly large portion of consumer income.
I would say it depends. Some places RE is so hot while rental vacancies are high that it makes sense to rent. The days of flipping houses to gain 20-50% profit are long gone. A lot of property in our area is being bought by foreign investors. I feel, unless they hold for 10-15 years they will never make their money back.

From experience, we’re closing on a house now and not paying much more than the previous owner 10 years ago. 5 years ago we could have probably could have bought for 50% lower.
> Also, unless you are training for the Olympics, you do not need to linearly scale your food intake in proportion to your exercise.

Lets assume that you are. Would that mean you will die earlier? Does that mean that the more exercise you do the earlier you die?
Ya. As per my comment below, it's a) the dissonance between a 'tech view of BTC' and an 'economic/financial' view of BTC and b) the religious nature of BTC hype. And by 'religious' I don't actually mean 'religious' rather, the old 'religious arguments over programming languages and frameworks' kind of trope.

Commenting against BTC is sure to get you down-voted.

It's ok though, it's just one of many HN quirks we're all used to :)
I make a decent living, way above median household income, but my wife and I rent in a dense urban center for the simple reason that even with our income we couldn't afford to own in this area. Even if we weren't paying student loans it would take several years to build up a down payment that would result in cheaper mortgage payments than our rent burden, which would be crucial since homeownership adds property taxes and significant upkeep costs above the mortgage payment. Sure, we could afford a house in the 'burbs, but we don't want to live in the 'burbs. The rent is too damn high, but so are the housing prices.
Hard to agree with the sentiment behind this article, as the entire argument seems to be rooted on this arbitrary idea that crowdfunding is some sort of sacred ritual that's reserved for the underdogs only.
Who mandated this rule? I certainly didn't agree to abide by it, and will continue to fund any product that I deem to be fund-worthy regardless of the current financial capabilities of the creator entity.
I'd take 10 houses for $200k in the Midwest over one $2m house in the Bay Area. Appreciation is lower, but rents (as a percentage of cost) are much, much better. The shortfall in appreciation can easily be made up for in better rent yield.
I mean, what you're raising is a valid question and one that has been alluded to here before. However, it is pretty politically charged and it's only tangentially related to this article, hence it seems in poor taste to bring it up here.
Some countries have limits on how much money you can expatriate each year. Some of these also have rules that allow you to move more money as long as it is going to certain things(building industry, land/home purchases, etc).
Yes, in the example it looks like they are aligning the vertical stroke of the larger and small letterforms, but this isn't actually always the answer. The goal is to be optically aligned, rather than actually aligned and our brains' optics can really distort things based on size, weight, etc. If you zoom in about 300% you might notice that the larger text is actually still slightly indented, because the weight and size of it artificially occupy more space.

Curves artificially create more space around them in our brains in relation to other letterforms and straight letterforms create less. As an example, type out the word "Highlands" in a very large point size (like 300pt) or in vectors where you can zoom in, in a well designed font. Drop a guideline at the baseline of the letters. You will notice that all of the flat-bottomed letters sit on a baseline and all of the curved strokes drop below the baseline. This makes them optically equal and appear to sit on the same baseline in our minds.

The issue gets more complicated when you start using less geometric-looking fonts with serifs and higher contrast/different weight distributions in the characters. Even typefaces that look very simple and geometric, are still designed with subtle fluctuations in weight to make them feel optically even. Futura is a good example. The "O" character looks like a perfect circle, but if it were, it would look wrong.

There is definitely some science behind all of this, but measuring and testing it seem like it would be very difficult.
That works fine if and only if uint8_t is an alias of char, as otherwise it violates the strict aliasing rule.
The author hates us, see this xkcd on kerning: https://xkcd.com/1015/ ;)
Agreed. Obviously they have every right to do this, but what are these companies actually contributing to the crowdfunding community, outside of (seemingly) inferior products like the Nebula Capsule [0] or Opal Nugget Ice Maker [1]? Why do we need to sacrifice more of our sacred startup / maker spaces to megabrands?

[0] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/capsule-the-world-s-most-...

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/opal-nugget-ice-maker/#/c...
How does it look once you account for closing costs on 10 houses, maintenance and management of 10 rental properties, etc?
I wonder if there's any overlap between the group of people who always complain about ads, those that complain about paywalls, and maybe even those that say journalism is worthless "because they're all just rewriting the AP ticker".

Because it appears as if people think the future of journalism is hundreds of high-quality, independent, investigative newspapers. Who each have one subscriber who summarises the articles for their ad-free blog.
Oh my god they redesigned WinDbg with a Microsoft Office UI lookalike starter kit including ribbons. And at least one of the screenshots showed JavaScript.

So many fingers crossed hoping they don't ruin this indispensable basic tool. Every platform needs to have a no-nonsense debugger that doesn't fall over immediately when it has no symbols and source. WinDbg (was?) that.
This is very cool. I wish there was a channel like this debunking real magic tricks (not video ones).
> Tesla stock is valued as though the company can execute on its vision flawlessly.

Boo-hoo. This is a basically a 10 paragraph horoscope. The market's blend of greed, hope and fear meets reality.
>Why heat an entire space when you can buy an electric mattress pad and just heat your bed?

One reason is that breathing cold air overnight is bad for your health. IIRC a recommendation is to keep it above 16C.
Not exactly news but worth being mentioned from time to time.
I'm a notorious Rust fan and also the lead author of rr :-).
This is starting to look like the bitcoin obituaries situation.
All they had to do was include a single sentence about the rate of lung collapse in the US (or perhaps the rate of lung collapse for men, since most pro gamers are male) compared with the rate of lung collapse for professional gamers.

But then again, this is a Gawker offshoot we're talking about, so we can't expect much.
Just today I read about Nissan Leaf 2018 with its range of 150 miles while staying below 30K USD and newer eGolf from Volkswagen is also interesting. Given how much Volkswagen managed to improve the battery pack it seems the German manufacturer is taking the business of developing powerful car batteries very seriously.
It doesn't directly lead to cancer, it increases, to some extent, the risk of some kinds of cancer, which can be influenced by life-style choices, to evolve. (The title says "linked" in the sense of being correlated.) That's pretty much common knowledge.
BTC valuation is pretty strongly correlated to it's Google Search popularity.

There are an amazing number of people who own a little BTC and are in on the hype.

And this is like Facebook 2007, where I already thought 'everyone was on it'. No. The 'rest of America' is just learning about it - then the 'rest of the world' - and then the other 3 billion or so people who are barely on the Internet. FB grew for quite a very long time after 'we thought we all were on it'.

BTC though is tricky to access, my Mother is on FB, she will never buy a Bitcoin.

But I do believe BTC has a lot of popular hype to ride yet.

I suggest it will start to wane quite a long while after the press stops talking about it daily. A lot of people will just 'hold' so I don't think we'll see a crash though.

There are caveats:

The press is notorious for flipping on things. They could turn on BTC and make enough noise. Since it's highly speulative, it's easy to see a flood of people rushing out to 'cash in'.

And of course governments: A Scandinavian country could opt to regulate it, or treat it like 'real currency' and require transparency etc. - which for any other currency would be 'great' because it's validation, but really, the whole point of BTC is anonymity etc. - esp. for black market transactions, so really, it's not a good thing.

It's a brilliant and fun excercise we're going through, but since it's doubtful BTC can ever be an actual currency or medium of exchange, I really wish we would 'move on' because it's not really a useful thing in the end.

Somebody may come along with an actually useful crypto - but i don't think that BTC or the ICO's we're seeing are it.
I think generics provide extra abstraction that Go designers want to avoid.

ADTs on the other hand are ther to help you model your data better.
We currently live 3 blocks from the beach and have no intention of buying here. The older buildings are prone to flooding, some are sinking, and the foundations are cracking. The newer buildings are incredibly expensive.

We’ll stay here until it no longer makes financial sense. Until then I continue to rent while stashing money away for property not near the slowly rising oceans.
A stylistic critique here: I think the trend of taking a quote from the article and presenting it on its own somewhere else on the page is overused, especially in blogs and magazines.

For example, in this article, we have a sentence pulled from the article and presented in a larger font with italics, a quote block and green text:

If this was three guys in college looking to try and get their prototype into the world, great. But this isn’t a start-up.

This seems like a poor sentence to use for two reasons:

1. That sentence literally appears immediately before the quote block in the article in a vertical layout, which means I read the same sentence twice, back to back.

2. The sentence itself doesn't seem...noteworthy?

It seems like this concept was cargo culted from the design zeitgeist of modern magazines, to the point that it's worked in as stylistic sugar where it doesn't really make sense.
In my experience there was always a counter offer, unless you are terrible :).

But I would strongly discourage you from taking it. Basically, the reason you are not at that salary/position yet, is because you are not recognized at that level by management. getting a bump via a counter offer will mean that you will be last in line for raises/bonus/promotions since you will be viewed as getting paid above your grade. This was what I observed as a manager at a big company during calibrations.

If you want a bump, ask your manager - where do you need the most help, what can i do to have a larger impact this cycle etc... - and do those things. If that is not enough, run :)
I was eating a typical western high carbohydrate, moderate protein, low fat diet with a modest caloric deficit. Lots of starchy veg, breads, rice and pasta.

I migrated gradually (six months) to a very low carb diet including abstinence from all forms of artificial sweetener. 9g/122g/100g carbs/fat/protein. On the plate that's lots of saturated fat, moderate protein from meat and dairy (largely unprocessed) and huge volumes of green vegetables (but they are simply a vehicle for fat and micronutrients.) I will experiment with abstinence from dairy in the future.

I keep my eating to a six hour window, two meals. The artificial sweetener ban is due to the insulin response they can provoke, which goes directly against my goal - to significantly improve my insulin sensitivity. I hope that is specific enough!
It's very difficult for the Chinese government to discover or seize foreign property. If you illegally exported money from China, you couldn't exactly keep it in a bank where the Chinese government could claw it back. So you buy property in safe markets; housing doesn't drastically change in value (and often appreciates), the money gets "washed" in escrow by random citizens, it's very hard for housing to get stolen or lost (unlike other high value items, like precious metals, diamonds, cars), there's enough supply where the government couldn't possibly monitor all the markets, and it's high enough value where so you only need to succeed a handful of times.
You're right in that nobody mentioned anything about legal rights.

The article in question, however, is titled "It's not okay for..." and alludes to corporations who supposedly are violating the 'moral rights' by participating in crowdfunding practices. The parent post is merely extending the debate regarding the same moral rights but taking an opposite stance, claiming that the right(not legal, but moral) is not exclusive to the start-ups.
I think it might just be a strangely formed sentence where the part "if it contains the item" is not the subject of the report, but a condition:

If it contains the item -> reports that it contains the item (correctly)

If it doesn't contain the item -> may report that it contains the item (incorrectly)
It very certainly is. Anyone trying to tell you otherwise is probably trying to sell you something.

However, as most people do not count their calories (an underrated activity I'd say, it makes weight control trivially simple if you can keep it up) what's more important is how much your food and activities makes you eat in relation to what you need.

This is what makes exercise not as obvious as a solution. If you move more, you will generally want to eat more. The function of diets is to have the opposite effect, by eating certain kinds of foods you can trick your body into feeling satiated on a calorie deficit.

Generally this happens for instance when you make restrictions on your diet, like eating a limited amount of fat or a limited amount of carbohydrates.

Some foods are designed to be tasty and make you eat more, sometimes your body won't compensate for that and you get on a calorie excess. Processed food and snacks are often in this category. By eating less of those, and more of whole foods you often will naturally reduce your calorie intake. Using less added sugar and fat is often helpful as well.

Going into details of how the body manages your calorie intake like your digestive system and the insulin system is interesting in itself, but it's usually not very relevant for adjusting your diet. This is because the way these affect your body is both non-obvious and often not as well known as it might seem.
I believe your question is "it shows Obama, so what?", is that right?
> One of the most reliable ways to get rejected by people is to lead with "I've been hurt"

Hmm..., does my post come across that way? (Perhaps someone else other than PaulHoule should comment). Certainly my intent was not to put across that message. Nor was it to garner empathy. This is in many ways business as usual - I'm offering my services to somebody who may find me something useful to offer.
There are zero other automakers that are negotiating to use superchargers or build there own, so in the strictest sense there are no cars competing with the model 3.

Judging the cars themselves there are still no real competitors. All of the upcoming cars are 3+ years away and still firmly concepts. The manufacturers speculating about 30-40k prices are banking entirely on a massive drop in battery cost that would affect Tesla too. Nobody is even pretending that they will be able to match Tesla's tech; I haven't seen a concept that expects better efficiency yet.

I'm gonna take special note of the Bolt here: it's an awful car that is totally incomparable to a model 3. First off it's a subcompact compared to a full sedan that weighs less. The bolt goes 0-60 in 6.3 vs 5.1 for the model 3, which is way more spacious and carries more cargo. The car's lead designer said it was "a disaster for aero"[1] and its drag coefficient is 50% worse than a model 3.

The model 3 is better in every way except having 18 miles less range, and I would even take issue with that. At highway speed a model 3 will get farther range every time- the EPA highway range weights towards 55 mph highway driving and gives massive advantages to large cars with awful aerodynamics. RCR hated the Bolt[2].

[1]: http://www.autonews.com/article/20160807/OEM03/160809904/gms...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-gDhq8VKsQ
>What if there's an emergency and someone's trying to dial a number but, due to mitigating circumstances, are having trouble using your crazypants dial pad?

What if they're handicapped, and only have one finger and the new layout allows them to dial faster? The current design would have failed them. Every design works within the constraints that are given. Creating cases where a particular design works/doesn't work isn't hard or interesting, unless you actually do something about it (which is what this article is proposing).

>The long-tail of UX is misunderstood indeed.

Then I would invite you to study it some more.

>Just because you can redesign something doesn't mean you should.

No reading of what I said, or the linked article has anything even remotely close to suggesting that. Maybe you could have asked for clarification since your reply seems very confused to me.
Yes, the number of skin cells will increase. They will also need more blood vessel cells, immune cells, etc.
> Don’t kid, most people aren’t renting because they prefer it.

I can't speak for the USA but in Germany - specifically where we live, home ownership is not/barely worth it financially speaking. The taxes alone for "owning property" i.e. renting it from the government until you die are extremely high. You pay 6.5% (varies by state) of the property value in "Grunderwerbsteuer" when you initially buy and then for a home valued at around 250k (fairly normal prices) you're looking at a 2-4k per year in taxes. Throw on top of that all your upkeep costs in time and money and it really doesn't look like such a nice deal.

That's why we haven't bought and I don't want to. Nowadays, "home ownership" is just another name for renting where the costs are slightly less and the upkeep to you in time and effort is more.
BOOM is built on top of rocket-chip, both going back to 2011-2012 at Berkeley. The rocket-chip devs graduated Berkeley and started SiFive.

SiFive still use, update, and commit back to the rocket-chip code base and have spent resources on verifying the rocket-chip code base and on integrating other industry IP into their branch of rocket-chip to fit their costumers' needs.
That Google hasn't automated the process of inferring that the question was about the current president.

This generalizes to pretty much any official position.
Should be:

inline unsigned utf8length(char c)
{ return(1+((LENTAB >> ((c>>3)*2)) & 3)); }
Instead we have the black box of the college admissions office, deliberating over components of the college application such as essays and extracurricular activities intentionally designed for subjective evaluation, where the outcomes of applicants are incontestible and unexplained, where they do not even need to think about designing difficult questions around simple solutions that would otherwise be cause for dispute.
This is dual to "the rise of wealthy foreign landlords that buy homes site-unseen as investment properties."

My wife and I, despite being able to afford a home, have chosen not to buy one. Why? Because home prices in our area run at $2.7M for a 3BR [1], while we're paying $2600/month to rent a 2BR townhome. People we know who have bought are now paying $6-7K/month on housing, for something not much better than what we have (they have a yard and an extra bedroom, but we have a pool). Even with the mortgage interest tax deduction, you're still paying more on interest alone (let alone principal, property taxes, or maintenance) than we're paying in rent.

[1] This is perhaps an overestimate - it was a news story about a couple that were outbid 4 times and wanted a fairly nice property. But even so, minimum prices on a 2BR condo in the area now range around $1M+, so the math still doesn't work out.
No mate, in my post I never mentioned choice, I did opine: "that most of them live way below a "bread line" that you or I would find intolerable."

Does that fit with your observations?
What's an ADT?
Hard to deny he has a good way with words!

I can't speak for the author Rich is replying to, but I have seen many in the community comment on the opaqueness of Cognitect, even comparing it to Apple. That's not necessarily bad, but it does have the unfortunate effect of letting some people's imaginations run with negativity in their assumptions about a company's motivations.

Even if Cognitect did make money on Clojure, not sure why that should be a source of frustration. It's quite an amazing language, people should have some reward for their contributions to the industry, right?
I have heard of train lines getting switched because the copper ones would constantly get stolen...
Likewise for me. I chose to live in an apartment in the city center / startup hub (and walk to work) vs buy a house in the suburbs with a half hour commute every day. There are condos here but the market is much higher.