skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If farmer renting land can decide year-to-year whether it is worth it to him to farm the land. If the renter determines that a particular lease is not profitable, he is free to do something else. The landowner has no such option; he's stuck with the land.

The renter generally pays a higher price per year than an owner but has greater options and less risk.

This is generally true of renting vs buying. If you go to distant city for a one-week vacation, you are likely to rent accommodations and a car rather than buy them. At the end of the week you can just walk away, whereas the owner must concern himself with generating an income with his property.
Didn't they suspend Milo for suggesting a female actress was ugly?
another way is to increase defensive skills by starting with Damn Vulnerable Linus (DVL) and trying to close all holes and having someone try to crack it.

for fun of course :-)
Perhaps a Hackathon project?
Isn't this true of mostly any dev environment? You'll run into one or more of those every once in a while. Colleagues running XCode for iOS development think it and Swift are a piece of crap too most of the time (though the latest rewrite for iOS 11 apparently was a big improvement).

I've ran this version for going on 3 months now and pretty happy. I've run into some issues with Kotlin builds and preprocessors (can't see the build errors in the Gradle console, have to run a command line build with --debug flag) and every once in a while the emulator and IDE stop talking with each other (ADB needs a reset every so often).
How are you expecting it to work without a browser extension? In order to know who to pay, the software needs _some_ way to know what sites you're engaging with.
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Only if medical professionals actually pay attention to the data you’re gathering. My first daughter had a horrible first few months of life due to an undiagnosed tongue tie. The evidence was right there.
>> boustrophedonically

Such a pitty I don't play Scrabble...
Please explain how this additional tax isn't immediately (at the next least signing) passed on to renters. If I rent out a property and the taxes go up $X, I will raise rent at least 1x.
This was clearly a labor of love. You've taken gamification to a whole-nuva-level.
There are indeed laws against this stuff.
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Please also include a line about the license in your README.

The full license can go into a separate file, but a paragraph like "This project licensed under the GPL v2 license. See the LICENSE file for details" can be extremely helpful, and is missing far too often.
> P.S. I've been keeping my eye open for someone trying to implement this subscription/contribution model using blockchain.

Brave browser does this.
You don't see how person to person and small group messaging is a more difficult engineering challenge than personalized feed multicast? It's also simpler to sell subscriptions than to sell targeted ads - there's at least one whole other product we don't see, which Twitter's advertisers use, and it's probably a few different ones for different sizes and kinds of advertisers. Clearly, there's also a whole group working on the firehose product discussed elsewhere in this thread.

I don't know anything about Twitter's business, but just in general, I agree with your parent commenter that this entire thread of conversation (which happens every single time) is embarrassingly arrogant.
NYC has tons of regulations that _drastically_ limit the supply of new housing. New supply hasn't even come close to keeping up with new growth. New supply is a drop in the bucket.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-...
I am confused, that doesn't seem to be true. In FireFox for Android, I can select and copy both the address of the page that I'm on[0] and any particular link on the page[1], both by doing a long tap on the link/URL I wish to copy.

[0] - http://i.xwl.me/2017-10-26%2010.57.48.png

[1] - http://i.xwl.me/2017-10-26%2011.01.24.png
At this point I have a hard time taking seriously any claims against the Clintons. These two have been investigated inside and out for around 25 years. If the only people reporting on "new explosive allegations" are lawznews or thefederalist or w/e, that's a good sign its bogus. The fact that seemingly reasonable people still buy into the new round of innuendo every time a Clinton pops their head up is disheartening. The credence you give this stuff needs to be much lower.

And as far as Clinton's personal wealth, 15 years of book deals and 100k speaking engagements will create quite a nest egg. Let alone starting their careers as high powered attorneys. There's nothing unexplained here.
I've taken to browsing on Firefox Klar unless it is a site I know I will be revisiting.
I had a summer of eBay nightmares in college. I was supposed to help a relative sell an attic full of old clothes and knick knacks. Nothing was buying because I was a new seller, so I put some old video games on to bolster my score with quick sales. Everything went well until one person reported me for not including the box & manual (which was never mentioned in the listing) while another claimed the disc was counterfeit. After these two headaches, my relative complained about having to give some costume jewelry up for $7. At that point I decided it wasn't worth the trouble. Final profit was $97

There are definitely ways to improve the process. Maybe a "middleman" has to provide an appraisal or validation for the jewelry/electronic before making the listing. The true obstacle with any new competitor is network effect. When normal people want to sell local, they use Craigslist, when they want to sell nationally, they use eBay. Any chaff has already been taken by the big guys, and what is left isn't worth the fight.
That’s not a bad thing. Having more places of innovation is better for everyone. Hopefully, we’ll see more world class research universities too. A Stanford University (or two), for example, in every location.
There is no e-mail being sent, but I think many people actually believe that the person they search is notified - would explain why so few people have used it in recent years.

Everyone who has searched for your name is listed in a sub-section / "tab", listed as a link on the same page where you can search for the information of others. I imagine that very few people are looking at that, especially not a few days after the initial "OMG now you can look up what everybody makes" articles in the newspapers.
"Let's force ourselves to be profitable right now, regardless of the fact that it will destroy our future profitability"

Soundcloud just had a similar shock happen, and after all the people they had to fire, I would not be surprised if that will kill the company in the mid-term, even with their new investment. If you have no ability to innovate due to missing staff, there is a good chance that your competitors will eat you alive.
That's not how that works. Tax write offs don't magically print so much money you can operate at an economic loss.
You should absolute charge.

If programming is not your profession, what is? You have more repos that most professional programmers I know. :D
If the pods are floatin' the sys admin's dopin'...
(or some other copin' mechanism) :P
> I don't understand how a land value tax is supposed to make rents lower. It doesn't really compute

It is an incentive to build. Furthermore, it is an incentive build with higher density.

More density and more houses reduces the cost of rent. It also reduces the building and maintaining infrastructure.
Well. At least they didn't claim that they couldn't gather statistics on the salary of their current employees like Google did...
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The landlord has to pay higher property taxes as their property becomes more valuable, which often go in turn to paying for those improvements. It's not a one-way transfer, there's a quid pro quo. Now you may argue landlords get more than they give, but that's an entirely different point.
There are other seed companies that are competitive with Monsanto's traits. Pioneer, Syngenta.
The article by Ken White referenced in the sibling comment by likpok does a good job explaining it: https://www.popehat.com/2011/12/01/reminder-oh-wont-you-plea....

> Here's how it works. The feds identify some fact that they can prove. It need not be inherently incriminating; it might be whether you were at a particular meeting, or whether you talked to someone about the existence of the investigation. They determine that they have irrefutable proof of this fact. Then, when they interview you, they ask you a question about the fact, hoping that you will lie. Often they employ professional questioning tactics to make it more likely you will lie — for instance, by phrasing the question or employing a tone of voice to make the fact sound sinister. You — having already been foolhardy enough to talk to them without a lawyer — obligingly lie about this fact. Then, even though there was never any question about the fact, even though your lie did not deter the federal government for a microsecond, they have you nailed for a false statement to a government agent in violation of 18 USC 1001.

If you don't talk to the government, there is no danger that you'll slip up and talk yourself into a felony conviction. Yes, the risk is less if you're a lawyer and know what to watch out for, but why risk it? There is literally no upside. After all, no federal agent worth her salt is going to change her investigation just because a potential suspect "cleared up some misunderstanding" with a quick phone call.
Were 30 year old hairdressers ever able to afford a home inside a major metro area? I'm sure one could have afforded a home in Seattle 40 years ago, but the Seattle metro area wasn't even among America's top 20 largest metros until the 70's.

The problem with the assumption that something is wrong with Seattle's housing market is that people's perceptions of what Seattle "is" haven't changed to reflect the fact that Seattle today is as large as Chicago was in 1930. No one expects a hairdresser to be able to have been able to afford property within Chicago's city center at any point in modern history. That's because everyone alive has always known Chicago to be a massive metropolis whereas many long term residents of Seattle still remember a time when the city was an also-ran in terms of size and economic prosperity. Just think of all the towns that were absorbed into what is now called Chicagoland.

People who live as far as 85 miles away from downtown Chicago (Kentland Indiana is part of the Chicago MSA) still consider themselves to live "in" Chicago and they are even included as such in Chicago's Metropolitan Statistical Area. People's perceptions of what constitutes "Seattle" need to change to reflect the current reality of the city's size and influence.

Source: http://peakbagger.com/PBGeog/histmetropop.aspx
Seems more sane than extreme. I think it's a pretty reasonable policy given real estate speculation trends in the last few years. It seems reasonable for countries should have strong policies for protecting domestic housing stock, whether those are outright bans or massive taxes.
Attack the science not the scientists if you defer with their opinion.
I've used Apifier a lot of times and is the best of all the similar products in the market (or at least the other 4 (?) I've tried).
If you look at the full data set it includes SMART stats which I think has percentage of space used and/or available. Not 100% sure about that.
One of the collaborators on the project. Keen to get some feedback.
For context, at this time in history, the side of the road used was mostly determined by custom and convenience - there wasn't enough traffic for there to be established law.

In the case of these large wagon train drivers, the drivers, being mostly right handed, wanted to use their crop or whip in their right hand while being able to reach both lines of horses. This dictated that riding on the leftmost horse was most convenient.

Conversely, a wagon driver in a (relatively) cramped and crowded city such as London would sit on the right side so as to be able to ensure that his whip did not accidentally hit passers-by, as the direction of travel of the whip from a right-handed person is toward the left. This concern was largely not present in the wide-open spaces of the US.
So does Trump use Android or iOS?
They should just make a bot like Microsoft and let it loose.

Edit:

- For the uninformed: https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...

- Archives: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tay_Tweets/top/?sort=top&t=all
They are built on top of those technologies, but the user isn't exposed to any of the technical complexities. Seriously, go to openbazaar.org and download it, see for yourself.
I actually think Flattr is doing a good job of solving this. Consumers can simply sign up without worrying about who supports it, and creators that don't support it will be notified that they're leaving money on the table by not accepting payments via Flattr.

It's basically the same model Brave is using with their Basic Attention Token platform.
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A bit more info. Sebastian Blessing did a thesis on Distributed Pony. You can read it here: https://www.ponylang.org/media/papers/a_string_of_ponies.pdf

At this time, there is no "in the wild" implementation.
It's a major undertaking to switch from conventional to organic farming. Much more labor intensive, can take a few years for pesticide residues to dissipate, not even possible in some location due to neighbors. Not something most farmers are in a position to do, at least for their entire acreage.
I'm not sure how GitHub demands that you open source anything. You can keep projects private if you want to keep them private.
It seems so strange to have such a polished initiative on a niche project like Twilio. I can understand this for AWS, JavaScript Libraries, or SalesForce, but nobody's job title is exclusively "Twilio Engineer".

Then again, the team was always notably helpful during hackathons, and their documentation is usually on point. Maybe they recognize this as a company strength, and they are harnessing it as a way to compete with the likes of AWS/Google Cloud.
I responded to this elsewhere:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15561370
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You obviously don't own a home. There absolutely are financial implications for the value of your home dropping after you buy it.

A) An already illiquid asset is more illiquid. Not only do you need to find someone willing to buy it, you either need to pay to sell it, or find someone willing to pay above market.

B) Decreased access to capital. HELOCs are one of the few ways the middle class has to access six figures of credit easily and cheaply, and this is eliminated when banks won't go above 60-80% LTV but you live in a house with $x with a mortgage balance of 1.5x.
I've always considered it a red flag when a "startup" seems to have no other employees, no product, but somehow enough time to play company by giving four C-level titles away.
Why are landlords under some special obligation to make a contribution to the general welfare any more than a plumber is, or a software engineer?

That said, surely renting a property that is unaffordable to own by the renter provides social utility though?
A loop which dispatches closures can implement cross module tail recursion (absent of continuations). Function A wants to call B. Instead of a direct call, it performs a dynamic return to the loop, passing it B and the arguments to be applied to B (wrapped up as a closure, or other object).

This shouldn't be called a trampoline; it's just a dispatch loop.

Trampolines are a technique for turning function pointers into closures. GCC uses trampolines for pointers to nested functions.

The trampoline mechanism constructs a piece of machine code on the stack (or possibly elsewhere). Next to that machine code at some fixed offset, there is the closure info: the real function plus context. The trampoline is referenced by the pointer to the code: a low level function pointer, compatible with C function pointers and the like. When that is called, it retrieves the closure info (via instruction-pointer-relative addressing) and calls the real target function.
Is anyone finding medium.com to be unusable when not logged in? From a big banner at the tops and bottom and a huge popup on every visit, I think it's time for people to move content elsewhere.
GPUs are quite good at doing arithmetic in parallel. A large part of machine learning is doing arithmetic on large data sets. It makes sense to do these operations in parallel. For example, implementing k-nearest neighbors on a GPU is almost 2 orders of magnitude faster than on a CPU[0].

GPUs just work very well when you have a a lot of data and you are able to run the operations on the data set in parallel. Machine learning seems to fit this model quite well which is why you see many GPUs used in this field. Other things that take advantage of parallelism would be graphics and crypto-currency mining.

[0] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.159...
This is not a profound statement, but rather obvious. If may calculations are right, there are roughly 6 billion 993 million people outside of Silicon Valley
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Summary: soon, we will start to see more successful tech companies emerge out of areas other than Silicon Valley.
"Why isn't your biography your name? "
because the name come before the biography.

In a products case you hope that google has a vision about what the product is before naming it..

The list is very useful..thanks..
HRC was so confident in her upcoming landslide win she bought fireworks, and congratulated herself on her birthday as “future president”. Same time last year Trump was projected to have a 7% chance of winning, and that was by outlets that wanted to be perceived as impartial. Multiple accusations of sexual assault were leveled (all gone after the election), fake piss “dossier” (for which HRC paid in violation of campaign laws) was fabricated, the “free” press shat on Trump 24x7, etc, etc. Do you really, truly believe that it was $300K from the Russians, and not Clinton’s arrogance that tanked her prospects?
Those look like totally reasonable programming assignments. Certainly don't look like they'll take four hours on the average.
Why would you not need a port cover? Electric cars are charged by plugs to connect the electric line, same as how gas cars are charged by plugs to connect the gas line.
If they had picked a number, it would have redefined the kilogram (or, indirectly, Planck's constant), breaking the SI unit system as it was then (and now) defined.

Pull on one thread, and all the others may move.

Also of note with this change -- the amu will unlock from Carbon-12.
Are the president's holdings a matter of public record (I honestly don't know)?
I don't find the AC intuitive at all. It assumes that a choice function exists for any set of non-empty sets, including infinite ones. How can anyone have an intuition for such things? Except of course when the intuition is built upon taking finite cases to some limit. But in those cases the AC is reduced to a theorem, making it completely unnecessary.
Are you sure it's not you, or your ISP, or DNS, or ...
Who said I have a problem with the science?

I'm meh about the genetics of GMO, its just accelerated selection. Transgenetic could be worrisome, so we should be hippocratic there.

But crops that allow us to expand into more arid, saline, or whatever areas are probably good to have. And developing perennial grains (eg kernza) sounds great.

But that's not why I oppose GMO.

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I'm utterly opposed to "ReadyUp Ready" genetic engineering. Any effort to increase, permit the use of more pesticides (herbicides, insecticides) must be opposed. We need to reduce the use of pesticides, maybe even eventually ban all pesticides.

I'm utterly opposed to Monsanto's (and Big Ag's) business practices, especially patenting life, and secondarily turning all farmers (people who work the land) into serfs. Their GMO efforts, independent of the actual plants and biology, or just the wedge for those strategies.

I reject the pro-GMO arguments about increasing yield. We already toss 1/3 to 1/2 of the food produced. Trying to increase yields is passing over dollars to pick up pennies.

Lastly if Monsanto (and Big Ag) is for it, I'm against it. They've done so much harm, for so long, with zero contrition, I presume they're guilty. If there was some kind of truth and reconciliation tribunal, maybe, just maybe, I'd give them a second chance. And massive reparations followed by acts of goodwill.

But the burden of proof is on them, not me.
Unlike the Reddit thread which wanted a week’s worth of work, giving ~4 hours is reasonable, especially since that’s close to the overall opportunity cost of a normal in-person interview.
Mark made much more, and would never release that. He chose to very publicly implement various fake news detection tools instead.

This one here was a token gesture, a rounding error.
> Odds of having to declare bankruptcy in this scenario are high.

Not at all. If you could not afford your property because of a loss of income, you are eligible for another mortgage after a short sale or foreclosure within a year. If you can't document a loss of income, its only 3 years to get another mortgage.

Temporary credit damage? Indeed, but not necessarily bankruptcy.
It's not a uniform distribution.
First off, the company's representative here is wildly unprofessional. You cannot be that hostile when representing your organization, even in the face of such a hostile post.

That said I actually don't necessarily disagree with his initial point. Exploitative would be if they were having candidates do work that would be used by the company. I don't think there is anything wrong with asking people to do a demanding challenge as part of an interview, provided you are willing to accept the candidate loss you will get from people who refuse to do it.
I checked the assignments and they looked reasonable to me. I've done a far more complicated assignment for my current contract, and to be honest, I prefer these type of assignments to "whiteboard" interviews.
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When Hacker News top threads does all the overinflation talk for you

2.Twitter says could turn first-ever profit, shares jump (reuters.com)

3.Twitter Says It Overstated Monthly-User Figures for 3 Years (nytimes.com)
One of the biggest challenges with deep learning is training data. AWS makes loading large datasets easy with S3. What does Paperspace have to help with this? If I have to perform deep learning on multi-TB datasets in S3, any compute cost benefits get cancelled out by the increased data transfer cost from S3.
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