skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In London a bunch of stuff with Prime is now available for same day delivery. Order before 10 or noon, or something, and get it in the evening.

It has a massive impact on buying decisions, and I probably overpay quite a lot for a lot of things.
What no. That's really wrong. Lets say the seller gave the rejected native buyer all the extra profit from the higher price paid by the foreigner. Say it's 10% the price of the home. It would take at least 100% of the home value for the rejected buyer to go build a new home, which is what he would have to do for the foreign sale to not raise home prices. And this is not taking into account the extra roads,power lines, police, fire, water, transportation etc that taxpayers will have to cover for that new home.

The alternative of course is that natives just have to live in smaller shittier more expensive homes. Which they shouldn't be forced to do just so that some probably corrupt Chinese business man can launder money through their country.
It was Tally. Did they ever ship? The web site has nothing but a promotional video and press releases.
Some good news after the layoffs and news of a shitty working environment.
I love these services but I never used them for my kids and would never use them. There is definitely a good market for it especially in the US where everyone is paranoid and you have liability issues etc but I just learned not to worry about it and that's with a son who was born 10 weeks too early.

But looks like a great solution for those who need some peace of mind.
>> A probe sent out by some remote civilisation, it is on its way through our part of the Milky Way galaxy. It used Sol as a source of gravity to slingshot itself on its way in the direction of Pegasus.

I found it interesting that the first such object observed passed inside the orbit of Mercury. Is there some physics based reason that would be likely or was it a fluke?
Anecdata: as a first time Oz home buyer relying on a bank loan, I was consistently excluded from house sales by foreign investors who could pay cash up front.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15558017
The real estate market is not like most other markets in that the turnover of "inventory" is very low. Any speculation, foreign or otherwise, can have a huge effect on the price. On top of that, you can't just create a new livable house or apartment out of thin air, so it takes time for the supply to catch up to demand even setting aside zoning and other considerations. Conversely, if everyone tries to leave a single market at the same time, the price can also drop very quickly relative to what they paid for it.

Rent is a strict substitute for buying property so the rental prices in most cases track the real estate prices fairly closely. In fact, rental prices tend to change much faster than property as rent can be raised every year while a mortgage doesn't necessarily change once the sale has been finalized.
I haven't written any golang, but why would you want a native client, when using http directly is nicely documented? I've worked with providers that worked in part of the same space, but only provided native clients, not documentation for directly using http; that was a big pain because I was porting to a language they didn't support and I had to reverse engineer the client for the language we used to use.

For me, I'm happy that they haven't changed their api in forever, I'm still using them in the same way as five years ago, I don't need to change my code.
I think parentnis referring to the federal income tax deduction on interest, which most definitely is significant if you are able to itemize.
Luckily we still have some of those in this timeline.
Three other witnesses have come forward and said that they were concerned the woman was too drunk to consent. Artur Bergman's account: "Me and my friend realized we had seen Scoble appear next to her repeatedly during the evening. Pouring more and more alcohol for her. After seeing this for a while we felt we had to intervene and help her get away."

https://twitter.com/crucially/status/921317876169977857
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Yeah, that's obviously just an ordering of the rationals.
Robots aren't going to replace all of the service jobs, but I think they're going to replace more than we might imagine.

Over the last 30 years, more than half of bank branches in the UK have closed. Many older customers have been substantially inconvenienced by these closures, but they're on the wrong side of economics. Beyond a certain point, it's just no longer financially viable to keep a branch open. A lot of older people prefer DVDs to online streaming, but good luck finding a rental store in most towns.

The social effects may well be very ugly, but I think that most businesses will be quite ruthless about their deployment of automation. They clearly have no qualms about the impact on jobs and I don't think that they'll care if some proportion of their customer base is marginalized.
The amount of Elon Musk hate I see online is crazy. It seems like people are hellbent on hating this guy. When he announced that Tesla could help Puerto Rico, the number of snarky and demeaning comments was huge. Now, so quickly, they've actually accomplished something good. I wonder if any of those snarky people, most of which probably did nothing to help Puerto Rico, will care.
There is only one month of Whole Foods in Amazon's quarterly results.
I too am curious how this is superior to electrical lines in a storm. The best I could come up was that the grid is now more distributed such that storms could take out some but not all systems. I suspect getting certain critical assets back online would necessarily be easier since additional nodes aren't necessary to interlink power from a central system. Can anyone provide other benefits?
FWIW, I think it will be more surprising if evidence emerges which buttresses the "lone nut" theory than the "conspiracy" theory, which is far more plausible in the first place.

There are a few items that may appear in these collections that are relevant today for reasons other than their connection to the murder of a sitting President:

* The particularities of Operation Mongoose - which of course was denied for years in official statements - may still be occurring today without general public knowledge. In particular, I'm somewhat astonished to find out that the US Government apparently developed or intended to develop agents to disrupt agriculture which would appear as though they were natural occurrences.

* Oswald's trip to Mexico City (and the other various "sightings" of "Oswald" in the Fall of 1963) may give us clues about the kinds of tactics that are employed when someone is being setup to take the fall for an act. I can definitely imagine similar patterns being employed to divert attention from the actual perpetrators of large-scale cyber attacks in the years to come.

I think that one of the most important things to come out of this is a reminder that these events have shaped a part of American history. It's a good time to talk to your kids and your parents about the murder of JFK if you haven't already.
+1 if the people of nz prefer to preserve their state of life over market demand that's their collective choice to make. Not everything in life must be ruled by a supply/demand curve
That's not always the case. In places like SF, the only way to build is up, which is expensive, requires alot of capital, and is risky by itself even if you don't have NIMBY people fighting it. In this case, Monopoly has it exactly right as far as the costs and values of putting a new hotel on Boardwalk vs. putting 4 hotels on Mediterranean Ave.
Consider negative gearing: This is a tax break given to investors who do not live in the house. Eliminating this tax break would be beneficial to people who want to buy a house to live in because they would suddenly be competing with fewer investors.

More generally, harmonising the tax rates between real estate and other asset classes would also lead to more efficient allocation of resources, benefitting everyone.
If you're pretty new to software development, good job on making something.
the gig economy may have many upsides and can help supplement the traditional economy however it will not replace it (at least for the next several decades)... while you can have much more flexibility in that econ, there are many things in the traditional econ that still require standardized time and traditional work hours
Property taxes already tax based on the paper value of the house (well, an assessed value, which may or may not be fair).

Tying it to appreciation and paper profits could quickly drive someone out of their home (e.g. Seniors). Heck, this is why prop 13 was initiated in the first place, for all the damage it did.
I have a family member whose standard workflow involved doing the same with Word on Windows. Save As was the only way he knew how to copy things.

He's a baby boomer. I'd assume this is only more common now with peoples' main interactions with computing being in an app-focused, hidden-filesystem world.
There's an old saying, "pay peanuts, get monkeys."

This isn't an attack on Walmart employees. Humans deserve higher compensation for their complete effort than Walmart is willing to pay. If someone is giving something their all, they deserve at least a living wage.
It always blows my mind that there are masses of single story houses within a couple of kilometers of the Sky Tower and the rest of the CBD. There's still single story buildings within a 10 minute walk of the center of the city.
Thank you. And structs / records? I mean, if there are no instance fields, there has to be some kind of constructs that emulate them.
Not having a facebook account is a negative social signal these days. The gun is metaphorical.
As a step in that direction, you can take some inspiration from what the brain does: as you learn things better and better, the knowledge essentially gets pulled down to neuronal layers that are closer to sensory input. This leaves the higher layers more free to do other stuff (potentially reusing the results from the surface layers), which is a step in the direction of optimizing for future flexibility.

It's possible to create rules that operate on an already-trained network and push it in this direction without totally destroying what it's learned, by "fuzzing" the original network to generate a bunch of input/output pairs, and then using that dataset to retrain smaller sub-networks. For instance, if you have a 5 layer network that you've trained on a classification task, you can often use that network as a teacher to train a smaller network to do pretty damn well on the same classification task, even in some cases where training the smaller network directly would have been very difficult. There are several reasons that this trick can work, not the least of which is that in a sense it is a way to expand the training set dramatically.

NB: the above approach is probably not how you'd implement this, there are less crude methods to incentivize shallower levels to have more activation than deeper ones that would probably work better

I can easily imagine a phased training strategy that oscillates between a) learning new things by making the deeper layers more malleable and the shallower ones fairly rigid, and b) compressing all the data by opening up the shallow layers to change and replaying input/output into itself. I have no idea if there are any benchmarks around this sort of thing, though, typically benchmarks have fixed goals so ability to retrain for additional tasks is not really measured.
Haha, fully agree! It's good to separate MUMPS the language from MUMPS the storage layer / database which was innovative and pioneering in many ways. I don't think we need to re-hash MUMPS the language :)
How to Read the JFK Assassination Files: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15559312
Tesla should be paying the hospital.

Beyond donating the panels? Other people are free to donate goods and services to help Puerto Rico recover, I will do my part to ensure they're recognized regardless of partisan affiliation.
This is a lot of code for such a simple app https://github.com/spatie/dnsrecords.io
The it's not even a single page app, what does this have over just shell_exec'ing dig and printing out the result?
It's restrictive zoning laws. Home and property owners have a zeal for politics unmatched when it comes to keeping values up.

The movement away from cities had a lot of reasons that have been solved(jobs came back, riots, red lining, less pollution, less crime) so I'd say the cultural shift was justified to return.

Commuting sucks too.
If its a fluke, they make short term profits. If you adopt a new policy that makes health insurance cheaper to provide in the long run, your competitors will force your prices down to that new price, lowering your profits.
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Simplicity should be sacrificed for performance.

It doesn’t always have to be that way though. Several important classes of optimization lend themselves to simplifying code.

For example, code that effectively makes the same decision three times is both slow and obscures the intent of the code.

And there are ways to compartmentalize optimizations so that people working in the general vicinity don’t have to bother with the ‘clever’ code on a daily basis.
Don't rents simply reflect supply and demand? It seems unlikely that they would rise beyond the "breaking point" for _everyone_ or even most people.

Also, whenever someone is homeless, that's someone for whom the rents are above the breaking point.
> this is a highly interactive piece of content, with a metric shitload of complexity behind it

More specifically, it's a highly interactive piece of content, with a metric shitload complexity behind it, that's currently implemented entirely in javascript. From that perspective, turning it into a native browser component seems like a good idea.
Does that argument really hold water?

I'd argue that the market of 'people who are dating' isn't going to be dramatically affected by any particular company, and probably not even by online dating in general. They would have to be stupendously effective at creating long-term monogamous relationships to really move the needle there.

Marriage rates have been declining for decades, and serial monogamy seems to be growing (can't find good quantification of that). Successful dating services don't necessarily cannibalize their market.

My intuition is that providing an effective and enjoyable experience is going to provide far greater returns by gaining market share in a relatively inelastic market.
Alternatively, I'll try "death from sitting too long" and you try the other and let's meet up in a year.
https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/release-notes
> Russia had the best tanks in the early war

But without US-provided materials and equipment Soviets will not be able to produce tanks during 1942-1944.
I am still unsure. I remember there was a talk circulating around the Internet, questioning how many people were actually in the car during the JFK assassination. Is that a fake news?
If you're good at something, never do it for free. Honestly, I used to offer plenty of my services for free, or I'd undercharge, and it is probably my own fault for letting it happen too often, but too many people took advantage of me and my services, and I got burned out and uninterested. So I charge everything for everything I do because aside from enjoying what we do, money keeps us motivated to be interested in this person or company's problems. The days of freebies from me are gone.

So don't sweat it.. you need to be upfront about your worth per hour or per session. If they want your full attention, they'll pay for it.

So answering your questions:

You have to figure out how you charge. Per hour? Per session? Sending out an invoice? Accepting payment via Paypal? Establish your prices in the beginning and appear as a professional right from the start.

For students, I suggest offering a "student discount" which might knock $5 off your hourly rate, so if you are charging $25/hr, you can get the total and discount it by 10% or whatever.

While having a lawyer is always best, you can get by with some legal jargon on a website or in your document, but make sure YOU understand it. Keep it simple and state that you are providing services and your customer is responsible for making payments NET X days.

You make your own price and your own value. Be reasonable. For example, for a company, you might be able to charge them $30/hr+, but helping an individual, you may have to charge a bit less. But this is up to you, of course.

Look at your competition and similar salaries and figure out what you are willing to accept as your salary.
Yes, if only history could stop in 1776. Then we can all make overarching general comments on how things are and will forever be. 240 years are a joke.
Thank you for your request to download the 2017 release of JFK assassination files. Completely download all 11 files to the same directory then open jfk.zip to unzip all.

Download times may be significant due to the large size.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/zip/jfk...

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Nobody more trustworthy than the news media!
Georgia is somewhat unique in that the annotations actually are part of the codified law. You absolutely do need the annotations to practice, because they are authoritative. So not "false" after all.
I wouldn't use it as my main computer, but I've gone to Hackathons with a cheap Android tablet, wireless mouse, and keyboard. It's a lot of fun unless you get one (like the 2nd gen Nexus 7) that can't do Bluetooth and Wi-Fi reliably at the same time.
National origin and nationality are different things.
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Why would you raise minimum wage and not expect this? In my opinion, this does more good than bad. At least it frees up people to do something other than the deadbeat Walmart job.
Just because enough people can pay $2,500 per month for a studio doesn’t mean the people who can’t deserve to be homeless.
ah my mistake
And no, it isn’t just “simply supply and demand”. This has to be the most ad absurdum reductio I’ve ever read in my life.
Vancouver would like a word with you. Foreigners were buying homes sight unseen to park cash. Vancouver passed a foreign buyer luxury tax for those who arent living in their homes full time... and Lo and Behold! Sales decreased a ton and things have been cooling down.
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That's a strange notion. I live in Southeast Asia and flu shots are routine here, even offered by schools to students.
Not at all. I even stated directly that in the recent past most homeless people had mental health issues. Now added to this first group are people that just can't afford the rent and have been evicted or pushed onto the street.
Right, but that's for objects travelling more tangentially. An object travelling kind of towards the sun will get redirected more towards the sun, when the sun is the largest nearby mass.

It's unlikely that an object would be pulled right into the sun though, just redirected by its close encounter so it flies off again in another direction.
What platforms do you suggest as alternatives for finding your aforementioned independent sellers of valuable items? I think OfferUp and LetGo seem viable.
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I believe it was Oswald. After believing it was more than one for a long time, maybe two independent shooters, unaware of the other. I really studied a lot and realized it could only have been Oswald. A most unfortunate fluke of history.
All I can say is I saw this headline and breathed a sigh of relief. I haven't heard anything good coming out of PR at all.

For what it's worth, while I like the idea of solar power as the revival of PR's power grid, I would not be breathing such a sigh of relief if the feds had helicoptered in with the kind of energy they reserve for invading countries and restored power and set up relief for villages far from the port.
This adds support for new compilers.

This makes Dask (pure Python paralleization) run 20% faster https://twitter.com/mrocklin/status/923581208482721794 according to Matthew Rocklin, the main developer
> Even if there was some sort of opaque position-in-the-browser-but-not-sent, how would, say, nearby businesses show up?

The tag would contain (or link to) a listing of locations, and the map could choose to display nearby ones.

> People don't have built-in mapping software installed on their computers.

Some do (Macs, for instance), but I think the author was proposing that the browsers themselves would implement the mapping component—Google would use Google Maps, Safari would use Apple Maps, Microsoft could use Bing Maps, Opera could use OpenStreetMap or work something out with another map provider.

> 'zoom as width of map' proposal is, um, well - as I said, maps are complicated. It's not a very good idea.

What's the issue with this one?
New reader checking in :).
I'm basically a twilio engineer now. I do a lot of telephony, but no one wants to run and scale their own stack, so everyone ends up building against REST apis. Twilio has some of the best features around reliably placing calls, sending texts, and the most enjoyable developer experience of any api I've ever used, including outside of telephony. I've built a 100% serverless contact center, among other things. Twilio Sync RT infra is also fantastic. Their WebRTC service was total shit through 2014 but is better now.
What gives someone born in New Zealand any more rights than anyone else? This myopic nationalist mindset is ridiculous. We were all born on the same planet.
>prices are sky high even in areas where foreign buyers are not the slightest bit interested in putting their money.

If natives are out-bid in the areas attractive to foreign investors, then there will be greater demand from natives for housing in areas not attractive to foreign investors, and so the prices in those areas will increase as well. So that is not evidence that high prices can't be cause by foreign investment.

> it's only on the very, very high end of the market that people leave their properties empty

At least in Manhattan New York, the population of the island has fallen since the 1990's, despite the supply of housing increasing sharply since the mid 2000's, the size of the average apartment shrinking dramatically, and the rents increasing dramatically.

Most new high-rises either have very low or unreported occupancy rates. However from the above statistics we can infer that a large fraction of the apartments are unoccupied investment for foreigners.

As for foreign investors renting out property, that is total phony baloney. Do you know how bad it is to be an absentee landlord living in another country? Do you know how expensive it is to have someone else rent out your property for you? It is extremely rare for a reason, and even if they were to do that, why should the Chinese own the most prestigious real estate in your country? Shouldn't your own people own and occupy it? It's pretty outrageous that huge swaths of our cities are owned by foreigners, unoccupied or otherwise.
The land isn't owned collectively. It's owned by individuals. It seems strange to pass laws that say those individuals aren't allowed to sell to people that are willing to pay more money.
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