skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ehm, no immigrating individual ever buys property before having actually immigrated. Unless you’re obscenely wealthy, normals usually immigrate and get ripped off renting a couple years. In the meantime they stabilize, build enough credit data to get a mortgage, explore and learn where they want to setup permanently and then - finally - buy.
The world is not black and white. The british built infrastructure that is still being used today. Like their railway system. They also educated the populace.
Demand for investments from Chinese investors.

Edit: See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tmnvix
> You mean income derived from the property?

No, a regular property tax based on the value of the property. Such as 1% of the value paid in tax every year.

The idea would be that it would be zero net effect if you live in the country (i.e. it's a property tax + income tax deduction that effectively make them together be a "tax on properties owned by foreigners")
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I'd take a slightly different take:

- Structure your code so it is mostly leaves.

- Unit test the leaves.

- Integration test the rest if needed.

I like this approach in part because making lots of leaves also adds to the "literate"-ness of the code. With lots of opportunities to name your primitives, the code is much closer to being self documenting.

Depending on the project and its requirements, I also think "lazy" testing has value. Any time you are looking at a block of code, suspicious that it's the source of a bug, write a test for it. If you're in an environment where bugs aren't costly, where attribution goes through few layers of code, and bugs are easily visible when they occur, this can save a lot of time.
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More of this sort of large corporate skullduggery please.

Then perhaps there will be enough political pressure to get the scam stopped.
Ask HN: Why no individual feedback for rejected YC applications
It takes a lot of time and energy to apply for YC, rejection without feedback hurts. Feedback could be in one line, as simple as : Not good enough team. Feedback would help with lot of decisions.

P.S. I will keep working on my start-up until I run out of fuel.
Oh weird, maybe it's temporary? That's odd, it was just there a few hours ago.
Hunt on ebay for a crappy old Windows CE based phone? I've had several (before Android was a thing) and you can program in many languages on them (providing you can still find the apps - I've still got a local repository somewhere). Also the original version of Visual Studio.NET and VS 2005 both supported Windows CE as a target so you could program apps in c# and copy them over.

Windows CE on phones was marketed as 'Windows Mobile' and the latest version was 6.5:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=window+mobile+6.5&hl=en&tb...
> For instance, we can't reasonably authorize Isis propaganda on public forums, can we?

I think we totally can and should. We just need to invest in the infrastructure to identify and respond to it.
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Salaries didn't seem much higher when I was looking - I found a job in provincial NZ for the same salary inner city melbourn jobs seemed to be offering. How many years experience before you break 100k AUD in Melbourne? And where's the ceiling in terms of non management position?
I am bitter (see my other comment in this thread), but this is the first article I've seen in years on COBOL that isn't just Micro Focus astroturfing. +1 on that!
I doubt that you can. There was a study a while back, and I apologize in advance because I do not have a link, that showed projects written with unittests took significantly longer to reach the market, but with significantly less bugs. However, overall time spend on the code was less. So conclusion was that unittests are a commitment to a long term goal of minimizing developer time, and the tradeoff is that it takes longer for the first version to be done.

That is, as far as I know, the only tangible evidence that unittests are good unless you need to get something out the door quickly (which sadly is most of it).

I'd argue that is not the main benefit of unittesting however. That is the way code is structured, and especially how dependencies are explicit, e.g. injected with constructor arguments.
Except that Turnbull was in charge of alot of this stuff in the Abbott gov't before he became PM. However, no one running this project to date has done a very good job.
Property and sales taxes are also high.

I think one major problem is the number of government bodies with taxing authority:

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/too-much-government-i...

Essentially, Illinois has a long history of corruption and political patronage that I find detestable.
PM is correct about the hotspots existing. Here are the AVIRIS files: http://911encyclopedia.com/wiki/index.php/AVIRIS_Flightlines

We tried the (UL approved) office debris theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvQDFV1HINw (yt may axe that chan)
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Here is an interesting one (including the comments):
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XtlSD7

> // Interesting findings from original NES Super Mario Bros.:

> // -Clouds and brushes of all sizes are drawn using the same small sprite (32x24)

> // -Hills, clouds and bushes weren't placed manually. Every background object type is repeated after 768 pixels.

> // -Overworld (main theme) drum sound uses only the APU noise generator
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Right. If you’re stuck on python virtualenv, you can use it if you want. Conda environments are more general. Light-weight environments for any language or runtime or aggregation of packages, not just python.
Or maybe because local wages have also risen due to local housing price increase. The workers also need to pay their mortgages.
Check the “Perl jam” series of talks given at CCC. They are quite inflammatory, but the author does have a few good points. Specifically, he shows that one of the examples in the documentation for the CGI.pm module had an exploitable vulnerability.
Posted earlier in the day, 21+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15560262
Trying to "change" others' mindset is good recipe for frustration.
" I always get a chuckle when I see Europeans deriding the American Empire. Pot calling the kettle black much?"

You can't put all European countries in a single pot here, only a small part of them were leading empires. Most of other countries/nations were incorporated in empires against their will and suffered greatly too.
Higher mathematics is pointless and had always been pointless. People do it because it's interesting and fun.
Seems like natural language processing would be an interesting direction for captchas.

- A man is running. A dog is behind him barking and growling. What does the man think might happen?

- A man goes up the stairs to the roof. He walks to the very edge of the building. He takes one more step. What is the man trying to do?

The correct answer should be pretty easy to parse out. And I'd expect a better success rate for humans than some of the captchas today that increasingly are looking more like magic eye puzzles than character recognition. But of course the big question is generation. Can these sort of implication based stories be generated in a way such that the final text can not trivially be reversed to the answer (without even considering the 'meaning' of the question)? And for that matter can these even be realistically generated in mass?
TIL of UBPorts. I thought Ubuntu Touch was long dead.
Snapchat is my favorite social network because it is too difficult to spread political opinions or share clickbait articles. The only easy things to do on it are to record a funny video and share it with your friends.

I can comfortably open Snapchat knowing I'm not going to be confronted with low-effort shares of third-party content or lazy copy+pasted political memes. Sharing that content is certainly possible to do in Snapchat, but it is difficult enough to discourage people to do so.

I certainly like to hear other political perspectives --because of my past career I have lots of friends with opposite opinions from the Bay Area prevailing beliefs. I just prefer it to be on my own time and not in the cheap clickbait reductive fashion popular on Facebook and Instagram.

If only Snapchat were profitable. I really hope they pull it off.
The last time I touched it was in undergrad. I remember a professor in my assembly class was showing us old punch cards. They were made with the fancier machines where it printed the line of code on the bottom of the card. I look at the lines in the stack and was like, "Wait, is this ... is this COBOL?"

I have to agree. Even back in 2001, I found COBOL awful. I recently moved to a new city after having worked Scala jobs for several years. All I can find here is Java work and I dread going back to the god awful word of Spring Boot+MVN+Java after having worked with a considerably better language (usually :-P).

We have better tools today, but the world is left in legacy. So few things have unit/automated tests and without a good crew of engineers, it's very difficult to move things quickly and smoothly to new systems and platforms. Just because COBOL is still in use in so many systems doesn't make it good. It just got popular at the right time, everyone embraced it, and now people who still do it are paid insane amounts of money just to maintain it.

Here's one of my old COBOL programs from University. It was written 15 years ago. I converted from CVS to Git, so the history dates are literally older than github, which is kinda funny:

https://github.com/sumdog/assignments/blob/master/csc3620-pr...
Speed of development
It's surprisingly well adapted to web development too

http://www.coboloncogs.org/
Germany is an example.

Well, not completely. a) EULAs you are only shown on install (for paid software) have absolutely no meaning here. b) Otherwise, they count as T&Cs which are regulated and for example can't have any surprising clauses (which this probably would be)
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Perhaps a well written, easy to follow guide on how to structure different types of code to simplify testing would be helpful. Know of any?
And the next world power is China, let's see how they will do
> it turns off anyone with a brain.

Exactly. So it has mass appeal :)

That's the sad reality. The Kardasians aren't popular because of people with a brain. Mass appeal matters.
How is Kotlin itself making that much money?
Can you get one of the google phones and flash them with AOSP?
Everyone agrees that the schools start too early, but there are so many idiots who throw up reasons why they are afraid to change. It's like a mark twain novel of a small town in Misssissippi in the 1800s. In my town, the latest reason why we couldn't start later was "we'll mismatch for athletic events for schools from nearby towns". Then the other nearby school districts switched, and our asshole district said, its still too scary, and waited one more year, and now we are 40 minutes later. We should go another half hour later.
Interesting. This is the first time I've seen the Hughes film used in an effort to show that somebody was in the window. It looks to my eyes like nobody is in the window.

Although I'm loath to quote the FBI as I don't view them as a particularly credible source, I agree with their assessment of the Hughes film:

> “there are no images in any of the exposures … which show the corner window … that can be interpreted in the form of an individual. The forms recorded in this window can be interpreted as in the same general shapes of boxes, found at and just behind the window in question”

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?...
Athletics should obviously start early if they need the time - why hold the whole school hostage for them?
> Free speech doesn't include illegal content

Isn't that kind of begging the question? "Illegal content" is just a bunch of types of expression that the government has decided to ban.

They are all exceptions to free speech which you accept, which brings your free-speech-absolutist stance into question.
You won't succeed in business if your response to feedback is defensive and you don't even try to get to know your target user.

Your reply should have been 'oh really, why is that?'.
Integration testing is especially important when talking to a database. People seem to like mocking the data, but that completely misses the subtleties of how databases actually work, including aspects such as concurrency, transaction isolation levels, locking and such.

There should be a few well crafted tests that modify the database from several parallel threads, and afterwards verify that no invariants have been broken. This is pretty much the only opportunity to catch a race condition in a controlled environment.
This is just market research, when they asked the community what they see in the competitor,

people said 'no headphone jack' and 'overpriced crap'.

Google just delivered on these desires.
„and for settlers trying to persuade Indians to abandon tribal lands that these newcomers wished to inhabit.„

Ah - they persuaded them. What a lovely euphemism.
How would a landlord go about blighting a community that they don't control?
Where is this place where there are paid shills who identify themselves who make helpful comments? I'm surprised it exists.
Because people argue when they get feedback.
Oh, I thought it was in reference to the Paperclip Optimizer referenced every now and then on lesswrong.com :S
Norway. We have strong consumer protection rights that you cannot sign away. Also laws about unreasonable contracts.
Yes, _one_ device, and with the rather long support of their devices, you definitely don't have to buy it yearly (I get your point, tough).

Every product Amazon presents, is in a very obvious way geared towards making people consume more every day as if that were the biggest joy people have in their life. Ordering from Amazon via image recognition was one of the only unique features, the Fire Phone had. Why would I as a person deciding between smartphones want that? Alexa was presented in the same way, and then there obviously is the Dash button.
The simpler the insight, the more valuable and powerful it is -- if correct.

I think it does capture a key basic principle underlying current trends. In any economic system, there is some total amount of "welfare" or value generated, and it gets split in some way.

So maybe you have a constant value of $2,000 per month for having a place to live. 10 years ago your rent was $1,000 per month and so of the $2,000 worth of utility generated by you living there, you got half and your landlord got half.

Now your rent is $1900 and you still would rather pay it than be homeless, and by many reasonable metrics the economy is better than ever, but your landlord is capturing almost all of the value in the system and you are reaching the breaking point.

And I personally don't think it's too simplistic to be true that, as powerful companies optimize (including politically), this kind of transfer is occurring in a lot of sectors in the US this decade.
Why not tax vacancies then? Do we know how that has worked in places like Paris or Vancouver?
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Thanks! I added your links to the README.
Zuckerberg, at least as far as his public persona goes, appears to have no personality at all.
Never seen that happen before - but you have a point assuming google implements a drastic change.
Not claiming this is 100% factual, but this YouTube video suggests the mesh thing is real : https://youtu.be/m37z5R2rJ5E

And I've seen similar on UK documentaries as well.
There are loads of phones from before the iPhone that could play music and run j2me apps that nobody considers 'smartphones'. I wrote apps that ran on the Sony Ericcson T610 but that still gets called a 'cameraphone'.
<never have been Oswald. It convinced me.

If you ever go to Dallas visit the Sixth Floor (jfk.org). A 30min - 2 hour visit. Stand near where oswald stood. Talk to employee/volunteers about jfk the movie and other theories.

It's moving and if you were alive in '63 a place you recognize
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Why does everyone rethink a working strategy. Write lots of unit tests that are fast. Write a good amount of integration tests that are relatively fast. Write fewer system integration tests that are slower. The testing pyramid works. He even talks about it in this post, and then ignores the point of it.

You write lots of unit tests because you can run them inline pre-commit or in a component build. If you integration tests are numerous and interesting enough, that won't work. They are better suited to gating feature branch merges. System integration (the actual name for "end to end") take longer and usually gate progressively more stable branches upstream, or nightlies depending on where you are.
I saw them both a while back, and reviewed the poster for Seeing Spaces just now. However, I haven't been unable to find anything that addresses the issue I brought up.

I agree very much with most of the general principles Victor talks about (you can see my own extensive work on making program behavior visible here[0] for example)—but when it comes to the space concept, I have difficulty finding something concrete about how the space would be used beneficially. I get the flavor of this idea that your workspace should be 'extension of your body', but at this point, years after becoming familiar with it, I'd like to get more concrete on the subject. Dynamicland/Realtalk certainly are more concrete—but my thoughts on it are reflected in my first comment.

[0] http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd
However, strong consumer protection rights generally only protect consumers. Professionals writing commercial software and working for a company are not consumers.

(At least this is how it works at the neighbour, Finland, and I think it is the same most everywhere).
Yeah, there were plenty of GC languages with value types when Java came about, I was bit disappointed it only had them for primitive types.

Now they are trying to fit them in without breaking backwards compatibility.
i’m glad someone’s pointing out the detrimental psychological effects college environments have on our youth. i think Theil called it, many would be better off dropping out and joining a start-up instead.
Waay back in the day I was using crusty old shared Sun3 workstations. The keyboard was really sticky because, well, some students are pigs. I developed the habit of SLAMMING the Enter key on each command, until one day I was deleting backup files (rm *~) and my fingers grazed the delete button before striking Enter...
Snapchat has an entire section dedicated to news (with a quite liberal use of that word). I get my sports news from the ESPN and Bleacher Report discover stories. NYT, WashPo, WSJ all do stories in the discover tab as well.
As far as I understand, Erlang scheduling is more aware of actor model resource usage patterns and NIFs than a combination of a JVM (or another runtime) + OS. It makes it more reliable and performant in the end (in places where scheduling matters).
It sounds like you guys don't know what the intern market looks like. A significant percentage of students entering my University in first year have multiple significant side projects under their belt before the first day of class. We then all do 6 internships of 4 months at each company before graduation.

If a company in San Francisco wants an intern who knows how to build a POST endpoint, believe me, that is not an unrealistic ask.
Nothing to do with regulatory resistance. Chinese culture generally views the stock market as gambling in a way that US culture does not. Real estate is a safe investment. It is also protected against seizure by the Chinese government.
so personal choices can't be racist?

"foreigner" is not a race, and isolationist or protectionist policies are rarely based on perceived attributes of specific races.
You're in a desert walking along the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortise. You reach down and flip the tortise on it's back. The tortise lays on it's back, it's belly baking in the hot sun but you're not helping. Why is that leon?
But apparently a big difference between X11 and Wayland is that people implementing X11 window managers don't have to go out of their way to support particular graphics hardware. I have never in almost two decades of using X11 on Linux found myself worrying about whether my window manager supported my graphics card.
right now i spend 80% percent of my money on rent. through a lot of thought and iteration, ive been able to reduce all of my expenses quite dramatically. but rent absolutely resists my efforts to reduce. it is unmitigated greed. i was talking to my previous landlord and i very carefully broached the subject of why he charges so much and his response was kind of a mental double-think -- he charges what the market can bare. he gets way more money than he needs, and so i call it greed.

i find it very strange to look at the situation in renting -- you have some people who are called "owners" who own the land and they make other people, "renters," pay to stay on the land. what is the difference between renter and owner? why do owners get to sit back and sit on their asses, contributing absolutely nothing, having all their bills paid, not working more than a few days in a month? why do renters have to break their backs all day long just to afford to be able to sleep underneath a roof at night? i just find it very strange that nobody thinks this is unfair -- it is unfair isnt it? one guy does no work and another does tons of work and the guy who works is worse off?

anyway, the whole system is completely unfair and insane, so i decided that i should get out of it. im planning on buying land within 100 to 200 miles of the city. im going to build an icf house with metal roofing and near passive climate control. interestingly, doing this can cost less than buying a new suv, which i would have never guessed before doing the calculations. if you add a healthy solar system and trade your car in for a chevy bolt, one might even commute 150 miles both ways for free quite regularly. as is usual, i expect there to be many people who will call me an idiot and say none of this is possible -- i am looking forward to scrutinizing actual arguments or evidence if they bring any to the table. for those who arent triggered by the concept of cheap, low maintenance living, i would love to connect and exchange tips. check out these awesome websites while youre at it.

http://earlyretirementextreme.com/
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
As always it depends. There are projects where integration is the hard part and others where the business logic is impossible to get right without unit tests.

Unit tests also have the added benefit that they tell you exactly the reason they failed (because there can only be one) whereas integration tests can fail for multiple reasons.
> It will help local younger generations to get affordable housing.

And since when is affordable housing in popular dense Urban areas a right for younger generations? If the younger generation can't afford it, they should take a loan, just like they did to college.
Nice introduction, but I admit I was a bit disappointed to not get even one "get-rich-quick scheme".
Snapchat is full of "news".

I just opened the app and swiped one panel to the right, here are some of the "news" cards I can view:

The New York Times
The Washington Post
Wall Street Journal
Daily Mail
ESPN
NFL
NBA
National Geographic
Bleacher Report
Wired
BuzzFeed
IGN
VICE
Mashable
Cosmopolitan
> go to openbazaar.org and download it

No, I'm not going to install software just for accessing a marketplace. That's just silly, because now I have to worry about compatibility with my OS and a wealth of other problems that comes with running applications natively (e.g. is it compromised by a 0-day, since I doubt it gets as much attention as one of the big browsers)