skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheaper house, sure, but does that also mean less monthly payments? Or would i still pay the same monthly, but most would go to interest.

Alternatively in the bay area there are a lot of wealthy people. I dont know how it would affect them
Yep, agreed. I might think a little better of it if it were entirely open (or anything other than some weird idea someone had for a way to make a few dollars) but I still have trouble trying to come up with reasons why this might be a good idea.
I hear an argument a lot, "housing in the Bay Area is expensive because because labor cost is so high." According to this report in San Francisco it costs $269,000 to build a new housing unit. With the median home sale price over $1,000,000 it seems fair to say that the labor component isn't the primary driver of the high costs, it's probably related to the inability to legalize enough housing.
Note to those who don't/can't read the article: the title is slightly misleading. The author does not mean business challengers to Facebook but rather political challengers (i.e. legislators, regulators, activists.)

Basically, the glory days of free-range hacking without government regulation appear limited, especially with the likes of Bruce Schneier[0], advocating for the same.

Cherish these moments while they last.* If you want to help mitigate the governments reach and make sure policy is implemented wisely, support our lobbying power through the EFF (https://www.eff.org/) and FSF (https://www.fsf.org/).

Edit: Updated language above to make it more clear that I am not anti-regulation.

[0]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/11/regulation_of...

[*]: What I mean to say is that I can foresee a world where you are mandated by the government to perform certain services through specific providers. For example, the government could, in the interest of protecting user security, mandate that all apps must provide user registration and auth through a provider that has received XYZ certification (i.e. OAuth through Facebook, Google, Auth0)
That’s not true, this image has made at rounds already, multiple first hand users confirmed this is a set of options to save on top of a base package.
A lot of words for "it's a violation of net neutrality that hurts competition and makes using non-mainstream services excessively expensive"!
There are different processing stages, actually not unlike the layers in a DNN. Edge detection starts already in the retina.
The company may not care about building skills for employees that are transferable elsewhere (though good companies do), but they do care about being able to hire people with skills that are applicable to their systems.

While a very large company can get away with building a custom in-house ecosystem that takes months for a new employee to come up to speed on, most companies find it more palatable to use industry standard products/systems that a new employee is already familiar with and can come up to speed on quickly.
It's also a fact (Facebook is literally addictive).
The title is a little (not a lot) misleading:

Wines Are No Longer Free to Travel Across State Lines

Later in the article, it points out that There’s no jurisdiction for retailers at the federal level. No law was enacted at midnight last night. Instead, 14 states including CA + DC allow importation across state lines. Moreover, the laws in the other states only apply to retailers and not to vineyards (Granholm v. Heald). The change seems to have been that UPS and FedEx are now enforcing this in the other 36 states. Maybe this is a better title:

In Some States, Wines Can't Be Bought From Out Of State Retailers
Ask HN: Kubernetes as a service?
What services provide Kubernetes cluster as a service, where users can run apps without thinking about servers? (Unlike GCE where need to rent VMs and use it for managed kubernetes)
I really hope lenvo makes a x1 with a ryzen option and good linux support. Would be perfect as a developer laptop.
That's similar to what Intel does (and somewhat less flexible, Intel's cTDP on 15W parts is 7.5~25)
> The whole point of my comment was that "no prior knowledge" cannot possibly be equivalent to "equal probability of all options".

But your scenario isn't "no prior knowledge". In your scenario, you know X is a real number between 0 and 100, which is prior knowledge. And, so the correct thing to do, is use that prior knowledge to assign probabilities, which gives you 1%, 2% and 1% for each of your propositions, not 50%.
"We would love to build more affordable starter homes, but when high-end homes cost the same to build and are far more profitable, we lose the incentive to build smaller units,” said Isaac Stocks of Azure Northwest Homes, a Seattle-area home builder.

That sums it up.

Plus, more expensive homes means more property tax revenue, so there's little incentive for state/local gov to encourage lower end housing.

Finally, it would help to know about financing. How willing are banks to issue loans at the lower end?

The whole system is "tuned" for larger more expensive houses. It works for those it works for, and doesn't for those with little to none socio-political clout.
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Why? The only thing closing a question does is prevent new people from answering. In some sense it's in fact a better “deal” for those who did answer before the question was closed, because they'll have less “competition”. (Of course no one is thinking in those terms, but I'm trying to understand why questions being closed or not should be a deterrence to someone answering questions that are open.) Where do terms like “self-righteousness” come from?

(Also note that it's not the “moderators” who close or open questions, but the community itself: anyone with over 3000 points can close or reopen, which right now is over 500 users on MathOverflow. It's a small site as it's for research mathematicians; for comparison on Stack Overflow there are over 46000 users who can vote to close or reopen questions.)
As part of PSLF, you’re required to file an annual certification: https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/sites/default/files/public-serv.... The certification clearly says that a payment only counts if it is under one of the income driven repayment plans or one of the non-income driven repayment plans with a payment higher than what it would be on the standard 10-year plan (page 3).

Moreover, the certification states PHEAA is require to tell you whether your payments are qualifying and how many qualifying payments you have left. I suspect the form correspondence sent by PHEAA met those requirements and this guy simply did not notice.
Labor is definitely not the main driver.

Often quoted construction price is about 300$/sqft around where i live. If you were to build new, you would spend 750k-850k. Now, you cant buy land for less than 1.8 in mountain view that can hold 2500sqft home. And sale price would be close to 3m anyways.
You might be sleep deprived and it's killing you
I've always had a soft spot for AMD, the rebel, the chief rival to the behemoth Intel. I'm glad for this move, and I hope they create meaningful competition.
My bet is we will see DAWs that essentially offer composers shortlisted options to choose from. In my SignalsAndSorcery project I am really just using machine learning to find composition options that make sense in the give context (based on my data set). A DAW could just keep presenting a series of options to choose from and almost anyone could be a composer.
For me, fleshing out as much of the types/taxonomy as I can is one of the first things I do before coding towards a solution. Even if the first stab is rough, adjusting the types as knowledge of the domain grows has never been a point of friction for me - most of those changes are incremental, and having the compiler remind me the places I need to update (such as pattern matches) means I don't have to put any mental effort towards that. Even when the changes are significant, I'm still going to have to make basically all the same changes I would have had to make with no type system too. Having the compiler help me out during quick iteration means I can feel comfortable that I'm not forgetting to update areas of the code impacted by changes - when I get to where I want to be, I can be fairly sure I didn't miss anything. That comfort is something I value a lot more highly these days.
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what3words is a large hash table mapping 3x3m squares of land with the key being a unique three word phrase and the value being the 3x3 grid square. That's really all it is. Oh, by the way, if the service goes down, everything grinds to a halt because there is no backup analog system (maps, etc).

It's a solution searching for a problem, and existing mail and building addressing schemes are far superior to it.
I think it's great that you're thinking about unintended consequences, which people often neglect to do, but I just don't see how it follows that because we increase bail for wealthy suspects we would therefore have to decrease it for impoverished ones. We can write the rules however we want.

ETA: Well, we can't necessarily write the rules however we want; there are Constitutional restrictions. In this case, the case could be made that increasing bail for wealthy suspects violates the guarantee of equal protection under the law. That's a different argument from the one you're raising, however.
Some elderly people are content with a bicycle. Does that make a bicycle a car?

The fact that some elderly people might be content with facebook access does not make facebook access any sort of internet access.
This sucks. Wine subscriptions are big money-makers for vineyards. And, it will mostly hurt California.
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Based on the article this entire phenomena is justified in my opinion. It was paving every road when petroleum was dirt cheap that was unwarranted. The lower costs of building/maintaining are the tradeoff for a lower traffic road. In terms of all the issues facing America today, paving every road doesn't seem like a very important one compared to the cost explosion in healthcare. Most of the problems the locals encountered in the article would be fixed if they replaced the no maintenance paved road with a low maintenance gravel road.

When I grew up, my home was on a gravel road in Texas and we just drove slower once we got off the paved road. It was the cost of living in a rural area and we just accepted it. Eventually the road was paved but there were still unpaved roads all around me by the time I graduated high school.
I was once sitting at a bar having a beer, chatting with the bartender (one of my best friends) and the guy sitting next to me, whom I had never met before. I pulled out my phone to show my friend something that had been posted on Facebook and, while browsing Facebook right after that, the app showed the guy sitting right next to me as the first person under "People You May Know". I had not "checked in" or posted any updates while I was there, FWIW. It was at that point that I removed all permissions (i.e. location tracking) that I could from the Facebook app.

More on-topic: I recall reading that the Facebook app would activate the microphone when one was posting a status update, apparently listening for things like a movie playing in the background and such.

ETA: Related Snopes articles:

https://www.snopes.com/computer/facebook/facebooklisten.asp

https://www.snopes.com/2016/06/04/professor-claims-facebook-...
I imagine the path of alcohol and wine will give us a road map for future regulatory of marijuana. Let's say for talking purposes that it's no longer a schedule 1, what kind of regulatory capture and manipulation will be required to keep cheaper states from exporting to those with more expensive tax dollars?
What about the possibility of geofences detecting your proximity to a Burger King and perpetuating through ad networks to trigger the current ad campaign which happens to be the Fruit Loops shake?
Why would audio have to be transcribed locally on battery power? You could do that server-side and/or keep the data stored locally as audio until the device is charging and on WiFi.
While true in a simple sense, the meat of the story for me was that he expected a financial services company to act in his interest. Personally, I don't think it is a great situation when you have to be a cynical bastard to get a fair shake at consumer-level finance.
This actually just sounds like a really elaborate "tax" on your children's stash. If you fear the candy is actually dangerous, then perhaps you'd be better off just buying some from the store and distributing it to your kids, that ways they don't run the risk of loosing their parent.
It wasn’t an ad for the shake though. It was for Fruit Loops cereal.
like almost everything (including HN, trust me, i ve been there)
> Each American driver pays about $450 per year toward roads, according to the Journal of Infrastructure Systems. Europeans fork over on average 2 to 3.5 times as much — the difference is largely in fuel taxes.

You get what you pay for I guess. Keep in mind that per capita income in America, both nominal and at PPP, is much higher than Europe (even excluding Eastern Europe). Even a relative poor state like Michigan (the setting of this article) has a GDP/capita comfortably exceeding Germany, France or UK.
This is one reason why the per-square-foot cost metric is lousy. Making a house bigger with the same quality level reduces the square-foot cost substantially. This is because the cost of walls goes up linearly while the square footage goes up as the square (!), and most of the cost is in the walls.
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I feel the Avengers movie comparison isn't fair. That's part of a larger context and might be more likened to a capstone in an arch (the other stones being the other movies in that 'phase').

Comparing an entire phase (like a book in a series), or maybe the previous movies (chapters) focusing mostly on one character might be fair.
What else is zero-rating possibly intended to do? Zero-rating is obviously selling below cost, and businesses sell below cost to kill competition.
Isn't Intel doing pretty much the same thing? Seems like it's just a part of operating a modern computer :(
Clearly his post was humorous and intended to poke fun at people's paranoia of poisoned candy.
The article points out that (apparently?) wineries are exempt -- this is about retailers:

...the Supreme Court ruling in Granholm v. Heald effectively lifted many state bans on buying directly from out-of-state wineries.

Though the ruling applied to wineries, not to retailers, Granholm had a liberating effect on consumers who suddenly found it much easier to find the wines they wanted online. The decision also allows the direct shipment of wines purchased by tourists at wineries to all states.
I wish we had a sci-hub.cc for wsj, I think one would be useful. There are plenty of reasons a person would want access to those articles without wanting/having the means to pay.

Personally, I don't care for wsj articles, but if they want to pull a clickbait title, I think it's fair for them to provide a read.
I am not sure if banks care about lower loan balance vs high. Sure, high is more lucrative, but there are a number of government-backed loan programs that could make up for it.

As for cities, yes. They like the house pricing go up. It helps with school budgets, particularly. Then it goes into positive feedback loop with better schools raising house prices, too.

For cities like seattle, it's not hard to see houses in different price bands (single tech earner, couple tech earner) and so on. Hard to find a solution, unless the big employers diversify their locations.
I love that we finally can have a 4 cores on ultrathin laptop.
It's easy for humans to memorize, though I don't know exactly what that's worth...
Can't you contract the building part if you have a suitable piece of land?
No one is spending their money to give your kids free drugs on Halloween. I saw a similar story from the local news channel about marijuana edibles being passed out. As the original article says, poisoned candy is not really a thing. I'd be more concerned about your kids being hit by a drunk (or distracted) driver on Halloween than eating something poisoned.
Individual NNs themselves, true, but a comprehensive machine vision package such as one in an autonomous vehicle definitely must - and does - have that sort of situational awareness and sensor fusion from multiple input sources.
Flagged because it doesn't fit the HN WAW narrative?
So the same as Intel Management Engine?
Construction price, yes, but i think it kind of scales semi-linearly with the sale price. When average sqft price is 1000$, a 2500sqft house goes for 2.5M even though construction was much much smaller.
That’s not how I read that comment.

There are 1000 different ways that you could improve this situation. Getting rid of the servicer middleman, or making said middleman accountable for mistakes made would be a good start.

The current scenario is a breeding ground for problems — nobody is accountable.
> Does that make a bicycle a car?

Uhm, it does because it is literally a car? Maybe your ass is unable to accept anything less than the softness of a leather seat, but for millions of people a bicycle or a cheap motorbike is a savior.

(dont get me started on the unbelievable arrogance that because you can afford it, everyone should)
How would subsidising services that you don't use possibly reduce prices for the stuff that you do use?!
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Or you can build larger homes and make profit.
Keep in mind median German household income is $50,500

Median Michigan household income is $51,084

You always have to account for the very different income distribution.

But point taken. I was utterly shocked at the state of the roads in NYC. Even in Manhattan they could be really poor.
When all you need now is '123 Fake St, 12345' to get a map of a location and directions to it on your phone, not much. You can locate '123 Fake St, 12345' without a phone, so it wins.
After Obama’s comments on the NSA surveillance program back when sh*t was hitting the fan, I’m always keenly parsing these kinds of statements for word play. There’s usually a way out of accountability and liability through evasive rhetoric.
If you wanted it to know that "machine learning" and "neural networks" were related, wouldn't you need to do some type of entity extraction first, since Word2vec is run on tokens?
> Unfortunately anyone who takes their security or privacy seriously will be totally unable to use this. Every AMD chip contains a likely backdoored system called AMD Secure Processor

This is fear mongering to the extreme. Intel has the exact same type of system embedded in their processors called Intel Management Engine. You can't escape this problem by buying Intel.

I notice you provided a lot of sources, but none for the claim "a likely backdoored system". Your post reads like something a bad Intel astroturfing shill would say.
For the proprietary ones, Nvidia is still better in my experience on a Gentoo system where most everything else is from source. This Gentoo system started with Nvidia in 2009, was AMD in 2013, and this year is back on Nvidia now. AMD's old driver wasn't too bad and mostly an Nvidia-like experience with setup and stability, but after AMD's somewhat recent driver overhaul their proprietary one is a lot worse than it used to be, lacks many features or even a configuration UI, and worst it's required if you want an up-to-date X on your system. I also tried the open source AMD driver, which was its own pain (and the procedure wanted to bloat my kernel a lot) and didn't work in the end.
From here[0], the 14 states that are allowed (plus CA and DC):

Alaska, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, and Wyoming

[0]: http://people.com/food/wine-shipping-laws-crackdown/
Well, they can regulate IOT "be secure", but I'm worried more they'll regulate it "we want to always have access" or "you can't use open source OS on it because it gives you control".
Local school boards are something you can influence much more effectively than national policy. Yes, you can convince your neighbors that they should pay teachers more; I would bet that the best place to start would be a district with a high proportion of families with school-age children, and with a high proportion of teachers living there. I'm not saying it's easy, but lots of progress in the world begins with things that are hard or nobody has done.
Total FUD. Not sure what you mean by “free range hacking,” but surely it has little to do with the regulations targeting activities of multinational conglomerates (Facebook), or any possible regulations for selling devices.

You’re free to do whatever you want on your own devices. I don’t see how reasonable regulation meant to prevent tragedy of the commons (the only real application of regulation) will infringe on your ability to continue “free range hacking.”
Ok let's try this: What if wearable cameras the police are using do this? What if I mounted a phone around my neck with the camera facing out, and used it to record everything it saw, and then compiled my own database of facial features, comparing, recording, etc. [0] The problem is that in public you have no expectation of privacy. Same with private communities (and some private citizens)[1] using license plate readers. I think eventually we're going to reach a point where facial recognition, and public recording will be omnipresent, in private hands, and we either ban cameras in public, or...stop going outside.

[0]. https://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potent...

[1]. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/new-o...
People here get their pain medication in quantities which have to suffice for a specific time, so if they need new medication before that time has run out this leads to questions and checks.
No painful hobbling, no peeing, simple math.
There is one 'visible' ad per page. So it's not bad enough that you'll have anyone caring about your complaints.
If you think roads in the US are bad, come to Quebec...
What do the icons mean? I can't figure it out.
I used to dismiss these rumors as paranoia/conspiracy theories in a maybe naive application of Occam's razor. But concrete leaks and tech news of recent years made me a believer. I sure believe Facebook is capable of this, nowadays. The only thing that makes me skeptical is that there should be reproduceable cases someone has documented for concrete evidence. All I ever hear is anecdotes.
Why have most of your comments over the past couple of months been downvoted to oblivion?
For those who want to read the article, one way you can do it is by posting it into the Facebook search bar, and then clicking one of the results - this bypasses the paywall.

Or by clicking here: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fa...
It seems like what3words is precisely as helpful as standard coordinates, with the exception that coordinates don't depend on a proprietary company.
> Cherish these moments while they last, and if you want to help mitigate the governments reach, support our lobbying power through the EFF (https://www.eff.org/) and FSF (https://www.fsf.org/).

I want reasonable restrictions on the governments AND the businesses in this case... To protect my digital freedom. Regulation isn't always evil.

But realistically, I think the consumers are the most at fault for many of the issues that have been coming up lately (apathy towards privacy, lack of skepticism towards social media bots and advertising, willingness to put all their eggs in one basket, etc). I'm just not sure how we should address those issues.
Only maps 2d space, so I'm not sure how they deal with apartment buildings and high rise offices.

Because anyone can pick whatever 3m square portion of the building they want to, it seems it would make mail sorting harder...a bundle for one specific building.