skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is true, why is the return on owning land not better than the return on the stock market, at least in the estimation of most economists? Unless you have some comparative advantage in owning/administering to land, it's not actually such a sweet deal relative to normal investing.

Owning land is "free money" in that you tie up your wealth and in exchange get interest. Same deal with owning stocks. Land isn't special, nor is it really helpful to view it as a "redistribution of wealth upwards" in my opinion.
No wonder everyone is offing themselves with heavy narcotics these days!

...uh, not to make light of the huge issue we have with addiction, but you gotta feel like prospects might help peoples' moods.
> Strange that the newspaper would leave those interesting parts out, right?

What's strange is that you cited as a source a newspaper article you don't agree with and which not only doesn't support but discredits your original claim. Then you spin wild conspiracy theories essentially claiming that Fusion GPS is an arm of the Kremlin without any sources.
I can think of 3 without any knowledge of a specific case. Potential Delay (in clarifying this matter against the case at large), Proof of Effort, FISA routinely allows for incomplete filings and go forward anyway. They aren't the only court to do this. Pope's publicity might help squash this, but it's up to a judge to allow it or not. After the information is garnered, an appeal court can overturn it and nobody can undo the discovery. Any lawyer, can probably come up with more. I'm not explaining every obvious tactic. My advice is to get familiar with how far the US intelligence community has fallen out of jurisprudence. Good Luck.
Because VCs own a stake in start-ups.
Wow, I googled for a project that could do this and found Drawille literally last night.

I was looking for a way to quickly display graphics right in the terminal, cross platform and with default settings. I wanted to build a simple python library that would allow you to graph 2D plots without opening excel or using a graphing calculator. The best alternative I could think of was using the PIL to draw and image and quickly .show()ing it
You still have to learn the underlying story platform and API, that’s not abstracted. Also choosing between Xamarin Forms and Xamarin Native for the UI (not compatible between them). Obscure errors sometimes.

But from my (little) experience on it, getting to an app running and start working on it is way mire easy than with the Java approach. Give it a try :)
I like tailfins. Not all of them, but there's a few that look nice.
Isn't it funny they made this disclosure when they had upbeat information (profit expected next quarter) to go along with it ? As of right now TWTR is up 17%. I guess the disclosure is about past performance anyway, goes to show how the stock market disregards the past as long as it doesn't have material impact on the future. Also, as a client of Digits, I'm amused my app's user activity made its way into TWTR's prior quarterly results.
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I would expect the opposite.
In general: diversify as much as is prudent considering the taxes, your financial situation & your downside risk.

Consider long-term vs short term capital gains, but if the stock volatility is higher than the difference (and the difference is meaningful to your financial health) you may still want to sell at the higher tax rate.

If you are in high-interest (credit card, payday loan) style debt, you almost always want to sell and retire that debt; nothing can beat that.
I agree, each topic in the game engine architecture book could be another book on its own. However, it does give a good introduction and briefly touches on most of the topics in this diagram https://i.imgur.com/SxydAoF.png

(diagram is from the book)
Its for an _internship. At what point does anyone think a good test for someone who has years of experience doing the actual job, would be an equally good test for someone who is expected to have literally no experience? The only way that would make sense is if you are the type of company that advertises for entry level jobs with 7 years experience, which is to say that you are trying to get senior work for junior pay. In this case it looks like they took it a step further to senior work for no pay
The fuzziness was added on purpose in a way to recommend you products you may be interested in (not necessarily the exact match).
Dishonesty in business should be fatal
Maybe the designer isnt that good.

But overall it's much better. And you get:

Shared models with your web api, reusable business for iOS and Windows, great tools like ReSharper, and so on.
Funny enough, I had pretty much the same skepticism as the author re: Amazon Key. With IOT "security" scandals floating by seemingly daily, this feels like a poor tradeoff.

_However,_ this product seems like a great opportunity for a small hack: install the whole thing as a locker/bench/cabinet on your front porch. Almost all of the convenience, and no increase in risk. In fact, I'm a touch surprised that this isn't how the product was conceived and launched in the first place: as a personal package locker.
Day 8 of 100 Days of VR: Creating a Player in a First Person Shooter
I constrained my point. You are now making your own determination. Good Luck with that.
No, no one is advocating for eliminating rent. I (EDIT: removed "We") am advocating for tilting the scales back towards labor though.

* No depreciation allowance on rental property that is almost always going to appreciate [1]

* No 1031 exchanges, deferring capital gains forever [2]

* No mortgage interest deduction, which encourages the wealthy to bid up real estate since their leverage is tax advantaged. [3]

* Co-Ops acquiring property for renting to citizens when possible [4]

[1] https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/2728/41560-understanding...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Code_section_...

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/shame-m...

[4] http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/in-berlin-a-model-fo...

EDIT: @ mcbruiser3: When I say "we" (which I removed above), people who share my progressive political view that people/humans/"labor" should be treated with priority over capital and rentseeking.
First, never feel bad about charging for giving your valuable time to someone else. You are already helping for free by having an open source project.

You can do 2 things:

1. Setup a public help forum and let the community help each other. You can also chime in whenever you have time to answer queries. Keep it public and keep it open. Free of charge. In open source projects, you may find other contributors willing to help as well. Use the forum for that.

2. Setup a "Professional Services" link on the website for your project. If someone reaches out to you specifically or says "I need more help",send them to that page which should list how you charge and what kind of help you can provide. Write it clearly and send people to that page if they are not satisfied with the public forum.

The key is to setup a process around this and you can start directing people to either #1 or #2 above.
Really good post. Haven't heard much about Pony but seems like a really interesting language and like something I could use for a particular project.
The reason tummy time is recommended is because now it's encouraged to have babies sleep on their backs to avoid SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). The down side is they don't get time on their stomachs to work those muscles, and so you have to put them on their stomachs (and supervise them).

Edit: information from an actual authority rather than just me: https://www.nichd.nih.gov/sts/about/Pages/tummytime.aspx
Don't think there is any such book specifically for UE and its source. But there's a lot of good books on realtime rendering and graphics programming in general.

GPU Gems, Shader X and GPU Pro are good series for learning specific graphics programming techniques.

https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/GPUGems/gpugems_pref01....

http://www.realtimerendering.com/resources/shaderx/

For a general game engine overview: Game Engine Architecture by Jason Gregory (Naughty Dog)

Game Programming Patterns: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Programming-Patterns-Robert-Ny...

Realtime rendering overview: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-Time-Rendering-Third-Tomas-Ake...

Related math: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Math-Primer-Graphics-Game-Developme...

Other recommendations:

http://mrelusive.com/books/books.html

http://fabiensanglard.net/Computer_Graphics_Principles_and_P...

It's fun to explore the source though, and NVIDIA has some cool experimental branches of the engine with their stuff integrated.
https://github.com/NvPhysX/UnrealEngine
And: Is the question empirical or analytic? It is hard to discuss such matters without an agreed framework, definitions. The definitions for these terms are a long-standing analytic conundrum.

Abstractly, it is hard to understand how any performance could require consciousness unless consciousness is defined as a class of performance. If it is, then the question boils down to "Is performance class I a proper subset of performance class C?" Which is, prima facie, an analytic question.
This is a much better explanation of your links than a simple "Oh yeah". However, this information is not present in your links. Perhaps you should understand that not everyone is familiar with what you know, and you should provide more context?

Also, the entire point of providing links is to back claims, you need to now provided additional links to the ones you just made. (EDIT: Now provided. Thank you).

I'm still baffled why these reasonable concerns, no context being provided, is receiving a ridiculous number of downvotes.
Generally CineForm is lower bit-rate for the same quality as ProRES. See https://blog.frame.io/2017/02/13/50-intermediate-codecs-comp... for an independent analysis.
The department had a CASE (I think that’s right, it was 7 years ago since I left) award which funded the fairly broad topic of resilient electronics over multiple years and I was able to carve out a segment of that for high temperature energy harvesting (no point developing high temperature sensors if you can power them). I decided the direction, I determined what the project needed and so long as it worked towards high temperature energy harvesting I was good to go. My supervisor was amazing, on day 1 he said “I have two aims. 1: to get you passed and out the door in 3 years and 2: make sure you could do my job at the end of those three years” as a result of point 2 we were given a lot of breadth on self management and point 1 meant he was always around if we needed him - I never had to wait more than 6 hours to see him unless he was on holiday
What's "exploitative" about this? It's a simple coding project that would just takes a few hours.
If they want to pretend they're unbiased, yes. Who's to say the other release wasn't only partial?
"may become profitable for the first time next quarter after ... ramping up deals to sell its data to other companies"

Cool, so any indication on who is buying all my data?
How to write a great git commit message: http://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/git_commit_message
I love how some folks complain about paying rent as if they have no choices, as if they're somehow indentured servants or serfs beholden to the landed gentry or something.

The truth is you do have choices, even in tough times. Find a way to save money for a down payment and buy some property. Maybe even become a landlord yourself.
And what's crazier is that this is one of the unicorns and they're still bleeding cash esp. from a company lifetime perspective.
You would rather watch Transformers then Citizen Kaine? Wat?
And what you received in exchange for that was a lifetime of not being homeless, having no maintenance or (immediate or direct) tax responsibilities, and the freedom to leave without having to sell an expensive, illiquid asset.
Tech is full of school marms now. Thats how we know its mainstream.
Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit, shares surge
Well guessed, I’ve added some further detail in my response above
In my eyes, in this situation you are either looking for a co-founder, and give them equity accordingly, or you treat them as an investor who happens to "invest" with work.

The former means giving more than you would to an "employee" and giving shares rather than options, and giving them a real say in the business.

The latter means going to people like me who earn well enough from consulting etc. that we can afford to spend some of our time on startups without getting paid in cash fully knowing it's a high risk thing, and who will insist on seeing your cap table and investment prospectus so that we can judge the risk, and who will insist on terms that provides additional security.

Note that in the latter case my first question would be "why haven't you been able to find an investor yet"?

I've talked to people who have had convincing reasons, but I've also talked to people who presented me with investor decks where it took me 5 seconds to see why they'd failed to secure investors.

Personally I don't think devs who are inexperienced with startups should consider those kind of arrangements. For me it's kind-of a fun gamble that I take on the side of making more money than most from my paying clients - I expect most of the won't pay, but that's ok.
How do they manage listing flooding or fraud?
Ok, that is not really what happened. But it's a too long story for a HN comment ;)
Sales Departments have way too many people. I like that they employ people, but that’s a separate conversation. On a team of 8 sales people, typically 2 people together sell enough for the team to break even. The other 6, usually because of poor sales territory luck, sell maybe half their salary worth of services, but since growth is everything, an employee who makes 100k but only sells 50k is considered valuable.
Very insightful! I agree that many people are tone deaf when it comes to the fact that other people may value something other than money, consumption, etc.
> Hell, a Pacific Chinook will get twice as big as an Atlantic salmon.

They don't have to be bigger and faster, with precise 'local knowledge' to be dangerous to an ecosystem. They merely have to be different.

Perhaps their small size will cause them to escape the attention of normal predators, or their lack of knowledge of what to eat causes them to decimate some species that Pacific salmon don't eat.
some UK companies do. from what I understand, you must have the cam on for every drive (some require them to be hardwired), and the insurance company will/can check up on your usage by requiring you to provide footage whenever they ask.
If you read the SEC filing it says they only overstated their quarterly MAUs by 0.6%. If they wanted to make their company look bigger, why would they inflate with such a tiny number? I doubt this was intentional.
Previously Flattr was quite niche, but the new release appeals more to creators of all kinds...seems like this could solve the adoption issue
This is related to the cost of doing experiments and running a lab. My wife is a bio-physicist and goes through $1k is supplies on a good day. In contrast you could run a math lab on almost nothing.
Calls to mind my favorite Colbert‡ quote: "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to procure the largest quantity of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing."

Taxes were privatized under the ancien régime (a tax collector committed to handing over a fixed sum and then was welcome to use whatever means he wished to go collected it -- and was free to keep the profits). The integration of many big businesses with government in the US (not just military-industrial but telecoms, banking etc) through regulatory capture and quid pro quo really resembles this system.

‡ Jean-Baptiste Colbert, I mean, Louis XIV's finance minister after the 30 years war. Probably more popular around here for the story that "laissez-faire economics" came from a conversation he had.
You're supposed to end with an exclamation mark. Sad!
They can probably be sued to release the originals so that someone else can reproduce the process.
Albeit laws governing museums are a bit murky.
I really wish it worked that way; but agriculture still has a number of scarce resources (namely land and water) that will require the adoption of productivity-increasing tools to boost the productivity of a given plot of land or to increase efficiency of water use.
Fair enough!

Coops acquiring property for renting to citizens when possible

Yes, this sounds like a good idea. As a Libertarian, I like this model because it is compatible with private property rights, and doesn't demand some sort of government intervention.
It's a bit sad that they've been propping up there numbers so heavily and still failing to generate capitol. Will this even impact there survivability?
Thanks! I went back and forth on open sourcing only because I think there may be potential for building a service like this for daycares in addition to parents. My decision to work on it stemmed largely from the ~20 different daycares my wife and I visited. All of them had a pen and paper tracking system for infants so it gave me lots of ideas.
Its almost like it's a large community, with many different people having different opinions.

However, it does appear as if the community is pretty united on the idea that asking for free labor like this means you deserve to go get fucked.
I want to preface this with: I love erlang. We use Elixir for the service that powers metrics display for Wallaroo. When I learned Erlang several years ago, it made me a better programmer.

At the time we made the decision, we were worried about Erlang being able to meet the latency and throughput goals we had. I knew a number of people who worked on Riak at Basho and had a few lengthy discussions about Erlang performance. They felt that we could end up struggling to get the performance we were looking for.

I had never used Erlang for any large scale project and deferred to their wisdom and knowledge.

As it turns out, the approach that we've used to support languages like Python is in process, using C to bind Wallaroo with the other language. This probably would have been more difficult with Erlang as well, but that's hindsight.

Erlang is an awesome language. It has an amazing VM. That we didn't think it was right for us should in no way discourage anyone else from using it.
"ramping up deals to sell its data to other companies, which could help to break its reliance on advertising for revenue." i.e. "we don't know how to profit from this user data ourselves, so we'll sell it to people who know how."
if someone is interested in the actual situation, the following videos are a good starting point

Davos 2017 - China's Pivot to World Markets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8HsNfQIZQs

Davos 2017 - Strategic Update: The Future of Energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wvln5Ce_Sk
>Do you want to eliminate rent?

Yes. Land should be held by housing cooperatives or by private owner-occupiers. Rentiers can go find a line of business that contributes to society.
What benefits does Pony have when compared to Erlang?
Architecture is full of further examples of useless design features, from facades to fascia, to non-load bearing columns. There are entire books (even novels) on this subject.
> an explicit goal of destabilization.

Please define the word destabilization. Does that mean changing the status quo? Would the NYT be guilty of destabilization if it published an expose revealing that officials in 20 US cities hid significant drinking water pollution from their citizens for years? Surely once published the article would destabilize politics in those cities significantly.

Similarly, suppose the NYT published Donald Trump's taxes, revealing information that was likely to create a multi-year impeachment effort. Would that destabilize the US? It's hard to argue it would make things more stable.

Did the NYT's publication of Judith Miller's reporting on Saddam's WMD that helped sell a war effort that killed and displaced millions of people and cost trillions of dollars cause "destabilization"?

Newspapers are supposed to publish information that leads to political change. That is the point of having a free press, so that ideas can be shared that can be vetted by the public and acted upon to make society better.
What major legislation has Congress passed from his agenda? I think the onus is on you.
As a landowner, I would happily discard the mortgage interest deduction. And 1031s and depreciation allowances. Oh and toss California's Proposition 13 as well.

In exchange, I would request a dramatically simplified tax code that avoids mechanisms such as these across the board. And reduced zoning regulations to allow more housing supply.
Another vote for real invoices here.
From a different trending article:

> San Francisco-based Twitter also disclosed that it had discovered an error in how it had measured its user base since 2014 and revised its estimates downward, but said the difference amounted to less than 1 percent.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-s...
Thanks.

If you ever want to talk Pony, you can find me lurking in the Pony IRC.
Mine (Xbox One) failed after a year as well. I didn't use the motion sensor as much as the always on Mic. I loved walking into the room and saying "Xbox On" and my Xbox would turn on. "Xbox Pause" and "Xbox resume" when watching a movie and later when Cortana was integrated it became even more useful. But once it failed, I never thought it was important enough for me to replace it.
On the other hand, someone has to do the PhDs in order to invent things like machine learning. That is also math we should be doing.
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> Please, tell me more about how you’ve profiled both the performance of my apps and my development productivity! Amazing of you to provide this for me.

Of course I haven't, but you haven't even begun to address the architectural concerns I've raised. You keep dismissing them without direct comment, then demanding I go further and further into the specifics of your unique use case to be allowed even a high level opinion.

I'm not telling you what to do. But I keep waiting for someone to tell me one good reason why I want to go back to a monolithic API dispatch. Please, tell me. Why should _I_ do this? Why don't you also worry about the architectural regression in your API here?

> Facebook

Facebook has haskell developers who actually have tools to write performant GraphQL servers. One of my big debates is if I want to finalize & make public some of my work to efficiently dispatch graphQL queries.

Haxl makes this entirely possible and other people have done proofs of concept as well. If I see an amazing benefit to finding time in my schedule to do this work, I will.

Of course, most folks won't use it. But we would, and that might be enough. But my other alternative is to do the exact same kind of work in the browser under service-workers. I don't really have many arguments against this other than "well you end up making the same # of queries as before so there's only minimal full query improvement."

But if i can combine a client-side gql dispatcher with http/2 push work (which inherently using query caching), it seems better. Again, lots of work in an ecosystem I'm not terribly fond of, but I can do it.

So please consider telling me what the actual benefits are and stop appealing to "developer experience" (I don't dispute this, I just can't make a decision based on it exclusively) and "faster queries" (because I think you lose at least as much performance as you gain and your API becomes a lot less predictable).
For docker w/ docker-compose, I can get a postgres container in <2 seconds with this definition

version: "2"
services:
database:
image: postgres
environment:
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=123456
ports:
- "5432:5432"

docker-compose up -d 0.59s user 0.14s system 50% cpu 1.462 total

And restarting it takes < 1 second.