skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started today by setting out to write a response of the form "Certainly you couldn't rewrite MY HOC library to use render props, look at how it [etc]" and ended today having rewritten my HOC library to use render props. In the process, I was able to dramatically simplify the API and remove about a third of the overall code.

So, uh, thanks.
It's not as contingent as you think. We normally model the supply curve as a line going up and to the right, indicating that price increases stimulate the creation of additional supply. The demand curve has the opposite slope and effect. These curves form an "effective field theory". They explain what's happening at a high level. In reality, supply and demand curves aren't necessarily linear, and at small scales, they can wiggle around a bit. This wiggling is where your "it depends" factors come into play.

It's disingenuous, however, to argue that this wiggling invalidates the crystal clear overall direction of the supply and demand curves or somehow invalidates the idea that the way to increase the amount of affordable housing is to increase the amount of housing.
While I agree with your general point, I think both you and the article are glossing over part of the debate. The opponents of adding market rate supply that I have seen aren't opposed to new supply in a vacuum. They are opposed to letting the market dictate the supply because the market usually creates supply at the top.

The costs of buying land and building a mid-market building is not that much cheaper than building a luxury building. This causes the free market to favor new higher price units which leads to other development that pushes out the previous residents. Sure, that new supply will trickle down and lead to more affordability throughout the whole market, but it can still lead to higher prices in that specific neighborhood due to gentrification. It is therefore a balancing act between the health of the whole market and the health of individual sub-markets within it.
FOR AFRICA WE CREED
> FB is the world's most important news outlet. I think this is undeniable in 2017. They have tremendous power (and responsibility) in this role.

Do they have more power and responsibility than the grocery store newsstand that has the National Enquirer next to Time Magazine, or the cable TV company that delivers Fox News and RT alongside more reliable news sources, or the email services that people used to forward everyone nutty right-wing newsletters before sharing them on Facebook became popular?

Most people don't want news. They want outrage porn and confirmation bias. They want junk food. Facebook optimizes for what people want to see, just like your corner store optimizes for what people want to buy. It's not 7/11's fault that people want to drink 64 oz sodas and eat gummy bears and it's not Facebook's fault that people want to read Breitbart.

If 7/11 stopped selling Big Gulps and gummy bears, people would stop going to 7/11 and they would go broke. If Facebook stopped letting people share outrage porn and confirmation bias with each other, people would stop using Facebook and it would go out of business. So those of us who just want a nice place to buy batteries or keep in touch with distant friends and family members just have to accept that people will use those same venues and mechanisms for things we disapprove of.

P.S.: "Journalism is an institution of democracy"? Well, sometimes. And if you do a good enough job of it, you get a prize named after someone who made a fortune by selling terrible quality newspapers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pulitzer. News has been a cynical business of propaganda for profit far more often than it has ever been an institution of democracy.
Why would you think the two thesis cannot work together as force-multipliers? If name recognition matters, then why can't Russian troll farms influence an election by hacking what names you recognize most using Facebook?
The best evidence we have suggests that there is no safe amount of alcohol from the standpoint of heart disease[1]. The data supporting the safety (or even benefit) of a small amount of alcohol came from observational studies, which are often heavily confounded. This study used Mendelian randomization (MR) to get around that limitation. MR can be confounded by pleiotropy, but this study (which suggests harm from alcohol intake) is still higher quality evidence than the observational studies done previously.

1 = http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g4164
> In a weakly typed language like Javascript, I don't think you'll ever regret being a little more explicit.

"!!" is not needed in the shown case. It might be needed if you want to pass somewhere or return "boolean" value, but in the example it's only the "if" thing.
There are reasons for developers to prefer to build high-end housing over low-end housing.

1. City parking requirements drive up the cost of construction to the point that only luxury units would be profitable.

2. Land acquisition costs (referenced in the article) are high due to zoning laws, so developers prefer to build high-end housing to recoup those costs.

3. Labor costs the same no matter what you're building (beyond some extra for a marble installer or whatever). Labor cost is a function of cost-of-living in the area, which itself is proportional to housing costs. Since the cost of construction is high, a builder is going to build the highest-value product possible at that cost.

So really all the problems boil down to city regulations, zoning, and unaffordable housing creating more unaffordable housing.

"Trickle-down" is a dirty word in many circles but I think it does apply to a certain extent for housing. Today's luxury apartment is tomorrow's mid-market apartment. If I could get a better apartment than what I have for slightly more rent, I'd probably upgrade, but the difference is stupid high (nearly double). In turn, my current apartment would probably be rented by a middle-income earner if it was located somewhere other than Silicon Valley.
The "debate" is likely a result of motivated reasoning. Humans do it all the time. 1. Decide to stake out a position A. 2. Think of reasons that A might be true. 3. Use these arguments to claim that anyone arguing !A is wrong. 4. Feel satisfied.
It's good to see more libraries filling this space. One of the foremost contenders is Libmicrohttpd (https://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/). The only problem with that library is the LGPL license.
Model T: Wrecks, crashes and accident photos
Or post processing with domain specific knowledge. eg, https://www.taggun.io/ using google vision for receipts and then applying some ml, nlp, etc.
A human paying attention would honk before trying to move, most of the time, right? But a driverless vehicle may be able to do both at the same time to avoid an accident.
As a fan of stop motion, thank you for this.

I'm glad to see he got funding for ep3 of the series.
> Many of the same people who get angry about the complex tax acrobatics used by big corporations also deride people like Rand Paul who have suggested a one page tax code.

because that's equally absurd and harmful.
Slightly sarcastic, but on point: Doctors say a glass of red wine per day is good for your blood. But now, they also say it'll increase chances of getting cancer. So I guess I need to choose between these two. Too much of anything is a poison.
how should i interpret this information?
+1 for InversifyJS from me too. I've also been looking at the inversify express utils lately -- loving it so far!

Do you know if there are any plans for allowing the http context (req, namely) to be injected into services? Similar to the IHttpContextAccessor in dotnet core?

I have some use cases for using pieces of the http context (headers) to instantiate some transient services. I started putting together my own pieces to see what I could get away with. Looks like it works okay, but I had to create a new container per request, using the `Container.parent` to link them.
"That there was ever a debate at all is still astounding."

There never was. There are actual, valid debates around construction policy, however. Among them:

1) should you prefer subsidized housing or market-rate?
2) should you remove cheap, existing housing stock to make room for market-rate?
3) does new construction lead to gentrification of affordable neighborhoods?

The article is explicit that the answer to #1 is probably "yes", and it's pretty clear that if you care about the affordability individual neighborhoods, the answers to 2 and 3 are "no" and "yes", respectively, because real estate is obviously not a commodity product. Lowering the mean rent figure for a city does not guarantee that low-income neighborhoods/people benefit from the trade.
Developers just build places for people to live and work. Like the house you live in. They could build a lot more in places like San Francisco and Palo Alto. Yes, it's a bit more expensive, but that's a pretty minimal component of the price at 2/3/4 stories.

The real problem that prevents building up and in is rampant NIMBYism.
What is NIH?
See my other post here [1], but alcohol probably isn't good for your cardiovascular system.

1 = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15666791
I wonder if given the input and output of the algorithm, you could train some type of deep neural net. And if successful, what the hidden layers would look like?
Stop subsidizing junk food. Stop advertising junk food to children (if it's not ok for children to hear he f word it's also not ok to for them to hear about junk food). Subsidize healthy foods. Tax sugary drinks. Do you want more?
Yes, for example the Chunnel was likely opened in your lifetime.
I highly recommend the Secrets of Mental Math book:

http://a.co/095nXaa

Lots of good insights on how to make shortcut mental calculations.
As it stands, this comment appeal to authority. What those authorities have to say might be right or wrong. But you give no hint even at what they are saying.

If you want to do a kind of literature review, where you cite these papers as a way of building some kind of actual thesis, that might be interesting. But what is the point of the above?
This mostly makes sense but the ok cupid bleeding into tinder—the only part of okcupid worth reading was the fact that it was text centric rather than photo centric.
it's a huge pain to call California dmv. In my opinion, email is the easiest way to do support, but they somehow only want you to call them. And the waiting time for a phone call is usually 2 hours!
Show HN: Startup Tracker – the startup search engine (YC SUS 17)
There is no percentage for at fault it’s black or white, it should never be grey. If someone is going to back into you there is no law to honk or back up.
"Correct" but feels really gross
I think you’re assuming that the cognitive requirements for being an engineer are somehow higher than what most people can meet. I don’t think that’s true, and it seems like an extraordinary claim to make.
calories in vs. calories out in around 99% of cases.
Hello, I volunteer with UK Chagos Support Association, a voluntary Chagossian support group that Plan.io and other .io firms and users have donated to since this issue was raised in a tech magazine a year or two ago.

Someone Twitter tagged us and linked to this discussion and it's great to see so much support for the community.

Couple of links on the background below.

http://archive.chagossupport.org.uk/index.php/category/io/

https://gigaom.com/2014/07/02/seats-io-donates-money-to-chag...

A couple of .io start ups set up a site to encourage others to support us and other Chagos-related support groups which allowed us to a lot more of our work - campaigning, supporting community projects and issuing crisis grants - over the past few years. Called 'The Dark Side of .Io,' it's actually offline now but the owner has assured me it'll be back on shortly.

I've no expertise to comment on technical issues. On the moral side, I've not met anyone in the community who has a serious issue with firms using the .io domain name - most are impressed that so many firms have chose to back the Chagossian community out of their own pocket. As someone mentioned below, as recently as one year ago the UK government refused to allow Chagossians to return to the Chagos Islands. The community will not see any money from the renewal of the lease on their homeland for use as a military base.

These are the main issues, and while the .io domain name is somewhat symbolic of the wider exploitation of the Chagossian people - others profiting from their homeland with the community itself seeing no benefit - there is at least a positive side to this, which is harder to find in the government's decision to continue the exile.

If anyone is interested in finding out more please see our website (not .io - but that's out of cost and ignorance factors more than ethics)

www.chagossupport.org.uk

We're actually planning a bit of a revamp of the site shortly and I'd be remiss if when posting here I didn't ask for anyone interested in getting involved in that - contact@chagossupport.org.uk
Proof if it were needed, that the Home Office is off its Nutt.
Right, but the feature only makes sense if the risk is low (quick hookups). There aren’t any meaningful signals; just photos.
Perhaps you can add a comments section below every post (?)
It always reassures me that even Albert Einstein appeared to suffer from impostor syndrome.

“the exaggerated esteem in which my lifework is held makes me very ill at ease. I feel compelled to think of myself as an involuntary swindler.”

Source of the quote is here, about three quarters of the way down: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/02/28/time-bandits-2
I think in some areas (cant speak for all) the debate is about whether other things are affecting
the market in a way that should make them the approach to tackling affordability rather than
purely worrying about supply.

This then becomes politicised and people paint broad brushes of each argument, one side
arguing "its not about supply! Its about x policy!" and the other side arguing "Its about supply
and demand!".

Both sides are extremes, when the answer may well lie somewhere along the line in the middle.
Specifically, in Australia the debate is about whether the best way to tackle affordability is
Supply/Demand or whether it is reducing incentives for investors (tax breaks for house
investors).
There are solid arguments on both "sides", but its pretty clear that housing supply
plays a part in both solutions.. the real question is to what degree it has a bigger impact than
changing government policy in this case.

Point is the overall reason/cause doesn't mean it's the only consideration and thinking of it that way can lead to dismissal of valid joined issues/solutions.
does not really add to the discussion. even with emotional stress, i personally prefer smoking weed vs alcohol any day and so do a lot of friends of mine.
Not Invented Here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
MixML – a complete redesign of the ML module language
I like the name, but...do the computers care about the sheep?
> There's clinical evidence that such a location in/on the human body represents the true effective residence of human sentience, since snipers target precisely that location to take out their targets, before they have a chance to (even reflexively) react to their wounds.

It tells you no such thing. In a distributed system if you take out the main ethernet switch (interconnect) you can bring the whole system to a halt, but that doesn't mean the computation happens there.

Now, no kidding: there's a massively parallel (80 G neurons x 10^ fanout) machine with a ~ 100 Hz clock inside your skull, but there's a lot of computation going on elsewhere. Look at what I said about all the neurotransmitters in your gut, not to mention the rest of your reticulated nervous system. And people do plenty of things all the time (e.g. hit a baseball) that require a response and feedback faster than the nervous system can transmit from the big bag o' neurons to the wrist.

I'm not saying you're wrong; I'm saying there's far, far from enough evidence in contemporary neuroscience to support the level of confidence you exhibit in your theory of mind.
That this project has bus factor = 1. High risk.
I haven’t been to mine in over 10 years. I did go to AAA for registration renewal when I forgot to go through mail. It only took 10 min there. That alone is reason to join AAA.
That's not how Bitcoin works. The amount of energy used to secure the blockchain is not proportional to the number of transactions.
TripAdvisor removed warnings about rapes and injuries at Mexico resorts
Also a great one:

"Someone in the Out field for 36 months still can't catch a fly ball reliably"
I guess so. But it does seem that once or twice a year I see something about bringing MDMA back as a psycho therapy.

I've certainly met plenty of people who could benefit ;)
Strange, to me that just looks like the standard algorithm put in a form that can be partly mechanised. I am surprised that it helps people who do not have a physical set of the bones themselves.
That's a bit like saying we don't have food that doesn't cause obesity. What is your definition of safe? what is your definition of effecitve? If a person turns up to the emergency department in severe pain from trauma, I can safely relieve their pain without endangering their life, that is both safe and effective. If an elderly person with arthritis of the knees is on 3x daily 1330mg Paracetamol SR for months and months, that is both safe and effective.

Paracetamol/Acetaminophen has an incredible safety profile - in people who use it responsibly and don't have liver disease.

It is, after all and as you are obviously well aware, responsible for the highest number of ED presentations for overdose, and it does kill a number of people each year. But that's a mental health issue, and you can overdose on Water (or food, as I indicate in opening paragraph), and die. For people who take it responsibly and without intent for suicide, it is incredibly safe and effective.

Same with ibuprofen - although with the proviso of Do not take for more than several days. But, the same could also be said of opiates - safe for short periods. it's chronic use that will cause problems in lots of cases (ie. add in benzos as well)
I said it before here, but the situation in oregon is fucked up more than normal. The state constitution limits the rate at which property taxes can be raised to 4% a year, provided no new construction occurs. Increasing housing supply is actually penalized here.
The point of the above was a direct response to the parent, who asked for "mountains of evidence", which they didn't see for a simple reason of not bothering to check if they exist.
CIA wrote code 'to impersonate' Russia’s Kaspersky Lab anti-virus, WikiLeaks
There does come a tipping point that most land lords don't like to talk about. When interest rates go so low that the cost of owning your own home is cheaper than renting. This is including all the cost of maintenance, water rates, garbage collection, insurance, taxes, and also property tax's that come with it.

Do be careful when you decide to enter the market as choosing the wrong time can wipe out about 3-4 years savings within 2-3 months.
> That tells you that a continuous signal is captured and integrated across the organ (the brain) in real time.

Not only does it not tell you any such thing but there is pretty good evidence that that is not what's happening. Look at the amount of data collected via the fovea during a single saccade and tell me one collects "frame" data in any way comparable to one's conception of what is happening in front of your body at that time.
There is also JuliaBox (https://www.juliabox.com) if you prefer Julia to Python.
The low end of that range starts at the high end for a mid-level engineer, and goes up into VP and director levels.

Again: I count only compensation that is liquid. Magic Stock Bux don't get marked to market, and "bonus" is a number that can fluctuate dramatically from year to year. A mid-level Googler might be making $250k in a good year, all-in, but their base salary is a fraction of that, you won't get nearly as much outside of the big tech giants.
txt records are the only way to do the dns-01 challenge with certbot/Let's Encrypt.

The http-01 challenge is simpler, we can get people setup with one CNAME/A-record.

Once we're serving traffic, we can do all renewals with an http challenge and they don't need to change DNS ever again.
Uh no, we don't have the power to live without nature. We have a lot of power but we need to be careful wielding it.
Linux Steam Integration Project Running as Snap
just build more housing.
>It's perfectly fine to tell my boss that I got too drunk on Friday

Hell if you worked at a startup, you and your boss might have both gotten drunk at the office together after raiding the "fully-stocked beer cooler". The in-office beer was part of the recruitment strategy of the company after all. Bottoms-up!

I'm a beer-drinker but I still find it astonishing that some startups are providing an addictive and risky drug to employees as a perk.
"Yet you could have gone to AliExpress and bought the same none branded mattress for $100."

You proved the statement to be false. Not to mention, what you have posted are coil mattresses. Companies like Casper and Tuft mark-up quite a bit if AliExpress is "warehouse" pricing, but it's really not outrageous.
See, that's the problem: anti-housing advocates have the wrong moral object in mind. There's no use caring about "neighborhoods". A neighborhood doesn't dream of owning a house one day. A neighborhood doesn't have kids that have to squeeze into a single bedroom. A neighborhood feels neither happy nor sad and doesn't care whether it's preserved.

Interfering with the market almost always produces poor global outcomes, even if interventions can provide an illusion of success in small localized cases. Sure, you can protect your neighborhood from gentrification or whatever, but at the cost of impoverishing an entire city. How is that fair or just?

I believe in caring about people, not abstractions like neighborhoods, and so support greatly loosening zoning laws and allowing builders to build the market-rate housing that people demand.
I'm hesitant to call that a proof, there are various points in the proof that might not be false, but are certainly non-obvious.

Firstly, it seems to be enough for any alternative consensus to be impossible to maintain, rather than impossible to produce.

Secondly, to make it practically (economically) impossible to maintain an alternative consensus should requires Proof-Of-Resources, not Proof-Of-Work.

Thirdly, there's no reason to assume those resources can't be stakes in the consensus itself.

Finally, if the only way to maintain consensus is by building massive expensive specialised buildings, then congratulations you've just rediscovered a bank.
I think most MUDs definitely fall under what you described as "kill bandit," (as do many graphical MMOs), but I do recall a few exceptions. I remember God Wars II, for example, as a game that had more complex and interactive combat: http://www.godwars2.org
Hm... "Someone in the Computer Science field for 2 months still can't solve the halting problem."
The other parts of the car industry became vertically dis-integrated during the second half of the 20th century, so there's no reason to believe they couldn't pull this off.

(Separately they have to adapt to a different market model; I'm not talking about that).