skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your point, but saying that "rising prices are as bad for the owners as they are for everyone else" is hard to justify.

In your case, you can a) stay where you are or b) sell the house, pay the tax, and buy a similar house (or a cheaper one elsewhere).

An alternative you that didn't buy that house at that time, and got lower after-tax returns on that money, doesn't have option a) and has less capital available for option b).

Everyone else is in an strictly worse position than owners.

You have an unrealized capital gain and an unrealized tax liablity. Selling the house you'll realize both. You "feel" that you are not realizing the capital gain if you buy a similar house with that money. It's understandable, nobody likes paying taxes. But if you were to sell the new house in the future (maybe to downsize) the transaction would be tax free if prices don't change.

And as I said already, if you think prices may go down it's rational that you avoid realizing the capital gain and the tax liability at the current level if the utility gain from moving to a "similar" house is not larger than the expected savings of realizing (maybe) a lower capital gain in the future and paying less taxes.
Look at the years the CPUs mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_slicing were produced. That was not a time where there was demand for 64 bit processors (not surprisingly. RAM cost around $6000 per Megabyte in 1980, according to http://jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm, so you would have to pay around $24 million to run out of space on a 32-bit CPU)

Of course, 64 bit registers and less memory would have been useful for scientific computations. However, I think it is hard to build a fast integer multiplier from bit-sliced CPUs (you can, but by the time you are done, the CPU doesn’t look like a cascade of smaller width CPUs anymore). I would guess making floating point perform on bit sliced processors has its challenges, too.
African scientists get their own open-access publishing platform
(I worked on an early version of PyAnnotate.)

The main difference is that pytype is a static analyzer (i.e. it inspects the code and tries to figure out what types various things are), whereas PyAnnotate is a profiler hook, so you have to run your code and it observes types as your code runs.

Both have their pros and cons. While static analysis (in my personal opinion) would be ideal because you don't have to run your code, and in theory it can be much more complete, it's also much harder (often impossible) in Python. The runtime analysis of PyAnnotate has a lot of downsides (it doesn't give you types for code that it didn't observe run and it can't know if it has seen all the particular types for a parameter or return). The upside is that it was quick to implement something useful and it gets you quickly to pretty descent type annotations for your main code paths. Which is nice, because in a large untyped codebase it effectively lays down a rough draft of type annotations, making it a lot easier to fix up and fill in edge cases by hand.
In my opinion you should be liable for any such danger you pose to others with the ability to shift that liability to whoever sold you source of such danger while assuring you that it is safe.

In fact it is then inconsequential whether some device puts you in direct danger or in danger of somebody comming after you for putting them in danger.
Trump is not the problem. It is all the non-elected dark figures behind it all.
Of course not, but that's neither here nor there when looking at differences between negative income tax and UBI. Both can be implemented on monthly basis.
I don't have a study, but I think you expect to see all the things you ask about.

If there is enough housing supply, prices are reasonable and moving to a different house isn't a $2M transaction, it's $100k. Aside from other things this makes the finances easier- if the down payment is $200k, you must line up the purchase & sale. If the down payment is $10k, you can front that, and the purchase isn't 100% contingent on the sale. (purchase/sale contingencies sink a lot of home sales) Additionally shopping for a house is not a dog-eat-dog fight.

If there is enough supply, you don't have to spend every dime of your income in a bidding cage match with other buyers, which leaves you with capital available for real repairs & renovations. Builders and private developers can buy the really crappy old houses for very low prices and knock the whole thing down and build new. Plus, in a market where appreciation is the prime determinant of value, and it's a major seller's market, why bother doing much renovation? It'll sell no matter how bad it is.

My local market certainly shows all these things compared to California- but, who can say exactly how much of the state of the California housing market is due to Prop 13?

P.S. Yeah, it's ironic how the Bay Area is this wealthy progressive metro, and yet so much of the housing stock is ancient, way behind code, and terribly energy inefficient.
Agree, regulations could deter entrepreneurs from trying since the barrier to entry could be high. Then again, regulations like HIPAA haven't really stopped a slew of Digital Health shops from trying, so it might not be as bad.
Many wallets and users don't do dust sweeps anymore since it associates all the utxo's with a single user and reduces your privacy

Theres nothing wrong with having many utxo's of varying sizes - good wallets will give you a choice on how to select them when composing a transaction (such as Electrum) and you can sweep part of it back to yourself in what would otherwise look like any other transaction
Isn't it sufficient to explain the author's data to say that academia is an environment with a high tolerance for flakiness? The fact that professors' flakiness usually works out in their favor just follows from people usually acting in a self-interested way. If I forgot about our meeting, on average I'm going to spend that time doing something that benefits me.

I've definitely had the experience of some academics using absent-mindedness for dominance, but that doesn't mean it always or even usually is.

A datapoint here is that in my experience fields that are larger and more practical/"applied" have a lot less absent-mindedness. (You could probably quantify this with e-mail response times.) But the hot fields are more competitive than the sleepy backwaters---if absent-mindedness were a dominance tactic, wouldn't we see more of it in the bigger fields?
Huh. TIL. I swear we searched the docs when we ran into that, and found the same consistency guarantee minus that rather large caveat, but Wayback says that was there at the time. Perhaps we were looking at a different page, but it does appear this is and was documented behavior.

That's a hugely unuseful caveat in practice though. I'd really love to have consistent reads.
The linked article looks like SEO spam to me. There's no sources and the article looks like it's a rehash of Linus's wikipedia page. Given that his employer is the Linux Foundation, I'd be surprised if they were paying him $10 million per year, especially as it looks like only in 2015 did their salary expenses even exceed $10 million (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460...).
I'm a 28-year old engineering undergraduate and I spend most of my time in e-macs as of about a year ago. It took a little time to get used to, but it's been worth it.

I've recently fallen in love with org-mode and I want to ask you about using it as an engineering journal: how can I make it legally authenticatable? If I keep my journals in org-mode, is a private github repository sufficient for security and authentication?
It seems a good deal less convenient when you factor in the clouds of concentrated sulfuric acid. Any habitat is going to have to be just as hermetically sealed from the outside world as if you were on Mars, with the additional caveat that everything be acid-proof (including suits). At least Martian atmosphere won't melt your face off if it ever gets inside!
Blame the SEC for this one. Their accredited investor regulation gave the future to the rich. Seed round, series A, B, C, etc should be a vehicle for class mobility. Instead it's a way for the rich and powerful to accumulate more wealth.

With YC and other incubators acting as a filter for where investors should put money, it matters more which zipcode you were born into than your overall intelligence and creativity.

People talk about bitcoin, but it's the only 'startup' that regulation didn't prohibit people from investing in. Facebook should have made millenials/gen x rich. Github should have made developers rich. The list goes on and on.
Only until you have 5x or so gains
Zero conf was never secure. Many did demonstrate double spends long before RBF was thought of.

Still, that argument was made against RBF and was enough of a hindrade to consensus that RBF was made opt-in. And it still is. So you are absolutely free to accept zero conf transactions, and take the risk, as long as you don't accept those who flag for RBF. Most wallets won't even make them by default (which in my opinion is stupid with the fees we have today).

The argument for a golden age before RBF isn't a good one. It was never reliable. And what little reliability it had is unchanged.
An approach we can take on an individual level is to be mindful of the data we are giving up. If you are employed and in the process of job hunting, then stop "liking" the article headlined "10 Reasons why you deserve better from your company".
The analysis generally works for the value of owner-captured imputed rents, too. If shaving 10 minutes off your commute is worth $100/mo to you, that's going to cause homes closer to jobs to rise in price with interest-rate sensitivity.
Some historical context:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tonEuOE0IXE/WfpBpIzy8rI/AAAAAAAAF...

The interesting lines are apartment prices (yellow/orange) and salary (green). Note that the small bump in the early 90s was the last economic crisis...
Since we are only sharing what is necessary for the collaboration, this is significantly lighter-weight compared to screen sharing. Addressing latency is absolutely a core principle of our design.
Linus?
Every single platform has their 1-line hello world example. iOS has storyboards, Windows has XAML, Linux has QT components.

The point is that Electron is cross platform. Building three different native apps with completely different UI toolkits is a huge amount of work and depends on much less common skillsets.
It’s hard to say anyone should be a billionaire, frankly, let alone deserve it. Sad to see this attitude on HN.
Utopia, but marketplaces selling only the ones they consider secure would work maybe.

Similar to costco - sometimes they do not sell products that they believe don't have the quality their customers deserve.
I don't think that government certification is the answer here. This will turn security into a check-mark. Companies will do the bare minimum to get certified and won't invest a penny more. This would solve some of the more extreme cases we see, but I doubt it'll make a real impact.

Instead, I feel that accountability would work much better here. If you're selling an IoT device, and you haven't taken industry standard precautions for securing it, then you're on the hook for whatever your device is used for. The same can be applies to companies storing personal information e.g. Equifax.
Yes, but during the long migration, it was no mere excuse.

Almost every time I tried to use a library, it was 2.7 only.

That situation has only changed recently, and with it people have moved on to 3. (Which sort of underscores that the library support was the main issue).
If Square wants to be a cash intermediary, they should offer Monero. It's the most cash-like coin available since it's the only one that's fungible - an important aspect of any currency. The only problem is that it's not as recognized as Bitcoin, so maybe they're just trying to attract publicity and new users?
At .1% you're roughly employee 100. Yes, everyone involved at that point should be looking for a billion dollar exit.
I am unfamiliar with it, but the profile manager in FF does not seem to be on the same level as Chrome. In Chrome you can change the profile and reopen your previous tabs by clicking in the top right.

With FF, you have to quit FF and type in the terminal 'firefox -P'.

They are not at the same level.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

Containers are really bad at saving your workspace: tabs with a profile so I can just shut down work at the end of the day or on a weekend.
Kickstarter for a handheld Raspberry Pi for kids
Please don't post like this here again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> What? People can't not use Google or Facebook? I use Bing sometimes, it works fine, and of course you only really need to use search engines at all if your job requires it.

Peter Thiel has a book called Zero to One that spends an entire early chapter discussing the techniques companies like (specifically) Google use in order to hold a practical monopoly while not exposing themselves to anti-monopoly regulation. In Thiel’s opinion this is deliberate, and a tactic that should be used in the readers’ own company.

> "Election integrity" presumably meaning that he wants the tech industry to control what people see about politics and politicians, lest they accidentally vote for the wrong guy.

That’s a pretty poor-faith interpretation of “election integrity” given that the companies ‘idlewords targets include companies that have spent the last few weeks testifying before Congressional committees on this very topic.

> They fired Damore for having the audacity to point out that years of bending over backwards to recruit more women had failed to make much difference because women don't study CS at the same rate - a verifiable fact that upset a bunch of fundamentalist feminists.

Ah! See, I knew you were capable of a good-faith interpretation of someone’s writing.

> ...even more Clintonite, globalist and to try and control elections is tremendously disturbing.

...
I don't think any criticism or complaining is of any use in such a situation. People and companies that understand the implications already took care to protect themselves against such failures. Those who haven't will learn eventually.
TypeScript gives me a Pascal-vibe at times as well.

Occasionally feel like I should be typing `TButton = record`.

Not that surprising I guess since Anders Hejlsberg wrote Turbo Pascal, much of Delphi, was the lead dev on C# and TypeScript.

He's made a career out of writing productive environments for mortal developers.

I still think Pascal was my favourite language, the old joke back then was "Pascal has one way to do everything, the right way" compared to the expressiveness of a lot of languages.
They could likely run any of the BSD variants. Some form of commercial RTOS might also be viable. Even Minix might be an option (hire away some of those Intel folks!) though I'm not sure of its hardware support.

That said, why bother? Linux is customizable enough to strip out almost everything extraneous for nodes and has the largest pool of experienced developers, and it's unlikely that any of the other options would have any performance advantage - and less likely that they could keep any performance advantage once it was identified.
The clearest answer to the economic question I've seen is asteroid mining. A single asteroid can contain orders of magnitude more platinum than has been mined in all of human history, in a very concentrated form. Which would obviously crash the market for platinum, and could encourage interesting new uses for it when it's no longer ~$1,000 per ounce.
> The only one that comes to mind for me is fabric

Speaking of Fabric, does anyone know of any Python 3 projects similar to it? I've been using Fabric3 since the switch but it's not a 1:1 port. I'd consider dropping it in favor of something better if it exists.
SWE thinking of transitioning to product management
I prefer to imagine that great minds think alike! :) Or more scientifically speaking, the theory of multiple discovery [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
In 1770, the Sky Over East Asia Turned Crimson Red for Nine Days
It replaces one set of quirky hacks for a different set, just in different parts of your code. So in a way it's no worse.

I have to say I was sceptical of Ruby 1.9's new approach to Unicode thinking Python 3.0's approach looked much cleaner. It does on paper. In practice though, I have to admit I get where Ruby was going with it all now.
SAM: A New Zealand company launches the world's first AI politician
The doctor decided the dosage. Regarding repopulating gut flora: That is such a poorly understood topic. The more you read, the more you scratch your head.

After my first treatment, I made yogurt with special starters that contained specific strains of bacteria based on those suggested by the SCD (Simple Carbohydrate Diet). The next time I took a round of antibiotics, which was after symptoms returned a year later, I didn't do anything special to repopulate flora. My symptoms did not return for 1.5 years.

I tend to believe that eating probiotic-containing foods is generally a good thing. It's best if you ferment your own foods, because the bacteria counts are typically much higher compared with store-bought products. Sauerkraut, pickles, kimchi, water kefir, ginger bug, and others are incredibly simple to make.

That said, the various common strains of bacteria are debated and their effect on existing flora is not yet well understood. It's possible that some fermented foods could be bad for some people. Hopefully one day the medical community will have a good grasp on how to effectively prescribe fecal transplants!
New technique aims to edit man's DNA inside his own body – The Verge
Exactly.

Otherwise I could argue Commodore still "supports" the Commodore basic in a Commodore 64.
You put developed "the world's most advanced code collaboration experience" as advertised by the website in 48 hours ? Can I hire you somewhere ?
> you're asked only after installation. You have to pro-actively disable it.

Of course it's done after installation -- how would an app allow you to configure something BEFORE it's installed?
That's pretty awesome.

Back in games we'd do all sorts of tricks in networking to make it look like things were happening(sound effects, decals, etc) in response to local events until we could have the server provide the definitive call on some game state.

Most players thought we had a much higher fidelity sim then we actually did. It's a pretty common technique across a lot of games. You can get away with quite a bit by being smart about what you "fake" and what you actually make work end-to-end.
Introducing Tensor for Multi-Dimensional Machine Learning and AI Data
To a point that is correct. For simple button actions that trigger a web request and display content, I would agree the knowledge is there and available. For any deeper skillset, photo manipulation, live camera, geospatial or map related code, webgl, etc. Solutions in those spaces are just as undocumented on any platform and require a sophisticated developer to write complex code to solve.

A developer with the caliber required to solve those problems will be comfortable in any language they are asked to write in.
I just switched. Long time chome user aswell. The new FF has adopted the same design as Chrome and that is what brought me over. I think Chrome will lose some market share soon. I am actually a loyal person but Google started abusing its power to dictate how developers should write code. Aswell as putting unecessary constraints on things. Pissed me off
> I think we have already lost the battle over data mining. It is happening, and will continue to happen and it seems to me there is really nothing we can do short of drastically restructuring the entire Internet.

Let's say we've lost so far, but certainly we can change. Europe, for example, has much stronger protections than the U.S. Laws cleaned up the environment in cities, brought a revolution in civil rights to billions .... certainly we can provide privacy to end users if we put our minds to it. (I'm not saying it will be easy.)
Could there be a future type of financial vehicle based on news? Since political instability has market effects. From what I understand, prediction markets are simply like sports betting. But what I'm thinking is something that's pegged to currency / commodity price fluctuations.

Did the Saudi purge similarly boost crypto value as well?
Would you mind commenting according to the guidelines, please?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why are internal tools showing up in the top 200 PyPI package list?
Even though many people scoff at the idea of government regulations, the economic incentives in IoT security are really all messed up and it's not really clear that the market will fix itself because so much of the damage can be externalized somehow. Does the manufacturer of a cheap and outdated IoT device care if it's participating in some ddos attack? Or like Schneier said, does the consumers care if they don't notice?

There seem to be some soft mechanisms that governments could explore. Maybe something like demanding opening the source code once security updates for the device stop, so consumers could help themselves. Or at least, an even more modest regulation, simply allowing all consumers to hack their own devices without fear of violating any laws.

One thing that could hurt the market is maybe making manufacturers liable for the damages caused by security holes in their devices, but regulation doesn't have to go that far to make an impact.
> DEFINITION

I am not sure, but would a MODULE only containing declarations (and no or empty body) also work, syntactically?
The book "Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler" https://www.amazon.com/Project-Oberon-Design-Operating-Compi... contains a detailed explanation of the design for the Oberon compiler and operating system. Not only it is well written with clear explanations, but it also includes the full source code for the compiler and operating system in less than 550 pages!

I learned some interesting compiler techniques from reading that book.
ding ding ding

This guy gets it.

I suppose if I bit the bullet and unlearned years of muscle memory I could do without those keys, but at this point it's not worth the effort. I'll stick to ThinkPads if I need to code on a laptop.
There's some limited ways to sandbox with iframes.

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_iframe_sandbox.asp
So the elephant in the room here is that the US is increasingly a tax haven. Not for US citizens. For everyone else.

The reason? The US might throw it's weight around with FATCA and many things before it to get even moderately sized transactions reported to it and to have assets of US citizens reported but the problem is the information doesn't go the other way.

So the result is those dodging taxes in the EU will probably treat the US as a financial shield to hide wealth from their governments.
Whats the difference between the approaches?
I didn't imply that is was increasing the housing prices alone. If you read it again, I even start my sentence with "Also to add to that..".
Why do we say the universe has a "comparatively short age" when we have no other universes to compare it to?
I thought gmail’s big competitive advantage was giving users 1GB of space instead of 10MB or whatever that other free webmail providers gave us. I don’t recall gmail’s UI being remarkably better.
I wonder if this has anything to do with Matz being Japanese. I do my best to avoid Unicode at all costs because as a native English speaker ASCII was working out great for me.
How else can wire transfers become a serious means of payment??
You know the phrase, "you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here"?

You don't have to move to Python 3, but Python 2 is gonna be EOLed. If you don't agree with Python 3's stances on things, it might be time to find another language entirely.