skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People were predicting a housing crash in the US starting in 2003, and people have been predicting one in Australia for a decade.

That's because of negative-gearing. Basically, mortgage payments are tax-deductible. So if you have a house and rent it out, then you can take the tax, use it to pay off the mortgage on the house you're renting, and not pay any tax on it at all.

This, naturally, makes investment housing a much better deal than it should be, and discourages selling a house (thereby driving up housing prices, and therefore rent prices, thereby making investment housing more lucrative).

It's broken bullshit. Blame the (main right-wing party) Liberal party.

Sometimes I wonder whether the parties in Australia are named just to screw with Americans - the Liberal party is conservative, and the Labor Party is officially spelled with the American spelling, despite "labour" normally having a U in it, here.
Perhaps my view of German energy industry is not detailed, but what are the advantages of diesel engines in cars if not efficiency?

Cold starts can be hard, they smell, make a funny sound, slow to accelerate. Maybe maintenance is easier when there are no spark plugs.
I wonder if that common anxiety is the distant echo of an ancestor who slept in trees—don’t dangle, lest you get pulled to your doom by a hungry “monster”.
Number Plate || नंबर प्लेट || Official Song
> Is the fuel subsidized, or just taxed less?

What's the difference?
Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Dream Phone' Concept
Diesel is subsidized, as it is in other parts of Europe.
Until you want to model a bar-fight and then a chair (a piece of furniture) becomes a weapon, i.e. "class Chair: Furniture{}" turns into "Class Chair: Weapon {}". Or when the winter gets tougher and longer and "class Chair: Furniture{}" changes into "class Chair: Firewood{}". I know that there's probably a "solution" involving object "composition", but that would only mask the problem, will not really solve it.
Here's a quick table of sizes of the Bloom Filter with the FP rate

False positives Size (MB)
0.1 285
0.01 571
0.001 857
0.0001 1120
0.00001 1390
0.000001 1670
Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from “the House of Gaslight” in the Age of #MeToo
Modern diesels, sure. Latest offerings from BMW, Mercedes or Audi are actually super clean, especially if equipped with an AdBlue system. But get out on the road and you see people still driving 90s diesels which emit huge plumes of black smoke every time they accelerate, and I know people who buy brand new cars and the first thing they do is cut out the DPF, EGR and pretty much every other emissions reducing system "to keep the running costs low". It's a disgrace, and older diesels should absolutely be straight up banned in cities with very harsh penalties for modifying modern ones(in UK removing the DPF attracts a £5000 fine, but in many EU countries it's still not a problem).
I think that's by design. The law is a compromise, written such that the unpleasantness would bite, but would not bite until the people who negotiated the compromise were safely out of office.
I think so. Just set the bits and test them as needed.
I definitely do. I live in Atlanta and regardless of weather I can't sleep all the way through the night if I don't at least have a comforter on the bed when I go to sleep.
Show HN: Howler AI – Get more press with AI-powered media outreach
The lonely hacker
What Does Tech Excellence Look Like? by Martin Fowler [1]. He talks about process, how to organize teams to deliver tech products. Amazing talk.

[1]: https://youtu.be/Avs70dZ3Vlk
Profitable Niche Market for Influencers
Yes, but then you are running into all the same issues that writing a C compiler would have, you're just skipping the middle step.
(35) Pinterest
> slow to accelerate

Have you driven a modern diesel? At lower speeds, they easily beat similar-displacement petrol cars off the line with superior torque. They are weaker at high speeds, but in normal (especially city) driving, a diesel is usually faster than a petrol.

But yeah, their main factor for popularity is the cost per km. They use less fuel than petrol engines, and the fuel is less expensive (in Germany). This is offset by higher road tax and insurance somewhat, but for commuters and others who drive a lot (>~20000km per year) diesels are a much more cost effective option in Germany than anything else.
they could use a small nuke against the US and we
wouldn't retaliate because we only have
overwhelmingly large nuclear weapons.

Given that America could simply fire a large nuclear weapon at a low-population-density area if they wanted a controlled number of deaths, no rational person would gamble their family's life on that.
NOx is also the biggest product of animal agriculture. It also has an effect on climate change. Global warming potential is around 300 times larger than CO2. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential#Value...
Better efficiency in terms of CO2 emissions.

Edit -- sources: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es034928d, https://theconversation.com/fact-check-are-diesel-cars-reall...
Apple launches health care clinic for employees
Why David Cancel Hates Roadmaps (But Uses Them with Customers)
Ehh.... I worked for a long time as a mechanic on diesel engines. The engines are designed to conform with emissions requirements as they are written, not necessarily to be more efficient or cleaner. And of course some auto manufacturers have taken rather "creative" approaches to meeting these requirements.

Even with everything above board, the technology is not really there to make diesel a great solution for autos. First, the emissions equipment in modern diesel engines adds weight and reduces engine airflow, making them less efficient than they could be. In fact, today's small diesel engines are only 10-20% more efficient than gas equivalents, when in the past they have been over 50% more efficient.

There are three primary types of pollution that come from an internal combustion engine--carbon, which causes global warming; nitrous oxides, which cause smog, and particulate matter, which contributes to air pollution and also causes all sorts of nasty health problems. Diesel engines are better than gasoline on carbon emissions by virtue of being more efficient, although as I mentioned this gap is closing. Special catalytic exhaust equipment has been added to newer diesel engines to reduce nitrous oxides, but it's expensive and the environmental benefits are marginal. Particulate matter is addressed by burning the soot that comes out of the exhaust, again using expensive equipment that reduces efficiency, and AFAIK the science is still out on whether and by how much this actually reduces environmental/health impacts.

Some municipalities in the US have perhaps misguidedly banned diesel engines from their roads. The situation is a little different in Europe, where diesel engines are found in a much larger share of passenger vehicles. If Europeans drove as much as Americans did, their cities would all look like LA circa 1975. I'm not sure about car ownership trends in Europe, but I think it would make sense for any city that expects increases in car ownership to start regulating diesel more heavily.
Yes I liked the post. I am coming to Elm from F# and liking the error messages and strictness.

If you are not worried about the order of the pairs, how about this....

getAllCoordinates : Int -> List ( Int, Int )
getAllCoordinates size =
List.range 0 (size - 1)
|> List.concatMap
(List.repeat size >> List.indexedMap (,))

NB: Be careful with recursion.
For general purpose code where you don't know the size of the data structures you could get a stackoverflow.
In that case you can refactor recursive code to maps or folds.
Argh, I meant Napalm Records, sorry. Now I have to go and see what nuclearblast is doing :)
It's possible that there's some autogenic component to pregnancy that is a superior indicator of confidence than self-reporting, though it seems like a farfetched explanation.
Can you go into more detail? What made things worse? What made them better? Obviously what worked for you might not work for others, but concrete X's and Y's could inspire someone to follow the advice of talking to a medical professional.

My knee jerk reaction is that I don't trust the family doctor to really know much bio-mechanical stuff and will trust a well-referred fitness coach. Maybe you meant you saw a physical therapist?
Well said. I think this particular mixup makes for a lot of extra confusion on the part of people trying to understand ASD.
Now it makes more sense.

I'd prefer to have a brief technical explanation why Javascript is needed instead of this condescending labeling.

Edit: NoScript is not a luxury for technically minded geeks anymore, it's a necessary protection against tracking, CPU-consuming advertisement and attacks like Spectre/Meltdown and who knows what else Intel has for us.
CEVA Extends Its IP Platforms for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi with RISC-V – CEVA
First off, you are wrong if you think that bodyweight exercises cannot injure you. Even something as simple as doing pushups with bad form for too long can have a detrimental effect on your posture and cause back issues.

Also, that's a false comparison. Nobody said that you need to get off the couch and go straight to squat 500lbs to be in shape. You need a proper training plan with reasonable progression, and you need to start as low and as light as necessary, no matter the training stimulus (BW, barbells, dumbbell, kettlebells, bands, ...). The difference is that weights can provide an external force that can be scaled to your strength in many ways that BW training cannot, because in BW training the only weight is your body and you need to use leverages to modify your training stimulus.

Finally, BW versus weights is a dumb debate. They complement each other, and a well-rounded athlete should do both.
Our response to 9/11 was to invade two countries, one of which wasn’t even involved. I’m pretty sure that even a small nuke detonating on American territory would be met with the complete destruction of the attackers. We don’t really have the concept of a proportional response for this sort of thing.
>Disincentivizing savings without having a good system in place for retirement would break a country in a single generation.

We have the former without the latter in the U.S. already.
Unfortunately no -- NDA / work-for-hire. Customer requested .NET but didn't care which language. We usually write Python, F# felt friendlier than C#. State classes looked like:

type InitialState = {a : int; b : string}
type IntermediateState = {a : int; b: string; c: string list}
type FinishedState = {a: int; b: string}
type ErrorState = {a: int; b: string; message: string}
type State =
| UninitializedState
| InitialState of InitialState
| IntermediateState of IntermediateState
| FinishedState of FinishedState
| ErrorState of ErrorState
| FinalState

And transition functions:

let initialize (args : string list) (s:UninitializedState) : State =
// create an initial state from args, not actually like this
InitialState {a= 5; b="hello"}

I probably put too many types into my function signatures, but I'm new to this style.
What you are describing now is called superpolynomial time in computer science.
It's interesting how golems, Frankenstein monsters and robots have always turned on their creators, in fiction at least.

Another early example:

https://jerz.setonhill.edu/theater/rur-rossums-universal-rob...

>Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race… Work must not cease!”

And recently of course now we have the paperclip AI:

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
It's taxed less. The tax on gasoline is about 0.78 EUR, the tax on diesel is 0.56 EUR (per liter).

Source: http://www.zeit.de/2017/29/kraftstoffe-diesel-subvention-sti...
Coinbase is about to give the IRS details of 13,000 users
Not only is it (to some extent) found in existing law, but from May 25th this year, GDPR Article 17 would like to have a word:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:O...

It's not just an EU thing, either - several other courts, as far away as Japan, have also imposed similar rights/obligations.
I think the field is potentially wide even within carbon chemistry. Genetics (which seems to have a single origin) could feasibly exist as a completely different yet still carbin-centric "implementation."
Nice explanation. I think meshfix implements this too: https://github.com/MarcoAttene/MeshFix-V2.1
There was one project which I had worked on , the project plan was around 6 months and it was executed on schedule till the very last day. It was not a complex project though.

Migration of a whole bunch of sites to new server , OS + some new developments etc,with a whole lot of users across several countries. It was the first time I actually saw someone prepare a plan for ~ 6 months and made it happen too.
Defaults can cause interest rates to rise, which happen when expectations aren't met. Such as labor costs rising more than expected, causing businesses to default on their loans or shortage of a natural resource causing it's price to spike. It can then cause a chain reaction of defaults and interest rates rise to reflect the increased risk premium. Unfortunately, due to lags in the feedback loop, this is inevitable as you can never accurately predict the future.
Most people don't read the article. They don't even finish reading the title and are already typing "Heeeey, I don't".
My experience too. Velocity trumps everything else. IMHO, Scrum is like Communism. Okay in theory, but never implemented properly. And it's always the people at the bottom who suffer.
Wouldn't be useful for the range queries, all possible prefixes return data
The inability to justify time spent in Scrum doesn't make the time not get spent, it just gets hidden, defeating the whole point. I abhor Scrum, but I would also argue that in this case the development task weight just gets inflated for "unknowns" on the task.Instead of a 5 maybe it's an 8, or whatever.
> what are the advantages of diesel engines in cars if not efficiency?

I wouldn't assume that there's a direct relationship between diesel engines still being around and diesel engines still having an advantage over others. Not having to replace your fleet of trucks, buses, trains or whatever is a big enough advantage for most companies.

Also, importing energy from other countries isn't a sign of poor energy production. If buying energy from you costs me less than turning my power plant on for a day I'm gonna shut it down and call it a day. Not to mention the fact that energy prices are sometimes negative (i.e., they pay you for taking it).
And here is a graph about the cash sinks and faucets: https://images.contentful.com/7lhcm73ukv5p/2mCQPkfNbWw0K2E64...

Taken from the monthly report: https://www.eveonline.com/article/p3j6gs/monthly-economic-re...
A SHA-1 hash digest is a 160-bit hexadecimal string. These are 40 digits long, with 16 possible values per digit, yielding a total search space of 16^40 possible values.

If we splice off the first five digits (which Troy originally used as the database partition key), we get 1,048,576 five digit values each (16^5). Then we continue calculating with the sixth position as the new first position in the string.

The math from here is a straightforward function mapping 16^n -> 16^(n - 5):

* 16 six digit values match any given five digit partition key, p,

* 16^2 = 256 seven digit values match any p,

* 16^3 = 4,096 eight digit values match any p,

* 16^4 = 65,536 nine digit values match any p,

* 16^5 = 1,048,576 ten digit values match any p,

* 16^6 = 16,777,216 11 digit values match any p,

* 16^7 = 268,435,456 12 digit values match any p,

* 16^8 = 4,294,967,296 13 digit values match any p,

* 16^9 = 68,719,476,736 14 digit values match any p,

* 16^10 = 1,099,511,627,776 15 digit values match any p,

* 16^11 = 17,592,186,044,416 16 digit values match any p.

So in general, to calculate how many n digit SHA-1 digests correspond to any m digit prefix, we simply calculate (16^n)/(16^m), which yields 16^(n - m). Thus we have (16^[6..16]) / (16^5) for the five digit prefix case. Hopefully that elucidates it for you!
I’m perfectly agree with “Neurological” effects on MDMA.
You can probably extrapolate from search data such as Google Trends or the popularity of pregnancy websites through Alexa rankings.
(due to horrible layout and inability to edit, here is the list again, second attempt)

here is a incomplete list of my findings:

soft skills list:
* don't push;
* accept if they are not (yet) interested;
* support emotionally ;
* trust your kids;
be patient even if it looks like bullshit;
even if you know the solution, wait for the question;

tools:
* coderdojo;
* guest net;
* don't try to create a website whitelist;
* buy / borrow hardware they like to try out;

misc:
* watch spin offs;

some remarks might need explanation.

don't push:
if you do, any kind of motivation will turn to become the opposite.

support emotionally:
one of the differences between adults and kids in terms of learning is how to deal with ambition. kids might start to cry or get aggressive when things don't work the way they planned. dealing with ambition is part of the learning process.
the best answer for your kid might be non-technical, just hugging.

even if you know the solution, wait for the question:
you can only learn when it feels like you have control on how to do it. if it's not yet time for the answer, there is no problem and no learning motivation.

coderdojo:
look it up and discover how kids learn programming. best to wait for your child to discover projects of other kids.

guest net:
separate your internet from your kid's internet. the risk of viruses or exploits caught from discovery journeys on the internet is extremely decreased.

don't try to create a website whitelist:
I tried to maintain a whitelist of allowed websites and waited for requests to come. after less than a week I gave up. same is true for search platforms or websites designed for children. trusting your kid looks like the better choice to me.

buy / borrow hardware kids like to try out:
we are buying heaps of hardware (raspberry pi / arduino / camera / smartphone), most of which financed out of our child's pocket money. his decision.

spin offs:
spin offs are the most interesting discovery to me.
my kid writes short stories to be integrated into his self created apps, so he can share them with other kids.
math is easy if it is related to solving computer problems (compared to torture if the only reason is memorizing unrelated stuff)

comments welcome
Minecraft Windows version absolutely has tools that let you program in different languages. You need to download a program called code connection (also from MS).

https://education.minecraft.net/support/knowledge-base/conne...

Then you have some options to program minecraft.

I wrote a client in python which you can look at to see how to call commands. https://github.com/tonetheman/mctony
Ok yes, agreed, the separate operators for different numeric types are not exactly very user-friendly either. In the de-facto use case of Reason they shouldn't be such a big deal though (building webapps).
Well, after a few tutorials you should have noticed that it's a high-level language with clean syntax and a compiler that produces relatively fast binaries. That's a start. What else were you expecting?
In support of your statement, in comparison to gasoline, diesel costs less to produce, it has more energy per unit of volume, it is much safer to store and use, diesel engines produce more torque at lower RPMs, and yes, vehicle maintenance is less costly over the length of ownership for the vehicle.
> they smell

And petrol cars don't smell?

> slow to accelerate

I think you've never driven a big modern engine diesel car. I have driven this BMW 535d[0] and believe me this monster is not "slow" in any way (0-100km/h in 5.5 seconds). It accelerates faster than the petrol equivalent because of the more torque it produces.

[0]http://www.automobile-catalog.com/car/2011/1337945/bmw_535d....
I didn't count it... I was probably 9-10 years old. It was a pretty surreal experience, honestly. I do remember that it was real, my parents talked to him, i guess he was a reasonably well known real estate guy in our area.

In retrospect, it's even stranger. I couldn't fathom cold-knocking at a random house and offering the owners a suitcase of money. Double++ bizarre making the pitch to a little boy. That said, we had alot of interesting stories from that house and neighborhood, this one isn't even the strangest!
I read "Left in the Dark" and second the recommendation. It's quite an elegant hypothesis even if it doesn't seem to cover all of its bases, but it's a good jumping-off point for those interested in rationalizing phenomena related to consciousness.

For example, the book's theory that the dormant (but incredibly powerful) right brain (or subconscious or what have you) is responsible for our immune systems neatly explains things like the placebo effect, faith healing, miraculous lucid dream healing, etc.

If we assume that the Buddha's enlightenment was a total coming together of his mind, then all the seemingly supernatural abilities attributed to him, such as immunity to disease, start to make sense.
> I really don't like state machines because if you need to add a new event, each of the states need to be updated to handle that event. If you add a new state, you have to figure out how to handle each of the transitions from other states

You still have to do all this without state machines, but likely in a less organized and harder to maintain way.
Regardless of exporting a lot of electricity, they are also now completely dependent on French nuclear power for energy security. German renewable sources are intermittent. In short, they produce energy when there is enough wind and when the sun shines, and both of those are conditions that correlate heavily over all of Germany. German electricity demand largely does not match them -- unlike in hotter climates, air conditioning is not used much, so demand is negatively correlated with sunshine, and the intermittent capacity greatly exceeds the variable capacity.

So today, when it's windy or the sun shines in a clear sky, they have great overproduction, while when neither is true, they depend on foreign sources.
I just realized what my confusion was over!

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Carnegie%20Mel...

I was looking at the results of going from CMU to my little secondary school in Dublin, Ireland. I saw the results and saw that the last page before my Irish school was "College" and assumed it must be wrong, because how could my tiny secondary school be on the Wikipedia page for "College"? But alas, I was wrong!! I just checked and turns out it IS on the college wiki page!

I also assumed you were looking at outgoing links for both X and Y - that explains a lot.

I am super interested in this, but I have never done any graph theory or searching/planning (I'm EE) - how did you build up all of the incoming links for each wiki page? Are you storing all of this? How much data is that? Thanks for the reply!
..or that both have an external source.

Imo, if panspermia is proven and (for extra points) that it exists/ed on mars.... It becomes likely that earth and mars aren't the only 2.

Any proof of this would be huge. We could frame the whole Drake's equation I panspermia terms and get clues on where to look and what to look for.
In a big picture sense, they're the same. I think it says something different about intent though. A subsidy says something is essential or desirable. A relatively lower, but still very high excise tax says one thing is disliked less than the other.
The difference is now you don't have to setup a python env.
Collection of Useful CSS Snippets
Sorry but I really fundamentally disagree with this line of thought. My existence and my rights, right now, are vastly more important than some theoretical future information-hungry archeologist.