skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the simple answer is that they don't. They have recognised that closely networked cities, short commute distances, easy access to public services has significantly more advantages than building your own little castle in the prairie.

You've basically snuck in a tautology in your question. 'Breaking into the middle-class' in the US has simply become synonymous with owning a house, without really asking whether owning that house actually provides people with material benefits to begin with.

Like Switzerland, Germany or South Korea among some other countries Japan is very much a nation of renters. This has arguably saved them from some very grave problems.
What Zuck should say: We allowed this to happen. We're sorry, We need your help
I'm developing a personalized videos generator. This simple version will send you an email daily on the topics that you select from medium.

It uses Amazon Polly to read the title and subtitle of the first 3 posts written in english per tag. It then combines all the videos into a single one and uploads it to YouTube as unlisted so that only you can see it.

I believe that soon, in around 2 years, we will have a lot of engaging content (blog posts, images, videos) created and maintained by bots. The main application I see to having bots generating engaging content is education. A lot of content creator are educators themselves but they cannot make all the videos people want, it just doesn't scale. We need to give to any person the opportunity to watch a video generated on demand with the same quality as the Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell videos and in virtually any language.

What are your thoughts? Do you know about anybody else working on the same things?

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Lack of consumer credit debt, and a steady savings rate.

> Buying a desirable home in a solid market is pretty much the only way for an average person earning the median wage to make it into the middle class.

Not true. You, too, can ascend from poverty if you don't fall into the finance-everything lifestyle of the (former) American middle class.
Reproducing is a form of peer review (if you assume that a person who successfully attempts to reproduce your work is ipso facto your peer).

But the fact that your peer (i.e. another academic who works in the same area) has read your paper and commented on it in the process of publication (i.e. customary "formal peer review") does not reflect on its reproducibility. The peer, being a human, has attentional deficits and there's probably true facts that increase the chances of the result occurring by chance which are not considered worthy of publication.

Until a paper's result is reproduced, it can't be regarded as reproducible.
Let me know when F# becomes flavor of the month. I'll gladly hop on that bandwagon.
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser covers many close call nuclear incidents that the US military has had since WWII. The incident which has been seared into my memory is one where an aircraft carrying a nuclear bomb flying over the east coast of the US had a critical engine failure which resulted in the crew bailing out. After the crew bailed out, an object in the cockpit inadvertently armed and dropped the bomb as the aircraft disintegrated. The only thing that prevented the eastern seaboard of the US (including Washington DC and New York City) from being irradiated with fallout was a failsafe switch which prevented a circuit from being completed in the bomb.

It is a wonder that we (still) haven't blown ourselves up yet.
Keybase is an awesome platform. Open-source, focused on security, and gaining traction in the messaging space. Check them out https://keybase.io/
The NYT is typically vague about which specific rule change they refer to in each case (they could have easily made each element the appropriate link to the Federal Register with appropriate details, and counting things like the never-ratified Paris climate agreement as a "rule change" is just plain intellectually dishonest), but the vast majority of Obama-administration rules that have been changed or undone thus far were only put in place in the last 2 months of the administration, after he was a "lame duck". Any such regulations viewed as meaningful and beneficial should have been implemented in the first 10 weeks of his administration, not when his administration was 99% over with. Lame-duck regs are generally just political payoffs.
> This is everything wrong with American media in one article

100% agree. What she should have done was not cancel the feature, but write what actually happened--right after it happened, not now, when Theranos has already been outed as a fraud and she's just another one jumping on the bandwagon.
If you are in MA, students enrolled in 12 credits or more (3 classes) per semester are required to have health insurance.

https://www.extension.harvard.edu/resources-policies/complet...
Isn't that a chicken and egg situation? If homes aren't considered to be equivalent to wealth, then not having a house doesn't preclude the average person from membership in the middle class.
What makes water especially dirty for this purpose? It seems like more of the bad particles would be washed back out to sea than if they'd been dispersed as fallout dust.
Why is JDK9 & JDK10 is quite huge 197MB? Much bigger than JDK8 which only use 75MB
When I cross-reference the lane lines at 0:03 with google maps[1], I get an estimate of the car being about 60ft-70ft away from the victim when I was first able to spot her shoe in the video. Some googling[2] says human reaction at 40mph would've taken 59ft, with an additional 80ft of actual stopping time.

This seems in line with the police report that "it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven)"

Maybe a SDV with superhuman reaction time should've been able to stop some 10ft after hitting her, and maybe if it had night vision-like sensors, it should've been able to see her from farther away, but my impression is that it would've been impossible for a regular human driver to avoid this accident.

Given that the SDV didn't attempt to reduce speed before she was visible under regular light, I'm forced to assume the sensors do require light in order to detect obstacles and that there wasn't enough light to activate the sensor before the headlights illuminated her.

[1](https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4369852,-111.9436199,113m/da...)

[2]https://www.google.com/search?q=stopping+distance+40mph&rlz=...
Flyway, Liquibase or Nextep ( https://github.com/christophefondacci/nextep-designer/wiki ) depending on which client, which project...
OK, fair point, it's an inexact example.

I suppose my point was that originally, “Android” was mostly open source. Google then quietly replaced parts with proprietary equivalents with a few more features, and now AOSP is nowhere near as useful (to ordinary consumers) as Google's proprietary distribution of Android.

A similar story could happen to a proprietary fork of a permissively-licensed open source project. Copyleft licences are designed to prevent proprietary forks.

And of course if you don't want that, you can license your code using a permissive licence. But that's why someone might choose a copyleft licence.
Also, this shows (again) that Google-like interviews are tailored for fresh grads. Basically, your studies were preps for these interviews.
The seems to be the oldest post on HN (Sept 8 2013, 211 upvotes, 113 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349

It doesn't feel that much more skeptical than typical HN threads about new companies. And skepticism/confusion was going to be more prevalent given how few HN users (relatively speaking) are in the health field.

Funny enough, if you scroll down far enough, you run into a comment that sounds like it came from a prophet. Or someone experienced in the field:

> The company is all hot air. They have a board full of retired military figure heads that have no experience in medical devices or retail services. Additionally, they do not have any products to show. Look at their patents. They are all very general and broad. There has been NO FDA CLEARANCE for anything they are doing, which raises legal questions. Speaking of legal, search for lawsuits they are involved in. Their core technology is not even theirs. They stole it from someone else.

That the board was heavy DC/military was well-known, or at least public. But I don't think it was well known that Theranos was heavily reliant on using other technology.

Sadly, that Theranos critique came from a one-use throwaway account. So likely an insider (or jealous competitor)?
I worked for a NYC startup that was eventually bought out. Nobody cared about the VC and their hiring practices. We were busy working 24/7 to get the business profitable and we wanted investment to grow the business, hire more people, move to a bigger office, etc.

Is there this much money slushing around that startups are now mocking investors?

There are nearly 20,000 startups. Does that mean 19000+ startups told investors to "not diversify and give us your money"? Every day, the media disappoints me.
Who wants to open a free-speech based forum site?
> And all of this over a very partisan domestic feud about supposed Russian interference in the 2016 election

The majority party in the Congress that adopted the sanctions is the same as the one of the President who allegedly benefitted from the interference. And national security officials in that same Presidential administration have described the Russian interference as something that happened in 2016 and can be expected to continue.

Blaming the sanctions on a domestic “partisan feud” is incorrect.
On a Debian based system

dpkg -l

And this would give you a pure list that you can directly use

dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}'
What do you think based on this video:

https://twitter.com/brianawhitney/status/976591851384745984?...

The woman with the bike wasn’t moving fast at all. I dunno...
In the US, the skilled worker visa (the infamous h1b) requires a bachelor's or masters, or 12y relevant work experience, or a mix of the two.
Perhaps they weren't trying to develop anything at all.

How many samples did they get before the lid got blew?
"The problem with Poles is they don't want to save," Borowski says.

In 2001 so called 'Belka's Tax' was imposed, which is annulling the capital gains tax (19% or something). This makes any placing to actually lose money (even more if you count inflation in).
So saving money in sock's drawer is out of question because of inflation, in banks it's even worse, that's been going on for 17 years. How we're suppose to save then?
I'm English. We have a robust attitude to swearing. I think it'd be weird to hear a CEO saying "fuck" unless they needed to do so to drive an important point home.

The word loses power if it's repeated. (What's the CEO going to say if things really do get bad?) But it also, as you say, makes the CEO look bad. I'm not sure exactly, but lazy, or dumb.

I know that some countries have a completely different understanding of the word, and see it as a mild swear. They'd think the equivalent in their language is not ok, but fuck is fine. So watch out for cultural differences.
Nope, otherwise /r/gundeals wouldn't have been banned
Actually, there are friends on Amazon. You can associate friends and family Wish Lists (if they are public) with your account.

Amazon also has a photo hosting service, so they could have photos of you if you use it.
From what I understand theranos pitched a lot of the traditional life sci and even tech VCs, but these firms were very skeptical. Especially the biotech VCs do a ton of scientific / technical diligence before investing and theranos almost certainly wouldn't have made it through their diligence filter

I think a few notable VCs actually spoke out critically of theranos, can't recall which, but it is saying something if a VC goes on record publicly criticizing a high profile starrtup
Beanstalk is an indoor farming startup that grows produce at the cost of outdoor farming.

Sure about that? With no details at all on the website, I will believe this guy first, who in late 2015 estimated USD$400,000 worth of solar energy per acre of land from outdoor growing. https://youtu.be/ISAKc9gpGjw?t=13m26s https://youtu.be/ISAKc9gpGjw?t=21m17s
If you look at any crime heat map of a city, you will note, hopefully with no surprise, that crime rate is inversely proportional to income distribution. If low income housing enters an area, the crime will go up. You may be fine with that, but you have to imagine that the already established residents of that area might not wish their crime rate to increase. Calling those concerns selfish is just name calling.
Jack Dorsey believes Bitcoin will be the world’s sole currency within 10 years
I believe it was sarcasm.

However, she most certainly is deserving of jail time; may Shkreli's precedent of $~19 million fraud and 7 years pave the way for Holmes. All ratios equal, the sentence should be ~270 years, naturally.

Unfortunately, because she is well connected to the VC folks, the $750 million and Ian Gibbons life will all go without retribution.
Tempe Police posts video from March 18 Uber AV fatal accident
Isn't that 4chan?
Facebook did not intend for this to happen. That is such nonsense.

They intended for cool apps to go viral across their social graph so Facebook could be a “social utility” and the operating system of human relationships and other airy fantasies they spouted in 2012, 2013, 2014 when they built the app platform.

Their hopes of a beautiful future of joy and freedom were dashed when they discovered humans are capable of garbage behaviour.

Ironically they believed the walled garden of Facebook would clean up the cesspool of blog comments. Oops.
We had a bullshit CPS scare in San Francisco when our first was born that involved 2 CPS inspectors having to come inspect our house and verify that we had "at least a dresser drawer" to put the kid in. It was entirely stupid (we were renting a 3-story townhouse off 8th and Folsom, which was nosebleed expensive even in 1999), but still incredibly stressful for us, because CPS had no compunctions about telling us what the consequences of noncompliance would be.

You have kids and you realize how traumatic even a single night of custody interruption would be, and then you think about what the reality of due process in these situations is.
How do you see your own profile?
Project hopes to bring dev skills to developing nation
Senate Passes Controversial Online Sex Trafficking Bill
Voat already exists and already has a reputation for being both terrible and a ghost town.
Interested to know if anyone has background.
They squeezed it in right at the very end, but it was actually rather surprising how little they minced words:

“We ingested the entire U.S. social graph,” Davidsen said in an interview. “We would ask permission to basically scrape your profile, and also scrape your friends, basically anything that was available to scrape. We scraped it all.”

So obviously a fair amount of strategic writing going on but all things considered, pretty respectable.

EDIT:

Bloomberg has also admitted Obama took advantage of it as well:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-21/facebook-...

"The scandal follows the revelation (to most Facebook users who read about it) that, until 2015, application developers on the social network's platform were able to get information about a user's Facebook friends after asking permission in the most perfunctory way. The 2012 Obama campaign used this functionality. So -- though in a more underhanded way -- did Cambridge Analytica, which may or may not have used the data to help elect President Donald Trump."

To me, the interesting part going forward is: will Democrats and the mainstream media continue to frame this as if it was Donald Trump who committed the wrongdoing? I'm not really sensing any widespread public outrage so I would suspect not, but time will tell.
I’m also keen on this question. Seems like there’s a broad vested interest in maintaining a scarcity of housing supply. Is there a compromise that can keep homeowners mostly profitable while allowing for others to get reasonable rents / purchase prices?
Not just in Japan either. There have been cases of crumbling historic villages in Italy promising very cheap housing provided that the buyer commits to renovating and living within a certain period.

I think stories like this couple well with one also from this week on HN:

Why Cities Boom While Towns Struggle
https://archive.is/9yDHx
They mostly haven't in recent years. Japanese homes are famously disposable [1] and there's generally been an asset price collapse followed by stagnation since the early 1990s.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/disposable-...
yup, that's the one.
Well, Zuck responded
Something I've been thinking about: why doesn't WeChat, the world's 2nd largest social network with 1B MAU, suffer the issues Facebook is experiencing today?

If Facebook became more like WeChat, would they avoid these problems? If Facebook finds it does avoid such problems, will Facebook switch models in the future?
Oh I have a little more faith in the man than that. First off, it's not clear that the bad news cycles are actually hurting the bottom line or any other line for that matter. Second, it's not obvious that curing the privacy issues that most capture the public attention will harm the service's utility for the majority of users. I haven't used any fb apps in a while and I haven't seen any of my friends share their app usage either.
Ask HN: Having phone number going straight to voicemail better than no number?
SAAS product with many customers, but a small team, we cannot handle live phone support yet. Will sending people straight to voicemail be more annoying for them, than not having any number and just send users to calendly for call back appointment? Is having a number on the page, even if connected straight to voicemail a better solution? I was not able to find any good case studies about that or examples how to handle it.
Is that bad? If someone lives in a community that is 90% their race, with their neighbors listening to their kind of music, engaging in their kind of activities, going to the same kind of events, not wanting to become a 10% minority? It would be like a Chinese person not wanting to move to India or vice versa.
But in the case of Japanese specifically, I’m sure some of them are weary of stocks after the big crash in the 80s.
He owes me nothing but he's not offering credible proof that his way is applicable to anyone but himself.

And as for calling something immoral which is the result of someones hard work and doesn't impact them if they choose not to use it, simply sounds like sour grapes and self righteousness.
I'm not taking sides here, and I could be very wrong – my assumption here is that Cambridge didn't have a "Trump Campaign App" they had some other app, then sold that data to a third party. Obama's campaign had a "campaign" app, and used the data collected from that app.

We can all argue about whether facebook should even allow apps the kind of data they do, but the crux of what CA did was to re-sell data they collected from Facebook, right? This is where the two aren't the same, as far as I'm aware, but like I said, I'm not super in the know.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13708453

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14506287

Enjoy. If you want to dip your toes in the water, you can go through

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/fsharp/

for a quick introduction.

If you have background in functional languages/programming, most of it should look familiar. If you come from an OO or a procedural background, then it might take some getting used to.

But if you are looking to get a job at a windows shop, I'd stick to C# ( or VB.Net ) as that's where most of the jobs are.
Or the investors could've delved deeper with their due diligence? Should a journalist be more useful to the public before they're a shortcut for people trying to make more money?

(Unless there were small time investors wrapped up in bigger funds who also should've done more research.)
Path tracing a really complex static scene in realtime has become quite feasible recently, especially with all these fancy temporal denoising filters that basically turn purse noise into surprisingly high quality images in no time.

The catch is the word "static". Dynamic scenes suffer from the overhead of building acceleration structures. You can hack something together if you have a tiny bit of dynamic geometry in an otherwise static scene or your animation is just moving static objects around. But a raytraced animated human face in realtime is something that we likely won't see for a while still.
It's fascinating that widespread outrage over privacy finally materializes when data is used for hated political causes. Commerce, law enforcement not so much... but "Trump" or "Obama" and suddenly people care.
I assume you are talking about Japan and Israels immigration restrictions. I support their right to them, personally, but I know there are many Americans who riot and march because those countries restrict their immigration so carefully.
In this case there is user trust to be gained. By refusing to appear in front of congress, mark and facebook has lost a little of my trust.
the ROI for stocks would have to be significantly higher than the ROI from real estate for it to make sense for a working/middle class person to invest in stocks instead of the structure they live in. you need to pay for housing either way.
Hack the State Department bill introduced
Personal experience: Learn by doing. Practice. There's no shortcuts, afaik.
Take your notes by hand ( paper & pen[cil], Cornell style is very nice. Typing does not work like handwriting ) study by night before having a full night's sleep. Let your shot-term memory be written to your long-term memory over the circadian cycle while sleeping.
Tighter integration with the state. Much less of an expectation of privacy (especially with regard to the state) in China.
. . . It wasn't, though? He could easily be talking about Midwesterners moving there, too. He never brought up race, and thinking "Increased crime rates!? Demographic shifts by [Anything can go here, try "Neoconservatives" or "Neoliberals" or "Social Conservatives" or "Fiscally Conservative Liberals"]??!? HE MUST BE THINKING ABOUT [RACE]!"

I think they're not the racist one here.
Your comment really speaks to me. I'm in the process of transitioning my career out of development altogether for the reason you mentioned getting out of Ruby. It just isn't fun anymore. I haven't been able to find a company with a good hacker-spirit since 2010. I like programming, and will probably continue with languages like Elixir and Haskell, but as far as the day-to-day work goes, I'm done.
> Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and Ted Yoho, R-Fla., today introduced the Hack Your State Department Act. It is similar to other bug bounty programs, such as Hack the Pentagon and Hack the Air Force, that have already been set up by the federal government and proven quite successful.

> “This program will rely on a bug bounty system where authorized hackers can enter a State Department system, identify and disclose weaknesses and receive compensation. Additionally, it will establish a Vulnerability Disclosure Program to field vulnerabilities reported by the general public,” Lieu and Yoho said in a statement.
(Warning: controversial and conspiratorial opinion; fake news if you will)

I used to think Zuckerberg's pandering to the Chinese government was a power grab, an expansionist desire.

Now I think it's a hedge strategy. He knows he's not very welcome in some of the circles he's been in for the past few years.