skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m aware that HTML 5 wasn’t an XML but I thought XHTML was an XML and browsers still have to support it because not everyone is on HTML 5.

Either way, my original draft included language around the distinction, but I felt I’d already written too much so I cut it.
> Making the expiration date into a QR code that gets scanned and then sent to a server so it can be checked by a computer is a thing you can do, but you can also just put it on the packaging, the way every other item in your pantry and fridge do.

The expiration of these packets were measured in days or maybe a week, not weeks. Also, as I mentioned above in another comment, there could be particular product recalls like the current romaine lettuce recall. I'm not arguing that it wasn't overengineered, I'm just pointing out why they did it. I wouldn't have done it, but they chose to.

> One of the reasons the price was high is that the machine was poorly designed and hideously over-engineered.

It was totally overengineered. When my friend read the product breakdown from one of the blogs about how it was as if completely unexperienced mechanical engineers had designed the press, she said this wasn't too far off the mark. But the main reason for the failure wasn't the press, it was the food supply chain. That was way too intensive and expensive and wouldn't scale the way they wanted it to. They spent money on food scientists to make sure that the combination of vegetables they used wouldn't interact during the time that they were packaged together, etc. The people they were marketing to were pretty price-independent. $600 for a dumb press wasn't a big deal if they got a great green juice, which they did. Their phase to expand and lower the price was in the future, before they died because funding dried up.

> Just like other failed companies, yes. The only companies to succeed after that level of strategic failure were the ones lucky enough to pivot. This wasn't a viable idea!

Firstly, 90% of all startups fail.

I never said it was a viable idea. I thought the idea wasn't good. But the investors took a chance. That's how it works. Even YC admits that the idea is less important than the people who are attempting the startup. The founder had fundamental experience with launching juice bars on the East Coast, and the idea to create a new market wasn't horrible. Investors took a chance, and then the management fucked it up.

And yes, you can laugh at how dumb the idea is now, but the same goes for Soylent, or even the infamous Dropbox comment in HN. But at least their idea wasn't just "sell $600 juicers ad infinitum and make $$$$". That's my point. A lot of the article miss this.

Juicero is just another failure like all other failures we see all the time in Silicon Valley. There are far worse examples of bad investments out there. I'm sure it's definitely in the bottom quartile of bad investments, but in my opinion it's not like it's the worst ever and doesn't deserve the level of humiliation associated with it. It was just a mismanaged idea that got bad press and then the Internet Lynch mob jumped on it.
> which under some circumstances they want to.

Right, and the flipside is that not being able to delete comments makes people think a bit more carefully before posting, which improves the quality of the comments and the site.
@chrisv_au's response [1] also merits concern:

> Maybe @eventbrite should explain why they sent no official communications about changes to their t&c's - either to add this section, or to remove it.

[1] https://twitter.com/chrisv_au/status/988195013308772353?s=20
Yeah, but can you diversify by location better by yourself than a REIT? Lots of cases of individual cities and neighborhoods going to pot while the rest of the nation and world prosper
Agreed. Indeed, the original punchline I had for pynt (the tool I linked above) was "Jupyter notebooks for software engineers". The idea being that software engineers might look at jupyter notebooks and think "they look cool, but my code isn't in a jupyter notebook, so it looks like I can't use them".

I'm curious for what ideas you have that you think jupyter notebooks (or other interactive programming tools) would have the most promise for gaining adoption amongst software engineers.

One pynt feature I had going facilitated a "debugger-driven development" workflow where when your code hits an exception it would save the state and generate a jupyter notebook with your code in it, hence allowing you to fix the bug faster.
I've seen these clips before and always wonder where these examples are on the scale of "average experience".

Is this the worst of the worst? ie- only the few most congested stations experience this during peak hours on a particularly bad day?

Or is it relatively expected? ie- most major stations will experience this during peak hours on an average day?
> but too much DRY in tests can make for hard-to-modify spaghetti

This applies to all code, not just tests. Dry can turn some stupidly simple if somewhat repetitive code into a complicated mess.

For unit tests though, as I general rule I don't share any setup between tests but I use the test fixture setup method for common mocks to return default answers. Even that can get too hairy at times and it's better off creating a second test fixture.
Canada: Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet Is Not a Crime
I use this kind of workflow all the time in Emacs.
I write code in one window and have a Jupyter REPL in the other and send code to the REPL to test things live as I'm coding.

I'll have "pdb" set up in Jupyter REPL so it drops into a debugger when I have an error with a function.

In the case of a long running function I want to debug (like the video example at the end) I'll set local variables with the same names as the variables of the function and then execute the function line-by-line/chunk-by-chunk.

The only problem is losing track of global state, but the same thing can happen in Jupyter notebooks.

This type of workflow is really common in Lisp and R.

If I want to integrate documentation and code, I'll use org-babel or R Markdown (which does work with Python).
you need the post office too - don't see your point
> Did you know YC startups have special privileges on Hacker News? Nobody knows what they are, but rumor has it they can delete stories they don’t like, delete comments, and have the ability to get their stories to the front.

Rumor is completely wrong. We don't even bypass the spam filter.
A Tale of Two Poorly Designed Cross-Border Data Access Regimes
Event playing a Beatles song, let's just film it and sell it for money, sucks for you if it costs you a million per play.
And that’s why you test the DB with an integration test (and likely a functional test too).

For your unit test you’d just mock the dB call and make sure that function called the “db” and returned the faux data. That’s it.

No one said unit tests had to be complex or test the whole stack. Quite the opposite actually.
With the name HONEST ANNIE you're hardly unbiased when it comes to Golem XIV :D

But I think the best elements of the story aren't Golem's lectures but the story of what happened at the end, firstly that Annie in particular is so vastly superior to humans that she crushes the would-be conspiracy without a thought, not as adversaries but as a nuisance, and then that after the AIs are gone (transcended? destroyed themselves? the reader isn't told) humans just carry on as if nothing happened at all.
I believe this is because it takes an enum, not an integer. Perhaps Reason is communicating this to uglify?
This is a positive to me. Pretty much every day during baseball season, if I feel like watching baseball I have the option. I don't want to watch everyday, but I love being able to watch basically any time I want.
Sudden cascading lack of trust?
I was hoping that this would patch in with the OSX system progress bars and sum up the total amount of time waiting for something to happen on your computer. I always thought that progress bars were just a waste of life.
> I think with this way of thinking there will never be progress.

This position is completely fair.

But the company taking these risks should never, ever have been Tesla.
"Upper middle class" has a definition in sociology that basically excludes the trades; it's the "managers and professional" class.
Is there some other technology out there creating an immutable supply token better than Bitcoin that I don't know about?
Lyft/Uber are like libraries for cars...
This article didn't scare me just shined the light that people are truly not willing to sacrifice.

They had a $500k nest egg and living in a 4000 sqf home. The decision could have been to sell the home, downgrade to a home half the size, cut all 'future children investments' and lived a frugal life.

The best future investment that could have been made here is living within the reality of the numbers.
I think people are severely underestimating the value of a single source of digital signing and chronology, as well as the network effects of interoperability. Time will tell ;)

also to the point of specific design decisions, there are plenty of models that will evolve including arbitrary protocols on the Filecoin Merkle forest, so I'm not worried about that

also find that distributed systems experts tend to fail to see things through the lens of cryptoeconomics, which was nakamoto's fundamental innovation. it's about provable behavioural security
I own my own home and this idea being pimped to millennials that they should lease everything from car rides, music, movies, bicyles, and shelter is a fast curtain to a bad "third act." (read that as old age)

John Goodman said it best while playing a loan shark in the the film "The Gambler..."

Frank: You get up two and a half million dollars, any a-hole in the world knows what to do: you get a house with a 25-year roof, an indestructible [Japanese]-economy shit box, you put the rest into the system at three to five percent to pay your taxes and that’s your base, get me? That’s your fortress of Fucking solitude. That puts you, for the rest of your life, at a level of fuck you. Somebody wants you to do something, fuck you. Boss pisses you off, fuck you! — Own your house. Have a couple bucks in the bank. Don’t drink. That’s all I have to say to anybody on any social level... Did your grandfather take risks?

Jim Bennett: Yes.

Frank: I guarantee he did it from a position of fk you. A wise man’s life is based around fuck you. The United States of America is based on fuck you. You have a navy? Greatest army in the history of mankind? Fuck you! Blow me. We’ll fuck it up ourselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdfeXqHFmPI
CSS Layouts: Understanding the Differences Between Grid, Flex, and Float
I did a look back at using a Palm V as a young techie back in 1998/1999. It's interesting since I still had some records of screenshots from real-world apps I used on a daily basis back then.

http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2012/12/30/mobile-in-1998

The Palm V wasn't that far off from modern smartphones, when set up correctly. Of course, lacked color and cellular connectivity. But, form factor was very similar to modern smartphones. And use cases have evolved in roughly the same direction. Plus, due to the grayscale screen and slow clock speed, the battery life was pretty darn good!

The two major problems that hindered widespread adoption of the Palm V: (a) The requirement to use Palm Graffiti with a stylus for text and input[1], which had a steep-ish learning curve. (b) The slow serial port (!!!) sync to desktop for pretty much all "connected" functionality.

AvantGo[2], in particular, was very ahead of its time, and using it did feel like "living in the future". And, in fact, I was -- it allowed me to read news articles and digital web content 'on the go', even in the period 1998-2001.

The iPod would be released in 2001 and the iPhone in 2007. So, it turns out it was about ~5 years too early for the hardware/infrastructure tech to catch up to the (conceived) mobile software use cases.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AvantGo
Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga
my original point is that there are distributed database engineers who are excited about the technology behind blockchain, hi!
Sure, but the root of the problem is that beancounters shouldn't be anywhere near such a "decision". We're reinventing totalitarianism through insurance companies.
Write a blog post and share it here?
same here, gitea works for probably 90% of the users IMO, I use it to host everything these days. tried gitlab a couple of times in the past, not impressed by the performance yet.

have not used drone yet, will give it a shot.
Paring "csv" and "obj" format is also difficult. They both have "simple" specs, but neither of them has a standard spec.
When I was house-hunting, I found it really frustrating how difficult it is to truly price out the total cost of owning a house.

Many people think that renting is throwing your money away, and buying is acquiring equity. This is true as a first-order approximation, but far from the whole story. Home ownership also has ton of non-recoverable costs:

- interest on your mortgage
- mortgage insurance (if you have >80% LTV)
- closing costs on your loan (2-5% when you buy)
- property taxes
- homeowners insurance
- yard care / landscaping
- HOA fees
- home maintenance (estimated: 1%/year)
- realtor fees (6% when you sell!)
- excise tax (~1% when you sell, in my locale)

All of these costs come before you have contributed a single dollar of equity to pay down your loan. If you rent, your rent check covers all of the above expenses.

I'm still really happy to be a homeowner. I love my house and I love being able to do what I want to it. I just wish it was easier to price out the total cost of ownership prior to buying, so that rent vs. buy comparisons could be more enlightened. I certainly felt like I didn't have enough information to make a totally informed decision when I was choosing to rent vs. buy.

Part of what complicates this analysis is: a lot of the financial benefit arises from the house's appreciation, not your accumulated equity. But betting on home appreciation is a bit of a gamble. Home values are subject to a lot of economic and political factors that you can't control. If the mortgage interest deduction went away, or mortgage interest rates rose significantly, it could devalue houses a lot.
But that non-interference comes from exposing all the information it operates on to the public. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to maintain a consensus.

(if you encrypt your data, then nobody else can see it, but you can't do anything with it on the chain and you might as well store it in S3 or wherever)
I think blockstack is one such application: to register an identity without relying on any central party for that. Basically anything where you need to make a very small number of transactions to store information that will be cryptographically secured in a decentralized manner.
Respectfully disagree with _pdp_ here. Many ideas are not low hanging in retrospect. The three pre-internet businesses I cite are obvious needs (trade, oil refining & transportation) and yet had requirements that made them untenable business ventures for people without the specific advantages required by those business models. Government support, a superior position in the supply chain or access to vast amounts of capital provided barriers to entry for potential competitors. Having demonstrated that the second claim is false, I will not address the first claim.

Something that has not been done before is not low hanging fruit. To be sure, it is difficult to know if there are fewer good businesses to be started today, but the economic evidence has been stacking up for 30 some years now. Here are some papers showing the slowdown in productivity and new starts:

- http://www.nber.org/papers/w21974

- https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ByrneEt...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/business/economy/startup-...

Part of this is a sclerotic antitrust regulator that has been defanged by lobbyists. Part of it is the internet removing information asymmetries, leading to natural monopolies. Part of it is probably the cheap "bits" businesses crowding out "atoms" investments in VC. Another part is probably that we are simply running out of easy defensible businesses to create. This is ok! People will have to get more creative and humanity will progress more slowly, but from a higher base.
You could consider using websockets, which are intended to be used the way you're trying to use chunking.
jancsika, totally understand the forking workflow is not ideal right now. Thanks for sharing your use case and using GitLab.

We are tracking more formal support for this here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/23902

It's a popular issue, but there are some tricky implementation details to work out.
> I think underlying a lot of this is a disdain in America for blue collar workers.

It could simply be that everybody knows that blue collar job are eventually going to disappear. You don't want to build your latest factory using technology that will make you obsolete in a few years.

Obviously we were not quite there yet in the 80's/90's. Otherwise you would be reading the opposite story on how Japanese Car Factories failed because they used human instead of machine like in the US. Actually you can replace "Japanese Car Factories" in the previous sentence with a lot of thing that are actually true today.

Now, about Tesla, there is some relevance. They are still building car that are very much like regular cars and other manufacturer are building their own factories regularly for new platform/model, not held back by legacy issues. So it does indeed seem that Tesla is at an experience disadvantage.

I guess what happens is that this is Tesla trying to leverage a manufacturing bet on top of its successful "electric car" bet. You can see that on how harshly they lashed at journalists talking about their manufacturing safety, and draw some parallel with the initial review of the model s ( compared to today where you can make a 100 million view video bad mouthing about their car and Musk would probably not even be notified )

Tesla real goal is to find a manufacturing process that can get them producing car 1 order or 2 order of magnitude faster than the competition (and you know such a process cannot include human). They want to be the market leader by volume on every single class of electric vehicle in 10 years.
One of the things that has bitten me before was the maximum allowed nesting depth - this was different in two implementations, so one rejected the payload while the other one parsed it fine :(
The article is basically correct. Let's explore the options.

BUYING REAL ESTATE

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Take the average price of a home in the USA, according to a google's top result, approximately 200,000.

Take the average APR at the moment, 4.5%.

That results in a $800 payment per month for 30 years if you put 20% downpayment of 40,000.
(source https://www.dollartimes.com/loans/mortgage-rate.php?length=3...)

Depending on the area, you'll most likely be able to rent a similar home for the same or lower amount.

BUYING STOCKS

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Take the same 40,000 downpayment and invest them in a low cost broad market index fund such as Vanguard, SPDR, etc.

Assuming an average long term return of around 9% for the stocks, after 30 years this will result in around $600,000.

(source https://www.investor.gov/additional-resources/free-financial...)

WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING

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Let's look at what happens after only 5 more years. Your investment has now grown to over %933,000! If you wait 5 more years (40 years total), the sum is now $1,400,000+ !

Why? Because investments in stocks are compounded! I believe one of the reasons why people think a house is an OK investment is because they don't realize the biggest flaw of one house - it does not really compound the way liquid stocks or ETFs do. In the short run it's hard to see the difference but given a long horizon the differences become enormous.

There's reasons to own a home such a sentimental value, ability to modify it just you like it, etc. But people who believe it has been or is a great investment in the long term are deluding themselves. Look at it as something that's nice to have, or luxury if you will.

PARTING THOUGHTS

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You can always come with an example where real estate was a great investment. You can make that argument both ways. If you bought real estate in 2009, you made great returns but if you do the above calculation for the average broad market ETF chances are the returns are even better!

In the long term, history is on the side of dynamic stocks/companies and not real estate. I don't have a crystal ball and can't promise you that choosing one or the other will be better next month/year/decade etc(aka past results do not guarantee future returns). After all, this is all facts of the past :).
The Linux subsystem for Windows is pretty good, but I run an Ubuntu box through Vagrant for my development these days. Apps work better on Windows, especially Office apps and, surprisingly, Chrome
Pro tip for using Zelle more safely: Ask the receiver to request funds from you vs sending to X or Y number/email.
Just found this little gem for Android that allows you to have progress bars like these as a launcher widget.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.donationco...
IETF's RFC process does a pretty good job at keeping things compatible. But I agree W3C specs, especially the SOAP ones are absolutely horrible.
Towns that depend on one or a few employers have been a losing bet for home ownership. This has been learned multiple times already. It seems good if you get out before it goes bust, but that's like catching a falling knife (especially if the company is not forthright about its impending doom).
wasn't Goldman Sachs caught taking both sides of a transaction in the 2009 financial crisis?

This is more common than you think.

The official designation for someone who takes both sides of a trade, is a Systematic Internaliser:

(From Google)

According to MiFID II/MiFIR regulations, 'Systematic Internaliser means an investment firm which, on an organised, frequent systematic and substantial basis, deals on own account when executing client orders outside a regulated market, an MTF or an OTF without operating a multilateral system.
Crts don't switch on an off. The phospher decays much more slowly then a switched diode.
Take your racist BS to another message board. All EV busses in Sweden are BYD. They're popular throughout Europe.
I meant that grammar policing does little to help the exchange of information. Feelings aside.
What I don't get about this is: why Boise? Are people just moving there for the scenery? There are major US metros with affordable housing and much better job markets.

There's a sort of implied dichotomy in this article: major metros are too expensive, so people will move into a succession of mid-sized towns. But, no: a couple major metros are too expensive. Others, like Miami, Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, DFW, and Houston are comparably affordable --- several of them are cheaper than Boise!
The financial crisis didn’t start in the banking sector, it started in the finance sector.

And I cannot really see how a blockchain could have prevented it... I would be interested in hearing ideas about this!
> quality of the food is rising.

unless you're buying some gold class dining ticket (which tends to cost upwards of 100 dollars), the food (or snacks) is terribly overpriced and quality isn't getting better.
>History is written by whoever has the github.

Not really, just because a change is pushed to the github repo, doesn't mean the network (and its participants) will automatically accept it. Those unhappy with the changes can always fork the network if they want.