skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine you woke up one day to discover your bank account has been raided by another country's government. Just like that, $1 in every $16 of your supposedly safe money is gone. If you're wealthy enough to have more savings, it could be $1 in $10. Is it a nightmare?

The terms of the Cypriot bailout (and bail-in) are as simple as they are startling. Germany will cough up about $13 billion, and, in exchange, Cyprus will levy a "one-time" tax on bank deposits to raise an additional $7.5 billion. This tax will take 6.75 percent from insured deposits of €100,000 ($129,000) or less, and 9.9 percent from uninsured amounts above €100,000.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/everyth...
Er, that's not what I'm saying.

I'm saying that if you get a response from a webserver, you have to think about it being truncated. Period. No matter what the libraries you're using do for the many different cases of problem that can cause truncation.

You seem to have read a lot into my words that I didn't intend to put there.
I'd be curious how that stat changes if weighted by population rather than municipality.

The article acknowledges that the calculus is vastly different for major metropolitan areas like SF or NYC. Thing is - a good portion of the population lives in those major metropolitan areas. It doesn't do much good to know that buying beats renting in, say, Kansas or Tennessee if you happen to live in SF or NYC.

Similarly, I wonder how they'd compare either strategy to the "Move to SF or NYC for 10 years, make bank, live cheaply, then buy 5 houses in Kansas or Tennessee, living in one and renting the rest out. Never work again."
I resisted buying for years, but last year my wife convinced me we should buy a condo and I don’t regret it. We bought a unit with the same square footage as the place we rented, in a better location, and mortgage + property taxes + insurance is less than what we paid in rent, and that rent was only going to continue increasing every year. With a mortgage we fixed our biggest monthly expense.
Most ideas are neither new nor novel. Even if you're the first the odds are high that you are far too early and the technology won't be ready for a decade or more.

Even the first toilets were far from successful. Indoor plumbing required a whole industry and multiple compounding innovations to become successful.

Many people were working on flying machines. The Wright brothers simply got lucky in timing: internal combustion engines finally got reliable and useful enough for the idea to work. If they hadn't done it someone else would have within the following 5-10 years (and many others were in fact trying at the time).

Many people had MP3 players but none of them managed to design a product ordinary people would want to use, nor the muscle to make the record industry play ball with an online store. You can scream until you're blue in the face that Apple didn't invent MP3 players but that just makes you irrelevant and a bad potential founder/employee.

I would argue that most truly ground-breaking innovations do not result in a wildly successful business. Finding a way to pair ideas with execution and product-market fit are more important.
Paula sounds like a womans name
I disagree about needing more "humility". The problem is that climate modelling is much more difficult than many of the "solved" physics problems, but due to what we already know about the problem of Climate Change, we need the answers as soon as we can get them.

The closest historical example that comes to mind, as far as physics goes, is the Manhattan Project, and there we had a clear goal in mind and a timeline that was dictated by wartime necessity. The number of lives affected by Climate Change is comperable, but there's no clear enemy dictating the an agressive timeline.

The other issue is that the people with the money to burn, so to speak, are the fossil fuel companies and they have a vested interest in delaying the changes we need as long as possible. So they put that money to use in both the media and political arenas to play up the "debate" as long as they can. This is all exactly like it was with the Tobacco industry which fought for decades to keep the dangers of smoking from being publicized. Only it's not just smokers who get killed by melting ice caps.

TL;DR: we know enough about climate change to know that it's happening, it's a big deal, and we have to make major changes to avoid massive damage to our planet. The majority of the noise about how we "don't know enough" about it is coming from the people who have a vested interest in delaying these changes as long as possible.
Grilled cheese is so low maintenance that I don't understand why you would pay a premium for something you can make way better yourself for practically pennies.
No matter how good they make the grill cheese, I feel confident that I will be able to make a grill cheese that tastes better for cheaper every single time and I believe this sentiment is shared by most people.
> The financial arguments assume one only pays the minimum mortgage payment amount.

They also tend to ignore that mortgage repayments remain static while rent goes up, that interest payments goes down if you pay in advance (offset accounts) and that once it's all payed off your rent is $0.

A mortgage for a home within my means is one of the best financial decisions I've ever made.
...I don't know if it was intentional or not, but you're missing a comma.
The dog that didn't bark. Perhaps that's because people aren't committing code which regresses these cases, due to the presence of pre-checkin unit tests?
Just checked with them. "Not quite yet! We're just testing a ticketing option and hope to release it soon. That will send out a PDF ticket with a unique barcode on it. However, someone will need to be able to read it. At a future date, we hope to have a Lil Regie app for that, but that will be a while away."
This is one of those HN threads where I'm going to sit back with a bag of popcorn and hit refresh...
Side point if anyone from Zappo is reading;

- There is a broken image link for me: http://prntscr.com/j8ta00

- This websites feels a bit information light. Its like its been written to be like the cool clean startups vs the focus being on providing key information and ability to get there easily. That said I'm low on the technical scale so maybe the githup link and style suits most great.
I fully agree that there can always be garbage coming back and that any robust client needs to be aware of that happening. I'm sorry if I read too much into what you were saying, but, it sounded like you were arguing that the change shouldn't be made because there are other ways that corruption could occur that this change wouldn't solve. But, it sounds like you were just warning that this change wouldn't be a panacea? Is that accurate?
Apple Reportedly Taking Intel Out of Macs; ARM Likely Incoming
Look at the author's "history of home prices" graph (that amusingly is from 2006)

The author cites that graph, then goes on to make the claim that housing costs rise with inflation. The graph certainly doesn't look like any reasonable measure of inflation I have ever seen.
These articles always ignore leverage.

Generally, with 20% down you are leveraged 5:1. So even if your home is just keeping pace with inflation of 3%, you actually experience 15% growth on your investment. To use the example in the article, if your investment doubled between 2009 and now, your $200k in a $1M home just became 1.2M. 6x growth beats out 3x growth in stocks in the same period.

Sure, you can be leveraged in other investments but (1) your interest won't be tax deductible, (2) your interest rates won't be nearly as low, and most importantly (3) you won't be able to borrow with no recourse (depends on the state law, but "no recourse" means your downside on a primary residence is limited to the equity in the home. If you default on the loan they can't come after your other assets.)

Does it mean renting is a bad idea? No. There are plenty of reasons it might make financial sense to rent. But articles like these should accurately discuss the financial upside of buying.
Rent payments are set high enough to pay the owner's mortgage and give them a profit. If you already need to pay a mortgage, why not buy the house to get the interest deductions and equity?
My startup was approached by a corporate VC that wanted to make a strategic investment. Based on the attendee list from our meeting, which included very high up folks from the company, I felt good going in. They expressed interest in our technology that makes reading on screen easier [1], but they were surprised to learn that we didn't use machine learning to accomplish this.

I indicated that it was actually quite effective without ML, and that it was easier to explain to users this way. They kept prodding around on the ML stuff, and how we might be able to use ML to accomplish roughly the same thing.

A week later they said that they were no longer interested because, although they liked what our tech was able to accomplish, it didn't fit with their investment thesis — which was all about ML.

My wife asked me why I didn't just make some stuff up and say we could do v2 using ML. Perhaps she was right.

1: http://www.beelinereader.com/individual

update: in response to feedback below, I edited the link to point to a page with relevant content instead of our generic landing page. Lesson learned!
Click bait of a title... I think the more important thing this article is trying to say is: use a good heuristic to solve your problem, if it can't do so then ML may be something to look into.
This looks fun, considering how much of an influence Next seems to have had on OS 2 & 3. And not just the colour schemes either, BOOPSI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOOPSI) looks like an attempt to get some ObjC features into plain old C.
>>The Blockchain is TCP/IP with History.

Great analogy. A canonical history is useful for preventing double spending, but also any kind of collaborative endeavor.

Without a shared history, there can be no consensus on the present state.
Thank you for adding perspective to this issue with police and drawing it out of exclusively-race territory.

I would suggest that perhaps, part of what's happening is that the police are optimizing for a particular metric. We can hope that it's crime reduction, or some number or numbers very close to that.

When you optimize for one metric, other metrics fall.

The police, like most anyone, make errors based on superficial attributes. Even if statistically, arresting tall hobo beard man taking pictures of trees late at night is the best course of action for the police's metrics, you perceive it as a series of stupid errors. This leads to a perception of injustice and harassment.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't mind security check ups and even being stopped by police as long as they are cordial and professional, and, crucially, I understand their reasoning. I recall listening to one black man, I think he was talking to Sam Harris, relating how police would stop black men and grab them. Unprofessional treatment creates a perception of an uncivilized society, and that's unjust.
People often don't take property cycles in to account and they can be a huge factor in many markets and semi predictable. When stuff is cheap (price to wages) and going up buying is a no brainer. When it's expensive and topping out its questionable.
Seven Principles of Software Development – Revisited
I was confused. Apparently Belgium saw fit to restrict the export.
The New York Times has a fairly detailed rent-vs-buy calculator that makes it easy to see the effects of changing some of the variables the author talks about in the article.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
It always puzzles me when people point out that cryptocurrencies are used for illegal activities.

Cyptocurrencies were not designed to facilitate illegal activities. Yet every fuddite makes it seem so.

Every single fiat currency in the world is/can be used for illegal activities. Do we discard them? Care to wager which currency, USD or BTC; is used more for illegal activities? No, I didn't think you would. But media and fudders will repeatedly point out that it's cryptos that are used to transact illegal things.
Namecheap does indeed support .pe, I just can't figure out how to get the authorization code sent from punto.pe to allow me to transfer it.

Thanks for both of your comments, though!
The OP video is from a Canadian FYI, so it's not just Americans.

Why would all four walls in every internal room need to be a foot of solid brick? That's so wasteful, and a nightmare for retrofitting with additional utility services. I get that you are used to it, but custom isn't a valid reason for things to be done a certain way. We need to go back to first principles. What's the best way to build a house? Well, in North America, wood is widely available, cheap, and builds a strong house that's resistant to earthquakes. Why would you use anything else? Also keep in mind that farmed wood is carbon neutral, while concrete and bricks are not.

And it's not temporary. Wooden houses will easily last centuries. Given how quickly technology is changing anyway, how long do you really need a house to last? Even one century is probably more than enough. Also consider that the average length of home ownership is 13 years; why does it matter what happens seven owners down the line after you're already dead?

Also, the moral of the three little pigs fairy tale is that hard work and dedication pay off, not that literally brick is the best construction material (it's not).
All I know is that Marxism is a sophomoric and demagogic economic ideology that incites violence and promotes ruinous economic policies.

>>Please point to anywhere where I said that I support Marxist doctrine.

You criticized Americans for seeing Marxism as evil.

>>I do think that Marxian economics is a useful way to understand economics.

But it's not.. How could you say that a model that considers the value of an employee's labor to be equal to their wage plus profit is useful?
Doesn’t scale.
Assuming you have the down payment (true in my case) then it mostly comes down to transaction costs.
Vendors like Cisco have excellent training, but it's biased towards their own gear.
But if you say "I'm going to use a bunch of shell scripts to parse logs" you are boring. If you say "I am going to use groundbreaking ML/AI technologies to transform big data into customer retention solutions", you are a visionary.
Same as people bashing "made in china" when the highest quality laptops (Macbooks) are made there. It is the region, low quality things made in china are low quality on purpose.
That reminds me of this IBM press release[1]:

> IBM, Walmart and Tsinghua University have piloted the use of blockchain to trace food items, including pork in China and mangoes in the U.S., as they move through the supply chain to store shelves. Recent testing by Walmart showed that applying blockchain reduced the time it took to trace a package of mangoes from the farm to the store from days or weeks to two seconds.

[1] https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/53487.wss
One of the benefits of serialization technology (like Codable+JSONEncoder in Swift or DataContract in C#) is that you get a canonical representation of the bits in memory before you pass the document on to anyone else.

By representing fields with enums or proper types you get some constraints on values as well, eg: If a value is really an integer field then your type can declare it as Int and deserialization will smash it into that shape or throw an error, but you don't end up with indeterminate or nonsense values.

This can be even more important for UUIDs, Dates, and other extremely common types that have no native JSON representation, nor even any agreed-upon consensus around them.

You get less help from the language with dynamic languages like Python but you can certainly accomplish the same thing with some minimal extra work. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say languages like Python offer easy shortcuts that you shouldn't take.

In any case I highly recommend this technique for enforcing basic sanitization of data. The other is to use fuzzing (AFL or libFuzzer).
There's another intangible benefit to owning if you know you're going to stay in the area long term -- you can't be forced out of your home.

I was forced out of one home I rented due to owner move-in, which led to a stressful 30 days of trying to find a new apartment in a tight housing market. We managed to find a place outside of the city, but close enough to transit for a manageable commute. And rent was about the same, though for an apartment half the size.

And then, as housing prices continued to rise, that apartment raised the rent 25%. Fortunately, they gave us 60 days notice, so we started looking around for an affordable home to purchase (even farther away, but still near transit), and found one where the PITI+HOA was less than the new rent would have been.

Rents have continued to rise (as have home prices, our home is now worth about twice what we paid for it 5 years ago, this market doesn't seem sustainable, but hopefully after the next crash we won't be underwater on the mortgage).
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The sheer amount of fuckery that Landlords engage in was more than enough for me never to be a renter again.
I didn't want to express any opinion on the change; I use aiohttp for my python-powered web-scale crawling needs. So yes, it's accurate that I was warning that the change would be incremental and not a panacea.

BTW aiohttp has the problem of currently having a too-strict http protocol parser, so it throws errors for many rare cases of bad webservers, which browsers don't have a problem with. As a crawler, I need to be able to work with whatever a browser will display, ...
Your landlord is probably not buying at the same instant he signs a lease with you, and he could be benefitting from economies of scale that you don't have by purchasing capital, homes, and maintenance services in bulk.
Plus principal, taxes, insurance, profit for homeowner, percentage for property manager, renter deposits, upkeep from the last renters who broke the gas lines, scratched your hardwood floors and fled, etc.

You're going to have a tough time finding a homeowner who will let you live in their house for less than their costs.
>>No matter which way you view it, it's possible to cast suspicion on their presumed impartiality.

Of course, but there are degrees of suspicion. That's why we have standards.

>>Thus, I don't see your original comment as adding anything other than FUD.

Your comment is just trying to delegitimize valid concerns about the corrupting influence of union privileges.

If you want to betray society by playing these manipulative games, I'm not going to dignify the rest of your response.
When younger, Adams did hike with large format cameras.

But later he built a platform on the top of his station wagon and used that.
A huge part of the "data revolutions" that we've seen in the last few decades really has nothing to do with data and everything to do with process.

Data Warehouses changed the way people and companies do data. They expose all kinds of things that were never available before. It was magic!

No. It wasn't. Not that Data Warehouses are bad or ineffective. But it's a lot like the problem you face when you observing something changes it. The work you have to go through to build a real data warehouse is that you have to get disparate parts of an organization to codify process. Data warehouses don't model data. They model processes.

The mere fact of forcing the company to pin the process is often more beneficial than the warehouse itself.

The same thing goes for ML and AI. The only way to extract features is for them to actually exist. And that means the data needs to exist in a certain form, and there's a human process that leads to that. Absent that, it's pretty useless.

I cut my teeth on SQL, and it's a big part of my professional career. I think it's great. It's one of my favorite languages, and it does a lot that maybe a lot of people don't know about.

But this title and the content are really pretty garbage. Anyone who thinks that good SQL can do what good AI/ML can do is really misunderstanding both.
Neat, I didn't know about this chip. Is there anything particular about a stack architecture that makes it ideal for radhard applications, or is it just the one they selected because they wanted to use Forth?
It can be abit of a pain if you're not using linux OS as the server.
Setting up secure image registries or registries in general is also tricky.
It can be tricky learning how to debug dockerised applications because of the extra layer of indirection.
Unseen Diplomacy is really cool... Its tricks are also not going to let you play Skyrim like you are in a holo-deck.
I like the notion that AI is impossible to wrangle into a neat box, because it has always described the cutting edge of technology. Image manipulation, audio synthesis, and other techniques we're once considered artificial intelligence. But now that they are far better defined and understood, they essentially have fallen out of the nebulous sphere of sci-fi tech.
It’s easy to say “just move somewhere cheaper” but how do you put together a list of places? How many people who can’t afford rent can afford flying around the country trying out new cities? How do you find a new job if you don’t know anybody?

What companies are working on economic relocation? It sounds like something difficult and valuable.
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I had a Kyocera 7135[1] back before the Treos took off, pretty incredible for the time. No concept of a "data" plan, all my bits came from dialing up a cellular line like old school modems.

I'd actually argue that the precursor to the modern smartphone was the Sidekick. It was one of the first ones with push IM, email(even for pop3!) that worked well with consumer's interests in mind. Sadly it never went anywhere other than t-mobile in the US. Andy Rubin did go on to build Android with large parts of that team so not all was wasted.

[1] https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=173
Bigger clients (and intrepid smaller clients) are willing to commit to longer term plans. The key is to be clear about what it will take and what it will return. If it's the first time they have even thought about using a large dataset the ROI could be high, and it's a long term strategy to start collecting and using data anyway.

Bigger clients budgeting can also be conducive to longer term planning as well. In year one they can write it off as an R&D investment, year two it can start to make returns.

Clients who have been burned by less capable companies are also comforted by very well defined plans, so they are happy to hear you have actually accounted for the issues that likely "came out of nowhere" last time.
Yea. I wasn't clear, so I reworded my comment a little at the end to better reflect what I meant.
Sure, there are lots and lots of deeper details but fundamentally, more registers means more transistors (or a higher-level logical unit of choice) and it's the constraint that drives accumulator-centric designs, specialized registers, etc. Relax the constraint and they become less necessary.
Most of the early computers were accumulator-based; and the concept predates computers, since the early mechanical calculators had a single "register" --- the accumulator --- which... accumulated the results of successive calculation. It's no surprise that computers, which initially were developed to be essentially automatic calculators, adopted the same architecture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmometer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptometer
Is Science Hitting a Wall?, Part 1
Musk had to have his arm twisted to make them reusable, sorry, re-landable. All the innovative ideas are already out there, they just have to be found and pursued.
The idea being that it was too buried for Eventbrite themselves to be aware of it?