skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This! The inflation hedge also makes the wealth gap exponential for those without the capital to get in the real estate game for lack of a better term. The capital needed to get into a home with traditional financing seems to go up by the month and is essentially moving the finishing line for those millenials saving for homes.
But you also have to calculate the opportunity cost of having a bunch of money sunk in an asset that (apparently) didn't perform spectacularly. By renting he could have invested that $200k in an S&P 500 index fund. Assuming he bought his house today in 1978, the S&P 500 increased over 27x ($97 on 4/23/1978, and $2670 today), plus he would have got about 2% dividends. I'm guessing his house didn't cost $7400 in 1978 (not to mention the 1 - 2% "dividend" he paid the government in property taxes), so I'd say renting isn't obviously worse. Depends on the rent.
This would be a game changer if it works as advertised.
I didn't hear a dog whistle. I heard an actual question.
It comes down to what you hold to be true. If you believe Genesis is historical fact, then the interpretation of the science facts are wrong. If you believe the Bible is true and that the interpretation of science facts are true, then you see Genesis in a figurative interpretation. If you reject the Bible, then you will see the narrative of the Bible as false and the scientific interpretation as true.
Is Li Weibin’s life common?
You're focusing on a single variable. The above poster is recommending a multivariate approach. If a similar minority group can start from a worse position (not even knowing the language!) and advance to a better position in a single generation, then your single variable is lacking. The response of "go back 400 years" does not explain away the discrepancy. The common-sense approach is to consider other factors too.
Do American's really want unrestricted open borders and to vilify the people enforcing laws? That may be the HN sentiment, but the vast majority of American's are against completely open and unrestricted borders.
Like all things Trump, simple assault stats from his admin are complete and total lies and fabrication
> Licensing is expensive (look it up, you can't just use it for free for large-scale commercial projects, contrary to what many people believe)

I should look this up because Qt is something I've got my eyes on for small projects that could get big. On that note, are you able to define "large-scale" for me? Would a desktop app' interfacing with a remote API be "large-scale"?

> You have to write in languages that are not particularly enjoyable to ship a production application (C++, JavaScript but without The Nice Parts of modern JS web dev)

I'm looking at the Golang bindings for Qt (to implement my point above.) Have you considered it? Is Go something you'd consider?
Petronomicon
> destabilized the middle east

The middle east was destabilized before most Boomers were born or when they were young children. Blaming grandma for people fighting in the Middle East is ridiculous.

> expect to be taken care of by social security and medicaid during retirement.

Social Security was created in 1935 before a single Boomer was born. Medicaid was created in 1965. Boomers would at most be 20 years old or at minimum 1.

> thrust us into many unwinnable wars

Young people actually supported the Iraq War at a higher rate than did older Americans.

http://www.people-press.org/2002/10/17/generations-divide-ov...
It's a fantasy of mine because I'm afraid that without a way to port and run native code from the web there will be no way to preserve software long term as part of our cultural legacy. Software has to be able to run or else it will be ignored and discarded, preserving source code alone isn't enough. Only things that remain a part of current cultural interest get preserved.
> sex-selective technology

Nice way to say aborting female babies.
Immigration is the answer. That's what's keeping quite a few developed countries in population increases even now. Yes, there are a lot of arguments about "who".

I went for replacement myself: 2 kids.
Wikipedia can exist without readers, but not without editors.
Anti-colonialism doesn't require moral relativism. It's as simple as that. If you want a concrete example of how signal-boosting differs from simple pushing of Western feminist opinions, the hijab debate is worth looking into. Some feminists in the hijab-wearing regions of the world see it as a tool of oppression, others not. That's a debate for them, and not for westerners to decide.

If there's a vocal contingent of Chinese women pushing for the above-mentioned patriarchal Confucian values, well... I haven't yet seen it. All the Chinese women I've yet met (and had the opportunity to speak with on the subject) view sexism as a real problem, although granted I've only ever met Chinese women who came to America so selection bias is at play.
Yeah completely unrealistic thinking FCC is going to call you.

They send out certified letters. Here are a few:

https://transition.fcc.gov/eb/AmateurActions/Welcome.html
That's cool. I liked the use of scene rendering to supply training data to the network.

It'd be nice to see texture prediction on some of the voxels,
so painting the occluded voxels in the scene as well as texturing those in the image.

Texture accuracy could be measured by rendering the other side of the bed and see how close the texture predictions were.

Now this would be quite a challenge, but if you could train a network to give D, given RGB, you'd have RGBD and could maybe use internet video to create some structure. Use something like a SLAM algorithm to get camera position, then detect when a model is viewed from the occluded side and get a lot of texture prediction data using real world internet video.
Ask HN: Do you know any examples of projects using TensorFlow with indigenous?
Home ownership by people of color did rise during white flight (and dramatically so).

https://wp.zillowstatic.com/1/ThenAndNow_Race-Final-594696-1...
Deep Probabilistic Programming Languages: A Qualitative Study
https://www.tensorflow.org/s/results/?q=indigenous&p=%2F

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Thanks for your help!
Oh come on, when is this straw man going to go away? Do you honestly see people advocated for unrestricted open borders?
Wars are killing men, which isn't happening for a while like before. So men population grow fast and there is nothing to decrease it.
It all comes down to supply: why is this such a hard concept for people to understand. It's not old people's fault, unless they're the voters who keep preventing housing from being built. When you limit supply, prices MUST go up: there's no other way it can go.

The other big problem is fundamentally: regulations that drive up costs for developers: everything from impact fees, to zoning, etc. We need to start working with developers to drive down costs and increase competition: that, plus vast amounts of building will drive down costs.
Historically that would definitely be true, but there's a couple interesting anecdotes in the article where some of the men mention spending their time holed up alone either on their phone, watching TV, or doing various leisure activities like karoke. In the past they didn't have those kinds of distractions and/or solitariness. The reality is they may just grow old and sad often stuck in their remote village far cut off from any center of power or importance.
True enough. But when the government creates the economic and legal incentives to force private companies to de-platform people (ie, FOSTA-SESTA) the difference is marginal.
I also don't think you can ignore that the discriminatory lending, policing, and other policies also affect other minorities. The US enacted into law banning Chinese immigrants, white San Francisco was ready to mob and burn down to Chinatown at some point.
I could be wrong but the sonograms and abortions are also just a side effect. The real problem is that neither place puts much importance on gender equality. Women have even less opportunities than men over there, compared to the West. That said, things have improved and continue to improve though the pace is really slow
> If a similar minority group can start from a worse position (not even knowing the language!) and advance to a better position in a single generation, then your single variable is lacking.

I can't agree with this sentence. I agree, not knowing the language puts you in a bad spot, but I think you are really underestimating the level of discrimination vs. blacks in America if you think simply "not knowing the language" is enough to put some immigrant group in a worse position than blacks in America.

I'm not sure what other variables you'd like me to use in this analysis but I think if you look back over the history of America you see that others have used one variable to levy their discrimination and it's always been race.
You’re comparing a massive group of people with a comparatively tiny group of people that have self selected for only the most willing and capable of abandoning everything and building a new life from nothing after qualifying to enter the United States. Of course those people are going to be more successful. That alone discredits the point you’re making.
Ah yes, the old canard about winding back unfettered powers neccessarily meaning a flood of illegal immigrants and borders “wide open”.

Border security is not a binary state. You can be polite to black Canadians without neccessarily allowing all the Mexicans in without visas or background checks.
One claim about homeownership that i ran into is that "homeowners do not riot".

Thus homeownership is pushed as a kind of pacification of the urban population.
No, corporations shifted the risk to their workers.
> Do you honestly see people advocated for unrestricted open borders?

Absolutely. There are countless articles (mostly fringe) and constant dialogue that vilifies border patrol and ICE agents. The fact that I am getting down voted for not following the herd and group thinking sort of proves my point.
Hmm that's weird. That means that the EventKit API was unable to fetch your reminders on that particular launch. It should be an anomaly though.
Am I confused? I realized afterwards that I should have said "of their income" rather than "of their profit", but I think my point still stands.

Corporate tax (at least in the US, and I assume in most other places) is calculated on income, i.e. revenue minus expenses. The original commenter was asserting that halving the company's tax rate, and nothing else, was responsible for a doubling of profits. My point was simply that it should be obvious that this is nonsense. Cutting the tax rate can't double the company's profit unless the company was already paying half of its income as tax.

It's irrelevant that expenses are a large fraction of revenue, because expenses are already excluded from taxation.
And this is how we get real estate bubbles. It’s already back to the “it’ll always go up” stage even after 2007, in most areas with decent jobs that might afford some security or ability to pay mortgages.
Yak shaving?
I actually kind of liked the Gameboy approach. You needed to include a byte-for-byte image of the trademarked Nintendo logo in order for the boot ROM to run your cartridge. So there were no technical hurdles to running your code in it, but it just made it legally dangerous to distribute.
The Indian Wars were fought pretty much constantly from before the creation of the United States until Wounded Knee in 1890. Even for a relatively young nation, it's spent the majority of its existence at war with someone.
We need to be careful here.

Boomers aren’t a homogeneous whole we can point a finger at and lay blame.

Some Boomers, sure.
Show HN: An app to get your content without distractions
hey there,

Show HN will come soon (the next days).

I have finished my side project (SaaS/PaaS) called triggerFS.

triggerFS is a distributed, realtime message passing and trigger system. triggerFS enables you to build distributed systems and do high-speed realtime messaging in a service-oriented fashion. What really powers triggerFS is the gigantic amount of plugins you can use to do any kind of task.

Check out https://github.com/triggerfsio/packages for an overview, features, use cases and more.

I am about to launch the next days after I have finished writing the documentation. I am super excited and hopefully will get the attention of the HN folks when doing my Show HN.
I wanted an app that could show me my news feeds, the tweets that I cared about and videos from my favorite youtube channels all in one place and without any distractions. So I ended up creating an app and after seeing how much time I save now I decided to add some more features and submit it to the appstore
Seems like false equivalence to me. A better comparison would be American blacks who immigrated to Canada or Europe.

Perhaps you can imagine the benefit of a fresh start. Instead, American blacks have had a long continuation from slavery.

Consider a financial metaphor -

American whites: compound interest

American blacks: compound debt

American immigrants: reset (bankruptcy if poor)

It is easy to continue momentum, hard to dig out of a hole, and nice to start over.
Kurzgesagt[0] and CGP Grey[1] did a fun little 2-part intro into "split mindedness" i.e. the idea that we may have multiple consciousnesses(?) contending for control.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQVmkDUkZT4
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8
The basics of switching to a language in the same/similar paradigm isn't that hard. Re-learning tooling, libraries, etc takes a very long time. I can rattle off reams of stuff in the languages I know, but I'd have to spend hours searching for that same stuff in other languages.
I think there is some truth to this for sure. But speaking from a here and now perspective it’s hard to not take this stance. My wife and I make a good bit more than the average income for our area and at 27 we aren’t going to be even close to affording the house I was born into. That house was bought by my parents at 23 with my father working part time.
No, you must be resident. Every city has its own rules though, I only know those for Beijing. There could be some second/third tier cities where speculation by foreigners is possible.
You'll need a license if it's not open source as far as I can tell...

I would love to use Qt but their licensing and terms just immediately kill it for me: https://www1.qt.io/faq/#_Toc_2_5
That's the idea, and these ideas do intersect. Rate your belief in them on a scale of 0..1. if your rating was (0,0) you are at the intersection.
Current homeowners are incentivized to always vote for their property values to go up - so they always vote to prevent new housing to be built, in the name of neighborhood character.
Also see Déjà Rêvé.
That's an interesting observation, because the equivalent of dowry has mostly disappeared in China due to the gender imbalance. And in some cases even the reverse (groom's family paying a dowry, in cash or real-estate) is demanded.
so many haters on this comment thread.

Just read and stop hating.
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/nasdaq-all-in-on-blockch...
> Why does policy need to be "fair" to investors

I guess this is just an ethical question? I don't think it would be fair to those who recently bought a home if we just wiped out a substantial proportion of their assets.

> This belief that we cannot do a thing unless that thing benefits wealthy homeowners is harmful.

You perhaps misinterpreted my comment. I don't think they will benefit at all from a solution, but I would think a good solution should not be too devastating to any given person.

I'm less concerned about wealthy home owners than I am for those who just got a mortgage.
I still use RSS (or alike) for almost all of my regular news consumption, in combination with Feedly. Works way better than anything Facebook or Twitter can offer - in fact, they are not even on the same category. If you want momentary distraction or some lighthearted content from your friends/family - go Facebook. If you want to consume information in an organized way - use an RSS reader. There's nothing better.
Whether Ethereum is a security
https://getdevour.com (marketing site and old app)

https://app.getdevour.com (new app I'm slowly migrating users over to)

This is incredibly niche at the moment, but people who follow Renaissance Periodization nutrition templates can upload their template and turn a complex spreadsheet/PDF into a simple, filterable app experience. Soon expanding to more nutrition plans.
Totally agreed. I'm not trying to downplay the history of other groups in America as so much as highlighting the unique challenges that have affected black America.

The US enacted a law banning Chinese.. The state I live in (Oregon) explicit banned blacks in the constitution [0]. San Francisco was ready to mob and burn down Chinatown... "Black Wall Street" in Tusla, OK was burned down by a mob.. [1]

I did not want to get into a tit for tat comparison between oppression but I would implore anyone who is interested to really do their research on race in America.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/07...
[1]: http://www.ebony.com/black-history/the-destruction-of-black-...
> How is just assuming that without evidence not disdain for blue collar workers?

In order for that to be disdain, you need to associate people identity with their job.

I'm not a millennial, but I'm still young enough that the concept of job as identity does not fit the social reality of the people I know. They have moved between position enough that they cannot just be summarised by their present occupations.

So this is not disdain for the people, but for the jobs. And not only those jobs, but all the jobs, including mine. I want Star Trek for my great-great-grand-children, not grinding at work till they drop.

> I'm not sure this is true, and if it is, I don't think it's a particularly smart goal. Toyota spends ~30 worker-hours on building a car. Getting that down to 3 doesn't do much to reduce costs, and getting them down to 0.3 does way less.

I don't know what Tesla is doing, but what you say is correct, there is no gain to make by replacing a human by a robot if the robot is not providing massive economies somewhere. I personally don't think that hate of blue collar worker is really that valuable to Tesla, so I'm thinking more of massive throughput increase. Since it appears that Tesla want to spread in every market segment, being able to build a "10x" production line would allow them to do it at a fraction of the time of their competitor.

Note that I'm not suggesting that Tesla is going to make it, or that the technology is ready. Musk and Tesla investors do.

Another point which one always has to keep in mind with Musk. Maybe that's also related to SpaceX. If humanity has a future in space, it needs to be able to build stuff with as little human as possible.

edit: I just noticed that I missed the proof. Like the majority of the people on HN, I'm in the business of automating other people job away. I have friends working in the engineering field and I have yet to hear a story about some new tech requiring more human being than before. It is the same as white collar work: next release will require less people or less qualified people.
The constant among Vietnamese, Cambodian, Japanese, Korean and other cultures is a really strong family unit. Family owned businesses, parents working hard to educate kids, parents holding high expectations for children etc.

Both political parties in this country seem to undermine black families, Conservatives through thinly concealed racist policies and the war on drugs, Liberals through social programs that foster dependence on government rather than elevation to independence.
How to GET AMERICAN NETFLIX IN NEW ZEALAND
> having your toaster burn the day's agenda on your toast

Shut up and take my money!
I wouldn’t count on anything like healthcare always being free/cheap if I were in Canada, Europe, Asia, etc. Nothing is set in stone.
When some options interfere with each other, we often find ourselves facing a trade-off "You can't eat your cake and have it, too,"

Whenever this happens some people would prefer one benefit at the expense of the other, while others prefer the other benefit at the expense of the first.

At this point the choice the group will make becomes a political point of contention. No matter which benefit you prefer your preference is political.

A lot of people want to see a more decentralized world (this does not imply a world without law and order), and they prefer society moves in the direction of decentralization, cryptocurrencies are one such facet. [Off-topic, while most cryptocurrencies today are based on energy intensive PoW, this need not be the case at all, see for example the papers on Algorand, which has not yet been implemented/deployed]

On November 10, 1972 the passenger plane Southern Airlines Flight 49 was hijacked, and the hijackers at one point threatened to fly the plane in the Oak Ridge (experimental) nuclear reactor unless their demand for $10 million in cash was met. [luckily, they did not do this even after picking up the less-than-demanded amount (according to the authorities!)] They fled to Cuba, hoping Fidel Castro would allow entry, but he rejected their entry. They landed in the US again to refuel, then fled back to land in Havana, where they were arrested at gun point.

Please note that with cryptocurrencies the hijackers don't need to land at all. One can question if the hijackers really intend to crash the plane if they demand money, but that money could flow to a political organization if the hijackers are terrorists.

I assume neither of us would want to see:
1) crypto banned
2) passenger planes shot out of the sky

This presents a conflict between nuclear power and cryptocurrencies. Which would you pick? That is automatically political indeed.
It's LGPL-compatible, though, isn't it? Can't you just wall off the Qt layer in a separate library, and release the source to that?
As stated, it's a proof of concept. The trust element was between the user and the software provider. 'How does a user trust that the software provider doesn't make changes to user data without the knowledge of the user'. In this case, making changes to the audit history and/or invoice data.

While this is unlikely, it's possible. And the point of the blockchain in this case is to make it impossible, at least without being noticeable.

While that doesn't sound all that amazing by itself, it does enable some interesting use cases to be built on top. Now that the data has been made trustless, and verifiable by 3rd parties it could be provided to parties such as: Government, Accountants, Lenders, Banks, etc.

Regarding fake data, sure, you can submit fake data. But when an audit occurs, you need to submit your fake data to be audited. What you can't do, is go back and change the numbers.
Maybe an A/B test? I see them still:

https://s18.postimg.cc/qpb4wlrt5/dropbox_compressed.png
> If a similar minority group can start from a worse position (not even knowing the language!)

I don't know if we can say emigrating Cambodians were in a worse position than impoverished blacks . Immigrants self select for being willing to leave everything they know for the hope of a better life; they have also competently navigated a difficult process. This selection bias is accentuated in war, when the logistics of escape become trickier. Communities then cohere and reinforce each other on the other side.

Contrast that with American blacks. Captured by coastal kings who sold them to Europeans who transported them here against their wills. Any who stood up or out got eliminated. Loose to non-existent intergenerational information and wealth transfer. Et cetera