skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expected maintenance, LOL. Just saying as an older guy if you're not factoring in HVAC replacements, roof replacements, driveway replacements, appliance replacements, even the expenses of major yard work, you will miss thousands per year on average. I'll see these estimates online where people laughably expect to spend less than $1K/yr on home maint, LOL I spend that much on the roof averaged by year, and I spent more than that on one clothes washer this month, and the average appliance is now carefully value engineered not to last more than a couple years. Try like $1K/month on average as an absolute minimum not the online typical $1K/yr which wouldn't even maintain the level of a crackhouse.

Also do not forget time. I only have 168 hours per week minus zillions of things, to enjoy life, and after all the subtractions often there isn't that much time left to enjoy. Yes if I need to replace the tiles in my bathroom I can save a little money doing it myself but even contracting out will be hours of work to design, decide, and coordinate, and who stays home to let the craftsmen into the house and its just a circus. When I rented a bachelor pad, ALL repair work consisted of verbally mentioning it to on site manager and magically things happened, I paid more rent than average for that privilege compared to people who have to sue their landlords for any little thing, but there is no escape from spending lots of time as a building superintendent if you own a house. Buying a house is getting a part time job as a landlord. Its not like the kitchen faucet magically knows its in a owned house so it'll never fail, vs a rental.

I mean, we have to realize the groupthink on HN is that cooking food for yourself is an intolerable waste of time compared to spending two hours in restaurants daily, so owning a house and having to dump many hours into the uncountable sufferings of home ownership must be completely unacceptable; rent a nice place and "invest" about five minutes a month into telling the manager what he needs to do.

The second to last measure is many lifestyles require real estate. Not everyone wants to live life with no capital goods other than a mobile phone. I'd be pretty unsatisfied with life without my table saw and lathe and garden and ham radio antennas and a couple other things that simply require land to be realistically practical, aka go buy a house and do your hobbies in it. For all practical purposes in the market I live in you can not have a dog while renting, for example.

A final measure not often mentioned is its just a fun experience to try; Its amusing to reread some of the complaints about home ownership rewritten to apply to having friends, or buying a pet, or having children, or traveling, or getting drunk. I didn't have kids because of an enormous amount of handwaving about how I'll be wealthy if they become child movie stars or historically kids in an agricultural setting were a net financial positive which should mean something in suburban 2010s or some equally ridiculous argument. Owning a house is a VERY expensive hobby, but if you have fun and can afford it and its not hurting anyone else, may as well try it...
Not disagreeing with you, but how do you come to the conclusion that Nuclear is safer and also more scaleable?
A giant farm in China is breeding 6B cockroaches a year
Well first you'd need to establish that the subject in question quacks, and quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, walks, and walks like a duck. So far the only thing done here is take the definitions of things any country with geographic proximity and bare minimum willingness to negotiate would do, then redefine everything as alliance.

Which fits the duck allegory perfectly, since it refers to something that is not actually a duck.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/you-know-phrase-if-looks-5...
Trying to work through the algorithmic burden. Would a home robot's navigation software be more or less complex than a self driving car? No lane markers, stop signs/lights. Environment changes constantly with doors open/closing, pets, humans moving around, stuff on the floor. It would be more like apples-to-apples if we were talking about a self-driving off-road vehicle.

Not to mention, the auto is doing something useful simply by moving. Perhaps a security robot in the home could be valuable by simply moving, but otherwise, it needs an additional layer of application. Interacting with humans, manipulating objects which it would have to identify, ...
> Not perfect investor, any investor that put their money in an index fund. Vanguard had a trillion and a half assets in 2010~ and those assets tripled while houses doubled.

You are still making the typical errors. Here, I'll put it in simple terms and maybe this will help the scales fall from your eyes about why real estate is a very popular investment strategy and real estate investors aren't all just a bunch of morons who should have pumped their money into Vanguard index funds.

As a renter, YOU ARE BUYING SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROPERTY FOR THEM.
It's even worse among start-ups. My VC friends tell me than almost every. Single. Venture they see has ai/ml bolted onto it, often with no real purpose.
Set goals but don’t obsess
Fantastic rant! Can I borrow it?

I'd like to add a category:

People that are aware of Objective-C's limitations and want(ed) an actual improvement, not the 1 step forward (sort of), 3 steps back that we got. And they were pretty close, even got it in the marketing slogan: Objective-C without the C. Or at least without most of C much of the time. Or some. Instead they consistently doubled down on the things that were the least useful, for example structs. With classes and primitives, structs were always an extra, needed only for backwards compatibility and, historically, performance. What do they double down on? Structs. WTF?

The mix of Smalltalk keyword syntax and C syntax was always a bit of a problem. So let's keep both and make the integration between the two even more awkward!

And so on.

See also Rob Rix's rant:

https://www.quora.com/Which-features-overcomplicate-Swift-Wh...

Crucially, the vast majority of this is incidental complexity, not essential complexity. Swift is a crescendo of special cases stopping just short of the general; the result is complexity in the semantics, complexity in the behaviour (i.e. bugs), and complexity in use (i.e. workarounds).

Note that this is coming from the other side, so someone who doesn't like Objective-C much at all, and even from that perspective, Swift falls short.
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Housing is very location-dependant so that may very well be the case in your city, but not all cities are like this. Renting in my city is cheaper than a mortgage (even without accounting for property taxes). There are multiples reason that can explain this, such as local laws, popular knowledge ("renting is throwing money away!"), no understanding of opportunity cost, anything not paid on rent would be spent elsewhere, and a general lust for house.

That is why it's very important to have a critical mind when evaluating a decision such a buying a property, as no two situations are the same. In some case it absolutely makes sense to buy, in others not. There's also non-financial reasons for buying, but discussions like this is strictly about financial reasoning.
Because one can skim the arguments and know that they've seen their shape before and can then not read them in detail.
At least if someone volunteers for less, no-one can claim to have been unfairly treated. I would argue that this is so even if the volunteer was unaware that the regulated amount was higher.
It's probably not top secret if its on bloomberg.
Whatever their intentions were, it was designed to be a "better C" in the sense that it's a strict superset of the C language.
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Agree. Plus out of all the big tech companies Apple has the worse record of selling user data than anyone. By far.

"Campaign targets Apple over privacy betrayal for Chinese iCloud users"

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy...

They sold all their customers data in China to the government so they could stay in China. Versus Google did NOT and instead chose to leave instead of selling the data.
Congrats! Very nice looking. CC: consider adding a title (or desc?) element for accessibility. Although you have a lot of the info in text, I find adding a title/desc element to all svgs is a good habit.
Urchin's original mode of operation was as a cron job that scanned your correctly-formatted Apache access_log (via LogFormat stanza) and dumped them into a DB. So there's issues of scale that had to be dealt with, and they decided to just dump it and go w/ the tracking JS.
It sounds like you're complaining that extras that are standard on competing airlines are charged separately on RyanAir. It's only horrible to you because you insist on having those things: in-flight meals, checked luggage, etc.

For people who don't want any food in-flight, and who can carry all their stuff in their carry-on luggage, it sounds like a good deal to me.

As for leg room, according to another comment here, the seats on RyanAir do not recline. As another tall guy, I'd rather have that than another inch of legroom. Legroom isn't that great when the person in front of you reclines their seat into your personal space.
Along these lines, also see the Anthropic Principle [0] which states that "observations of the universe must be compatible with the conscious and sapient life that observes it."

[0] [RABBIT HOLE WARNING] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
Southwest (I fly with them a lot) isn't a "budget" airline in the sense that Allegiant or Spirit are.

They don't do assigned seating at all - you pick an available seat when you board. Boarding position is generally assigned based on when you check in, though you can pay extra to board earlier. They include two checked bags per person and standard carry-on allowances in the price of the ticket. No "gotcha" fees.

One similarity is that there are a lot of larger airports that they don't service, instead using other nearby airports.

They're inexpensive if you book well in advance, but last minute fares can be very expensive.
Everyone I know that's wealthy owns lots of real estate.

That's the difference between stocks and properties, at least property is real.

Why do drug dealers, foreign nationals, and the ultra wealthy park their money in big city properties? Tangible value.
This is why FB has moved data for 1.5b users back to the USA
China's Xi says internet control key to stability
> This is definitely going to work - it's just iMessage for Android.

It's neither like iMessage nor specifically for Android.

> Google can snoop on Chats directly if the web service backing them is Google run.

It's not, it's (like SMS) carrier infrastructure. Chat is just an RCS client app, RCS is the SMS replacement technology.
I habitually do, when the option is available.
Thanks, I didn't know thermal power plants required no concrete and magically connected themselves to the rest of the grid with no wires.
How couldn't that be done with an instant messaging service? Nothing prevents companies from sending parcel tracking notifications to XMPP addresses, except for their own incompetence.
I think you'll find that a lot of stem people tend to lean Kantian in their ethics. This implies that misleading people for any reason -- even "for their own good" -- is frowned upon.
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It's no so much an "idea" as a physical reality.
Interesting... will have a deeper look into it, if you have any idea on how to make it better you are welcome
I don't see the raw data of the study but I can think of one reason why it contradicts the public perception of the 20-something founder:
There's a difference between B2B/SaaS/enterprise startups vs B2C startups.

The B2B companies are often started by older folks in their 30s and 40s. (E.g. PeopleSoft human resources software started by David Duffield age 46 and Siebel CRM software started by Tom Siebel age 41. Both were acquired by Oracle.) Their accumulated years in the industry gives them the relationships to convert into their first enterprise customers. Even more fundamentally, a B2B startup solves a "paint point" for corporate customers. Therefore, it makes sense that the founders would have spent many years working for companies (as employees in their 20s and 30s) to intimately understand how to solve their problem. Being a 40-something founder is the natural timeline for all that to happen.

However, many prominent B2C companies are started by 20-somethings (e.g. Google (age 25), Facebook (age 19), Snapchat (age 21), Instagram (age 27). The top-100 consumer-facing iOS & Android apps on their app stores are probably done by younger founders. It's hard to think of consumer-facing internet companies that were started by 40-somethings. (Netscape in 1995 with 50-year-old Jim Clark would be an uncommon example.) The B2C world doesn't require existing industry relationships; it's the viral spread of software to create network effects rather than a 6-month sales cycle of B2B.

It's the B2C companies that get more coverage on WSJ, Bloomberg news, and even tech sites like HN. Readers will click on more stories with "Snapchat" (B2C) in the title rather than "Palantir" (B2B). Therefore, it seems like the startup world is skewed towards 20-somethings.
It’s a great app. Well worth $50/year.
Oil Is Fast Approaching $70. Is the Economy Ready for It?
And in some places rent is way lower than paying mortgage for the same kind of dwelling. Mortgages can simply be not affordable, while rent is.
apologies for recommending to extend your scope of interest.
But I would highly recommend to add to your list of 'targets': mobile development. That's because you mentioned: longterm.

Longerm, in my views, means being able to write software for web, desktop, multiple smart-phone/table platforms, with a backend in, ideally, the same language/tooling as front end.

It seems like ReasonML is the only one that is targeting the above [1] (but I could be wrong).
And that's because of its integration/support of ReactNative.

[1] https://medium.com/@peterpme/your-first-reasonml-pr-into-an-...
>> "They asked for too much, too soon; this presentation is part of the backtracking."

The WSJ article is very thin on details, and I suspect is missing important nuances. I do not know what happened at the SEC meeting, but my guess is that they pitched something very close to this linked presentation (which you'll note is dated March 13, likely before the SEC meeting). In particular, take a look at slide 11, which tries to bifurcate the world into (i) pre-launch securities and (ii) post-launch live networks, with the latter perhaps being a currency, commodity, security or some other beast, depending on its properties (e.g. a post-launch token with profit sharing features would likely still be a security).

These VCs and their lawyers are not morons -- the case for most ICOs being blatant securities offerings is impossible to argue against, but the more narrow view that Nick has outlined has real merit to it and I'm sure is close to what they pitched.

Also, I don't disagree that a ham-fisted SEC regulator could easily argue that Filecoin post-launch is a security -- that's precisely the problem. Crypto today can often be treated as a currency, a commodity and a security all at the same time, and often in incompatible ways. The industry _should_ be meeting regulators, and coming to a sane coherent policy on how to treat these things in different contexts (perhaps via well-delineated safe harbors), so that people can continue to innovate without worrying they are breaking the law.
The stored procedure should be tested within the domain of the stored procedure. The consumer of its result just tests its ability to use the result it should be given (fulfilling its end of the contract).
Is this Edge? I can confirm poor performance in Edge, but every other browse I've looked at seems to be ok.
I have this problem with my Hotmail/Outlook account for almost 5 years and Microsoft team don't even understand what's going on. - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail...
The Fast and Slow of Design
Testing GraphQL Server in Node.js
As of 2018 in the USA, the tax write off is much smaller now, given that the standard deduction is so high.
Nuster 1.7.10.1 – A caching proxy server based on HAProxy
I wouldn't be as salty if Hangouts didn't work fine. Hangouts almost totally seamlessly deals with chats and SMS. Allo makes a complete mess of it.
I actually work on low latency Java backends, I have no idea how this works ;)
Like I say, this is subject to operational restrictions but they'll throw the customer under the bus if and wherever it suits them.
That's really the thing. At some point, many/most people want a place that's their own which they can modify to their liking. And many of them will want a house of the sort that's difficult to rent long-term. And eventually, when retiring or looking towards retirement, they're going to want to live somewhere that can't be sold out from under them or have rent raised to the point they can't afford to live there any longer.

This IMO is the real rent/buy calculation. Do you value being able to pick up and move across the country without having to deal with owning a piece of property? Or do you want to own something that you can make your own with a fairly predictable monthly bill--except when something breaks?
Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates
I bought my first house in 1999. It costs less for the remaining mortgage than renting a 1br apartment in my city and has for about a decade.

The interest is so low now I don't even get the write off and just use the standard deduction.

The house has more than doubled in "value" (based on comps) as well. I'd still have been paying the same money to rent, but it would have gone up an average of 5%/year.

The down side is I have had to pay to replace the roof, hot water tank, and HVAC, but that's all been recent fixes.

Not living in an apartment is also 1000x better.
Can anyone explain to me what is the use case for URL shorteners? Other than for size limited messages like Twitter I guess.
After the windmill is paid off, the mining is then practically ( some maintenance will be needed ) for free.
> What happens when you leave that company? New company has to go through the same laborious process.

I like how de-centralisation is a pro until it's versus centralization on a blockchain.

TL; DR If everyone can agree on a single blockchain, everyone can agree on a single data format. That data format agreement is faster, more adaptable, more extensible and more resilient (in not requiring users to keep private keys) than a blockchain.

Screaming blockchain at everything is a new twist on an old mistake: thinking political problems have technical solutions.

> hate if you will

Discarding reasonable criticism as hate is immature. So is arguing "if you think X is not important, you're fooling yourself."
Easier to remember URLs, and statistics about how many people visits them.
The popup has a little gear icon in the bottom right. You can disable it from there.
>XMPP with Signal for E2E somehow?

That's a well developed thing already:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO

Common OMEMO supporting XMPP clients are Conversations[1] for Android, ChatSecure[2] for iOS and Gajim[3] for the desktop.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_(software)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatSecure

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gajim

You can see the OMEMO status of the various XMPP clients here:

* https://omemo.top/
This is why the only way to deal with climate change is countries with carbon reserves deciding to leave it in the ground.

If they don't, there is so much demand for the stuff (burning it is so incredibly useful) that it'll all be burned.
This is the link you want: https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa yeah. The other thing is probably dead.
AI will transform everyday life.

Blockchain may be used by businesses and make early proponents wealthy
Experience evens out over the long term, and nobody knows everything. Try to stop thinking in terms of competition, and focus on developing a specialty. Take something your peers aren't familiar with and learn it inside and out. Exchange that knowledge with them. Whenever you feel inadequate, acknowledge the feeling then consciously reframe the moment as an opportunity to collaborate--make your goal to either learn something from the person "outclassing" you or to teach that person something. In my experience, people we consider experts are so specialized that it makes them blind to fundamental things that less experienced people catch.
I use them in presentations, it's easier to have a really short URL on the slide for people. I'm not sure how common that is, but it's really handy. Other than that, I've not used them for anything.
The author is arguing that decentralizing the control of compute power and compute-as-a-service is valuable and should be invested in.

It is valuable if we ever reach a point where say, AWS has a monopoly on all compute power, and starts making bad/unfair/predatory decisions that hurt customers.

Otherwise running decentralized payment networks to exchange compute power is much less efficient and much more costly than relying on purchasing services directly from a few competing (read: non-colluding) service providers using USD, GBP, EUR, credit cards, etc.

There's really no need to decentralize compute-as-a-service. This person is getting paid to talk their book because their employer has placed a lot of bets in the cryptocurrency/blockchain world and is trying to brainstorm ways to turn them into actual viable products and exit these investments.

Blockchains / decentralized ledgers are almost always solutions looking for a problem. They solve the very niche issue of exchange between untrusted parties, with caveats, and with extra performance/cost added to a centralized solution.

There's currently no reason to implement a decentralized ledger solution for exchanging compute-as-a-service.
> I happen to work in a product that manages produce traceability, and I can confirm that it is quite within the realm of possibility to track produce in under 2 seconds with a simple web app and a relational database. We have been doing it for about 10 years.

But now IBM can do it in 2 seconds as well! This may create a big boon for "DB2->blockchain" conversion contracts.

We still seem to be in this weird period with blockchain stuff where it's a neat idea, but the problems people are tackling with it are mostly... mild variations of solved problems so far. This may be understandable - these are problems which are known to have value, and as new companies want to solve these problems, they may opt for a blockchain-based version vs traditional "old school" relational db. But there may also be limited value there compared to old school version.

This feels a bit like "key value store" systems vs databases. There was (is?) a lot of hype around schemaless and "lightweight" KV stores, but most of the problems are also solved by intelligent use of SQL. Ditto for the XML-databases rage from ... 12-15 years ago.
Really need a way to import at least a csv of historical data. I know its pitch is tracking manually makes you more aware, but let me bring in history to start at least. Then we get more use out of it right away. I have years upon years of data, and starting from square one seems like a waste of that data.

Totally love the calendar though, that is a nice way to visualize things.
> These articles always ignore leverage. Generally, with 20% down you are leveraged 5:1.

Don't forget that leverage works both ways; it magnifies the downside as well.