skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having lived in London for 10 years and shared most of that time I can see the appeal of Co-living for the community aspect. The reason many people (but clearly not all, judging from the comments in this thread!) find "The Collective" to be "value for money" is because it "includes" so many amenities such as "Cinema", Gym & Co-working space. When these are factored in, £1000/month is "not bad" for London. It's obviously a grossly over-priced outside of London in the same way that £7 for "Avocado & Eggs on Toast" seems "reasonable" in Shoreditch (London) but "absurd" anywhere outside of the Capital!

Having (personally) visited "The Collective" recently I felt they were trying to "force" the community aspect and were more interested in "ticking boxes" with their facilities than actually making them great. For example the "Library" had very few decent books (lost of empty shelves) and was more of an "interior design" magazine picture than an actual useable space.

The author of the (BBC) Article (Winnie Agbonlahor) is clearly not the "target market" for the co-living value proposition, however she finishes her article noting that: "In a different phase of my life - definitely."

And I have to agree 100%; if I were "young and single" it would be a great way to meet and socialise with like-minded people.
We could give out a token that would be accepted by certain government entities.
I always wanted an Aeron. Finally got one and it's terrible. The bottom "breathable" fabric has to be so tight it's like sitting on a noncushioned chair. It might keep your ass cooler but at the expense of comfort.

I found a ~$150 chair on Amazon that is so much more comfortable and affordable.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000Q5XTE8/
Cython is a bit different from CPython / Pythran / Shedskin in that you need to learn the Cython language, which is a Python-ish programming language, but not Python.

Shedskin and Pythran look somewhat similar to me (disclaimer: I've contributed quite a bit to Shedskin but have never used Pythran so far), except in Shedskin you don't even need annotations like with Pythran (the downside being the finer control you have of the native types used is through the transpiler options). Also, Shedskin development is not much active these days — to say the least — and there's zero support for Python 3, while Pythran is under fairly active development has beta support for Python 3.

If you're interested in Python / native implementations, you might be interested by Nuitka as well: http://nuitka.net/
Pretty sure you can find 2000 18 year olds with a trust fund or part of a Native American Indian tribe that distributes gaming revenue.
This seems like an absolute no brainer great idea to me. I've often wondered why moderators don't do the same on subreddits....how often when you're doing a search do you see results with useless titles like "Need help!" or "What should I do here!!??".
I think you'd be surprised if you looked up actual adoption numbers. http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/
That being said, I don't understand the use of this app at all. But other people seem to find it useful.
I've read the suicide rate among vets with genital injuries is over 25%.

Tragic.
Who said anything about the US?
Ahhh...that's cool! It was kind of intriguing that they removed a bunch of features/things. I built out some custom systems that rely on the semi-public RSS feeds the legacy project generated, so upgrading is more of a long-term goal, I guess.
Of course there is an alternative. Fund 1/10 as many people for 10x as long. I feel you'd get a much better idea of what people would do despite the smaller sample size. The mentality of someone who is set for life vs one who has things taken care of for the next 5 years is completely different. Many of the latter are going to be thinking about what they can do to ensure employment after their "sabbatical".
It's a library :) https://github.com/acdlite/recompose
Funnily enough, this kinda matches how most people do their jobs now. "Just google it" is the solution to many problems in business. It's probably not the best long term strategy, but then again, neither is the stock market...
Quant Network the Redhat/MicroSoft of Blockchain and OverLedger=RHEL/Win Server?
>... worthy of ridicule—not because of their ignorance, but because of their will to remain ignorant.

The ironing is delicious.
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If someone wins the lottery tomorrow they should keep working. There is no shortage of jobs.

If this is in an area where there is unemployment, ideally the lottery winner/trust fund baby/early retiree would start a company and employ people.

If the lottery winner/early retiree doesn't work & pay tax, or do charity work, or contribute to society in any way they're leeches, just as bad as a trust fund baby. They live off investments based on other people working for them, and expect people to grow their food, teach their children, tend to their illness and build their roads for them.

If you've worked 45 years you've done your time, but ideally then you'd continue to teach or manage so that others can learn from your experience. Retiring at 40 is offensive.
That doesn't have anything to do with whether advertisers are willing to be associated with her or her content, though. Are you proposing that YouTube start hiring video creators full time?
I prefer apt if apt is available, if only because it's more well-known and saves a bit of space.
They didn't try very hard. I had never heard of Allo until a month ago when I got a Pixel 2 and saw the app pre-installed. If they really wanted to push it, they would have made it the default SMS app.

It seems odd to me that Google has been unable to solve a problem that Apple solved in 2012.
2.) The "trampoline" design of the seat means the front edge of the chair digs into the underside of your thighs.

This was the dealbreaker for me. I tried one, but just never found it comfortable no matter what adjustments I made. Instead, I switched to the Humanscale Freedom. While it lacks extensive adjustments that many find essential, it's been a great chair that has held up very well. In the few instances where parts have worn due to age and use, the company has stood behind the product and shipped me replacement parts with no questions asked.
Can anyone offer an explanation why IPv6 still has not blanketed the world yet?

I mean if client pings an IPv4 address, it should be automatically converted to an IPv6 version. So why isn't IPv4 instantly outdated?
I'm a Londoner living in Sao Paulo for a year now. I haven't had any security issues whatsoever for now. I do however follow the Brazilian common sense rules of keeping one safe when going out.
That makes some sense. However, even in an article about Olympic athletes, I would expect a "regular person" to not be one of them.
I find that a lot of askers on SO are really in need of a consultation with a tutor or technical mentor, not a singular answer. Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but to me, really poor SO questions often look like opportunities - what if the asker was open to a 30 minute chat with someone knowledgeable that could totally illuminate things and set them on the right path, but there's just no forum for accomplishing that (or they don't know about it)?

Is there any site/service out there that facilitates this? Paid, unpaid, whatever, I'm just curious if anyone in the HN community has done something like this, on either side (as either the tutor, or the tutored).
I have this ready to go, and I know I can show my abilities in person/over the phone. I even mention the name of my apps on my resume.

But getting that first interview seems hard since they are looking for the degree.
> What's changed?

Student numbers. Massive, monumental growth in student numbers. And the red tape that comes with that kind of size (as ever).

Labour's push for 50% of school leavers to go to university, large swathes of new courses approved that would otherwise have been taught through vocational routes, increase in student applications vs places (in the UK you can apply [or at least could] for up to 6 places, one of the major shifts in the last few years people don't talk about is the push to use all of those slots, whereas you used to only apply to 1 or 2 - this has increased application review and support burden massively).

Also, with an insane growth in the use of Clearing/Adjustment to secure your final place, there's a lot of work put into situational modelling of expected numbers. The market has gone through a phase of only-slightly-organised chaos, and students are now calling the shots at most universities, and leaving things until the last possible moment. This has also meant unis have had to commit to staff numbers before knowing really what their cohorts will look like.

With GApps for Education, most people have Gmail - it doesn't solve anything really. Collaborative software only works if the people required have the time and technical ability (or desire) needed to collaborate. If they don't (like academics), then you get bodies to do it.

> "assisting with research proposals" is certainly new. But is it big?

Yep. University I worked at had a team in each faculty full time helping with this. The grants procedure, writing something actually comprehensible (something of a novelty with some academics, who don't appear to know what a requirement of "plain English description" is...), impact assessment and case study requirements, lining up interviews for candidates, fellows and assistants for the project team, setting up review panels etc... is a major administrative task now. Again, if there weren't support staff doing this, it'd add another bunch of hours onto each lecturer's 80 hour week.

> How much falls under "pastoral support"?

Most faculties will have several student support staff specifically to help with wellbeing during their time at uni. Having been a couple of doors down from someone who tried to commit suicide whilst in uni halls, remember rationalising away those support roles does have a human impact.
Intel buys technology from supercomputer maker Cray for $140M
I've worked in and out of the Bay Area. The Bay Area had by far the most diversity of anywhere I've been around this country as an employee and consultant. So they may not be perfectly diverse, it's a hell of a lot better than anywhere else I've seen.
"Coming from a rich family" or "part of a Native American tribe" is not a wide enough distribution of people to draw conclusions. Any failures / successes could be down to the environment and may not be able to be extrapolated to the rest of society at large.
I also use a (2nd hand) Steelcase Leap. It's definitely great for slouching which is comfortable but I guess I should work on improving my posture.
The premium model gaming-market chairs (AKRacing/DXRacer) are actually great as general office chairs, I'm super happy with mine. They also have office-styled versions (e.g. https://www.akracing.com/product/obsidian-office-chair/)

The quality is definitely far beyond the office max special. I was surprised by the box the thing came in - absolutely massive. The chair is a tank
Google’s Parent Company Spends Like It’s Thinking of a Future Beyond Ads
They've encouraged it in the sense of people are seeing other small time-y video channels making money. So they want to get in on the action. Nothing wrong with that obviously. But it's not unreasonable that they should appreciate they're getting in bed with an elephant.

Most of them don't really have an option if they want to capture an audience and make money but it's the reality of a market where there's basically one buyer.
When? That hasn't been the case in a long time. I've had Verizon for almost six years and as far as I remember I've never bought my phone from them, always brought my own, it's never been a problem. In fact, the phone I have now is a model they don't even sell. I just bought an unlocked phone.

When Verizon only offered subsidized plans I don't even think it would be in Verizon's best interest to refuse to enroll outside phones, the person would be paying the subsidized price no matter what.

CDMA is being phased out in the US and (IIRC) 4G is a GSM technology, I don't believe my phone even supports CDMA?? AT&T and T-Mobile have always been GSM only and AT&T used to carrier lock their phones.

Either way, the carrier lock isn't an issue of phone technology, carriers can always lock out "unapproved" devices at their level.
I wrote a small library [1] for localization messages using the new Context API; I'm pretty sure that any other base for it would have made its implementation significantly more complicated.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-message-context
> the non-academic staff help with the mountain of non-academic work lecturers would otherwise have

Sometimes the academics create lots of extra work for the non-academic staff with their sub-optimal decisions.

I used to work for a university in their IT services, and as a developer I was exposed to a lot of the business rules around enrolment, course prerequisites, degree/major requirements, which we recorded and enforced through a mix of custom software and customised off-the-shelf software. Those rules were written by committees of senior academics. And, rather than keeping them nice and simple, they seemed to like to make them as complex as possible, with the result that the computer systems couldn't cope with the complexity.

The student enrolment system could handle enforcing some simpler subject prerequisites, but for more complex ones the academics concocted – like "PQR101 or BCD142 plus 12 credit points at 200 level in ABC subjects (except for ABC219 and ABC220) plus at least two of DEF211 or DEF212 or GHI292 or JKL205" – we'd just display a warning message to the student "You can only enrol in this if XYZ. Click 'OK' to confirm you meet that prerequisite", followed up by custom reports which would be run to catch students who incorrectly clicked 'OK', who would then be manually forcibly unenrolled, and contacted by phone/post/email to be told to enrol in something else instead.

Added to that, the complexity of the rules would confuse the students, and make the process of planning what to enrol in quite daunting and stressful. Sometimes students would enrol in the wrong subjects, and nobody would stop them, and only later they'd be told that some subject they just spent a semester studying didn't count towards the degree they were enrolled in.

(Hopefully, ten plus years on, they've learnt their lesson and made the rules simpler now. Or maybe not. I wouldn't know.)
Use invite code: LY9114
Enough to live in one of these co-cupboards though?
These Sneakers Are Made from Recycled Chewing Gum
You have a degree, and a difficult one at that. If an employer can't see that you have the skills regardless to your "proper" degree, you likely don't want to work there.

Talk to recruiters as well, they can sometimes skip the bullshit.

You'll just have to tough through it until you get your first practical experience, then it likely won't ever cause you an issue again.
I was a landlord -- I bought a flat in 2007, the day later Northern Rock went bust, and 6 months later the identical flat below mine sold for 60% of the total -- I was in £60k negative equity. Fortunately I resisted the mortgage sales guy and went for a tracker, so paid very little in mortgage (The interest part was about £150pcm).

Fast forward 5 years, still £30k of negative equity, however SWMBO is pregnant so we need to move. Rented out our place, rented somewhere near Manchester, moved, then told my boss at the time I'd moved.

Over the next 4 years we rented out, and between various repairs, service charges, etc made an average £500 a year profit, patently not worth the stress - especially if the tenants had moved out. My half of the £500 a year was taxed in the final year at 60%.

So all that's left to make it 'worth' buying a house is the increase in house price, which in England has averaged about 3% pa over the last 13 years.

If you want to form a housing cooperative, nobody will stop you. If you want to live in the centre of London you're going to be spending a lot of money though - it's supply and demand. If you want to rent or buy somewhere cheap, move further away, plenty of choice to buy a house for under £100k, in some really nice places, not far from Manchester or Leeds. Don't blame the landlords though.
It wouldn't at all show the effects of a large scale implementation. You can't measure the effects of supply constraints and rising prices with small scale tests.
Thanks!

Possibly, I don't know. The point of the post really was to show that the pre-sale process was amenable to a more forensic/scientific analysis than anything else.
Is English Wikipedia's Rise and Decline Typical?
>"Because all math happened with the accumulator, you didn't need any bits in the opcode to specify that. It was implied."

Ah OK. This is the bit I was missing. This makes perfect sense. Thanks you for the detailed response!
Agreed: I've just looked around and it's closer to £100-200 cheaper per month, but it's hard to compare when you factor in anything more than just number of bedrooms and rough square footage. I did find out I'm paying about £100 a month more than the estimated payments on a 30 year mortgage which seems cheaper than most. I'm in the £40k range which makes it slightly less significant but not by too much.

Either way there's not a huge amount of choice in London. I had to find a room in a flatshare a few years ago and I struggled to find anything under £700 which was remotely reasonable (ie double bed, room for a desk and some floor space).
Eames Aluminum Group, looks good, feels good.
I haven't had a laptop that doesn't support suspend and resume in years. It's worth looking at again in 2018. It's gotten a lot better.
If only it were simple. To actually do that, someone somewhere has to approve a budget of at least 2 billion dollars, that's how much money you're talking about. They have to both find the funding and have the political stamina to withstand the backlash on that kind of spending.

* my assumptions are: $25k income (which is just barely above the poverty line), for 40 years (which isn't long enough).
I am genuinely curious of what specific problems you see in PHP and what are the specific issues with the language.

There are so, so many. Here are some good references:

http://phpsadness.com/

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Disclaimer: I earn my income from a project largely written in PHP.
According to my chrome network tab cnn.com now comes to 1.7 megabyte. Without ad blocking, over double that.

Let's say 20% of that is images (it's actually less) ... it is not a problem to fit quite an extensive C++ program in that.
> If you're a citizen or have the appropriate paperwork, this is no big deal.

To a certain extent. However, too many job changes, over too short of a period, looks really bad on a resume. It is possible to job hop yourself into unemployable territory, citizen or not.
I read the paper version while I wrote my thesis because learning about typography and making my thesis pretty was a great distraction from actually writing the thesis. It was a fantasy book with one major, glaring flaw. The book was printed with wide outer margins and very narrow inner margins. This may have satisfied some concept of design, but it made it very hard to read the letters closets to the middle of the book. It turns out that paperbacks need a certain amount of inner margin to compensate for the fact that they don’t open quite all the way.

I don’t know whether this was a typographic faux pas or a defect in my particular copy.
The state of the Mac is just sad right now.

Laptops - the Air is overpriced with horrible specs - a 1400x900 screen is something you expect to see on a bargain basement Dell being sold on Black Friday, the MacBook only has one port, and you're in dongle hell buying the MacBook Pros

-Mac Mini - hasn't been updated since 2014 and it was a down grade in a lot of ways.

-Mac Pro - hasn't been updated since 2013 and won't be until 2019 according to Apple.

That leaves just the iMac. It's the only line that is actually good from the low end to the high end iMac Pro. But I can understand why that isn't for some people.
@vrbelli I would love to read your "Top 10 List of Improvements" if you were able to re-build "The Collective" from scratch. I have no connection to "The Collective" I'm just curious how it could be "fixed".
>>No matter how abundantly confident the people of HN may be that BI is the way to go

I think people of HN are far from "abundantly confident" about BI. Heck, it's probably the other way around: every time the topic is discussed people come up with reason after reason as to why it's a terrible idea.
The Twitter post says it's Google DNS having issues querying. Are you sure the issue is with AWS Route 53 and not some routing issue between Google and AWS?
INRIA, where Coq development takes place.
Spam the enemy with thousands of drones.
It’s ironic. There is less crime if you give people money... okay. Having money stolen becomes a guarantee instead with UBI.
I think there are mesh people and seat cushion people. I have an Aeron at home and we had Leaps in the conference room at a previous employer. The Leaps are fine but I much prefer the Aeron. For one thing, I find it much cooler in hot weather.
I haven't needed to physically go to my bank in a very long time.
Looks pretty cool.

I really don't like the idea of my ci/cd tooling being responsible for provisioning its own k8s cluster....there are a lot of other more mature projects out there for doing this.

Is the idea that the ONLY thing running on this cluster is jenkins-x and review/preview environments or something?
The absolute best quote in the OP:

These questions feel like showing up on a medical website and saying something like “I think my kidney has been hurting. How can I remove it?”
SO was great 8 or so years ago. Now it's mostly "you're doing it wrong" answers as the top shit I see when I search on google.

Wading through that nonsense takes longer than finding and implementing a helpful solution. Sad really.
I didn't think that needed to be said, and actually I think it's on you to make that happen at the company rather than the other way around.
"liberté, egalité, franternité" only appeared after the start of the revolution. And it was not used as the official motto until the third Republic at the end of the 19th century.

Edit: and regarding the last part, I don't think it's true, since the king's power was limited, by the various intistutions and other local powers.
>"I don't know what changed in my body to cause the difference"

For me it was gaining a better understanding of basic physics. Something I was never taught at an early age due to a cult like upbringing. Now questioning all I have ever been taught is second nature in my waking life. Even basic things like was that shadow normal? "Oh right, nothing divine there." So now that has leaked into my dream state, whenever physics goes weird (mostly water not flowing right or objects that don't respond in a proper manner) I instantly question it and then become aware of my dream state.