skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I live in Wallingford (the community mentioned here). In one of those Craftsman houses, no less.

Here's the thing: Wallingford will be valuable and therefore expensive no matter what kind of housing you build here. Literally anything. There are some crappy midcentury studio apartments that go for 2k a month not 10 blocks from here, because the location is great even if you don't have a house.

That means that basically everybody who doesn't develop property professionally is misdiagnosing the situation.

The NIMBYs say that rezoning will cause property values to crash. That's just not in line with available evidence from Ballard and similar, and flies in the face of reason besides. When your lot can be a beloved home to another family or a pile of income to a developer, math says the developer will eventually win the bidding war.

Most of the YIMBYs are wrong because housing prices just aren't going to come down that much here, and much of what comes in will be rentals. Those rentals will be luxury units because they can be, and will therefore be 2500+ a month. That's within a few hundred dollars of an existing mortgage (on one of the cheaper houses-- not the million dollar 3000+ sqft thing down the road) but without the potential upside.
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Saying employees got screwed without knowing deal details is a bit preposterous. Weebly pays engineers pretty well compared with bigco salary, has a cash yearly bonus, sabbatical program, etc. The only difference is stock comp.

What bigco are you going to work for in SF that gives those rsu grants? Salesforce, LinkedIn, and...? I wouldn't be willing to waste my life riding up and down the peninsula for that rsu grant.
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> Everything that's below the floor pan is amazing. Everything above it is what it is.

Honest question: Is everything below the floor pan designed and built by Panasonic?
Well, yeah, sure, why not?

"A bunch of assumptions and pseudo-statistics" could be Hacker News' official tag line. What makes this thread special?
Well...

China imports from Vietnam, 2003: $1.63 billion [0]
China imports from Vietnam, 2016: $35.6 billion [1]

Seems in the same ballpark area to me as the US numbers.

Your theory that "Vietnam's present economic boom, is almost exclusively due to the huge boom in US imports" doesn't check out with these numbers.

[0] http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/?country=239&partner=un...
[1] http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/?country=239&partner=un...
Except some guys do know how to "look" at girls rather than ogle
You need to type your Python code extremely fast to finish it 10 times faster than this Rust program:

extern crate xpath_reader;
extern crate regex;

use std::io::prelude::*;
use std::fs::File;

use xpath_reader::Reader;
use regex::Regex;

fn main() {
let mut contents = String::new();
File::open("test.xml").expect("Unable to open the file").read_to_string(&mut contents).expect("Unable to read the file");
//println!("File contents: {}", contents);

let reader = Reader::from_str(&contents, None).expect("Cannot parse XML file");
let files: Vec<String> = reader.read("//file").expect("Cannot find file entries in XML file");
//println!("Files: {:?}", files);

for file in files.iter() {
println!("File: {}", file);
let mut contents = String::new();
File::open(file).expect("Unable to open the file").read_to_string(&mut contents).expect("Unable to read the file");
//println!("File contents: {}", contents);

let re = Regex::new(r"foo bar").expect("Cannot compile regex");
let replaced = re.replace_all(&contents, "baz").to_string();
//println!("File contents: {}", replaced);

File::create(file).expect("Unable to overwrite the file").write(replaced.as_bytes()).expect("Unable to write to file");
}
}
We already have an awful lot of data in the cloud. If Google and Facebook adopted homomorphic encryption, it would be a huge improvement.
Excellent point. To put it another way, all Facebook did was to share some numbers with Cambridge Analytical who did some math with those numbers and shared those further with the Trump campaign. Why is everybody upset over math?
Well I think it is far from boring. The growth of cloud platforms, containerization, orchestration, there's a lot going on.
This was very similar to my experience on the 60 day fast I did last summer.

I was stupid/stubborn and didn't supplement anything but salt for the first 30 days. If you're going to fast, sodium, potassium and magnesium are what I would recommend. I could post my before/after pictures and the spreadsheets with my logs if there's any interest.
It points to this, but also includes important context. Perhaps even a better link, from NPR itself, would be the ombudsman's piece:

https://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2018/04/12/601650762/...

The ombudsman (person?) blames various parties, but (rightly, to astute readers of the retracted story) starts with the reporter, Aarti Shahani. She screwed up, and NPR management aren't sugarcoating that.
Of course they don't, I never said they owe me anything.
I'm glad they're doing this, and I think there are more ways to use data to make this political argument for increasing housing supply. Specifically, I think one potential application of data to break up zoning limitations & NIMBY-ism is the use of energy and environmental simulation to argue against right-to-light/solar access rights get used to protect low-density housing.

I've worked to develop urban planning guidelines in my previous job, and in my experience environmental regulations like shading studies are heavily, heavily relied on as a quantitative way to post-rationalize NIMBY-ism's desire to stop construction. Why? Simply because there aren't a lot of other quantitative metrics to justify low-density development, and so the only real data-backed analysis that justifies building shorter buildings tends to be solar rights.

My current job is as a building energy researcher, and as I've gone about my job - which involves a lot of programming & calculating metrics for building energy (obviously), indoor/outdoor human comfort, daylighting thresholds - it's obvious that the urban argument that is made is a one-sided one that could be potentially undermined by demonstrating metrics that favor <i>less</i> solar access. Or, since the sun moves around the sky - metrics that give you equal solar access at different times, which can allow higher density. i.e what is the urban heat island consequence of exposed urban surfaces to sun, what is the comfort benefit of shade, the harm caused by direct UV, what is the building energy benefit of blocking direct solar gain etc.

This is not meant to (reductively) claim that less sun is a good thing - simply that there is more ambiguity then is captured by current zoning regulations or design standards, and as a result we are over-emphasizing solar access when in certain places it isn't benefiting us. At the very least, we shouldn't take the solar-access argument at face-value.

And I don't the planning officials and design professionals who are implementing this for the current state of environmental regulations. In my experience, given the impact their work has on the city, it's astonishing how little resources are expended to actually quantitatively study the effect of different typologies on the city, and as a result they tend to rely on community (NIMBY) feedback, and existing precedent for structuring cities. Better data-based tools could help them a lot make a progressive argument for higher-density.
I recall seeing in the movie A Beautiful Mind a scene where a group of colluding men improved their dating outcomes by instituting and honoring one rule: "nobody goes for the best one". Nash demonstrated his game theory concept, and it worked the exposition into the screenplay without going too deeply into the math.

So females should probably collude to enforce dating-monogamy, to encourage males to clearly commit or reject. Polygamy works only when females judge 1/Nth of the attention of the best males to be worth more than 100% of a lesser male. Polyandry doesn't work well, because the males have negative incentive to participate--why compete over one woman when those men could just compete on the same terms for all women?

I can envision a system wherein all the women establish a ranking of their top prospects, and an algorithm deconflicts their preferences, such that only one woman can contact a given man through the system at one time, until one or the other publicly repudiates the match. If a woman expresses her preference for only alphas, she may be in a situation where she cannot contact any of them, because they're all "busy" at the time. If she tags a bunch of betas--or even omegas--she might be able to date several of them concurrently. It forces the males to judge based on "good enough for me, or not" rather than "better or worse than potential alternatives". The women would always be dating "the best available that does not compete with the other women".

It's just not realistic to implement a symmetric experience on dating apps.
A correction/editor's note is usually in the form of a note. A retraction is exactly that -- a story being retracted, i.e. pulled from view.

According to the retraction note, this was not a minor technicality. The reporter failed to talk to the other party in this story (the purported author of the malicious website) and apparently mischaracterized the nature of the website.
I think it’s created by the man himself - having been through it it’s a very thorough coverage of the basic instruction set without delving too much into the windows specifics (it uses FASM syntax from what I recall)
Voters can't vote in municipalities where they don't live. So if you have a muni that has low destiny zoning regs, voters
would have to move there first before having any say.
hint; there is no treasure.
From the article:

> And as a basic need, relying on third party tools for SSL/TLS termination or a transparent VPN solution is a great first step from running without encryption, but it can leave speed on the table. And part of the reason why we use Redis is for speed, right?

> With 3rd party SSL/TLS termination, that can only get worse. How much worse?

I'm curious to see what the results could be with HAProxy as a SSL termination frontend. (via a Unix socket or a TCP connection)
Presumably they'll have to sort out what kind of performance hit it has and how to address that longterm, but I think you're correct.

It's probably more complicated than that given that the Redis security page begins with:

> Redis is designed to be accessed by trusted clients inside trusted environments.

https://redis.io/topics/security

I think the current recommended approach for this use case is to wrap it with stunnel.
Inquiry into Child Abuse Calls on UK Government to Address Legislation
Not my experience; I usually have to go though several rounds of select all the road signs. I'm not sure on what basis they decide to haste some users vs others.
But it could refer to ingredients other than pure MSG.
Famous Aging Researcher Doesn’t Want Us to Live Forever
Yes, unfortunately I have no idea about GTK and similar.

It seems unlikely that I would be able to learn, too.
Cities:Skylines is lacking the "deep mechanics" side, which is why many people still play SimCity 4.

It's best looked at as more of a "city painter" than something which is going to be challenging to build a large, successful city in.
Music activates regions of the brain spared by Alzheimer's disease
The $3M Research Breakdown
Many comments trying to explain the US contribution are distracted by Twitter. That was just a show backing up bigger moves. The US started targeting specific Russian and Chinese smugglers who have been allowing the North Korean nobility to skirt the general sanctions for decades.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-sa...

Previous administrations avoided taking this extra step, due to realpolitik cargo cult fears about souring Russia/China and retaliation from a desperate and truly cut off North Korean elite. President Trump decided to call their bluff.
Yes, Stripe Radar will automate most of these checks. They also have the benefit of being able to see other merchants' transactions within their network, which helps when someone tries test transactions across a bunch of different merchants all at the same time from the same IP.
I've talked to many otherwise perfectly rational folks who get worked up about avoiding MSG when it comes to Asian food — but still go out and buy liquid aminos or eat foods that are caked in it.
Crypto exchange AirSwap has a friendly UI
Focus Hacking with Complexity and Colors
> Try this experiment: just once, try to eat half the lunch you ordinarily would eat. I bet you can't do it. Just try it. And if you could do it, you would quickly realize how miserable the rest of your afternoon would be.

I'm sorry but people regularly skip meals and move on with their lives. Am I missing a parody here?
do people check that still?
> He claims 100% compression, but that clearly disregards the digit ID which is potentially quite large to store

That reminds me of a compression program I once wrote. It had the following properties:

1. It accepts any non-empty file other than a file consisting of a single 0 byte.

2. It is easily reversible.

3. The output is never larger than the input.

4. The output is smaller than the input for some files.

5. If a file is larger than 1 byte, iterating enough times will always eventually produce a smaller file. What is "enough times" depends on the file content.

(I wrote this partly as a joke, and partly as a counterexample to some proofs I'd seen on Usenet about the limitations of compression programs where the proofs had not been sufficiently precise in specifying the conditions necessary for them to apply).

It is actually quite simple:

1. If the file is empty or a single byte that is 0, report that the input is not acceptable and exit.

2. If the file is N bytes, treat it as if it is an 8N bit unsigned integer, I.

3. If I is 0, the output file is N-1 bytes all with value 0xFF.

4. If I is not 0, subtract 1, and output the result.

(Decompression is left as an exercise for the reader).

Another way to look at this is to imagine that we have a sorted list of all possible files. The primary sort key is file size. The secondary sort key is the numerical value of the file when treated as an 8N bit unsigned integer, where N is the file size.

My compression algorithm is simply to replace each file with the file immediately ahead of it on that file list.

Viewed that way, it is pretty obvious that all my claims are true. It accepts any non-empty file other than the first file on the list (single 0 byte). To reverse it, replace the input with the file immediately after it from the list. The list is ordered by file size, so stepping down in the list never gives a larger file, and sometimes gives a smaller file. The output file is on the list, so you can obviously iterate.

The catch, of course, is that while yes, you can take your 1 TB of arbitrary data (even true random data!) and apply my algorithm iteratively to get down to, say, a 1 byte file, and yes, you can apply the decompression algorithm iteratively to recover your 1 TB from, to do that you have to know how many times to iterate on the decompression end.

The number of iterations required for an uncompressed file of N bytes to compress down to a byte is on the order of 2^(8N), so you will need about N bytes to store the iteration count.

So net result is that it can replace an N byte file with a 1 byte file...but it is going to drop N bytes of metadata on you that you'll need to store somewhere.
Not really, sad to say. I had a PR approved during the day yesterday by one of the smartest guys I've ever worked with and that passed all tests yet, due to a subtle issue, caused a problem in production this morning. It wasn't the end of any worlds, but this kind of thing happens all the time with complex systems.
> Don't ask someone else to DDoS your competitors, even in jest, especially not in writing. Besides being in bad taste, this can come back to bite you.

That was my first thought when I read the chat. It just seems stupid to even remotely suggest something like this.
I thought Panasonic only made the cells and that tesla assembles the batteries, cooling system, electric drive train etc.
I compared advantages of active vs passive person in that model - that holds true regardless of which gender is on which side.

I think there are three different datings - the one when you look for partner, the one where you seek temporary fun and then the one when you seek brag points/social status through trophy partner you don't really care about. These discussions tend to confuse them.
and Dropbox, and Google (they have an SF office), and FB (opening SF office). Yes that's why you would just move to SF then. If you are in the Peninsula already then go work for FB, Google, LinkedIn, et al.*

*If maximizing for total comp
There ought to be a formally-named logical fallacy for the "we shouldn't attempt to fix this problem, because someone somewhere else has it worse than we do" attitude.
this: "Software is partly a production problem, but it’s mainly a maintenance problem."
This is an interesting proposition in how to effectively allocate funds in a way that brings in far more value than direct application.

For me it does raise a few questions: What happens to teams who lose a competition? If their only monetary incentive is the govt prize, are they then in the hole financially? Can non winning projects incentivized by govt xprizes always be repurposed to still have value? Will individuals burn out or be emotionally drained and forfeit future competitions?

This is not to say that the idea isn’t interesting; clearly x prizes are still ongoing and there’s never a shortage of interest to participate.
Ok, thanks for explaining that. It sounds like the condition for notability in this case is the combination of size and algorithm used?

> Carmody created a 1905-digit prime, of the form k·256211 + 99, that was the tenth largest prime found using ECPP, a remarkable achievement by itself and worthy of being published on the lists of the highest prime numbers.
Microsoft’s Windows 10 April 2018 Update Arrives on Monday – The Verge
>But I don't like that area.

I can summarize a lot of the comments in this thread with:

"But I want it!"

The city isn't obligated in making areas you like affordable to you.

I wrote a bit about this recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16926098
How Does China Control 1.4B People?
For career driven people, it's not enough that just some company will hire them for something. And there are very few cities where it's easy to find a job matching the skills and expertise of e.g. a Microsoft tech lead.
Thats great! We should extend it to people's private communications on work computers, because it's about equivalent.

Like Austria :) https://www.taylorwessing.com/globaldatahub/article_austria_...
Anecdata: growing up, all blossoming cherry trees here had hundreds or thousands of bees in them. now there are a dozen bumble bees. that is beyond 'imminent collapse' and beyond sad.

Someone send all people at Monsanto who hid the evidence to jail.
The aspirin is irrelevant; this worked thanks to the other ingredients making up the bulk of the pill, like powdered cellulose or whatever.

We could conduct a double-blind experiment with a placebo; it would still work. :)
Another approach to this problem is to use Twemproxy: https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy, which can be used like a sidecar Redis load-balancer.
Ok, now bionic beaver has been released
The have/have-not dichotomy is increasingly becoming a matter of geography, of have vs. have-not regions. A French sociologist whose name I forget has written extensively about this, and others claim that the theory applies throughout the industrialized world. If it's true, it answers your question almost by definition.
It's not small for a business starting on Weebly. That was my point above. Weebly isn't where a business doing $2.4m in annual online revenue goes for a website. They have a team, or at least a person or contractor, responsible for building the website and ecommerce.

All of my comments above were about the cottage industry where Weebly shines. There's a whole bunch of people making a little bit of money online...they aren't big clients for Square, but in aggregate they add up, and some of them will grow and Square will keep them as customers as long as they provide paths for growth.

I think there's just a breakdown in what kinds of business we're talking about in this conversation. Yes, in many segments, $2.4m annual is a small business (it's well under 50 employees, probably well under 25 employees). But, as businesses with their sites on Weebly go, it's pretty big. Weebly has always been a place to go for a first website, particularly for non-technical businesses...it's just not the place you go when you're building a multimillion dollar business.

So, both things can be true: $2.4m annual revenue is a relatively small business, and most businesses on Weebly will never grow to that size.
> "already possible beforehand"

How so? And if so, why is CRISPR such a big deal?

Not being a jerk. I'm truly interested in filling the blindspot in my "software."

That said, the gist of the guy / article was (and I'm spitballing) CRISPR is an over-simplistic view of DNA. Sure, it might work for a couple of things, but to presume that pov / lens is OSFA is likely not correct.

> "Lastly, somebody with an “alt view on DNA” immediately sounds like a crackpot with a poor handle on modern biology."

Right. Because the world was and still is flat? SMH

If I had $20 for every crackpot in the history of science I'm be FU money wealthy :) __The whole point of my comment_ was to say this new tread/artice, along with the mentioned article in The Atlantic seems to be saying it's __possible__ our understanding of our current understanding of science is off-base.

That's not crackpot. That's science.
Though I think bloombert doesn't carry sensational headlines, the report of the same event from "The Economist" is rather muted (https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21741238-moon-jae-and-ki...), and mentions that results of the meet are insubstantial.
One day aliens will try to decipher how early humans behaved by analyzing excavated iPhones.

Those aliens will be our descendants. And they won't have to excavate. They'll just look up the right shop in Akihabara, or equivalent of the time.

http://kk.org/thetechnium/technologies-do/
Does the customer really care that a product was made with Go instead of C++, Rust, etc? Ruby has a gem and Rust has a rusted R. I guess those are less childish? Java with it's mocha brand is supposed to be professional looking? The customer sees a cup of coffee and thinks to themselves, "Wow, this product is definitely made with professional grade industry standards!".