skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what genes play a factor in IQ?

All of them play a little bit (majority of quantitative differences) and some of them play a lot (when there are significant qualitative differences).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVSbFAcBAyw
Yep. So many people are afraid of having a universal system for identifying (and tracking) us that they would much prefer many smaller broken systems used for impersonating us.
In what way is this Github repo of yours a “model of Facebook likes data”?
Ah yes, if you execute unsigned code from it then that's definitely possible.
This is perhaps the biggest argument in favor of ownership. Unless your landlord is _losing_ money on the deal, the price of rent takes _all_ other costs of ownership into account and then adds more on top of that.

If you're renting, you most certainly _are_ losing money on the deal vs. what you'd pay if you owned _exactly_ the same property.
Property tax is deductible up to $10k.
This is about protocols and data formats not user input text box (the original post mentioned JSON). It's interesting that you bring Google that lead efforts to replace more "liberal" HTTP1.1 with binary, strict HTTP2.
Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine, bona-fide,
Electrified, blockchain.
What'd I say?

Blockchain.
What's it called?
Blockchain.
That's right! Blockchain.

Blockchain
Blockchain
Blockchain

I hear their energy use makes fans whir loud.
It's as energy efficient as a GPU cloud.
Is there a chance a fork could bring the end?
Not on your life, my Nerdy friend.

What about us brain-dead slobs?
You'll be given cushy MLM jobs
Were you sent here by the ICO Devil?
No good sir, I'm on the level.

The wheels came off my project plan.
Take my ASIC, my good man.
I swear it's Company's only choice.
Throw up your hands and raise your voice.

Blockchain.
What's it called?
Blockchain.
Once again.
Blockchain.

But our product quality is still all broken.
Sorry Bob, the mob has spoken.

Blockchain!
Blockchain!
Blockchain!
Blockchain!

Block, d'oh!

(with apologies to The Simpsons).
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>crushes the bag between two plates.

Not to mention that even this doesn't require anything fancy. The screw press was invented two thousand years ago by the Romans to make JUICE!
> The financial arguments assume one only pays the minimum mortgage payment amount. Many people add a bit extra each month which can quickly turn a 30 year mortgage into a 9-12 year mortgage.

Wouldn't that actually make the trade-off worse as instead of putting money into a high-return asset (stocks) you directed it to a lower-returning asset (housing)?
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> Accepting invalid or ambiguous or undefined JSON is not an acceptable behavior

Just to make it explicit (and without inserting any personal judgement into the conversation myself): JSON parsers should reject things like trailing commas after final array elements because it will encourage people to emit trailing commas?

Having asked the question (and now explicitly freeing myself to talk values) it's new to me -- a solid and rare objection to the Robustness Principle. Maybe common enough in these sorts of discussions, though? Anyway, partial as I might be to trailing commas, I do quite like the "JSON's universality shall not be compromised" argument.
The COMPAQ iPaq was in many ways ahead of its time. If they would have invested in a better OS, or convinced Microsoft to build something more "mobile", they could have beaten Apple possibly by 3-4 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPAQ
Building something that mimic how it appears to work, as opposed to how it does work. Like building the symptoms whilst assuming we're building the disease.

Having said that, however, gotta start somewhere.
Having said that, however, we might have done a decade of work in the wrong direction by the time we find out what direction it should go...

'tis a conundrum.
And Athens is about 35% of Greece :)
Thanks for clarifying! That’s a lot of new track for one metro area. “Buying in bulk” seems to ring true with many of these expansions.
It’s been suggested - and backed with studies - since the 80s. Your recently bias is showing.

Joe Rogan is a tool but he’s not always wrong.
eh... property tax AND state income tax.

Living in CA with near 10% marginal state income tax above $100k means that if you're buying a $1M home you're probably hitting the 10k without property tax.
I wouldnt describe that as a huge source considering it requires a tpm vulnerability in secure-signed envs.
If the Flow type checker ensures exhaustiveness, why does the switch statement require a default case and an `impossible` function?
well then in that case in many regards working with companies that have quarterly / annual budgets is easier than working with clients who do not. But it appears to be harder to make the sale if you don’t already have a legendary track record that warrants their one-year-commitment.
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Interesting to know, thanks for mentioning :- ) B.t.w. I like Zulip's threads.

A thought: What if Zulip, during installation, let the admin choose if things should be public or hidden-behind-login, by default? E.g. useful for open source projects
This reminds me of my Palm Pilot Pro from ~97. It came with a modem add-on for dialup internet. It was a smartphone, otherwise.

Handspring, an offshoot by Palm's creators created the first cellular addon (Springboard) for PalmOS shortly after. Worked OK.

PalmOS, on a Treo 90 (color touch screen in 2002), with Datebk6 remains the most productive device I've ever used by a wide margin. Touchscreen, and keyboard in one form factor cut down on grafitti use.

The best part? One shortcut key (fn+calendar) took the device from power off right into a cursor in to add a task. When horsepower didn't exist, productivity made up for in oodles. It had a usable keyboard, well before blackberry showed up. Nothing today touches this.

The Palm Treo 600 came along in 2003 to me were the first real, usable smartphones. No app store, but apps could be synced from the computer. It combined a physical keyboard with a touchscreen on a smartphone to boot.
You're making very lofty claims, based on a single pseudoscientific, for profit book, written by someone with very questionable credentials. Have his claims been peer reviewed?

Can you give me a summary? I'm not going to waste money on a book full of unsubstantiated claims that are based on no actual research. It has all the hallmarks of bullshit conspiracy nonsense.
20-20 is really fun but it’s almost a whole different game in approach than Test cricket.

It feels like the difference between the NFL & Rugby - related but a vast strategic and game flow difference
Yeah but non technical people who don't know what they are doing but for some reason have money to spend just know they want you to use machine learning for everything.

One time at work I wrote a simple web app with a search box (just doing an sql query, nothing fancy). One of the "higher ups" was impressed and decided to flex their knowledge, pointing to the search box saying "and this uses nlp". It was a damn sql query on a full text field.
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You probably do not need SQL. You can make do with well written see awk scripts
Interestingly, Objective-C was not at all designed to be a "better C", it was designed to be, roughly speaking, a more practically useful Smalltalk.

This is all laid out in great detail in the wonderful Object Oriented Programming: an Evolutionary Approach.
Fair enough - you've got to admit though - the question wasn't written clearly enough for it not to be an obvious target of amusement... Apologies for poking a little fun at your expense...
For the examples mentioned in the article no, you don't need statistical analysis but these are simple cases (which most cases are).

Late orders, biggest orders etc. etc. sure, those are all SQL queries.

However if you want to make statistical predictions or looks for the non obvious, these simple types of queries aren't going to do it. So it's an apples to oranges comparison.

There are a lot of cases where people don't know what they are after. And also lots of cases were orgs don't have a grasp on the simple things, but somehow think more complex things (especially buzzword things) are magically going to solve a lack of organization and insight.
Maybe they're describing a case where the systems have been well designed so they already have the data they need in a useful format and don't need to do any of that bullshit to make it usable.
> JSON is extremely difficult to parse correctly ... in Bourne shell or in AWK.

Sorry for the misquote, but does it get to the heart of your objection?

I'm torn here. On the one hand I want to say "Those are not languages one typically writes parsers in," but that's a really muddled argument:

1. People "parse" things often in bash/awk because they have to -- because bash etc deal in unstructured data.

2. Maybe "reasonable" languages should be trivially parseable so we can do it in Bash (etc).

I'm kinda torn. On the one hand bash is unreasonably effective, on the other I want data types to be opaque so people don't even try to parse them... would love to hear arguments though.
Yes - 95-100mph is very common in fast bowlers. Also the bounce gives a much larger variety of angles and spins.

Plus the ball is a LOT harder. A lot.
I've learned not to expect much empathy from the Internet.
"and use". Why not... And this has implicitly happened/happening to many open source projects - people are downloading (or "buying disks") from the original author anyway. e.g. back then, I doubt anyone would buy an Emacs distribution from other person than RMS - so why not have a license which would enforce such usage - this is just an alignment to fact.
> creating an open distributed platform. It’s up to us to figure out what to use it for.

This is putting the cart very much before the horse.

I have no objection to people researching, experimenting, playing. Godspeed. Spending billions creating a technology that sounds cool but may be useless, though, is absurd.

We didn't get the Internet because somebody said, "Hey, let's spend billions wiring up a lot of computers and see if it's good for anything." The Internet's growth was driven by an expanding set of very specific use cases.
I find this comment frustrating, just like many of the Lisp comments. Asserting a condescending statement with zero explanation. These Lisp comments aren't taking the form "oh, Lisp has something like this too, we can learn from it," instead it's, "something like this feature exists in Lisp, therefore these ideas clearly aren't new." For example on the thread about gradual typing, Common Lisp has definitely not had gradual typing since the concept didn't exist until the last 10 years (distinct from optional static typing). Yet that does not stop the commenter from asserting "oh Lisp has had this for forever" without any further discussion or nuance.
I call this knowing if you're working on the 3rd or 4th wave of innovation in a space, or not.

Executing the right amount of your innovation for the corresponding wave of technology that the market is ready to uptake is critical. Or you'll be too far ahead, or not ahead enough.

Otherwise, the market usually waits for the 3rd or 4th generation of iPhone, Samsung Galaxy Note, Nexus, Apple Watch, iPad, etc before they become widely usable.
Most companies don't have anything like that.
This can be done serverless + static hosting (e.g. s3) + db (e.g. dynamo). And serverless is great for burst-y, well-defined tasks like sending emails or serving simple web pages.

However, serverless won't "scale infinitely". Users sessions are the big one (although if your dynamo table becomes the limiting factor, I'd say that's a successful company). Serving big files could get very expensive, so think about how the download is going to be done. Caching is also going to be more complex.

Finally, serverless tools are still a bit meh. I would just use the serverless framework, because it seems most general purpose. The more specific frameworks for e.g. web pages often end up limiting you because of the way they're designed.

Serverless has a learning curve. If this is an actual business decision, go servers for everything and worry about optimizing later. Will be much easier hiring for servers. If it's more of a learning exercise, go serverless all the way.
Hi, I'm rooting for Gitlab. Love your product, team, and particularly the way you all communicate with your customers.

But the root problem may be that the name "Gitlab" does not convey "Full Devops Solution". "Gitlab" the name is memorable, easy-to-spell, but having "Git" as a prefix might make it just a hair too narrow for what the product wants to be.

I am a sample size of one, so unless others have also been confused by the name, please feel free to keep on trucking.
I remember being horrified to discover that XPM is actually a form of C. That just screams injection risk.
> no living thing could ever afford Manhattan

I stayed for a week at a hotel in Midtown, in February for about $80/night. Not a great hotel, but there were no bed bugs, rodents, or roaches. That's well below what most folks consider the median rent to be in San Francisco. Plus someone cleaned the place every day.
Just wanted to share that you can technically parse S-expressions using SGML.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/19991008044801/http://www.blnz.c...
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Scala.js is a great, stable, mature tool. Scala is a sharp sword, but it fits your criteria quite well. I'm certainly enjoying Scala.js very much.
Ah! Sorry, forgot to paste the link in. It's here: http://www.maariv.co.il/news/world/Article-633899

Sending a screenshot by e-mail now.
So if JSON parsers can't agree on what JSON actually is, that isn't a problem?
We're actually working on something like this in Zulip; it's advertised as "coming soon" at http://zulipchat.com/for/open-source
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Bravo to the Gitlab team on building such a great product. I used to really dislike it, now I'm a big fan!
It had value types, pointers and references.

As calling conventions, pass-by-value, pass-by-reference, pass-by-name.
Religious texts defining a man as someone born with a penis and testicles are presumably much more common, however.
It's less important to point out that bad real-estate deals exist. No one is debating that. Nor is anyone debating the sliding scale that shows your first year is mostly interest. ASLO, no one (even the OP) is debating (assuming you are savvy enough to avoid a bad deal) that in 30 years, home owners have a massive nest-egg, not to mention 30 years of effectivley fixed monthly payments (even if taxes go up slightly).

Would LOVE to compare net worth with the OP.
I'm guessing Springfield, Massachusetts.
> Is taking walks maybe an uncommon thing in the USA?

I once got sent to Plano, Texas, for a week. It was a training course for work. After the course, I went for walks in the afternoon / early evening. And it surprised me at just how deserted the streets felt. There were plenty of cars around, but so very few pedestrians. I didn't really feel unsafe, just more out of place.
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That is a problem that classical economics trivially solves - humane meat is already unaffordable for most people.
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1.2 Billion kilograms of lithium are estimated in reserves on planet earth - estimated by the USGS.

10 Kilograms of lithium are needed for each Tesla battery

~122M Tesla batteries can be made.

0.5M teslas produced per a year by 2020 is their aim.

20 to 100 gigafactories would mean 50 to 300 years of lithium availability.

8 year durations on Tesla batteries.

I'm not sure extended duration on these things means anything environmentally relevant.
It does not solve anything. It's true that cash and bitcoin both avoid a narrow slice of counterparty risk. But that's not a whole problem, just part of one. As a currency, Bitcoin is an abject failure. Even big proponents admit that: http://avc.com/2017/08/store-of-value-vs-payment-system/

Bitcoin made no practical dent in existing legal financial transactions because it's not better for the great majority of use cases.
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There are some legitimate criticisms to be made of Swift, particularly in regards to tooling. But if you feel obliged to downvote somebody for making a factual, if anecdotal, claim about their experience using it, you might want to question how much of your reaction is just resistance to change.
From the section on TypeScript:

> enums, which are basically like Java’s enums.

They really aren't. Java enums are somewhat unique in that they are full-fledged classes, not just glorified constants. TS enums are much closer to those of C#.
Rent can never be lower than mortgage payments for the same property because then the bank would never give out mortgages and would just buy up all the properties.

Rent can be higher than the mortgage payment of a portion of the house, but not to the mortgage payment of the entirety of the house.
"objectively insane", "over-specified". I'm not sure what "objectively sane" is, but, I guess something specified that way would be a good thing - provided its not "over-specified" since that would be a bad thing, I guess.
> better bet than renting with roommates

Why not both?
It's a line from Fight Club, fwiw.
I don't know why this is getting downvoted. The current assumption that colluding miners are detectable is absolutely false. There is no way of knowing whether a block comes from a specific mining farm/network as all information about that is forgable by the creator of the block.

If you try to mitigate this by controlling who has access, you just eliminated the advantage of being trustless and thus made blockchain an expensive database.
encrypted.google.com is being deprecated by Google.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/7631341?p=encryp...
What evidence do you have that blockchain based technology will avoid the financial crisis to come? If anything, the blockchain advocates I have seen so far, are just as phony and greedy, if not more, as the bankers out there.
> In other words, at the end of 30 years, the rent may have made more money in some scenario of a perfect investor, but then they still have to rent to have a place to live. The homeowner now owns their property free and clear and can do all kinds of things with it, and their now future income is entirely liquid.

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.

Edit: I took a look at the link you provided below and its not thorough. The author should have found something weird in the fact that in the calculations he concludes that being a property owner is 1.6 million richer than the renter, and not meaning that inequivocally everyone would conclude that renting is so bad it should be illegal.

The most glaring mistakes are that he takes mortgage payments and renting as the same, which cant be true in a reasonable market, and that the renter starts with 0 while the mortgage taker starts with the downpayment.
Well, being aware of it is a great first step. Transformation from there arises from the awareness.
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The VCs is this case were probably looking for some tech that had a higher barrier to entry.

Whether it is true or not in this case they may have perceived that if it was based on a ML approach it might be harder for the competition to replicate if it was successful.
@ashishnm,
Thanks for sharing, after I read the HN excitement around the open sourcing of foundationdb, I had a question in my mind and I hope it's not to off-topic to ask here - do you happened to know is it feasible to implement a SQL Layer on top of foundationdb, using Sqlite's Virtual Table mechanism (http://www.sqlite.org/vtab.html)?
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So it's more expensive than trying to guess which of my cats name I used as password then.
Yeah, just comint with elpy. There are some rough edges; I can't input multiline in the comint buffer (but can send it), and gives an error on the very first command, but otherwise works well.
"Insane complexity"? You mean that it actually has a spec instead of the back of a business card with no implementations that agree on what is actually valid?
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Technically, fully homomorphic encryption exists (and may someday be practical)
Nah, I disagree. I do like test cricket but I absolutely have to be doing something else at the same time to watch it (like playing a game or programming). It's a terrible spectator sport.

On the other hand, limited overs cricket doesn't do much for me either. I'd rather just watch a footy game at that stage.
There is no way high level managers and/or the CEO of Eventbrite did not know about this.
All your points (1 through 4) matched with what was looking for. I chose Clojure. It's Lispy, focuses on immutable data (but not necessarily pure functions), has a version (cljs) that compiles to javascript (if you're writing web-apps, its great to write both your front-end and backend code in one langauage). I've broadly found clojure to be a "practical" functional language to work in.

(If it helps, I'm primarily a python/js developer before picking Clojure).
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I took an American colleague to watch the cricket on the village green one lunchtime, just a few minutes from our office. Nothing professional, this was just the local cricket club.

They bowled about four balls before there was a shout from the clubhouse, and all the players left the field to drink sparkling wine and eat strawberries.

I think my colleague understood the spirit of the game.
> None of this detracts from the fact that racial categorizations are useful and predictive for the overwhelming majority of the Earth's population, just as the questionable status of Pluto doesn't interfere with research on extra-solar planets.

The issue is that racial categories are completely arbitrary to begin with. The fact that the members of each category are not completely indistinguishable doens't mean the category makes any sense.

For example, you could categorize animals into two groups, one containing all animals that are small, nocturnal or green and the other containing all other animals. The members of each group will certainly have differences, but that doesn't change the fact that the category itself is incoherent. There is no good reason to draw a line in that particular place.

And, in the case of race, a very good reason not to -- the category was originally created as a tool of oppression and used to drive a wedge between people, which is what it continues to do whenever people continue to use it.
You can get variable and fixed rate mortgages in the UK, fixed typically have higher interest rates but obviously variable can outpace it depending on markets.