skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the syntax hard to follow for the express reason that variable names and function names have no distinguishing features. If variable names were decorated somehow (a symbol, or color) it would be much easier to visually parse a function call. As is, my brain must remember exactly the (complex) names of functions and variables in scope to determine how to parse a function call. But I like the idea and am using something similar in a language I'm developing.
Well, for context, mortgage rates have hovered between 3.5-4.5% for almost a decade. Rates now going over 4.5% is new, but it’s not a HUGE change yet, and still well below historical norms. The headline is a little sensational.

That said, if the trend continues, it will have an impact on the cost of home ownership, the returns to real estate investors, and ultimately property prices. The cost of debt is just another line item in the economics of owning property, and as it goes up, affordability goes down. This is, of course, offset by a more buoyant economy (I.e. more people with jobs able to afford the higher costs)

I invest in real estate, and was curious what the rising interest rates would imply for investment property. So I ran some analysis here:

https://ramenretirement.com/2018/05/16/interest-rate-impact/

Rising rates will add cost (assuming you use leverage), which hurts returns (all things being equal). Every situation is unique, but for higher yielding properties in the Midwest, a 0.5% increase in rates would require a 3-5% drop in property value in order to hold investor returns constant. Of course, that’s not what I’m seeing in the market. It’s the opposite in fact. As rates have been rising, property prices have as well. This has the effect of compressing prospective investment returns. Ironically, it’s times like now when it is most dangerous to invest. I think there are still deals worth doing out there, but it’s wise to proceed with caution. Now is not a time for ‘risk on’.
How is literally driving to the house of the person affected 30m after receiving the email and replacing the broken device "not showing remorse"? I honestly don't understand HN sometimes, do you want them to literally lie about what happened? It was a hardware bug, and they literally had to cripple the device and disable touch control for every single device out there, to avoid this happening again, even though realistically it was only 0.001% of the devices that were affected. But again, they didn't take a chance and completely disabled that feature. Yet apparently that's "not shownig any remorse"...

As for ads, again, who cares what they said, actions is what matters. There hasn't been any other content like that since then.
Rails strength isn't the speed of it's code but it's speed of development, the JVM-based service equivalent you are comparing it with probably needs 5x the amount of engineering time to build the same as what you have for free with Rails. (which also needs to be included in the engineering costs)
Missing from this article is that mean 30-year rates have dropped more-or-less steadily from 9.25% in 1991, to 3.65% in 2016.[0] Also, even "rising at a pace not seen in almost 50 years" seems iffy. Mean 30-year rates increased from 8.85% in 1977, to 16.64% in 1981. Rates increased at 2%-3% per year during 1977-1981, vs an 0.8% increase from May-17 to May-18.

0) https://www.valuepenguin.com/mortgages/historical-mortgage-r...

Edit: Maybe they're adjusting for inflation. But they don't say so, if they are.
Encephalo Robot Hero vs. Immortal Fist Villain
I like the idea (though I think with enough abstraction, you could have it also replicating itself to "regular" cloud).

The main fight needs to happen at application level, not infrastructure. Cloud services are already mostly transparent and interchangeable. But applications aren't. The problem is, it's the application vendor that owns the code, determines where's going to run, and asks you to send over the data. How it should be working, is that you own the data and determine location of computing, and own or rent code to be run on that data.
The repo looks great, I can see a lot of thought has been put into the project. It makes sense to leverage HTML/CSS/JS to build UIs for desktop apps. Chromium and Electron get a tough treatment here at HN, for valid reasons, but I'd say, the more experiments and implementations the better for the ecosystem.
Nice project! In a similar vein there is this project [1] who claims online end to end learning in a Raspberry Pi (included training).

[1] https://youtu.be/0ibVhtuQkZA
It seems they both impact mobility equally? In a rising market, people are priced out of entering an area. In a falling market, people are priced out of leaving. Seems symmetrical to me, unless i'm missing something.
>"They've been reaping the benefits of their privilege for years, and now it only seems fair to reverse it"

How is judging someone based on their gender and skin color fair to that person? Are people of a given gender or racial group responsible for past wrongs?

Taking a step back, "white" is really a socially constructed concept. In America, we can decompose this group into Italian-American, Irish-American, Hungarian-American, German-American, etc. Many people in these ethic categories came to the United States with nothing and many of them and their descendents lived and continue to live working class or impoverished lives.

In fact the vast majority of European-American families have never come close to real wealth and have lived working class or impoverished. Their lives have been daily struggle, just like the lives of many people regardless of their race or gender. How have they been "reaping the benefits of their privilege" in any substantive, tangible way?

When hiring, judge people based on their ability to get job done. Don't delude yourself into thinking that by practicing the same racism and sexism of the past you somehow work to undo its malignant effects. When you hire based on race and gender, you are perpetuating racism and sexism in society.

If we judge people based on ability and not their skin color or gender, we will build a world without racism and sexism. Simple as that.
How about if the node just shutdown after X period of no updates? It would be inconvenient for the admin and users specifically using that node, but would be a win for overall network security.

It could still expose a vulnerability meaning someone could kill the whole network, but that’s better than compromising it.
Skyrim VR on PC is absurdly beautiful fully modded. The vortex mod manager along with the nexus mods community are great.

Edit: In terms of getting into programming, you can create mods with custom scripts you write to change the behavior of the game.
I'm not an expert at all in this - but it seems like now is a great time to be a real estate investor?

Given that interest rates will rise, there will be more demand in the rental market. I don't think REITs will be a good option because of the potential for higher interest rates but investing in a property, locking in that interest rate, and generating positive cash flow from rent would be a sound decision?
Maybe that is the thing. That the committee just wants to avoid versions. At work we always skip versioning when a developer or manager doesn’t want it. That’s modern web dev right there.
Rising rates are going to cause havoc here in the Bay Area, and other metro areas with extreme cost of living expenses and NIMBYism due to the following:

- Interest rates were amazingly low in 2016. Many got their 30 year mortgages locked in at 3.5%, or we’re able to refinance their existing one into that.

- Rising rates may slow housing price increases, but due to NIMBYism, I don’t foresee them coming down substantially, if at all. The Bay Area recovered from the housing crash swiftly. In a normal market high interest rates should cause prices to come down since people can only afford a certain monthly payment, but an artificially constrained market is not normal.

- Those locked into an amazing interest rate are inscentivized to hold on to their homes, further reducing liquidity in the housing market. Combine that with other incentives like Prop 13, ridiculously low SALT deduction and lowered interest write offs for new mortgages in new tax bill, and you have a recipe for disaster.

- Further stratification between those who can afford to buy in these markets vs those who can’t.

I suppose interest rates could fall again, they were also at record lows in 2013, rose, and fell again in 2016.

Tl;dr rising interest rates are going to freeze an already illiquid housing market in SFBA, NIMBY metros.

Edit: I would love to read why someone disagrees with this analysis instead of just a downvote
That's what he said but it won't be.
Is it just me, or are these unattractively low res?
Apple awarded $539m in US patent case against Samsung
I had the same experience with JavaScript enabled
Xeon Phi coprocessors are flops competitive with GPUs and are used in many supercomputers.

Embedded FPGA accelerators are of interest primarily to large server farms and cloud operators, where the cost of development for FPGA acceleration is cheaper than the savings of acceleration-- Microsoft in particular has done a lot of work in this area (for Bing), and probably worked with Intel to define the CPU.
Request for your kind consideration: I completely empathize with the need to tier your pricing based on features, and have certain items that one only gets for "contact us"-level pricing.

But, I am very bummed out every time I see a startup where SSO is that feature. SAML/Okta, fine, whatever. But, it'd be really nice for any little startup to be able to let their users log in with G Suite and get two factor and all of the other security niceties that come with it. Letting folks adopt security best practices shouldn't cost them money (and isn't really core to your value prop). Just my two cents.

Ps. With GDPR coming into effect, and all the surrounding brouhaha, this is particularly important as many of your use cases are going to be piping around and manipulating user data.
Someone trying to sell snake oil to da sheep!!
Replacing the typeset text with any reasonable fidelity seems like a much harder problem than reproducing the scan and providing the ocr'ed text content. It might still be a good idea to do, maybe some software does this.

I don't have any references, sorry.
It is unfortunate that my essay didn't get much attention: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/04/google-doubleclick-mozi...
I think the issue here really is that regular life became so fucked up that prison seems like a better option. Isolation from participating in society should be punishment on its own, but it isn't, given how the participation looks for most people.

Reminds me of that time I remember from my childhood, when my dad had a friend in a hospital, and would go on ranting about how that friend has much worse food and entertainment than a typical prisoner...
Except if you don't want/use face-unlock, then you're left with a huge useless notch... Other than maybe providing better snapchat filter, all those sensors don't do much. I much prefer just having a fingerprint sensor that's smaller and doesn't cover my screen.
Stupid GDPR, the site isn't available
I would suggest that Kangaroo milk would be exceptionally difficult to farm, however... This is more a feeling I get after years of hunting them, rather than any first-hand experience in trying to milk them.
Google finds no evidence that Redditor's corporate GSuite account was banned
The fed agrees with you. That’s why they have an inflation target of ~2%. They’re basically saying outright that they expect to erode the purchasing power of the USD over time. It’s one thing we can count on - inflation might be bad, but deflation is worse.

I did a more thorough review of historical inflation, and the implications for investments here - cheers:

https://ramenretirement.com/2018/04/23/inflation/
>While I believe 'plain English' type programming languages are a great concept

I will refute that notion and suggest that 'plain English' type languages are an incredibly foolish diversion into a world where we pretend formal languages don't exist, are unimportant, or that English is one, or that it somehow can be laboriously contorted into a useful approximation of one.
Or at least don't do it in such a dismissive way.
Hmd/Nokia succeeded where Essential failed in roughly the same timeframe grabbing a lot of marketshare. So it can be done. Essential fought themselves into a corner with a product that was too expensive and not that remarkable or indeed essential. Wrong strategy and they failed to deliver something to differentiate their products. Nokia took a more simple approach by first covering the low end with attractively priced and relatively well received products. Crucially, by shipping stock android, they took software off the critical path and wowed consumers at the same time by not exposing them to the usual crapware and focusing on hardware quality instead. Then they started doing the same for the mid and high range. It turns out there's a market for well built phones that simply run the latest android.
List of dreams
Courts are not black/white in interpretations of law. Demonstrating you put significant effort into being compliant is not for nothing. Plus you can't really figure it out until you try. Especially with something as complex as this and how the implications of the law will be different for different companies.
Sorry, but the idea is so obvious that the burden of proof lies with those who suggest that an iPhone-like device isn't inevitable once capacitive multitouch tech appears.

Or do people think Apple invented that, too?

And make no mistake, it's ideas, and not implementations, that are behind these ludicrous half-billion dollar patent judgments. Patents were not supposed to work that way, but they do.
A variety of market factors set them, but Since 2008 they've been effectively set by the Fed intervening in/manipulating the market. Historically the Federal Reserve intervened to set interest rates by buying short term Treasuries. This doesn't have a direct effect on long term debt though, and the Fed didn't want a greater collapse in housing prices after 2008, so they moved to keep mortgage rates low by directly printing money to buy mortgages. The Fed also moved to buy long-term Treasuries, which pushes others who otherwise would buy Treasuries to buy MBS.

As for the scale of this, in 2008, the Fed owned 0 MBS. Since then, the Fed has printed 1.7 trillion dollars [1] to buy MBS. The total amount of total outstanding mortgage debt on every house in the U.S. is 8.8 trillion [2]. Now that the Fed has stopped doing this, rates are going up.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bsd-overview-2...
[2] https://www.marketplace.org/2018/02/13/economy/divided-decad...
It would be cool to have the tool working also in offline scenarios, where no internet connection is possible, tough an automated workflow is still needed/possible
I would honestly read a blog dedicated to stuff like this, 'Freelance Business Lessons for Engineers' or something like that.
In a rising market, both renters and owners can move. In a falling market, only renters can move.
Thanks!

You wrote "tend to be quite highly rated for accuracy; more so than pretty much any "progressive" media."

If I read it correctly, that shows that "American Conservative" is at the same level as MSNBC in terms of 'overall quality', and over half of the liberal media is ranked as having higher quality.

That doesn't seem to be in accord with what you wrote.

It is one of the more accurate of the conservative side, but the liberal press skews upward, and I've never heard of the 6 liberal publications in the red box, while I've heard of 5+ of the conservative press in the red box, and some of them have quite large readership/viewership.

My main progressive news source, Democracy Now, is ranked as having the highest quality of the hyper-partisan groups. That affirms my decision to be a monthly contributor.
These submarine articles are getting weirder and weirder
Yes, you are correct!

(I'll leave the normalization debate for later :) )
The space race to put a man on Mars is no longer international. It's completely domestic, between NASA and SpaceX. NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) versus SpaceX's BFR (Big Falcon Rocket) is an interesting comparison to examine. Both look promising despite the numerous possible setbacks. Looking forward to upcoming information regarding the manned launches to Mars.
None of those things were the subject of this patent suit.
I see it a bit differently. If people are priced out of buying into a market they can often still rent in that market, and the rising sales prices allow people with ownership to sell and move to new markets. But in a falling market the renters can still move but owners can't (or are pressured not to) sell and move. They do have the option of becoming landlords but that can limit their cash flow and make it harder elsewhere.
5 years ago was a great time to invest in real estate. Today is probably okay, though prices have risen dramatically across the board (even the cities that got crushed in the recession have risen past pre recession levels), and rates are rising. Returns are getting compressed. Still good deals out there, but the risk/reward profile is shifting in the wrong direction.

For more on real estate investing, I write a lot on the topic here: https://ramenretirement.com/
No, you can deny them entrance. A "no shoes rule" would be entirely your own device and only of concern to them insofar as it gives you a (personal) reason to deny entrance. It has no legal weight.

If you permit them to enter, and you have a no shoes rule posted, they are free to enter with shoes. Because such a sign means fuck all in the world.
Happy GDPR Day, Let's talk about user rights, privacy and cyber security
it's 25 May 2018, The GDPR enforcement day. From today every organization that is doing business with EU data subjects must have to comply with GDPR. non compliance may cost severe penalties and business sanctions. We at <a href="https://securign.com">Securign</a> have decided to answer your questions about GDPR and help your organization to comply with the regulation.

Comment down your queries about GDPR.
My point is that it's a black box and nobody outside of Uber knows what its priorities are. It could have just as easily mistaken the pedestrian leaned over pushing the bike for a large dog and then proceeded to run her over because it's programmed to always run dogs over at full speed on the highway. Outside of Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" there is nothing that dictates how self-driving cars should behave, so my unpopular idea above isn't technically breaking any rules.
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It'd be better if the tutorials are rewritten in a more concise manner. Do you really need that many words to explain Guess The Number? http://www.availlang.org/about-avail/learn/tutorials/guess-t...
Is there a way to pass the GDPR consent dialogue without giving them permission to do whatever they like with my data? I thought the purpose of the GDPR was to give users a choice as to whether their data is used?
Judging by the ripples it causes, it feels like GDPR is a well done piece of legislation that will actually destroy some of the most invasive business models.

Google should tread carefully there. It is the future of their cash cow that is at hand.

It is somehow comforting to see an elected body being able and willing to cause such a stir.
> I bring this up in a comment here, and all I get is downvotes. Which tells a lot about HN, I think.

You've managed to be dismissive of everyone that knows slightly less than you, everyone that didn't cover this in school, and at the same time dismissive of everyone that knows much more, climate scientists.

Apparently you think this is universal knowledge but somehow has escaped the attention of climate scientists.
That sounds like a dream, I rarely see a designer who also codes. Do you work in a big corporation or freelance?
I've heard opinions like this around the traps (most recently from upper management at my workplaces) but the arguments all seem to have the subjective unsubstantiated hallmarks of things like the paleo diet.

Is there any tangible evidence or consensus around the anti-dairy movement or is it all anecdotal? Has anyone actually had their doctor echo statements like that?
Is the EU Commission an elected body? I thought they were appointed.
they can always sell the house and take the loss. just like a stock bought on a loan. don’t get why it’s preferable that someone can’t afford a house rather than someone who already has a house no longer being able to afford it. that’s like saying no matter how big of a mortgage i take it’s immoral for something to happen where i can’t afford it anymore
It's not necessarily a fair comparison given the power of the Nokia brand in the mobile phone industry. Would Essential have gotten as much press as it did if it had gone to the low end? I doubt it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17146609
If you're the gatekeeper for who can enter and leave, it wouldn't make sense to call it a public event.
Or you can just pay for subscription, if you're going to pay for something anyway.
"The startup, part of Rubin’s incubator Playground Global, has raised about $300 million from several investors [...]"
I always felt that blockchain is a precursor technology like "Web 2.0", which laid the technical foundations (of Web APIs and micro-services) that enabled the explosion of mobile apps that followed.

If smarter people than me can mathematically verify the PARSEC algorithm as valid, it may lead the way for a radical change to the way information is propagated, secured and validated.
Super cool. Going to have to check this out.
It’s not really a space industry, it’s a Low Earth Orbit Industry. It’s technically space, but only on the loosest sense. It’s good that we’re finally driving down the price of lifting cargo to LEO, but sad that we’ve almost given up on anything beyond that. The total world R&D budget for everything beyond LEO would impoverish a single pharmaceutical company’s marketimg budget, so we’re probably far from deserving backslapping and high fives.

Most of all, we’re far from colonies anywhere other than Earth, and barring a massive change of priorities as reflected in funding, that’s the future. Nothing about our ability to launch satellites a few hundred miles up translates to living on the Moon, or Mars.
My co-workers have Alexa. I love shouting out "Alexa play Justin Bieber!" or "Alexa! Add ice-cream to the grocery list!"

It worked several times and I found it really fucking hilarious. They did, too and now they guard their Alexas and use headphones.
What's New in Fedora 28 Workstation
Doesn’t work like that in the US. Most mortgages are fixed rate for the duration of the mortgage.
Here is explain a paper that uses AI to gind bugs in games: https://youtu.be/wm8tK91k37U
Article 49 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. All penalties under EU law must be proportionate. As a result there is already considerable case law, from multiple individual laws and countries, at the CJEU to define the extent of proportionate.
No that's definitely not just you. I meant to update those, and will push that change up soon.

Probably default to 2560 x 1440 until it is customizable. Thoughts?
GDPR has been discussed on HN for months already. Nothing new in this article.
That's entirely possible. Maybe the old people who keep working keep working because they're not gradually becoming demented.
The Birth of Digital Poetry
And yet again, the masses are infatuated with the royal wedding/funeral.
I doubt that any language gives you 5x the productivity of another language. I don't think I would be 5x slower writing a Back end web code in C than I would in C# and C is probably the worse language to do an API in.
they can always sell the house and take the loss.

If the proceeds aren't enough to pay off all mortgages, it's not so simple.