skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have no down payment and lousy credit, etc, you can't get a mortgage for $50k. I'm off the street. I applied for a zero down mortgage. It would still require thousands in closing costs, money I don't have.

The bank never emailed me. I was unable to log in to my application for some reason to check it's status. I emailed a mortgage officer at the bank. They asked for my phone number. They never called me.

I have since decided I don't want a house in the burbs. I want to stay downtown. That's an entirely different process.

But I have earned income and decent credit and 6 years of college etc and I am finding it challenging to arrange to purchase real estate. I have had these conversations on HN before with people and it always seems to be an assertion that comes from privilege and cluelessness about what reality is like if your income is low.

I have done internet searches for dirt cheap housing across multiple states. The truly dirt cheap stuff frequently says stuff like "No foundation. Will not qualify for financing. Cash buyer only."

If I had a few $10k cash laying around, I would handily qualify for a conventional mortgage because that would cover down payment and closing costs. So, no, I can't buy the houses listed at a mere $10k or $20k that theoretically would have super low monthly payments because that just isn't how that works.

People who have challenges to taking care of themselves can sometimes manage it if they can arrange decent housing that is super cheap. I'm medically handicapped and I manage to work part time. I am currently in a super cheap rental and off the street.

I paid my student loan off last July and was in housing in early September. Student loans are a pox on this nation, impoverishing a great many people. You don't need to be mentally ill or addicted for that to be a huge and problematic burden.

I'm not asking you to solve homelessness. I'm just looking to crowdsource a little information. It would be nice if folks refrained from raining on my parade and trying to tell me to not bother to try to do anything about the problem.

Thanks.
Outline: Open source wiki and knowledge base for growing teams
That's not OP's main point. It's that even if they implement it (as in a clean room), there is no chance of it being merged upstream. Now, if the OP implements some entirely different feature not related to gitlab's pricing, it can be merged upstream in the CE. This is in contrast to conventional open source projects.
I still think Microsoft had the lion share of the programmers mind with Virtual Studio? I am guessing it really has more to do with emotional response to the name MS then anything MS has done in the past 5 years.

I use Bit Bucket because I knew they were making money and were solvent and I knew GitHub was just waiting for a big pay day. BOY was I wrong with the timing and the amount.

> And if the can't get to break even, I have no reason to think Microsoft will subsidize them indefinitely.

This fits perfectly with their developer system with Virtual Studio, VS Code and Azure. I can't see how this isn't a great buy for them and their ecco-system.
I don't get GM. Just make it look like a ATS or something sporty.

Cars are still a fashion statement and a social signal. What are you saying with the bolt?
"One single implanted GBFC device of 0.24 mL volume (2.4 mL for the whole implant) produced the power required to operate, using a specially designed electronic circuit to charge a capacitor, two types of electronic devices: a LED and a digital thermometer."

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep01516
I'm right here, as both a user and a developer, and would really like more native apps on the Mac. A unified platform to make it easier for developers to build apps across both platforms seems like an incredibly obvious win.
What does "baked into reality" mean? We can never know more about reality than what we observe, and furthermore conservation laws are axiomatic -- conservation simply means that we are able to account for (almost) everything we observe, in a consistent way.

You said it right there. "Almost." We keep on prying and doing experiments, and we can't find any exception. If we've tried hard enough for long enough, we can start to conclude that we're probably getting close to reality. If we pry and we find it's "almost" then we know it's not baked into reality.

When conservation is broken, we name a new form of energy, and (so far), we find that it can by accounted in a consistent, predictable way. (Dark matter is an unsolved problem.

[Citation Needed] Yes, we still don't know what Dark Matter is, but do you understand that dark energy is not dark matter, and the current model for dark energy involves space expanding and more dark energy appearing due to the space expanding? Citing dark energy is tantamount to admitting that conservation of energy isn't universal.

When it comes to fundamental science, a consistent map is the territory.

Arrgh. You're getting your pointers mixed up here. A context where science is the territory would be the study of Science, as in the philosophy of science. When it comes to fundamental reality, Science is the map and fundamental reality is the territory.
Ah yes, Apache Foundation, the place where ambitious but under-resourced projects go to die. /s
Build the future of design tools as my co-founder
This is great.

I was already using dnscrypt-proxy to limit access to some websites during certain days/times, but restrictions at application level is even better, at least for iOS devices.
There are no predictions even in principle. It has nothing to do with the predictions being at a sufficiently high enough energy level that we can't verify...
Your selection of words says much more about you than about anything else.
But... where are the new macs?
Needs more ChiselApp ! ;-)
I really hope they don't add window borders. I enjoy not having unusable areas.
Don't know about that; I worked for DevDiv in 2008-2009 and it was the most spectacularly dysfunctional island of not-invented-here inefficiency I have ever seen at any point in my career. They imagined the tech world to consist of Microsoft at the center, where all the smart people were, surrounded by an ecosystem of ISVs, all of whom wished they could work for Microsoft instead if only they were a little bit smarter, and then, out on the fringes, the barbarian wastelands of pain and misery, where incompetent nobodies struggled with trivial legacy projects involving esolangs like COBOL or Python or Ruby. A more self-absorbed computing culture I have never seen, utterly incapable of recognizing, much less learning from, any "innovation" generated outside its own walls.

Perhaps they've improved since I left, but the number of dev-hours I saw being squandered on a daily basis just fighting with utterly stupid limitations which only existed inside DevDiv's idiosyncratic tooling would have funded a good hundred startups full-time if they could have been put to some practical use.
You can't play Overwatch and Destiny 2 natively on a mac
No, the user's interest. Users were logging into these devices, presumably. They wanted to access their Facebook account on them, Facebook and the device manufacturer figured out how to do it. It sounds like everything is working as intended, there.
So what do you call TypeScript !? They now bought the site where 99% of all free NodeJS packages are hosted. A few years ago NodeJS didn't even work properly on Windows, and was growing at exponential rate, taking market share from the Microsoft ecosystem. So what happened in the last few years ? Many developers now code JavaScript/NodeJS using TypeScript on VsCode. And their code is hosted on Github.
Apple Opens Health Records API to Developers
This has existed for a while already, I believe at least since Yosemite.

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't even read TFA. Wonder what they're talking about then.
France's fake news law leaves media experts uneasy
I deeply suspect that the lack of features is because the releases this year internally centered around responding to the negative buzz associated with iOS 11 problems. I remember when emojis were showcased at WWDC 2016, a fairly low-feature release. Whenever that happens the true feature is unannounced: it's simply stability.
>That's a cute, but if that's "the letter of the law" then Walter can replace DMD with emacs in the next release and it'd still be a conforming implementation, and you'd just have to rewrite your codebase in lisp to keep it functioning.

Which is a contrived argument
The other thing that was glossed over was Panic's Transmit and BBEdit coming to the App Store (both currently not available there). Panic wrote on their blog last year about problems they had trying to sell their app on the App Store and pulling it. Looks like Apple is working with developers to help them with things like demos, trial periods and such.
It'll certainly be nice to have the fingerprinting feature on my macbook pro, given how difficult it is for me to type in a password error free using their unreliable keyboards.
OpenGL is deprecated in 10.14

> Apps built using OpenGL and OpenCL will continue to run in macOS 10.14, but these legacy technologies are deprecated in macOS 10.14. Games and graphics-intensive apps that use OpenGL should now adopt Metal. Similarly, apps that use OpenCL for computational tasks should now adopt Metal and Metal Performance Shaders.
Cool app! Advice with only warm and friendly intent: you might want to hire a really great designer to look over the landing page. It's mostly good, but it sends off a few unconscious red flags for me.
This pertains to the people who plunked down a thousand bucks to get in line for one. This is an interesting tidbit, but also a non-story.
They’re very sought after, yeah. Probably a combination of the design itself and heavy pop culture exposure — at one time you’d have a hard time finding a TV show or movie where a G4 Cube didn’t make a cameo.
> Most students do not go to class to learn, but rather to receive accreditation, concerned only with how future employers will view their GPA or classes taken

I’m super skeptical of this. In any engineering or science field the only thing a diploma gets you is an interview. I don’t consider myself an especially adept interviewer but I think I can tell in the first five minutes if a new grad didn’t learn anything in school.
Did Monsanto just want more profits, or did it want to save the world? (2000)
It is bullocks and just the excuse of a declining number of scientists who have spent their life's work on String Theory and will never admit that the program has utterly failed as a "Theory of Everything"
dark mode is great, but OMG someone should have talked to the press people about this one and make sure the page was in dark mode. (also make sure you always say dark mode with batman's voice, it's not only necessary but much much more satisfying)
I guess John Carmack is sad today (he advocated early for OpenGL on Mac).
I don't think Overwatch runs on MacOS.
Spectra, rate constants / energy measurements, that sort of thing. Even simple CRC fare doesn't have good representation in public databases.
Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL
You likely won't come back to this, but in the event you do - thank you. V61 dev edition is working an absolute charm for me.
Any site that is broken by Private Browsing causing storage quota exceptions in localStorage is going to be broken by quota exceptions under "normal" operation.

It's in the spec, maybe developers should make their websites a bit more resilient to the very real errors that can happen? Did they just forget about error handling?
The map is the territory for belief about belief though, sometimes, if people choose to agree.

Let's say I build a theme park in the form of a giant map of the world. I could then print a map to my theme park.

Quite frankly, humans from birth to death and every point in between are equivalently autonomous and worthy of being able to think the way they want to, without having to do anything to have earned such a right.

You can think any way you want to, and I will respect your right to think that way. I can respect that you think, but that doesn't mean I have to respect what you think.
While this doesn't solve the problem completely, it's interesting that they started. Apple can go all the way down to the system level to anonymize iOS and at make you look like everyone else, much more so than Firefox for instance.

Also some shade thrown at Facebook in the screen time demo, they called out Instagram and Facebook as great things to block. Not a full war declaration, just "how about less Facebook".

Some examples of why this doesn't completely block everything... All the cell phone companies have unique ids on each device which they seem quite happy to sell. [1] There are many ways to fingerprint people on the web (how fast code is running, gpu speed, touch and scrolling style) that will be wack-a-mole for awhile. Each website that is tracking you now could use it's own cookie to record user behavior and then send it to FB/Google on the backend to link them later. For your phone on wifi, your isp or cable company is selling data based on your mac address and ip address. [2]

Great that unlike GDPR, this isn't an enormous pain for every little website in the world. It just makes big company Facebook/Google tracking harder.

[1] https://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-disable-data-tracking-on-a...

[2] https://hackernoon.com/what-youre-revealing-to-your-isp-why-...
The most interesting to me specifically is the ability to define working copies through filter scripts. As far as I understand it, this is an alternative to branching. You can mix and match different components/alternative modules (e.g. different HALs or device drivers for different HW platforms) into sets of products without running afoul of the typical limitations of branches. However, Clearcase is just too expensive for us to even try it out seriously.
It's amazing that so many bright minds are wasting time on *oji.
I pulled that move once in an old product - not all of our users could upgrade to the newer product because of HW constraints - the one we had directed like 97% of our development efforts at, but that tiny thing kept them happy for quite some time. (We went with four color themes though, not just two.)

I recommend this move if you want to make an abandoned product line seem like it's at least a little bit alive.
> a massive engineering effort, which ironically, GitLab is built on.

Perfectly normal use of FOSS; I'd say, not ironic. If GitHub wanted, they could have kept the work to themselves and avoided others benefiting from it.

FOSS is like people coming together with their own bricks and building a cathedral for everyone. There's little point in participating if you either don't want others to pitch in or don't want others to benefit from it.
Was I crazy in thinking that this WWDC was supposed to address MacBookPro's being outdated?
While I completely agree with your comment, it also omits something that just serves to underscore your point that consumers make assumptions about how things (economically) work.

> They're going to think "I paid my cell phone bill, therefore I am paying for facebook" ... the question never even arises.

Your example switches from "I pay <somebody> that enables access to <somebody else>" and you don't even have to go that far.

The guide channel is not tracking her viewing habits, but her cable box certainly is. The industry term is Addressable Media[1], and if she has any modern cable box from any major provider then she's being tracked and targeted for targeted ads just as highly as Facebook would be, despite her paying her cable company for the privilege of watching it. And while it's not customizing the programming itself that she watches, it is customizing the ads she's seeing. It's effectively the same as Facebook, where the she's using whatever is on offer and being subtly influenced by highly targeted excerpts being interspersed into it.

Ever experience weird glitches for commercials that start and end almost immediately, or randomly lack sound or any number of weird quirks that would make you think "man, someone just spent a lot of money for a messed up commercial spot, how did that get passed QA/QC?!"... chances are that was just a hiccup for you specifically as your cable box dynamically inserted an ad, and not hardcoded as part of the wider broadcast.

Cell phones are the same. Even though you're paying the cell company for network access, they're also double dipping by selling targeted audience capabilities based on their data of you based on ads that are seen while using their network.

[1] https://martechtoday.com/addressable-tv-state-cross-device-a...
Ask HN: How do you answer “how old are you” on an interview?
I'm 20 and I got an interview for a senior javascript engineer,

My first job was when I was 15 years old, it was a PHP and JS job(webdev),

fast-forward, now I'm 20, I've been coding for 5 years professionally, I've made too many projects/products on my own, worked with several startups remotely and locally, and worked with people from Microsoft and Amazon.

I was doing an interview today and it was a video call, I got asked: "you look young, how old are you?"

So I lied and said 21 while I'm 20 – cause I felt undervalued or something of that kind,

How can I avoid or answer this question professionally and not have it affect my offer?

Thanks
First, as pointed out elsewhere, the Apple/Facebooks of the world already aren't putting their private repos on any external service (perhaps they rent iron on a cloud, but certainly not SaaS).

Second, this is the same business model as Office 365, and I'm not aware of that raising any particular eyebrows outside of the fairly limited crowd that can't trust anyone. If you're cool with entrusting your email to Microsoft, your source code is not a great leap.
Yes, they spent about 5 minutes hyping it up to mucho mucho applause by the crowd.

I was baffled!
În a word, YES.
Profitability <> quality.

I would argue that the case here is quite the opposite.

Github is loved for a variety of reasons, small & large decisions that are influenced by how profit-oriented the company is. And how willing they are to annoy their users to squeeze some more "profit" and/or data out of them.
Completely unrelated to the original article which is just more multiverse bullocks of the stringy landscape variety. These scientists will die off and with it these articles.
> I read it as "an alternative to Git, which is also open source"

As a native English speaker I'd say that's a perfectly reasonable interpretation. And I think most would have assumed that interpretation had it not been for the MS/Github news.
All it took was a few companies LESS trustworthy (Google, Facebook, Uber, et al) to come into the public conversation. Microsoft has been downright benevolent in comparison to some of these companies.
Thank you; I'm all ears.

But, just to guess, I suppose the layout is inconsistent. Is that right? I tried to get the vertical rhythm correct but I suppose the discrepancy in the "inter-section" layout is jarring. Yeah?
nope, on the contrary they deprecated opengl entirely
Great! Go and found a company that makes 10 bn USD a quarter in profit.
Sad thing is that that was one of the most exciting things :)
No, I don’t care to explain. You opened with incredulity, an Appeal to Accoplishment/Authority, and now you are playing Prove Me Wrong/Teach Me.
It was you who brought up legality in the first place!

Relevant snippets:

googlemike: "I am very, very tired of the homeless tents everywhere"

forapurpose: "Let's be careful about confusing our frustrations with something that is wrong or illegal."

googlemike: "The tents are illegal"

forapurpose: "Legality, while an important factor, is not the end of the discussion."
I mean... it looks like there's at least one commercial option for OpenGL on Metal (MoltenGL).

Also, it seems to me that the better option in the long run for legacy game support is to just run a VM for the highest degree of compatibility.
What's interesting about Apple's strategy is that after blocking or helping users to block all ad tracking, they are going to make their own "privacy-friendly" ad tracking unblockable, which will give it an advantage over other ad networks serving ads on iOS devices.
New tools transform ordinary Excel models into powerful and connected apps
This is a pretty common feature on most Android phone platforms. I'm surprised Apple has yet to adopt it.
> and sherlock Bitmoji

Considering Animoji and Memoji are only in Apple's Messaging app/iMessage, I think Bitmoji will be fine as long as Snapchat is fine (which, well, isn't certain).
This is cool i guess. iOS Nanny. The best part I think is the notifications. Looks like the ultimate STFU setting for apps. Glares at Facebook, twitter and work email
/s
The war is definitely not over. This is just the latest of the fronts to fight over, there will be more where that came from.
Google has also introduced similar features at I/O last month. This is the industry as a whole trying to fix problems it originally created.
The main difference is that, while you have already been able to change the menu bar and dock to a dark color scheme, the update coming in Mojave allows the window chrome to be dark too (note Finder being dark in the article).
Chevy Bolt's aesthetics look ridiculous and there's no way I'd buy it on that point alone.

I don't want a hatchback. I hate hatchbacks. Car manufacturers have hatchback fever right now, and they may sell ok, but I personally will spend extra money just to drive something that looks like a normal car.

EDIT: Some of this may be because other countries love small cars and it's easier to sell the same platform overseas as well. I still think they look awful and will pay extra money to not have to drive one. Yes I reserved a Tesla, and yes it's getting delivered in 3 weeks.
Ask HN: VSCode or Atom?  Oh, nevermind :P
People having citizenship and thus right to vote were minority in Athens. And I dont mean just that it excluded women and slaves. It was more then in other cities, but still a minority.

Two of Socrates students, overthrown the democratic government twice and killed a lot of people. Thousands, plus others lost properties or were send away. One of those students was friend of Socrates. The authoritarian killers here being friends and students of Socrates. So you know, some hard feelings are to be expected toward Socrates too.

Maybe he was considered dangerous, because his ideas were used in past to kill a lot of people. Where rule based society would respect amnesty (there was amnesty) despite fear and danger, this one was violent. Socrates might been big thinker, but his death is not the only one in the story that counts or counted for his contemporaries.

It is not totally entirely clear how Socrates was involved with what, but the society there was dealing with a lot of violence in close memory and that is ignoring violence against slaves.

It took a lot of violence too, in coming to power for US, not just writings and philosophy. And a lot of that philosophy was not "disregarded" in violence, but instead used to argue for violence and to defend violence. For both good and bad causes. And a lot of gains were not inertia, it was decision to take things and fight to take things from others. Not that other powers were not like that too, absolutely they were violent and entitled too.

But, the freedom rhetorics was often used to take away property or freedom from others.
Oh no, the people at large don't understand the complicated interactions between law and technology, those fucking idiots, how dare they
GDPR blocked for people in the EU. Google cache here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KnwGRKo...
$50K * 0 = 0