skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You gotta pay back the investment/loan for the new expensive house price, and the rent will match it.
Completely false. You can get exposure to every stock in the world for like ~$80. You can buy options to hedge for as little as ~$1000(literally the same ones that billionaires would buy).

Joe six pack's biggest problem is their own ignorance.
Do you mind to share what you eat for 20usd/week and, more importantly, in which region you achieve that? I am in Italy, and I believe that budget would suffice for maximum one day. Thank you
> maybe the USA will learn from Canada

Has the US ever learned anything from Canada?
This is just shorthand for the blog post: if you read the linked code on GitHub you can see that the three variables are assigned to actual, static random numbers.
Homeowners do pay property tax in Vancouver:

https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/property-tax....
The raft metaphor is a good one.

I've often used a similar one: "first we build a go-kart. It's a cool little go-kart, and will help us overcome certain barriers to adoption with a certain kind of customer for whom a go-kart meets their needs."

I find that the main arguments against the raft/go-kart strategy (from the the business leader) are along the lines of "we need a Ferrari man! not a go-kart; our target customers won't even consider a go-kart".

Its at this point that an very important discussion has to be had about how customer development and barriers to adoption are overcome. BTW - the applies to both new product development and features for existing products.

This is not easy. This discussion must include "Look, the experts who are building this are telling you ________ and ________; you can choose to accept that or continue down a path of uncertainty and investigation until they come up with another set of recommendations...". The goal for the technical leader is to setup a set of options for the business leaders to choose - none of which are allowed to be chaos.

If chaos is the norm, either the business leader or technical leader will be removed - or the business will likely fail due to that chaos and its effects on the team.
It actually is Netflix.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/faang-stocks.asp
Related: Is there a ruby client for rqlite? I can't find one.
How to start an e-commerce store that doesn’t dropship
If it’s rented out to a local or sold to a local, the ratio of buildings to locals is the same. Supply or demand (or things outside this context such was wages) has to change for prices to change.
That is 100% a leadership problem. There is a cult around Minimum Viable Product but that can be mitigated by technical leaders who are willing to stonewall the business leaders on unit tests and documentation. I don't even bother telling them that testing and documentation are separate tasks and roll it into development time.
Market rate rent in SF is something like $3k for a studio, which is like 50-75% of those employees' take-home pay if they're making low six figures.
Get a SIM card from Project Fi (by Google), which auto-VPN's for you, and you can use everything (FB, Twitter, etc.) you're used to using. Bring a Chromebook and use your phone to provide Internet for your Chromebook.

Install Didi so you can hail a ride. Install WeChat and some of the mini apps so that you can order Starbucks without waiting in line. Since you probably don't have a Chinese bank account, find a local (possibly even a hotel concierge) who is willing to take cash from you and send you some RMB into your WeChat account so you can pay vendors, including restaurant bills, train tickets, farmer's markets, and the guy on the street corner selling oranges.

Pretty straight forward.
Some people just want a roof over their head without paying rent to a landlord and being subject to their whims.
lots of literature is available on this (granted, not always clear what their source of info is).

In general, many funds at that stage are playing the unicorn game (and many raising 100M are already a unicorn or at least not too far away). Unicorn economics is basically, 1/10 will hit >1B in value while X% will be mediocre outcomes and Y% will fail. The 1 unicorn will return the fund generally speaking, after accounting for X, Y, opportunity costs (this is high given the strength of the markets lately) and interest.
Right and an unplanned hour long delay is reasonable?
Paths: Stroking and Offsetting
The Revolution Against the Revolution: Looking Back on Shays’ Rebellion
look at the comments.
What a fucking greedy world!!!
I think the last startup I worked for in London had the monthly rent peak at half or 1/3rd of the gross salaries when they reached 25 people.

That's when they moved to a high quality office in a prime location on a rooftop. With a lot of free space, to accommodate hiring 1 person per week for the next year.
That's a lot of milk (and eggs) each day for one person. Doesn't it get boring? I find myself going off eggs really quickly...
It's a shame the data stops in 2010 - I bet we're seeing an even larger boom due to HITECH. Technology has not solved many problems in healthcare. Medical coders for example, are still a thing, even though everything is tracked electronically, there is still a game to putting codes on claims for higher chance of reimbursement.
Why is the sodium level so high? The dal pack has 1220 milligrams of sodium per serving? It seems rather unethical for you to be marketing high sodium products to a group of people that should not be eating a daily amount of sodium in one sitting.
> There are majority of society and economic activity that are neutral to policitics.

You may believe that but the communists do not.
Maybe a link styled to look like a button?

I’d rather style the thing to look the way it should rather than apply unusual functionality to something.
Ask HN: How to deal with a bottleneck like a shared public API project
We have microservices that our team owns end to end but for those to be used from our UIs we have to build public API routes/contracts in a separate shared project. Those pull requests are merged by a specific set of people in the company and it's always a bottleneck for us.

I assume this is fairly common. Here are some ideas I've had:

- hire more people on the shared project team

- redesign the public API in a way where the microservice team itself owns/deploys the routes that they "own" (hard to get API consistency this way)

What are some ways your organization has solved this?
Hackers siphon over 13M dollars off co-operative bank in India
MTR doesn't use preservatives, the whole food is just sealed air-tight with extra oil covering the food to prevent it from rotting. It's a combination of package engineering and food engineering.
Same here; I saw the name and assumed most of the options would be full of paneer that I’d have to avoid (delicious as it is).
> 1) I don't get your branding, especially the company name, and especially as all of your meals are vegan.

As I mentioned downthread, I was planning to skip this completely because of the name until one of the founders happened to mention in a comment that the meals are vegan. I don't normally associate "buttermilk" with anything that I eat as a vegan.

This might be a tricky marketing issue, because a huge amount of traditional home-cooked Indian food is lacto-vegetarian but not vegan. So there might be not an enormous customer segment that would view the lack of dairy in these meals as an advantage (although I'm in that customer segment myself).
Most big tech companies (Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba) in China has received foreign funding when they were "startups". See VIE Structure [0] (in Chinese).

[0]: https://www.zhihu.com/question/19634851/answer/13095653
Skin in the game means participating in the community and the local economy.

An investor doesn't buy groceries at the local store, doesn't go to local music venues etc.

They help out the construction industry and the FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) industry, but local neighbourhoods weakly benefit.
Sounds like a great idea, but NZ is struggling to build fast enough. NZ has a terrible attitude where everyone must have a backyard, and public transport is horrendous, so moving further out often isn’t much of a solution.

The current govt promised to build ambitious numbers of new affordable homes, but I haven’t seen any strategy on how they plan to execute on it.
Actually, MINIX, the operating system used in the ME in modern Intel chipsets, is possibly now one of the most widely deployed operating systems on the planet.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15642116

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15634014

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15697888

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15641592
There seems to be this odd sentiment in the comments here that, unless you're an absolute tyrant, then you must be a weak leader, not directing people and not holding teams accountable. This concerns me greatly, because thinking that "strong leaders" have to be tyrants is a big part of what lead to the Maryland football tragedy.
Glad you asked! We have a few key differences:

- MTR provides just the spices, you have to bring everything else. This includes vegetables/meat, seasoning, additional spices, oil/salt, etc. Our products include all of this so that the only ingredient you add is water which makes it much more convenient.

- Our packets are 100% fresh and don't have any preservatives, whereas existing packaged Indian foods are packed with them. This makes our products tastier, fresher and much healthier, although it comes with a shorter shelf-life.

- Our recipes are curated from people in the community (for example, the rasam is my mom's!) This lends a very homemade taste to each dish.

- We deliver to you! All existing pre-packaged authentic Indian foods are only available in Indian stores, so we're making good Indian food available to a much larger audience.

- At the end of the day, the taste just isn't comparable. Microwaveable chana masala from Haldiram's, let's say, comes out looking/smelling/tasting not at all like a homemade dish. Ours is made completely from scratch and you as a customer can feel that difference.

MTR/Haldiram's are 'last-resort' type meals, and we aim to be a meal that you actually crave + is good for you :)
The advancement on face transplant has been amazing to watch. Especially since the largely publicized face transplant for the Mississippi Firefighter two years ago (Patrick Hardison). Does anyone here know how long it takes for the face to "settle in" where the donor face and patient face start fusing? Also I noticed that the eye movements on all these transplants have a distinctive unusual movement to it. Is this a physical limitation where doctors/surgeons cannot operate too closely in the eye area due to the risk of damaaging the eye? Or is does it take a couple years for the muscles near the eye to adapt to the new face?
The problem is that it might take a half-dozen clicks to realize it's not worth reading the other 24, then you need to click back a half-dozen times (worse if there are page reloads during that).
Because then instead of some busybody having to call the cops to come harass you for living somewhere that isn't a house or apartment (that's a low bar, we take pride in being busybodies here in MA) like happened in the article they'll take the initiative and do it on their own because it's a vehicle parked somewhere and will be subject to far more scrutiny. Getting your house ticketed and towed because some concerned mother didn't like how it looked or some cop thought it looked suspicious is a massive PITA. It's kind of hard to ticket and tow a storage locker.

About the only way you could make it work would be to toss all the appliances from a rotted out camper in a UHaul van, park at bog box stores during the day and park at UHaul locations overnight and even then you'd always be looking for somewhere new. You would have to put a massive effort in to be invisible if you don't want problems.

You can get away with living in a camper or box truck in other cities in MA but if you do it east of I-495 it's gonna be an uphill battle.
This is, again, out of touch with the actualities of poverty. How does someone with no money "live somewhere else?" When someone who is impoverished is evicted, they take their children on a trip to a shelter and go to work the next day for 12 hours physical labor, skipping a few meals to feed their children as needed.
I don't think you live here then? Naer the mountains it's dangerous to take your hands off the steering wheel because there are so many curves, passing is an extremely dangerous thing to do no matter how slow the biker is going.

I'm not against biking (I say get rid of the cars and figure something else out together) but the fact is some rural areas lack the infrastructure to make it safe for bikes and cars to coexist.
Tasty Bites are super delicious though...
Sorry, are you saying knowing python/C++ makes OP a niche developer? I was under the impression these were very common languages at the big-N? Or is it something else about their background?

Not trying to correct you, I'm really just curious since I have a similar background and an in a similar situation to the OP.
Maybe i'm just picky but MTR or even (Gits) is horrible. Deep is the only one that is somewhat decent.
font-family: sans-serif;

That is all neede in 2018, it even looks "native".
Management and entrepreneurship can be learned. That's what MBAs are for.

Hell, the only reason I know what servant leadership IS is because I took a business degree about 10 years into my software career.
So the local sells to a foreign buyer and downsizes. That’s great for them. But their kids are now priced out of the market, and will never own a home but rent from someone who lives 15h flight away.
HDF4, HDF5, NetCDF on AWS Lambda
I would say assuming people from Guangdong province, and majority of them don't speak Mandarin is an exaggeration to great extent. Of course they do, it is imperfect with heavy accent. But I won't go that far claiming they don't speak Mandarin, as if saying all English speakers in India don't count, that is just hilarious.
Norm Kerth’s Safety Poll
Yes, you're right! We are a fresher and healthier option than frozen meals, with a more authentic and varied selection.
Obesity index for probability distributions
It is illegal, the headline is "Officials: People living illegally in rented spaces". Storage spaces are private, nobody is going to inspect it without good cause, so you can get away with it for a while by being discreet.
The author tried to be clever with the title, but failed to take into account how human perception works. The second "review" gets filtered out like that gorilla in the basketball video.
I would be very cautious in drawing any conclusions on the impact of GitHub use on student outcomes. This is a correlational study and correlation doesn’t imply causation. They dance around the issue by using “predict” in their report.

A possible (and plausible?) alternative story is that professor who are “better” require their students to use git and GitHub. As a result, the study is picking up the effects of “being better” instead of GitHub use.

I wonder if these results could be replicated with an experimental study.

Edit:

By the way, the results are pretty cool. I ran some factor analyses/structural models and I found that students in courses that use GitHub feel, on average, 0.36 standard deviations more prepared than students in classroom where GitHub was not used. You can see the analysis in my fork of the dataset on GitHub (same username as HN).
For some reason, I had the idea that this was always the case with SQLite, at least for the last 10 years or so.
Alexa and Cortana integration starts rolling out today
> The way Pinterest presents images with very little context can also discourage users from connecting images to their source websites

Or hide it from them. After landing on pinterest through a search a few times, I figured that sources are not a thing there and just started blocking pinterest results. Besides presenting content in a horrible way, the interface is even worse.

I don't understand why people like it.
isn't mid 6 figures 550k?
Python Core Developer Raymond Hettinger on the Global Interpreter Lock
Hash functions are used in a lot of situations where cryptographic collision-resistance is not particularly important.
No.

"Shit tests" in the most common usage, refer to doing provocative things to throw someone off their stride and see how unflappable they are.

The paper is about sentences that don't really mean anything, but carry some (false) markers of profundity.
Valve seems to be working on tools to get Windows games running on Linux
I have lived on that before in the US and it’s not that hard. You just need to buy macro-nutritionally dense food at super markets - rice, chicken, beans, cooking oil, butter, oatmeal, noodles, etc.

Of course the problem is that you don’t get a super varied diet which can be problematic both mentally and nutritionally. It can also become a bit harder to incorporate fruits and veggies into your diet when they’re not on sale. And you also need to cook a decent amount

When I was in Rome I found that I could eat on less than $20 a day extremely easily so unless you’re going to restaurants every day I’m not sure how you spent so much
How recyclable is your packaging and how much packaging do you use per unit of food?

Large amounts of plastic waste is a big reason I will never ever use blue apron and similar companies.
From this article, IMHO these are the most important for [technical] leaders, in priority order.

All other things : trust etc - effectively fall out of these, because these are the things that will enable the business to move forward and encourage continuous improvement.

1) Have Empathy for the Customer

2) Have Empathy for the Customer

3) Have Empathy for the Customer

4) Drive Uncertainty Out of Requirements

3) Be “Chief Unblocker”
In WAL mode, readers don't block writers and vice versa, but there can still only be one writer active at any given time.
I don't know if this is a good time in history to be referring to "experts".
Hi, thanks for the tips!

As I mentioned inside the article, I tested last year version of TimescaleDB (July/August 2017) and that was my experience with it out of the box.

I am really impressed by all the progress you've made, and hopefully I'll consider TimescaleDB as my first choice on the next iteration of the product I'm working on.

Now, I'm skimming through the docs[1] and as I understand, create_hypertable is called before all the data is migrated, thus all TimescaleDB indexes are already present during the migration. What is the way to create indexes after data migration?

[1] https://docs.timescale.com/v0.11/getting-started/migrating-d...
Nice, I've played some comparable R packages (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/units/index.html) but hopefully this is simpler to use.
I´m interesting in transitioning into something similar, did you write how you learned or how you transitioned somewhere? Was it thanks to your network or did you start out cold?
AI Think I Can: GPUs May Be the Engine That Could Lead Us to Autonomous Trains
Is everything offered that salty? My biggest issue with the packets of Indian food at Trader Joe's is how much sodium they have, otherwise I would eat 2-3 of those every day. I have to keep track of my sodium intake or my face bloats.
Peter Lowe's list is notoriously overzealous and it's enabled by default. It breaks countless websites and I found other lists to be better.
That's a great point about the branding. Why we're called Buttermilk: Buttermilk is eaten at the end of almost every South Indian meal to "cool down" the stomach. As a South Indian myself, this is one of my go-to comfort foods. The aim with the company is to provide authentic, comfort foods which is how we came about to using it for the name! Plus, it's a known and easy-to-say word.

We didn't actually launch with the aim of only providing vegan meals, it just so happened that our first dishes are all vegan! This has definitely caused some confusion so we'll continue to iterate on our branding/messaging.
This. LinkedIn is particularly terrible. I cannot believe such a huge, successful website can have so horrendous UX.
> web standards need more than one compatible implementation

Seems like a similar situation to WebGL. I think they would have looked past implementation count if the feature was really needed.
3Blue1Brown is an incredible example of how math concepts should be introduced. His videos are a fantastic reminder of why math is a form of art.
For me it involves shopping at Costco, but you'll be spending $120+ upfront and you will need freezer space.
Google Translate's “Sinister Religious Prophecies”, Demystified
Hatebook - Inside Facebook’s Myanmar operation
What he means is that to construct a particular instance of this hash function you pick random values a,b,c and do what he describes. You can make multiple different hash functions by picking different random (a,b,c) triples.

Now, there are some specific choices of a,b,c that yield bad results. If you pick a=b=0 then your hash function ignores your data. If a or b is a multiple of a large power of 2 then it ignores many bits of your data. If you take e.g. (a,b,c) and (3a,3b,c') then you get two closely-related hash functions.

The specific property he's interested in here is that of being "strongly universal" which means that when you pick your hash function at random from whatever family of hash functions you've got, "on average" it behaves well. (Specifically, it means that if you fix two possible inputs and vary your hash function at random then collisions between those two inputs are as rare as they should be.) His family is strongly universal despite the issues I describe above because having enough low-order bits be zero to cause trouble is "rare enough".
I moved back to Cambridge this spring after over a decade mostly in NYC. It was surprising to see that while cheaper it wasn't too much cheaper.

On the other hand, the job market here seems robust and I hear fewer tales of appalling living conditions and insane 2+ hour commutes like in NYC and California.
Thank you for your feedback! Note about why we're called Buttermilk below.

Re: meat-based options, we have added suggestions for meat to mix in with each dish under 'How to eat'! We plan on adding more in-depth recipes in the near future.
Twitter finally admits Alex Jones violated its rules, hits him with a 7-day ban
> if it breaks the back button of the browser, it's the wrong design.

Some people don't care about a back button in a single page application and it isn't "trivial" to implement properly. It requires libraries, polyfill support, etc. And in a world where everyone is complaining about js bloat, it should be no surprise why it exists.
>Qi Lu who was basically responsible for the creation of Bing

Qi Lu is not responsible for the creation of Bing. MSN Search project was well underway in 2005, then it was re-branded as Live Search, then as Bing. Qi Lu is joined in 2008.
Vancouver Canada taxes foreign buyers 20% on top of the listing price and has a speculator tax of 0.5% (eventually 2%) tax on homes owned by people not paying provincial income taxes (primary residences and long-term rental properties are exempt). They also have a 1% annual tax on the assessed value of "empty homes".
Great feedback. We will update our website accordingly!
I also don't read many novels, but I never did. I read dozens or hundreds of news articles daily, as well as non-fiction books.

Did you ever read novels (outside of those assigned in school)? I assume you still read a lot of non-work stuff, even if just news?