skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I like this solution it always seemed to me that if the problem was too many people buying houses the best thing to do would be to build more houses.
So ... why does nobody care about trade deficits in the dollarzone? Why isn't this seen as "plundering"?
I think some of it is possibly just ignorance, too. For example, I've worked with a fair bit of code full of `<a onclick='...'>` tags, where the click handler basically invoked the router and redirected to a new page. Seems to happen a lot in React/JSX code.
I believe this is a big part of the "fake news" problem on Facebook and Twitter as well -- both of them present stories from all different kinds of sources as visually identical "cards," with the only included indication of where it came from being the domain name the story is posted on. And that domain name is typically presented in tiny, light gray type, making it super easy to miss. The result is that a headline from, say, the Wall Street Journal is presented with the exact same visual weight as a story from BobsConspiracyBunker dot biz. The casual reader scanning through his feed has no quick way to distinguish which stories are actual journalism and which are not. Doing that takes work, and work is something we know people are not going to go out of their way to do.
Maybe it was that person's experience they mistook for a useful generality. I personally experience this reading 8+ hours a day but I probably could get into more casual reading if I really wanted to.

It is weird to say to people that I read constantly but I think the last novel I read was several years ago.
On every major body of water in or on the boundary of the US, there are yachts. The yacht owners are overwhelming full or part owners of a successful business. Except maybe for near San Francisco or Boston, nearly none of the owners took venture capital.

Lesson: The people in the US quite comfortable financially rarely took venture capital.
A method of Pascalization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascalization
When you cheat your way to Ramen Profitability
Lessons in raising debt capital for a lending company (from a YC Alum)
vicapow wrote the code for this one; i take no responsibility for the horrors that await you
If they do, maybe the USA will learn from Canada. In my area the Canadians are the ones buying stuff up. Other than property taxes, their contribution is to all show up on the same weekend and empty the grocery store shelves - and driving up prices.
Why does it matter why he did it? It's a more efficient alternative. If affordable housing is out of reach, adapt your housing. Live somewhere else, or find a way to live where you want more cheaply - like living in a storage space.
How is this different from products like Kitchens of India or Tasty Bites? Are you looking to compete with them on price or quality?
1912 Newspaper Article Predicted Global Warming
> China is 3000 years years old and still considered an emerging market.

It depends on how you define "China", "3000 years years[sic] old", "still" and "emerging". China has been a "developed market" a few times throughout its history. The modern China (ROC and PRC) lagging behind the Western world in part is due to industrialization in Europe.
Haven't tried any food from buttermilk, but if their shelf life is any indication their food is much fresher than MTRs. MTR's packets are good for at least a year (and taste like it - they are passable in a pinch but definitely have that preservative taste to them). I think buttermilk is competing with freshly made or restaurant quality food.

Edit: was wrong about MTR using preservatives, but I've always found their food to have an off taste.
This is nothing new. People living on the street will often do this in Atlanta in order to have a safer place to live. Storage facilities do the best they can to keep people from doing it.
- source. Have purchased foreclosed storage units off and on for 15+ years.
Not when the local is downsizieng from a 4 bed house and garden to a 2 bed apartment for retirement, or they simply die and it's local's kids that sell it.

There's a simple solution to avoiding buying in expensive locations though - buy in cheap locations.
The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, pending on next century's Kickstarter equivalent.

Integrating Explained Visually into digital coursework flows would be amazing.

(Disclaimer: have not taken any online courses recently, so my memories of horrendous archaic information management are wildly outdated I hope.)
A Performance Analysis of Parallel Differential Dynamic Programming on a GPU [pdf]
As long as we're making wishes, I'd like my browser--by default--to track down and give a hard slap to all the folks that have ever done any obnoxious stuff with a web page, up to and including Sir Tim. One slap per offending page. I have already prepared my own face for punishment.

If your over-featured site is still readable with lynx, your cheeks shall be spared.

Some visitors want an experience. Others just want information. It is very rare that both types may be satisfied on the same site. If you find that you can build such sites, please report to your nearest zoo, to register for the endangered species breeding program.
Awesome. Will take a closer look at those when I get home.

Thanks!
vezzy-fnord had a lot to say on that subject.

* https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2016/01/01/0/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10824382)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10301375
Can someone explain a bit more?

(a) Does this mean that there will be an sqlite version that can be deployed as a process accessible over network in servers?

(b) Does this mean that sqlite will now have the capability to do concurrent reads/writes, but that it is upto users to implement a process that can take advantage of this and create something like (a)?
It's kinda self-deprecating humor; the (now ex) Tor developers I know use it. Nothing is ever 100% secure.
This actually does pencil out for living in Barcelona and working in London:
- here's the back-of-the-envelope calculation some guy did as a joke:
https://bestburgerinnorthwestlondon.wordpress.com/2013/10/24...
- and then he actually starting doing it (although only once a week or so, working from Barcelona the rest of the time): https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/commuting-fro...

But that's a much shorter flight. It wouldn't surprise me if it worked for, say, Las Vegas to San Francisco.
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The reason it's an attractive investment is because such investors expect that cities will never allow this and never allow prices to fall.
Why would they pay an unreasonable price? It's clearly reasonable for the person paying the rent.
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Beautiful and emotional naath
Alfred Brendel, a great pianist, is also a great writer
Not office space.

The math: most companies are doing roughly 150 ft2/employee. You can get good office space for $60 ft2; quite nice office space for $80 ft2. On the lower end, that will come out (+ services) to $5.50-$6 ft2/mo. So maybe $800 - $1200/emp/month.

Note you can do much better than that $60 if you don't want to be close to caltrain. I looked at stuff in the $40 range that was your standard peninsula office park.

As for housing costs... the bay area is fucking stupid. Next round (I'm a founder) we're going to be opening an engineering office anywhere else. Candidates are probably Chicago (ugh that flight), Oregon, Seattle, maybe Reno. The difference is is $150k barely making it or a pretty decent salary.

It's not just housing either. A founder friend bought health insurance for employees in Oregon. She thought her broker screwed up the price was so low.

Don't even get me started on the fuckwits in our government and the commute situation.
Conversely, I've just ordered the Buttermilk Suite #2 because you mentioned that they were vegan! (I wouldn't have expected that from your company name...)
In the long-term, building more housing. In the short-term, cracking on speculators seems sensible.
Towards Example-Guided Network Synthesis [pdf]
Can you share more about the "sustainable packaging"?
This looks great. I'm curious if your packaging is BPA free.
It is used. Very very successfully. And you are being incredibly naive thinking that governments and big corporations want people to actually get cured of their diseases for good within 30 days. Also one of the absolute best things a diabetic person can do is fast. It's quite sad the amount of misinformation you managed to condense into one HN comment.
> Why do I even need LegalZoom for a will?

You don't. You can hand write it on paper.

> Shouldn't there be a government website where I can register my will for free?

Registering a will is mostly a fallback to let people locate it.

> Should I need a lawyer and a judge to give me a no-fault divorce?

If there is nothing in dispute, you only need a judge (because a divorce is a court order.) You may need a lawyer to sure that your settlement achieves what you want, or to deal with disputes about the resolution as to property, etc.
Agreed for the most part. With that said, startups at the seed and pre-A don't need or care about any of that. Startups with 100M in financing might, although most likely don't care that much either.

Skills startups do care about at the early stages
- Self management/motivation and independence more generally
- 0 to MVP fast, well and affordably
- 0 to N customers fast, affordably
- etc.

There are so many caveats of course. Some startups (ours for instance) builds hardware so you need a few engineers that are truly full stack (plastic forming -> css). Bio startups don't need any of this. The nuances of VATs really don't matter.
Nutrition Label upfront, in words and text. I know there is a picture but I missed it, some of the nutrition labels are like the 4th picture.

Some of the starter packs don’t have nutrition label on it either.
In the US our rest stops are usually public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rest_area#United_States
RHEL does provide a stable kernel ABI (kABI) that can be and is used by vendors to ship binary drivers. See https://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ

When I worked for a NIC hardware vendor, we would ship our driver in 4 forms:

1) source tarball

2) upstream kernel

3) RHEL/Centos kABI compliant source and binary rpms

4) Debian pkg using dkms

The upstream kernel driver wasn't good enough for a variety of reasons. For example, on Ubuntu LTS and RHEL, the in-tree driver was often based on a kernel that was several years old and which lacked support for recent hardware or features.
Shipping meat in package seems like a great way for regulators to step in :|

Also it just sounds naaaaaaaaaasty lol
My key is stolen. I have to revoke it, but I need my duplicate to log in to do it. The attacker stole my key and phone, because they were in the same place. I've only got a few minutes to go out to the remote forest and dig a meter down to find my key before the attacker uses it with the phone back at bad guy headquarters to launch the nukes. Did I bury it next to this tree or that one? Damn it, they all look the same now. Dig fast, but careful not to smash the key with the shovel. Gosh, the water table is higher than when I buried it. I hope it still works. Christ, it's all tangled in roots! Pull!! Got it! Now log in, revoke it, reflash the key, re-enroll. Phew! Humanity is saved.

With PKI, I contact my spouse. Honey, can you revoke the key I'm carrying? It's been stolen. Thanks sweetie! See you tonight.

I'll admit the duplicate approach makes for a much better movie. The PKI solution is positively boring. Maybe we could throw in a spouse kidnapping to keep it interesting?
It's definitely more difficult but you can always try to bootstrap or take small investments and try to grow organically instead of going for 10x growth.
This would be the world of Windows NT in between version 3.5 and 4.0.
This page is blocked by uMatrix (pretty rare that it happens to me)... but it sounds like they are talking about the opposite of Angular.
Uh, wait a second...

64 bit hashing means only 2^64 . Understanding the birthday paradox ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack ) means that one needs only process 2^32 hashes to find a collision.

Yuck. NO.
I don't think it's fair to blame cities for what is a nationwide problem. The entire economy is shifting from farming and production to a service economy. The former provided incentives for people to be widely distributed across a number of small cities and town. The latter does not, so there is a mass migration to cities. It's happening faster than the infrastructure, zoning, and physical layout of the cities can adapt to accommodate.

This is a hard problem, and isn't made easier by moralizing, which seems to happen heavily on both sides.

Personally, in the US, I think we'd be better off trying to make our mid-sized cities more desirable than turning our handful of large cities into giant skyscraper-filled concrete grids. We have plenty of space for everyone in the US. The problem is people all want to live in an increasingly small fraction of it. Increasing the density of that tiny fraction while the rest of the country empties out doesn't seem great to me.
It’s perfectly possible for women to have a lot of control over society, especially over domestic society, without that society being matriarchal. For instance, Brehon Law gave women rights which were unusual versus other western contemporaries, especially in terms of property, but no-one considers early Medieval Ireland to be matriarchal.
There might be a reason for that. I think a lot the "bullshitness" of the sentences comes from the way the individual words do have meaning - however, the combinations of words used do not have an unambiguous meaning.

E.g., you know what an observation is, what "universal" means and what a transformation is - but it's far less clear what an "universal observation" is or what it means if one is transformed.

If this were a programming language, the sentences would produce valid ASTs but would be riddled with type errors.

I think output from markov chains or other generators have the same property: They easily produce valid individual words and correct grammatical structures but they don't care at all that those structures don't have a well-defined higher-level meaning.

Couriously though, we seem to validate a sentence mostly on those lower levels - which has the effect that you might not realize a sentence has no meaning but just have a vague feeling of not understanding it.

The effect also reminds me of some badly-writtem math papers, where an auther uses a familiar notation from one domain and applies it to objects of a different domain without clearly defining what he wants to do. It can take surprisingly long until you even realize you have no idea what it means.
In a perfect wrold microkernel OSes would be perfect but then it's all pointless.

In real life there are certain parts of the OS that have to work or the whole device stops working. Furthermore: the isolation of dynamic and less tested application code from these parts is generally a good idea, that's why monolithic OSes are so popular; they're simply less demanding.
It's not punishing. It's inconveniencing at best.

But flip the logic. Your inaccessible site, due to tiny unreadable fonts, is punishing everyone whose eyes aren't as good as yours, which is a lot of people.
Their competition is not just MTR, but also Deep, Haldiram, etc that sells frozen entrees for ~ $3 at any Indian grocery.
And then those hefty taxes will be passed on in the form of rent. The non-resident never ends up on the hook.
Forgive my ignorance, but if you're investing in property, don't you have "skin in the game"? Presumably it's in your interest that the community thrives, because that will help drive up property values (increasing your ROI)? This is just my naive intuition, so please correct me.

EDIT: Downvoters, what gives? Just asking a question...
Saying "what about" the people who have already lawfully purchased property certainly has the implicit assumption that something has to be "done" about them, doesn't it? I didn't insinuate anything.
Why use GMO when you dont need to?
Searching for a Lost Odessa and a Deaf Childhood
No, they do not, they only cover a portion. As the owner of a New Zealand investment property...

In NZ, ROI on property is targeted to be around 8% [3]. The owner will take that ROI either in capital increase or in rent. [2]

If the property is appreciating, the rents will be allowed to slow down. If the property stops appreciating, then the rents increase to maintain the ROI. The entire market is targeted at 8%, particularly the property management companies.

Changing the property tax rules changes this equation, with a shift to higher rents.

New Zealand is trying everything to remove demand from the housing market. They first brought in new deposit rules (20% min for owner occupier[4], higher for investment properties 35%+[5]), now they've brought in foreign ownership legislation. It might affect the rate of capital increase, but that will only shift the ROI equation towards rental increases.

The government is looking at building more housing (FINALLY), but they are finding that all the regulations (houses with heating and insulation cost more!) means they can't do it for less that 600-650k [1].

[1] https://www.interest.co.nz/property/95345/housing-minister-s...

[2] https://www.interest.co.nz/saving/rental-yield-indicator

[3] https://www.yourinvestmentpropertymag.com.au/expert-advice/l...

[4] https://sorted.org.nz/guides/home-buying/buying-a-first-home...

[5] https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/education/at-a-glance-series/lvr-re...
“A huge outlier”: Why Musk’s buyout tweet could get him in legal trouble
I believe the key factor is our education systems have heavily implied blue collar labour is low status so now there are labour shortages and the average age for a blue collar worker in some parts of the USA is in the 60s. I expect wages of $50 - $60 per hour to get normalized and even higher rents as housing stock stagnates.

The Fine Homebuilding podcast has a discussion here.

https://www.finehomebuilding.com/2018/07/06/podcast-episode-...
You should look at the actual code, not the abbreviated snippet in the post. The actual code puts values in those variables.

And the jre initializes variables to zero, not undefined values (unrelated to the post but a correction to your comment).
The problem with absenteeism is that while taxes are still being paid to maintain city services, the city doesn't function correctly, because there's weak street life.

Here's an article about the struggles of retailers in Vancouver's Coal Harbour neighbourhood, which has estimates of around 20-25% empty housing.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/at-vancouvers-co...
This provides (b), not (a).
Charles provided really great documentation on how to build this here: http://charlesleifer.com/blog/compiling-sqlite-for-use-with-...

Or if you're feeling lazy (like I was), there's a fork of his library at https://github.com/karlb/pysqlite3 which compiles the 3.25.0 amalgamation by default. This worked for me:

$ python3 -mvirtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install git+git://github.com/karlb/pysqlite3
Collecting git+git://github.com/karlb/pysqlite3
...
Installing collected packages: pysqlite3
Successfully installed pysqlite3-0.2.0
$ python
Python 3.6.5 (default, Mar 30 2018, 06:41:53)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.39.2)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pysqlite3
>>> pysqlite3.connect(":memory:").execute("select sqlite_version()").fetchall()
[('3.25.0',)]
Seems like she's just being candid to me.

Journalism is in trouble, and it was in trouble long before Facebook and Twitter came along.

Either adapt or die.
It is so sad when too much money destroys products / companies.

IMHO great products are only built when the ultimate stakeholder is the user and this can get very difficult to maintain when you are effectively not financed by your users.
I think you should consider your addressable market to be greater than Indian expats - I'm a Brit and I miss my curry living here as much as anyone from India!

Two quick thoughts:

1) I don't get your branding, especially the company name, and especially as all of your meals are vegan.

2) Shipping meat-based meals is presumably a very different and more expensive logistical challenge so I get the reason why there's no meat in these but it seems as though these packets could easily be combined with pan-cooked chicken to make a more substantial meal - is that the case and is that something you've considered promoting as part of the marketing?

I wish you the very best of luck!
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Understood. IMO, the argument is moot though because at the end of the day, the sole determinant of valuation is what someone else is willing to pay. A highly connected CEO with many high powered relationships is valued very highly because as it turns out, those are the things needed for a corporation to succeed.
I'm guessing quality. I just ordered and the order confirmation said

> Remember that your packets are perishable, so refrigerate or freeze them as soon as they arrive!

That's definitely not true of Tasty Bites. :-)
> (a) Does this mean that there will be an sqlite version that can be deployed as a process accessible over network in servers?

No.

> (b) Does this mean that sqlite will now have the capability to do concurrent reads/writes, but that it is upto users to implement a process that can take advantage of this and create something like (a)?

Yes... this allows a multi-threaded application for example to have multiple readers/writers without blocking each other.
It's kind of pointless to have a faster server at the cost of seeing that server owned by someone else.
Business Documents and Images Conversion Cloud REST APIs for .NET and PHP
GOTO https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766831
I would have expected this to be illegal! Can you really get away with it? It sounds like an easy way to handle crashing after a night out downtown without having to look for a cab/DD.
I've noticed this too... shit I've even been on the dev side of it. I'm glad they pointed this out in the "Silicon Valley" show where Richard is told he could have just not excepted so much money.

I would love someone to write a blog post/article on this effect.
I hear this a lot in Brooklyn. First, the reality is these units aren't very big (in fact, they are often smaller than cheaper units in Brownstones), so they're not significantly less efficient than "non-luxury" housing. Second, it's not like if the luxury buildings didn't exist the people who live there would just pack up and leave New York. Instead they'd just be moving into that renovated postwar that a lower-income person might have been able to afford.
ctrl-shift-minus in your browser. Make the font as tiny as you like, if it bothers you.
Mitraraman,

The website has a really clean look - it makes the product seem delicious and authentic. The minimalist design compliments the minimalism of the product.

I would be careful with identifying your target market. I live in Chicago, which I believe has one of the highest percentages of Indian immigrant populations in the nation. This might seem like your target market - but in fact the large percentage of immigrants has led to a slew of Indian markets and restaurants, that are likely equally delicious and cheap. It is a common theme among my coworkers to bring in homecooked Indian meals on a daily basis.

I also noticed the Upma pack is listed as gluten-free, but contains semolina. That's just asking for legal trouble from those with Celiac's. It might be worth consolidating all of the different packages and their ingredients lists on a separate page, QAing them, and making them more available to the reader in an organized, possibly drop-down format. Hope this feedback is useful.

Cheers