skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would wager that most investment properties are bought with debt, ie. leverage. It makes more sense to purchase a property with a fraction of the cost and then use Airbnb to pay for the mortgage. Only extremely naive investors would be spending their cash to buy a property when they could instead get multiple properties using leverage/debt.
He's a board member, significant stockholder, and technology adviser, but no longer any kind of executive officer, AFAIK.
Even if you add redux and react-router you still don't have feature parity. The comparison is inherently arbitrary. All I really know from his experiment is if I load up a feature rich framework vs. a bare-bones view+route+state combo the framework is going to be heavier. Is that really news?
Could doing this make the car uninsurable?
If amazon raises their Prime prices again, I'm out... I don't really use the Prime video services, which kind of suck and have limited use outside their Fire devices, which don't support Youtube thanks to their war with Google who created the Android base their fire devices use.

I'm generally clicking Seller: amazon.com in searches because I don't want to deal with other vendors for delivery issues, which is often a problem.

It's gotten just plain more difficult to use. And I'm finding myself more likely to go to local stores as a result. Not to mention, the 2-day shipping now often means that it'll be delivered 2-days from when it ships, which could be a few days out. Where it used to always ship out the same day for 2 days later for delivery. The increased number of people that are stealing packages left on doorsteps make me more leery.

It's getting close to a point where it just isn't worth it to me.
So basically: Be bold to break out of or to stop wasting your time on tiny local maxima. Further: Use reason to make leaps in the right direction.
The tweets are from earlier this month, November 11th.
This surely correlates to the rise of Azure?
I tried Go a while ago.
I was hooked by the performance , the community around it and vendors support ( AWS , Heroku , GCloud etc...) but I got quickly fed up by the awkward package management system, the weird syntax and the horrible idea of $GOPATH, especially on Windows.

Haven’t tried it since.

Hope lots of this change to make the language more welcoming for Newcomers to the language.
I've been using Caps Lock as Esc for around a year now (and Shift + Shift for caps). It's a big ergonomic win for me on both my laptop and desktop keyboards.
I’m hoping that https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19623 will come through, and we’ll get a native “true integer” type (and hopefully a rational one as well, though maybe this is pushing it a bit). This is really something that should be implemented at the language level, so that “int” can become a true integer, yet still remain efficient in many cases.

It is bizarre to me that languages boasting built-in language-level data structures like lists, hashtables, etc are content to just leave us with the bare minimum support of numbers, being basically whatever the hardware thinks a number is. The semantics of integers and fractions are perfect, and everybody already knows them. On the other hand, overflows in int32’s are weird, and if your idea of a fraction is a floating-point number, then you can never have something like (5/3)*6 evaluate to 10 exactly.

To be clear, I think fixed-width integers and floating-point numbers have their place, I just see no reason why they should be the default.
High-speed camera shows incoming particles cause damage by briefly melting
Instacart is slashing prices as the war against Amazon heats up
Isn't that what the security deposit is for? I say this as a landlord, in California it's common to allow tenants to sublet for less than 30 days.
I think it is useful to group people by age. But yeah I'm not sure if the 'generation' distinction is helpful.
I was born in the early 80s so apparently am a millenial. (although I was gen Y before someone coined the term). I'm not sure that my life thus far has been closer to someone born in the 90s versus the 70s. I grew up without the internet or mobile phones which are supposed millenial things.
Another Canadian diplomat in Cuba sick with mystery illness, Global Affairs says
Thanks for those links. Some of the commentary speculates that a magma chamber emptied a bit and its roof collapsed as a result of a quake, and that collapse is the source of the low-frequency waves. Fascinating.
>But I think they had/have more than enough money to be a strong player in the enterprise market.

I've dealt with their business division(s) recently and it was nothing but headache after headache. Things didn't work (and no one knew why), opaque convoluted processes, weeks of waiting, 503 errors when trying to pay, etc.
The Californians Who Can’t Budge
I've never heard anyone in the US saying "office lady" and to be honest if I did hear that I would think it's being used in a derogatory fashion.

I actually just looked up what "office lady" means and yeah... I can't think of a lot of offices in the US that would have such a concept, especially not where it has to be a female employee doing those tasks. It'd be more common to say "personal assistant" or "office assistant".
I don't know, I immediately thought Telekom.
It does seem that way, but it feels to me that the better option would be a brand exclusive initiative where either the brand is the sole seller on Amazon OR Amazon themselves is the exclusive seller.

What's actually happening is that Amazon wants to be the only seller and is trying to strong arm popular brands selling directly on the platform.
Real World Crypto conference program, scheduled for Jan 9-11, 2019
Ditto! I remember around '97 seriously believing Apple wouldn't last much longer, and giving a resigned "you-poor-thing" sigh when

a) they released a flashy desktop, or

b) MS/Gates made that investment in them, or

c) some Saudi investor "who always turns companies around" bought a stake.
What amazes me is apple is that valuable. What do they have that you can't get much better for much cheaper elsewhere?
Ask HN: Suggestions for an exemplar Java project to showcase in class
Turbo Pascal included the source code of a working spreadsheet written in Pascal. Reading it was a revelation for me: I quickly understood how to structure code in small procedures and functions.

I see that my students have trouble structuring their code in classes and methods, and I think that going through an exemplar project in classroom would help them a lot. Which projects would you recommend?

Ideally, I'd want something:
non-trivial in size (tens of classes) and structure (use of composition, inheritance, dynamic dispatch, containers, enumerations, maybe interfaces, threads, generics, streams);
useful in everyday situations that the students can readily appreciate;
easy to build;
written with impeccable style in terms of structure, naming, commenting, and formatting;
accompanied with unit tests;
not dauntingly complex (this made me rule out the JDK libraries);
of manageable size (< 100k LoC, ideally < 10k LoC).
If $GOPATH was your biggest complaint, now may be a good time to give it another look. As of 1.11, there's an experimental feature called go modules that lets you avoid using GOPATH. I believe it's going to be non-experimental starting in 1.12.
Some of the tweets speculate about a magma chamber roof collapse due to the chamber emptying a bit.
Patagonia's $10M donation: Why they gave away their US tax savings
And with the returns from that money "we just gave" Bezos, we can fund many times that. And if "we" don't get that return? Bezos doesn't get that money.

The winning localities and companies offered $2 billion in rebates to amazon over 10 years, conditional upon job and revenue targets that guarantee the localities and companies are getting multiple times the rebate amount. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_HQ2

Marketwatch put the local economic contribution at up to $17 billion per year (not per 10 years like the $2 billion). https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazons-hq2-could-bring-lo...

Sounds like an amazing ROI.

My only question is, how can I give Bezos money for that kind of guaranteed return?
Two-minute silent pauses proved far more relaxing than either “relaxing” music or a longer silence played before the experiment started.
I keep trying to remind myself to check Walmart after years of just searching Amazon first. It's hard to change ones' own habits.
That's a fair point and I have to admit I didn't have the time/courage to port the entire algo to C++. But I can see why that would make the results a lot more convincing.
This is what happens if we all want to consume news for free, cost of gathering news also has to go to zero...
Golang Golang Golang Golang

...and nothing bad happens.

Maybe Bob should have thought of a better name instead of trying to become the least successful prescriptionist since that guy insisting it’s “thou”, not “you”.
When Software Eats the Real (Estate) World
For the first round they are testing the GO 2 selection process by applying it to proposed changes for 1.13, which limits it to non-breaking proposals. It won't get interesting until they start selecting breaking proposals.
"a mysterious illness that causes dizziness, headaches and trouble concentrating"

and from CBC:

"Canadian government sources say that of the 12 Canadians who were previously affected, only one reported feeling a sensation of waves or pulses coming through the air. In all other cases, the Canadians became aware of their injuries when they began to experience symptoms."

Interesting...it seems a bit of a stretch to assume this is some mysterious weapon.
> It's thanks to these ignorant comments that make them fearful of seeking help with the addiction.

I'm not sure the comments are made out of ignorance as much as desperation.

Imagine an audience member telling a DJ: "Hey, I liked your stuff. But I kept hearing a bunch of pops and clicks in the music. Was there something wrong with your system?"

And the DJ says, "No, my system was just discarding the samples that self-selected to miss realtime deadlines. Good riddance, I say!"

We need a name for this fallacy: perhaps the "Unsampling Fallacy?" That is, morally attacking samples in an attempt to characterize the very system for which you were supposed to analyze those samples to gain insights into it.

It's glaring with the DSP example but insidious when it's humans being sampled.
How Pinterest runs Kafka at scale
Anyone is welcome to restart it. I'm sure he'd give you the raw data files & source code if you asked. (There might already be a copy on github.)
This is pretty darn sweet - well done!
Orchestrating Chaos Using Grab's Experimentation Platform
Tax the hell out of all forms of residential-property-as-investment. Allow tax breaks on second properties if you can show you are using them and not renting them out or letting them go to seed and there should also be some exceptions for collective ownership and also stuff like homes for the elderly and other forms of sheltered care, but in general the commercial use of residential property shout be taxed to the hilt.
> There is no such idea of generations of people where I come from. It's hard for me to even grasp the idea of it. Who draws a line between generations and why?

Not sure if with "comming from" you are referring to Poland or Germany but regarding the latter I have to answer with a confident "Stimmt nicht!".

There is a big discussion in Germany regarding the so called "Generationenvertrag" which is about the young generation financing the older generation's retirement. Which is working worse every year.

Also there are public discussions about social injustice particularly impacting the current generation and with regard to retirement a bleak outlook compared to the previous generation (not really the current) of retired citizens.
I currently live in SF and work in South Bay, but this is probably the last job I'll accept down there. Being able to walk to work, or at least jump on a short bus ride to work cannot be understated for quality of life.
Am I reading this right that the list in the #Proposals header are the only proposals from the Go2 bucket that are being considered for 1.13?

I was hoping "check" would make the cut.
> I just don't like doctors.

Why? They're there to keep you healthy. Yeah, sure it can be uncomfortable talking to a doctor about personal health issues, but it's better than waiting until it's too late and finding out that "if only you'd come sooner, we could have helped".
I went through the list and the comment about Apache Lucene really piqued my interest. I found the Lucene code in GitHub but some of the sources have more boilerplate Java comments than code! Anyways, I remembered Java Docs are often excellent so here's the Lucene Java Docs:

https://lucene.apache.org/core/7_5_0/core/index.html

From my experience, studying the API Docs for Java and using it as a guide to the code makes understanding the code much easier.

The code is here:

https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr
A friend of mine complains about the young SV crowd that decry unaffordable real estate but also drive expensive cars. I think this is the same motivation that you describe, but on a grander scale. In this case, they're playing the startup lottery, and if they win it won't matter if they drove a Honda or an Audi. And if they lose, they'll have to leave SV when it comes time to buy a house.

I don't personally subscribe to this mentality — I've seen other friends save up $50k, double it with patient investing, and then scrape together a down payment. Even if you end up leaving SV, having had property here can be a good investment.
That is a large amount. I don’t think the rate of tectonic plate movement relates to the amount of land movement very well though. New Zealand is shuffling around all over the place in silent quakes by about that much, and in the not-at-all-silent quakes it’s been metres of movement. The last decade has been rather wobbly.
One comment on Newegg... similar issue to Amazon marketplace, pretty much want to select newegg as the seller, or you may be waiting a month for products shipping from China.
I don't necessarily think "talent" wants transit. Something that matters to every job seeker is what "home" is going to look like, and being close to transit opens up more types of "home" to choose from. Some talent wants the pace of downtown while others want 4 bedroom houses with yards. Being near transit does a better job of providing both of those to candidates, thereby increasing the talent pool's size.
You cannot cheat that way. It tracks time since the question became live.
Relevant is the scope ("Goods And Services"), which seems to be:
"Downloadable multimedia files, namely, video games; downloadable electronic game programs; downloadable electronic game software; electronic game programs; electronic game software; video game programs; video game software"

So a CSS-framework named NES should be OK.
Languages are products as well, either they grow to fulfil the needs of their customers or their fade away.
>when it actually includes Sharepoint and Exchange as well as OneDrive.

onedrive for business is sharepoint.
The Hidden Struggle to Save the Coffee Industry from Disaster
Svelte.js RFC #3: Reactive Declarations
Cost to patient, or cost to insurance. Auvi-Q is much greater cost to insurance, less to patient. The former is still a major concern given how that leads to increased premiums and general medical pricing inflation, even if it briefly benefits the individual.
If true, this seems rather ridiculous. Have wallet thefts ever been a problem on the Facebook campus? If someone of any race looked sketchy and out of place I could imagine this behavior (still not right), but from his pictures Luckie looks like a typical SV business nerd.

> On a personal note, at least two or three times a day, every day, a colleague at MPK [Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park] will look directly at me and tap or hold their wallet or shove their hands down their pocket to clutch it tightly until I pass.
That doesn't help - time is counted from midnight, so if you solve the problem on one account and then another, the second account will have a strictly worse time. About all it can really do is mess with the score distribution.

Also, the input data for each problem is randomized per user, so you really do need a proper programmatic solution (i.e. simply copying another person's answer is unlikely to work).
That's interesting that they need someone to complain?

Vancouver just enacted a similar law to Boston's - AirBnbs only allowed in a secondary suite in a primary residence. In exchange for being allowed to continue operating in the city, AirBnb requires a city business license (which is only granted for secondary suites) from all Vancouver BnBs, and forwards the list of all BnBs to the city every month. Then if an address doesn't match up with a business license, the city fines the property owner. If you don't pay, the city takes you or your house to court and you get a nice fat lien on the property.

This doesn't seem to work as well with condos and apartments, though. I think the city has left enforcement up to strata orgs which is probably a mistake?
Plus - housing is fairly secured and unlikely to ever go to zero, it's tied to an asset, and you can invest on loaned principal without extreme risk in case of failure.
> It's amazing how many Americans are actually proud of their ignorance.

It's also amazing how many Europeans think they're somehow different.
> Part of my (rather sad) interpretation of my experiences is that I have questions that are hard, that no one wants to answer. And I'm not able to ask those questions and get a useful answer.

That's unfortunate. However, there are people who are not at all afraid of the hard questions.

I see from your profile that you're at UW Madison. As it happens, I know such a person there. (He's almost certainly going to become my son in law.) If you want someone to deal seriously with the hard questions, contact me at mikestimpson (at) yahoo (dot) com.
Cool, do you have a link? FYI, I've made a shell in Racket[1], so I would be interested in any cross-pollination of ideas.

[1] http://rash-lang.org
This is going to take years to happen, so you're fine. This is just an announcement of what the process for coming up with Go 2 is going to look like.
And in the cryptocurrency space, we need way more than 7 decimal places.
Yup. More and more young people have no desire to own or drive cars every day. This will be a huge shift in the coming decades.
You basically have most of the same rights in civil courts, and where they vary they mostly vary for good reasons.

The real issue is that contract law permits waiving many of these long before any dispute arises. A body of law arose to limit the detrimental effects (unconscionability, etc), but Federal law (statutory and case law) have increasingly made these state law-based safeguards ineffective.[1] Federal law lacks many of these safeguards, and instead principally relies (if at all) on regulatory agencies to police abusive behavior. But that doesn't do much to remedy injustices in the context of individual disputes.

We should be hesitant to enshrine things in the Federal Constitution. Often times doing so results not only in fixing a limit on how narrow your rights, but also as a practical matter how expansive they can be, depending on the political bent of the Supreme Court.

[1] And then, of course, there's the glaring loophole of New York's confession of judgment. But that issue also involves some complex conflict of law issues. It's possible states could unilaterally shield their residents from New York's policies, but I don't know nearly enough to be able to say with any confidence what the best strategies might be. Also note that the same issues can exist across international jurisdictions. For now that's mostly a concern of the very rich and multinationals, but once upon a time these cross-state conflicts were also only the concern of the rich and large businesses.
When corrected for inflation,I make 30% less than my father did right out of college.
My parents had four kids when they were my age with a combined income likely less than mine (inflation adjusted). I don't know how they did it.
Normal, non-developer people prefer their experience, which is all that's needed to command a price premium like they do.
That's terrific news! GOPATH and the file system conventions are horrible for me as well. It forces me to break my personal conventions and workflow that I use for every other language. I avoid using go for new projects now because it got to be so annoying and disruptive (a somewhat shallow reason, I know).
This was one thing COBOL got right: built in support for a DECIMAL data type.
why the hell would you share this when its nowhere near done
It's relatively well known that if there's a chemical you want, there are several factories in China that will make it and ship it to you.

Anabolic Steroids are one example, Fentanyl is another, I'm sure there are many more.

For example I wouldn't be surprised if there's a black market for agricultural chemicals that are banned in the US but you can get them from China.
I'm curious if making go an ISO standard was ever considered.
This is how people like Donald Trump/Obama/Bush etc influence the news we see
I wonder how much of this is permanent and how much of this is related to the fact that millennials came of age in the worst recession since the Great Depression? Maybe millennials will bounce back over the next 10 years, as boomers retire and assuming the economy doesn't suffer another catastrophe.
People have been interested in this in the past so I'll post it again: Peter Norvig's satisfying Jupyter notebook solutions from AoC 2016[0].

[0]http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Advent%20...
Can't speak for anyone else, but personally I only buy a limited range of products from Walmart. Their quality tends to be so low, and service as well that I just don't shop there. I know they've become an online competitor to Amazon, but I don't even think to look most of the time because I've tuned them out.

I don't think I'm the only one. I am certain that Amazon is starting to lose customers because of bad returns experiences via the marketplace alone. They keep raising the price of Prime to fund other products that I don't use. There's a limit to what people will continue to pay for. Although Amazon is really good at knowing where that line is.
Knock-Knock #Docker Will You Let Me In? Open API #Abuse in #Docker Containers
Meh. I found HoL to be extremely over-rated, and more gimmickry than meaningful content. I got the impression that Danielewski was trying way harder to write "a post-modern novel" or "an ergodic novel" than he was trying to write "a good novel". That is, the focus was too much on the gimmicks: the multiple narrators, the typography/layout stuff, etc., as opposed to being a genuinely compelling story.
Another thing to look at is dedupe percentage...if things all of a sudden stop compressing really well, it's an indicator of text files being converted to encrypted, random looking, noise.
If you leave me now: the microcopy of saying goodbye
Netflix React Clone
Market fit by other means
Kudos for an amazing design. I think it's limited to somewhat small architecture, and haven't had the opportunity to try to plug my logs in yet, but I'm excited to try!
I would like to see more Unicode operators, at least as options. It's crazy that we still use * for × in 2018. Yes, I know that most US keyboards don't have that symbol but that's a solvable problem. I use an international layout on my Linux systems and can type it easily.

Also, I prefer using ' for the thousands separator and was happy when C++ adopted it. It's less visually intrusive, especially with variable width fonts, and some calculators even use apostrophe. Also, in identifiers, the underscore has semantic meaning: foo_bar is different from foobar. But 1'234'567 is meant to be identical to 1234567, so underscore isn't the best choice.