skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically yes, however it is not type-safe. Idiomatic Go usually tries to be at least somewhat type-safe, and so the standard library's sort package uses interfaces instead of comparison functions. This is a bit more tedious to write unfortunately.
This is really weird. You buy something and sell something. This is entirely up to customers. Why make it so big deal?
It is the customers' freedom to do so.

So respect the customers' choice, respect other countries' choice. They want to sell, let them sell.
I wish there were a bit more explanation provided on this paragraph:

> "Most are backed on a one-to-one basis by mainstream assets like the U.S. dollar, while others are collateralized by baskets of cryptocurrencies. Some use algorithms to maintain stable values."

Particularly the last two statements about "baskets of cryptocurrencies" and algorithms. I've only got a basic understanding of how cryptocurrencies work, does someone with a better understanding know what they're referring to here, and how backing with other crypto currencies would prevent speculation from massively inflating/deflating a so called "stable" cryptocurrency?
Rather than think of it as insufficient supply, why not think of it as excessive demand? If there is a trend across the developed world of moving into city cores and working high-paying jobs, then it seems that demand is more at fault. These are very old cities with entrenched interests, do they have the political quickness to respond to these demand trends?
Hmm... I count not being able to afford a unit in the city you want to live in, and thus either having to commute (inconvenient) or find work in another city (opportunity cost), to be a kind of tax. Taxation is not just monetary.

The landlords are taxed; you're not wrong. But they're not the ones most hurt by these policies.
While I don't have specific knowledge about earthquakes effecting zoning laws, there was a very real cultural resistance to building dense housing in the 60's and 70's, when the the term of art in the Bay Area was "Manhattanization," and which was almost certainly more of a factor than earthquake-proofing the buildings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanization
The same is true of many things... that said, when you have an Angular 2.x app that needs to uplift to current, not fun. Same goes for the Node side itself as well... man it can be nasty if you don't stay on top of framework upgrades.
Effectively not much. They all have leaders (party secretaries) appointed by Beijing who are almost all Han (only ceremonial heads would be minorities, the autonomy is mostly ceremonial unless we are talking about the SARs).
Someone at 17-18 can be mature... but the US school system and the general culture around how teenagers are handled doesn't do much if anything to actually encourage that. It's entirely possible for people going into college today to have had zero opportunity to pick their own classes, manage their own bills, or have any real control of even the tiniest career up to that point, which is exactly the worst context to come from when making up-front choices involving tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Not a bad way to evaluate effort, if you believe in COCOMO (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCOMO). Some (most?) big defense groups maintain some metrics for past projects. LOC/man-month, complexity/cost. LOCs from COCOMO is a way to check your estimation within an order of magnitude.
I have a degree in economics, I'm aware of the concepts being discussed.

Consensus changes. Right now many neoliberal market-fundamentalist theories are not holding up well in the context of history.

Several things that are taken as gospel by economists, such as free trade is always good, or that low unemployment is too dangerous because it causes inflation, appear now in retrospect to have caused a lot of misery for the middle and lower classes.
Revoke the VPN key duck :)
One of the trick here is a significant portion of this development will be placed near Googleplex and they will only provide parking units enough for less than half of them. This incentivizes not having a car at all (yes, there's a number of young new grad without a car even now) and implicitly give more benefits to their employees and TVCs.

This is not necessarily a bad thing as a decent number of those high salary Google employees will not participate to the housing market thus reduce the upward pressure.
I think those are called gift cards and they still exist.
Agreed, but in the US much of our legal process protections are made in cases with the most heinous defendants because they are the ones that test the system the most.
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Capping rents isn't like capping bread prices or whatever - the money is just going to the land owners, there's no elasticity of supply and no marginal cost. Capping rents just means that instead of allocating the scarce housing to whoever can pay the most, and giving a bunch of free money to the rentiers, you allocate the scarce housing more or less randomly, and the renters in aggregate keep more of their money.
While this is a tempting argument to make, the problem is that "just" is not an accurate way to describe the task of breaking up large companies. It takes monumental effort and money to do so. There is no "just" breaking up monoliths.
It wasn't in the US. I'm sure it was a violation of some code in that country, but if the company is close to bankruptcy... you can't bleed a rock. The only way for the remaining employees to see what was owed to them was for the company to keep sputtering on.
Rent seeking behaviour causes prices to rise making the market inaccessible to homebuyers. Making property less attractive as an investment should help curb this tendency.
Does central banking solve them though. The fact that negative interest rates exist suggests otherwise.
How do you propose Amazon ship their products? Rail?

Amazon ships by rail already. I see Amazon Prime-branded trailers on flatbed rail cars tearing across the country all the time. And the number of Prime-branded tractor trailers I see on the highways between cities has grown exponentially in the last year or so.
I doubt that. In old cities like Berlin the best places are in the center because everything is there and there is good public transport access. And new houses are probably built somewhere in suburbs where there is no good transport, no subway, no train stations, nothing except for houses.
And there are billions of dollars of arms sale saying we need wars?
What's a good way to go about this?
If South Korea is at actual threat of being lost in war, I believe North Korea would have already invaded.

South Korea is an incredibly militarily powerful nation.

What we are saying is "the loss of life in a war is not worth the freeing of people imprisoned and tortured in North Korea," which is fine to say, and pretty much my point.
Sure, a weak currency is better for basic exports. It's widely accepted that Germany prefers a weaker euro to a stronger mark.

We can look at the US's behaviour, though, to determine whether they think it's valuable to them or not. It's had every year since the petrodollar was established post WW2 to push the world towards using the Euro and instead has fiercely defended it.
How Lies and a Troubled Workplace Brought Down the Founder of $115M Cleo
Even with Amazon, it was "HQ2", not "HQ50".

And big companies already do have lots of engineering offices, it's just still beneficial to have a big main hub, there are costs to fragmentation.
Human Society Isn’t Prepared to Survive Climate Change
The only fun on there is when a random person decides to get all trollish and political.

The number of people willing to do that on LinkedIn is a bit shocking....
Found the wiki page for the project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

so it looks like they'd want to launch by 2036. In the 'technical challenges' section, it does mention that some technologies would have to be miniaturized sufficiently, but it doesnt really mention much about whether that technology has reached viable stages or not, or whether it's a realm they'd have to specifically research further.

So I guess maybe the technology doesn't exist today? Sounds like probably not, but maybe the near future -- or at least they expect it to exist by 2036.

It's worth noting this project has backing by some pretty influential folks, including Stephen Hawking when he was still alive.
Wakefield had a financial interest, as well.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2011/01/wakefield_t...

> In the new report, Deer describes a variety of efforts Wakefield undertook to make money from his work. For example, Wakefield and his associates predicted they could make more than $43 million a year from diagnostic kits alone for a condition he argued affected autistic children dubbed "austistic enterocolitis," according to one 35-page document.
Boeing has about 80K employees in the Seattle area (where this publication is located), and it's pretty easy to meet someone who works at Boeing, the same way it's pretty easy to meet people there who work at Amazon or Microsoft.

Depending on the journalists' circle of friends, or friends' friends, or source pool, I'd imagine it'd be pretty hard to have all the Boeing employees you know all toe the company line, in a manner similar to the Birthday Paradox.
I didn't mean it like that - I meant that if you're making $100k in a suburb somewhere in a flyover state, you would probably make $140k (for instance) in a place with a higher rent but it woul;dn't really matter to your bottom line
"What will it take to have China removed from the UN?"

Until Taiwan can be reinstated at the UN, I don't think your question will have a satisfactory answer.
Migrating 300k LOC from Flow to TypeScript
"Transformation camps" on your thoughts and how you think. Hmm.. That sounds wrong to me.
Domestic spending?
Nginx is a web server that happens to have reverse proxy functionality (similar to Apache).

HAProxy is a load balancer with philosophy of "do one thing and do it well".

Perhaps things changed with nginx, but when I tried it for load balancing it was very basic, it didn't even have status page or health checks unless you purchased the commercial version. It only had round robin load balancing method etc.

If your goal is load balancing haproxy is far superior, if your goal is to have a web server that hosts some static files and then redirect dynamic requests to another app then nginx might be better.
Impressive! Would be great if you could share the SVG of the flamegraphs too.
Auction Winner Learns Why Property Was Such a Great Deal: It’s Only 12“ Wide
They'll imperceptible to individual vendors, as it's distributed across thousands. "Substantial" is extrapolated from a small (but just large enough to draw strong statistical conclusions from) A/B rollout.

Should Amazon charge vendors more when they identify where to invest more engineering effort, as a result of these A/B tests, which eventually lead to far higher increased revenue?
Ask HN: Book for a layman on how money works, the history of currency?
Recently I had an embarrassing introspective moment where I realized I have no idea how money works. I vaguely feel that money is used to represent a valuable item such as gold that, in theory, the bank holds. But how does money work across countries? Who decides how valuable a currency is? What are the factors used in deciding that?

Can somebody recommend a book on the global economy for a total layman? I'm also interested in the history of it. How did the idea of currency take hold?

Thanks!
Facebook has so much money that one can't wonder what their angle with this. I can only imagine they want to know exactly what you spend money on so they can better target ads.
I doubt it is sexism, HN tends to be fairly equal in its pointless bikeshedding
AFAIK ripgrep always uses regular expressions. So for straight substring matching grep will usually be faster.
I'm surprised to see Coinbase as a founding member. I wonder if they'll allow direct conversions between Libra and other cryptocurrencies.

It's interesting to note that there aren't any device manufacturers as members. No Google, Apple, Samsung, HTC, etc. That's going to make this an uphill battle for them. It implies that those companies have their own ideas. Or, perhaps, they just aren't willing to partner with FB right now given their toxic reputation for privacy.
I think you're on the right track.

I used to code for Medical Devices. One of the rules of thumb we used for our level of comfort with a design (apart from formal Failure Analysis, etc...) was whether or not we'd be OK with having it used on one of our kids.

When you review someone's code (or mechanical design, or electronics) and you have to decide if you're OK with it being used to treat or diagnose your loved ones, it forces you to confront the immediate reality of the impact of your work. Suddenly that hack might not seem like such a good idea after all.
I knew guys who ran VMS systems out of their homes, back in the 90's. It was fairly accessible.
Deflection 101:

1) Tell people to vote with their feet/wallet

2) Ridicule them for spending more

The dark side of the network effect is that as the network grows it becomes harder and harder to be a conscientious objector. Also abstaining isn't really participating. And by not participating you get no say in the narrative.

When you have a coherent thought on the subject, let us know.
Good choice. Landlords in most countries can't deny you a lease because of your children.
Requiring it to be done manually is exactly the point.
Hmm, in both cases I think we'd need to have developed an (open-source or proprietary) prosthesis that was superior to the limb it replaces, which seems like it's a ways off still. Then you could imagine people voluntarily replacing their old-fashioned biological limbs; right now the replacement process is a lot less voluntary, and the recipients would be excited just to achieve parity...
We both know what the environment is.

What you meant to say is that we can't survive below some threshold of biodiversity. Nobody's talking about zero biodiversity. What do you think that threshold is? I think we can survive (and the environment will be okay with) less biodiversity. How much less that turns out to be I guess we're going to find out.
Except for those pesky bugs that pop up every now and again...
Those programs are at least honest in the way they bill themselves: "loyalty programs".
Actually, I know of airlines that have way more than 70 planes!
Yes, I know about the off-by-one. I can't edit it now.

3["foo"]
Why Unique ID Attributes Matter (2016)
I really like how they're releasing this as effectively the first working proof of concept and committing to developing the rest entirely in the open - it's a great opportunity to see how a project of this scale plays out in real-time on GitHub.
Do you blush when ordering coq au vin in a restaurant?
> disincentivize new construction?

Oh but half the city is under construction work right now, they're building shopping centers, offices and hotels (I can count at least 6 10+ storey buildings being constructed in a 600m radius from my place, only one is for flats)

Investors want to max out how much money they make, tourists bring way more money than the general population, especially in Berlin
I threatened them with a court appearance if I ever had another email from them (never had an account, was hitting unsubscribe from every mail I had from them which lasted for exactly 30 days before the next). Voila, never saw another email; they must maintain some internal do-not-email list.
It was just a late realized pun that was too good to ignore :)
That may have more to do with your proximity to a single (newer) warehouse than a true exponential increase. You’re either located somewhere their trucks pass or you aren’t.
When so many large organisations joint it will cost billions, which will have to be paid by the users.
Do you acknowledge the fact that interstellar travel entails more than just speeding up and slowing down? Because that's what Dyson would be telling you if he were here.
Except, Amazon isn't an airline ..
You can just flatly assert that, but it'd be more interesting if you supported your assertion with some kind of argument. What exactly do you think is going to dissolve the Amish that didn't do so already? Do you not think fertility is heritable, and if not, how not?

Also, who said anything about genes? Sub-groups can be separated by culture, religion, genetics, or any combination of the above. Amish are separated by all 3.

Religiosity is also linked to genetics; this is scientifically established (though not totally proven yet).
Dollars aren't the best way of measuring usefulness. A lot of damage is caused by money.
It comes down to definition of terms, English words to sub-optimally describe a genetic process... How do you define selective breeding - if humans are selecting for short legs and long torso and small and short hair, over time you will get a Daschund-type shape and look. If selective breeding can include discarding/disliking puppies/young dogs without responsive eyes, then most likely humans did selectively breed dogs for desirable "eye contact" traits. It's quite reasonable given we "chose" dogs for many less physically obvious qualities like temperament, utility, and intelligence.

In the end, we are using words to describe genetic processes. The genetics of dogs have changed remarkably both over the last 200k years and over the last 500 years. In my view, it's a combination of natural selection, unconscious selection, and conscious selection of breeding individuals.
It’s actually pretty simple: housing isn’t an investment vehicle like it is in many parts of the West. The social and historical reasons why this is so in Japan are complicated, but the overall circumstances are not.

You can either have affordable housing that’s not an appreciating asset or let finance/real estate Capital run roughshod over everything in speculative flurries, leading to the insane state of affairs in many western cities today. You can’t have both.
So the argument is that you are abiding their days because other people are also doing it.... Great morality...
I proposed editorconf to them but I think were still discussions and debates. Not sure if they've settled on anything yet.
aka Seasteading
https://www.seasteading.org/
Very NIMBY of you. They just have to be not in my back yard and go away somewhere else. "No more immigrants in mountain view!"

As far as expand elsewhere goes, google has many staff in many countries and cities all over the world.
Except, I was making a joke.
Paddy's Dollars had numerous problems, biggest of which was seigniorage. Because of the expensive print colors used on on the bills (then justified as an 'old poor' move), it cost more to issue Paddy's $ than what the tokens themselves were worth.
Do you have this cron script hosted anywhere?
Bezos?
The definition of "need" is not "willing to pay for."
The NLL improvements of last year have improved things quite a bit. It's still not perfect, but in my opinion it has reached a point where this is mostly an issue for Rust beginners.

Some patterns of writing code will be really awkward to realize, but there are usually "more rusty" solutions that you start to apply without event noticing. Once you write code with the desired ownership semantics in mind, it's often (relatively) frictionless.
> I have a degree in economics,

So do I.

> Consensus changes.

Sometimes, it does. In this case, it hasn't. The consensus on this topic is strong.
For free!

Edit:
Due to censorship I request you to remove this account since you've not constructed a way to do it ourselves.

http://remove.org/removal-requested
A mining pool is a group of people coming together to share resources and share rewards. Just like a public corporation. And just like a public corporation, decision making/power is concentrated. Who controls the pay-in/pay-out system? Who decides who can join the pool? Who sets prices? Who gets the pool fees?

Many mining pools have models extremely similar to Uber's business model. Others (including one of the major players) are completely private.
Again. I'm not talking about species extinction or even the rate of species extinction. I'm asking for a citation for environmental collapse.
You think if adam savage had done this project he would be subject to questions about how much work he did or whether it’s a pickup or a ute?
2b. has existed without any link to 1. for less than 50 years of human history. I don't see how you can claim it has the best results in terms of economic stability -- it doesn't have a long enough track record to justify such a claim.
They are not building as fast as possible. They actively drive investors away. Before this rent freeze, they discussed expropriate big investors.

Is there any data on AirBnB affecting the prices?

The city probably simply got more popular, which leads to rising prices.
Your thoughts are clear and interesting. It appears we've always had a ratio of 1, 2a and 2b with some collapses or perhaps even more illusive is the [slow] migration. Like paper gold, man-made diamonds or the private entity stops acting on behalf of the government and ends up owning it.
Middlebrow dismissals are so common on HN that we had to invent the term to talk about it.

Seems to be a pattern with programmers in general. A lot of criticisms of new projects seem to fit.
Kind of interested in what this means for a non Facebook user. As one of those I already feel sometimes marginalised when content is shared on their walled garden and I need my wife to look at the dates for my kids’ sporting events because they’re only published on Facebook. Now I’m going to be unable to carry out financial transactions, too.
I use my laptop screen every day too. But for the keyboard and trackpad rather than the screen. I have 2 bigger monitors hanging off it though. Don’t like the mouse or full-size keyboard.

For coding/shell work I use the laptop monitor with iterm2 and tmux fully maximised.

Browsers, Office tools et all are on the bigger screens.

Gestures on the trackpad and remapped key keys with HammerSpoon/Karabiner make this an essential setup for me and then going mobile is no biggie.