skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the Atlanta area and purchased a home (out in the burbs ) over the last year. Price there fell significantly (up to 50%) during the last 5 years and have finally started to rise. Supply is much lower than it was even a year ago too.

I think there are a lot of generalizations in the article that people have been preaching for a few years now. If you sit on the sidelines and worry about of the potential problems, you're never going to purchase.
There are a perilous lack of actual facts backing this up (and some red flags disclaimers like "in expensive areas". What does that even mean from a statistical perspective). For instance I would instant call bullshit on the rent versus owning notion based on basic economics (when rents are less than the price of the mortgage, people don't rent out houses. The notion makes absolutely no sense).

Even more indicting is the description of the nationwide market as a singular, when there are enormously different realities across the nation.
The paperback is ~120 pages at 6x9. The ebook is ~43 pages. My background I just linked here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6399538, but basically the gist is I quit my job a bit over 2 years ago with very little income, and I'm making a nice living on it now.
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Whilst I did the same as you, who are we to say that this is best for all families? I'm sure some would adapt and thrive whilst others would be desperately unhappy.
People aren't used to driving 100km, but taking the train that distance is quite common. I've never lived in the Netherlands, but from what I understand it's even more compact and better connected than Denmark, and in Denmark people travel that distance pretty regularly, especially if they have friends/family somewhere. If you moved from Copenhagen to Odense (160km) or vice versa, it'd be a change certainly, but not a real rupture like moving to another country would be.
HN is not the place for parody but I want to rewrite your entire paragraph talking about developers who ship gigantic systems and suddenly find out that a company is rejecting them because they don't code the intricacies of bubble sort on a white board from the get-go.
Assuming Brazil's government thinks like any other, "so their privacy laws can be enforced for their citizens" probably means "so we can enforce our laws allowing us to spy on you (by knowing your private keys or such), but other countries can't (unless an appropriately rich entity pays the right people for access to said keys".

For proper privacy we need to implement it ourselves, unfortunately there are laws being written to ban that sort of thing for national security reasons.
It shouldn't be such a mystery, because it follows a biological model -- small, simple organisms produce more complex descendants by way of natural selection, all fueled by proteins. The same process creates complex software systems out of simple predecessors, all fueled by coffee.
Amazon offers a sample chapter and a bit more. More about me - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6399538
Not to forget, game sharing with up to 10 friends/devices is coming.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24063613
Even deeper, something like regular expressions, how do they work?

Or shallower (sort of?) you can't sell a cookbook of "whats the regular expression in perl to match the first word of a sentance" because we have google for that, but you can sell a style guide type book like "Modern Perl" where you probably could google everything in that book, but it would take 1000 different searches and not have a common voice.
Dk - ephemeral trend tracking in go
It's really poorly written, but here's what I wrote about it 8 years ago: http://tynan.com/the-infamous-ghetto-indoor-pool
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I think you'd be interested in Haxe. http://haxe.org/
Worth mentioning some popular Haxe libraries too...
http://www.openfl.org/
http://www.haxeflixel.com/

Native level performance across desktop/server and mobile (and allows targetting the web, including WebGL and WIP support for Emscripten), open-source, reasonably easy to learn (pretty similar to ActionScript 3, so tutorials on Flash get you pretty close to understanding Haxe).

Worth a look IMO.
While I love the story, it's really amusing to watch how it gets re-discovered on HN every few years, blows everyone's minds, and then gets quoted all over the place, even where it is only mildly relevant. This might be our "does glass flow" meme.
See 'Nobody ever got ﬁred for using Hadoop on a cluster'
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/163083/hotcbp12%20final.p...
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From the project wiki:

'In the beginning google Chrome was the fastest. After more and more optimizations were implemented Firefox was little bit faster then Google Chrome. When IE10 became compatible with my code it was the fastest. After implementing the worker thread Firefox 22 got superior being 3 times faster then the other browsers. For some reason this advantage got lost with Firefox 23. Instead of this Google Chrome managed with version 29 to get this position with 30-50 MIPS. At this moment changing one line of code in the Step() function could reduce or increase the speed by a factor of 3. The reason for these speed oscillations is the tremendous complexity of todays JIT compilers and the black box behavior of them which makes it almost impossible to code really fast code.'
Different areas are massively different and are going to react differently to stimuli like rate changes.

I agree with the first half of your sentence and disagree strongly with the second half. In many ways, a house works like a bond. The price moves inversely with the interest rate.

This is because, for most people, what determines affordability is the monthly payment. There are two factors involved in monthly payment:

1. Amount borrowed

2. Interest rate

Consider someone that can afford a monthly payment of $2,000 per month. That means that they can afford:

$541,097 borrowed @ 2.00%

$474,328 borrowed @ 3.00%

$418,922 borrowed @ 4.00%

$372,563 borrowed @ 5.00%

$333,583 borrowed @ 6.00%

$300,615 borrowed @ 7.00%

$272,566 borrowed @ 8.00%

You can see how the price of the house someone can afford is pushed down as interest rates go up. And here's the thing - the affordability population is a bell curve. Once you get above a certain payment per month, there aren't enough people above to replace the people disappearing below. That is, there are fewer people that can afford a $3,000 per month payment than can afford a $2,000 per month payment.

The bottom line? The article is spot on. You don't buy a house when interest rates are low and expected to go up.
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I think the madness won't end until we stop looking at housing as an investment vehicle. Housing is an expense. We're all renters to some extent. Even when I own my home "in the clear," I'll continue to have tax and maintenance obligations forever.

There's also a very real lifestyle component. If it's a purely fiscal decision, we should all be renting in Dayton, Ohio.

That's why these sorts of articles drive me nuts. He's assuming equal inventory across renting vs. leasing. There are six people in my family, and the local home rental market doesn't support those numbers, at least not in the area where we want to live. In other markets, our only sane options would be renting.

EDIT: I should clarify that I mean owner-occupied housing. You can certainly make money in real estate that you can leverage; properties that you can rent or sale. (Still, as an investor, I have yet to add any real estate.)
>So there is a limit to the cool stuff he can put in it. So he has to CHOOSE what stuff to keep

First world minimalism.
To make my point more clear - my intention was not criticizing you, or doubting in your competences - from potential buyers point of view, if would be nice to have this informations somewhere on landing page. I did check your "background" before writing above comment and in my opinion you could add some more info, that would make you more trustworthy for visitors from outside of HN.
Don't read prose written for the sake of sounding meaningful.
Soon Chrome running inside Chrome.
I admire your healthy level of skepticism. I've been intrigued by Dennett for years, but I haven't drunk his Kool-Aid.

How do you find triune brain theory? I'm finding it a very useful model. Want to know what I think many of these "brain guys" get wrong? The fact that many neural circuits include loops through the body at various distances. Doesn't it seem like many theories are actually projections of social models? (consider the shift from cleverly-connected agents to "decentralization" to competing individual neurons). There's a theory somewhere that says technocracies develop products that mimic their internal communication/social structure. I see startups go through this all the time. anyhoo...
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I was just browsing Kickstarter and ran across these (no affiliation). I've been looking for a good way to get my daughter interested in tech (she's 3) and this seemed like it could be cool.
Excuse me, can anyone tell me why I may be seeing this? I have showdead turned on.

http://cl.ly/RRQw
My company's data is that big, thank you very much.

But if yours isn't, sure, don't use a system designed for handling astronomical data. Should be common sense, probably isn't.
"They" say you shouldn't spend more than 30% of your income on housing. Although something closer to 20% seems more sane, which is where I am at (renting).
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Sure, I could give you a google search results list of table sorting libraries. As I mentioned in several other comments, I usually specialize based on what my needs are. There was a point in time when DataTables was your only option for certain things, but that point has passed. I've also found that some of the bigger problems that DataTables solves (data modeling, dom manipulation, dom rendering) are handled better at the framework level (angular particularly shines here) than with a javascript table library.
Teva Canada Ltd. v. Pfizer Canada Inc.[1] is interesting because Teva alleged that Pfizer broke that bargain in their Viagra patent.

The SCC sided with Teva, and in the news at the time it was reported that the patent was now invalid. However the SCC filed a clarification saying that they didn't rule the patent invalid, just that Pfizer's order against Teva producing a generic version was dismissed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teva_Canada_Ltd._v._Pfizer_Cana....
The more salient part is the broken clock.

CalculatedRisk changed his opinion as the facts changed (he is data-driven, and one of the best blogs out there).

Patrick.net has essentially been a perma-bear on real estate. While that view was correct at one point in time, he never changed his view significantly when the facts completely changed.
Most of these IE8 users seem to be Win7. IE8 runs on Win7, no problem. I also imagine these shops skipping 9 and jumping to 10 or 11 in the next year or so.
In other news: democracy is dead. It's been hacked.

(That's actually been true for a long time. The exploits are only getting better now. It's a bit like SSL.)
Disk media is a dying thing (even though DVDs remain the only normal media with easily removable DRM). Video is going to shift to purely digital distribution. Blurays are obsolete. Many people don't even have drives to read them and see no point to buy them. DRM lobby constantly tried to slow down innovation, and the technology stepped over them.
Wow! Great point about being 72 degrees. I never thought of that.
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No I was referring to the rates in Texas. I may have mistook what the original poster was saying.
Who assumes that what the intelligence report says now is actually based in fact and not in convenient fiction? The US poised to attack Syria -- having long supported the opposition -- and the stars needed to align to help that happen. For a released intelligence report to yield the very strongly desired results, among a collection of agencies with a long history of bending the truth (patriotic so long as it served the end goal), should be met with a hefty serving of skepticism.
I don't think it's about software per se, but more about the idea of Big Data. We have seen many ideas that have come and go most of the times a good idea but a good idea is not something you should use for everything.

From the top of my head

Ajax (very handy but lot of times misused and misunderstood or just DHTML)

No SQL (can be handy, but for some people it is like a religion)

XML (why use CSV when you are able to use XML)

Cloud (Oh by cloud you mean the internet?)

and many more :)
GP made no claims about antibiotics and viruses. (S)he was simply going on a tangent about the problems with the anti-vaxx folks.
> Then you'd be amazed at what the government defines as "poor" now.

What the government defines as "poor" is irrelevant to the substance of the criticism being raised here. Words have different meanings in different contexts.
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You'll need to specify which version of chrome. Space works fine for me on Version 29.0.1547.66 m
> My problem with his preferred solution is that I cannot know that Gadget is really a handle to a shared Gadget and not a big fat Gadget value on the stack. The only way of knowing that is to look at the implementation or the documentation.

I'd say you do not _need_ to know. If Gadget contains tons of data, it's wiser for it to just put that on the heap, internally. Like std::vector does. As long as Gadget handles (or forbids) copying, assigment etc. (rule of three), that's fine.

If you do have a huge performance issue because you're using a class that, unwisely, puts tons of data on the stack, you can use a unique_ptr instead. Kind of an edge case in my experience though.
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You can always disambiguate. "Radioactive Glow" has a nice ring to it.
I see programmers are mostly concerned, over any other profession, of how good they are at what they do. How to be best. Yet - they are the least understood or recognized for the effort. Anyone else finds it strange?
I empathize with you, but your experience highlights the flaws in the approach you're advocating.

I'll use myself as an example: I'm a self-taught developer who has built and managed high-profile, high-usage websites/web applications. I probably could not pass one of your algorithm-based FizzBuzz tests, but if I was hiring and you suggested that a site should scale simply because you threw it on a large AWS instance, I would not consider your candidacy further regardless of your ability to pass a FizzBuzz test.
SAAS is trendy, but you shouldn't get caught up with the term. It's too general. Just because SAAS's are hot doesn't mean your product has product-market fit.
They are poor solutions compared to RAII: leaky abstractions which are non-composable and error prone. Unfortunately, something like C# using is probably the best you can do in a language without clear ownership semantics like C++.
So the OP claimed Hadoop skills, the interviewer asked him to use Hadoop, gave a him small example problem. He then didn't use Hadoop, and thinks there's something wrong with the interviewer for objecting to this?

Interview problems are sometimes kinda artificial, no shit. Given the impracticality of giving every candidate the kind of dataset Hadoop would be needed for, how would the OP suggest an employer test for Hadoop skills?
See that's what causes frustration about "culture BS". OK fine it means you won't hire my wife because of ethnic reasons and gender reasons. Or wait, does it really mean you won't hire me because I'm a perfectly good white Germanic guy but I didn't go to Stanford. Or WRT not hiring my wife, does it mean my daughter need not apply because of her gender is still a cultural mismatch, her being a girl and all that, or is it enough of a cultural match that her dad is a pasty white germanic dude so it could be worth her time to apply?

Its somewhat frustrating that "what defines a good developer" to a boss might be being a white male brogrammer from Stanford. But whats even worse is the uncertainty of not understanding what the criteria even is. Is it only whites need apply, or only men need apply, or both, or neither? That is what makes it even more aggravating. Its not 1950 anymore boys, its a multicultural world, so demanding a certain culture/demographic fit is going to result in epic fail if any competitor is smart enough to (gasp!) hire women or people of color or dare I suggest it, non Stanford grads.

Startups and people who hire should realize that they're turning off good applicants when they start talking about "culture" because people of color are going to assume you mean white people only, women are going to assume you mean hire men only, etc. As a business decision its just a bad move.
Ask HN: Easy cloud text indexer / searcher
Hi guys,
I was pretty sure to have seen on HN some new dead-simple SaaS service to quickly send text to be indexed, and then being able to run queries via REST APIs.
My idea is I need some simple indexing and searching capabilities in a demo, and I could achieve that by building a Lucene indexer and seacher, but I thought that there might be an easy cloud service already doing that.
My google-fu did not bring any positive results as for now...
Thanks !
For Lisp-ness on both Android and iOS there is also mocl, https://wukix.com/mocl
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With showdead you can see the (dead) duplicate.
Brute-force strategies rarely work well in real life Sudoku.
The fact that someone was right is not evidence of a sharpshooter fallacy.
3+ months. Do we really need to rehash old news?
always write tests while programming :)
you did not cover the whole task!

// Your code

if "Time is a valuable resource."
Don't waste employers' time
end

// Refactor

// Adds candidates' time to the case

// Decreases listOfCandidates() loading time.

if "Time is a valuable resource"
Publish a well-detailed job position
end
>Anywhere Google takes its Fiber is a good bet.

This... is not as true as you think it is, even here in Silicon valley.

If I could get $50/month/resident out of any of the reasonable-sized condos around here, I could easily give everyone gigabit Ethernet.

Problem is? even here in the heart of silicon valley, most people don't give a shit. Faster than wi-fi doesn't matter.

Hell, even you and me... I talk about bandwidth being important, but surewest has had fiber to the home in Sacramento for some time now... fast and very cheap. Do you see me moving to Sacramento? No, screw that.

I mean, it's a cool project, and I wish google luck, but the fiber itself isn't going to move real-estate markets.
"Big Data starts at 1.5 PB [because that's what fits in memory on Blue Waters]" -- Bill Gropp

On today's top HPC installations, it currently takes about an hour to read or write the contents of memory from/to global storage. If the workflow has broad dependencies (PDEs are especially bad, but lots of network analysis also fits the bill), it's much better to use more parallelism to run for a shorter period of time with the working set in memory. If you can't fit your working set in memory on the largest machine available, chances are you should either find time on a bigger machine or you can't afford to do the analysis. (The largest scientific allocations are in the 10s of millions of core hours per year, which would be burned in a few reads and writes on a million-core machine.)

Also note that MapReduce is not very expressive. When IBM's Watson team was getting started, some people suggested using MapReduce/Hadoop, but the team quickly concluded it was way too slow/constraining and instead opted for an in-memory database with MPI for communication.
I have to agree, based on the anecdotal evidence of my children. Moving several times, just in the same city, had a marked effect on them. It was subtle though, and unexplained, until we talked to the pediatrician about behavior. He made it very clear that children require a strong sense of home and stability for their emotional growth and security. Any sort of move can disrupt that easily.
Social insurance is a misnomer in this context. I was referring to short- and long-term disability insurance, which will cover you for many disaster scenarios.
You would be surprised to find out how much processing 400GB of geodata needs sometimes. 7 days in a normal machine to do some non-trivial analysis of OpenStreetMap data. Hadoop can reduce that to hours instead.
"I think the big thing on the psychology here is the fact that so many people can swoop in with a lot of cash over ask."

Yeah, above certain pricing tiers ($1M+ listings), the city seems to be catering to the young and monied without family concerns.

I saw a 1BR / 1 BA in mid-Market listed at $1.39M a few months ago. I thought to myself, how much higher could that ever really go? It's a freaking 1 bedroom. Sure enough, it sold at over-asking, all cash, to what a realtor friend of mine assured me was a twentysomething buyer. Probably Facebook money.

On a semi-related note, these days it seems as if developers are making a serious attempt to gentrify the Tenderloin. Lots of new luxury boutique buildings going up or being converted there. There's a $5M+ penthouse in the heart of the 'Loin for sale right now. And I guess it makes sense, in a way. Provided gentrification can push all the homeless out of the area, it's really centrally located and convenient for people who work in the financial district or general Market / Union Square area.

To your point, though: where do all the homeless people go? They seem to be getting pushed further and further south, especially now that SOMA (South Beach in particular) is the most expensive neighborhood in the city. And if the 'Loin turns posh, what the f- happens to all of them there?
I think what's scary beyond the privacy issues is that the government can be involved in massive social engineering. If we add this to another top submission today: "US military scientists solve the fundamental problem of viral marketing" we have an excellent combo for manipulation 3.0.
I have some IaaS ideas I've been kicking around but they are all capital intensive. The only way I can make it financially feasible is to build my own servers. And with no SLA or warranties I would basically have to live at the datacenter.
I sometimes managed to draw shapes that were certainly not what I wanted. I mean, they were recognized and redrawn. "Random" rectangles, ovals with corssing lines, ...

And sometimes shape was not recognized even though I think it was nice. But this isn't as much ofa problem as drawing weird shapes. Perhaps if I could somehow select shapes that I want to use?
One of the main premises of the article is that Rent prices are based on income level which are local.
Also, the house market is local, but the Loan market is national.
First the "critical threshold" is described as a ratio, then as an integer. Am I misreading it somehow?