skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of good technical advice here on pricing real estate, but it's colored by an absolute dislike/mistrust of debt.

Ultimately you have to ask yourself whether you see debt as a form of slavery, or as a financial tool that you can use to your advantage. If it's the former, you probably should not buy a house. If it's the latter, it might make good sense to buy a house (even an expensive one) depending on the conditions.
You're getting bogged down I think. No one is talking about what's "possible." Theories don't become competitive by virtue of being hypothetically capable of being offered— you have to actually advance them and argue them. My supposition about two theories is based on common knowledge rather than some abstract analysis about the nature of possible arguments.

To put it another way, I can see two plausible forces pushing women away from tech jobs: 1) some deficiency on their part, 2) some motive on the part of the system to keep women out.

My argument is that, since many people disagree with 2), many must subconsciously believe 1), which is absurd on its face.

Examples aren't helpful in this case because your theory doesn't answer the question we're asking. Even if it were true that the mechanism keeping women out of tech was the amending of their preferences rather than forcibly excluding them (by refusing to hire them for example), this would still be the result of either something innate about women themselves or something societal imposing these preferences on them.

So, again, we still are faced with the same question. If women "don't want" to be programmers, why would that be? Because something about their female brains is disinterested in computers? Or because they've been socialized to feel as if tech jobs are not for them?
thats how life works man
OmniGraffle[1] is great and has been around since the iPad’s launch in April of 2010. It’s a mature app, it has had many updates[2].

[1] http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle-ipad/

[2] http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle-ipad/download/...
Imagine moving to a place without cable, DSL, or even a wireless provider. Now imagine 5-6 very popular services depend on gigabit speeds in the same way YouTube or Steam depends on cable, DSL, and wireless. How many people would buy a house without a gigabit link in that environment?

My point is that if something changes the SV market situation, like an exodus of investors to Texas or another Google Fiber location, housing prices are going to fall fast as the money leaves.
I happen to be an expert on this topic (i.e. I work as the technology person on a fixed income trading desk managing $28 billion of assets including a few billion in mortgage backed securities).

You likely won't get high interest rates like 8% unless you have higher inflation rates

This is completely wrong. The only thing preserving low interest rates is the Fed purchasing mortgage backed securities (see http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/mbs_faq.html). When that stops, interest rates will go up dramatically. You could argue that the Fed will only stop doing that once inflation kicks in but that is not true. The Fed is on extremely thin ice as it is now. They're only supposed to purchase and sell Treasuries for their open market operations (http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/openmarket.htm) and manipulating the mortgage market is significantly outside of their charter.

So someone who makes 2000/month right now, by the time the Interest rates increase to 8%, their salary would have Also increased.

There are literally millions of possibilities that could happen that don't fit your theory. Never heard of stagflation?

My goal is not to write a dissertation in an HN comment so that's enough for me.
Some vim and emacs plugins can give you the type of subexpressions like this. Namely, you want the ghc-mod plugin since it provides the hooks into the compiler to query type information.
This seems to miss a large percentage of the population which live in mega-citys. People arn't putting out a million dollars for "McMansions". A million dollars buys you an 800 sq ft 1 bed 1 bath condo. We are accepting the "brick shoebox", and we are paying through the nose for it.

Edit: And, at least for me, moving far away where its cheaper is not an option. My children will know their grandparents, and not because they make a 4 hour drive each way once a month or some such.
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"people will use internet for work"

And yet here we all are ;-).
Is there any research to back this sort of popular statement? I am very skeptical of this kind of statement where the author makes up a romanticized story to illustrate his point. This is very similar to the popular "do what you love" blog post that get posted here once every few months.

The best programmer I know in person agonizes over his approaches until it satisfies his high level of standard. He is a professional, not an amateur who does his work for fun. Does he have fun when he works? Yes, sometimes, but not all the time.
Well written article. I think most people who do not have a background in data are unaware of the various options out there and fall for the marketing behind hadoop like tools.

I would urge people doing analytics to take a look at kdb+ from kx. Unless you have ridiculously large amounts of data(> 200 TB), I can bet that you would be better off with kdb. The only downside is that it costs a lot of money which is a pity.
I'm still shocked every time I see my bill for prescription eyeglasses -- that you always need to buy a new frame for every prescription lens upgrade, and that they mark up the frames like crazy.

This looks pretty interesting, even aside from the ability to change up the style. It also makes prescription sunglasses within reach for people who don't want to shell out hundreds of dollars.
Why do you find this amusing?
The "less permanent friends" issue is probably lessened - though absolutely not eliminated - by the modern communications environment.
I wish I had enough HN karma to downvote you.
It's a good day for getting things interpreted in the worst possible way. It is more because I don't want to spill the details of my family in an open access forum, not because I want to start a fight. Blogging about generalities is one thing, this is getting pretty specific.
I don't really think $20 increase is 'major' considering the hardware is brand new compared to the older SP model with a much faster CPU (i7 vs i5 class) and the other upgrades that came with it.
Digital Ocean isn't even remotely in the same business as a dedicated server provider. And, unless you are heavily IO/bound (few people are), costs at minimum double what I'm paying for an OVH dedicated server.
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They most likely did not email you because they actually don't have the capacity to handle the extra load caused by everyone's cap being doubled.
Shakarian isn't an unknown in the field of network analysis. The work he did specifically with network shaping to increase fragility was pretty well received (and also an interesting strategic innovation along with the algorithm).

With regard to the 297 figure, my guess is that it had a context that didn't make it into the article. His papers are pretty well reasoned and quite upfront about the capabilities of a given process or algorithm or strategy, so I find it unlikely that he's gone all used-car salesman this time around.

*Picking nits: the author of the article misspelled Shakarian's name.
It's a wonderful half-measure, but also serves to highlight a problem with cloud-based installs that I'm not optimistic will ever go away.

When software was distributed physically, the consumer always had the freedom to use any version of an application they liked. Want to run a lightweight version of Word because you don't need all the latest features, or maybe you just hate the new UI? No problem. Did you like some video game better before they "improved" it? Just get the old disk out and play it.

Some people will argue that software developers should be able to require that their customers always have the latest versions of their product. I personally believe that decision should be in the hands of the user.

I'd love to see Apple allow side-loading for consumers, at the very least. The best solution, in my opinion, would be to also allow users to access some kind of "advanced" menu that would let them choose whichever older version of an app they choose.
The approach Xamarin has taken with this makes the most sense to me. You share your core application logic among platforms but the UI for each platform is coded using the native toolkit. It's more work but results in better user experiences than cross-platform UI toolkits provide.
> "I've been to hotels that screwed up my reservation as well. Is that indicative of all hotels? No."

No, especially because nearly all hotels keep spare rooms for this eventuality - screwups are explicitly planned for. This isn't true for AirBnbs, where if something screws up you're literally out on the street.

That's really what we're discovering now. The expense of hotels is largely due to regulatory capture, but it is also because that one extra 9 in reliability costs money. It turns out that having a 90% probability of your lodging go off without a hitch is a lot cheaper than a 99% probability.

My own experience with AirBnb is that when things go great, they're great. When they run into edge cases or problems though it tends to quickly unravel. Hotels explicitly plan for this.
I'm interested in the other 50%. No affect? Less affect?
I also found 'The Blub Paradox' (part of Beating the Averages) eye-opening. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
I wonder if this applies to the Mac App Store, but I doubt it.

I want to purchase Logic for an older Macbook, but the OS doesn't support Logic X. Apple won't sell a compatible version and there is no shrink-wrapped version.
You could target this smaller group with freebies with the hopes they turn their contacts into paying customers.
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tl;dr: the fiber will come to the consumer, not the other way around.

You misunderstand. I'm not saying that gigE isn't great. Certainly within the next decade, (and hopefully sooner) nearly all of us are going to demand gigE to the home.

My point is just that the economics of the situation are such that the presence of gigE lines isn't going to move the price of real-estate all that much. In expensive areas, the cost of real-estate utterly dominates the cost of getting gigabit network connections, if all your neighbors want the same speed.

The main reason gigabit to the home is unaffordable right now is due to low density of demand, and as you point out, that is going to change.
I imagine that the success rate varies according to the disease. If it was a flu vaccine then it would be laughed out at 50%, but for cancer I'm guessing 50% is a mindblowingly awesome success rate.
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I mentioned prices because that's just icing on the cake. Leave them out if you want.

1. I get more space, currently 2 bedrooms, a living room, and full kitchen, compared to a hotel that would offer a single room with just a bed.

2. Better experience in regards to culture. I feel like I'm in a home, that's decorated with local tastes, and not the same abstract painting behind the bed, and long counter with flat screen TV in nearly every single hotel room.

3. Get to meet people. Half of my stays, I end up going out for coffee or drinks with the host.

Price isn't my main concern, and if prices were equal, I'd still go for AirBnb. The reasons above are why that's my opinion.

Now, advantages of a hotel, because let's be honest, there are going to be some.

1. More reliable. I haven't had an issue in any of my stays, but you're more likely to be waiting to meet a host, then waiting at the check-in of a hotel. I've read AirBnb reviews where the person arrived, and host relocated them to a different apartment because the one they selected wasn't ready. You don't have to worry about hotels randomly changing addresses last minute.

2. Hotel rooms are basically sterile, and you know they're going to be extremely clean, sheets will obviously be fresh, etc. AirBnb, you're relying on the host. Homes and apartments typically have little quirks. Maybe a door doesn't close all the way, maybe a light is burnt out over the stove, etc. At one place, I found a container of half eaten sour cream sitting in the bathroom when I arrived. Obviously whoever cleaned the apartment just overlooked it somehow, so I tossed it in the trash and went on with my life. I know some people would freak out over these little details, and for them, a hotel room is preferred. I accept them, because I imagine myself as a guest in someone's home.
This looks like incredible core technology for mobile devices. I'm guessing it is structured light like the Kinect?
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I think you're staying at the wrong hotels my friend. A lot of the ones I've stayed at in were far from plastic or bland. But I tend to spend a lot of $ when staying somewhere and usually choose 4 star hotels. A lot of those were "trendy" style hotels with very cool decor. Others were just plain luxurious. As for predictable? Yes, I like predictable when I'm sleeping in a strange bed ;)

I've never used AirBnB, the concept doesn't appeal to me anymore than a typical vacation rental I can find on craigslist. Maybe for a month long rental in a beach rental, but a weekend stay in Brooklyn isn't something I'm trying to do in a stranger's home. Not ruling it out completely, just skeptical.
This is basically Apple themselves showing they don't trust everybody will like iOS7.
Presumably, you'd only see the pop-up if you're running a non-current version of iOS (and need the previous version of the app)?
> but it pretty much is exactly what the original post says (although he is dismissive/negative about this)

The difference is that he is implying scientists tweak their models to get what they want to see; i.e., they have a hypothesis and then manipulate the model until it gives them results that confirm their hypothesis. This is bad science. What I'm saying is that scientists (should) create their model to fit reality for only the specific situations where it is provably applicable. If the model then confirms the hypothesis, great. If it doesn't, no big deal; it just means your hypothesis was wrong and you probably won't get a paper out of it (in an ideal world, we would publish papers about negative results because that is science as well, but I'm afraid those papers don't garner near the attention or interest that positive results do).

> What surprises me more are his claims that we don't even understand (or understood) even the basics of lithium on a chemical level? Is this even true?

Yeah, it's true. That's why me (and a whole lot of other people) are doing research in this area.

As for the paper, I'm not sure what its impact is. Research becomes very narrow in fields like this, and I don't study electrolytes (I study carbon anodes). So I can't comment on that.
>Consider mental illness -- apart from physical deformities of the brain (the organ) and bacterial and viral infection -- the rest is pure cultural bias as to what constitutes normal behavior.

This is simply not true. A mental health diagnosis cannot be made without considering the wellbeing of the patient. In short, you can act as weirdly as you like but if you still claim to be happy and are not a danger to yourself or others, you are not insane. At least, this is how it works in europe.

If US doctors can forcibly treat someone who is happy and non-dangerous just because they fit a checklist, then yeah maybe it's time to take action.
I have been looking into building simple recommendation engine (i have at max million data rows) using Python. I looked into Crab (https://github.com/muricoca/crab) and it seems to not have updated for 2 years.

Any suggestions for libraries or just use basic numpy/scipy and implement the algorithms?
Another chance to plug for my favorite command-line small data toolset, Crush Tools. I used it often at Groupon.

https://code.google.com/p/crush-tools/
Because "traction" is the tail that wags the "startup" dog :)
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YCers, and you say?...
> I would have thought clinical trials would require a higher success rate...

Why?

If its better than than the alternatives (including consideration of side effects), why would it need to be completely successful in more than 50% of cases to pass a trial?
The author has a point, but dataset-size is one dimension of several you need to consider when making the choice to use Hadoop.

A local python script is great, but what if it takes 2 or 3 hours to run? Now you need to set up a server to run python scripts. What if the data is generated somewhere that would have high locality to a hadoop cluster? Now you need to pull that data down to your laptop to run your job. What if there are a dozen people running similar jobs? Now your python script server is a highly stressed single point of failure. What if the data is growing 100% month-over-month? Your python scripts are going in the trash soon since they were not written in a way that can be easily translated to map-reduce and hadoop-sized workloads are inevitable.

The next step up is a centralized database, but in my experience running your own (large, highly used) database is a whole lot harder than just throwing files on S3 and spinning up hadoop clusters on EC2 if you have people that can write pig jobs.

A solution like elastic map reduce removes a lot of practical problems such as data distribution, resource management, and system operations beyond the fact that it makes it possible to easily run jobs over terabytes of data at a time.
The fascinating thing is that this is the norm in business, not the exception.

You may think, how can that be? Wouldn't that cause companies to go out of business all the time?

Guess what, companies go out of business all the time. Most companies are fairly short lived, and a lot of the reason why is because they live in a fantasy land instead of concentrating on the fundamentals. Another fascinating thing you'll find is folks who have the knack of turning businesses around. There are plenty of reality TV shows about this sort of thing too. However, in almost every case turning around a business is mostly a process of concentrating on fundamentals and making pragmatic choices.
As a Verizon customer, I will believe it when I see it. As it stands, I can't use Isis (not in the right market) or Google Wallet (because Verizon won't let it compete with Isis).

The changes sound nice, but the way they phrase "for all Android phones" doesn't give me confidence.
A nice attempt at something that http://codility.com has been doing well for ages (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1039140). Nice UI, still I like Codility programming problems much better.
Cars are not an investment because, unless we are talking about collectible antiques, cars always depreciate. That's why it's more accurate to think of cars as expenses.

Real estate can appreciate. It's not guaranteed to do so, but it can, and with significant leverage. That's why it's considered an investment.
Thank you for the reply. So the only, or at least best, way of doing science research is to be an academic, or work at a national laboratory (does that count as academia?)? Thus, the statement "only reason to do a PhD is to be an academic" is isomorphic to the statement "only reason to do a PhD is to do basic science research"?
This is actually an advantage of cloud distribution. What if you want to run an older version of Word but haven't bought it yet? It can be a pain to find an old copy to buy. Whereas Apple has all the old versions on their servers and can deliver the exact one that will run on your system.
The author is missing a big gap between 5TB - 1PB. For most workloads, I would not look to Hadoop at the 5TB+ scale of data. I would first look at Impala or Redshift.

http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2012/10/cloudera-impala-real-t...
Correct, what I'm wondering about is how this popup will drive people to realize that "hey, I can upgrade to a new version of iOS".

iOS already has a pretty fast adoption rate for new versions, I wonder if this will make it even better.
I wish we could have more detail on these kind of transactions.

Someone glancing at the headline would assume this was a successful exist for a YCombinator backed company.

However, perhaps any remaining cash was returned to the original investors, less costs of liquidation, and any assets were "sold" to Google for $1 with some of the development team moving to Google as temporary contractors or probationary hires, rather than immediate permanent hires.
OK I was just having a look round this morning not really knowing what was where. Is there a sort of roadmap?
It's less that and more that there is now a significant-enough installed base that can't upgrade to the latest OS. There's now a lot of older iPhones and iPods Touch out there that will never get 7.

Knowing that, developers will become increasingly reluctant to leave those customers behind -- and so will keep building for 6 and earlier, and won't use the new 7-only stuff.

This way, devs can immediately go to 7, knowing that customers stuck on older versions will not suddenly be unable to buy or (re)install their apps.
Nice arm!

I can't decide whether the arm obscuring most of the screen most of the time, lending the video a folksy charm, should have been eliminated through more professional camera positioning. Another option would be to mount the tablet on a vertical surface at eye level, place the camera at eye level, and then the user's arm will naturally come from below. As it is the camera appears to be mounted on your elbow.
So I guess 'just a service' ruse is just avoid enforcing licensing/permits on their hosts.

Shady much?
As long as you keep a backup of your old app bundles on your computer (for instance using Time Machine) I don't think it's a problem to load old apps. The exception being if some of those apps require online services that are no longer available.
Interestingly enough, whenever I go to nytimes I don't see a paywall. And I'm not a customer, either. ? Hmm.
It depends on the percentage of people who show complete tumor regression with existing approaches, and on the relative costs and side effects. For instance, if only 25 percent of people show complete tumor regression with existing approaches, then getting the number up to 50 percent is a huge deal. Or, if the percentage is in line with existing approaches but the cost is much lower, that's another big win.
Because it seems like there always turns out to be some other approach that works better and is more idiomatic in C#. Usually something really forehead-smackingly obvious like mutation or a callback.
This makes me nostalgic for my Apple Newton. This app existed [at least] 20 years ago. A shame it was killed off.
I think it's also to alleviate the burden for developers to maintain two separate apps. iOS7 design conventions drastically differ from iOS6, so keeping both up to date within the same app will be a pain due to legacy code. If the backend doesn't change, this makes it easier to move forth with a new design.
If you can't build it yourself and you don't have the money to pay someone to build you will need to find someone that can build it or has the money to have it built.

A good place to do that is at an event like 3 Day Startup (http://3daystartup.org). I'm a iOS developer, but one of the 3 co-founder on our 3DS team isn't a developer and our company wouldn't be where it is now without him.
Since new anti-biotic development is so critical, I don't get why the feds don't in-source it to the CDC or provide massive incentives already. This is an infuriating problem that should've been dealt with decades ago on the R&D-funding front.