skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely! I really should have put that in the article: sleep is vital.

What I've been doing on my current death march is ensuring that the only non-working time I'm taking is right before bed: just long enough to watch an episode of a serialised TV show or otherwise unwind a bit. That seems to work well in at least minimising the amount of time I spend lying awake at bedtime.
So maybe a true apples-to-apples comparison needs to be for the entire period that you own the house -- that is, for each case:

+ what is the total net value of the money you spend in each case, and

+ what is the total net residual value at the end of the period.

With term life insurance you get zero residual value at the end of the term; what you're paying for is nothing more than insurance protection, not an investment. Ditto with renting.
I agree, yet i'm convinced that there's also an investment/financial side that the wanna-be-owner has to consider. This school thing is typical only in the US btw.
There is indeed a great amount of value derived from "empathy". Indeed, I'd go so far as to say trust(worthiness) is the greatest of all economic assets. It's an idea that scales: true for any person (=how much authority you are delegated) and even firms & countries (=more trust=>more teamwork, reciprocicated specialization, and openness to new ideas). The downside, is that empirically the world bifurcates into those who build trust...and those who betray it for opportunistic advantage. Empathy, thus needs to be put in context. It can be used constructively, but (false) empathy is also the halmark of a psychopath. So on that front, caveat emptor. Or as once was put: trust, but verify. But with those minor caveats, this is IMHO a very useful topic for awareness at a strategic level as you build out your career.
The purpose of the website of us is really just to serve as a landing/informational page for the mobile application we are building. Think of it like http://www.snapchat.com/, all of the rage for Snapchat is in the app, not really on the website. We're looking to go down a similar route.
Does really work, 20 s or less. The download seems to be slow though.
I hadn't heard of cost-push inflation before, and I didn't specialize in macro-economics. Who discredited this theory? The Wikipedia article says that according to Keynsians (and most modern economists are neo-Keynsians who beleive in sticky prices), prices are sticky downwards and so a supply shock to a single good would cause inflation. This seems to be an issue that could be resolved empirically. Are you familiar with the empirical evidence?

On your second point, perhaps your professor meant that he believed in free enterprise, but wanted to use the taxation system to make post-tax income much more equal? If so, there is no contradiction.
Zacatecas, México -- Oldschool
They're useful occasionally - at least, when working on one's own projects. Certainly, as an indie filmmaker, there are times when temporarily doubling my output is vital, usually in the run-up to a launch (like now).

If you're doing them over any great duration or with any frequency, though, I'd agree that's a very bad sign indeed.
While the bug is being fixed, why doesn't Google add the SVG workaround to the CSS being served for its fonts?
How to install Jekyll
Over 100+ domains. Took me a bit to figure out where to login.

Once I did the backend is completely the same :-/. That's not terrible, but it looks incredibly awkward next to the new design.

By "rebrand" I thought they were changing name, etc - but it seems like the whole thing is less clear.
PixelMob: An alternative to youtube built for gamers.
> Renting will effectively (as the video outlined) leave a surplus of money in your pockets.

Unless your rental is rent-controlled, this is only true in the very short term. Most rents go up over time.

The payments on a fixed-rate mortgage do not go up. So the monthly real cost of the mortgage goes down over time. (This is even before taking equity into account.)

Renting for a long time is like having a mortgage that you refinance to a higher payment every couple few years.
What could possibly do more to convince people that they should engage in the process of government than to be nastily judgmental of their reasons for not so doing heretofore?
About ten years beore he was famous for the his Last Lecture, he gave a fantastic talk on time management: https://archive.org/details/GabrielRobins_TimeManagement_byR....

He also gave a revised version of his time management lecture during his brief post-Last-Lecture fame, but I prefer the original.
London -- filthy
Of course it should. Buying a house is a long-term investment. You can't compare it to renting. If you do, of course it will be a more expensive solution. But what is the impact of owning over a life-time span? It could be an interesting analysis that i wish someone will do. Yet, i bet that owning will effectively create value for you and the family.
If this video was made in 2008 and all the numbers are off, leaving this video up without any caveats in a site where kids go to learn is beyond irresponsible.
Renters pay all these costs too; they are just hidden in the rental payment.
Which admits that sometimes they're right.

Besides, it looks like he's just publicizing what another PhD geologist and PhD archaeologist have been researching.

I have no idea if either one is right, but it's more credible to argue with their data--not the club they belong to.
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thoughts?
I also recommend Golang. It's nice to work with, and you may find some practical uses for it. C and C++ aren't used much in web development these days. Golang is, especially for systems. It's also kind of fun!
> without any fear of long-term repercussions

Would you consider being investigated by the FBI as a possible terrorism threat[1] a long-term repercussion?

[1]: http://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/fbi-files-ows.html
>> in a world where the primary computer is a phone or tablet, not a laptop or desktop.

Did you write that comment on a phone or a personal computer?
Cheltenham: spies
Ugh. I feel for anyone stuck in an environment where appearing ill is actually considered a positive sign. Pretty much the definition of a toxic workplace?
That is absolutely one of the worst articles I've ever read. It's nothing but bad metaphors, questionable analogies, confused reasoning, and unfounded assertions all muddled together into what seemingly purports to be some kind of defense of the value of low-wage, low-skill, manual-labor work.

WTF?

The author assumes that anything somebody could "love" must be something "creative" and must be intellectual work... ignoring even the possibility that some people actually do love their manual jobs. Oh sure, they might wish they made more money, or wish they had more freedom and flexibility, and that might drive them to change jobs... but that doesn't mean that some people don't enjoy farming or working in factories or what-have-you.

The author also seems to assume a society based on Plato's idea that your career is picked for you at birth, and where you aren't allowed to change. But clearly we don't live in that world. If you're working on a factory floor, and hate it, then "DWYL" is an aspiration - a reason to work a little harder, volunteer for extra shifts, save more aggressively, and do whatever it takes to enable you to escape the factory floor and create the opportunity to "DWYL".

I could go on, but what's the point? This article just adds nothing useful to the world, IMO.
Make it a userscript instead of a Chrome extension and then Google can't block it from their store because it will be distributed openly.

http://http://userscripts.org/

http://userscripts.org/about/installing
This is another aspect that should be considered and that is a huge plus in favor of buying. Because of inflation the cost of the mortgage will go down and after 30yrs it will be a lot cheaper. As a practical example, my family purchased a house 20yrs ago. At that time we payed the equivalent of $600 which was quite expensive. Today it's just nothing while the house itself gained a lot in value.
I can't be the only one who immediately thought of this xkcd comic when reading the article:
http://xkcd.com/451/
Note that one can also buy an apartment and have the apartment company do basic maintenance. (Different countries do this differently).

>A house is not an investment for the average buyer, it's an emotional purchase.

I'd say the house is an investment for the average buyer, even if the average buyer doesn't buy it as an investment.
> minimising the amount of time I spend lying awake at bedtime.

... this being the reason why it's conventionally inadvisable. :)

I think that unwinding like this before bed does work well for many - personally I've found that if I end my day in the middle of solving a problem, I am able to pick up and continue much more rapidly in the morning if I don't interrupt whatever I was working on before bed.

For similar reasons, I try to take out time to exercise and really move about just before midday/lunch, usually about the time that I've started to feel myself naturally slowing down and losing focus anyway after a few hours (even with breaks) of working.
Been done.

https://www.icinga.org/faq/why-a-fork/
Almost all of Paul Graham's essays. Especially

How to Make Wealth - http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
How to Do What You Love - http://paulgraham.com/love.html
Inequality and Risk - http://paulgraham.com/inequality.html

and Paul Buchheit's

My startup path - http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.in/2007/03/my-startup-path.html
(I have actually printed a hard copy of this and have it my wallet. This is what finally convinced me to join a startup.)
What is Google Authorship and Author Rank
What is Google Authorship and why is so important for content creators.
Perhaps you see it as a minuscule altercation because you compare it to rape, fraud, bribery, plagiarism, but is it really "minuscule?"

The fact is, we live in a society where it is virtually required to stand up for ones self. Regardless of rape, fraud, bribery, etc. every person in a democratic society needs to stand up for what they feel is right. If you feel that it is wrong that fraud is happening, go ahead attempt to make a difference, you'll make the NEWS as well.

The reason that this is making NEWS is that these kids are willing to stand up for themselves even if it gets them kicked out of school (which by the way is not exactly a minuscule event).

It seems to me that you are attempting to compare a dispute amongst intellectuals with the rabbles of society. This is not a fair comparison, the fact is you are right everything you listed should get the attention they deserve and believe it or not they do. Would you really like to sit on Hacker News and just read about rapes all day, or plagiarism? It is not NEWS because there is little that can be done, we have systems in place (and continue to improve systems) to minimize "bad behavior."

In this case, Yale is actually abusing those systems (in many peoples eyes) and that is why it is making NEWS. Yale has an issue with seemingly abusing its power, this in my opinion, is wrong for the same reasons as rape, fraud, bribery, or plagiarism, it reduces our freedoms and "cheats" us. In this case, the ones being cheated are the Yale students, in the case of plagiarism it's perhaps the company that hires the plagiarizing student (or the student body when he fails at his job).

My point, is that you are so quick to make the assertion that this is a "minuscule altercation" without truly taking the time to consider that each altercation such as this is a battle for ones personal freedoms (similar to battling against plagiarism, bribery, fraud, or rape).

I do consider rape a far more extreme version of reducing ones freedom, but it is still so horrible because it takes away choice and in turn ones freedom.
At the end of an interest-only loan term, you have the option to buy the house at the price it sold for when the loan was issued.

At the end of a rental period, if you want to buy the property you are going to pay the current price.

That delta can be significant over long periods of time, and is a benefit of purchasing over renting.
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>We are apathetic, b/c we are tired.

No. Americans are apathetic because they are one of the most brainwashed peoples of the planet [1], perhaps after North Koreans. There are exceptions to this and some few Americans are very enlightened indeed.

>They have the general population divided so strongly between right and left that it almost seems like a civil war is on the verge of breaking out.

Yes - divide and rule. Think Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Nigeria(...). The same sociopaths that run US politics, own the banks, and energy giants have always thrived by creating inner conflicts within exploitable countries [2]. Meanwhile the people fight themselves instead of pushing out the imperialists.

Those that run the USA are clearly preparing for an internal civil war [3]. How it will happen and when - who knows. But i can sure tell you that the amount of US flags behind Obama in his most recent NSA speech was alarming and resembled some Nazi era nationalist/fascist appeal. Scary.

[1] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/26/1182220/-Research-S...
[2] http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-imperialism-and-iraqs-descen...
[3] http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10/06/homeland-security-pr...
Email is Broken: People Sent 67 Trillion Emails in 2013
Disruptions: In a world where we send 67 trillion emails a year, I started 2014 declaring "Email Bankruptcy."
It is not that black and white though. So many comments are are deleted by moderators for baloney reasons. Moderators have become the new digg power users and they are really hurting reddit. See the recent standupshots controversy.

What about highly upvoted/downvoted comments that are then edited to reverse or change the sentiment. Other conversation participants have no right to see the original context?

To be fair there are good reasons to have some deleted comments and this is probably not the right place for a debate, but it is not that cut and dry.

As an aside, I've found the whole unedditreddit ride extremely interesting I hope its not the worst thing you had to deal with.

http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/1ukgpm/the_moderator...
ha, this is crazy useful, thank you
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>- In a free market, rental rates are supposed to adjust to make it such that an individual is indifferent between renting and buying.

I don't quite agree with that. If you're renting out, the apartment owner must pay for the risk of you destroying the apartment. If you instead buy the apartment you don't need to pay for the risk, assuming that you don't yourself destroy it.
I'll follow suit. I never liked the UI anyway.
Realize that Sal recorded this video in March of 2008, at the peak of the housing bubble. Many of the assumptions made in the video are certainly not going to be the same in today's market.

When you're modeling the rent vs buy scenario, the outcome is hugely dependent on regional factors (like average rent & purchase prices in your area), current economic factors (like mortgage rates), and also your estimates of future events (like long-term investment return, rental price growth, and home appreciation). Even small changes in these factors can make a huge difference in the outcome. If you're interested in going into more detail, I suggest downloading the model [1] that Sal was using for these videos and plugging in your own numbers:

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/downloads/buyrent.xls
Well, I don't know where you live but in America houses are definitely not designed to last centuries. A few may last for centuries, just due to the sheer numbers of houses built, but they're not designed that way. They're designed to be cheap to build. The typical stick built house uses a frame of cheap 2 by 4s covered by cheap plywood. They're vulnerable to rot, insects, severe weather, etc. Maybe you live in an area where concrete houses are the norm.

Stick built houses are a plague upon the land.
For someone who created their account 26 days ago, there's probably a lot you don't know... If enough people didn't find it interesting, it wouldn't be here.
There is, and it's way better. https://www.icinga.org/
Not even when you're not used to the other browsers' font rendering. On some of Google's web pages the fonts are actually unreadable unless you scale the page to 250% or so.
You claim that only the sex of the other person involved is relevant, and not whether the intercourse is with someone of the same or opposite sex.

This is wrong, and shows precisely the lack of understanding of conditional probability that I described. I am especially shocked by your use of lesbian intercourse as an example, since everyone knows the issue is men-who-have-sex-with-men. Lesbians are completely irrelevant to this debate.

Let us compare the probability of a man getting AIDS from having sex with a random man, vs a random woman. As you say, these are probably similar. However, it might be very hard for a man to convince another random man to have sex with him! So what we really want to calculate is the probability of getting AIDS from a random, actually occurring, sexual encounter (not with a prostitute) between a man and a woman, and a man and another man. This is what the statistic is intended to mean, and how people will interpret it, even if it is not always properly qualified. In this case, the probability of the man who has sex with a man getting AIDS is much higher, because gay men have a much higher incidence of AIDS than heterosexual women.

So we could add the following useless disclaimer to my earlier claim: if you are a man, sex with a randomly chosen man (including straight men) is not especially dangerous. It's only when you condition on that man being gay that it becomes statistically more dangerous.

Of course, this disclaimer would still be wrong since the sex with the man would probably be anal, which is inherently more likely to spread AIDS.

>What's more, the qualifier that it has to be with a white woman is important.
That's why I included it :)

I can't comment on why AIDS is higher for heterosexuals in Africa than the US. I don't necessarily accept your claims about it. But that is not the issue here. I am talking about the probability of getting AIDS given the current situation, not any inherent link between being gay and AIDS. The actual cause is not relevant.

The best that you could say, is that the reason for these misleading statistics is not to promote gay rights, but to scare people into taking precautions that are good for society as a whole.
Yeah, no one else could ever think of doing something like this. Imagine someone in Europe, LOL! They just don't have the same standards for freedom or patriotism (as in standing up to defend our constitution) overseas!

Oh America, the land of the free and the home of the brave!

edit: Of course let's make it clear that America means the United States of America here. In Brazil or Chile people just would not care!
Inflation and taxes are easily forgotten when making financial decisions; but they are the two biggest advantages of owning vs renting, at least in the U.S.

Short-term cash flow is not a smart way to evaluate rent vs own.
> I wonder if they sell alternate keycaps with the labels swapped too

I was looking into this a few days and it doesn't look like Leopold doesn't sell extra single keycaps or sets. You can browse their site (Korean) to confirm http://leopold.co.kr/
Ask HN: What's the best "Contact Us" email address for a startup?
Some choices:

contact@mydomain.com, support@mydomain.com, help@mydomain.com, hello@mydomain.com, team@mydomain.com

Anything else?
I'd like it to be friendly, informal and generic enough for any question a customer might have.
His definition of not giving a fuck is wearing vibram fivefingers. weak.
Pretty much this. The interest rates on both sides seem just thought up on the spot to prove his own point.

Second, if I were to buy a house, I'd first go to my bank to check what kinda mortgage I could get, see how much that would cost me a month, and only then find a house.

Third, can't really compare rental homes with bought homes around here (netherlands); rentals are usually apartments and the like, while bought houses are... well, real houses.

Fourth, you get more house for the same amount, or pay less in mortgage/interest when you buy a house. I choose to rent for now, because the main advantage over renting vs buying is flexibility. I can give my landlady a one month notice and I'm outta here. Not so with buying a house; you've got to sell it, and hope that you can use that money to pay off your mortgage, or whatever. You're pretty much stuck on a 25-30 year mortgage if you get one.
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Shameless plug: http://www.trulia.com/rent_vs_buy/
It's actually not uncommon in some larger cities to get utilities completely paid. I'm just outside of DC and only pay rent and cable.
I've been using Digg Reader since the last time news broke about Feedly doing junk like this and I have really liked it. The only thing I dislike is that something steals focus away when navigating via j / k, so for long articles you have to click into the article pane to then use up / down arrows to scroll. It also seems to refresh feeds a little slower than feedly / google reader, but that's pretty minor.

Other than those two small issues, Digg Reader is fantastic.
Maybe because he likes academia and values knowledge?

I don't know, personally I could go out there and get a job if I really really wanted to, but at the same time I love research and love studying challenging stuff. Some people go to University by choice, not because they have to obtain a piece of paper.
I bet you would have caused an uproar of sexism if your comment had said the same about a female shoulder. Is there any basis for the sexist nature of your comment?
What's New in FreeBSD 10: https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD10

Some recent discussions on HN have good comments about why you might give FreeBSD a try:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6966330

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949095
I bought a home in 2009. Ha ha ha.
My model has a backlit keyboard and a little light near the videocam that shines down. You can rotate between modes (dim, med, bright keyboard, top light) using the FN-space combination.
golang is worth learning.
It depends what you mean by the term "associated browser security." The method they are describing stops CSRF attacks dead in their tracks (e.g. if dev set up a GET endpoint that should have been POST/PUT), prevents plaintext cookies from being stored in a nicely organized sqlite db on disk, and limits the scope of xss (xss on a 404 page would get you nothing).

> Aren't cookies restricted for a reason? Can't anyone who can execute JS on that domain can swipe the JWT token out of storage and then impersonate the user?

HTTP-only cookies prevent attacker from swiping yes, but if you have the ability to execute JS on an arbitrary domain, you can just do your XSS attacks there, the browser will attach the cookie, and attacker has already won.

Of course it is not a perfect solution. Just more depth. XSS into a page that inlines auth details = instant pwn, but that was already true anyways. Inlining cred info into my javascript gives be a bad feeling too.
I agree, Apple's keyboards are entirely unsatisfying and ThinkPads have them beaten.
In what way is this an attack?
Precisely why I'm reading this post - in the hope of finding somewhere else. I was hoping there would be more mention of European cities.
What alternatives to Nagios are out there? I've seen Icinga mentioned today, what else are people using?
Once you commit years of education to a particular field and years of worktime and experience the 'momentum' of your direction in life can get pretty hard to shift.

You passion for being a veterinarian turns to 'just a job'.