skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's being downvoted because the calculator does take this scenario into account, but the commenter (and you) seem to have not looked at it very hard. It clearly recommends that you buy instead of rent in the commenter's (and your) scenario:

How Long Do You Plan to Stay: Max this.

Investment Rate of Return: Zero this. Because you seem to assume that the renter isn't investing the downpayment, principle payments and any other net savings and won't be able to trade the proceeds for 100% ownership in the home at the end of what would have been the mortgage period. Or set it to -10% (the max negative the calculator allows) if you assume the renter will squander rather than invest the money, with no commensurate happiness return.

The result with be buying is better than renting unless you can rent that home at an impossibly low price.
If by "giving them cash" you mean put them on an annuity, is there anything more disempowering? If you depend on me to survive, your independence is gone. The only power left to you is to vote for me again.
I’m not a stock picker, but I’m long Amazon, very long

I’m extremely long this business model

What does "long" mean here?
You might be burning out, and not even realize it. I've been in a similar situation. The unmotivated mindset leads to additional hours compounding the effects.

My suggestion go on a vacation, if it doesn't get better... leave. You say you're not in a position to leave... but you have to, because its not going to get any better. You're not really doing anyone a favor by burning yourself out for them.
> I think companies which operate internationally should use unambiguous date formats.

Yeah, if only there was an international standard that addressed that...
It means I put in my credit card and the payment went through and I got a confirmation email of my order.
vacation home, many cabins in the woods I grew up visiting were very basic, you were lucky to have a well let alone electricity.
Open HN.

No, seriously. I go work somewhere where people can see my monitor. Helps me keep out of Facebook, etc.
No, my renter is paying that for me. He's within a few percent of my mortgage in most markets (near the beginning of the loan, then as time goes on gets even more advantageous for the owner) so he's not working with some huge nest egg of capital that's making him loads of money. Especially if I just keeping financing at 100%. I can keep buyinbg properties and keep finding renters to pay them off for me as long as I feel like. Read the link I posted elsewhere here, buying is almost always better, even with the renter advantaged with a huge investment best egg to start. This nyt analysis isnt correct.
He just explained in the comment you replied to that he got the information from the order confirmation email.
Cocaine Sales to Boost Italian GDP in Boon for Budget
When we make our product better, we are also frequently rewarded with increased revenue.
I've found namesilo pretty good if you don't want to pay the extra bucks.
I understand where you are coming from but it does seem straightforward that people who study the law would end up in careers where they write the law.
Here's the Airmen's Information Manual link to the signage:
http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim/aim02...

The signage doesn't stand alone. You get directions from "Ground" (the ATC position in charge of the movement areas other than the runway):

"<Aircraft>, Taxi [to] Runway XX via [taxiways] A, Q, M3, hold short [of] runway YY." You also have taxiway charts (paper or electronic).

So, there isn't much to discern about the signage other than "You are on taxiway X" vs "You are approaching taxiway Y [or runway Z" vs "Here is the hold line for purpose P", but there isn't any systematic way to know how to get to runway 18 without the airport diagram or directions from ATC.
and for good reason. I don't need to be linked to a scammy or expired auction from ebay when I'm searching for a retail product or review.

Can you imagine going to Target or Best Buy and having some guy with a megaphone screeching at everyone about his used wares in the back of his van in the parking lot?
Android apps can take photos without you knowing
He expects Amazon and its business model to rise in value.
Does this mean that some sites will get a rise of Panda 4.0 deployment?

And more interesting kind of sites will be get the rise out deployment of Panda 4.0.

my 2c
Since you mentioned it, I'll throw a shameless plug for Fort Collins (and Colorado in general). We do get snow from about November-March but its generally sporadic, however, there's usually 2-3 big snows a year. Despite this, we still get (on average) 300 days of sunshine a year [0].

For work, Foco has offices for Hewlett Packard, Intel, AMD, Avago, National Semiconductor, LSI, and Wolf Robotics. If the start-up scene is more your taste, Fort Collins-Loveland was rated 2nd in the "Top 10 Metro Areas for High-Tech Startup Density" in the United States (with Boulder at #1) in 2013 [1], and is also home to a start-up incubator called Rocky Mountain Innosphere [2].

There are miles of bike trails [3] all over the city and many places to hike nearby as well [4]. Needless to say lots of people are out and about being physically active around here and biking is often the preferred mode of transportion.

Other than that I just personally enjoy the atmosphere out here. Since we have a university in town there are tons of little hole-in-the-wall coffee shops open 24/7 (or close to it) and lots of specialty food in the form of restaurants, food trucks, food carts, ect. Old Town area is the main social scene and is always bustling whether people are out getting a bite to eat, walking around, or there are often various festivals taking place. Micro-brew Beer is also a huge part of the culture around here (at least in my circles), as fort collins is home to New Belgium, Odell, and many other micro-breweries and holds a huge beer festival called New West Fest every year. In all, it's a quirky little city that I quite enjoy.

Disclaimer: I've lived in the Loveland/Ft. Collins area for 6 years now and just finished my CS degree at Colorado State University.

[0] - http://www.fcgov.com/visitor/fcfacts.php

[1] - http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/2013/08/young-hightech-firm...

[2] - http://www.innosphere.org/

[3] - http://www.fcgov.com/bicycling/pdf/bike-map-front.pdf

[4] - http://alltrails.com/us/colorado/fort-collins?ref=header

edit: formatting
It would be good to know if they got a structural engineer look it over. Because it really doesn't look like a stable structure at all.
This looks like an interesting, simpler alternative to stream-processing solutions like Spark or Storm, which require quite a lot of upfront investment in terms of infrastructure and learning.

I'd be interested to know how this works behind the scenes. Does it recalculate answers every time you run a query, or does it update the query answers as the events flow in?

Also, the examples all seem to be using a time window, like this one from the documentation:

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT cookie.id) AS uu,
COUNT(*) AS imps
FROM impressions.win:time_batch(1 hours)
WHERE cookie.valid

So does this only answer questions of the type "how many unique users did we have in the last hour"? Or can you also calculate a total count: "how many users have visited this page in total?".
Wow really awesome :)

I've created an app specifically for such purposes.

The app called Picr and is available on the app store. Maybe someone will do his own every day project.

http://www.picr.info/app
> Plus I think the majority of people attracted to Go are fundamentally opposed to Javascript.

I think the majority of people attracted to go are fundamentally opposed to broad statements such as that one.
This practice is called arbitrage and can actually make money. I know a few people that live of this.

It's against the TOS of almost any ad serving company but that doesn't mean it does not happen. (which is interesting, because you'd think it would be very easy to detect, and yet, people do it):

https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/190442?hl=en

What's interesting here is that you could argue that if you bought the traffic from party 'A' and sold it to party 'B' you should be free to do so. The only reason Google can (and does) put a stop to this is because they see both sides of the trades and your take is technically their loss.

But people buying traffic on adsense or another source of traffic that is cheaper than the one where they are selling it could likely pull this sort of thing for years.
The balance to this is that corporations and rich individuals already have far more money to spend on a legal defense that further discouragement makes it that less likely that regular individuals will be able to use the legal system to redress civil wrongs that those parties have done to them.

I.E. the plot of the show Leverage.
I don't know why the authors of the article dislike dependency injection, but I think it comes down to how you view your code. Dependency injection sort of hides what goes on in your code and makes it hard to follow.

Developers who are used Rails, Django, Laravel and other large frameworks might not really care, and they might not need to. You develop for and with the framework you picked an understand and accept that stuff works a certain way, because that's what the framework does. If however you're a Go developer and want to do web development Gorilla will seem like a better approach than Martini og Revel, because it's just add the bits you're missing. Picking a larger framework and you get locked in doing stuff their way, and the dependency injection and "magic" makes it hard or impossible to escape the framework, should you want to.

For me, I like to be able to look a just my own code and reason about what it does, without ending in "here I pass a bunch of stuff of the framework and hope it does the right thing". Normally I know what I want and if the framework has these magical bits they more often than not get in the way... I'm looking at you stupid Django Rest Framework.
Hi,

I'm a manager, and sometimes I feel like you. Sometimes I need to ask developers to do things I don't believe in or things I'll throw away in a few months. This also demotivates me. You need both a lot of discipline and just a bit "aloofness" to keep going. Care less about those tasks, think about friday.

If your managers are any good, they know you have wasted hours, they know you are unmotivated, and they know those meaningless tasks are the reason, this is why you are a valued employee. I'd rather argue to death with an employee because he thinks his idea is best for the company than one that will just accept any task like a robot. But sometimes you have to implement ridiculous things into software, from clients being just crazy or because of some strange contract clause. This is when discipline kicks in. Such situations shouldn't happen often, but if they are, that's when you should move on.

You don't need to get "in the zone" to get the job done. Just start by doing smaller pieces, put your headphones on. You could just ask why feature is being built, but I doubt knowing the reason will motivate you at all.
MSR's LIQUi|> [1] looks like an interesting approach to this problem (although I'm not sure there's a publicly available way to use it).

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=194...
Finding XML Entity Injection Problems
Why TLS is called "TLS", not "SSL 3.1"
Gist-powered WebGL transitions
> 7-inch screen

Sounds like it might be similar to the Nexus 7 form factor, and slightly larger than the device you've linked to.
Ask HN: Owe over $100k US backtaxes. Not sure what to do.
I did not file for a couple years while doing affiliate marketing. I got an estimated IRS tax bill of well over $100k. After a CPA filing, I still owe over $100k in backtaxes and I don't have it. I emptied the bank account and worked out a monthly plan, but basically the IRS wants all my after tax earnings for 5 years. I'm not really sure what to do now.

I know I deserve snarky you are stupid and you are an idiot comments. I'm wondering if there's anything else I can actively do to lessen the burden, or interest or penalties, or if there is something outside the you're screwed for next 5 years plan. I have already talked to a CPA, but they seem to vary greatly in quality and knowledge. The one I got to file my taxes seemed pretty cookie cutter. I haven't talked to a tax attorney, and considering my stressed finances, I'm not sure if it makes sense to.

edit: I am now a salaryman. The installment plan monthly amount due to my high cost location ends up being total after tax dollars minus rent and very frugal and basic living expenses. I could move to a cheaper location (which I am considering), but that doesn't seem to address the more immediate and core problem.
I pasted from the court transcript and you're quoting Wikipedia. Let's see if I can get the page corrected with a primary source ...
Great but singing victory too soon, Newegg haven't won any money yet
The whale is also pretty good. It's a documentary about a killer whale that was stuck in an inlet in Canada for years. It does a job at pulling strings, but it sold me on the animals have emotions bit. http://www.thewhalemovie.com/
File for bankruptcy?
You can't care about the problem more than the customer, or you'll go crazy.

That is not to say you shouldn't be proud of the workmanship of what you build (not quite the same thing as being proud of the product).

Unless you have a position where you have design authority, stop worrying about the why, and focus on the workmanship. Impress those that do have this authority with how well you do with what you're given.

If you believe that you have insights into making a better end product, then learn to communicate those insights at the appropriate time (before they've made up their mind). Try to get ahead of the curve and propose your ideas.
Just search the internet for "get the shit work done" to find the answer for your problem. Really. You can find also some good practices.

I believe that most of our jobs can be divided to two parts:

-the fun part (interesting/fun/profitable work)

-the shit part (boring tasks/emails)

So, just get the shit work done when it needs to.
> sending $40 [with MoneyGram] costs $10, which is, you know, crazy

Yes, that's crazy. Send $40 to your brother, and he only receives $30.

But it's even more crazy than that. On top of the $10 fee, MoneyGram then skims more money with an unfavorable currency exchange rate.

> if there’s only one guy in your town exchanging Bitcoin for regular cash, he can gouge you worse than MoneyGram

If this one guy gives you a Bitcoin rate worse than MoneyGram, then you'll just use MoneyGram.

The local MoneyGram agent only keeps a small slice of the 25% fee. If a Bitcoin entrepreneur could make more profit with a 10% fee than he would with MoneyGram, the recipient could keep $36 of the transfer instead of $30.

Eliminate the rapacious middleman, everybody wins.
Oh no! Please not _another_ lightweight markup language.

This increased diversity will only push Markdown's dominance and not help to get better alternatives _at all!_
NADEEF: A generic data cleaning framework, written in Java
There is, it's called ISO 8601:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

Also:

http://xkcd.com/1179/
More random trivia. Runways are not strictly named by their magnetic headings.

Chicago O'Hare has so many east-west runways that they have "mis-named" some of them: (see 10L/28R and 10C/28C, both of which are on magnetic headings of 93/273. And yes, they have a 10-Left and 10-Center, but no 10-Right. :))

http://airnav.com/airport/ORD
What the IRS Ruling Actually Means for Bitcoin – Arianna Simpson
Does anyone know a good blogging platform to include code examples (without messing around with Javascript)? I tried google blogger, but code did not come out nicely, and it tries to do its own formatting when you save.
Java Is The Most Popular Tag On StackOverflow Now
CoreOS images are now available on Google Compute Engine
I saw one of these on /b/ the first time with the child being a blonde girl. You can only imagine the comments...
Thanks - clearly I didn't check if it'd been submitted earlier expecting it to be identified if it was.

Was quite surprised to find that the submission took successfully - which I wasn't for something this old (even though I just came across it).

Is there some time limit after which HN accepts the same URL even if it's been submitted earlier?
Robots transform into furniture at EPFL
Ebay & Paypal are the worst companies I have ever had the displeasure of doing business with.
You're right, there should be no law- if you want a geostationary slot and another satellite is in it, knock it down. I wonder if Comcast is hiring anti-satellite operators.
According to Google, the only instance of "'Was it a PR move?' to which he responded. 'No. I wouldn't say that.'" on the entire internet is in your comment. Where did that quote come from?
That's fine when you're 23. When you have a couple of kids, and chasing the lowest taxes/rents means that you're uprooting them from school and friends, there is a high cost for that.

Ever get to know a military brat? It's a hard life.
New guides – GOV.UK elements and design patterns
sounds like you might need therapy. I've had a similar problem and speaking to a therapist helped.
The frame and rafters seem solid (as long as you don't stress it too much), but it seems inevitable that the roots of plants will pierce the plastic layer, and rain will drain though the roof.

I know it's heavy duty plastic, but the roots of small plants can crack rock.

It's hard to tell from all these 200x200px pictures, but is the plastic the first thing on the ceiling? If that's the case, you might patch it up as it gets punctured or replace whole sections of it. I'm very curious as to how the house and vegetation will evolve on the long term, because this is pretty much my dream house.

Edit: After looking at the rest of the website, it becomes clear that they know what they're doing. I'm still curious about the details.
I Hope New Foursquare Replaces the Check-in With the Follow
"liberal constitionalism" is a great phrase. We've used "democracy" as a short word to describe the institutions of the west, such as it's checks and balances, independent judiciary, rights and freedoms, et cetera. Sure, democracy is an important part of that, but is it the most important part?

When the great democracies of the west were first being established; democracy was a dirty word, one to be feared and balanced with strong protections. That's why the US is technically a constitutional republic rather than a true democracy. Now people think that "democracy" and "capitalism" are magic pixie dust that can turn a country around. But both are small parts of what made western countries (and others such as Japan) so successful.
Don't forget the human factor! Though theory says buying a house is not always the best financial move, on average those people are better of when they're old, because they are forced to live more frugal.

People that rent an apartment or house usually don't have the discipline to live as frugal as buyers are forced to be.
Net Neutrality Rap from Rap News
This is over 2 hours long, and there's no indication about what it is, or why it might be useful. It's not searchable, indexed, and no meaningful summary available.

Has anybody watched the whole thing?
You are actually only somewhat right.

While arbitrage is forbidden, placing AdWords ads on the pages that have value and purpose other than serving ads and simultaneously buying AdWords traffic is legitimate.
It's possible that Amazon's analytics demonstrate that you're more likely to purchase if shown a wider variety of products, even if you attempted to narrow it down.

Not that their short term bottom line is a worthy excuse for deceptive and confusing search practices.
Don't get so emotionally attached to the job, it is not professional.

Sometimes I have the impression that the younger don't know how to take it like a man. There is a difference between complaining and whining, guess which one makes a man miserable...

Reality is hard to change, but perception is easy. You can really improve your happiness by reworking your perception.

Take some distance and look at the big picture: as an Employee, your main concern is if the pay check cashes. Everything else is ultimately a problem for the business owners (professionals are pragmatic, not cynic).

If your vision does not align with management and you happens to be right, it is a lot more sad for the company than for you personally. It is not your baby - wish them good luck, do your side of the deal as well as you can and don't suffer over it. You have your startup, your own baby to look after.
If the shell company sues ten companies over a patent, and one of them threatens to sue, and they sell the patent back to the parent company, wouldn't that mean they no longer have standing to sue the other nine either, and they'd have to file a motion to dismiss all the rest?
Forget Net Neutrality. What about Amazon Neutrality?
pretty sure it was ntfs formatted, so it would have already been enabled. not only that, they actually have a custom partition that gets created and needs to be mounted for their stuff to work. it doesnt "just work", so there's more going on there.
People these days are so busy photographing, videoing, posting crap to twitter to see if people approve of what they're doing... They're missing out on actually enjoying and living life.

Look at concerts - a sea of idiots holding up their phones, videoing an event, watching through their silly little phone. Enjoy the event! Buy the official DVD later if you want.

So IMHO, this seems pretty obsessive and extreme.

OK End of rant...
I get like this more often than I like to admit. I just break the entire thing down and write a multitude of check box's. Personally I'm using the bulletjournal technique (www.bulletjournal.com)

If I cant get the motivation then I need more abstraction. Abstract until you drop! You are naturally conditioned towards completing things and positivity. That's why people get badly addicted to games like farmville and such. You do something simple, you get something back, you do something else, you get something else. Really your just baking time. But the psychology of achieving is where the addiction comes from. It's not the game. It's the fulfilment from completing something. You need to see this progress visually so you feel like your moving.

It's not uncommon for me (when I'm really low and scraping the barrel) to have a task like for a job such as this;

[ ] Open Sublime
[ ] Set-up folder structure
[ ] Skim read spec
[ ] note areas of concern for later
[ ] Describe required method to self / colleague / rubber duck
[ ] pseudo code initial method
[ ] expand pseudo to code
[ ] looks in spec for extra details
[ ] list who needs to be contacted for further information
[ ] email manager estimate
[ ] take a break
...

Now you can start to get "little wins" even on something you don't really agree with / want to do. The goal now becomes to tick those damn boxes, not to implement some feature you don't agree with. It might seem strange to tick a box for something as simple as opening a program, but if that's the level you need for your motivation then that's OK. The reality is these check box's are just mental milestones for progression. What's really important is your ticking them though. If you find yourself for hours on end not doing the list, the list is wrong somehow. Perhaps you don't have small enough tasks. Perhaps the tasks are too hi level and need to be split into sub tasks on those. Just tick, tick, tick.

Try it, it might work for you, it might not. This sure helped me though! Good luck.