skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada also doesn't have 30-year mortgage terms. The loans are still amortized over 30 years, but you need to renew the mortgage every 5 years or so.

If you lock in a super low interest rate, you only lock it in for 5 years (10 years are available as well, but you pay a premium in terms of interest rate).
This isn't especially British or anything.

If you bring your American laptop into an American secure facility and plug it into a secure network, it then becomes part of the secure network, and you cannot take it back.

You also shouldn't get anywhere near the secure network without being told about this.

EDIT: By "secure" I mean "classified/secret/top secret"
In at least one US State, your property taxes are different if you're living in the home vs. renting it out. In my case, losing the homeowner's exemption would almost double my property taxes.

I'm not sure if you get to deduct property taxes for non-homestead property on your federal return either. In my case, losing this deduction would force me to use the standard deduction instead of itemizing. So, a possible double-whammy.

edit: note this is for the US.
I kind of hope they wait until we get proper "reform" which is treated like a piece of toilet paper at the agency and they continue business as usual.
Are we currently in step 3?
How much does a /24 running for right now?
Is Google evil after all?
Yes, I believe it's possible that bounce rate is a factor. I'd guess Google uses bounce rate as one factor in determining user interest in the target link.

Thus something like a dated design might have an impact on search ranking.
That's what makes me laugh when I talk to people who are looking to buy a home. Despite the housing crash of 2007, when I ask them what would happen if housing prices go down, they get this disturbed look on their faces and say "nah! not in this city!!".
Source?

Edit: so plugging your laptop into a secure network = access to classified information, therefore your property can be destroyed?
The API could certainly use some work, and it's worse than you mention. If it were just a matter of applying widely-known Gang of Four patterns it would be fine. All over the place it looks like the designer didn't realize there's a built-in Function.prototype.bind.
Seems like a result of alot engineers and an inhuman level of understanding the systems architecture. Reminds me of the Lsd usage for IBM. There must be an outrageous number of bugs and exploits in the code. Google Chrome is something like 0.06 per thousand lines of code.
No, at the expense of the US tax payer, who paid for the credit card processing fee and free shipping through the US mint.
So... not the US.
I think you're talking about single-page apps, if you're talking about the same use case as the original article.

That might be OK for some instances but many times, one needs to be able to serve a browser directly.

Your idea of a API is still a good one, you might just change the level at which you create this "backend" API.
It's amusing since it's sort of like a .9 release of city planning that had some scaling issues, where as everyone else started at 1.0 to 2.0 and named their streets, and laid them out on grids. ;-)
Axl Rose has a larger vocal range than Mariah Carey
A 13,000 pound rated rope for a world record where some subset of 2300 people were pulling on it means there was only enough room for each person to generate between 5 and 25 (500 people) pounds each before the rope would snap. I would expect a heavy weight construction company to be able to handle basic math.
Buying a home is not an investment, it's a quality of life improvement. Something that I usually don't see mentioned in rent-vs-buy arguments is that the housing stock that's available for sale can be very different from what's available on the rental market. The two markets are similar only at the low end. If you want something nicer, the chance that you are going to find exactly what you want is very slim. Even "luxury" apartments for example typically have beige carpet, cheap appliances, cheap bathroom fixtures, etc. For a private landlord it doesn't make sense to upgrade the property above the bare minimum either. It's just not cost effective. And if you are looking to rent a single family house your choice will be even more limited. Now, if you buy your home, with some reasonably priced improvements you can improve your level of comfort significantly. Of course, not everybody cares about these things. If you don't care too much about where you live then renting makes perfect sense.
Preloading the house is definitely a great trick for the hot summer days. I've toyed with the idea of building some kind of thermal storage unit in the basement for the really cheap periods...but it was getting kind of silly.

But if you know anyone selling a cheap commercial ice maker I'm all ears.
So exciting! This is actually a surprisingly difficult business because of the need to be so fast and efficient, and there was a lot of skepticism early on as to whether there was actually a viable business in this space. The DoorDash team has done a great job of proving the model and creating a playbook for scaling and expanding the business. They are one of the startups that I most often refer to when advising new YC companies.

Also they feed me! (that was one of the key questions I asked during interviews: "Will you deliver to my house?" They answered correctly! :)
Don't mess with Newegg
Just a quick note -- and don't feel bad, this is a common mistake -- the phrase is actually "prima donna", not "pre-madonna".
What problems do Chinese writers run into when using Markdown or reStructuredText?
I wouldn't support that myself. Where teachers get pensions they already make over $100K/yr all things considered. It's an important service but that's plenty for what they do.
Your not using the Partner license, your likely on Bizspark or a bog standard MSDN subscription.
Partners pay the most, then get treated like an ahole.
Makes one want one of those bike locks that raise your bike 10' into the air, away from thieves.

http://youtu.be/kvc0A_cWUCU?t=1m20s
Always seemed to me that Fab should have spent their money on marketing and positioning, trying to put themselves as a major internet retailer for fashion and modern, high-end living. Instead it appears that they went out of sight, out of mind for many.
I will forever remember this dear lady when I hear any of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvYyGTmcP80
My experience with containers on CentOS was not nearly as enjoyable as my experience with containers on Debian/Ubuntu. Although it was[more than]likely user–error, unless someone else can relate. Not an answer, I know… just venting.
Neat! This was fun to think about.

Given the complete lack of relationship between the two matrices, the fact that you're playing against a computer seems immaterial. You make a move, and then a random square is filled in. You lose if you don't achieve the win condition in some number of turns (I wanna say around n^2/2).

That said, here's a greedy algorithm I've arrived at, similar (but not identical to) ronaldx's:

For an unfilled point p on an unfinished line, define its value, v(p). There are a bunch of ways to do this, but one that I've thought of is: the number of x's on all unfinished lines through that point.

1. Fill in the center square

2. Choose an unfinished line with a maximal number of x's such that the sum of the values of all its unfilled points is /maximal/

3. Fill in a point p on that line with v(p) /minimal/

4. Goto: step 2

Reasoning for step 1: The center space opens up the most options, lying on more lines than any other point.

Reasoning for step 2: You want to pick a line to fill in. Moreover, you want the filling in of its points to benefit your efforts elsewhere as much as possible.

Reasoning for step 3: Now that you've picked a line, you're going to fill in all its points. You pick the points in ascending order of value to give the robot as much time as possible to fill in the best points for you.
5 Apps For A Citizen Science Summer
I didn't know about Burma and its problems with metric system. Apparently[Burma], they started the process in late 2013. Given that the US started this in 1975 and still hasn't made much headway, I am not too optimistic about it.

[Burma] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_units_of_measurement
There was post on HN of a blog post link which contained a list of all free machine learning/data mining books. Wondering, if someone can post the link to it. I am unable to find it through search.
Outbox Founder's Congressional Testimony about USPS
I'd personally find this more useful if I could start with what I'm paying for rent and get a result of "If you can buy a similar home for less than $xxx,xxx then buying is better."
Right now was a good time for me to learn that Newegg takes a principled stand against patent trolls because I've been thinking of starting to buy from Newegg because I keep on hearing bad things about how Amazon treats its employees.
The worst part is that most of these sites probably do have ipv6 addresses, they just didn't set up the DNS for it.
My shill alarm is off the scale while reading your posts.

Surely you have a link to that law...
You should be happy that it is not named Yet Another Markdown Language. And I don't think there will be a standard Markdown in front of the people who shout out HOLY MARKDOWN until John Gruber release an update.
If I read it right, you're actually disagreeing.
We had a site get hit hard by Panda 4.0 but we are not surprised. About a 35% drop overnight May 20th.

An observation that we have made over the years is that significant changes to Google's algorithms always seem to soften in the subsequent months for us and we return to a high level in the Google SERPs.

The site in question is a site where we curate free crafts projects and patterns which my spouse and I began in the 90's with our family and friends. The idea was to gather together excellent crafts projects on little known mostly small sites with the criteria that they are free, complete, usually require no email/login and are within two clicks of us. We still update it every week.

Over the years we have used user feedback to make design decisions. For example, when Pinterest became popular we got a lot of feedback to use masonry instead of tables for our images/links and lately we've been moving to make it fully responsive because we get a lot of feedback from tablet users.

The only time we were manually penalized by Google involved an issue where we had ignored our user's complaints about so they were right and we were wrong. We fixed it.

Our site looks thin to an algorithm and we almost always get hit by large algorithm changes but over the subsequent months, the site always moves back up and ranks very well. We can only imagine that this means the algorithm is somehow tempered by our visitor's behavior (we use adsense and analytics so they see all) and is not simply a switch that is thrown and left on.

I have to wonder how much MetaFilter has done to gather user feedback. The answer to their problem may be there.

Disclosure: The site described is AllCrafts
Python advocate here. Apology accepted, but no apology necessary. Sorry Python… :)
I think you overestimate the difficulty.

The Python programmers can probably step through R source code and figure out what's going on without too much trouble.

The other statisticians probably already know and use R.

The non-programmer, non-statistician, business types probably aren't interested in your source code--be it Python or R--and will want you to make pretty graphs and give presentations anyways.
That's all well and good. But such a statement begs the question: Is the inverse true? Is using slang like 'wanna' bad? And does it obstruct the goal of communicating information, etc.? Does using technically correct, but archaic, words obstruct communication, and does that make their usage bad?

I ask because I would like to explore the reasoning behind the conclusion that such words are bad. If they are bad because they hinder effective communication, then so are words that are uncommonly known, I argue. Which seems to pose the argument that we should best speak like simpletons because simpletons, or people that are too pedantic, may not understand the meaning.
The Hyperscale Lessons Of Healthcare.gov
From Haughey's Medium post (https://medium.com/technology-musings/941d15ec96f0) about it all:

"Advice online was to scale back the "top heavy" ads... I removed most ads to the absolute minimum of just 1 or 2 per page..."

Also mentions first running ads that blended with the content to then running ads that stood out from the content.

Funny thing is that if you are an AdSense publisher, you get emails from Google all the time telling you what you should do. If you aren't using your full allocation of 3 ads and 2 LUs per page, they will often email to remind you to run more ads. And they'll encourage you to run ads in prominent positions towards the top of the page. And to run ever-larger ads. And then change from text-only ads to image ads.

I have had AdSense-monetised sites for around 10 years and have had seemingly automated emails as well as personal emails from account managers about these things.
East Asia(Japan,Korea,China) has the highest IQ in the world as I read somewhere a while ago. Education has also been a traditional priority. Two combined, no surprise.
How a student learn android programming in 3 days
gentlest grammar correction i have ever seen on the internet. bravo!
Qt 5.2, From a Sketch to Google Play
http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/images.html

This page has similar images from 2012
Most inline markups require spaces surrounding the text, and Chinese do not need spaces between words. Although reST provide "\ " to remove the spaces from output, it makes the document ugly.
>Elysium flies off

Why leave perfectly good source of amusement?
You need subjects for the Kings, you need followers for the Gods.

Think Hunger Games.
Cool, I'll do that.

Btw, coinbase seems to work with UVa addresses.
Strictly speaking they are 16 bytes when stored as binary, which sounds grat, but when represented as strings (as they usually are) they are 36 characters which is 36-bytes in ASCII, but 108(!) bytes in 3-byte unicode.

So, in practice they are terrible primary keys in systems that do not have a native UUID type. In that case, an 8-byte bigint generated externally by a ticket service like Snowflake is often far superior.
For those interested. This book won a Pulitzer in 2011 (http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2011-General-Nonfiction). That's pretty strong evidence that it's well researched and worth checking out.
How to cope after your CIO Googles DevOps
About 10 years ago I interviewed with a small company (not nest) that was building thermostats, primarily for hotels. They had a proprietary method to raise and lower the temp based on if there were people in the room. They had a lot of grandiose plans, one of which was the possibility of ads on the thermostat. I can sort of see it, I would suspect people look at the thermostat more often in a hotel room. But the goal of Nest is you STOP looking at the thermostat. Theoretically once it learns about you, you shouldn't really have to look at it again.
As for ads elsewhere, as long as I get something free in return.
And, yeah, more than one sci fi author has forseen a future like that.
Javascript, in a browser, exists to manipulate the document. If your opinion is that decoupling the elements of that document from the actions that might happen as a result of interacting with that element then so be it, but I couldn't disagree more. Even if it allows them to live in a "nicer" language (JS vs HTML), I'd rather everything be declared up front.

Reading someone else's Backbone code (as compared to Angular or Ember) is really, really not fun for me. YMMV though. Luckily for me, most modern JS frameworks are similarly opinionated.
Microsoft challenges FBI gag order – and wins
OK, I'll drop it.
"Why aren't feminists characterized as jerks?"

Are you characterizing people who identify as "feminist" as jerks here? Perhaps you should reconsider your phrasing. And consider how "hold no bias" you sound when you say something like that.
China ups security checks on US tech suppliers as tensions mount
Wow!

> They are quite difficult to ride…

It looks like it—even the guys doing tricks looked the entire time like they were one slight hand-wave away from bailing.
Well, in terms of package and code validation, there are definitely strong arguments to be made for source-based distribution models and FOSS-backed fuzzing operations. Although freely available source isn't perfect for combating government intrusions, it still is the gold standard since it's impossible to implement fully-featured, unobfuscated backdoors. Despite the fact that things like heartbleed are damaging, keep in mind that they're only a bugs rather than deliberate backdoors.

The answer to imperfect software freedom isn't no software freedom.
That's pseudo-science.

Galen in 2nd century AD observed cancer, and used the term "oncos" to describe it. Celsus in 1st century AD did the same, and used the term "cancer" for the first time. Hippocrates in 4th century BC described several different types of cancer and called them, generically, "carcinos" ("crab" in Greek).

Egyptian texts from at least 1600 BC, with some going back to 3000 BC, describe different cases of cancer, noting with regret: "there is no treatment".

Dinosaurs, 65 million years ago and more, suffered from various types of cancer such as hemangioma, desmoplastic fibroma, and osteoblastoma.

Cancer is, has been, and always will be the evil shadow of all multicellular life.

Please, don't take your medical and scientific information from a "liberal foodie intellectual" with a B.A. in English (not that there's anything wrong with any of these attributes in particular, they're just not qualifications to talk competently about cancer).

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasics/thehistoryofcancer...

http://web.archive.org/web/20110716111312/http://www.cancerd...

http://www.bordet.be/en/presentation/history/cancer_e/cancer...

http://www.academia.edu/227680/Epidemiologic_study_of_tumors...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3003131/
I need to get my MyBook NAS working on IPv6 so I can disable v4 at home. I started using AA's 6464 DNS server, too, so I've got no outbound v4 at all now.
Tornado gives you wings
That's pretty much what I'm doing. The clients so far are javascript making calls that return json. I find it better to handle the UI display on the client rather than using a template package on the server.

It's resulted in a very straight forward go server implementation. The only package I use outside of the base go libraries is beego's session package.
How much of it was spent on salaries for managers?
But the successful bad actors are more noticeable because they are near the top of the search while those you have to unpunish are hard to find.

Even if they can easily find them I think the real reason they want to stay away from it is that having such a tool would open a can of worms on the search neutrality side of things. (i.e. we know Google+ is a good actor we should remove link out penalties, we know are largest advertising client is generally a good actor, we should remove penalties from their site). Even if google wasn't tempted to misuse the tool you can easily see it generating a bunch of lawsuits form bad or unlucky actors accusing google of favoritism.
The pat, dismissive response (which you've already gotten several times) is "Hey, cancer research is expensive. Somebody's gotta pay for it."

In a healthy society--at least, a healthy society that is also as wealthy as ours--the solution would be to recognize medical research as a clear public good, and reallocate some of our society's wealth to fully fund both research and production of medicines.

What we have instead is...well, we have a lot of different factors interacting. But just to name a few: we have a government that has convinced us that propping up the military-industrial complex is the most important possible use for billions of dollars, and we have private wealth concentrated in a small number of people who will fight like mother tigers against any attempt to appropriate the smallest amount of their money for the public good.

But that's all complicated and unpleasant to think about. So...hey, cancer research is expensive.
The lesson from this article: PR can be an effective legal deterrent. Publicize your victories.
Wow I love that they're taking a stand, and got quite a laugh out of the image. Definitely makes me want to support Newegg as a customer much more in the future.
> Most companies choose not to recover their legal fees in patent suits because prevailing defendants are required to demonstrate that a plaintiff acted in bad faith. This is extremely difficult to prove and it’s usually easier to just walk away and count your losses – unless your name is Lee Cheng.

Interesting. So if you're a patent troll, there is little to no downside to constantly suing companies aside from the legal fees?
NewEgg and Nintendo seem to be the only companies willing to actively fight patent trolls. Anyone else?
Whenever I can, I buy from Newegg for this reason.
The question about what you'd do with a BI really relates to each of our ideas about what work is and what it's for. The other aspect not being discussed is how sustainable is the idea that every able bodied person should be compelled to work. Placed in the context of climate change and greater degradation of our ecosystem, creating more wealth is fundamentally a bad idea - meaning the idea that everybody must provide labor for someones profit simply to survive is at heart a deeply flawed premise.
I do not want to create wealth for anyone. I came to this conclusion a few years ago, made some decisive changes to my life about how best to live, and have suffered the consequences ever since.
Novelesque story short, you're on point. We have some serious problems with what "poverty" means in western society. Too many are born into out and condemned to it by the very stigma's you're elaborating on. We look down on people with less. We're driven by status and the idea that someone is not ambitious - in the context of being able to show their fabulous toys to others as the fruits of that ambition - is an anathema to most "normal" folks.
Here's the thing. I'm not ambitious, but I'm not lazy. The connotations that I must be lazy because I don't have things is the result of what you've seen. Life to me is about curiosity and exploration. It's reading books, learning kindness and generosity and being able to trust the people I'm surrounded by.
But our version of poverty collides with our greater societies ideas that everyone's on their own, and they'll slit your throat if given half the chance.
If western society considers the value of life to be in having a "what's in it for me" attitude - which I'd argue it does, we're all in deep, deep trouble.
We have to really and truly rethink our ideas around living with less and what that premise means to people who might choose to do so. For now, electing not to participate in a system which will surely destroy all life on this planet means you'll be condemned to suffer a miserable and stigmatized existence. But just as we deliberately create poverty to provide cheap labor, we can undo these things. We can make the elementary aspects of human life accessible for every single person born. Food, clothing and shelter for all is not a hard thing for a species that's mastered so much; so why are we still waiting for it?
The Closure advanced compiler can reduce the size significantly (https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/compilat...).
I can find no such law. Chapter and verse would be helpful.