skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suggestion: When the down-payment slider goes over 50% suggest that, depending on income level and interest rates, it may make sense to buy the house on a line of credit _backed by the house itself_. I did this, and it saved me a ludicrous amount of money vs. a mortgage
Thanks a lot for your hint ;-)
Good point, I was a bit imprecise.

I've basically had the same experience that graeme has wrote about in his comments earlier: people have actually complimented me on my smell without knowing that I don't use soap, and I've been in a long-term relationship (3+ years) without me telling my partner that I'm not soaping and them not saying anything to me.

I think it's also important to point out that I still shower or bathe every day (and additionally after I work out), so I'm still getting clean.* I just don't use soap, just lots of water and scrub the hell out of my skin with a washcloth.

*Yes, here we could parse out what I mean by "clean" but you'll just have to trust me on this one.
That is highly doubtful. Cancer will surely not evolve to fight the successful cure. Each cancer has to start its micro-evolution from 0, since they can not survive to pass its progeny to other hosts. Each cancer has its own space to evolve and different spaces do not communicate. If there is a cure, you are basically reverting its evolution to day 0. All cancers use similar mechanisms because of concept known as convergent evolution.

Once cure exists - the real cure, meaning no single cell is left from original cancer that survived the latest 'cure' to then pass its genes to its progeny (which is maybe impossible, who can say) - there is no risk to adaptation to the cure.

Now, I can imagine scenarios when this would not hold - for instance vertical genetic transfer to different hosts via some infectious vector but that is probably highly improbable.
Outside of the USA, Amazon stinks at selling everything but their core media goods - DVDs, books, CDs, etc.

I shop for just about anything on Amazon outside of those core products here in Canada, and the prices are mediocre-to-terrible. I think a big component is that merchants get their semi-official status with Amazon (whatever that's called) and then see the opportunity to fill out every possible gap in Amazon's product catalogue with a tidy mark-up.
If you're a slimy character, and you want to get to CEO the slime has to be inside, and invisible. These guys are very smart, and very manipulative. Think evil Derren Brown and you'll be close to the mark.
That's the first good use for this tech I've seen, and yet a hilarious demonstration why said tech shouldn't be stuffed in a phone.
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They're using dynamic keywords in the worst possible way. Often times the landing pages will be empty, junk, or misleading.

What that means is that they will form an ad around your query targeted to a particular page on eBay, often times insensitive to the existing inventory or improperly matched.

Compare this to Amazon's dynamic keyword campaigns, which usually only trigger when they have relevant inventory, and match to a dynamically generated page that does its best to match the inventory results to the query. This is not easy to do, but not impossible, either. eBay looks to just set up their dynamic campaigns and scream #yolo.

This is the best article written about their terribleness: http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2013/03/13/dear-ebay-its-n...
This is why I usually use http://fontello.com/ to just take the ones out I want, it's pretty nice
Yeah it was the same for me and that made me raise an eyebrow.

At the end of 30 years I will own my home. At the end of 30 years of renting I'd be in the exact same boat I'd be in day 1 renting.

The calculator makes a major assumption that if you rent you take your down payment money and invest it. Obviously the investment will be worth a lot after 30 years of interest. But this assumption is based on the false premise that you are sitting there with your down payment ready and it's just a choice of where to put it.

In reality, people don't usually save up a down payment until they've already decided to buy. So it's a false comparison.

It's also assuming that homes like the one you would buy are available to rent, so "everything else" is equal. Which is also a false assumption.

Basically this calculator is set up to make you feel good about paying a rent that's more than a mortgage payment would be.

Choosing to rent or buy shouldn't just be a purely financial decision. The real question is are you ready for the responsibility of being a home owner? Do you look forward to the prospect of having a permanent home and investing in it? Or do you just want a place to live and have someone else be responsible for maintenance?
I can't remember where I read this but the font they write on the roads (at least in the UK) when looked at straight-on seems unusually tall, but when viewed from the steep angle of a car it looks normal sized.

I would guess the same is true with these numbers, when a pilot is taxing around the runway the font won't look as tall because of the extreme angle of viewing from the cockpit.
For those who are downvoting - I have a Namecheap Order Summary email so I technically bought the domain. Maybe in their system it wasn't acquired yet, but I still had the right to it at that time.
Don't let yourself get paralysed by indecision.
Unfortunately I couldn't find the news in English so I posted the link to google translate.
A video with Italian audio is a http://vimeo.com/95952928
You can see how the holographic system looks like. A demo at 0:00, another one at 1:20 (the guy is remote there, the girl local). Skip to 4:00 for what looks like to be a different kind of hardware.
Read the article. It has a composting toilet, uses skylights for daylight illumination and has solar panels for electrical needs. Doesn't seem to use it for refrigeration though, which seems limiting.
Yes, the phys.org article includes a link to the original paper. (Did I say or imply otherwise? If so, I screwed up and I apologize. I didn't mean to.)

The GrrlScientist blog entry is better in (for instance) the following ways. It gives more context (e.g., Lorenz's earlier observation about formerly-captive animals running on wheels). It gives more information about the frequency of wheel-running by different kinds of animal. It is more accurate on at least one important point (article and GrrlScientist say 200k animal visits recorded of which 12k used the wheel; phys.org says 200k instances of animals using the wheel). It mentions, where phys.org doesn't, a very important finding: wheel-running continued even after the experimenters stopped putting food near the wheel, so it wasn't just that animals run on the wheel because they've found food there and think getting into the wheel will somehow provide more. It describes the article's comparison to wheel running in lab mice.

On the other hand, it's also more chattily verbose, which might be a good thing or a bad according to taste.

What's problematic about phys.org is that it's scarcely ever the best source for anything. Much of its content is recycled press releases, exactly the same as you can get from (usually) the website of the institution where the work was done but often with some illustrations removed and extra advertising added. Sometimes (as here) phys.org does actually write its own material, but (as here) it's usually more superficial and less informative than one can get from elsewhere.

There may be cases in which the phys.org writeup is (1) not just recycled from someone else and (2) the best available account of the matter for some plausible audience. If so, I just happen never to have encountered any.

[EDITED to add: I am not alone in thinking HN would be better linking to better sources than phys.org's blogspam. See, e.g., this lengthy collation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4676259. Full disclosure: some of the critical comments listed there are also mine.]
A good analysis of Piketty by some real economists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL90pISm7Y8
This is great, but it's not a realistic scenario for most folks who aren't approaching retirement and can't be 100% sure they're never going to move again. If you ever needed to move, you'd suddenly care quite a bit about the current value of your home because it will have a tremendous impact on the actual cost of buying a new home.
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The official government site that will answer some of your questions -
http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers...

Submissions start April 1st each year. There's a maximum ("cap") and they typically "run out" for the year in several weeks/months. See this page for dates in the past (scroll down) - http://www.h1base.com/visa/work/h1bvisacaph1bquotasystem/ref...

Please note: education and expertise matter a lot. If you do not have a masters degree your chances are much smaller. Good luck.
Not to mention - there are literally ten thousand businesses making over $1,000,000 a year selling their products on Amazon alone. (Over 50% of total Amazon sales are 3rd party sellers, I've worked for 5 of them doing over $1,000,000))
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Yep, it's extremely frustrating to find that a google search result that claims to contain what you've asked for, only to click through and find a search page with the following:

'No results for "what you just searched for" found here'
Welcome to programming!

"Also I waste considerable amount of time trying to do things in the most readable, maintainable and simple way possible"

Motivation is tied to your attitude here as you are looking to do more 'interesting' work, whereas the task at hand looks boring. However the task at hand could be important for the company, so it is important to take trouble understand the big picture here. Most engineers (and I am one of them) are too self-centered to do this, and this can be debilitating.

It involves coming out of your shell, being proactive to talk to the business, product and other areas and see why these set of features that needs to get done has important implications.

At the end of the day, everything is about service. If you enhance your attitude to think more in a service-oriented way (it is not all about you), this changes your 'attitude profile', and in turn can boost your motivation factor by several orders. Suddenly what looked boring becomes very important. It may mean to be more pragmatic ( no ideological fixations on 'purity of code'), roll up your sleeves and get it done.

The valuable service to the customer, can lead into repeat business, which adds to the bottom line, and that later could mean more bonus for you, which you can use it up for that special time with your BF that you have been planning for a while.
By serialisation I meant something that dumps objects like Python's pickle. Maybe marshal is a better equivalent. If there was version checking as you say there is in marshal it would still have failed in production but the errors would be better.

Are you sure Activerecord uses YAML in the DB? Everything I've used it for is stored as the native database types. What is the need to serialize the object into the DB rather than create a new one based on the record in the DB?

Nowhere did I say serialisation was easy. My comment was that running multiple versions of platform and libraries at once sharing state was brave. To do that I would want to be completely explicit about the state format and have tests to ensure it is correct even though it is an internal API.

Better not to share anything between the servers and just have them all accessing the same service that owns the state format (probably the DB but possibly also caching layers[risky needs managing] and other services).
I use Gitlab CE in my company, and it runs smoothly.
Especially thanks for the painless upgrade script.

I have one question about the UI, your default font color (light gray) and size is sometimes too hard to read, could you add more themes to customize them?
This boingboing article from 2009 is what got me to quit using soap. http://boingboing.net/2009/12/31/body-washing-with-wa.html

And some guy wrote a follow-up a year later. http://boingboing.net/2011/01/04/i-havent-used-soap-i.html
Because your diet contains a high amount (compared to early Homo Erectus) starches and sugars I strongly recommend you continue to brush your teeth, or don't. I care not. Same goes for toilet paper. These treatment serve very acute practical issues. Soap is simply not required and in the absence of it (on a daily basis) there are no side effects.

if you are in direct contact with known deadly bacterial agents such as staph, trig, sal, anth, giardia etc use soap. As these bacterial agents are rare out side of their known sources of infection; uncooked meats, reptiles, hospitals, etc.
Do you make all decisions based on potential profit, or do have a principle or two that you occasionally feel like standing up for?
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You have no power to choose the features you're assigned to implement. The most, then, for which you may reasonably be held responsible, even by yourself, is that you implement a bad idea in a good way. From the sound of it, you've got a lot of practice at that, and you've made it a habit. That being so, you have nothing for which to reproach yourself. Cultivate detachment, and relieve yourself of the need to try to take on more responsibility than your authority can support. This will free you to concentrate on what you can control, i.e., the quality of your implementation.

And, if you can't change jobs, then consider coming up with a side project. It doesn't have to be commercial, or even of particularly general application; even if you're just scratching an itch of your own, it'll give you scope to exercise the agency whose absence in your day job is giving you fits.
Did they give an explanation for the contact info getting changed (assuming you complained about it)? I'm wondering if it might be related to a botched data transfer between them and Enom (which does the actual registrations for NameCheap). The Enom link does seem to create problems sometimes. I once tried to renew a batch of domains and it reported that a few failed, so I did those ones again and got double-billed for them (customer service fixed it promptly). Other than that, I haven't had any problems with them (no contact details changed, although I just remembered that their email to confirm contact info once gave wrong data [I think my apartment number was dropped or something like that] when the actual whois was fine).
I was really hoping this article would explain the signs you see as you're taxi-ing around. I've always wondered what system is at work there, since they're clearly not simple "road signs" (as in, "this way to runway 18").
> In reality, people don't usually save up a down payment until they've already decided to buy. So it's a false comparison.

Even given the first sentence is true, its not a false comparison, given the assumption the reason that people don't save up the money (or just invest it gradually, same thing) is that they have something more valuable than investing to do with the money (i.e., that the decision not to do so unless they are planning to buy a house is rational). If so, the investment value is the correct lower bound on useful use of the money to compare a home purchase to, because what they'd actually do is something else that has greater expected utility (even if that utility isn't in the form of a cash payout in the future.)
I think two simple bans will have a huge effect on the corruption. I just don't see it as good for society that a competent person goes to work for the government in a management position then leaves for the private sector to work at a company they were managing contracts. I would rather the motivated people stay in the private sector in the first place and not see government as a stepping stone.
Actually, you could probably quit and it wouldn't be as big of a deal as you expect. Most people over-estimate the risk of quitting. And most people are a lot more understanding than we give them credit for.

Every time I've reached that point that you have described, I've quit. It was the best thing for me every time, too. There is no point wasting your time doing something you don't want to do, especially if it's for someone you care about. You'll just do a shitty job and you don't want to dump shitty jobs on people you care about.

Is it just that the work is boring, or are you being asked to do unethical things? I mean, either way, I would quit, but if it's anything unethical I would urge you to run as fast as possible.

However, if it's just "boring" work, perhaps recasting it in a different light might help. Look at it as a game of seeing how many you can finish in a single week. Stop worrying about doing the "best" job on it. If the project is so boring to you, then you probably shouldn't care so much about the quality of it. Just dump out some garbage, get the checkboxes filled, see how much you can get away with. Make it a learning experience, a chance to test your boundaries.
The only thing that concerns me here is the structural soundness, very cool project though.
Definitely. I'm saving for an infrared raspberry pi camera: http://www.raspberrypi.org/tag/pi-noir/
Andy Clark is a philosopher; this is a synthesis and a position paper. The models with the math abound in the references.
I argue that your email address for registrars should be secret[1], and every time an email goes to it an alarm bell should ring until someone reads it.

[1] So don't use "domain@mycompany.com", use "domain-manager-481234@mycompany.com". Recognize that this is purely an obfuscation layer, not meant to provide security in and of itself, but to cut down on the noise so that you always examine every mail to it very closely.
Consider the following - maybe your managers realize how vague task is, they also realize that you put a lot of pressure on yourself to make it, as I understand without strong support. I have been many times in same situation, usually when this happened first: I read "The humble programmer" :-),which reminds me that there is always something that I don't know, second: look again on the task and try to find its challenges, things that after completing them will make me a better programmer.
I think it's important to point out that 30% of men do not only not use soap, they don't wash at all. And with that, the point about people not using soap in the bathroom is lost. If people are that concerned, they should be and should have been concern about the epidemic amount of people simply not doing any form of cleansing, which is a completely different and much worse problem than simply not using soap.
The "technically" in your comment is jumping out and glaring at me; what do you mean you "technically" bought the domain?
90% of people cant pronounce this whole poem
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First and foremost, remember that you're writing code to bring in customers. Your codebase can be beautiful, pragmatic, semantic, and have 100% test coverage; if you don't have any customers, you don't have anything.

"Unnecessary complexity to the codebase"

It depends on what you mean by unnecessary. If you mean "won't bring in anymore customers", have that conversation with your managers. Not all of them are brilliant, and no one gets it right 100% of the time. If you can prove that the feature doesn't provide value, have that conversation with them.

On the other hand, if your boss ignores your input, and you're 1000% sure that there are other features that are more valuable to your business than the one in question, you can always push that one to the back and work on something that's more productive to the company. Depending on your political and professional circumstances, your boss may not notice or care, and their boss may forget about their red herring feature; you might be able to side-step the conversation altogether. This will only work if there's more than a few items on your plate that need to get done soon, and this feature can get pushed aside without delaying or blocking anyone else.

Bear in mind that if you go this route, you're putting yourself, your career, and your neck on the line. If it turns out that it wasn't a good idea and everyone agree with you, you'll look like a genius and gain some clout as a clairvoyant; if it turns out it was seriously necessary, you'll look like someone who pouts when they don't get their way. Either way your boss may also hold a grudge. I'm not saying it's the greatest way to go, just adding it as an option. It's helped me more than a few times in my career, but it's also frustrated my bosses a few times. Be gracious if you're shown wrong though, and quick to admit defeat if it's obvious you chose the wrong path, and you should be fine no matter what happens.
Doesn't it work the other way... Math provides clarity where as words can be ambiguous.
I thought just the same. At first I thought there was an error with the counting, but there's a debounce of 0.2s for every pulse https://github.com/jlhonora/iot/blob/master/arduino/IoT/pir..... The wheel is not perfectly symmetric, and I'm placing the magnet on the opposite side of the reed switch used to count each lap, so that there's no risk of getting the switch stuck generating lots of pulses.

The activity graph (shown on the twitter feed) is for that same night, which seems to be quite consistent over time. There are no peaks either, so I think it should be accurate. After all, he does run all night.
The JTRIG plans were ludicrous. I would quite happily support a Judge to reign that in. The overreach is astonishing.
Have you tried modafinil? I've heard it works for some people, but lack first hand experience. I'd be curious though.
Seriously. It's the best here in Canada where there is no consistent convention between Euro-style or US-style dates. Officially Canada uses Euro-style dates, but we're so intertwined with the USA that it's basically random.

yyyy-MM-dd or die.
It is my understanding that rodents run a lot while foraging. I've heard, for example, that wild hamsters run 4-10 miles at night while foraging.
you quit.
Anyone with an ios 7 higher can download and try this app,you gonna like it!
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apparently at newegg you can say asshat on the corporate blog. I like that
Maybe this is snobbish, but I wouldn't trust a critical piece of business infrastructure to a company with the word "cheap" in the title.

Cheap pens and pencils? Sure. Cheap mouse pads? Okay. Cheap UPS or cheap name registrar? Nope.
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Been there before, luckily just few times.
- Put yourself in a good mood, music helps a lot, energizing beats, try Panjabi MC!
- Slice the feature into small deliverable, hint: use index cards and a sharpie, yes, it's magic.
- Finish one story (index card) at a time and have a tiny celebration (coffee, cookie, walk ...) every time you do that. DON'T skip the fun part.

Always think of yourself as an explorer collecting and connecting clues on a mysterious adventure!

Keep in mind, business drives programming, not the opposite. The codebase is only worthy as long as the product is selling (with the help of your managers).