skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you all you care about is being cheaper than a given rent $X, then just look at the How Long Do You Plan to Stay? chart. When the equivalent rent drops below $X, then you’ve “broken even”.

(That’s in terms of buying being cheaper than renting; if you meant making an actual profit on your home, then the equivalent rent has to drop below $0. This typically only happens when the home price growth rate is high.)

But how long you stay is far from the only independent variable. The intent of the new calculator is not just to provide a single, definitive answer — which is essentially impossible given the fundamental uncertainty in predicting the future — but to demonstrate how the variables interact with each other and give you a feel for the space of possibilities. There are many other considerations besides timing.
Perhaps, but the particular tactic Amazon is employing here relies on their ability to raise price in a market in which they are dominant (physical book retailing) to acheive an advantage in negotiations related to another market (e-book retailing). It may be that their goal is to drive down prices in the e-book market, but that's orthogonal to whether the action relies on monopoly power in the physical book retail market.
My understanding of pjax is that this should be irrelevant. I thought the point of pjax is that you're not generating content with javascript but rather pulling it in from an existing page and inserting it into the current DOM (but the other page that the new content came from also exists at a specific URL, so the site still "works" even without javascript -- it's just a speed boost if you do have js enabled).
Huh, that's not an answer. Although, 'thinking less' and not letting your thoughts wander is considered a good advice for depression and anxiety [0], so maybe by 'trusting burdens to God' is the same thing. I learned to 'not think at all' a few years back and I've been much happier since then.

[0] http://io9.com/5687282/letting-your-mind-wander-is-a-major-c...
Always a good point. Based on OP's description, they may not feel the next dev would appreciate the code at all, and it's just a matter of fighting through this feature on a personal level.
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Your confidence in asserting what the solution to this problem is a bit concerning(not to mention how your suggestions are hardly actionable). At least the author is somewhat humble.
The author makes claims about errors, cherry-picking, and even
fabrications, but he doesn't provide any proof. Am I just missing
the link where he provides evidence to support his claim? If the
supporting evidence is in the video that I can't see, then that
would explain why support for his claims seems to be missing.
It's very enjoyable.
You misunderstand me. The benefit of a client-side loader is that these things can be added gradually. That doesn't mean you don't use many of the same tools. There's just not that 15 minutes of setting up your project folder, and of course not having to run a watch task every time you develop.
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If college really isn't for you then so be it, it's your decision. But dropping out because these famous people did it is really stupid. For every one dropout who turns into Gates, there are thousands who go hungry every night (anecdotal, yes, but I know at least two).

Dropping out != a path to success in its own right. The reason these famous dropouts are successful is because they were either intelligent and worked hard, or they got lucky (iirc, Zuckerberg only dropped out after he had a viable product, so that should hardly count).

It seems to me that the media is pitching dropping out of college as a magic pill. If you're ready to put your head down and work your butt off then more power to you, but getting out of school isn't even half of step one.
I just did it. It's not magic. I did have about a year of money saved up from previous jobs (relatively highly-paying contract work).
Piketty's Findings Undercut by Errors
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Ooohh weird and excellent, they are dancing to teach sorting algorithm. :)
Working as a lawyer for an extortionist company of this sort does makes you an extortionist. And this is how it works many times, otherwise hitmen could just claim that they were only doing their work for a company.
"Am I doing something worth doing?" No... no you aren't. What you are doing is going to disappear and no one will remember it nor care. Right now you are just wasting time.... a little puff of cotton on the breeze. The human condition is absolutely hopeless. And this is the truth.

Yet.... here you are. Open your eyes. Open your lungs and breathe. This moment is all there is. There is no other. We can't deny it. The fact of being conscious. The cellular joy of existing. The rest is just imagination. There. Have a little more perspective? Ok. Good. Now go get back to work. We have deadlines.
Ask HN: How does Amazon make use of Mechanical Turk?
I dont understand the value Amazon gets from using the Mechanical Turk. Can someone here explain?
you come pretty close to invoking godwin's law, here.

if you depend on a place for compensation, then you should be interested in its' success, and if some bonehead (let's not pick on marketing, since it's not always them) has a stupid idea, and money is being wasted on you doing that, it's actually your responsibility to do something about it.

per the law of supply and demand, it's also completely reasonable to leave them behind. a lot of companies with good ideas fail because they can't retain talent enough to get any cogent work completed.

"This is the realistic world of grown-up work life."

^^ This is the statement of an unimaginative individual with no creative juices. I wouldn't employ you to sweep the floors.
This. Education should teach you to become an autodidact [1]. Otherwise, you are really only being trained for a narrow set of skills, and those skills may not last when new technology is invented.

I was always curious and hungry for knowledge as a kid, but what I lacked was the knowledge of where I can find more knowledge (the libraries in my childhood were crap; the most complex computer book was how to use Office). It wasn't until university that I realized how to research things and find the best resources to learn that I truly was able to teach myself. That happened at the end of my 3rd year of university, and my 4th year was spent barely attending class and instead teaching myself the required material on my own time, while I was also learning about things not taught in class.

edit: Argh, clicked submit too soon. added second paragraph.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodidacticism
Right so the calculator will tell you that it is better to rent if you believe the foreign investors are over-optimistic about future home price increases.

(Or alternatively, you don't yet have enough saved for a down payment. In that case, wait a few years and run this calculation again. If you still won't have enough money in a few years, your rent is too high for your income)
I'm pretty sure they're not, they started around the same time. They're just providing an alternative.
It may not be but he was being empathetic.
You can build anything.
I did many years ago when they first came out, but they don't show up in your browser's bookmarks. Thanks for sharing anyway :)
did anyone think there ought to be a similar way to hash-chain all the /etc files on a server - a 'tripwire' approach (hmmm, I seem to remember tripwire doing hashes but not as a chain)
> there are thousands who go hungry every night.

Hyperbole much? I don't think a single person ever went hungry because they didn't get a piece of paper that says they're super duper smart.
"I'll get through it by being really smart and working really hard!"

This works for a lot of people, right up until it doesn't.
So it's not just me! The stuff people do in Kaggle competitions is mind blowing. They do models within models within models, do weird interaction terms with their features and transform them with different functions, although most of that is to go from 94% accuracy to 97% accuracy...
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"It's always a good idea to have your site degrade gracefully. This will help users enjoy your content even if their browser doesn't have compatible JavaScript implementations. It will also help visitors with JavaScript disabled or off, as well as search engines that can't execute JavaScript yet."

Are Google going to follow their own advice here? Try visiting the official Android blog with Javascript disabled

http://officialandroid.blogspot.co.uk/

In fact, try visiting a whole bunch of *blogspot.co.uk sites with Javascript disabled and see how "gracefully" they degrade. Remember, these are blog sites with mostly text content. And yet Google won't serve them up without Javsacipt enabled.
Oh, these kinds are everywhere. I am surprised you haven't met them.

People think having ruffled hair makes one like einstein, being highly assertive makes you like bezos, wearing jeans and polo shirt like job and so on.
Wait, how can google measure that? Do they have a tracker that sees when I leave a site?
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Unitrends software 'completely rewritten'. Predictions?
I thought the point about demand driven change was really the key takeway, its really critical for people to understand the impact their spending habits have on the larger economy. Voting with your dollars is way more impactful than voting in elections.
Posted links to piketty's response and more detailed explication of the issues on my blog: http://wcgortel.com/pikettys-problem
Beautiful, surprisingly few people in the shot. Since I only found 3-4 in a few minutes, I guess it's hot outside :)
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Why would I be humble about something that has personally changed me? If a man discovers a cure for his cancer, would he quietly keep it to himself, or would he take it straight to CNN and rave about the solution he's found, in hope that everyone could try it for themselves?

There are actionable suggestions, but you would need to take the time to seek understanding. I hope I haven't made it sound simple and easy.
Is it afternoon prayer time on a WE with 50C or something like that? As I can see the entire city has:

- nobody walking in the streets (I failed to find a single one…)

- no cars beyond the handful in far away parking lots

- nobody working on construction sites
I'd prefer "Target", "The Patio Store", and "Summer Furniture", personally.
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edit more here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7790758

There are cases where renting makes more sense. But they're usually in very short term situations, 1-2 year domiciles or in freakishly weird markets, weirder than SF or NYC markets to be honest.

It can't be said enough in this discussion also, the notion that a renter will have all this extra money that they can invest highly liquid, better than housing, investment options just doesn't work out in general. The post I linked to elsewhere in here goes into that in some depth, even goes over a couple scenarios.

Business property I don't think is a good proxy for housing. Business value can swing wildly up and down and there's far less of a guarantee that your business will even be worth what you put into it than in housing. You can literally pour tens of millions of dollars into a business year after year and have it be worth $0, but I can almost guarantee that I'll be able to sell my house after 30 years for at least what I paid into it (the principle, I agree that interest is harder to recoup). More likely, I'll be able to sell it for something far in excess. Even people who bought at the very peak of the property bubble will likely make a small profit.

But I also do agree that it's not a very liquid asset. It's hard to get money out of your house, but not impossible:

- After it's paid off, all the money you were paying is now liquid

- You can rent out parts of your house, in sometimes non-traditional ways, I know one guy who rents out parts of his unfinished basement as temporary storage for people doing overseas employment. Another rents her property as horse grazing pasture. Another uses their very nicely decorate home as a shoot location for local photographers and charges a small site fee. The list goes on. Not all of these are impossible for renters, but a great many of them are.

- You can use equity in your home for personal loans. It's not the same as liquid capital, but being able to raise a few hundred thousand dollars quickly can be useful and something renters can't do at all.

- if you have lots of land, sometimes you can sell off parcels for other people to build on, or you can repurpose it into business use

- you can sell it outright. One thing my wife and I are considering is retiring to a place with very cheap rent and just converting our home value into a long retirement in Spain or Italy. Basically our mortgage payment will get used twice.

No matter what, after any period of time, the renter still has lost every single dollar they put into their housing. Which typically represents the single largest expense for most people, consuming usually between 30-50% of their net income.
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Yeah, but this didn't work for dynamic content inside of Flash (i.e. the swf loading image or text content from a server-side API).
> It's complicated stuff, to put it mildly, and you're suggesting that we ought to duplicate these tasks across every app and/or driver and/or OS?

I was thinking the filesystem layer.

> Hardware and software creators should focus on kicking ass at implementing protocols, not on ignoring protocols and creating compatibility nightmares.

I didn't mean that protocols should be ignored. I did mean that the protocols should evolve. Of course the transition period might be bit painful.

Some existing work:

Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_NAND_Flash_Interface_Worki... (note the "Block Abstracted NAND" which is an example of the kind of mid-way solution I'm thinking of)

UBIFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBIFS this also has layered approach, UBI layer for managing the raw flash and then on top of it the proper FS.
With that great spec, why did google release tango with limited functionally, and not as a full blown processor ? And is it their next step ?
Pffft! Just drink it warm. Cold beer is for poofters who don't really like the taste of beer.
So why is the price of bitcoin over $500 then....
I did see some people working on construction sites. However, I have been to Dubai and it is perfectly normal that nobody is walking down the streets - it's way too hot.

This one time I stepped of a cab to take a picture and it was excruciating, we could only stay outside for about 2 minutes before giving up.
Yep that's what I meant. I believe event based would be faster than the prefork that pling suggested.
Turns out you can store data on VHS too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid
This is close to my heart because its something I've dealt with since I was a child. For 10 years I abated it with medication and that worked quite well. Except for the side effects that caused other problems in my life (literally wanted to sleep all the time). And anyway, the medication is just a band-aid.

Early this year a full-on panic attack hit me. The first time in 10 years. A recent divorce and changing jobs were probably the stressors. And ironically I was actually in a very happy place in my life. The divorce had been done with for several months and I was at a job where I can really have an impact and don't feel like I needed to look over my shoulder constantly. My boss's incredible understanding during this difficult time for me is testament to that.

But the panic doesn't much care about those things. It has a sneaky ability to strike when you least expect it.

Thankfully I found a great doctor whose therapy is evidence based. If you suffer from panic/anxiety and seek treatment (which I HIGHLY suggest you do!) then be sure they're trained in an evidence based technique. I also recommend reading "Hope And Help For Your Nerves" or listening to "Pass Through Panic" by Claire Weekes.

What I've learned in the months since is that in order to overcome the panic and anxiety you have to do something very simple yet seemingly incredibly difficult; you have to let it happen. Let the panic wash over you. Don't run. Don't distract yourself. Close your eyes and focus on breathing from your belly--deep breaths from the belly rather than shallow breaths from the chest. And then pay attention to where the panic is and what it feels like. Just observe whats happening and let it happen.

You have an upper-boundary to how bad it can get because your body can only produce so much adrenaline. So let it. It'll spend itself out and calm down automatically. The more you let it happen the faster you'll calm down because you're reworking those neural pathways. Literally retraining your brain that no, in fact, you're not being attacked by a lion. You might feel like you just got hit by a car afterwards and, interestingly, to your body its the same thing, but the significant bit here is you're not going to die!. You're not going to go crazy[1]!. You're going to be ok.

This time it might be a 10 on a scale of 1-10 but the next time, as long as you let it happen, it'll probably be an 8/9. Then the next time maybe a 5/6. And on and on until pretty soon it'll happen and you'll say, "Oh, hello old friend. Shall we do some work?"

[1]: "Going crazy" as a loose term for something like schizophrenia which the science is showing you will have a genetic predisposition towards. If you don't have a direct blood family member who suffers from it then you probably don't have it either.

EDIT: For clarification; I had stopped taking the medication a little over a year prior that first-in-10-years panic attack.
As I said in my post, it's anecdotal yes, but I know at least two people who are in this situation.

Take one of them for example: She can't afford to eat every night. She can't get a good job in this economy, and she's got debts from the portion of college she did attend that are weighing her down. The loan providers aren't going to forgive those debts just because she didn't finish.

But yes, I knew someone was going to call me out on hyperbole as soon as I posted that. Perhaps a better way to say it is that the vast majority certainly don't become humongously successful like we are being led to believe they will.
Ask HN: Tip of my tongue IaaS / Cloud for science?
They had a blog article of theirs posted here not too long ago (less than two weeks). Can't remember what it was about at all. Their homepage is clean and has a slider for cores and talks about storage.<p>Please help. Their domain starts with a p I think
Interesting. I wonder if some changes will need to take place in order to make sure the client side tracking services (e.g MixPanel, Kissmetrics, Google's own GA) ignore Google bot.
Interesting stuff. I get a bit skittish around storage caches because of some scars from some pretty spectacular failures, but when they are working as designed they are quite awesome.

Multiple writers with some using ftrunc(2) that is the nightmare scenario for me. Would be interesting to do a walk through of considering each disk blowing up and the recovery from that.
And it only takes 16.3 years to recharge!
Am I too easily swayed by Spolsky's "never rewrite" article?

Does it sound like a poorly managed and rushed release or am I unjustified in reading it like that?
I completely agree. However, there doesn't seem to be a method for requesting an API key from Kickstarter (as far as I'm aware). I actually got this key from another guy who was reverse engineering the iOS Kickstarter application.
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Can you get the data out of the website which has Piketty's response/a rundown of the errors? The FT site is not letting people who are not registered read those. And personally, I don't want to create another account just to read that information. (I imagine a good number of people here are similar)
The more substantive article on ft.com is here: http://blogs.ft.com/money-supply/2014/05/23/data-problems-wi...

This shows the actual errors, correcting for the errors, and the new results.

If you get an unauthorized popup, search on Google and click the top link: https://www.google.com/search?q=data-problems-with-capital-i...
Of course there can be value in a synopsis. The synposis in your comment was fine. But "tl;dr" doesn't add anything about the topic at hand. What it signals is: "you don't need to read anything else". On HN, readers should be reading for themselves, thinking and deciding this for themselves.

We want users to have to work a little. The key is "a little". It's not like it's hard, but it requires engaging one of the slower cognitive gears. That gear shift is annoying if we expect everything to be laid out for us. On HN we try to thwart that expectation. Why? We want fiber—thoughts and comments of substance.

It's fashionable to talk about opinionated design. One opinion baked into HN's design is: this should be the kind of site that people who don't want to be reflective find boring. When pg was showing me how to moderate HN he said the front page should be "bookish".

You wrote something here that I find fascinating:

> We all of us value substance and content, of course. (Need I really write that? Really? C'mon man.)

What's fascinating is the "of course". It seems so obvious that it's irritating to have to say it. It's such a cliché that there's even a cliché follow-up: "But we are all of us limited in our time and attention".

But, on reflection, it's not true. We mostly value a stimulus-response reward cycle. We value having our preconceptions mirrored back to us. We value the feeling that we understand things (recognition) more than the effort of working through material in order partly to understand it. This is also the dynamic in flamewars, so substance and civility are related.

There can't be many of us who are free from this—certainly not me. But HN is an experiment in trying to grapple with this problem on the internet (https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html). That's what this site is. It may not do it well, and is probably doomed, but the driving idea has always been "maybe we can stave off doom a little longer".
Main problem is when npm modules are not up to date. This is the reason i still have to use bower but debowerify helps a lot...
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What are these towers mainly used for? Housing? Businesses? Tourism?

Also that mall is HUGE.
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I'm glad you've been able to find a healthy way to solve your anxiety issues. That being said, (and I don't want to start a religion vs. atheism debate here) do you think what you do is on the whole any different than someone who uses alcohol or any drug to temporarily escape?
Ask HN: I want to be good at everything
I want to become a good developer so I can create my own things, I want to become a great marketer so I can promote them, I want to be awesome at design because I love creating and I want to become a great business person because that's been the most appealing my whole live.

Specialization is good says some people, you should have T-shaped skills says others, specialization is for insects says another.[1]

Is the above unrealistic, or does everyone have these goals in some way, but you have to choose what you're good at and delegate the rest/leave them for hobbies?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competent_man
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