skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is a manufactured debate, it's meant to appeal to twentysomethings' bohemian aspirations.

The actual "manufactured debate" is the one manufactured by the massive housing complex that tries to tell people that rent is throwing away money and it's always better to buy. Buy now! If you don't like your home, you can always sell it for more, later!

This tale has been empowered by the fact that we just went through a global, disproportionate, 20 year rise in house prices and extremely low interest rates that created much wealth for one of the largest cohorts in history. Everyone under 40 (at least) is skewed by this happenstance. Some have even managed to become wealthy from it.

The fact is, in an economically efficient world people would be indifferent between buying and renting. So there are many individual factors to consider, many of which are covered by this calculator.

TISNTAFL. Buying a home isn't free wealth (nor is renting). There are always tradeoffs.

>Someone wants them mobile so they can herd them around like migrant workers.

And maybe someone wants them to buy homes so they can't easily switch jobs or relocate, and are pinned down like wage-slaves?
That is pretty silly considering 4.4 will likely perform better on the same hardware than 4.2 will.
Looks like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicity_%28software%29 does something like this.
Ie. client-side encryption that is still rdiffable.
It is a bit weird that "Harvard Business Review predicted that Amazon, Walgreens and other major internet retailers would soon follow eBay's lead and ditch AdWords. If you’re doing SEO, you get that prime SERP placement for free, right?"

And then shortly there after eBay dropped significantly in Google's rankings. To be honest, the above statement from HBR is a major threat to Google's business.

Coincidence?
Might I recommend Gandi.net. Their slogan is why I pay the extra bucks.
"2) Be able to justify why you are trying whatever it is you are trying."

This is just a restatement, I think, of the question you are responding to. I suspect a book on this topic would be quite popular.
Odd, I would have thought the 6 and 9 would not be reverse of each other, as in having one not use a slanted portion.
That is why the solution to discoverability is to use DIFFERENT channels. Steam, PCGamer, and RockPaperShotgun will all review the same 10% -- that's certainly true. The once-a-month conversation with your friends about what video games they recommend is also going to contain only 2 or 3 suggestions. But what about the conversation about the finale of Dancing with the Stars? Perhaps your dancing-themed game aimed at the general market can get mentioned there. And so on and so forth... the traditional market for video games is limited, but the market for entertainment is much larger.
>It serves no other purpose than to get a link to his own product site

You've simply made this up. The poster (gleuschk) may have some undetectable connection to the product (just like you or I may have one), but it's the only post that he/she ever made about it. Judging by a skim of their thousand comment history on the site, what gleuschk seems to have is an interest in mathematics.

http://www.metafilter.com/user/2666

You could have figured that out with a click, though. Does the fact that you didn't bother make your comments inane enough to be filtered off of the internet as a spamlink for metafilter? Can you detect that with an algorithm?

Thanks for the link, though. I remember seeing that shape on a spam segment of a documentary on PBS a number of years ago, and it was nice to be reminded of it.

edit: From your examples of bad pages on metafilter, I know that I don't want you vetting what is or isn't quality content on the internet, yet I still trust you more than some associative algorithm.
الان ظهور نتيجة الشهادة الابتدائية محافظة القاهرة الترم الثانى 2014 برقم الجلوس
Nobody Gets Consumer in Boston
Vultr.com Offer $10 Free Credit to New Customers
Vultr.com is now offering a $10 free credit to all new customers. so if you want to try them out, sign up and they are giving you $10 free credit to test them out.

Vultr.com also will match up to $100 of your first account funding (e.g., you add $50 to your account then they swoop in and add a matching $50 leaving you with $100 in account credit to launch server instances in 12 locations around the world).
Another experience with NameCheap. It was April 2014. I got a domain expiry notification mail from them. I just saw that subject. The date mentioned was 4/6/2014. I am lazy and procrastinate a lot. So I saw the subject and decided that I'll renew later as I have two more months. On 6th April I got the message that my domain expired. Then I realized it was not Jun 4th as I originally thought. Not only the domain was expired, all the config details were lost. Luckily it was only entries pointing to Linode. So I quickly renewed the domain and added the entries. Still there was a considerable downtime and panic. I think companies which operate internationally should use unambiguous date formats. (Even if I had opened the email, I wouldn't have interpreted the date in any other way. It was the same format everywhere. I did give a feedback to them. Not sure whether they changed it or not).
Then it sounds like buying for the right reasons! Many people see buying a home as not only getting a place to live, but also as an investment. And for some reason many people see the investment as "low risk", which it often isn't.
H1B is for anyone who can convince the company they are interviewing with (you don't need to be a rockstar, ninja, herokai or anything like that. You just need to be honest, reasonably good and hard-working), that it is worth sponsoring that person. Typically if the company has interviewed 2-3 local folks with no success and you wow them, they will gladly sponsor your H1B . Bigger companies can do it much easier than smaller ones.

That is how I got my H1b.
Reminds me of slashdot and reddit, before I left years ago.

Same type of gaming?
I'm proud to be a Newegg customer because they call me their customer, not their consumer.
I've been using ebay once or twice a year for over a decade, and I've noticed their product pages are almost worthless these days. Almost the entire first scroll-page is filled with the bidding and shipping info and ads. For media like video games, there's another page of default info for the game which is identical on every single page for that game. I already know what I'm buying, you don't need to tell me the ESRB score. Then there's usually one or two lines of description from the seller. Then another page of ads and another page of the eBay footer. And this description is with AdBlock enabled!

Content I want? Current price, shipping price, and the description from the seller. Everything else is garbage. The default pictures and descriptions are especially worthless. I want pictures of the actual product I'm buying, not whatever marketing shot of a pristine product from the company.
What have they be doing lately that one would consider sketchy? I ask because I haven't been following the news around them and I am curious since I have a ton of domains with them.
Show HN: Android Time Machine Locker App – Cast Photo to Friends' Lockscreen
It is our Android lock screen app that allow photo casting to your friends' lock screen and the app also able to auto select your most memorable photos to your lock screen.
> Coincidence?

yes.
26 yo that used to live in California, but lives in NY now.

You don't get sunshine everywhere in California.

I personally hated the weather in San Francisco, but a bit to the south (Mountain View) is already much nicer.

Now I'll go through your requirements:

40h workweek: Yes easy to find

5 weeks of holiday a year: That is almost impossible to find in my experience, except if you are willing to get 3 weeks out of your pocket. (meaning you are actually deducting your pay)

free/cheap health insurance: Find a company with health insurance, and then you should be able to have one for your family, and only pay an extra of 200 to 600$ / month (yes that is cheap in the US)

free/cheap education up to university level for our daughter: that's not possible, you will have to pay for college. I think you can get one cheaper if you live more than 6 months in that state, and then send your daughter to a state college. Here is an example of a university near me (starts at 4000$ / year):

http://www.stonybrook.edu/bursar/tuition/tuition-and-fee-rat...
Simulating classical systems results in slow downs that are only polynomially with respect to system size while quantum systems slow exponentially. Consider that a quantum system of n qubits would require a classical system able to cope with 2^n bits. But you might be right since there is a (remote) possibility that classical systems can efficiently simulate quantum systems. However, it is generally believed that quantum computers are more powerful than classical but not strong enough to solve NP-complete problems.
While `ytmusic` saves it on the hard drive (second parameter is the name of the file), `ytlisten` streams that directly into mplayer.
It is an Android lock screen app that allow you to cast photo to friends' lock screen directly. The app also able to auto pick your most memorable photo to your lock screen
There's certain to be one on AWS and likely other providers.
Noscript, as usual, improves javascript-heavy pages.
I'm going to add something from the experience of being the kid that was dragged around Germany and the USA from the age of 3 to the age of 12 moving every 2 years.

Positives:
- I was put into the german school system learning german almost like a 'native' and I still have it. (Massive positive)
- Luckily I had 2 brothers. We'd move somewhere new, clump up as a gang, then slowly get to know people and get our own set of friends.
- I still find it easy to make friends.

Negatives:
- Become good friends with somebody, move on.
- Making new friends all the time.
- I found my memories of Germany 3-10 better than the USA (10-12) but in Germany we were thrown on to our bikes and rode off into the countryside for the day (we lived in villages). In the USA we were driven everywhere although we did have a pool (Florida).
- When we finally came back to the UK I found it slightly odd. Culturally I'd missed out on a lot.

Schools were much of a muchness. Of note we were in public school and then quickly moved to private school in the USA (this was 1980).
eBay was likely one of the largest AdWord buyers. They seemed to have spamming landing pages in Google for a long time but were never penalized. They stopped being a huge AdWord buyer. Soon after they were penalized in Google's search engine rankings. Coincidence? When there is that much money involved, and a possible exodus of Wallgreens and Amazon away from Adwords, I am not completely buying it. Google would be stupid to allow that to occur.
Top New Species for 2014
>I can sell my house whenever I want (or leave and rent it out to someone else)

Whenever you want, huh? Everyone thought the same thing in 2007.

Are people honestly trying to argue that owning a home leaves you more mobile than renting? Preposterous.

When you need to get out of a rental lease (of which I've never seen go beyond 12 months, but I'm sure they do), the landlord is obligated to make every effort to mitigate his losses and replace you as a tenant. You aren't "stuck".
That makes sense. I was wondering why didn't I hear about it earlier?
Thanks -- the template was done by the Google Cloud Platform marketing guys.

Working with the extra wide format can be a little tricky. Just having text ends up looking really stark so I find myself adding a lot more supporting graphics and such.

Funny thing -- I wanted an "If it fits, I sits" picture for the LMCTFY slide but clearing copyright on any sort of meme image is next to impossible. So even though there are millions of cat pictures on the internet I had to go to a stock photo site and pay for one :)
Goolge is planning to buy twitch

http://time.com/104934/twitch-youtube/
> Is it just for payments where both sides use Coinbase? That sounds ridiculous, but that's what I see on the picture.

No it isn't. The user clicks "send with Bitcoin address", the same as they always have, in order to initiate this flow. Paying from Coinbase to Coinbase uses the other flow, usually.
Yes and know, I'm mostly doing this in the constructor and some creation functions that call the constructor, not so much when the variables themselves are changed. Great link though! :)
Vancouver's Growing Tech Outpost Searches for Anchors
> The reason native Americans didn't spread epidemics to Europeans, rather than the other way around, is because Europeans had domesticated animals. The diseases of animals jumped to humans after so much exposure.

The reason was that European peoples had exposure to some kinds of disease that peoples in the Americas did not. Civilizations in the Americas had domesticated animals for quite some time, just different kinds of animals.
Thanks for the name and links!
> If a modern democracy manages to have 80% voter turnout you will be surprise how many safe seats will be not so safe.

Are you suggesting that "people who decide to vote" is not a representative sample of the whole population? I am not sure of that, and a quick Google search shows mixed results.

> So just vote - no matter where you live. It is your civil duty.

I feel no loyalty to my country. I don't give a crap about civil duty. Most people I interact with feel the same way.
"Dynamic Keyword Insertion"

So that's what that awful misfeature is called. I hate those ads, they're always frustratingly unhelpful.
FYI, here's a Namecheap page that should show domains pending verification: https://manage.www.namecheap.com/myaccount/WhoisContactsVeri...
Find something about the task that intrigues you, and build your motivation around that. A new gem, or new language feature, etc.

I've also found focusing on tests helps. Write as many tests as possible - focusing on getting those to pass. In theory, by the time you're done, the feature will be to.
I think Xcelerate meant polynomial - which is an exponential improvement. It is not known but strongly believed that quantum computers cannot solve NP-complete problems. Be wary of anything that has "quantum computer" and "exponentially more powerful" in the same sentence.

It is not yet know whether Quantum computers can simulate all physical systems - though probably better than even odds for - perhaps some exotic physics might underlie some systems (on the other hand it is not known if quantum computing is even needed at all for physical systems, though only a handful have this doubt). But QCs should be able to simulate many kinds of systems, and even before full quantum computers we might get useful systems that simulate particular classes of Hamiltonians.

I don't know enough physics to grasp all the details but simulating a system involves preparing a state, evolving the Hamiltonian and reading out the result. Preparing the Hamiltonian can be done in time polynomial of the size of the system (I don't know anything more exact) and depending on the details of the system (local, sparse) and method in use, evolution can be as fast as linear in the size of the system (and though no general method allow sublinear calculation, particular hamiltonians could well admit such a speedup). And although, in general, non-sparse systems can't be simulated in polynomial time there should be methods that allow reductions/decomposition into simpler problems.

There also other caveats: reading out the result requires a lot of sampling and error correction is a thorn. All these are why quantum computers are not some magical device - they're much too finickity, and to be preferred mainly as a last resort. They'll be pivotal for chemistry and to biochemists, pharmacology, material science and solid state physics (so better classical computers) but it seems hard to find any utility in general computer science.

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Even if the difficulty of general QC algorithms is from the failings of human intuition, that still suggests to me that methods like inductive or genetic or automatic programming will easily outperform humans.
Number one rule would be when letting someone register a domain on your behalf that you have access to retrieve the authcode/domain password and preferably can change name servers. I've lost count of how many time I've had to argue with web designers who register a domain for a client and keep it in their own account (a violation of some TLDs T&Cs).

Another situation is the "promotional domain" where you prepay hosting and receive a complimentary domain but not full access to modify it or you have to pay to have it unlocked.

Also be careful with which registrar you check for availability as if you don't buy immediately you may find the domain on their premium list the next day at an inflated price.
> How long is your hair? I have a LOT of shoulder-length hair and I'm just not sure if I can clean that amount of hair with just water and no soap.

> I tried the no shampoo thing some years ago (my hair was shorter), my then-girlfriend did in fact comment (after I tried it for at least a couple of weeks) that my hair was more greasy (it was definitely not "much nicer"). Got a bit of irritated scalp too. I didn't feel very clean either, as if I was just smearing the hair-grease onto the rest of my body in the shower.

Most people find best results with still occasionally shampoo-ing, usually a couple of times a week. Doing daily shampoo will strip your hair of its own chemicals and oils which is damaging in the long run, but for a lot of folks not shampoo-ing at all can cause issues with dandruff or scalp irritation.
Wow, didn't know about that. Very useful!
There is a typo in the url and it turns out to be funny:

Document not found

The document you are looking for does not exist.

http://www.gandibar.net/post/2014/03/26/Why-Gandi-doesn-t-ad...

Sigh... I wouldn't dare to use the word 'ironic' on the internet ever again.
Rent or buy arguments universally skip what I consider the most important factor in any major investment decision: freedom. When you buy a house, you tie up major assets and take on a huge debt load. This provides a massive constraint on your life. You're less likely to take on a risky job opportunity, you're less likely to move for a good opportunity, you're less likely to purchase other things you enjoy, and you put all your eggs in one basket. On the last point, as Americans should know now, real estate is not a sure holder of value. You can easily lose 50-100K if you need to sell your house to move somewhere else but there are no buyers. The flipside of this is you may sell it for the asking price but need to wait a year to do so.
Good to see real-world data on the difference upgrading Ruby makes.
You can add meaning to your work by picking goals and accomplishing them. It doesn't matter what they are -- just as long as they can be accomplished and you know that you did.

Pick things that incidentally accomplish the assigned goal. For example,

1. Pick an amount of time, like 3 hours, repeat this cycle

2. make a branch

3. implement the feature in the fastest way you can

4. think about why this isn't acceptable

5. throw away the branch

6. do it again avoiding one thing that made the last one crappy

Also, weighing merits of different solutions and picking one is your job -- no need to feel bad about that. Come up with an assessment tool that will help you decide. Time-box decision making, but don't stop thinking about your solution -- just give it the appropriate amount of time, not unbounded.

Making progress is motivating. You want to end up at the same place but have the feeling of progress making throughout the process. I believe that it's possible you are taking the appropriate amount of time to do the work at hand, but you are getting into an anxiety/depression cycle because you can't get into a flow state.
Mutation XSS
>In the end I'll now own two houses I do whatever I want with and my renter will own nothing."

Uh, you realize that when you buy a house, you end up paying tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest beyond the value of the home?

That's what the renter owns: money, in his pocket, compounding interest for decades.

This is the reason why there's an economic calculation to be made. If you're paying the $1000 per month to rent a place that you could buy for a monthly mortgage, maintenance and tax cost of $1000, then, yes, you're an idiot for renting. But this doesn't happen in the real world, outside of the recent history of extremely fast-rising house prices and low interest rates.
Also I waste considerable amount of time trying to do things in the most readable, maintainable and simple way possible.

Is waste really the right word here?

They don't see how many hours I have wasted, how unmotivated I am. Instead they treat me as one of their most valued employees (oh the irony!).

"When given a vague, annoying feature to implement, very carefully considered approaches and built it in a surprisingly readable and maintainable way"

What you're experiencing isn't atypical - sometimes programming something sucks! Your employer values your ability to power through it and still get good results.
> the defense managed to move the trial out of the Eastern District of Texas, a jurisdiction that is known for favoring plaintiffs in patent suits.

They REALLY need to publish how they did that, because that'll help every other company battling patent trolls.
>FHE extends HE so that you can perform arbitrary computation

FHE doesn't extend HE in the sense that it adds operation types other than addition and multiplication but it allows unlimited chaining of the two operations. This in turn enables arbitrary operations because you can express any function (i. e. any chain of atomic operations) by means of additions mod 2 and multiplications mod 2 (which is equivalent to XOR and AND) when you turn it into a boolean circuit representation. The contribution of FHE is a way to a) clean operands from noise or to b) do not add noise to the operands in the first place because noise is the limiting factor for circuit depth in HE, where "depth" means the number of possible subsequent multiplications.
Well, their (nominal) job _is_ to make laws. Members of Congress should be able to read and understand them before voting on them.

But a more representative sample of occupations would be great too.
I was racking my brain trying to think of an another example. It would be Econ and Home Economics is "Home Ec".
Spring Web Services 2.2.0 introduces annotation support
In one British case I was involved in, the troll's strategy was so obvious they were required to put up a bond to cover at least part of our side's legal fees if they lost. That's a pretty good way to reduce completely frivolous cases.

They did eventually lose (we invalidated their patent). We were still out of pocket, but if their patent had been even weaker, I think they'd have backed out when they had to post the bond.
Oh interesting, I assumed it was an ICAO standard or something. Cheers!
While there are no billion dollar revenue businesses on Shopify yet, it's really easy to underestimate the size of many of it's stores. Also I'm not sure what percentage you are referring to, we don't take one. We make a minuscule amount on the credit card transactions but we really pass economies of scale savings there to our customers.

We constantly have larger retailers replatform to Shopify who previously were spending 100k or more on their ecommerce software.

(I work at Shopify)