skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proving a counterfactual is of course difficult, but there's no need to. There are numerous financial panics which have been precipitated by the failure of a single firm, or an interconnected set of firms.

The loss of Lehmann in 2008 very nearly precipitated this, and in multiple histories of the 2007-2008 crisis, it's cited as the reason that a bailout was created.

The most notable instance in the past century was of course the Great Depression precipitated by the Great Crash of 1929. If you've not read John Kenneth Galbraith's book on the topic (short, comprehensive, and highly readable), I very strongly recommend it. It was precisely a case of general financial contagion brought about by grossly excessive moral hazard, and spread throughout the world.

There's a long list of financial panics caused by the failures of single firms, generally financial or with a significant financial impact:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stock_market_crashes_a...

In the sense of creating regional depressions or declines in economic vitality, there's a long history of manufacturing first entering, then departing, various locales. This happened in many of the former factory towns of England, then New England, the Steel Belt extending from Pennsylvania through Ohio and Michigan in the U.S., the garment and furniture industries in the southeastern U.S., and the aerospace and defence industries in Southern California following the 1990s defence budget cuts. Or pretty much any extractive industry boomtown anywhere.

Some of those have left lingering poverty, others simply resulted in a former golden age which has never fully recovered.
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Communal ownership of all property comrade!
Nice, would be very useful if you are sitting next to someone and they have a problem they can't fix then you can just pair up and help look through the code.

Edit: is there a way to do something similar in sublime text 3, or between a sublime text 3 and atom user?
The Trouble with Tuples
I can't say anything about Scala since I haven't played with it, but I like Go a lot. It has a lot of thought put into it to make it a practical language, not a interesting research language. This might seem boring at first, but I find it keeps being rewarding when you use it. The concurrency features baked into the language are also top-notch. They made me like writing concurrent code as opposed to dreading it.

Can I ask what language(s) you already know, if any?
A Short History of Shorthand
The cross-compilation stuff is already addressed in the article. The jhybrid demo is a calculator and doesn't do storage.
The article is a bit sketchy on the methodology used. The fact that not everybody flat investigated has somebody on the electoral register can easily be explained by several factors.

- The central London population is very transient. Many stay only for a few weeks, months or at most a year or two. Why bother registering?

- Many central Londoners, especially the young and newly arrived, move about quite a lot before they settle in one place for longer. They would not bother with registration.

- Many, probably the majority of central Londoners are foreign and don't bother with the electoral register because they can't vote in the general elections anyway, and may not know that the can vote for the major (or may not care).

- There's a lot of legally questionable subletting going on (think AirBnB), where the subletter and / or sublettee might not necessarily want to be on an official register.

- Some owners may simply fail to find a tenant, for example because they pitch rent too high.

As a piece of anecdotal evidence, I offer myself: I only got on the electoral register about 10 years after I moved to London.
The additional case is civil, not criminal.

A criminal case needs to be brought.
The rental income from properties is not worth the hassle. It turns a relatively liquid asset into a much more illiquid one – tenancy rights in the UK are quite strong.

If you want to park your money in property, the worst thing you could do is hand control of that money to a group of people with legal right to keep if for certain periods.
Isn't bigotry typically defined as an irrational dislike?
The signal to noise ratio from people you've followed is generally good, but the same isn't true of search from what I've seen - plenty of spam tweets there. That's probably only going to get worse if more people are going to see them.
You can use technology stacks but designing these technologies themselves most of the time requires math knowledge.
This is a great comment and I really appreciate you putting it together for me. I've read through all the links but can only read the abstract of the paper linked at:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379104...

You mentioned that you could likely get that to me- it would be very appreciated. I'll send you a quick email as well. Thanks again!
> "It turned out that the weight of the aircraft necessitated large wings."

As opposed to other combat aircrafts featuring large wings for high-altitude performance and maneuverability.

Before we diss steel as viable aircraft material, note that weight was increased both by heavy engines† and presumeably heavy avionics, as those were based on vacuum tubes.
Including a 600kW (!) radar, if we are to quote Wikipedia everywhere.

† the engines alone, at 4900kg a pair are 25% of MiG's dry weight, add some overhead for support structures necessited by their sheer power. For contrast, F/A-18's engines are 20% of dry weight.
These buy-to-leave flats are generally newly built (and were bought off plan), in high rise buildings with concierge / security, so there are no worries about heating, burglary or squatting...

I'd guess the price of these is around £350k - £1.5m (for a reasonable 1 - 3 bed flat in a new build), which is well within the reach of well off foreign middle class investors.
Individual loan products from lenders would have been slightly different to rate shown in the graph. So "almost 20%" isn't that far off.
Property is a zero sum game. People without houses lose the equivalent in future spending as homeowners gain. So propping up a market is directly taking money from the young and increasingly old non homeowners. So not doing anything is putting a large number of people in a bad situation.
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I agree on liquidity, but housing, occupied or not, is quite illiquid anyway. If you care about liquidity, you'd rather invest in other asset classes.

Property prices and rental income in London are extremely high. I cannot see how anyone but the extremely wealthy could afford letting London property stay empty as an investment. And there are not enough extremely wealthy around to account for the large number of empty properties that London is allegedly seeing.
Made a deep dive into Angular for a user-facing website and built a daily digest service around the Hacker News API - http://hnbuzz.com

I had some experience with Angular for making internal dashboards and there I believe it shines, but for regular websites it makes some normally trivial things unnecessary complex - think SEO, back button, rss etc.

I plan to write a detailed blogpost about it but until then you can ping me if you want to know more about my experiences. Happy to chat.

Also started doing a nice trick - get a cool glass bottle, fill it up with water in the morning + some lemons slices and place it on your work desk. Makes hydration so much easier.
Agreed; in Scotland, we're now seeing steady, but not excessive, growth in volumes and prices. I'd say it's recovering, not worsening.
of course. At those speeds you don't have much choice of materials - basically either steel or titanium - and that choice results in the huge difference in weight and thus in range. Compare MiG-25 with Blackbird:

" On the SR-71, titanium was used for 85% of the structure, with much of the rest polymer composite materials."

But you just can't build your interceptor/fighter force out of titanium - it is extremely cost prohibitive. The point here is that steel is pretty legitimate aircraft material in specific part of the performance/cost envelope.
From an outsider's perspective, it's even odder; to us, the principal two (two!) political parties are almost identical. Their ideologies are so similar that sometimes I mix up which side is in favour/against which particular hot-topic.

So the politics of the US seems, from this outsider's perspective, to be extraordinarily similar until you get to the real fringes, and yet despite (because of?) this similarity is so full of fury.
I agree.

My concerns are not really about the contrived usage of only 2 buckets and decimal numbers.
This may give a picture to start with.

But, this is a pity to elude how the final cardinal estimate is computed.
And this is shame to publish a gist so sloppy : all key points are buggy (bucket assignation, count of leading zeros, final outcome).

I started my day with "Oh fine, a post witch may help me to understand quickly how hyperloglog works" but I was so confused after that reading, that I forced me to dive into the paper and a high quality code (redis implementation) to leave with a better understanding and no more false assumptions.

This may be ok to simplify an algorithm to help people to grasp it. But at least, as an author, we have to give a true insight.
Who cares about credit card numbers when you are protected for free and your credit card can be reissued unlike your SSN. I can't believe than in 2015 there's no modern way to verify and protect your identity! There are still so many stupid system relying on your last 4 of your SSN or DoB as authentication!
Here in the UK, for example, 21CN's changed the network so that all phone calls go over VoIP, but not over the Internet - they go over the same cables, protocols, etc, but it's a private, internal service (imagine your ISP runs a 10.* network internally, and your phone line is connected to that).
On the other hand, the rising prices are leaving a lot of people in bad a financial situation already as they can't afford a house/rent. So "letting it burn" would benefit some people.

Also, I would imagine people in this second group struggle more than the ones that already have a house or are using it as an investment. I would expect a government to enact policies that benefit them the most.
I second that! Best city in the UK in my opinion- It has an amazing selection of bars, clubs and independent shops, a buzzing music scene and of course a great tech scene with plenty of meetups etc. Compared to London I would say it's much more friendly, you can cycle from one side to the other in under an hour, escape to the countryside or the coast in under an hour and you never feel trapped in a towering concrete jungle (often felt this in London!).
Twitter says that working to make some of its hashtag pages friendly to search engines has generated a huge increase in search-related visits http://searchengineland.com/twitter-seo-more-visitors-208160
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People argue over seats on a train. Someone calls the other person a 'selfish prick'. Does the insulted person have the right to remove their 'harasser' from the train? Do you think they should?

If you or a member of your side insulted someone, would you support yourself/them being banned from Twitter?
There is not much of a rental market for these £1m flats which to cover costs would have to rent at £40-50k a year. The number of people who can afford this us minute.
You're right. I get 10+ javascript developer jobs in my inbox every week from headhunters, yet my CV says I'm a tech writer who can merely read javascript.
brackets is a good editor with nice features and is easy to use. It has multi-caret editing, which is essential to me now. It can choke on larger files though and isn't as robust in doing search / replace as I've used before. I had one file that all my editors were choking on except ultraedit took care of it.

definitely for free, brackets is excellent and I can recommend it to people. But serious editors and programmers will find some sort of missing feature or flaw within a short time using it I bet. Still I encourage development on it.
And yet in a way, computers are ALREADY learning to forget like us. Show me one search engine that doesn't promote recent-ness. All the big internet-wide searches do, all the per-page social media search engines do as well.

And it seems that creeping deep through someone's social timeline is fast becoming a faux pas. You already avoid doing it, and if you do end up doing it, leaving a trace is mortifying.

To the point that people will never mention to you in person that they saw something from your profile that happened a long time ago. As someone with a strong-ish internet presence, it's funny to see how flustered people get when they accidentally reveal themselves to know more than they feel it's polite for them to know.

Same way as we've always had the norm that you let people tell their stories even though you've heard the same story ten times already. It's just polite.
You'll severely limit your career and earning potential if you do that, particularly if you're not a founder or otherwise in a position to insulate yourself from pure market salaries.

Dev salaries are not high in Britain as a whole, outside of London.
Not a moment too soon for the Tall Tower Project. http://hieroglyph.asu.edu/project/the-tall-tower/
Despite the supposed ban, Verizon DOES block tethering. Source: I am a Verizon customer.
Good point. I luckily didn't come away completely empty handed. So far I've received probably a little more than 50% billed. Even still, a company's inability to pay that amount owed is pretty "bottom of the barrel" if you ask me.

My hunch is they'll be out of business before they're able to finish paying. Which may be a good thing.
> I seriously doubt that 40% figure. Why would "foreign buyers" who by flats as investments not take home the (very substantial) London rents? It would be financially imprudent.

Would they be? What's a realistic amount of rent to charge on a GBP 5,000,000 flat? How many people can afford that and are looking to rent?

(Also I think many appreciate having their London flat available for the few days a year they're in town)
Brand development is a non-trivial matter, especially in startups. Getting your company's value prop out in two sentences is amazing, but they were able to succinctly describe it in TWO WORDS.

"easypostage" and "easypostapi" neglect the value of clean, concise naming conventions as a marketing advantage to what at the time ended up being a competitive market.

EasyPost was ahead of the curve in terms of acknowledging company representation. As an early pseudo-developer at Teespring, I felt very comfortable in their docs and deploying against their API. This was based on both their technical (seems consistent across YC co) and branding capacity.

Over a year and a half later, I'm not surprised by their success.
The whitening can be over the top, but have you seen a young person with crooked teeth? I feel my 'characteristic' smile really ages me :).
I always enjoy looking at islands for sale online. There are quite a lot of them available for purchase at around $100k. One can dream...
Most people could run in marathons successfully, unless they are sick or something. It's what the human body was built for. And if you are going to argue that playing the violin requires an ear for music, as if that's so uncommon, then I could also argue that programming skill depends highly of intelligence.

> Losing weight is also dead simple

No it isn't, because weight gain and loss highly depends on one's metabolism. Say that to a diabetic and you'll probably get punched.
Yeah but you still have $3000 in cash.
They've already shown financial imprudence by buying property at over the market rates.
> DRM and closed source software are not the same thing.

True, but in this situation they have the same effect which I wanted to highlight, i.e. loss of control on the part of the owner/user.

> Closed source software is commonly used to manipulate open data.

True, but I can’t see the relevance.

> Free software facilitates the openness of data and is absolutely essential but it does not make in any way closed source software evil.

I don’t see how that follows.
Someone who used to work at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society in Edinburgh told me that the exact size of a dram is a covenant between the barkeep and their customer ;)
Dragdis version 3 released! Probably the simplest bookmarking tool
I'm certainly one who would rather learn Go or Ruby instead of Perl. Because I already know quite a lot Python and a little PHP, AWK and Bash I don't think I'll ever run into a usecase where learning Perl would be worth more than implementing a solution in e.g. Bash+Python+AWK. Around me the people all know these three languages better than Perl (or at least think so). Giving Perl6 a new name would certainly help in making it more interesting.
It is within reach, but it would be financially wildly imprudent to forgo the £1000 - £3000 monthly rental income that such properties would fetch. Bear in mind that you will have to pay council tax and other fixed costs anyway. It would be a desperately terrible investment, much worse than other, more liquid assets. The global middle class cannot afford such investments. Maybe members of the Saudi royal family, but they won't be that interested in 1 bedrooms in Islington.
plus last I read it wasn't designed to dogfight but to chase down proposed mach 3 bombers the US was building; XB-70 and such
no it isn't,that's how you implement "super" in javascript.
In Australia we have negative gearing. In layman's terms it means you can offset property expenses against your real income.

So if you have a big income with a corresponding big tax burden, you can reduce you extra income to purchase a property and by using the expenses of that investment, reduce you net income and hence reduce you net tax burden.

So rather than paying the tax man, you end up paying the bank, which for you the rich investor, is not bad since the value there is a chance that second, third, forth property that you are now gearing will appreciate in value.

So while the tax receipts of the country go down, your paper wealth goes up, that is until the next GFC.

So the end result is the rich continue to reduce their tax burden, reducing the tax income of the country, hence passing the tax burden onto the middle and lower classes and in the process the rising house prices encourage those same rich to invest in yet another property as their paper wealth continues to climb.

Any one can see that is not good for the country, not good for the community and also not sustainable.

It's easy to create a bubble but at some time the buble has to burst.
OP says he was verbally abusive to the police.

If he had calmly showed police his bag of power bars and digital watch, and asked pooice to view the cctv, he would have walked away.

(It's bullshit that being angry towards officers got him arrested; it's part of the police job to deal with people in distress and they should have managed it better).
This awkwardness might actually be a good thing, to a degree.

As a homeschooled kid I never quite lost this 'awkwardness' upon entering the 'normal' school system. A big part of this awkwardness, for me, comes from an inability or lack of desire to conform to social behavior that seems pointless or downright negative.

While I'm happy that I did go to a normal school eventually, and that I did learn how to fit in, I'm very happy with the fact that I seem to never lose a sense of (healthy?) skepticism, detachment, and dislike for many social behaviors around me.

And while this is anecdotal, if I look at my younger siblings (who spent more time in the public school systems), there does seem to be a strong correlation between how much time they spent in public school, and how creative, inventive, eager to learn, and 'subversive' they are. And that in turn seems to correlate with how close their actual lifestyle fits their desired lifestyle.

A number of my friends were also homeschooled, had to go through 'special' schools, or dropped out early. They all seem to have a similar 'awkwardness' in society, and they all seem to benefit from in similar ways. The biggest downside I've noticed is that those who spent too much time outside 'normal society' find it so hard to conform even a little that it causes problems in their life.

But a healthy mix of homeschooling and social life (sports, etc.) might solve much of that.
If he googled he would have even found a Youtube version of the quote.

http://youtu.be/g1GF4Gnb-D0
The train conductor reserves the right to eject passengers who are being disruptive or abusive of other passengers in that scenario.

There is indeed a good shot the insulting party might find themselves moved to another car or asked to leave.

Painting this matter of protocol as some 'abuse of power' on the part of the insulted party is an absurd strawman.
Testing Fiber Implementations in JVM
because you could not use it without taking your eyes off what you were already doing? To be honest, it was too intrusive for both user and those not using it.

I will be more than happy the day my phone/watch/etc can talk to me in conversational format and know when it should. Should being, would it interrupt my doing something more important or not.
True, but rent and property value are strongly positively correlated, so there would also not be a very liquid market for buying and selling such flats. That would make it even worse as a speculative investment. `

I'm not saying such speculative investment doesn't exist, I just doubt it is as ubiquitous a phenomenon as claimed.
He mentioned a list of items, such as

Foreign Investment Review Board (who should be in charge of making sure foreign investors only buy new properties)

which is apparently a rule that's not being enforced. Lots of the western world is seeing housing bid upwards by capital flight from China.
I was hoping to read about a text format with a parity bit!
I have never seen the four-sides model before. That's a fascinating way to decompose a message and its potential receipt. Thanks for sharing!
What about F#/C#? http://xamarin.com/
In Sweden we have a personal number. It's unique to every person but its not secret at all. You use an official identity card or passport or the electronic variant to identify yourself. I'm guessing its some kind of privacy issue behind there not being a similar system in US? Because it works pretty well.
I wanted to do this, but didn't have time. Thanks for the study this will be helpful!
Nice use of R, it's my favorite after Python :)
It's basically inevitable though that in demand property will rise in price, especially with regulation constraining building height/form factor. Home cost in urban areas is much more about location than it's about any real cost to building the residence. Lots of people buy large houses for very little a few miles out of town where land is abundant and demand is more reasonable.

I guess I'm just having trouble really feeling sorry for anyone who decides that living within a select few square miles is worth paying an obscene percentage of their income towards that pursuit. It's a housing market and prices will rise to meet demand until buyers finally split off to other nearby locales.

As to your last line; There's a reason that most people don't want to admit that 2008 was the housing bubble popping and instead insist that homes are "finally returning to their true value".
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Zero sum, unless more houses are built...
Sure but your average bitcoin trader doesn't have the equipment to pick up on those features.
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Not outdated. It reads from the live DOM and you can execute JS too.

Mozilla and some people on standards committees liked Selenium enough that WebDriver is now a formal standard.

Maybe there are better alternatives, but I haven't come across anything significantly better yet.
It's not a banking regulation.