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No, Tokyo had a weak economy. Thanks in large part to non-local demand, however, that affordability is disappearing -- just like everywhere else:

"Japan’s sluggish economy caused price gains in Tokyo to trail those in other urban centers like New York, London and Hong Kong since the 2008 global credit crisis."

"Homes are unlikely to become more affordable, with the yen’s 41 percent decline over two-and-a-half years and investment yields higher than in some major cities abroad propelling foreigners to buy. While Japan remains small by total transaction value compared with the U.S., Canada and Australia, it’s now “comparable” to those markets in terms of the number of clients seeking deals, said Gui of SouFun realty."

"It’s not as tolerable to Japanese. Prices in Tokyo have become “seriously unaffordable,” the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey shows."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-02/salarymen-...
Pretty visualizations... but many of the animations kill this for me. Some are great, animating the decision-tree-pachinko machine for training/CV data sets is fantastic... but all the swooping and building just made me want to skip half of the charts entirely.
Capital is not what most people conceive of it to be. Capital is commonly (and correctly) viewed as a "store of wealth", or as "the crystallisation of labour-time" - but capital comes in different flavours, and when you deal with capital in the form of goods which provide an incremental benefit to the user, what you have is indeed capital, but when you deal with money... it's up to you whether it's capital or not.

Often, people confuse money with capital. Money is an exchange mechanism which facilitates the transfer of value between parties through a common unit of exchange. Money can be viewed as a subset of capital (i.e. as a sedentary store of value), or it can be viewed as the destruction of the benefits of labour, as it converts an active instrument (i.e. the work I am doing, or the goods I have produced) into a sedentary instrument which provides no incremental benefit, unless it is spent.

So - how this relates to the article - capitalism is a system which currently optimises for money. When you take a step back and consider that by converting labour and value into money, you are effectively freezing the benefit of that labour away, accruing money as an end of its own ceases to make sense, as much of this value ends up lying in the ledgers of corporates, governments, or wealthy individuals, doing nothing for anybody other than perhaps dealing with some of the more fragile elements of human psychology (security).

We have let a means become the end, and have forgotten that the Purpose of all of this is to promote human happiness - I mean, what other possible Purpose can there be?
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> Apple isn't dependent on anyone for ship dates in the ARM space -- they license the ISA, but they design their own chips based on the license. [...] I don't see how replacing ARM with a custom ISA helps Apple any.

Well, what if the time comes when ARM cannot deliver processor designs with necessary improvements to power consumption or processing speed? If they hit that wall, a new processor architecture might be the only way forward.

Given Apple's resources and position, that kind of contingency planning makes sense to me. You can't exactly spin up a architecture design team overnight.
Firefox supports h264 just fine and has done so for about a year.
That's a good answer. I'm still fairly novice in Racket, so I don't yet have a good intuition for where Racket is asserting its own cultural norms. Haskell definitely communicates its concepts of purity early on, and so I can see where the community would continue to push itself in these directions.
I've read that this is more due to increased complexity and smaller parts. Maybe it's both that as well as companies wanting to make money off repairs/replacements as implied.
> Uber is losing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Isn't it actually spending hundreds of millions of VC dollars building a global monopoly?

As the article described, this is a network effects platform that gets better as it grows. This also gives them the ability to offer a better product at a lower price, squeezing out competitors.

The thing that amazes me the most about Uber is the flagrant disregard of local laws, and the lack of repercussions.
Switch to uBlock Origin. Way better on CPU usage.
it's pretty damn cool - i wish it is open-sourced.
The author wrote all this and not one word on proprietary software.
Have you owned a Mac laptop before ? The aluminium case is a giant heatsink and it's very common for applications to cause the laptop to become hot. Sometimes unbearable so.

It's well known that Safari is significantly better than Chrome when it comes to resource consumption. There are even some podcasts with ex maanagers of the Safari team where they talk about Apple prioritising battery life over anything else.
They do need updates if you need to replace the ECU where the odometer reading is stored.
Thanks! I did look in Safari preferences, I should have known better than to expect Apple to put the option there...
Yeah, not many of these bus stops survive in Russia. The ones that remain are made of super-thick blocks of concrete and are, therefore, practically indestructible. They don't look very nice though.

A well-known designer, Artemiy Lebedev recently designed bus stops for my home town. A mere year after they were installed, all of them were vandalized beyond recognition.
I'm in a similar boat. Safari has surprised me lately - particularly its speed.

That said, there are a couple things that always frustrate me with stock Safari:

1) You can't reopen an arbitrary number of recently closed tabs. (You can use Command+z to "undo" closing one, but if you've closed two, or three, you're out of luck. I prefer how Chrome handles this. Though perhaps there are good reason to avoid this feature.)

2) Tabs don't have a favicon. They may be ugly sometimes, but with many tabs open favicons really simplify navigation. Of course, this can be fixed via 3rd party SIMBL extensions.

Otherwise, using Safari has certainly been better than I expected.
I mostly agree, but there are far more white people living within the boundaries of the Kansas City Public School District than you realize. It's difficult to find numbers, but I guesstimate that at least 30% and probably more like 40–50% of residents there are white.

(To see this, look at the number of black people in Kansas City, Missouri, who live within the boundaries of the Hickman Mills, Center, Grandview, Raytown, and Independence school districts.)

If that's true, then the Kansas City Public School District really is very segregated, even considering only the very narrow context of the population living within the district's boundaries. How it got that way is well documented; it is less well recognized that a major reason the district remains so segregated is that the black political establishment has adamantly opposed every recent effort to make the district more attractive to its white residents, many of whom are wealthy enough to pursue better options. One current example is Académie Lafayette's stymied effort to establish a high school in partnership with the district.
Yet, most people probably still FTP their php files onto a shared hosting environment. And for most people, that's actually good enough.
It is interesting how produce-nothing bureaucrats always manage to multiply like insects. The same pattern applies to the government, health care, etc. That's why we urgently need to go back to free (or as close to free as possible) markets - to keep this scum in check.

And no, higher education is not a free market, despite appearances.
Disable them in the trackpad settings.

I've never found a legitimate use for pinch to zoom or rotate on OSX.
Your opinion.
I think the point is that Apple's in the same league or better, and it doesn't have to compete with Intel in a fair fight. Intel has to work with every x86 program ever made (more or less) and in dozens of different environments. Apple only has to optimize its own stuff, and can change its mind on a whim.
They don't "allow" anything. No other browsers support HLS
I read today that Queen Victoria had several assassination attempts that amounted to somebody running up and shooting or whacking with a cane. Queen Elizabeth had a few incidents as well. This car is cool, but the elites shouldn't feel reassured until Range Rover makes an armored suit.
There are a lot of edge cases that could go wrong there such as people who live right near a timezone border. Not to mention VPN's, etc.

Giving a direct time and timezone prevents a lot of potential issues and mitigates a lot of risk. A worthy optimization for this case I suspect.
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But non-developers read specs all the time. The BDD goal is to create readable specs that also work as executable tests.
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This is spot on.

I think a good policy to try to follow is that nobody with a title including the word "software" or "engineer" should ever write a feature file without someone without such a title in the room or at the computer with them. If a test needs to be written and it isn't possible to get buy-in or time to follow this rule, that test should be written in a programming language at the developer's discretion. Not following this policy results in programmer frustration at writing code in a weird english / code hybrid, without any of the benefits of it catalyzing communication and elucidating business language and processes.

Everyone "knows" all this, but it's so tempting to just say "it will be easier to just let the developers do it this time", which eventually becomes every time.
It's actually gone entirely now, so using nightly doesn't help you there. And 80% of Crates.io runs on stable, it really depends on exactly what you're doing.

(The 'crossbeam' and 'scoped_threadpool' crates have different implementations of this idea, though.)
Yes, thanks to the open source H.264 codec from Cisco. This is about open source options and I think Firefox's decisions are completely valid.

https://gigaom.com/2014/10/14/h-264-support-arrives-in-firef...
He's not making an argument for less capital. I think he needs to clarify his definition of productivity.
I hope not.
Need a good reason? OK here's one - they need an order of magnitude better battery life for their watch, without sacrificing capabilities. Since Apple has their own chip designers, they have probably already investigated the effects a different ISA could have on power consumption.
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On chrome or Safari? Someone did a comparison of all the different blockers on HN a few weeks ago and I found out about uBlock Origin. But they didn't support Safari.
You really cannot see the analogy I am trying to draw here?
To clarify a number of points:

- Chrome (and other browsers) support MPEG-DASH via javascript through the Media Source Extensions (MSE) (which Safari actually supports[1])

- Firefox does not "bundle" H.264 (because of licensing) but has recently supported it where the OS provides it[2].

- HLS and MPEG-DASH are fairly similar in theory, but in practice HLS requires complete (with header/metadata) chunks whereas MPEG-DASH can "arbitrarily" chunk a video file and just feed into a MSE video stream. Both work with manifest files detailing different resolutions/qualities and chunk sizes + offsets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Source_Extensions#Browse...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/Audio_and_vid...
Because some developers prefer their own build system, which Apple really does not feel like to set up?
> If more restaurants open, more people will go out to eat.

That's not a change in demand, that's a change in market clearing quantity.

Conversely, increasing residential capacity increases people which increases demand for services for the people which creates jobs which creates demand for residential capacity.

> If more people go out to eat, restaurants will make more money.

In total, sure. Individually? No reason to expect that.

> You can't argue that allowing single-family structures to be replaced by e.g. townhomes in a reasonable fashion is somehow beyond us as a society.

Maybe one could could argue that (or argue that doing so "in a reasonable fashion" is self-contradictory), and maybe one couldn't. But its irrelevant, because that's not what any in this thread did argue.

What has been argued is that the naïve analysis of its effects on affordability considering it only as a supply change in housing without considering the less-direct effects that has on residential demand, demand for (and price of) essential infrastructure and services which factor in to cost of living, etc., is foolishly overoptimistic.
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the standard unix password manager

Annoying amount of hubris.

This pile of unattractive bash-snippets is neither unix nor standard. Just call it what it is: A very dependent script that will probably work on most GNU/Linux distributions.
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Software shouldn't be able to (and can't, I'm pretty sure) cause the hardware to literally overheat, such that it's damaged. But it can easily cause the hardware to become uncomfortably hot, because the hardware is more tolerant of high temperatures than squishy human flesh.
"Why did such a culture develop in these societies?"

'Guns, Germs and Steel' by Jared Diamond is probably the best attempt at answering that that I have read. His version of the Needham Question was put to him by a member of the John Frum cargo cult, and it is basically "How did your people end up with all the cargo?".
Or they could just give a countdown timer?
I thought of Arnold Rimmer first.
"an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data."

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

The paper boy is a distributor of data. Might being more specific you godamn retards? Have the marketing monkeys made their way into Apache?
Yeah, it does seem Europeans have more copyright rights, as others in the thread are citing copyright-based royalties that libraries have to pay (which kind of undermines his argument too.) I don't really know how the history/law worked, but at least the way he claims, "they made explicit exceptions to the copyright monopoly for the benefit of public access to culture and knowledge." I guess in America a special exception is not really needed. I think we're on the same page about the difference.
I find the idea about describing the requirements to the computer leading to greater human understanding of the requirements interesting. Where I work, the product people decide random shit on a whim so this would be deemed "not Agile", but insightful nonetheless.

I have actually used Cucumber before, back when it was a new thing. It was mostly a boondoggle because this was a .NET shop, so our QA folks would figure out how they wanted their Cucumber tests to look (may have been Gherkin, not clear on the distinction), then the .NET devs would have to go off and write Cucumber parsers for that, then the tests could be run. You can imagine this cycle taking roughly forever. ("parser" is probably the wrong word, but, the thing that takes a bunch of English words, turns them into code, then evaluates it)
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You really need to read more military history.
Inexpensive?
It costs $26K/year (tuition + room&board) to attend University of Massachusetts.
You are mistaken.

Recently, John Deere has been threatening shade tree mechanics with DMCA suits for performing unauthorized repairs on tractors that they own.
Oh yikes I didn't know that :) That's pretty bad.

But this is exactly the kind of thing where you can update the draft to support better codecs, but Apple seems to have just abandoned it.
A similar idea I've had -- perhaps an impractical one -- is to create a social network based on email. Status updates, friend requests, etc. would all be sent via ordinary emails with machine-readable code inside, thus creating a decentralized social network with little new infrastructure.
Firefox supports H.264 via system codecs, and supports MPEG-DASH as of version 41 (currently beta, will be stable in a few weeks). MPEG-DASH is a more open standard, and has better support for adaptive bitrate streaming, so I think it's likely to become the defacto standard in the future. It's fairly new so isn't supported everywhere yet, but it's getting there, and seems to have a lot more industry support than other options.
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Weren't we talking about diagnostic tools and security as it relates to tampering?

Replacing the entire odometer is a different issue entirely.

And how does support for replacing a circuit board imply that the circuit board needs to support software updates? I don't understand what you're saying at all.
For those curious about who is behind each of these initiatives:

- HomeKit - Apple - https://developer.apple.com/homekit/

- Weave (& Brillo) - Google - https://developers.google.com/brillo/ (corrected - Thank you, @asciimike)

- AllJoyn - Started by QualCom, now backed by the AllSeen alliance (hosted by the Linux Foundation) - https://allseenalliance.org/

- IoTivity - Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) (also hosted by the Linux Foundation) - https://www.iotivity.org/
Awesome read, really helpful. Thanks :)
Is there a reason you couldn't put VP-8 video and Vorbis audio into an MPEG Transport Stream?
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This happens to me all the time. So annoying... feels like something to do with how it locks the scroll direction when you first start the gesture. So even a perfectly vertical scroll will result in a back if the initial jitter has locked a horizontal motion.
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And tough enough to drive in East London!
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Subsidy is one way of handling the signup fees. And it might work. But I can't tell if you're saying subsidy is the right answer here, or if you're saying the congressman's complaint to Google is out of line.
> Note that there was no new. The new operator even throws a TypeError when we try it on Symbol.

Why? That seems inconsistent with other JavaScript constructors.
how does this compare with airflow or luigi?
I think a big reason for worse-is-better is that simple "crappy" solutions very often have better evolvability characteristics:

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

"Elegant and beautiful" systems that are polished and perfect are often also brittle and monolithic and complex. Complex means hard to interoperate with, understand, and re-implement, and brittle means they can't change with the times.

Complexity also favors single vendors due to the difficulty of interoperability and understanding. Xanadu would likely have ended up as Xanadu, Inc. with no third party implementations.
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OK, NVIDIA Optimus issues aside, one still must take the headset off to work on their game then put it back on to test it. It'd be much easier to develop the game with the headset on.
Just put up an Advertisement in Newspaper/TV/Radio/Facebook/Twitter/Whatsapp and hire an Upper caste/Brahmin to clean manhole/drainage in your streets;

This will fix/dilute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_in_Hinduism
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> Were you even in SF 15 years ago, when the .com bubble popped and housing prices returned to a degree of sanity?

IIRC, one of the notable things about SF in the .com burst was that housing prices did not drop significantly (as they did in outlying areas of the Bay Area), the rate of increase just dropped, as the people who still had good-baying SF jobs moved in from the peripheries and replaced the people who could no longer afford SF because they fell off the gravy train.
Sorry to all affected by the smooth scroll. It's been removed.
I wonder how many of these things have got to Mars ahead of us.
Does safari work better? I deleted or disabled it, and stopped using it for a while. After upgrading to yosemite I haves used it a bit. Mozilla firefox seems to crawl. Even with tab focus and other performance settings the fan seems to turn on after lengthy use and dev tools would just spin the beachball.

I am considering safari seriously as a primary browser unless I can find a way to optimize Firefox. How has your experience with safari been?
She also handed over Outlook database files on a thumb drive to her lawyer, so it's hard to argue that this whole process was somehow necessary.
Please see #4837764.
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I've been using pass since mitro.co announced their shutdown.

The only (somewhat big) downside to this, and related unix pw managers is the sheer lack of browser compatibility - mobile would also be nice, as that's one of the places where it's a PITA to use and enter long passphrases.

pass claims to have both, but doesn't:

https://github.com/jvenant/passff#readme does not work.

The iOS app has disappeared from github: https://github.com/rephorm/pass-ios#readme

It's solvable problems, I just find it a somewhat important part of a password manager.
> With the proviso that it appears to contribute to capital flight, so requires a global wealth tax; which Picketty believes is more Utopian than politically achievable.

Or perhaps it's not politically achievable specifically because there are enough people who would consider it dystopian instead, which is precisely why those people would "contribute to capital flight" if such a tax was passed.

> Certainly the utility of such a law is up for debate, but your starting position was that the idea was beyond the pale, which is not correct.

I find it "beyond the pale" that what to do with other people's money is "up for debate" by anyone. My position remains that taxing an endowment is at least as unacceptable as taxing wealth in general (which, fortunately, there's significant opposition to), if not even more so because the endowment is intended specifically for charitable purposes.
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That's not the definition of 'benefit' that junto was using. Let's focus on claims, not wording.
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New 15-second Apple spot: We'll hurt everyone but ourselves.

Edit:

We'll hurt everyone, maybe even ourselves.
Motorola offers its Moto Maker, a website where the buyer can tweak the watch's design until they're happy with it. Now that Android Wear devices like the Moto 360 are supported on the iPhone, even iPhone users should take a look at the Moto 360, because it may be a better fit with their style and app preferences.
Corporations can be usefully described as 'profit-maximizers', but capitalism itself doesn't have a coherent behavior - you can't describe it as any kind of AI.
> I'm wondering if your sources really refute OP.

I honestly don't know. It's definitely possible it's marketing speak that just means they're doing binning OP mentioned, but given the volume, it's also probably entirely possible AWS, Facebook, etc. get custom chips you can't buy on the market.

Regardless, in either situation, Apple being able to do their own chips in-house with only their priorities driving decisions is a possible boon to them.
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Bitter much?

Working at Google is how the public can relate to him. If they want to do more research, wiki is easily reachable - via Google.
Really? I feel like most people outside of CS/Mathematics have little to no idea who Alan Turing is. Tesla, on the other hand, has a seemingly large cult following due to the strange, almost mythological details of his life and inventive process. I've known plenty of people who knew more about who Tesla was than they even did about Hawking.