skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
House price rises have mostly been due to the near complete decimation of the housing construction market in recently years. About 10% of houses were completed compared to 10 years ago. There is very little supply and a pent up demand. Combine that with non-existant tenant protection, and a middle class who invested in property and want/need to see some improvement in their income.
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> He (and Jennifer) wouldn't be around anymore to grow up and have a family, so there'd be no future Marty or Jennifer to visit.

Why? They could travel to the future, meet their future selves, then travel back to the past, live their lives and in the future meet their time-travelling selves.
* you need network isolation as well. no point in doing process isolation without it. and thus forwarded ports.

* shared folders to persist necessary files. and thus volumes. and a few years later distributed volumes.

* not just isolate a process, but all its dependencies as well. no point in having a shared .so file which everybody can change, while just a single process is isolated. and thus a whole sandboxed container.

* and then deal with the size of a full sandbox, until you need some way to share unchanged files. and thus images and layers.

* and so on and so on.

big things always start small. at least in docker's case they did start small, and they're still small and lean individual projects. feel free not to use docker compose or anything else.

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I'm wondering, is there an advantage of using D over Rust?
Thank you for those links.

It's crazy that people are falling for this even though they reuse the MMM brand and feature Sergei Mavrodi prominently. A simple google search should tell you what you need to know about the company and the people running it. It's sad really.
The Economist had an article of the magical wonders of the blockchain last week that kind of skimped on the downsides.
Why is death rate rising for white, middle-aged Americans?
Cowardice is not neutrality. This is how we get global warming denialism given unreasonable amounts of airtime, using the "Views On Shape Of Earth Differ" approach.
BBC neutral? Jokes on you :)
Can we see swedish playmates before/after instead?
Wrong URL? This is a link to a Google Calendar page (that I can't see).
guaranteed basic income is a tautology.

"A basic income is an income unconditionally granted to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement."
Enough all ready with this 88 mph requirement before the flux capacitor is activated. All they have to do is point the DeLorean east and the rotation of the earth will do the rest. Not to mention the earths orbital speed round the sun, the suns trajectory round the milky way and the milky ways trajectory in relation to the inertial reference frame, that's about 1.3 million miles per hour in the direction of Virgo.

Besides why didn't old-doc just post a letter to future-doc and get him to bury some plutonium in the desert in the past. Then old doc goes and collects the plutonium and goes-back-to-the-future and collects the letter and goes back to 1785 and burys some plutonium in the desert, then goes-back-to-the future .. my brain hurts ...
He died just as he lived.

In his Jeep.
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How is the compiler bootstrapped now (i.e. compiled from source without a working D compiler)? Via the gcc D implementation?
The bill will not say unbreakable encryption is illegal.

I've heard from sources inside the government that their intention is to maintain the legal status-quo dating from RIPA 2000. Which is to say that service providers have to disclose personal communications where reasonably practicable.

Since it's not possible for service providers to break end-to-end encryption, they will have a defence. Obviously this is a bit of a fudge and the position may need clarifying in court. But it's not the intention of this bill to change the legal status quo.
No. Your comment doesn't use any magical concepts for which I have no model. I think I entirely understood it. It's simplicity is incidental but allowed for that. People who come up with simple solutions based on Their Own Ideology are a different thing. Their solutions aren't simple. They're lies that you want to believe contingent on lies you don't know you don't want to believe. Generated mosty for control, of self or others, and never for awareness.

I think it's a good social heuristic.
Aaaaah. Ye olde BAIT AND SWITCH

Damn, I was starting to like Onedrive.
Oh, Imperial Britain had a war with Ireland? That must make Ireland special!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-inva...
True, but how many clicks would the headline "NASA has not yet eliminated enough errors in its EM Drive experiment to conclusively prove that it doesn't work" have got.

But yeah, no one with any understanding of physics is betting money on this thing working.
It is rather surprising for me that the tech crowd is surprised at this. This type of rigging has been going on for quite a while with bench marking of all things speed ie GPU, CPU, battery life etc. None of the models used would these bench marking would ever be close to real world situation. They are only good for comparing with the other.
My mistake, still an insane amount of missing money.
Yes, that's a problem. But the two aren't mutually exclusive.
Price fluctuation in tradeable products of any kind is never "natural", it is supply/demand-driven. And supply and demand are complex forces with much turbulence from a vast number of influences.
What negotiation tactics does Ron Conway use?
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Yes, but that is still something you evaluated before not releasing a Linux client (opportunity cost, etc).
The old earbuds, yes, those always fall out of my ears.

The new-style ones that actually go into the ear canal do work fine for me (just have to find the right size plastic sleeves). But that's headphones, I don't think they would be comfortable if they were even a little bit heavier, and this thing has a battery builtin.
Hey destroyer998, you can do PTR lookups using the IP info API. There's also the host reputation API for checking DNSBLs.

We have thought about some other DNS related APIs.. what would you be using it for?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34691956

>"Police will be able to see websites people have visited but not the specific pages they have viewed without a warrant, under new government plans."

Different parts of different articles seem to hint at different things. I guess we wont know everything until the final proposal is released.
"I won't go into any detail to reply to you further, other than that your points are simply inaccurate."

You cannot be taken seriously by refutting his arguments just saying those are innacurates without giving a single explanation other than pointing that he is biased because he does not believe in Jesus (even though you are obviously biased too).
The Man Who Delayed D-Day: Oceanographer Walter Munk Reflects on Science and War
You can't be sure that isn't just because the tide is higher. The land now covered by water looked like tideland in the older picture as well.
Yes, the MMM Global ponzi scheme now requires participants to fund their account in bitcoins. This is likely what nudged the price of Bitcoin upward. Even the CEO of BTCC (China's 3rd largest Bitcoin exchange) admits it: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-price-breaks-260-to-hit-two-...

However, at this point the Bitcoin price surge alone almost certainly ignited a Bitcoin speculative bubble that is self-sustaining and would continue even if MMM was shut down today. I mean look at a hockey stick graph like this, it's enough to trick people into thinking now is a good time to buy "because it's going up": http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg30zig6-hourztg...

This speculative bubble is taking place mostly in China right now, as all Chinese exchanges trade at a premium over American exchanges. In fact Huobi just hit 3188 CNY (503 USD): https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/huobi/btccny when most American exchange are at 460 USD —a 9% arbitrage opportunity!
i absolutely agree that learning more is still better! in fact, meeting a gray area like this one is to me a heuristic indicator that something really worth learning is lurking behind. i think i took it from Zen - path to enlightenment through doubt...

my question is perhaps do we properly acknowledge the difficulty we face? you say, for example, "it's a hard habit to learn" - but can we ever even learn it fully? it should make us humble. we can easily add disclaimers to our speech, but in practice it shows that we don't really mean them. we say it is hard to shake the rationalizing habit, and yet we often ascribe a level of certainty and objectivity to our conclusions which makes it seem like we completely disregard the possibility of our own emotions being behind our thinking. and ultimately, can any thought ever be had without an emotion behind it? Minsky, i think, remarked that he does not believe AI without emotion is possible. i completely agree with that.
Without humans there would be no one (as far as we currently know) to appreciate and contemplate the beauty of the universe and planet earth. So it would all be pointless.
The churches are the only constant whilst the landscape and towns chances around them.
Interesting. The bit that I found most noticeable in the then/now comparison was that people in the past really did not like trees :)

Every bit of human habitation was surrounded by open areas denuded of trees. It actually looked unpleasant and sterile to see the lack of trees near everything man-made. Roads, fields, home...no trees anywhere in the vicinity.
I guess D feels more like a better C++ and Rust like a better C, but I may be under the wrong impression.
How is control of these bitcoin being transferred to someone who is willing to accept the controlled currency?

Presumably they would have to be in mainland China.

I guess someone who is more able to circumvent the controls traditionally might be able to move the money out and could sell bitcoin to profit from that capability.

edit: argh.
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Where does the £6b number come from? It seems very high to me.

A 2014 survey has the following numbers: 31% have ever used illegal drugs, 21% still take illegal drugs "even if only occasionally". 93% of people who have tried illegal drugs have tried weed. [1]

Let's say the UK population is 65 million, that makes 13.65m "occasional or more often" illegal drug users, and if we assume that all of the 93% of those who have tried weed still smoke weed, that's 12,694,500 weed smokers. So with that number, to hit a total spend of £6B they would be spending an average of £472 each, or £9/week - I guess that's about 0.5-1g/week. I could believe that amount as an average among "weed smokers", but given the number includes people who say they do it "only occasionally", I suspect the long-tail means that £6b is unrealistically high.

That said, if you have a source for that I'd be interested to see more info.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/05/-sp-drug-use-...
Remember the faster-than-light neutrinos? Where they repeated the experiment multiple times with the same result? And nobody could find a plausible explanation for an error?
And then, some months later, they found it was just a bad cable.

The sane rule of thumb on these kinds of experiments that seem to contradict basic physics is to assume it's just an error in the experiment or the data calculations. Even if they did it multiple times. If this gets replicated by multiple independent teams worldwide with different experiments - then we can talk about new physics. But it's important to understand how extremely unlikely that is.

The best you can learn from these kind of stories is how hard it is to get science right and how subtle errors can be.

Don't get me wrong: I'd love to see some star-trek-like science becoming real. But it certainly doesn't help to replace critical thinking with wishful thinking.
Damn.. I've seen Pharo and smalltalk before, I really want to learn this somehow, I want to use it as my programmable operating system
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> magical concepts

Depends on how you define magical concepts. Are the magical because they are too complex and require too many assumptions?

For example, by your definition, is it ok to have faith that would be associated with a religion, if that faith is based on a wide variety of experiences and acceptance of the existence of others worldviews?
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Hi nautical,

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Some things D has that Rust doesn't: compiler-checked function purity annotations, higher-kinded types, variadic functions/generics, types parameterised by numbers, compile-time function evaluation, mixins, a fast compiler (the reference DMD compiler), powerful and convenient compile-time reflection (I think technically Rust can do anything D can at compile time, but it requires writing a syntax extension to do so). For better or worse, D also has classical OO inheritance, which Rust lacks.
Wow ! I love dynamic languages. Smalltalk is by far the most awesome language I've ever seen.
Interestingly, some Western societies and Japan are already below the balanced reproduction rate. Not set to die out as fast as possible, but certainly on a long-time trajectory to radically less people (migration not factored in).

Maybe, given enough gadgets and holiday opportunities, and the hedonistic treadmill required to finance all this, H. Sapiens chooses to not reproduce but live well instead.
'know it doesn't work' - seems a bit strong here.

1) While a violation of a widely accepted law of nature is indeed unlikely - it's not like it hasn't happened before.

2) There may yet still be some way to model the experimental data that at once makes the em-drive viable, while still preserving conservation of momentum. Still unlikely, but arguably more likely than 1).

3) And while these both remain unlikely - it is yet rational to have an increased credence for them while the experimental data remains unaccounted for. In fact, it's arguable that this increase of credence is significant - for if it were not, performing the necessary experiments to find out either way would be a waste of time. There are of course some very smart domain experts performing these experiments. Your tone and use of the word 'know' implies their irrationality. I would advise greater humility.
"humans are responsible for every environmental catastrophe"

My God; what incredible conceit.

Compared with the billions of years of eruptions, earthquakes, extinctions, meteorite impacts, ice ages, droughts, floods, and just the relentless and deadly drive of all organisms on the planet to survive at the expense of their competitors, the effect of human beings on this planet is insignificant.
I suspect that's true of most British people now. The media image may not be a majority view.

But I'm also on the "get out soon" train.
>the default software is the latest stable version

That's debatable. I don't consider the latest upstream versions "stable", no matter what they think - I've been using Linux long enough to know this the hard way. I think for people new to Linux (and for people experienced in Linux that don't like bugs too) a more conservative distro like Ubuntu LTS or Debian works much better in the long run.
As long as the device doesn't move enough that the original center of mass is no longer inside the device, then externally reactionless motion can be obtained by simply shifting mass inside.

Other behavior thought impossible like creation of positive/negative mass pairs or teleportation of internal mass would allow to extend the same mechanism to arbitrary movement.
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> any Microsoft signed executable can bypass UAC.

If UAC is set to Medium (the default).

If you're serious about security you should set it to High.
I would have thought an increase in FICA by 2-3%, plus raising the FICA ceiling, would have gone a long way towards covering whatever the bill would be. As it is, for my family, we're paying an extra $5k/year for essentially the same high deductible plan we had 3 years ago. Paying that by being forced in to private insurance feels wrong - paying it via FICA (or some other more general tax) feels easier. There's still 10s of millions who have not bought in to private insurance, because the costs are still too high for them (or they opt out for other reasons), so we're still left with millions uninsured but many people paying more. "Health insurance" != "health care service" which has been the biggest problem in the debate for years.
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I would say this is fairly accurate, yeah. We got rid of purity in Rust, we didn't find it useful. HKT, variadic generics, and type-level integers are all things we want to do in the future.
It's not just the Tories. The Home Office is always full of cryptofascist authoritarian loons.

Doesn't matter who the serving minister is - the agenda and means are always the same.
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It is kind of stupid in my opinion. like x5n1 said we are too small but we think we are making the difference who know the grass and dog might think the same... We still dont know most of the things like. What is inside earth , how water came, where are we now in universe, etc..etc... With out knowing all atleast most of the parameters it is foolish to think we are causing the damage. Who knows if there are invisible aliens doing or some unknown virus in deep sea doing it... we dont know. we have long way to go and i happy for humans to continue even if it is destroy entire earth livings things then who knows we might mutate and learn to live the way we should like (no corporation no jobs and abundent food and health care and entertainment)
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Actually the break of price parity between China and Western exchanges is historically very bad news for bitcoin. It will mark China as purely speculative and will break ties with the only force that was keeping the price at the 300 USD level in the past months.

It's similar to what happened with MTGox. When the price parity was over (although there was always a ~1-2% premium on MtGox price) bitcoin crashed hard and never recovered.
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Where can I find a phone forwarding system for cell phones? I was thinking to utilize people working from home for a distributed call center. When a call comes in the forwarding software will call an available person. I don't even know where to look for such a system. Thanks for any suggestions.
Try writing a book on it! Maddening.
Leixlip's pretty much Dublin.
Can I 'know' that if I drop my phone it will fall to the floor? We 'know' the EmDrive doesn't work in exactly the same sense and nearly the same certainty.
He's built an aircraft, now wants full-time job
http://www.live.sipgate.co.uk/ for example...
Also the policy / solutions promoters need to be asked and need to answer the questions:

1) what are the trade-offs
2) what are the potential unintended consequences
3) what happens if the boundary conditions are approached like 60 years later, very few people do X, many people do X
And a semi truck carries more cargo than a Camry. So what? It may be true that typical flagship phones have comparable photo quality. That's a valid point. But throwing in the old "but an SLR is better than any phone" trope has nothing to do with typical flagship phones having comparable cameras. Since a typical phone customer has no interest in carrying around a dedicated camera with a huge sensor, it makes no difference how performant the large camera is, just like a Camry buyer does not care that a used U-Haul truck would have so much more cargo capacity.
It's almost certainly the tide. I'm familiar with the area around Torghatten. The high tide/low tide difference there can be ~2 meters, more than enough to explain all the variation in sealevel.
After having read the book Sapiens, I finally understood how a thriving human population happened basically at the cost of millions of other species that went exctinct. So the philosophical question I see here is whether an extinct humanity which would let other species live and thrive, would be a good or bad thing. Not that I have an answer. But I find it worthwile to question the paradigm of human reproduction for the sake of human reproduction.
> reasonably practicable

May lead to "implement backdoors and ban unknown ciphertext"
Likewise: I'm a member of ORG and have written to my MP with no response. The general population either don't care or, as you say, are misled with bias and what amounts to emotional blackmail ("Think of the children", etc.)... We're doomed. The thing is, there doesn't really seem to be anywhere that isn't close behind.
The way I found out is by remembering things about people whom I've not met. I meet them, and 'remember'. Sometimes I get things wrong, but 95% of the time, they are right.

I'd be game for any sort of scientific method or test to somehow figure out if its confirmation bias or something else.

I'd like to consider myself a man of science. And I would like to explain phenomenon like that. Is there a basis? If so, how?
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Well, my conclusion was there to indicate no bad faith despite my short rebuttals.

Paul is considered slightly insane because of his visions and unreproducible-by-christians claims of healing and snake-immunity etc.

If you don't want to have a debate then fine, but respond to any of my points properly and I can reply with sources, arguments, counter examples or other contemporary evidence.
Hang on - he has a point, the BBC has become very pro government with its commentary and the way they choose to present information. Particularly above the fold.
Donate to the ORG please.
> We are animals, we should live like them and not worry about anything.

Why does living like animals specifically mean not worrying about anything? Why not "we are animals, we should live like them and not cook food, wear clothes, write novels, perform life-saving surgery..."