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"The fact I can pick up any Dual Shock or Xbox 360 controller and it feel just like every other one is pretty mind blowing."

I totally agree with the gist of your statement but as someone who has an absurd amount of Xbox 360 controllers I'm positive that they changed the components at least twice in the standard controllers (not including the obvious redesign of the gray special D-pad controller or all the various special editions) in ways (weight distribution, outer materials) that you can totally feel without taking the controller apart.

I haven't researched this to know if this was due to changes over time or different factories or what but of the 9 or 10 controllers I had over the years (used on both the actual Xbox 360 and a PC) there were 3 distinct different types of feel that were subtle but obvious if A/B testing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone#Landmark_regulatory...
Maintenance and repair make owned housing a little bit more unpredictable than you suggest - get unlucky with something like subsidence, and you could be facing dramatic spikes in insurance rates and a much harder time trying to sell should you want to move.
People should really do their homework. Find an online interest calculator and see how much interest you pay over the life of a 30 year loan. Even at these historically low rates it's about double the sticker price. Also look at the amortization schedule.

Unless your house appreciates considerably ever year, you will pretty much always sell at a loss when you factor in the interest paid over your time as owner. This is not even including incidental expenses like appliance repair or extra warranties hi might purchase to "protect" you from said incidental costs.

In short, from a financial standpoint the math on buying a house with a mortgage never works out in your favor. It's not even close. I am looking at this from a purely mathematical standpoint. I do undere that there are qualitative reasons that owning beats renting; however, I'm sick of hearing people try to make the case that a home is an investment, which is true only if you ignore the interest paid.

EDIT: if you did sell early in in the loan you could treat the money lost to interest as an implicit rent. This makes me laugh because you could've just rented in the first place and had the benefit of mobility and avoided the headache of putting a house on the market.
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Does this take the mortgage writeoff into account? Even if you're effectively paying rent to the bank instead of a landlord, does the writeoff not make up the difference, especially if you sell in the earlier years of the amortization schedule?
That's not true. The amount of time you need to stay in a house vs. renting is variable base on a number of factors. Among them are the cost of the house you would buy compared to the cost of rent among other considerations. Google "Rent vs. Buy" and you will find a number of comparison calculators. The one from the NYT is particularly good and tells you how long you need to stay in a particular house to make it better than renting financially speaking.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calc...
Wait for sales. The Levi jeans I wear are ~£80 a pair, but often come around at £40. Incidentally I believe Levi jeans in the US are made in Mexico, whereas the ones on the market in the UK are all made in Bangladesh. Some denimheads are convinced the Mexican ones are of poorer workmanship. Different washes (colours) are also priced differently and the cotton may vary between them even if they have the same cut (number). Like anything these days you need to do your research. I've never paid higher than £60 for a pair of jeans and only ever own 2 to 4 pairs at a time. They last a long while.

On a related note. I just got back from a month in the States and was surprised at how comparable prices were to the UK these days. Eating out, clothing, groceries, electronics. All fairly expensive. I'm not sure where rhino369 is shopping.
I'n surprised this hasn't yet been branded the "ARRIS-Hole".
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I suspect some of this has to do with thr tax deductability of interest too
Nice but needs some form of clean up running as the animation slows down more and more. A quick peak at the code shows there's a platform to catch the letter but there doesn't appear to be a clean up to delete them after?
Yes, Archive.org can stream video and it can be embedded.
> Find an online interest calculator and see how much interest you pay over the life of a 30 year loan.

Then go to a cost of living calculator to see how much the inflation trend of 30 years minimizes that. The dollars you pay at the start of your loan have much more value than the dollars at the end; it tends to take quite a bit out of the "sticker shock" of just looking at the "total interest paid" column of an amortization schedule.
If you are so weak that words hurt you, that the mere speaking of words makes you damaged, I am afraid that you need psychological help. I feel for men and women who face real dangers. I don't feel for Yale students who must listen to scary ideas.
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A write off is worth the amount times your tax rate. This will mitigate the loss but won't come close to eliminating it.
I learned about the Sudbury school style of education from a book called "Free to Learn" by Peter Gray. A Wikipedia article can't do justice to such a radically different approach to education.
Keep in mind that our current factory style of education is a relatively recent development in the span of human history. Newer is not necessarily better.
Vancouver spends too much time in movies masquerading as an American city to ever be iconic.

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

With the current exchange rate we'll have another wave of movies pretending Canadian cities are American cities.

Shame, because aside from real estate prices, Vancouver is a jewel.
Before discussion takes off, maybe we can have a factual basis for talking about this issue and learn something too:

Could anyone who knows describe specifically how 'safe spaces' are implemented? Obviously we would need to talk about particular campuses because each school operates independently and has its own rules. Perhaps a link to the rule itself?

I humbly request that you don't respond with a general impression or with memes or things you read or heard about. We're overwhelmed with unreliable information already; more won't make the facts any more clear.
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"Amiga was years ahead of early 80s consoles"

"here are my favorite games from mid to late nineties"
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Yeah but the interest is not paid upfront. You don't get the benefit of time value money. Interest laid in year 25 is paid in year 25 dollars. It makes the loss calculation more complex but it does not change the fact that you still paid double for the property (at least) and will,barring a housing bubble, will never come close to recouping that money.
Related:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/man-found-dead-tent-er...
I totally empathize with people that are truly affected by words or ideas. What I can't tolerate is people trying to impose me what I should be offended by.
I'd just like to point out that they don't write an article about the guys that say "yeah, it's war but you carry out your orders whatever they are"
Subsidence? Extremely, extremely low odds of that factoring into the vast majority of properties.
I could probably save for a down payment, and I even have a kid now, but I have so many reasons why buying a house doesn't matter to me right now.

Also, my job is not to feed into the mortgage-finance-housing industrial complex.
I've been following a lot of this develop over Twitter and Youtube.

It's both sad and terrifying to see what is transpiring on these college campuses. There was a video filmed ( now taken down from youtube ) where a Yale Silliman College professor was trying to reason with some of these students.

The professor vehemently defended the rights to free-speech, while the students screamed at him that offensive speech should not be allowed on campus.

When the professor asked, "Who should be responsible for determining what is offensive speech?", a student replied with, "Anything that offends me!".
> so weak that words hurt you

Abstractly, I see the idea that words are intangible and can't possibly hurt you. But we are social animals and it doesn't work that way in reality. Words can get you loved or hated, married or fired, can put you in jail or set you free, start wars and end them, destroy someone's ego and life or elevate it. Words are the most hurtful things there are. The pen is far mightier than the sword.
Ugh I failed at english ='(

I mean, "terse" in the sense that it is very mechanical, raw, not very elegant. Verbose in that you need to type a lot of characters, or read a lot of instructions, to understand the meaning.
> since there are no intermediate layers between the Node.js binary and the Linux kernel making Node.js applications to run almost on the metal

Isn't this true running node.js on practically any nix platform? What exactly did you do to remove these intermediate layers and what were these layers?
I did the same, except values never dropped where I was at. Sold for a 20% profit 3 years later.

Real Estate prices are extremely local. There are many places where buying will likely never payoff. In other parts of country, renting is significantly more expensive then buying a similar home.
It chokes on addresses that don't need a street, like the IRS.

e.g.

Internal Revenue Service
Fresno CA 92666-2154
The only way to resolve a conflict is to face it, not pretend it isn't there. I think people these days are overly sensitive to sensitive topics. As a (maybe isolated example), just today, I was called closed minded by a few attendees for asking a question during a "open" Q&A session about Islam and terrorism at school. Can't we just get over it and talk maturely?
Of course it depends on location and timing, but I sold my last home of 6 years and walked away with 180k. Discounting what we paid in mortgage over that time we probably only netted like 40k or so... but compared to the hassle and cost it would have been to rent a place big enough for two dogs, two cats and two kids I'm probably 300k richer than I would have been renting.
I was hospitalized for a bit a few years back. Several nurses commented passionately on what a relief it was to take care of someone who actually needed help, instead of the many people they have who come in complaining of pain just so they can get their morphine fix.
This article says a little about that: http://hlrecord.org/2015/11/fascism-at-yale/

I realize it's an inflammatory article (Harvard and Yale having their differences, what else is new) but it's definitely a unique take on this phenomenon from a historical perspective.
Not to rub it in, but something many people also don't consider when looking at condos is that there are generally speaking condo fees associated which can easily run $300-$800 for a run of the mill condo depending on amenities. There's also a dirty little secret that really doesn't get a lot of air time, many of the condos have what are essentially builder / developer royalties that go to the developer in perpetuity. So, on top of dropping 5 digits on closing and paying thousands in property taxes, you get to pay monthly fees and part of those go to the developer that built the complex with lowest bidder and shoddy illegal immigrant labor.
You can, but is Google going to make their environment so compatible with other cloud platform? Actually, how many major players do we have in this space, capable of delivering a true cloud environment?

AWS, Microsoft, and Google.

When AWS first started, it was EC2 and S3, so the model was about VM without worrying the bare metal. But as the platform continues to grow to challenge its competitors, the platform will begin to add more services which are only available and are proprietary to the its own platform.
Actually maintenance and repair can be modelled fairly easily (and as I found out I over modelled it) I used $5/sqft/year as a maintenance cost. That was based on information from Popular Mechanics on home repairs, a reader's digest survey, and a blend of roofing/painting/carpeting divided by 15 years. For my house at 2500 sq feet that comes out to $12,500 (or about $1000/month). Actual costs were closer to $600/month but living in California meant things like winter/summer cycles are not as hard on the house.

I analyzed the cost of moving against the cost of renting it out and buying a new place which has its own interesting quirks. My wife's parents did the keep/rent the previous house each time you move thing while my parents simply rented until my Dad retired. In retirement my wife's parents have a built in cash flow that my parents do not.

Insurance has been the most variable with California adding earthquake and flood insurance requirements. As a component of cost has varied the most (it isn't included in the $600/month which is just maintenance).

On the plus side, with California's no pre-payment penalty I could always use bonus money to pay down the mortgage which both kept its value in the future and mitigated future interest expense. That was always a better net use of cash funds over a savings account. I've always maintained a line of credit on the house which could allow me to "re-access" that value if something unexpected happened.

Not for everyone of course but its a different way of looking at home ownership which isn't commonly discussed.
This link just hangs for me.
It seems backwards to me to optimize a language for newbies.
I think it's becoming evident that 18 is no longer an appropriate age to consider someone an adult. This isn't really even unprecedented, the age at which children were considered adults has shifted throughout history, and to me, it looks like it's shifting again.

These problems seem to arise because children are demanding to be treated like children, but we're making the mistake of thinking of them as adults.
Let's remember that these are students in their world, college, and an essential part of college and learning is to experiment with ideas and ways of doing things. It has two implications:

1) This is their world, college, even if it's talked about on HN they should not be conforming to our standards. Education, like software development, is about experimenting and failing and learning from it all. College is the place where they can do that. Step back and give them room to grow up.

2) They would be poor students if they weren't doing things that challenge everyone else, especially the older generation. This is where innovation and innovators will come from. I hope they don't give %!#@! what everyone is saying about them; it would be tragic if we quashed their spirit.
Judge orders video of fatal police [CPD] shooting released
This could spark riots in Chicago - don't know what to think here. What were the motives of the journalist using the FOIA here? Is the damage that may come from riots worth it? I don't think the outcome of the officer's trial is complete yet but if it was the case that the courts decided the officer was guilty, would releasing the videos be necessary / the right thing to do?
To me the only thing that makes sense when considering buying a house is to buy in cash or make plans to pay down your mortgage as fast as possible. It was eye opening when I did some numbers a while back (can't vouch for whether this is still accurate today, but my hunch is it's not far off). If a person pays minimum monthly payment on a 30-yr mortgage (assuming certain interest rates) you ultimately end up paying approximately the cost of the house in interest over the life of the loan.

This may be obvious to some who are more familiar with finance, but I think it's eye opening to the majority of people when they hear this.
I find it really hard to believe this article is presenting a fair argument when it makes claims like:

> People as different as Condoleezza Rice, a former secretary of state, and Bill Maher, a satirist, have been dissuaded from giving speeches on campuses, sometimes on grounds of safety.

There are some really good reasons why students protested to prevent the school from paying $35k for a 35-minute speech (Condoleezza's speaker fee for the speech in question), such as the fact that many people consider her to be a war criminal (which IIRC was in fact the basis for the protest, that and her role in an administration that promoted torture, not some unsubstantiated claim about feeling unsafe). I was unfamiliar with the Bill Maher speech issue before, but a quick search shows that the protest there was about remarks Bill made on his show that students felt were racist towards Muslims.
Like what? Can you give a concrete example?
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This is what people should have learned on the playground.
If people acted like homo economicus, that would be true. But people are so irrational, that sometimes they need to be convinced to do the right thing for the wrong reason, no?

In other words, a given advertisement might be tricking people into choosing the optimal option.
As someone who recently turned 18, I disagree. From my perspective, these children are coddled to hell and back.

They're expecting colleges to parent rather than to teach. That's just how they grew up, that's just how they'll try to shape the environment. They don't want to fit the environment, they want the environment to fit them.

I've been a competent programmer since I was 16 and not having a degree means no one cares. What does it even mean to be an adult?
Why not just soylent, at that point?

Eating tasteless frozen vegetables and starchy beans and rice, again and again day after day, sounds like hell to me. Eating is so effortful compared to soylent -- it's revolting to me how much chewing I would have to do to eat something like that.

You can just buy flavorings for soylent, or blend in some fruit, and it'll have a pleasant taste, and you won't spend time on it. Seems so much better than frozen anything.
>What I can't tolerate is people trying to impose me what I should be offended by.

Nobody really gives a shit until you start policing others so you can't get offended.
raw instead of terse?

I am not native in English too. anyone can think of a better word.
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That professor was mistakenly expecting reason from those students. He behaved and treated them with respect only to be completely disrespected (to put it lightly) himself. It was quite disappointing seeing him try to be honest and fair only to be belligerently yelled at.
I don't see older people behaving much better. They just do it in different ways over different issues. Just look at the news for endless examples of older adults behaving badly.
Majority of Germans also not saving for down payment. Only America is deranged about home ownership.
Does the increased use of pre-stressed concrete have anything to do with it?

T Y Lin discusses some neat aspects of bridge design that touch on this in his oral memoirs. [1]

IIRC, cable-stayed bridges have the advantage of being able to be cantilevered from the tower out during construction. Their disadvantage of compressive load on the deck goes nicely with prestressed concrete's strength.

The whole memoir is really good.

> Lin: This was all concrete. Except the cables. See, cable bridges are really prestressed concrete. To tighten the cables against the concrete, but put the cables outside; for ordinary beam, the cables are inside. When the bridge gets too long it is cheaper to put cables outside, so it s really a type of prestressed concrete bridge. They call it cable-stayed bridge. It's post-tensioned concrete. So, okay.

[1] https://archive.org/details/fatherprestressed00tylirich
Inverse square applies to a light emanating perfectly spherically that isn't bouncing from anything else. If your room doesn't have dark walls, you will need much less than the inverse square law would suggest.

Similarly, if you apply the "inverse square" law to sound waves as if they are emanating in a perfect sphere from our mouths, it's pretty easy to show that you'll never hear anybody very well, even shouting at the top of their lungs, from even a few dozen feet away. However, between the fact that our voices are partially directional and the fact that we pretty much always have a floor of some kind and are often in rooms that provide even greater constraints, we are rarely in situations where inverse square actually applies to our audio.
Nice video on the topic: https://vimeo.com/138807572
"Words are the most hurtful things there are."

I understand what you're getting at, but that is hilariously untrue and a perfect representation of the delusion that the social justice movement operates under.
As with many articles on the subject, I think it's important to define what precisely "safe spaces" mean.

The Economist attempts to define a "good" version:

> Like many bad ideas, the notion of safe spaces at universities has its roots in a good one. Gay people once used the term to refer to bars and clubs where they could gather without fear, at a time when many states still had laws against sodomy.

I've seen it written elsewhere that there are many existing safe space where people can come together and talk: an Asian American gathering, or Black Student Union meetings, or LGBT support groups, etc. I think these spaces are critical for the comfortable discussion and sharing of some pretty private details about a person's struggles and thoughts. These spaces aren't meant to dissuade dissenting opinion so much as provide a place where people feel safe to express their thoughts with others who understand, empathize, or have undergone similar situations/thoughts.

But there's always going to be impletations taken to extremes, and the Economist article appears to be targeting those. But I wonder: exactly how prevalent are safe spaces that act as "justification for shutting out ideas"?

At least anecdotally, I haven't seen that many. This feels like taking what seems to me a minority of safe spaces and painting the entire idea with broad strokes.

I worry that people are strawmanning the idea of safe spaces by only using egregious examples as examples of bad, while ignoring the (IMO) vast amounts of good they have helped foster.
http://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_la...

Ok, I see how the use of Tricolsan could lead to bacterial resistance. But just to point out what jeremyt said above, Triclosan is definitely not an antibiotic. But the effect is the same.
This sort of attitude is a really scary thing -- the west seems on the brink of losing all of its values. How on earth am I going to make sure that my 5 year old doesn't end up this way?
There was an incredibly smart and hilarious ad created by those at Adult Swim completely in line with what you're saying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8
You wouldn't expect a house to appreciate 3% per year over any significant length of time. In the long run, houses are a wash.
In order to ban lies, you need to entrust power in someone else to discern the lies from truth. But that someone else lies too.

It is simply intractable. Like the halting problem.
Does this serve well enough as a comprehensive diff?

http://migrateup.com/whats-really-new-in-python-3/

(Actually, maybe not, because it doesn't have code examples.)
> We will not access or read your script unless you submit it to us for consideration.

So the server side has zero knowledge and zero involvement with conversion? I would expect this conversion to be done on the server side, however.

(seriously if you are gonna downvote, explain yourself, silence is insulting).
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