skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) The houses are being purchased from people domestically, that money is not being extracted from the local economy... it still exists in liquid form and can be reinvested back into the economy. Foreigners can even provide higher prices than local buyers, creating a higher volume of capital than was previously available to the local economy.

b) If people can't afford to purchases these houses in the long run then prices will decline and foreigners will stop buying them.

The only serious downside is where there is artificially limited supply such as in places like SF.
I suspect cars are more fly-by-wire than you realize. And wasn't this issue with the throttle control? I suppose you could have downshifted with either type of transmission, but most drivers aren't prepared for sudden mechanical failure like this.
Ok, thank you. I'll read your article.

Hm, ok, that was quick :) I believed you beforehand. Ok, will call Cavium. Thanks for the pointer!
I like the concept, but I'm with you r3bl, for it to really be useful it needs to be more explicit –at a glance– about which browsers support which features. For example, more like https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
There are "language designers" who still code, for example Anders Hejlsberg: https://github.com/ahejlsberg
And we have to stop blaming the buyers.

>The Chinese government’s top envoy in Vancouver says the city’s skyrocketing house prices and affordability crisis are due to a lack of regulation in the booming real estate market.
>Ms. Liu said this situation would not be allowed to occur in China

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/ho...
Hugo – Golang static site editor
They are much, much more expensive then drones. Minimum wage, benefits, delivery vehicle maintenance, insurance, etc etc etc.
Last-access time should just die. As explained in the article it is practically useless, and it causes unneeded disk writes, making disks fail sooner.

When installing Linux machine I always remember to add noatime to the mount options if it's not already there. Yes, I do know the default on Linux is "relatime".
Just kick on the clutch pedal and the power transmission is broken.
And the parent learned that when it's bored, he pulls out a smoke, grabs a beer/food/chocolate, not being aware what he's doing when giving the iPad. It might seem more healthy compared to those, but it's really the same convenient habit.
"There is already evidence that there is a increase in the frequency of hurricanes"

There is no such evidence, certainly not for major hurricanes.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/09/05/dont-beli...
I wonder how many of those 2 million people have an appropriate size space for this video's "landing zone in the back garden"?

Where I live is probably high enough density to make this idea work, but there's not enough landing space I think:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-33.9038146,151.1761515,327m...
NP only requires that you can verify a positive answer in polynomial time. Problems with polynomial time proofs for negative answers form the class Co-NP.

Besides that, if you can solve the decision problem and the distances are well-behaved, for example integers, you can solve the other variants, you can perform a binary search for the minimal tour length and you can find the actual tour by probing all edges, i.e. removing one by one and checking whether that increases the minimal tour length.
Totally agree with i3wm choice.

Regarding terminal emulator glitches - may I suggest "simple terminal" [1]? It might seem a bit brutal by requiring to recompile the whole thing every time you change config and to apply a patch to get a working scroll-back [2], but than - it compiles in under a second, and how often do you reconfigure your terminal anyway...

[1] http://st.suckless.org/

[2] http://st.suckless.org/patches/scrollback
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There's often no "magic" to what consultants do, and expertise is the accumulation of innumerable layers of knowledge / insight / practice. I'm a grant writing consultant and years ago I wrote a post about why it's so hard for many employers to hire employees as good as the better consultants: http://seliger.com/2008/06/22/why-cant-i-find-a-grant-writer.... Employees and consultants are also incentivized in different ways that sometimes makes hiring an employee better and sometimes hiring a consultant better.

One thing I'd emphasize about consulting, however, is the need to almost continually market. That seems foreign to many people thinking about consulting (and I too admire the Wolf's scenes in Pulp Fiction, but we never see any marketing from him—I guess he's in a line of work that's word-of-mouth only).
Diesel a safe ORM and query builder for Rust
Exactly the same could have been said 15 years ago, and yet I'd argue it is the platform which has advanced the most in terms of both use and technology, and all this in spite of great standardization difficulties that other platforms didn't have to deal with.

I expect the same to happen in the future on both desktop and mobile platforms, despite the FUD.
What model Dell laptop are you using?
One of my favorite businesses. Another thing they've always done is invest in their workers and expect innovation from within. At one point, they even paid people a percentage of what their ideas produced. These days, they just use regular rewards, recognition, promotions, etc. Even their cost-cutting was different than most: paying people to leave rather than laying them off.

Such things send a powerful message that lead to mostly loyal, hard-working, innovative people. Well, at least at the levels where one can be innovative. The positions like Ground drivers and people moving stuff on conveyor belts probably impose limits. They still work hard for decent pay or hours relative to other companies in their areas.

I'd love to see more companies take a page out of Fred's book.
It's most likely the last 20 miles problem where delivery costs are a problem. I live in an exurban area but I imagine UPS economics works fine here. If I live in the back of beyond I imagine it's hard to make any delivery system work without subsidies.
Today's soccer shoe emergency is tomorrow's normal turnaround. Imagine trying to explain to someone living in the 90s that they just have to watch this one TV show right now.

Surely they could just walk down to their local video rental store, not that many people really need to watch something right now!

But once something like BitTorrent & Netflix happens it becomes the new expectation. I think something like drone delivery or delivery via autonomous vehicles is going to similarly change the market for the delivery of physical goods.
My main concern at this point is Creative Suite. Photoshop remains the king of image editing - GIMP simply doesn't cut it.

If I could find good RAW editor, I'd ditch OSX in a second.
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PHP and Perl were both written by people actively running into limitations of their existing tools (results may have varied!).

Honestly, I'd reverse it and instead of looking for exceptions, ask which languages the OP was thinking of? I'm sure they exist.
Meanwhile, people wanting a mix of nostalgia and pragmatism still have MorphOS to enjoy:

http://www.morphos-team.net/intro

I wasn't an Amiga owner but still might get a hold of it. Looks nice.
Spending everything as you get it, not being a saver, using all the credit lenders will allow - that means you have no cushion.

In the US, money is taken from you for Social Security and you can't get it back until you're 60. Or, rather, you get paid when later generations pay in.

In Singapore, there is forced savings. You still own everything you save. There's more freedom with how you invest it. And it's not dependent on future generations paying in.

You are correct about the rural area. There is less pressure, more ability to save. Its also more boring with fewer activities and people of interest, but you can save your pennies, invest in your ability to earn and perhaps move to where you can profit from those skills.
Just a reminder that this is a wrapper for the python app and not a compiler, hence someone can easily dig through the app and get your Python code.
If it's a version number, it seems out of date - Firefox is at 42, Chrome at 46, but the axis only goes up to 30. That's why I suspect it's market share, but that's just a guess.
Think it's a Chrome thing, Safari is fine.
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After the sale of mobiles phones to Microsoft I started thinking that maybe this was the plan-b all the time. Maybe Elop was recruited because Nokia expected this would open the possibility of selling the phone business to Microsoft if they could not make it succeed.
Do you know about http://caniuse.com/ ?
You mean you'll never build a monolith. In practice, I've been working on big systems in Clojure for the past 5 years. They just happen to be broken down into manageable components you can work on and reason about in isolation.
I still think the n900 was the best phone to have ever been created.
The only instances where I've ever even thought about atimes is noticing "noatime" flags on mounted filesystems.

It seems like even creation-times and modification-times took a hit in noteworthiness when home PCs got online and all the files on disk were no longer artefacts of only you and your OEM. What the ctimes and mtimes of stuff downloaded (and unpacked from various compressed formats) ended up being always seemed somewhat unpredictable and trained me to gloss over them during most modes of PC use.
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From TFA

> "The price of property in Beijing is very high"

> "If you consider how expensive housing is in Beijing or Shanghai, this is a bargain."

So, the Chinese government is clearly not doing anything about high housing prices in Beijing and Shanghai.
> Michael Barr...spent more than 20 months reviewing Toyota’s source code...in a hotel-sized room, supervised by security guards, who ensured that entrants brought no paper in or out, and wore no belts or watches.

Why the restriction on belts and watches?
Part of it, I'm sad to say, is that many, many programmers don't see themselves as professionals, but rather as mere laborers. If you try to get a doctor or a lawyer or a structural engineer to do something egregiously wrong, they'll generally know that they're crossing a line. They see themselves as having a responsibility for the human effects of their work.

Many programmers, though, will do whatever they're told, even when they know it's pointless, wasteful, or dangerous. I've read literally hundreds of stories about programmers working on something that was egregiously fucked up. But I've heard damned few stories where programmers refused to do something they thought wrong and either a) got management to back down, or b) got fired for their refusal to do something unethical.

I don't blame individuals for that. We're not trained as professionals, we don't have a professional organization that most of us join, and we therefore don't have a serious professional code of ethics. It's unreasonable to expect most people to make ethical stands alone while creating a code on the fly. But I'd love to see the situation fixed.
And to be fair, it's not like the LLVM C API is going to remain the same forever, that changes too.
It seems there is a lot more NIMBYism, reckless lending and baby boomer lobbying expecting their "investment" to triple going on than chinese bogeyman putting the dream of their own suburban home out of reach for the ordinary folks.
I find a lot of the whole drone delivery thing pretty silly outside of some specific scenarios. Nonetheless, there is an equally silly "we must guarantee 100% reliability and security" thought." UPS does fine. They have no trouble leaving most packages at my door. They probably don't live the same thing at other doors. (Though I don't know their heuristics for such things.)
The US has been spending about 8% of GDP on energy, or in very rough terms, around 1.2 trillion a year. So the 6 billion euros is actually pretty close to 1 year of the US's total energy spend.
This won't be good advice until it's been at least 20 years since any mainstream language was born. Today, you can point to Go, Rust, and Clojure as counterexamples within the past decade (and if there's a new mainstream language born last year, we probably won't know for 5-10 years).

I suspect what you're trying to say is "don't expect to succeed." That's true--most people will fail, but we should all hope people continue trying, unless we're satisfied with what we have. I'm not satisfied, and I think progress will require new languages, not just improving the ones we have.

Some things require that a lot of people try and fail. Language design is one of them.
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If you prefer a peer-reviewed journal, see:

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00719....

From the abstract:

"The analysis does not indicate significant long-period global or individual basin trends in the frequency or intensity of landfalling [tropical cyclones] of minor or major hurricane strength. The evidence in this study provides strong support for the conclusion that increasing damage around the world during the past several decades can be explained entirely by increasing wealth in locations prone to TC landfalls..."
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As someone living in a city where property prices and rent are sky high partly due to Chinese buyers, partly due to government incentives, lack of planning and a bunch of other reasons, I’ve given up on ever owning my own home in the city I grew up in.
Economically it’s all great, at least in the short term and for those who already own property, but for someone like me staying here is becoming less and less appealing, and this is the majority consensus of my social circle which consists mostly of young, educated professionals. We are all keeping our eyes open for greener pastures.
Where was it used? I worked there from 2002-2004 and I don't recall it being used, though I don't doubt it was used somewhere. The teams were pretty silo'd.

My experience there was mostly memory dumps that were byte swapped in ad hoc ways, sometimes on the tool side and sometimes at runtime. I always tell people the story of the 8000 line file with 2 functions. 4000 lines to read a data structure, and 4000 lines to write it... all done with for loops, and fread/fwrite.
It's worth noting that Amazon already has warehouses in major urban centers for Prime Now: Nashville, Richmond, San Diego, Portland, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco.

It seems plausible that by the time (i.e. in a few years) Amazon gets regulatory support for its delivery drones in a suburban community that it'll have saturated urban delivery markets in the US and will be ready to build warehouses in the suburbs.
It seems wise to have a programmers union. Maybe pg should put some efforts towards that instead of seed funding. After all, if we have a union, we can set standards for wages and quality. Certifications. And more. It'd to the world of professional programming some good.
Amazon is such an interesting company to watch. They do really dumb and goofy stuff, all the time, in very visible ways, but under the radar they've got the largest cloud hosting business in the world chugging along devouring everything in its path that most people don't even know about. I mean, none of my non-technical friends know AWS exists or what it is, and few realize Amazon is one of the most powerful and influential tech companies in the world.

This drone stuff even feels like a distraction so that nobody notices what Amazon is actually up to. It's currently so far from useful, but it does generate a lot of PR for Amazon, and the timing is not at all subtle.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Toyota%20Unintended%20Accelera...
The argument is not only unconvincing, it is incorrect. The time hierarchy theorem implies the existence of problems of difficulty n^M for arbitrary M, and all those problems are clearly in NP.
Who actually lives up to this standard? If you lived in an area with bad schools, would you send your kids there instead of moving? If you were born in a third-world country, would you stay there instead of emigrating to make a living? Are all of the people who move to Silicon Valley from other parts of the US for the job opportunities wrong?
Some people seem more likely to experience the problem than others.

http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2012/04/unintended-accelerat...
Url changed from http://qz.com/559622/scientists-have-found-a-way-to-score-yo..., which points to this.
I think he's also saying "do it for fun, not for success, have fun doing it", which is good advice IMO.
Investors buying shares in college students: Is this the wave of the future?
I made this demo using http://www.pixijs.com/

Something I'm really happy with is the psuedo-3d effect on the cat using a displacement map.

I took the cat sprite (http://dn.ht/picklecat/mesmercat.png) and made a "depth map" (http://dn.ht/picklecat/mesmercatdisplacement.jpg) where white is closest and black is furthest. This information is used to determine how far to move the underlying pixels. It's enough to give a subtle illusion of depth.
Clearly you've never been a magician. ;) It's easy to hide things in the band with invisible slight of hand.
Early ARM designs have group load/store commands. This goes against RISC philosophy. You cannot call ARM a RISC because of that. It is a CISC with simplified decoder.
The drones are almost certainly going to have cameras (for object avoidance) and GPS on-board in order to satisfy regulators that Amazon knows where its drones are and that they're safe. Consider Amazon's own airspace proposals linked in the FAQ of the article.
It will be game-changing at any price, the first problem is to find a solution that works sustainable at the scales we are looking for, then we can look at the economics. I agree that that is the harder problem but I'd be more than happy if ITER or any other fusion project would get to > 1.
I'm done with iCloud Photo Library
some people think the web is going to die and native apps are going to rule. I'm not one of them. I'm guessing the "web based apps are crap" agenda is important to those who stand to lose from less people developing native apps (less chance for platform lock in, less projects for native app developers etc. ), and from those who used web based apps developed by not so capable developers.

That does not mean that web based apps will (or should) replace native apps. There will always be enough applications where native will do the work better, even as processing power grows, but to say the web is going to die is just wishful thinking on the part of those who want it to die. Ain't gonna happen.
I would expect this to have a positive influence on national security. If rich, influential Chinese people own a lot of property in the United States, that means that they have more to lose from bad relations between the US and China.
In Windows it's possible to set a wifi connection as metered. I've used this when tethering to my phone. So this info could be passed into the browser.
To me unions solve an asymmetry where companies can fire a worker more easily than a worker can lose their job. So personally I'm not interested in a union of all programmers, as that would create a power asymmetry the other way.

I'd more thinking about a professional organization like the AMA, the assorted bar organizations, the society of professional journalists, or the various engineering societies. Basically I want an organization that can set forth reasonable professional ethics, do advocacy and education, and act as our collective voice to back up individual engineers who refuse to do something unethical.
I can imagine flats in SF (for example) being advertised as having a prime air landing spot on the roof
I expect property owners to demand a say in the country that they own part of.
As long as the clutch linkage doesn't break :-)

This happened to my dad while waiting at for a light at an intersection. Transmission in first, foot down on clutch: suddenly car leaps into intersection. This was long ago on a Volkswagen bus.

The drive by wire which is terrifying is the power steering. Traditionally it's hydraulic, but more cars are using electric. I sure hope that an electrical component failure can not lead to full turning force.

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/electric-vs-hydraulic-s...
> When prices are pushed out of the range of ordinary people then the citizens have just sold their home overseas and can only rent it back.

Did America just run out of land? You can always build new homes, if people are willing to spend more on those places than they're worth let them and simply build more.

Eventually the price would have to come down. If you're in a very small nation, say Luxembourg or Monaco then yes, it's a problem. But the US has so much undeveloped land it is almost wasteful and if the Chinese are willing to bankroll the next wave of construction I'd say thank you and get on with it.
Is that why it just disappeared from the front page listing?

I can understand tweaking it down in the rating algorithm, but if there's enough people that want to chime in that it makes it to the front page even after it's been covered before, removing it entirely seems fairly heavy handed.
How to give a good research talk
Why is good GC basically incompatible with compiling to C? Because there's no portable way to scan the stack for live objects?
I wonder if the reluctance to rent an office, new desk etc extended when the author started hiring?

I personally think its very important to ensure your employees know you spent a bit of money making them comfortable and you value their work! I have worked in a number of startups with a kind of shitty office, shitty equipment etc and imo it always contributes to some kind of morale/impression problem.
"Python for impunity"

I was wondering why I keep seeing this everyone. Python this, Python that.
As a strong proponent of both, I'd say PHP is the better fit for a small blog.
If you are interested in languages that compile to C take a look at Nim.

If I were doing a new language I would compile to web assembly.
>Behave Like A Native App

The keyword is "like".
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If you hover over the bars, the "Global Market Share" numbers seem to match up so I guess it's that.
Funny timing, since it seems the European Accessibility Act - promised since 2011 - will finally be voted this week: http://www.edf-feph.org/Page_Generale.asp?DocID=13855&theblo...
I agree. It's so nice because its like a PC: open.

You can tinker with it. You can install different operating systems. You can interact with it via different peripherals (keyboard, stylus). Current devices are at odds with this idea. Closed and with programmed obsolescence baked in.

I really think there's room for a platform like Maemo/N900 today. Especially in a post-Snowden world, where privacy has become a major concern. Neither iOS nor Android are good enough. Many privacy conscious users have moved to CyanogenMod, which is OK but a bit immature. It's an Android patch after all.
Its a takes a generation and a massive collective will to improve air quality and to blame one person or telling them to stay there till it gets fixed is misguided.
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I feel that optimizing your work flow to minimize context switches is worthwhile, though. Doesn't have necessarily anything to do with one another but even getting your thoughts out without grabbing your mouse or mashing shift-right half a dozen times help me tremendously.