skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is certainly "doable" to raise a family on $125,000 a year or less in NYC as evidenced by the fact that millions of people are doing so.

Sure, living in NYC for less than $125k is doable under the following circumstances:

1. You have a rent controlled apartment.

2. You are on welfare or other government assistance programs (which often come with public housing).

3. You have other income (like a trust fund).

4. You live in New Jersey, Long Island or Yonkers and commute an hour each way.

5. You pay the high rent anyway, build no savings because you're spending $2,000/mo on a studio you split with a roommate, regret living in NYC - and move away a few years later.

At least among my friends, NYC is a revolving door of "Yeah, New York is awesome!" and "New York is awesome but I'm a successful 30-year-old professional can't afford more than a studio" to "Fuck this place, I'm moving to Austin."

The only reason there are any poor people left in Manhattan is because the city essentially subsidizes them living there. I have nothing against that, but Manhattan real estate is unaffordable for mere mortals otherwise.
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This is interesting, as I've heard the exact opposite from friends in Seoul. Is this a new law or s.th. tied to a specific income limit?

Out of my group of friends, none of them were able to afford day care and had to make plans accordingly. It was either by getting help from the grandparents, if the family was living close by, or by the mother quitting her job and looking after the child(ren) until they would go to school or kindergarten.
Why is Germany so obsessed with Hamlet?
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They sell a lot of Macs http://9to5mac.com/2015/10/27/apple-earnings-fy15-q3-2/ Killing that segment would be silly from them.
"device capabilities, power envelope, $/10k, IP library, and many more take precedenc"

They do. There's been all kinds of open tooling and more open hardware. What did most people buy and keep investing in? Intel, AMD, IBM, Microsoft, FPGA Big Two, EDA Big Three, etc. Got the job done easily, reliably enough, and at acceptable price/performance.

I call out OSS crowd all the time on why they havent adopted GPL'd Leon3 SPARC CPU's & open firmware if it means so much. It doesn't have X, it costs Y, or too lazy to do Z. Always.
Time for a corollary to Atwood's Law: any application that can be created in Minecraft will eventually be created in Minecraft.
"Gate", the anime,[1] was written by a former JSDF member and is being used for recruiting by the JSDF.[2]

It has its cute moments, but in some ways it's painfully serious. The concept is that a Roman-empire level culture with huge armies tries to invade Tokyo and conquer Japan via a magical inter-world gate in Ginza. Here's the short version.[3]

[1] http://gate-anime.com/
[2] http://www.mod.go.jp/pco/tokyo/tokusetu/tokusetu.html
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWi2mYklRl4
In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub
pinboard rivals google in importance to my workflow and life.
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I guess that's what they're saying. Contrast with:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond

Synthetic diamond is also widely known as HPHT diamond or CVD diamond after the two common production methods (referring to the high-pressure high-temperature and chemical vapor deposition crystal formation methods, respectively)

And from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond#Chemical_vap...

Unlike HPHT, CVD process does not require high pressures, as the growth typically occurs at pressures under 27 kPa.

[...]

and optimizing the substrate temperature (about 800 °C)
Of course! But Thunderbird does a pretty good job of all these requirements, it's the only reason I feel like I can be so stringent with them. Only reason I've been trying to leave is everyone else telling me it's bad or it's going to stop being maintained properly.
As far as I know, Telegram does not have an official repo. These seem to be updates taken from Telegram's open source page and uploaded to GitHub. You can find the official source code files here:

https://telegram.org/apps
Just another comment to say the same thing as the others: great idea and really well done. Congratulations!
Not sure, but it's currently using just over 200 MB of RAM here (on Windows 10).
This is the real message, to me.

Many inside of Mozilla, including an overwhelming majority of our
leadership, feel the need to be laser-focused on activities like Firefox
that can have an industry-wide impact. With all due respect to
Thunderbird and the Thunderbird community, we have been clear for years
that we do not view Thunderbird as having this sort of potential.

However, as I say, it’s clear to me today that continuing to live
with these competing demands given our focus on industry impact is
increasingly unstable.

So, their stated goal is market dominance for Firefox, period. Nothing else really matters. Clearly they are failing at this goal, so they are focusing their resources on it and discarding anything else.
Thank you for the coffee out of the nose :)
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"The pod has been pressurized to minimize the G forces" ???
There are other carriers in the country, not all of which are domestic. They have all provided 'lawful' interception capabilities for several years now [1]. The government is currently pushing for a new cyber-crime bill that will give it even more surveillance powers [2].

[1] https://www.privacyinternational.org/sites/default/files/PAK... page 13 of pdf file.
[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/deeper-look-inside-pec...
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Wasnt aware of that. Interesting.

It was just faster, better looking, and skinnable. Plus malware stayed hitting IE so there was that too.
To reply to sibling: Apple has never catered to PC power users, going back to Jobs arguing against slots in the Apple ][ and getting his way in the first Mac. That a Mac user at all is now considered a power user indicates which way the wind is blowing. Apple's pointed in the right direction.

Given that the PC is an increasingly obsolete platform for most people, I don't think Apple's going to expend a lot of energy changing the status quo one way or another. Its style is to start over from scratch.
Weight inefficiency basically doesn't matter if you can achieve reuse.

On an expendable rocket, every bit of inefficiency is more engine, tank, and structure that you have to rebuild for each launch. You want to minimize that. It's also extra fuel, but relative to the total cost of a launch, fuel is essentially free.

If you can reuse the rocket, then that becomes much less important. Maybe you spend 10-100x more building engines and tanks and structures than you would if you had a more efficient design, but you get to amortize that cost across many launches, so it's much less important.

Reuse is, of course, a big if. A gigantic if. The gigantic-est of all ifs. The big question is, "will it work?" If the technology simply doesn't work, or if it "works" to get to orbit but requires so much refurbishment that it's basically like building a whole new rocket each time (see: Space Shuttle), then it's not practical. But if it does work, then who cares if you drag 10x more mass to orbit than you strictly need to?

I am very much in a "I'll believe it when I see it" mode with Skylon, but to me the objections center around the the hard work of going from theory to practice, and the lack of visible progress with same.
Back in the bad old days GNU emacs was written in LISP but it always seemed pretty peppy.

Back in the really old days, when desktop computers came with just a few megabytes of RAM at most, people used to joke that emacs stood for "eight megs and constantly swapping."
Related (won't teach you anything very profound but you'll chuckle):

An actual commercial for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense force. An actual commercial for the US Navy. Then the same two commercials with the audio switched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNdPPEwguDQ

(This highly selectively picked example aside, the main recruitment messages for the JSDF are very similar to that of the armed services in the US: "Preserve the peace. Serve the nation. Learn a useful trade. Enquire within.")
Curiously, the biggest benefits (of typed functional languages) for me are revealed with larger codebases or spiked code that I have to revisit some weeks later.
Just to expand on the two revisions:

Since January 2010, the base year for India’s
statisticians had been the 12 months that ended in March
2005. From now on, it will be the year that ended March
2012. The revised calculation also incorporates more-
comprehensive data on corporate activity and newer surveys of spending by households and informal businesses.

The government also said Friday that its benchmark measure of economic growth will henceforth be based on market prices, not on factor costs. The latter method, which India had previously preferred, tabulates economic activity based on the costs of production, whereas the other method is based on the amounts paid by consumers. Most countries and international bodies calculate GDP based on market prices.

The base year for any country's GDP calculation is normally recalibrated every 5 years or so to adjust for structural differences in an economy - sustained changes in the prices and of goods and services that are not attributed to inflation, which pegging to the CPI of a base year is intended to mitigate. These structural changes in the economy are due to new technology, changes in the production process, changes in social/cultural norms, etc. Anything that affects supply and demand other than price level. So this isn't a big deal.

The more interesting piece of the puzzle is the decision to move from cost-of-inputs based calculation to an expenditure calculation. This is an accounting problem for any economy that is transitioning from a goods-based economy to a services-based economy. In developing economies, a lot of value is produced outside of the market - eg cooking, cleaning, raising children vs. eating at restaurants, hiring cleaners, hiring nannies, daycare, etc. As more of these non-market goods/services move into the realm of the market, they start to count towards GDP under this new expenditure-based GDP calculation. This can lead to overinflated, overoptimistic growth projections.

At the end of the day, most countries calculate GDP using expenditure-based vs. cost-of-production so it means we will be comparing apples to apples when we talk about GDP in the US vs. the UK vs. India. But the real question is: when will we create a better measure of growth than GDP? One that factors in pollution and emissions at the very least is long overdue.
Nice writeup. Surprising it took someone so long to notice the issues in Chrome, since it appears to be so much worse than the others.
I thought the same thing, but found that if you hover over the property it will give you possible values in a tool-tip.
hilarious. I'd hire you.
Fair enough. Maybe there is some disagreement between the participants of this thread in what "known-known" means. I would say that without a proof that a known-plaintext attack cannot exist, one cannot say "There is not (a known-plaintext attack)." One could say, however, "I do not know of a known-plaintext attack against AES, however I do not know of a proof that rules one out."

Also, HTTP/2 traffic may be encrypted using another scheme (which may be vulnerable to large constant blocks in known locations). I don't think HTTP refers or deals at all with encryption. I'm not sure about HTTP2. My understanding is that they are application protocols only and that message integrity protocols occur at a different layer.
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"Or does the Japanese constitution allow for preëmptive strikes outside of domestic borders, in the manner of a traditional military?"

I found this sentence interesting -- I've been under the impression for some time that preemptive war is not necessarily a traditional doctrine, at least in America, and was introduced in the post-9/11 national security backlash era. But I don't know enough about military history to really know.
Whats the Point of GraphQL and Falcor?
The first paper on Quantum Teleportation explained
I think that this is great and I just want to make a suggestion. I see a lot of these "learn to code/css" run into the same problem where they don't feel like real games. Give the player a dilemma such as dying if they don't type the right command fast enough. Resetting the level if they fail.

edit: lvl 15 makes colorblind kids sad :(

edit2: almost, almost http://i.imgur.com/egndPZ8.png

edit3: champion!
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It essentially already has
http://www.palemoon.org/

The Palemoon developers understand the folly of ditching the flexibility of the XUL interface. They won't be removing it.
Google's apps for iOS are subpar compared to its Android counterparts, or even to other iOS apps. I'm a heavy Android user, but on my new iPhone I actually prefer the native email app, because it is simple, effective, more standards complaint than Gmail and has quick swipe actions for both delete and archive, which is all I need.

On push, Google Apps gives you ActiveSync as a protocol, as an alternative to IMAP. But the integration with iOS Mail is weird and I could not use it.

But FastMail on the other hand, in a twisted turn of events supports push through Apple's own APN, getting the same treatment as iCloud: https://blog.fastmail.com/2015/07/17/push-email-now-availabl...

FastMail also has a native app that does push notifications, but it's just the packaged web interacts with push notifications added. This is both good and bad. It's good because the mobile web interface is very decent, compared to Gmail, and this means you always have a decent UI on whatever OS you have. It's bad because it doesn't feel native, but then there's nothing more native than the iOS Mail app.
Are you realizing Mac is used also by creative people that use Adobe tools, tools for 3D and so on.

I.e. not programmers but users of software from big software companies.

and if everything was sandboxed you couldn't do it anymore.

Yes, you could not run arbitrary programs and Apple may see it as a feature.

You seem to be in big denial as it would be horrible thing to happen. I still see this as very likely possibility.
Not only Roman empire level culture but also elves，wizards and dragons.
For a massive server the CPU reading might not be unusual. Maybe it has
32+ CPU cores and a multi-threaded java app is spinning most of them.

Yes, the article states that

The %CPU column is the total across all CPUs;
1591% shows that that java processes is consuming almost 16 CPUs.
I guess there is nothing scary about that, but the code is such a fucking spaghetti it's hard be sure. Not to offend the authors though, I bet they were under pressure writing the client.
Adobe is telling people to stop using Flash
Developing a computational pipeline using the asyncio module in Python 3
This is fairly tasteful, but in general I dislike making things look other than what they are. It's so easy to get wrong and become kitsch and tacky like fake candles and fireplaces and those fake palm tree cell towers they have in SoCal and Florida.
It's a little troubling to see only one mention of PGP in the comments. Thunderbird+Enigmail+GPG makes a highly functional way to send and receive PGP-encrypted mail.
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This immediately calls to mind Grim Fandango Remastered which "requires" OpenGL 3.3 .

It doesn't, really. It has the ability to run the game at its original (1998) level of quality. But the developers chose not to enable this as a fallback. You have to rely on some guy on the Internet that figured out how to hack it so that it would work.

It'd be great if I could, for instance, filter out everything that won't run with the Intel HD3000 graphics unit on my cheapo laptop.
I am reading a response of a pastor to a students complaint on a sermon.

If I could read the sermon, or the complaint, I could comment on the response to the complaint.
On the other hand, The Culture is just sci-fi, while Japan exists.
I think the only bit that really needs to be in assembly is the context switch, but even that can be embedded in the C (which you might consider cheating, but isn't even an option in JavaScript).
My experience is the opposite. Spend time simplifying your thinking, and it stays simple. But it is very, very easy to start overthinking things and then you go down a rabbit hole.

Consider this for an example. If you're testing per session behavior, then you can just use a session cookie. If you're testing logged in behavior, you can use the login id. You've just covered most of the things you want to test.

When you start worrying about cross-device both logged in and not, then you have a world of pain. So treat it as an identity problem, throw away all of the users you find questionable, and work with that. And yes, this is a pain, which is why you do it as seldom as you can!
The main point I'm on the fence about is whether to share offices. YC directly says that you should have your own place and not share. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
I don't disagree but I think there must be ways around this.

For instance I don't mind Apples requirement that you have to ask for permission to access various files or folders but it should be possible and not come up with things like a spinning gear skating around your menubar. Those things are just sloppy.

A simple. "I trust this app to do more crazy things with my machine" feature must be possible to do.
Yeah, pumped water doesn't work everywhere. I think the water tower wouldn't be economical. The article I linked provides an existing alternative that doesn't require special geography.
Not that putting the military in cute cartoons is always associated with pacifism. Here's North Korea for you:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19329_the-5-craziest-children...

edit: or, for that matter, WWII era Japan itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momotarō:_Umi_no_Shinpei
I would suggest that the most people would have a decent chance of having non-combative discussion; however, the construction of the spaces tends to throw out those folks along with the more toxic and dedicated trolls and harassers.

Moreover, even attempts at polite discussion are often dismissed as sealioning or whatnot--and thus, by being hypersensitive and assuming a victim stance, truly productive and civil discourse is prevented.

Additionally, these spaces do not facilitate a "productive" exchange: we can wager that few really new ideas are being exchanged. Politely, it's a chance to reaffirm values and provide a sense of belonging and comfort. Impolitely, it's a circlejerk.

If people need a place to find comfort, that's great! To claim anything other than that, especially that it somehow is some setting for honest and fair discourse, is a misrepresentation.
The largest congregation in the world and why you've never heard of it
I forgot LiveWire existed. One of few that finally faded from memory. Of old & commercial ones, AOL server + a TCL web framework are still getting updated. Opera is getting redone. The product with the coolest name is still scraping by per .cfm pages I see. Some ancient tech still around but mostly going bye bye.

Only thing left is maybe to redo Mosaic in Ruby or Java to see if it's technically feasible to slow its rendering down any further.
Safer UIViewController Creation When Using Storyboards
excellent game. thoroughly enjoyed it
This should be posted on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10655740
Modern liberalism leaves no room for evil. The contemporary social conservative-liberal axis reflects personal responsibility. Conservatives believe individuals are entirely responsible for individual happiness and liberals believe society is entirely responsible for individual happiness. If westerners are joining ISIS they are not evil, they have been failed by the collective and are seeking happiness elsewhere. They want variation, excitement, or certain moral standards that western society cannot or will not provide. Is that evil? If we lived in ISIS-controlled territory we'd likely want to escape and would also be branded as evil by those in power.

I'd argue income inequality is very much the culprit in this problem: individuals need not be in economic strife to feel unsatisfied with life. Wealth helps enable empowerment but individuals still need the mental tools to maintain it, and our society vastly undervalues mental health (except among the most fortunate).
To this date I feel frustrated when I have to deal with a few pages of XML that could easily be a few lines of json. Then again, enterprises love it, so I can't complain too often or loud.

Still, I often refer to it as XMHell and if you speak it fast enough, only the truly wise will understand and acknowledge it with a smile and a nod.
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