skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several trends responsible for this.

Loose monetary policy - many asset prices have risen - stock markets, property prices in major cities.

In the case of London, it's seen as a safe haven so foreign investors park their money in property here, banks willing to lend large mortgages, influx of people moving London.. And not enough new housing (aside from high end property development in Central London, which several hedge funds are now shorting incidentally).

Other factors will change but the population growth trend isn't going to slow down any time soon in London. I think remote work could be incentivised on a larger scale so people can choose where to work from.
That's the premium you get for owning property in a B city. Imagine having a portfolio of 50+ properties in Detroit in this day and age. Imagine owning high value property in a city like Detroit - it'll be hard to sell, hence the premium.
>>or any person who provides a product or method to facilitate a communication or to process or store data.

So any crypto researcher, in the USA, must be able to also defeat their own 2 channel crypto?

Also, since government compensation is listed, how does that work with intractable cryptanalysis of said work?
But couldn't the type system guarantee a sufficent subset of all the possible interactions with the api?

Like, you can't determine the halting problem for a turing complete language, but you can for s more restricted language.
Wasn't aware of that, though the current performance of nouveau is pretty horrendous. At least for newer cards. It's a bit unfortunate but to essentially have a working card you must have the proprietary drivers installed.
"Because they are lazy and feckless", if you listen to anyone over 40.

Younger people can't afford a house because empathy is dead, and property in the UK is no longer a thing in which you live, it's an investment instrument - and unfortunately as it's a rather profitable investment instrument large and wealthy entities engage with said investments, pushing smaller investors (i.e. human beings who wish to own the roof over their head) out of the market.

We've successfully gone back to landed aristocracy.
You must live in the Bay Area or the East Coast. In the heavily cost inflated economies this is the reality. In the cost depreciated realities this is a complete farce.

For comparison I like to use Texas versus California because the demographics are often nearly equally comparable given comparison of various metros and distributions. The biggest differences between the two states are that in California the cost of living is about 8x more (or 12x more in more extreme comparisons) even though both locations have near equal employment capabilities, same currency, and often many similar laws. To be clear earning $100,000 per year in Texas is a far greater indicator of wealth than earning $300,000 per year in California.

Owning an apartment in California is the reality in a major metro with a booming economy. Housing prices cost so much that owning a house often becomes completely unrealistic for many people. Not that it matters since past a certain point an apartment becomes a better value per square foot than a house anyways.

In Texas the opposite is true. After the housing crash of 2008 many people who could not pay their mortgage were forced out of their homes. The costs of apartments dramatically increased and the cost of homes dramatically decreased. It has always been a better value to own a home than live in an apartment, but that value gap increased noticeably. I can remember spending about $1200 per month for a 1200 sq ft apartment at that time and moving to a 3000 sq ft house and paying less per month. This gap is less noticeable in my geography now with Facebook and various other companies setting up shop minutes away.

I have also noticed that working in Texas (at various employers) there is a huge demographic divide among home owners and apartment renters at the work place. Once you get past around 27-30 years of age generally everybody in the office who is an employee owns a house. For contractors (non-employees) the home ownership rate goes down slightly. For non-citizens the home ownership rate goes down dramatically. Generally, given the income rates associated with technology work price is not a primary discriminator from owning a home in Texas, but mobility is. Those who have a greater need for increased mobility are less likely to own a home.

The bottom line is that if you want to own a home with a yard close to solid jobs you absolutely can and it is absolutely within reach. You must be willing to sacrifice your geographic location to achieve it though.
Stop spreading FUD. Even this proposal was written by a Google employee.
Here's an implementation of 2d Worley noise using a hexagonal grid with one-point per cell: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ltjXz1

This version may still have artifacts when the points fall too close to a cell boundary.
JVM cannot appeal to Go developers, because compiler is a significant factor why people choose Go in the first place.
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I think in NYC many real estate buyers are really speculators. They don't buy to live there, but because the prices are expected to go up. With this increased demand the price for houses keeps going up, but the price to rent is based on how many people want to live in NYC. In most areas of the country there is a balance between renters and buyers. People may prefer one or the other, but they will switch to renting or buying to save money. This keeps the market from going out of whack. NYC is different because for investors renting isn't an alternative to buying, hence the mismatch.
What is the actual accuracy of the positions?
This is one of the few times I've seen SSRIs blamed for jackass behavior.
> The camel has gone back to having an unknown number of humps

Some sources even go as far as saying there is no camel involved at all, and might have never been.
you need a mathematician to come up with that diagram?
> The quest for the one perfect diet which is optimally healthy for everyone in the world, though, is obviously misguided.

I'm not talking about what the country eats but more on a personal level. At my workplace everyone eats meat and most of them eat junk food but I am vegetarian and I look after what I eat.

I don't wanna sound like a hippie, but just listen to your body and be conscious of what it likes and how you feel after eating certain kind of foods.

Personally speaking, after eating junk food I feel like shit. Voila!
It shows that you care about it enough to ask.
Particularly in London, houses are overvalued to the extent that rents are comparatively cheap vs. the rest of the country. Rental yields in London are significantly lower than they are in e.g. Manchester.
RoboVM is one that compiles AOT ARM binaries, it's intended for the iPhone but it runs on MacOS too.

Avian is a JIT compiling JVM but one which is much smaller than HotSpot. It has a mode where it statically links your JAR into the binary itself, so you get a single self contained executable. With ProGuard and other optimisations like LZMA compression built in, such binaries can be remarkably small. Try their example:

https://readytalk.github.io/avian/#-xamples

It's a full blown GUI app that demonstrates the full range of widgets available, is cross platform, and yet is only about 1mb in size.
> Ignoring land prices for the moment, houses do not cost a lot of money to build – a quick search online shows you can buy the materials for a three-bed timber-framed house for less than £30,000; in China a 3D printer can build a basic home for less than £3,000 – and the building cost of the houses we already have has long since been paid.

Wait...what?

Ignore the cost of land, ignore the cost of labor and houses sure are cheap to build!
Make a Facebook messenger bot like a boss
It's open source. You can make a facebook messenger bot so easily. It support deploying to heroku. If you have a question, ask me.
At ~3% interest rate (ie: less than one should plan for in case of change in the economy), a 25 year mortage comes to approx 480 GBP/month per 100K. Are you saying your 1700GPB/month rental property sells for ~200k? Certainly rent should come at a premium to buying (eg: in the example above, down payment isn't considered as an investment -- mostly because you'll need somewhere to live. If you sell your house, were will you live?).

As far as I've been able to figure out in Norway, you'll generally end up paying more (total) per month if buy than if you rent. But like all things in life, if you can afford the monthly total of rent+downpayment, you'll be better off than renting due to the presumed price increase of the house. Worst case, you'll pay it down and live "for free" the rest of your life.

I think it's interesting to look at median yearly wage and house prices. How many years wages does it cost to buy a place to live outright? And as the article states, how can it be more expensive now, than it used to be?
Such a BAD use of tax payer money. So now we have to pay for 2 years of jail time (Probably 1 year for good behavior) for giving a key (That was actually not proven but was believed by the juror. The crime was the defacing of ONE page. This key also should have been revoked after he left the company.

The recommendation of 7 years is just crazy and even the lowered 5 years is just nuts. If you just look at the cost to the newspaper it was at one point almost a million dollars when the fix for the page was one editor reverting the page.

> In order to be convicted of felony under the particular provisions of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act which prosecutors used to charge Keys, the conduct must exceed a threshold of $5,000.

That someone is responsible for paying a company to sure up their security is an issue. Or the inflation of cost to so Federal Prosecutors can get another win under their belt. That over reach is pretty high in this case.
Still that is only for recent games

> It began use in the NBA at the start of the 2013–14 season, and it is now in use in all 30 arenas, following trials during the previous season in 15 arenas.[

Which I guess means before that they had some guy who just recorded shots on a board. Would be interesting to see how it was collected prior to this technology
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My company bets on betting markets getting an edgd using statistical data. We help provide liquidity to the betting market and keep betting exchanges and totalisers in business.
How Mobile Payment Apps Make Life Easier for Business and Its Customers?
I want to see this animated.
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2016/04/minimalism-brought-free...
Lout (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout) and troff/groff (https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/). Both do equations quite well, I would even prefer lout (it is a way more comfortable than LaTeX), but the lack of additional packages makes it inferior. Troff is older than TeX (not sure how old is eq package).
Neat idea! The social buttons on the bottom kinda ruin the aesthetic, though (at least for me).
It's not their fault, that's indiegogo. Here is the GitHub repo: https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser
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But that burden can be lightened. I wonder why local groups along the lines of 'Autistic Anonymous' don't exist, or even if they do, aren't widespread enough as there is a significant minority of the population who are autistic. I'm talking about those who are in the 'higher' spectrum of course, though by no means the group should turn into genius club or something. I agree, autistic people can also be average-skilled, but one thing they all have in common is the constant struggle to fit in socially, be it their lack of communication skills or weird personality etc.

I know that having a meet up group for autistic people sound contradictory, but as long as it creates a sense of safeness* where people are free to share their experiences, even if they struggle badly doing so, it would still be incredibly comforting. Sharing stories and tips may or may not be helpful, but at the very least, nobody should feel alone in their struggle.

*e.g. those who are too intimidated to be physically there can listen/communicate via Skype etc. Naturally the group leader would have to be someone with expertise in autism or well-experienced in adjusting to society socially
Cool stuff ! Nice to see the range upgrade between Tesla s70 and s85
Their height and weight differences justify the different style, though. Curry is 1.91 / 86kg, hard to penetrate inside with force since he lacks the mass.

Jordan and Kobe are both 1.98, you can compare them better.
Regular (monthly) investments are available to nearly everyone. Investing is perhaps even easier- no points to pay with mortgage and investments are liquid and highly portable.
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A major factor in the rise of property prices in the UK is the enormous growth of the buy-to-let market. It's not the sole factor affecting property prices, but a substantial one, particularly in London.

Incredibly, buy-to-let landlords have enjoyed better tax advantages than first-time buyers. Some of those tax advantages have only recently been curtailed by the current government, but it's too little, too late.

I wrote a blog post about the damaging effects of buy-to-let in 2009. That's six years ago, and hardly anything has changed. It's immensely depressing:

http://designofhomes.co.uk/016-damaging-effects-of-buy-to-le...
Plain, cool.
Why do it in pricey SF. Why not Laos you could spend years there for the same money.
Sorry, my intention was to try to help you, not offend you :(
Better yet, a search function where each character has proper descriptions.
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I'm fine with a minimum length but adding some random characters to my password will only make it harder to remember my 20 character long passwords.
When did you purchase your house? Because we're talking about people moving into the market. If you managed to buy a house that only costs you 350 GPB/Month for both interest and downpayment, that's great. But is that what it would cost you if you bought your house today? (I'm not saying it'd wouldn't, but it's relevant for the discussion to know for sure).
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Suddenly emojis becomes embedded SVG images...
I agree with this interpretation.
Generics and many kinds of subtyping do cause challenges. This is part of why Scala's type inference is so bad.
Thanks, I installed Caret-T[0], will play around with it. For those not interested in the fork and javascript Intellisense, have look at the caret website[1].

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/caret-t/agiednhnlg...
[1]: http://thomaswilburn.net/caret/
I meant a specific reference from the 1980s. I know of the new research. I had found an article with photos and details on the surgical procedure. Thanks anyway.
Take a look at http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lout/lout-3.40-use... (page 148 and followings).
Nice! Finally in the Terminal... no need to leave the console ;)
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I believe in most, if not all, species of octopus the male dies after mating and the female dies shortly after the eggs in her care hatch. Also depending on the species, anywhere from 20,000-200,000 eggs will hatch and I've read that only around 1% will make it to adulthood.

In captivity octopuses are considered relatively difficult to keep due to their sensitivity to water quality. They have a fairly narrow band of acceptable levels of pH, ammonia, nitrite, and salinity. Copper is pretty much Kryptonite to an octopus. I’m unsure what the potential is for large scale changes in oceanic chemistry but I imagine it would be devastating to octopuses, along with overfishing.

I’m actually curious how serious a threat overfishing is. Seeing as how difficult they are to contain I wonder if most commercially available octopus are specifically fished for or are just a byproduct of some other fishing and whether this has a large affect on their populations.
It's pretty remarkable that Texas and California seem to elect the scummiest people possible to the Senate. I guess that's what happens when you have a massive population of mostly apathetic voters?

I really think this country would be better off if CA and TX were not allowed representation in the Senate (and I say this as a Texan).
It definitely isn't if you're James Harden.
But why would they choose to make things easy for us if we are essentially giving them the middle finger? We can't pick and choose what we fancy from the EU while simultaneously walking away..
This is what it's like trying to attract and retain tech talent in Australia
Ask HN: Big list of open source projects looking for donations?
Is there a concise list of open source projects looking for donations? I really think donating to open source projects you care about should be closer to a subscription model than a sporadic/rare event. There should be a facilitation process to quickly find recipients individually or by groups.

Also, new donating models can be studied. For example, a project can distribute part of the donations to their code dependencies.
Go 1.7 (tip) binaries are smaller than Go 1.4 binaries.
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How does it compare with an actor model?
Our drinking water systems are a disaster. What can we do?
Vulkan was there before? As everyone talks only about stupid emojis. I am confused. Vulkan seemed to me as a great big news.
likely!?

water can't even be in a liquid state at that pressure.(which is why I think the whole "water on Mars" stuff is bogus) You'd have a better chance growing potatoes in a middle of a Siberian winter
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In the absence of that paper, we had plenty of reasonable hypotheses about the ability to program. Like “Put 10,000 hours into it, and you’ll master it.”

Or “It follows a distribution similar to other skills involving mathematics.”

The paper presented an unusual hypotheses, that there was this sharp distinction between those who can program and those who never will, and that this distinction was somewhat orthogonal to other measures of scholarship. So for example, one might be a good architect but never get good at programming no matter how much one tried.

You’re right we haven’t disproven this hypothesis, but given its novelty, the burden of proof is on "the camel has two humps." With the paper retracted, we do not presume it has an unknown number of humps, we presume that skill writing programs is going to be similar to other skills we observe.

As this article observes, unusual outcomes in attempting to teach programming may just as easily be explained by the fact that in a young field, we may not know how to teach programming.

If we’re going to chase ‘humps,’ perhaps we should look for unusual distributions in the skill of teaching programming. We may be terrible at it, and perhaps the skill we are really observing is the skill of learning to program in spite of didactic and structural obstacles.
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You know, Japan itself is ranked 22nd in the Heritage index of economic freedom ("degree of capitalism") for 2016.

And a raw country-to-country comparison of health outcomes will be badly confounded by the effect of race. Japanese in the US perform worse on health metrics than Japanese in Japan. They still do better than whites in the US.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11489769
I made this: https://github.com/imjasonh/tros

It's slower than doing it yourself but for normal-sized slices you shouldn't notice.

Also https://github.com/bradfitz/slice which is similar but faster and relies on more unsafe black magic.
Formal systems are still built on a model of the outside world, not on the world itself FAFAIK. Even if your formal coverage is 100%, you can not anticipate all weird edge cases the real world can come up with.
In the US anyways you have favorable tax treatments for interest and property taxes, but rent (of private properties like houses) tends to exceed principle + interest + taxes in many areas. I find that to be fairly weird, because you've essentially got a very low out of pocket expense at that point (or even nearly net positive) in raw money exchanged, yet principle is recoverable on sale and tax deductions offset a portion of property taxes.

Basically if buying a house and renting it out immediately turns a profit, that's a renter-saturated market, and it seems best to be on the non-saturated side of the market
The article seems to suggest that low interest rates are the cause of high house prices: it argues that house price inflation is out-of-control, but could be brought under control with higher rates.

This would certainly deter buy-to-let landlords. But, given that the world generally is doing quantitative-easing and 0% rates or lower, this would be a very contrary position for the UK to adopt.

What would be the implications of that policy? I can't believe it hasn't already be considered. So why has it been dismissed?
You've been using StandupMail before?
Hey Chris, which part are you referring to?

We're only using PayPayl to handle payments, employing a feedback system to combat untrustworthy users and in the beginning only allowing Log In with Facebook so users are authenticated to some degree.

Happy to explain any aspects in further detail!
1. Interesting.

2. I still wonder why around 30% of people with programming experience who have applied to a job when I was recruiting couldn't solve FizzBuzz[1] or string reverse. All of them either University MSc or years of programming experience.

The article hints at using the wrong teaching methods.

[1] Given the written instructions: 'Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”.'
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Paper is here: http://wiki.t-o-f.info/uploads/EDM4600/The%20camel%20has%20t...
Yeah I don't think Obama is neutral. He says the same thing as this bill. He says he "supports strong encryption", and says criminals should not be able to hide their digital communications from government.

They still do not understand that it's not possible to force criminals to use government-approved encryption software. Criminals can write their own encryption.

The sooner we voice up and vote out those who support such unreasonable laws, the sooner we can progress as a society towards finding the right ways to keep each other safe.

Does anyone know if there is a list of representatives showing their positions on this bill?
How was he able to make shots from behind the basket?
Actually, SmartOS (Solaris) has some magic Docker fakery that makes containers run in LX-branded zones. I'm a maintainer of runC (the low-level executor of Docker) and I just merged some code the other day that is working on running runC natively on Solaris. I'm quite excited about that. As for FreeBSD, there was some work in Docker some time ago on getting Docker to work on FreeBSD. I don't think all of the code is there though.
p.s. this one certainly does, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drwdZfSzBsY&feature=youtu.be
> Go's language spec is a much fuzzier document targeted towards language users — much like e.g. Python's language reference — there is no way you can write a clean-slate implementation just from the language spec.

That's not correct. The Go spec is designed to be a precise specification of the language, targeted at language implementers. Ian Lance Taylor (incidentally, the author of these generics proposals) wrote gccgo based on that spec. There have been a couple of other implementations based on that spec since.

The main Go compiler itself was implemented from that spec, too. The spec comes first.