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Blaming cheap money is wrong and upside down basic macro.

Lowering property prices by raising interest rates, makes it more difficult to afford houses and implies killing the economy and putting people out of work. Home prices usually end up going down only because people are made not to be able to afford them. This is incredibly destructive and it only allows more people to live in the same area when they are forced to move in with their parents.

I used to think rising house prices were a bad situation for us millennials but now I believe this to be a best case scenario.

It is impossible to keep adding people to the same space while giving everybody much room for their money. The problem is trying to cram a generation of millennials into the same area as a wealthy cohort of boomers and rich immigrants predictably makes home prices go up.

Increasing supply or nudging the new generation to go in areas with more potential for spacial growth not only allows the new community to be built to the image of its own people but building and growing the infrastructure of a new neighborhood or revitalizing a dying town creates jobs for the people that go there.

The best thing governments could do to help with this situation would be to encourage some of the institutions and jobs relevant to new generations to move out of overpriced, overcrowded centers. They could foster jobs creation in centers with more low cost space and less chance of spacial overload. They could maybe move some public jobs there to help jump start the migration. This would also put some downward pressure on the prices in overcrowded places until we reach some kind of equilibrium.

I say stop trying to cram everyone in the same volume. Let the older rich generation keep the expensive quarters they've spent their life building and allow new generations to create our own communities, in our own space, from choices guided guided our own tastes.
>At trial, prosecutors presented evidence of loss ranging between $10,206 and $13,147

>In an unexpected twist, while going over the defense’s objections to the PSR, Judge Kimberly Mueller limited the amount of loss (for purposes of sentencing) to whatever had been presented at trial, thus drastically reducing the amount of prison time recommended by the sentencing guidelines. In the end, by the judge’s own determination, the appropriate range for sentencing was between 37 and 46 months.

So the actual sentence wasn't based on inflated numbers, and was lower than recommended based on actual numbers.

(Or are you saying the "evidence" of loss presented at trial was fake?)
Agree, if it's not the pinwheel as mentioned, it's a roulette wheel that randomly chooses some point in your history to revert to. It absolutely boggles the mind that they don't acknowledge this. I specifically read these comments hoping someone else would confirm the undo issues to get their attention.

I actually own Designer (and Photo) but purchased Sketch to better integrate with some of our UX team workflows. Designer is stunning, rock solid, and I've never had a single crash or undo issue (or font rendering/scaling, or grouping, or or). Sadly no one I know uses it; it's all Sketch these days except for the Illustrator holdouts. I've asked a few of the prototyping tool folks like Framer to import the Designer file format like they do Sketch. I believe it's documented and would help encourage adoption...no news yet.
The author fails to explain why robots should use utilitarian ethics.
How do you like colors of this chart?

I cannot recognize colors of shots behind 3 point line. Looks like all are 'missed' for my eyes.
I believe that people are not animals (and that computers are not people), both may be controversial beliefs for some but are rather widely shared.

In particular, nothing constitutes an ethical problem for animals, computers, plants, and other non-human entities, while some things are unethical for people.
> Unfortunately, it seems they don't keep older specs around(!)

https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master/doc/go_spec.html
"In the absence of the paper" meant "now that the paper has been retracted" rather than "I couldn't find the paper".
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Bipolar depression rapidly gives way to mania if you try to treat it like unipolar depression with standard antidepressants. The chances of this happening are greatly increased if you've never been diagnosed as bipolar. It happened to someone I know, and it was pretty ugly. The jackass behavior is an unfortunate part of the medical condition. It's common for the shame felt after coming down from a manic episode to throw you right back into depression. You can search for "ssri mania" if you want to learn more, it's a well-known phenomenon.
over the backboard on the way out of bounds probably
Certainly not to record the relations or visualize them, but social network analysis certainly falls into the realm of mathematics.
There's also a follow up where the wget UI is redesigned [0]. It's important to also read this because that's where the argument falls completely apart: most of the features have been sacrificed to the altar of "simplicity": the redesigned application is essentially useless.

Not only that, the design includes a really nice looking progress bar that is, unfortunately, impossible to implement.

[0] http://www.uxdesignedge.com/2011/11/don%E2%80%99t-design-lik...
>, or I can rent a great apartment 10 minutes from work and enjoy a vastly greater quality of life.

> The "American Dream" of owning a house [...], in my opinion, a waste of mindshare and money.

If we want to discuss city apartments vs suburban houses with "intellectual honesty", I would hope those in favor of downtown urban living acknowledge that some of us really do prefer living in houses.

I lived for 2 years in Chicago's downtown loop in a "nice" apartment. Yes, everything was "walking distance". I could walk to Grant Park, the lake, the museum, the restaurants. But I don't care about any of that. Even though I was on the 6th floor, I heard police sirens and taxi horns every day and never got used to it. I also spent a year consulting in downtown Manhattan and visited Tokyo,London,Paris. I can see how the vibrancy and immediacy of those cities appeal to others but they don't appeal to me.

I now live 35 miles away from downtown and the tranquility is wonderful. I can look out the window and watch squirrels and birds around the trees. Also, I can putz around my garage with noisy woodworking tools for weekend projects. I don't like the implication that my brain is somehow "broken" for not preferring city living. Many of us are not ignorant of the urban lifestyle. We tried it and we'd prefer to raise a family away from it. We will spend a big chunk of income to make that happen. It doesn't mean we're irrational or brainwashed.
Additionally, as the price of houses in London increases, Landlords are much more likely to end / refuse to renew tenancies.

Maybe they want to sell, and maybe they want to renovate first. Maybe they want to bank the gain in price, or convert a house they own 50% of into two houses they own 25% of.

Either way, a lot of my friends who rent in London have been politely evicted every year or two for the past few years. Once evicted, they usually find they can no longer afford rent in that area and need to move.

Getting your kid into a good school is difficult and based on where you live here, so moving is going to compromise your childs schooling unless it is planned in advance. Ideally, parents don't want to have to move at short notice every few years.
If you can sell.

Lots of people not buying means it can be difficult to sell your house for what you think it's worth.
No, but you can use the Execute Node module to invoke any existing Node.js code. Also the Engine (run-time system) is published as an NPM module so you can invoke Codeflow project from within Node.js as well.. That way you can make a gradual switch from existing Node.js codebase.
Magnetic stimulation isn't going to radically change your entire brain. As I understand it it just changed that one symptom of autism by stimulating a single brain area. As I understand it the treatment is temporary, so it's not like you have to stay that way if you don't like it.

And if I could experiment with inducing autism in myself I totally would. I'm going to research this treatment more because it sounds totally fascinating and I'd love to experiment with it.
bang on - I often ask my friends who are going through hard times with work or life, if they would consider moving to europe or further afield, among the poorer ones (aka 93% of the UK population) it's not even an option they would consider
Wow.

So a piece of plastic the bank gives you with mostly arbitrary numbers on it is better protected than your own fingerprints, which you're stuck with for life?

Good grief.
Whoops, lost the footnote [1] while editing the comment.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/10/...
Agreed. Does anyone know which representatives support this bill?

If it's just Feinstein and Burr, they can keep dreaming, but I imagine there are a few more.
Politics. Science is always better accepted when it conforms or is spun to conform to the current zeitgeist. So it with bad science, no science and pull out of someone's ass (pseudo) science.

And right now the zeitgeist in tech is to increase diversity.
I think neural networks and other forms of evolutionary computation will merge as I have been writing in my other replies in this thread. TWEANNs incorporate EC into evolving ANNs. The other article I cited above on soil mechanics, beat out expert systems, ANNs, statistics, and used GP. MEP, or Multi-Expression Programming for GP incorporates being able to put more than one solution into a gene without increasing the processing times thereby overcoming the inefficiencies of 1990s-era GP. Here is a recent article using it that is not behind a paywall or via sci-hub.io [1]. It needs better editing, but there are other references if you search for Multi-expression Genetic Programming.

[1] http://benthamopen.com/ABSTRACT/TOPEJ-9-21
Too bad you can't ONLY show the missed/made shots, only both.
However, Fingerprints cannot be practically hashed.
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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has much better testing, and is actually faster than Arch in some cases. I've switched a lot of my machines recently. And you can use OBS which actually builds "AUR" packages for you (you can branch them on OBS if you want to modify them, or you can even download and modify the package locally).
Serotonine depletion, or something like that. It's a bad idea to use MDMA frequently anyway because of its neurotoxicity.
If code generation is used to make up for something missing in a language (be it generics, metaprogramming etc.) then that's a pretty clear sign something is wrong.

It's definitely acceptable to use a workaround for a missing feature once or twice in a language, because no language is perfect, and no language benefits from being burdened with all features imaginable.

But if a workaround becomes part of the day-to-day workflow, then you are likely using the wrong language.

Examples could be: using (textual) code generation for generics, or using type annotations throughout a dynamic language project.
Agreed, and make them green or blue if the yellow is not racially generic enough.
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It depends on how they picked the points where he 'took the shot from'. You generally don't take a shot from a standing position in normal plat, you jump. You might not always land in the same spot from which you launch.

I suspect they picked the point where he jumped from, rather than too, therefore you can run parallel to the backboard, jump under it (from behind, and land in front) and lay it up so it goes in.
I don't think you are correct. Lets take Toronto as an example. This city built condo projects by the dozens. The GTA (greater toronto area) is so sprawled out, I recall a statistic that it was 1/4 the size of England. The transportation infrastructure cannot take it ... major roads like the DVP and 401 are always clogged. Farmland in some of the far away areas is being converted to houses. The problem here is the price of land is so highly inflated, you now have no choice but to pay a million buckeros for a modest detached house. Condos in areas near the subway and restaurants are also priced stupid ... one of the areas we considered was priced at $680 a square foot (in an area called North York). The problem is cheap, free money. People who got in on it early own 2-3 condos.
The differences in their gifts also account for a lot. If Curry continues through his prime like he's played the past two seasons, he'll be the greatest shooter of all time. Kobe was never a great jump shooter but was remarkable at finding ways to get shots, as well as getting fouled.

Typically, in the NBA, the best scorers fit closer to the Kobe mold than Curry mold, Jordan and Lebron, for example. It will be interesting to see what influence Curry has on future generations and if others will follow his path like Kobe and Lebron followed Jordan's.

From what I hear, kids are now shooting long shots like Curry when they goof around, where my generation (I'm 34) used to like playing on lowered rims so we could dunk.
F.B.I Tried to Defeat Encryption 10 Years Ago
The problem is that Fizzbuzz and string reversing are a kind of trick questions. Either you have already done them or not. Good people will fail at trick questions very easily in interviews.
Since they don't represent real work and aren't statistically significant, why are we using them? They are merely adding random noise in the interview process.
Another brick in the wall.

What are we going to do a out it? Maybe Wikipedia or Google will deface their own websites, and the bill will die only to resurrect shortly after.

A better solution would be for the millions of tech workers to unite and vote GOP just to send a message that we don't automatically vote for anyone or any party.

If California's vote is locked for a certain party, then it is taken for granted.
>They still do not understand that it's not possible to force criminals to use government-approved encryption software.

I think in this instance this is a case of you assuming ignorance where malice is far more likely. Looking at the comprehensive mass surveillance of, well, everyone (by the NSA et al), I think the point here is to further the goal of population control i.e. they don't care about criminals who would write their own, they just want always-on access to everyone.
"Between 1997 and 2007 the housing stock grew by 10%, but the population only grew by 5%".

I find this hard to believe, the town I live in has not grown by 10% in a decade.

"The Bank of England says inflation is 0.3%. Really?
With house prices up by 10% last year?"

I think that inflation rate specifically excludes housing costs and always has done.

IMO it is supply and demand, the millions of new East Europeans moving to the UK and caused a spike in the population and they have to live some where, thus pushing prices up, this combined with buy-to-let means there are fewer places up for sale as money can be made on renting especially with interest rates low and mortgages available.

rent prices are set to screw the maximum out of tenants, and have nothing to do with the landlord's costs, this means that tenants find it harder to save deposits.

I'm glad I bought in 2008.
Section I-Player The player is out-of-bounds when he touches the floor or any object on or outside a boundary. For location of a player in the air, his position is that from which he last touched the floor. [0]

[0] http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_8.html?nav=ArticleList

Kobe Bryant shooting from behind the backboard in 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnARpfzVIis
> Once it leaks

Leaking? Why do you need a leak? Just follow somebody and wait until he touches something, preferably a glass in a pub or something similar.
Yeah, what they probably know is that some Polish electrician is "taking his job" (probably by doing it better) because that's what they said on the Daily Mail or something
Need of my daily routine, Great !!!! :)
Yet you miss the key issue - which is mortgage availability.

I end up where I can afford to buy my own flat and rent it out to someone who is not myself at the rent I am paying and make a profit. But I would not be offered sufficient mortgage to simply own it myself despite the fact that the rent I pay is higher than the mortgage would be (and indeed even accounting for 2% rate rise I'd be fine).
i think it's mostly that most scientific studies have no clear outcomes, people want resolutions not "we did this study, it wasn't perfect but the findings seemed to point towards this effect and more better studies should be done in this area to back up this before we can say it probably does cause this effect" is not anything anyone who isn't a scientist would care about, especially since those further studies will very likely not happen
Err, in this hypothetical, wouldn't that be the case for vegetables as well? Some vegetables would not be as efficient to grow as the most efficient meats, thus you would want to focus on the efficient vegetables...etc
can I tell u the BEST thing about golang? Strings cannot be nil! It's amazing. They are always "" or you know, "something" so you never have to test for if s == nil || s == "" or in ruby s.blank? to cover both cases. that is all.
Just use them as a hash lookup into a keystore.

This is intuitively appealing, but do biometrics really boil down to an exact number that we could hash like this? (Genuine questions; I don't know.) It seems more likely to me that biometric measurements would be considered to "match" when they're within particular tolerances. This is an operation you can perform on the original measurements, but not on hashes of those.
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/calendar/calendar-5...
enjoy :)
I would go out on a limb and say yes. Any website designed with screen reader accessibility in mind would work with Lynx, which is a more capable browser than screen readers.
I guess so, our current city is redhot property wise so anything is expensive relative to what it was, the other city has a very large portion of renters which lends to the increased cost I'm guessing.
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A friend of mine moved to a different coast and sold his house. His return from his house was more than his income over the past 5 years ... and we're talking about high, bay area salaries. The cash he got was also tax free.
You have to click "Explore on my own" to get the filters up.
In the Netherlands we had a passport with fingerprint, and all data stored by the state. Luckily, this was reversed, and now the fingerprint is only stored in the passport itself. Well, that's what I hope, as the fingerprint needs to be stored temporarily for the time to create the passport.

Better, if you don't leave the EU, you can use an identity card that doesn't have the fingerprint.

I was lucky enough to have an old passport that just spanned the period in which the fingerprint was stored centrally. Now I have an ID card, but one time in the future I will leave the EU, and then I have to get a password...
I've always seen that called EPC for Electronic Pedal Control, but that is probably VW-ism.

On the other hand on EFI car, having mechanical throttle cable does not add much to hack-safety as the ECU always has some way to override closed throttle (either disengaging throttle pedal mechanically switches the control of throttle to ECU operated servo or there is completely separate throttle controlled by ECU).
I'm engaged to an American and they seem to view a car as a right of passage into adulthood. They feel like the expense of a car, whatever it may be, is essential. If five people go to a restaurant, it's probably in 4+ vehicles.

The craziest thing to me was recently a twenty year old borrowed money to purchase a stick-drive car when she doesn't drive stick and already had a recent, usable car. Why? Now she's going to have no money for years to come!
In my class there were people that groked recursion in half an hour, and the other needed a week. And not a big gap in between.

It is anecdotal evidence, but there are people with innate ability.

Also - natural distribution makes the one hump camel the default hypothesis.
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this is interesting, a house in sweden, even rural sweden runs at the cheapest just shy of 1mil sek. that is to say, the lower end bracket of the middle class can forget about owning a house.
Bribable guards. What a genius marketing campaign!
May I ask what medication triggered this experience for you?
cool! wind direction causes column alignment issues a bit in chrome.
Ask HN: How do you find a startup partner or investor in the UK?
Hi,
To cut a long story short: I've built two enormously complicated startups on my own but I'm running out of cash and I need help.

I've spent the last couple of years under my stone coding 12-14 hours per day and I have virtually no connections or friends.

Is there a way I could find a partner or an investor to keep my projects going? I'm based in the UK and I'd prefer to work with somebody whom I can meet face-to-face.

Where would you start? Thanks.
And void the warranty of a device in the process? No, thanks.
cd ~/.emacs.d
git init
git add .
git commit -m "My emacs config"
git remote add origin http://github.com/myname/myemacsd
git remote -v
git push origin master

Just sayin' is all ...
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How is Fizzbuzz a trick question?
I find it unlikely that good people will fail to do string reversing if they haven't seen it before.

I find it much more likely that the fizzbuzz failers are the students who wanted to copy my programming projects in undergrad.
You especially couldn't block the Philippines for that reason. Many other nations would cease to operate completely without Filipino labor.
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I've seen several applications that look like wget UI. They often are internal engineering applications, and, in the main work fairly well for the target audience. I think programmers know exactly what a good UI might look like, but (a) they don't always have to time to make such a thing. (b) it's not cost or time effective to produce one.

Personally I've done both sort of user interfaces, the quick crowded ones, and the task Centeric ones, where time is spent on design and redesign.

I don't really necessarily think that programmers are inherently bad screen design, but it requires the time/effort and inclination; where often, one or more of those are in short supply.
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Think of every demographic in the US that politicians whore themselves to. The most successful ones are not always large. But they vote as a block, in high numbers, and are not overly faithful to any party.

Tech workers should support senators like Wyden or R. Paul and take steps to really knock down Feinsteins or Burrs.
I don't know enough about California politics, how is it that Feinstein is able to be a proponent of these crazy ideas and somehow get elected in the home state of Silicon Valley and many of the companies who will be ruined by these proposals?
He who takes his examples of generics from C++ and Java has a huge blind spot. The FP crowd came up with simple and useable generics (Hindley-Milner type inference) in 1982.

It's like Go's creators haven't even read Pierce's Types and Programming languages. This is inexcusable. Even more so from Rob Pike and Ken Thomson —you'd expect better from such big shots.
Click on "Explore on my own", a filter shows up. You can set it as you like.
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Can you give an example of the issue you're trying to solve with Generics and Go is giving you hard time? don't take Go to C++.