skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While credit conditions are a factor in property prices they don't help explain the huge increase in London rents over the past 10 years which have gone up far faster than incomes.

The private rental market in the UK is all short term lets, after the first year the landlord is free to adjust the rent. With council housing now largely gone it's an unanchored free market. Restricting supply (e.g. through difficulty obtaining planning permission) while demand increases does of course drive up rents.

Property prices are a function of interest rates and rents. Credit conditions come into play here in determining how much a prospective home owner or buy-to-let investor can borrow and pay for a property.
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>> You can build your own version of fb/twt etc.

You couldn't build your own version of fb that can view posts from your friends.

You can setup your own email service to view emails from your friends who are using @gmail.

That's an important distinction.
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Feinstein is a disgrace. It continues to confound me that the home of the US technology industry is represented by someone so diametrically opposed to technical interests.

If firms actually care about issues (and their international markets), they should be donating substantial sums to get rid of her.
You posted a bunch of memes rather than any clear opinions.

You’ve claimed that I’m comparing (“your mind goes back to”?) a fundamental aspect of postmodern thought to a 4chan meme, when really I’m comparing your clumsy soundbites to the content of 4chan memes.

You’re now suddenly asking for me to clarify my criticisms of your position when you’ve been deliberately vague.

You’re now demanding an education on contemporary thought.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Please note that all RunAbove stuff is Beta and will be discontinued at some point in the future and either integrated in OVH.com or completely dropped.

Had a service running on RunAbove Cloud, and suddendly they pulled the plug with 1 month notice - and nowhere on their page was something that hinted on that.
We manage our code on a private github repository, but sharing it would be impossible - the research code relies on various code pieces developed during 5+ different projects with varying IP policies, and we can't make it available to public without either getting permission from all of the relevant organizations and companies (not gonna happen) or getting specific targeted funding to replace/rewrite those components to enable the whole thing to be public - and that's not gonna happen either.

Political influence from the top (non-scientific top - the funding sources mostly) is the only way that can improve anything for this problem, the scientists don't really have any realistic way to do that - i.e. one that doesn't expect to sacrifice their scientific and personal goals to go significantly against the current incentive system just to slightly improve openness in their fields.

The same goes about datasets - quite a few of the more interesting datasets from industry to do science on are available only under very harsh conditions. You can do very interesting and useful analysis that cannot be reproduced by anyone else, because they are unlikely to ever get access to that particular set of data.

An idealistic grad student working on a greenfield project could start and keep that project as open and reproducible as would be best - but most of them work on basis of existing projects with lots of legacy, and there it's different.
On the other hand, Valve tends to treat bugs differently with Dota 2.

They have a test client in which a small group of players can test out new patches and find bugs. Recently when patch 6.87 was released, they practically skipped the test client and deployed it straight to the main client. The result was that there were all sorts of bugs in the game, but they worked really quickly to fix them so that after a few days, they were almost all gone. I think Valve's mentality is that it is more efficient for their large player base to beta test for them instead.

Also, there's been a few times when the game is literally unplayable for one or two hours because Valve pushed a random update.
In bioinformatics this works for me too, up until I get comments and tracked changes back from co-authors - getting Word comments/changes back into a md file isn't worth the headache, after that step I have to use Word too.

I've made some good experiences with Authorea, a paid online collaborative scientific writing tool, I think that one runs on top of Pandoc+git too, but it doesn't have full Word import support yet AFAIK

Edit: 0 mentions for Authorea in this entire discussion, I guess these guys need to do a bit more advertising :)
Similar vein is getting acquired by a public company and watching your stock based retention packaged drop by 30% before the 1 year cliff hits.
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I called it that because that's where I'm from...

And I don't really consider it derogatory. It's really an accurate description. I was referring to the literal middle of nowhere, where no one lives, not even small towns. The places you drive to get to the small towns.

edit: I think maybe the confusion here is that I was not intending to make an association between the people of Oregon and the AM radio callers I was referring to. (The shows you get are nationally syndicated, aren't they?) I only said that because that's the only time I listen to talk radio, and unless you drive through places where it's hard to find any radio station, you probably won't have listened to it before. It's very different from e.g. Fox News, where you hear professional pundits talking about these issues. You'll hear real people stating opinions that others in this thread are assuming can only be the result of blackmail. That was the whole point of the post.
Earthquakes have nothing to do with SF's housing issues. (except to the extent that brick buildings needed to be retrofitted.) Lots of other cities have earthquakes and tall buildings. Look at Tokyo.
> takes it apart and puts it back together to gain the kind of knowledge you will never find in a book/blog post.

Interestingly, the author still worked a lot with the docs (RFCs), not just with the software itself.

I believe this is important for any hands-on activity. Even though the documentation isn't your starting point, and may be too cumbersome and badly structured, sooner or later you should go back to them, now with more specific questions, picking out what you need.
I upvoted you to counteract the downvote.

If you think it's bumfuck Oregon say so. I've come to the conclusion after travelling that whenever people form groups they become idiots. You can have a reasonable conversation with any single person almost anywhere, however, the more people involved in the conversation the dumber everyone becomes. Eventually culminating in elections and/or the UN.
Thanks, I've seen it so many times it seems I developed (%rip) blindness :) Of course it's useful this way.
Thank you for pointing me to TryVoices, it was helpful in finding the contact information for my representatives for Washington (state).
Herp derp unicorn...
It's a bit like tourism. You travel to see the places which get destroyed by you being there...
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The useful end result was definitely the papers. The products offer a proof of concept (that it works) and a demonstration (how the details add up).

Then in future, others throw away the product (or observe it a bit) and make the next nice things (products for industry adaptations, or further research) mostly based on their papers.
Interesting, I'd have assumed jewelry[0] would have been most interesting, granulated works from 2500 years ago are somewhat impressive[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_jewelry
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_jewelry#/media/File:E...
This is not reddit. If you don't have something meaningful to contribute, please feel free not to post.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11608610 and marked it off-topic.
I totally get that researchers' incentives are not aligned toward publishing it, so no need to explain that further. There are costs and downsides and probably not enough benefit to them. That's fine. Everyone works within their system of incentives.

If it's paid for by public dollars, then the code and data belong in the public domain eventually. I understand there are exceptions like hospital data affected by patient confidentiality - that's fine. However the code released by that researcher should be capable of reproducing their results with that data set plugged in (such as by someone else who has access to it).

As a taxpayer, my concern for publicly funded research is maximizing benefit to the public good. I understand your point about follow-on research, and I'm not saying that I'd expect the code and data to be made available immediately with publication, but that deserves to be the case some reasonable time afterward (like a year). I understand that researchers' incentives are not necessarily aligned toward making it public; I am saying that people who fund research (including taxpayers through the political process) should require and expect it. Keeping it private indefinitely is a degree of self-centeredness that does not strike an appropriate balance between benefit to the researcher and to the public in my opinion.
That would be really great! It's always a pity when this happens:

- I read a great article.
- I have a look at the rest of the blog, seeing more interesting articles.
- I see that the posting frequency is low. [1]
- I want to add it to my QuiteRSS reader, but there is no Atom/RSS feed.

[1] Which is actually a very good sign! Daily posters are inevitably posting mostly crap, and I'm too tired of such blogs to pick out the cherries. I prefer authors who publish only their cherries in the first place, or at least provide a "cherry-only" feed.
The etcd binaries are go gettable. The others are large enough to easily justify their own build process.
That's clawed price anchoring tactic. Just make a high price offer and everything below that seems very cheap. Same with this bill, but I guess everyone knows that his bill can't change the reality but badly damage it.
Then I'd be skeptical about those results. Releasing the code allows others to judge the likely accuracy and integrity of the results. A lot of things can go wrong in complex, multi-step computational processes. If care and rigor has not been put into them, then I'd have no reason to believe in the integrity of the output. I want the general public right to judge that, as well as build on it when it's useful and valuable.

Every publication involving data and technical analysis should publish them to a degree that makes validation possible in at least as detailed a way as portrayed in "Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogo ff" (http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/31e2ff374b6377b2ddec04dea...)
This is not news. We feeble humans cannot continue to drink from the ever-growing reverse-chronological firehose. Algorithms will only get better. Progress marches on.
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I'll add...

If you find yourself disagreeing with this article, or depressed by what seems like a cynical outlook consider this example.

If you are a child who believes in Santa. Would you not rave against a world in which Santa no longer exists?

If you were a child who just learned or is starting to suspect that Santa does not exist would you not be depressed about that? Would you not think parents so cynical to fake all of these stores?

But if you are the parent who already knows these things, it's neither good or bad, it's just a nice story to tell the kids, and see their eyes light up with images of elves and winter wonder lands.

This article isn't depressing or cynical. In fact it might be quite the clever meaning game for the over 40 set, just like Santa Claus is for parents.

... And what is Santa Claus if not a cultural construct of meaning. As the author says, this isn't a bad thing.
I don't see how that's related. There are loads of open source software projects that are maintained by only a single person precisely because they haven't bothered to properly document why it exists, what came before it, what important things it is demonstrating, or what needs to be done to improve it; the archetypical content of a research paper.
In fact, if more "proof" for safety of food would be appropriate, it wouldn't be on GMO food but on organic, which is in fact responsible of the last big-scale food poisoning in EU, which killed over 50 people in Germany.

Imagine the hysteria if a GMO food item would have been involved in the chain of events!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Germany_E._coli_O104:H4_o...
The 'style' even leaked out to file naming: a.c, ab.c, af.c, am.c, c.c, ca.c, cc.c, cd.c, cf.c, ...

Brilliant!

I doubt that this is either serious (unobfuscated) or handwritten code though.
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They do it through the fact that being a monopoly or oligopoly is inherently more profitable than not being one, so if you don't play along you're basically leaving money on the floor.
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Ok, we changed to that first URL from http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/phuctored, since it gives a little more context and also points to the other one.
You can fuck right off with the personal attacks, mate. You're wrong, too.

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

https://guifi.net/en

http://www.gowasabi.net/

https://networkbogota.org/

https://wlan-si.net/en/

https://freifunk.net//en/

And that's not even mentioning telecom cooperatives and municipal ISPs that are popping up.

> Maybe if your solution were in any way practical or realistic

> fantastical solutions

The broader point was about the idea that the average American doesn't see computer networks as something that can be local, and how that might affect how they interpret computer communication in the context of the first amendment. And (I think, at least) that would be an interesting point in its own right.

But it doesn't have to be, because this is reality, and it's a recent development due to new software and hardware developments. And it's growing.

So fuck off.
where are all the posts "who is hiring, who wants to be hired, seeking a freelancer?" for May 2016?
Any specific advantages a nimble startup has over a global behemoth?
One taxpayer moved, and New Jersey shuddered
I would like to make it a simple requirement of receiving any public funding. No one is asking for the code to be polished - I would actually rather it was not modified whatsoever from the state in which the research was conducted. The goal is reproducibility and integrity, so I want to see the actual code that was used, not some polished subsequent version.

Every publication involving data and code or analysis should publish them to a degree that makes validation possible in at least as detailed a way as portrayed in "Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogo ff" (http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/31e2ff374b6377b2ddec04dea...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin
Newbie here. Can somebody summing up the implications of this? At first sight it seems terrible.
"I am the same person I was yesterday even if I'm in a different place or I cut my hair."

Think so?
Yes, we were already using it on Windows to program COM in the mid-90's.
> threads and locks are so easy to do!

I don't think concurrent programming was ever particularly easy in Java. If you're talking about `synchronized` methods, well, they are of limited usefulness (to put it mildly) when you need to lock objects in an interleaved fashion: "lock A, lock B, unlock A, lock C, unlock B, lock D, unlock C, etc.", which isn't too uncommon a user case.

> stuff that previously could only be done in C/C++ (...) almost as easily as writing Python or Ruby

Metaprogramming, any? C++ has templates. Python and Ruby have metaclasses. What does Go have?
Australian here, "14th of September" sounds natural and would be what was taught and used here in general conversation.
Sad. Kuro5hin was a great community in the day. When did this happen?

Oh how I loved the ASCII art reenactment players...
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And they call this free market. US government bullying for benefit of the corporations and not even for the US people. This is going back to middle ages , the landlords and the peasants.
> "Kuro5hin — pronounced corrosion"

Ah, all these years I thought it was a Japanese name..
Very small, unless you used some really weird/experimental software/hardware to generate your PGP key.

What they keep finding is: keys that do not pass the first sanity test (very non-standard values and values which most likely come from memory corruption) and keys that share primes with other keys (most likely generated by broken or badly initialised PRNGs).

The same class of issues has been found before on SSL certificates and SSH keys. (https://factorable.net/index.html)

It will get interesting people with affected keys can report back how they generated them and find something in common - maybe specific version of PGP / GPG was broken. You can submit your key via http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/ if you want to check your own key quickly.
"The path" is a metaphor for the life you lead. We all lead a different life, we all walk a different path.

Some find meaning, some don't. Some need meaning, some don't.

Some go on the Internet and preach, some don't.
I'd not heard of this community before. Before my time, I guess.

The idea of publishing something or not is rather interesting. It presumably encouraged much higher quality content.
The aim of a welfare state is to redistribute wealth to a point where no-one needs to be afraid of dying of hunger, cold, or trivially treatable medical conditions and can have a primary education.

There are no pure market mechanism that would take care of these needs. I would not call a welfare state an epicycle.
Thanks!

Hint to all who participated in that ugly thread:

The inital comments were bad, but I found it even worse to see how many people engaged this, making that ugly thread larger and larger. It became so large that it finally displaced all the good, on-topic comments!

If you really want to show respect for the author, just downvote + flag the ugly comments, and be done with it. Then, go on and use your time to post something insightful about the author's article.
> Books were expensive. A very rough calculation is about $450 a book. Amazon could have made as killing back then.

Paper was expensive. It wasn't until wood pulp techniques hit in the 1840's that the price of paper actually dropped significantly.
Did Facebook figure it out? Because I don't see people actually browsing the homepage anymore. What used to ne an exciting way to explore stuff has turned into a bunch of pictures and a couple of Facebook videos ripped off from YouTube. I haven't seen anyone browsing through their homepage excitingly in a very long time. Now it's just a chat platform.
She's more of an equality of outcome person than a equality of opportunity person. It leads to drastically different definitions of what a free society looks like.

Most people aren't interested in capitalist striving, they want to live an average life free from any real danger.
Happened to me. (Not a big sum)
>IMO the main thing RDBMSs have failed to do is to capture the new generation of developers who don't have the desire or the patience to learn [...]

As one of this 'new generation of developers' (who happens to also work on industry database internals), I would say that I've been enormously unimpressed by the amount of specialized knowledge needed to implement an optimized, portable, flexible, scalable database. Do you know what tables in your DB need indexes and why? Do you know how to optimally set up your partitions? Do you know why your one query runs fast for a week and then suddenly runs slow, and what you can do about it?

The database API is just too low-level for most people's comfort zone. Most people who want to use a database are just trying to stuff organized bits somewhere and be able to get them out quickly. Databases are smart, but the admin still has to learn and learn and learn -- all this esoteric, domain specific knowledge -- just to store some damn bits.

Learning to use a database feels like learning machine code in that if you suck at it, you're going to pay the price of not having the best performance. Databases market themselves as data storage applications, but they are complex programming APIs at heart. People turn to databases to quickly solve data storage problems, not because they want to interface with some unsexy, cryptic API.
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That only works if the there are equal amount of uninformed voters on each side
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I'm a little embarrassed to say, but I'm a regular yahoo (frontage) visiter. It's entirely muscle memory for me, I've been using the site since the mid 90's.

The only things I've noticed in her tenure are that they've really streamlined their click bait articles, built custom results based on viewing habits and integrated sketchy 3rd party promoted ads and everything gets a summarization. It's all meant to keep you clicking on their site, whore you out to one of their ad partners or just capitalize on ADD people with TLDRs everywhere.
Technically, they've implemented JavaScript based article preview overlays that keep you on the site, but create a terrible experience when you want to go offsite to view the whole article- you want to continue from where you left off, but realize that you have to start over because you just read a bad summary. Yahoo really embraced that kid's summarization engine that they purchased a few years ago... To a fault.

Bottom line is that they did well with bringing in some good content providers- getting great results for hockey all year- in favor of many terrible "in-house" personalities. It's less about yahoo-branded content and more of an aggregated list of stories you might like. Unfortunately much is just click bait garbage with a terrible user experience optimized for ad revenue. There are often very offensive articles from yahoo's "reporters" that make lite of human tragedy or just attack people in a very mean spirited way- TMZ has higher standards. These changes started soon after Meyer started so I put it all on her, but I keep coming back so it's not all bad.

Funny note, I've been using the username "elpresidentedechimichanga" for nearly 20 years. With all their auth changes over the years, it still works. On a not so funny note, yahoo's comment section is one of the dankest recesses of human expression. I would have cleaned this shit up first thing if I was CEO.
I was actively interested how bits and hardware work, using Z80, 80x86, 68000, GW Basic, Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon.

No need for C and its flaws.