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> the competition for rental property is so fierce now that in many places, monthly rent to the private landlord is higher than a monthly mortgage payment would be to buy a similar property.

This is not a malfunction of the market. Economically renting is always expected to cost more than buying. Renting has advantages over buying:

* No need to have a significant amount of cash to deposit

* Flexibility to move out into a larger or smaller house that better fits your needs

* No exposure to the risk of changing housing prices (which don't always go up, and can be hugely impacted by policy)

* Less headaches over maintenance, etc. This is (typically) your landlords responsibility.

So, just like a flexible airfare is more expensive than a 'no changes allowed' fare, it makes perfect sense that a rental house on average is more expensive than owning a house. Also, if rental prices are lower than the mortgage cost, the owner should probably do something different with that house.

TL;DR: rental prices are expected to be higher than owning, because renters are willing to pay a premium, and because landlords otherwise have no incentive to let out a property in the first place.

Parent's comment still stands, but you have to take the regulation into account:
* people can live in a bigger house than they could otherwise afford, e.g. if they can't make the deposit
* people can live in a bigger house than they could have the mortgage for. (e.g. Dutch regulation you can mortgage 4.5x your yearly salary. If you make 40.000 Eur that is 180k, which perhaps buys you a small studio in Amsterdam). Renting you could probably live in a 250k valued house, because those restrictions don't apply.
I responded to a comment saying "It's exactly like what cable companies would like to do by subverting net neutrality, give preferential treatment to the traffic that profits them most."
Funny thing is that Alan Kay himself often comes across just as arrogant these days.

"Comes across", because more often than not I think it's more likely that people who are too pleased with themselves don't like to be told that, really, what they've achieved isn't good enough, or even misguided. Even if, or perhaps especially if, the person who tells them that (Dijkstra when it comes to programming, Kay when it comes to HCI) is right or at least has a very good point.
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Storing fat? ... You know have to burn the the fat to be able to store it? The fat doesn't have some other pathway from stomach to body fat - all the 'fat' you carry has been burned to get there. So whatever you have been overeating will be the cause.
And new releases could be 0.10.2, 0.10.3, ..., with fixes included! And I'm ok with that from user point of view. But Flask package stuck with 0.10.1.

Glad to see 0.11!
> we all spend the majority of our lives in a couple rooms

You realise you are speaking for your self, not "we all". Believe it or not some people go outside.
What on earth do you think this is? It's not a research hypothesis. Nothing is being measured. It's a clever way to get people to show that ideas many people think are beyond their understanding can be illustrated in just a few lines of code.

'Cyclomatic Complexity of N or Less' would work against that goal as it says nothing about length and is hard to explain.

What a mindless criticism of a worthwhile project.
Western society/governments will start looking more and more like the Chinese I feel, cause western society hasn't found any serious alternate way of reigning in the 1%. It will most likely happen after the "something bad" stuff does.
You ask a legitimate question. My first part of my answer to your question is that my previous comment provided a link. The link is to a thoughtful review article by a careful scientist (Eric Turkheimer). Professor Turkheimer's writings are just about all available for free downloading from his faculty website at the University of Virginia, so you can follow the development of his thought over decades of active involvement in behavior genetics research, often in collaboration with other leading researchers on the same topic.

Simply put, it is possible to affirm the scientific observation that ALL human behavioral characteristics are more similar among close relatives than they are between two randomly selected individuals from the whole human population--that's just agreeing with the facts, and that's ALL that "human behavioral characteristics are heritable" means. Second, it is possible to affirm the scientific observation that EVERY human behavioral characteristic tends to show variance even between identical (monozygotic) twins--which means that some variance in human behavioral characteristics must be influenced by factors other than the human genome. Following the facts leads to both of those conclusions.

But Eric Turkheimer is not an advocate of policies that would be characterized as "eugenic" policies (he is very aware of the history of that subject) and neither am I. It's possible to study and understand nature without falling into the naturalistic fallacy that assumes that human society must mirror all aspects of "nature." We have the opportunity to use human intellectual capabilities and observation of reality to make the human community enjoy something other than strictly "natural" conditions, and often should.

Thanks for asking. I invite all readers looking to read the entire (not too long) article I linked to in my first comment here.
Any presentations folks would particularly recommend?
>> The majority of US and Canadian pet food is made at one factory

This is true if you're talking about wet pet food - there are other makers of wet pet food and dry pet food (which is over half the market) is made by other companies. Mars/Nestle (the same people who make candy...)
Light-field displays have not solved anything. They introduced depth at the expense of resolution, and by a huge factor. Even regular VR headsets have huge pixels, the light-field ones are so low resolution, you will wish your 320x240 VGA was back.
Thanks for the heads up, ill look into it
In general your body doesn't take the fat you eat and store it as fat. It takes the excess sugars and stores them as fat.
I dislike Go as well, but it does compile to a static binary, so you shouldn't need to install any runtime at all.
Hmm, I haven't been to this facility, I'm rather skeptical of your points of comparison to a VR headset.

If it's like the ones have been or worked on, using 3D glasses (active or passive) with IR reflectors for tracking by multiple cameras, then it neither has full field of view nor zero latency and I can't see how it would have group rendering.

The field of view is limited by the glasses, if your eye goes outside the glasses you see both eyes together on the images projected on the screens and it looks fuzzy. Obviously you can turn your head 360 but that's the same in a headset.

In terms of head movement, in a VR headset you have full spherical coverage, not just 360 horizontally, which seems to be the case here?

For tracking if they use Vicon cameras or similar system, you also have the usual motion to photon latency: video camera latency + video camera frame interval + CV algorithms + rendering + sending to screens.

Actually none of the Cave systems I've seen use predictive tracking (like VR headsets do), where the head pose send to the renderer is not the sampled pose by the tracker but the predicted pose that your head will have by the time the image is displayed in the headset.

Group experience? How do they manage that, I'm curious. For accurate multi-person VR you need a different render for each person based on his specific head position and orientation. In a Cave that would mean rendering 4 images per each frame just to get it working for 2 people. So 360fps refresh rate screens for a 90fps experience for example, (which is what the Rift and Vive have).
I've been blocking facebook for years (nowhere near as comprehensive as this list though).

Many of the most unfortunate problems with these sites are social in nature rather than technical. For example, no matter how much I plead with people not to, they keep uploading information about me to these type of sites, including photographs with timestamps and GPS location metadata, which they then "tag" my face as being me.

I don't have any idea how much of this information is even out there, since these sites require signing up in order to find out. Maybe I should look into my rights under data protection legislation...
That's specific to British subjects in the UK, and would only possibly create a legal justification for raparations paid to descendants of those who had legal right to the commons, with revenue raised from taxes levied on that land. This is not the same as any given person having a natural right to forage any given plot of land, especially when there was no established commons and subsequent enclosure. And the history of the enclosure acts in the UK certainly in no way justifies the naked authoritarianism of modern income tax laws, which relate to a tax levied on private human activity (as opposed to land), and which necessitate blatantly privacy infringing laws requiring people to report their private financial details to the government, including all of their private sources of income.
"...I’m making… USD0.65 more than minimum wage."

What was your major?

A common misconception among young people in America seems to be that all majors are equally economically valuable. What you study matters more than whether you have a college degree.
Couple of enhancements - there should be port map for ports which not to connect to.
Also - you will have a hell of a time with synchronization, timezone etc.
The important point to notice here (I have seen comments previously posted that talk about the "1 percent") is that a middle-class American and people in other countries with similar levels of prosperity is very close to the world 1 percent level of income and of wealth. The simple fact of the matter is that today's "average" people in developed countries are staggeringly rich compared to most of human experience for most of history.

https://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-end-poverty/
>No exposure to the risk of changing housing prices

Except when your 12 month lease expires and they jack up your rate 20%. If anything renters are at greater exposure to changing housing prices. Renters don't benefit from drops in pricing, and they only have detriment from increases. At least home owners benefit from one side.
I've got a vive. He's greatly overstating the problem it works fantastically most of the time.
I doubt the price of cars is driven in big part by actual costs. Also, at least in my area, you can buy good enough used cars for as little as $400, which isn't very much money. A lot of people drive in cars that cost less than a decent PC.
Well, I've seen some cases of developers keeping things complex for their own self-interest, e.g. "Job Security".

You could make a similar analogy here...
The funny thing is that the leaked memos to the super-rich describe exactly those threats to their wealth and existence.

http://politicalgates.blogspot.com/2011/12/citigroup-plutono...
Let say it's not and that it's just some individuals behaviours, in a relatively good company culture.
I think capital allocation is sometimes too abstract for people to see the value in.

If I bought some land, built a windmill with my bare hands out of stone and wood that I cut and shopped myself, and became the flour producer for the entire region, people tend to say it's a deserved reward.

If I bought that company, paid people to do all the work setting up a dozen more windmills, paid people to manage the new bigger company, and then sold it again to the highest bidder, now suddenly I'm rent-seeking and profiting off of the poor. Even if those things wouldn't have gotten done without this intervention.

It's like a Ship of Theseus: If you split up the flour company into its constituent pieces and slowly hire other people to do them, at what point does it become unethical rent-seeking?

Even someone who buys an income stream solely to ride it out with the minimum amount of maintenance is at least taking a risk to their capital. And even if they protect it with an insurance policy or similar, they're at least locking up the money for a dedicated purpose usually for an extended period of time. People are often afraid of taking risk or limiting their options, so people who do so are providing some value.
Many very desirable localities are experiencing this in US, though people generally still can find lower costs with exceptionally longer commutes.

In Southern California the shortage in these desirable are is mostly driving by locals. In Santa Monica, I have observed a lot of development get killed by local activist groups who are mostly made up of not wealthy people on rent control. They have no upside that I can think of in the skyrocketing prices or rents. Though they are protected from the consequences by rent control. Yet they still very consistently vote against more housing, even if it's 20% mandatory affordable below market units...

The reasoning seems to be "if only all these gentrifiers stopped moving here and those who are here moved out!", but that's not gonna happen so long as jobs are blocked by impassible traffic.

So in Santa Monica, it's not the rich that are creating the problem. They are simply optimizing their lifestyle to have more free time by using resources at their disposal. If slightly more dense housing was built (Santa Monica averages about 1.5 floors from my observation), it could easily double the supply with only a modest gain in height. Utilities would have to be expanded, but that can be funded with the developments.
There is going to be a correlation that those who have many books at home are likely to be more educated than those who do not and that as a rule those who are more educated are going to have higher incomes.

There is also going to be a correlation that those who have more books at home and read them are going to be more curious about the world than those who do not and this curiosity, too will lead to a higher income statistically.

My father is a humanities prof. at a major university who had thousands of books in his home office that we would read as children growing up. We would discuss books and ideas at the dinner table. Thus, in effect we children received a liberal arts education at home.

Today, with a $75 kindle people have access to great libraries for many of the classics are freely accessible. Shakespeare, Twain, George Elliot, Dickens, Shaw, ... all free to download and read.
Moreover, many ebooks still under copyright can be checked out electronically from public libraries and read.

The studies reported of course were observational. It would be interesting to prospectively perform a study placing books in a number of households and seeing how children develop over 20 years.
The Birth of the Baby Carrot (2016)
I haven't used teamocil or tmuxinator in a few years. At the time, both had a few itches to scratch. i was surprised to see how well thought-out and scriptable tmux was. the often overlooked formats [1] and targets [2] options in the tmux manual had a lot of possibilities to do precise tweaks across sessions, windows and panes, but they were cumbersome to articulate. it seemed like a superb candidate to create an object mapper for in python. In recent months, I spun off the low-level python library for mapping sessions, windows and panes to objects to libtmux [3]

I will give a try at advantages, but take note its been a while and tmuxinator may have improved on these:

1. focusing a pane in each window, as well as window in the session. So after the session is loaded, the cursor will be focused wherever you entered "focus: true". http://tmuxp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#focusing. tmuxinator's startup_window seems to only do window focusing, not pane focusing.

2. freezing tmux layouts http://tmuxp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli.html#freeze-sessio...

3. JSON support

4. More ability to resolve paths relative to configuration file and relative to start_directory. http://tmuxp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#start-di...

5. before_script for bootstrapping project dependencies before launch http://tmuxp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#bootstra.... Can target bootstrap script via absolute path, relation to start_directory and relation to config directory.

6. Set custom indexes (window numbers) via config

These are little conveniences I don't recall seeing in tmuxinator/teamocil in 2013 (I originally used both):

- If your tmux session is already loaded, it will offer to attach it for you instead of re-running. (I don't recall if this was tmuxinator or teamocil)

- If you're already inside a tmux session and load a session via tmuxp, it will offer to switch-client for you.

- There is also an ability to import teamocil and tmuxinator configs, http://tmuxp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli.html#import, though it may be out of date with the latest config for them. I'm considering whether I want to remove the feature, or just try to load them natively. It wouldn't be hard.

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tmux&apropos=0&sekt...
[2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tmux&apropos=0&sekt...
[3] https://github.com/tony/libtmux
Then, they also can enjoy the (sole) company of robots.
Swift Dates Cheat Sheet Playground
Found the quote from Larry about XMPP: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9pmPa_KxsAM&t=2h54m20s
"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."
Encapsulation: I don't think it means what you think it means
I'm actually all for books like this.
"I don't understand why this is seen as acceptable, yet port knocking is derided every time it's brought up."

I have been in this business for a long time and I still look very fondly at port-knocking as a thing that genuinely makes things better.

Almost zero complexity added, super stable knockd daemon, and does a single, simple thing very, very well.

I love port knocking, I love using it, I love the idea of it, and I wouldn't build a server without hiding sshd (and others) behind a knock.

All criticism of port knocking (weirdly) assumes that you also disable all other forms of security and that you rely solely on port knocking, which of course is false.

It is true that port knocking adds just a marginal additional amount of security, but it's still additive and it's still a high return on the (very low) complexity and maintenance.
Not quite the same. In the switchover from CFC to HFC, it was mainly the same companies making both chemicals. In the switchover from fossil fuels to renewable/green energy, you are moving production from one group of well established suppliers to a group of mostly newcomers. While many of the larger energy suppliers are invested in numerous energy plays, the bulk have a singular focus on one energy source. (Source: family in petroleum industry).
Why doesn't the LoC scan it themselves? That seems much more useful than just having on display in one location.
What recent talks has Kay given? To be honest, my only criticism of him based on what I've seen the last decade is that he's reusing too much of the same material, even though he certainly has a lot more to say.
My feelings exactly. Just because they have an outrageous amount of money doesn't mean there isn't enough for me.
Kung Fury II is on its way
This is the primary problem with the discourse. People can agree pretty universally a tyrant, dictator, or emperor is a bad thing. You do not want heredity to determine power, and you do not want one individual to have violent dominance over anyone else, because you will often be the "anyone else" if you are not the aggressor.

But that is about the only difference between how the modern gears of power operate versus how they did millennia ago. Rather than just kill your brothers and claim the throne and execute the dissidents and having your firstborn son inherit the crown from you, your children inherit ludicrous wealth that translates into the same power to buy the violent arm of the state for your own ends.

Except now the peasantry cannot just storm the castle, behead the king, and replace him with another. There are kings from across the globe that control your society through its economy, and the present incumbents of radically concentrated power will argue everyone is king when they own wealth in the global capitalistic system.

That, in practice, is pure deception[1], but you will have people by thousands at the bottom congregating to defend those off the chart, despite the ones at the top constantly using their power to harm all those below them.

If we did have what the rich claim we do - democratized distributed power - we would need dramatically less wealth inequality, because that wealth, and the distribution of it, represents who has authority in the global capitalist economy. That is not an argument for socialism, communism, fascism, anything political. It is a reflection of tautological truths about having a global capitalistic market system that determines who is powerful by way of capital and fiat ownership, and that if you want to have a more democratic humanity you must first deal with the fact that money is power, and when power is aggregated into the hands of very few, you don't have democracy.

We are not at the point to argue practicalities, or dogma, or anything else beyond understanding. What we need is just for near universal acknowledgement that this paradigm exists, is how the world operates today, and that you probably would want to do something about it because we can already universally agree we don't like tyrants, and that we should not like tyrants in any form they take, even the ones that are not immediately and obviously apparent to most.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
American revolution? Is that one a flop? (I mean for now, future trajectories aside.)
When there is something to try out and play with, it might make a good "Show HN"...so long as it meets the "Show HN" guidelines.

"Show HN" guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Please keep in mind that posts soliciting votes for contests and similar endevours can tend to be inconsistent with Hacker News's general guidelines that submissions be "intellectually interesting."

Hacker News guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just to spell out what was implied here:

If a person enters a country multiple times, each time using a different passport under a different name, the government wants to know about it.
> burning fat is inefficient

Huh? The body is perfectly happy to burn fat. You just have to give it the right conditions. In fact, the body can get practically all its energy from fat, it's called ketosis. You can achieve a state of ketosis either through a high fat, low carb diet or fasting.
The web and desktop versions can send an SMS to authenticate if you don't want to or can't use the phone app.

https://web.telegram.org/#/login
San Francisco Park Reservation System Rankles Public
What Makes an Advanced Programmer?
Russia after 1992 made experiment in wealth redistribution within capitalist system restored. The resjlt was devastated economy and creation of oligarchs. Read 'The Iron Heel' by Jack London, this is what happened in Russia when it turned back to capitalism.
Rent seeking is jargon. It doesn't refer to running a business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

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

It refers to the economic consequences of things like regulatory capture and corruption.
ICQ (Wikipedia)
Will this ever be able as a git book?
actually the Pipeline plugin was listed in the study guide, which was probably the biggest change of 2.0 anyways (where it is now by default installed as a Recommended Plugin) :-)
You're not offering a counterpoint. Try adding something constructive to the conversation.