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What if Californians just decided they want their communities to look the way they do now?

Switzerland could make everything less expensive if they imported cheap labor and cut the minimum wage. But they elect not to.

I guarantee that if you made California cheaper you'd attract more people and then it'd just become more expensive again. There's not enough space there to accommodate all the people in the country that would live there if they could afford it.
Hmm, yes, I guess if you're of the opinion that the Soviets were never a threat anyway then the US's role in the Cold War would look pretty silly.

I sense that a lot of people think about MAD as spring into existence one day as "if war, then all die" without any buildup. There seems to be poor understanding of the fact that it started with great Soviet military superiority, evolved through vast American nuclear superiority, and only eventually settled on mutual deterrence around the mid to late 1960s. I often see people talk about the Cuban Missile Crisis as narrowly averting the end of humanity, so clearly there is a general lack of appreciation of how this stuff evolved.
Because we understand the problems of monoculture and non-diverse communities? Because we know where income inequality leads? Because we'd rather see fellow humans have a place to live in, instead of seeing our bank account grow?

Because for some of us, social responsibilities matter too, not just money?
How many commercial services should just be have just been open internet protocols in the first place?

If email was created today it would be one company and they would call it a platform. More than one company is trying to co-opt email in to their own app and do just this. May be it would be totally free at first but gradually exposure would decrease and eventually companies would have to pay to ensure that their customers saw their messages. If a gag order was attached with the backdoor, no debate would even happen.

This isn't an anti-business rant. Every tech company today has benefitted tremendously because of open standards - from Linux powering servers to http to the peering among internet providers. What if every free piece of the pie came at a cost?

There are a lot of funded tech companies right now creating free services in an attempt to grow their platforms as large as possible. Then, when they hit the critical mass of the network effect they either start charging or do something to cash in.

This means that the next generation of tools not only have the potential to "tax" the next generation of businesses for every little piece they have, but it also brings immense cross-border regulatory exposure increasing the risk of broken dependancies. What a different story it would be if the headline read "Brazilian judge orders mobile carriers to block the internet." We would all laugh.
Interesting to see Microsoft talk about "human-readable URLs". I still remember the mess kb.microsoft (or the surrounding MS infra) was at a time.

Nice to see them support such stuff, still.
When regulation is short-sighted and disproportionately helps one group to the detriment of all others, then it is abuse of the commons.

Sometimes the cure proposed is as bad as or worse than the disease. We need to be sure we pay attention to the effects of our decisions, and reverse, augment or change them as needed.
Look, signals matter.

36 years ago we had a military coup in my country (Spain). We overcame the situation, in part because the King (I am fiercely anti-monarquic, but whatever), opposed the coup.

We were obviously the same country, but if the King had supported the coup, I can assure you Spain would be much different (maybe in ruins).

That was an internal issue, but this would have worked the same with external signals. Keeping with Spain: if the allies would have interferred in the spanish dictatorship at the end of WWII, we would have spared us a couple of decades of Franco.

And so on. Dont try to make me believe that external events do not have any effect.

Or, put another way: what would have happened if EU and USA would have supported military coup last friday? (Impossible, I know, since both wouldn't have risked falling on the wrong side, but I digress)
I wondered why this didn't get merged with my submission. Makes a neat example of how random getting on the HN front page is though. Although I'm sad that randomness chose to give the second posting karma instead of mine.
The price of housing is over-inflated. You don't want that price to be normal.

It could be argued that the valuation on their property being out of whack is an issue of mismanagement by the local government. In that case a better approach might be to allow for a majority of that improper pricing to be written off over a number of years as a tax credit.
I find it somehow odd that often many people equal good UI with easy to learn UI. They _can_ be the same, if we have an application that is rarely used more than once, but for an application that is used often and a lot, they typically seem to be very different animals. Notepad has probably the easiest UI to learn while being as probably the crappiest text editor for any serious use with any significant installation base ever created. Vim is the other way round. It is extremely easy to do something with data using Excel. For any serious data management you are doing much better working with a database.
What is a "proper brazilian lawyer", particularly compared to the lawyers involved so far?

(I am having a No True Scotsman[1] kind of a reaction to this phrase, with a side serving of Kafka[2].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial
To add a bit more, if you zoom a bit, there almost always will be some weird straight lines throughout the borders of a country. There are many towns in Turkey, for example, half of which went to Syria. I guess because no one from the people who came up with the borders knew the town was there and/or cared enough. There is even a Turkish movie about this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216986/
The judge "did not give a reason for the blockade due to legal secrecy in an ongoing case." Secrecy for me, jail for you!
In Firefox the requests made to Google's safe browsing are sent using a completely separate cookie jar that is isolated from the rest of the browser, so that even if Google is tracking the requests to its safe browsing service it wouldn't be able to identify you on the basis of the unique cookie alone.
If the data is just a few bytes, tor would pad it with null and then encrypt it. The final encrypted cell would have no revealing information except for the time it was sent out at.
I completely agree that there is way too much regulation. But, the other part of the equation is people are still willing to pay the resulting price in the end. In the more "prime" communities like Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Mountain View they still seem happy to pay the extra cost to get permits to tear down a 60 year ranch style home and then petition a city council to put a custom build in its place. Contractors advertise that they know the regulations and how to work with officials to get their permits through and charge a premium. The funny part is once construction is complete the new residence want to prevent new construction in order to "preserve the neighborhood" they moved into.
You're being downvoted but I find that unfair. It's clear to me because the phrase "moving an event forward" is commonly used like this, but looking at the basic meaning of the word, it should mean the same as "postponed". (If I move something "forward", it would appear later on an agenda or other timeline.)

To answer your question:

Wikileaks moved the publication to an earlier date. They apparently wanted to release it later (probably to prepare better), but thought it was relevant because of the coup attempt.
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As long as moving your read/write head around doesn't generate more heat than you can radiate away...
I searched "Talima crunchbase" and came up with this:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/talima-therapeutics#...

Not sure if that's accurate, but they have received ~20M in funding.
> If California wants to lower their housing prices, they need to have supply match demand. To do that, they need 50 story buildings. A lot of them. And they need to start soon, because they take years to build.

Or lots and lots of 3-6 story apartment buildings. IIRC, New York has achieved its very high population density that way.
In Latin America, there is lots of regulation. Just try opening a business. Hiring an employee.
How well does Carbon Ads perform?

Have you compared it against something like Google Adsense?
Very true in NYC also, everything is so tightly regulated that the spending power of your dollar bottlenecks compared to other parts of the country
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"Whatsapp Inc. claims is based out of Brazil"

Do you mean that they claim they are based ouside of Brazil? I guess from the context that that's what you meant, but unfortunately "based out of" means "based in." I know, crazy language we have.
This has nothing to do with first-past-the-post voting.

The vote that you are talking about happened after the Reichstag fire and Hitler was appointed (not elected) Chancellor. Opposition parties were suppressed, and the Nazi party "monitored" the election. Thousands of opposition party members were arrested before the election. In Prussia, 50,000 Nazis were appointed as auxcillary-police to monitor the elections and to intimidate voters.

>this isn't so obviously rigged.

If you don't think the March 1933 elections were rigged you haven't read enough about them.
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Yes, much of Europe provides an adequate supply of housing. It's not done via massive skyscrapers, but lots of 2/3/4 story buildings that make effective use of space.
Well .. maybe the CS industry needs to all agree to jointly move away to a state that has a better attitude to the problems faced by young people. As someone in their mid-30s, I'll never be able to afford a house in Mountain View (despite earning an income there, spending money there, renting there, etc.).
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I've never liked the term yank, to me it means take something out of there. But it's really "copy this into a buffer," for use later.

That said, I had my annoying fifteen seconds when I first learned it, then just used it as intended. Honestly, my fingertips do the how-to thinking these days, and my brain does the what-I-want thinking.
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You've changed your argument completely.

At first you said that Russia wanted to join international organizations and integrate with the world, but couldn't because the US was somehow actively blocking Russia from joining.

Now you are saying that the US itself didn't join certain international organizations, which encouraged Russia to also actively reject membership in international organizations.

Which is it? These are two very different and opposite arguments.
Using 'California' as a unit, and then selecting housing prices from the Bay Area to illustrate. Okay. Because houses in Stockton are $2mil?

I don't dispute that there are some really stupid land-use regulations in certain cities, but to hand-wave all of California as suffering from the yoke of regulation is to show a biased and superficial hand.
I'm also not sure why we're narrowing down that 15-20 hours focused entirely on maintainability.

It can also be 15-20 hours making sure you're following language/tool idioms and conventions so that you can iterate quickly instead of fighting against yourself and your tools being used incorrectly.

It can be about making sure you aren't making leaky abstractions so that when you suddenly realize you need to make big or small changes to address market needs you're able to do it quickly and efficiently rather than having to rewrite a big brittle pile of al dente noodles with every shift and change you're presented with.

It can be about making sure that the little idiosyncratic things you had to do have some explanation around them so when your fellow boot-strapper has to come in and make a change or understand something you worked on, but you're home sick as a dog because your kid sneezed straight down your throat, your fellow boot-strapper can understand what you did, why you did it, and can carry forward with that change without depending on your availability holding everything up, and because you didn't make a bunch of leaky abstractions on top of it all they can make that change without breaking 99% of the rest of the prototype/product.

It can be about making sure a sufficient amount of what you're doing is done so with composability in mind, so that when you figure out that thing you did that you ended up throwing away, but now turns out would be supremely useful to meet current demands, both still exists someplace and can actually be used without having to spend 10x as long rewriting it.

Having great scaffolding, best-practices models, and good process makes everything go faster... not slower. Learning how to properly use your VCS is an enabler, not a drain, but it takes time away from just hacking away on something. Setting up a CI pipeline is an enabler, not a drain, but it takes time away from just hacking away on something. Building scaffolding tools that can just generate for you the first 20% of a project template are an enabler, not a drain, but it takes time away from just hacking away on something. Learning your tracing and debugging tools is a massive enabler when trying to understand and prototype something, but it takes time away from just hacking away on something.

I should add the caveat that all those things are enablers... only if you do them well... otherwise they're a giant drag because they're hurting you, not helping you, and they become a part of your technical debt.

Do you spend literally no time on any of that because it takes time away from hacking? Do you think having none of those enablers in-place is helping you all work faster?
Answer: Mipmaps(+ LoDs) and streaming, lots and lots of streaming.
It works as long as you maintain the income you had when you qualified for the loan. The problem is that real-estate downturns are heavily correlated with economic downturns and job losses. The bloodbath isn't people with stable jobs suddenly wanting out of their homes because they're underwater (although you do sometimes get that too), it's people who buy a house they can barely afford and then lose their job.
The site has run out of bandwidth allocation, so I'm only guessing what the metric is from the comments here...

I'd like to see it compared with a "parallelogramness" measure, based on rotating calipers. Rectangularity would be a special case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_calipers
Not only javascript, you can have a http server that can send timed responses/packets and that would still work. If network traffic is being monitored at the modified server and ISP.
I would fire a lawyer so hard if they just casually asked the court of a foreign nation to provide responses in English like that. Such arrogance. What better way to turn them against you?

You conduct business in the language of the land. If you don't speak it, hire someone who does to translate for you.
It's back already - the Head of Supreme Justice overturned the decision. http://www.tecmundo.com.br/whatsapp/107456-caiu-presidente-s...
Russia could never have perceived the relatively insignificant missile shield as a serious or realistic threat.

It was thus not a major factor in Russia's strategic calculations.
Thank you. Your reading coincides with my best guess.

Regarding clarity, I avoid using "forward" and "backward" with regards to time.
The French themselves refer to metropolitan France as l'Hexagone so it probably still would not be a square.
It essentially never happens. What can happen is that you develop new neighborhoods so the city overall becomes less expensive.

Edit: If you disagree it's quite simple to simple mentioning the relevant market were this has happened instead of downvoting. This emotionalism of HN is really getting annoying these days.

Prices almost never go down organically because it actually gets harder to build as things gets more developed, stake holders would have to take real losses to the detriment of the local economy, housing in these areas are almost essentially always a sellers market etc.

The "just build more" meme on HN is BS. In essentially no popular cities where this have been done have prices gone down or necessarily stabilized including the common examples of NY, HK or Paris.
It seems like it would be an excellent method if you could address the outlier issue though. One approach would be to relax the rectangles, so the outer one only has to circumscribe 95% of the country's area.

A similar approach is used in biology to define animal territories: A kernel density estimate is taken of historical animal positions and thresholded, rather than a minimum convex polygon.
I dunno, it seems like they are both fairly basic passages filled with the kind of platitudes you would expect from a First Lady candidate. I wonder if it's more groupthink than anything that led to this.
Don't know why you get downvoted. That's exactly what I thought.

Java is my main lang and currently I'm working on my hobby project - implementing Scheme r5rs in Java.
That is hard! And I doubt I'll be able to implement full r5rs even close.

I have no idea (yet) how to implement Continuations:
In theory yes, you can implement Continuations in any lang which has Exceptions (the only way in Java to unwind a stack).

Like: https://www.politesi.polimi.it/bitstream/10589/108685/3/2015...

Proper TCO:

AFAIK it is impossible in general case in object-oriented lang. That is one of the reasons why Rich Hickey decided to have explicit recur in Clojure,

Yeah, you can implement your own stack and stop using Java's stack, but then you lose performance and interop:
"Interop, speed, TCO -- Pick two." Rich Hickey

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922848

Then Full Numeric Tower is hard!
Mostly due to the fact that Java's type system is not strong enough.

I think Kawa is the best implementation of Scheme for JVM you can get now.

But even Kawa has some limitations (due to JVM limits):
https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Compatibility.html
> Dont try to make me believe that external events do not have any effect.

Nobody here is trying to make you believe that. Perhaps fundamentalism in Turkey was helped along in political power (but not popular support--it's always been strong in rural areas) but EU rejection, but "fundamentalism was going down before the EU blew it up" is a statement without support, since in most of the places where fundamentalism has grown strongest the EU has zero influence.
Real estate is usually leveraged. You don't simply get to keep living in a house if you are insolvent and owe more on the property than it is worth. See also: 2008 Global Financial Crisis.
Simply stating "Unclear wording" is not going to work very well if you want answers, and is mildly antagonistic.
Yes, edited! Thanks.
Not an expert, but I would say Kurds, Iran, Israel, Egypt are all points were Turkey and USA do not align very well. By the way, even USA and EU do not allign perfectly in all issues. And even the EU has a lot of differing opinions, which does not prevent them to collaborate (except brexit UK)

And what's with Cyprus? According to some coments it is the main reason why Turkey is not EU member, but according to you it's just a minor issue? I am confused.
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Ask HN: Is there a modern browser that doesn't gobble memory?
On a Mac. Both Chrome and Firefox invariably over a day of browsing accumulate oodles of memory and must be quit and reopened. Closing every window hilariously leaves this situation:

https://i.imgur.com/jZNoC0I.png

Zero windows, 3.5GB of memory used. Sitting around, it's not as if that memory gets cleaned up.

The frustrating part is trying to be "good" and not have hundreds of tabs open at any point doesn't seem to help -- the memory still piles up, eventually driving the responsiveness of the entire system into the shitter.
True for most people, yes, but not in my case since my kids and business contacts are all on VPNs.
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Yup, you wouldn't believe the amount of pain you see from doing a port from PC -> X360. Malloc is not heavily optimized since with limited memory you usually allocate up front. Lots of PC games are allocation heavy since it's fast on the desktop and large parts of major subsystems need to be rewritten to be console friendly.
Once you understand what c, 2, a and w mean (individually, in context), the command "c2aw" is intuitive.
> a mathematician friend

Said mathematician was Charles Marie de La Condamine, maybe he isn't too well known abroad but the guy also discovered rubber (well, for the Occident of course, the natives knew it already), a malaria treatment, and measured the shape of the Earth (to confirm Newton's hypothesis that the poles would be flattened) in a great expedition to Peru.

So he's a reasonably important 18th century man who wasn't only a mathematician.
Because a significant portion of many, many peoples' savings and retirements are tied up in the value of their housing. Whether you think that's a smart choice of them or not, it's the reality we live in.
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It also comes when the politically powerful grab a chance to enrich themselves at the expense of the public interest.
How do we balance free speech and privacy against the safety of visible women?
They'd probably respond, "Easy, you pass a law saying that anyone who uses such-and-such kind of math shall be punished with fines or prison." I get what you're saying, but I think they might miss the point.

Plenty of countries outlaw certain uses of words, which is not much different.
Housing prices are driven by average income, interest rates and population growth. Period.

In a stable metro, the minimum price is a floor driven by the prevailing rent as defined by social services for section 8. The median is driven by the median two earner income. You can validate this by looking at small cities with dominant employers like a state Capitol.

Everything else just changes the size, form and fitting of the housing unit.
Good point, I did butcher that metaphor.
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I feel like that might not be true. Morality is relative and by extension the democracy it embodies.
Suggested reading https://www.amazon.com/Human-Smoke-Beginnings-World-Civiliza...
>it's almost like it takes a 1000 years, give or take, for a religion to blow off its steam and become reasonably peaceful.

Fundamental attribution error. It took Catholicism 1000 years to blow off that steam. That does not imply that the theology of Islam will ever move past barbarism.
It seems like this article is written for a small group of people that recently pitched him!
Sure, and you can make up anything without facts. I have also better things to do that believing a complete stranger which can't source his claims.
Probably means a local bar accredited lawyer.
OK, great! Thanks for your perspective, by the way, very interesting comment.
Any lawyer that has a license to work as a lawyer in Brazil, with brazilian justice system.

Their lawyers answering the judge's court order are from this american firm: https://www.zwillgen.com/