skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are inaccurately double-counting the commission. There is no "entry load" for residential real estate.

Also, your analysis excludes the utility value of having a roof over your head or tenants paying rent. It basically assumes you buy a house and let it stand vacant to cash in on appreciation. Nobody in their right mind does that.
I can relate. I was a citizen of Turkmenistan, which is even more opressive than Uzbekistan. It's one of the most closed countries in the world on par with North Korea (or worse). If you're interested, you can read a good travel report from a Russian blogger (translated into English) [0].

So yeah, I totally agree that citizenship/passport of a free (or relatively free) country can be one of the greatest assets that you can have in your life.

[0] http://varlamov.ru/1740845.html
That's not how roads work, the average speed of a road isn't simply the max speed of the road. Especially not in towns, compared to motorways, which will skew it heavily towards motorways.
Interesting. If you would write a blog post or a Show HN on this, I'd love to hear more. I ran my own servers for years but the spam arms race (as a recipient, not a sender) persuaded me to switch to using one of the big providers. I miss the flexibility and privacy of running my own email and if there's a way to do this without a bonded sender program, I'd love to see how it's done.
Their calculation is frequentist, but a quick Bayesian calculation gives similar numbers.
I would suggest, perhaps controversially, that individual home ownership mitigates rent seeking and capital accumulation in large firms. Some percentage of the GDP is always going to be allocated to a housing expense.

Homeowners subsequently hire contractors for maintenance and upkeep which spreads that choice around vs firm ownership which will negotiate a single contract and extract price concessions from their position.

As it is impractical to have land ownership be a public good (centrally owned (or not owned depending on your take on the whole land ownership issue) distributing ownership appears to have the best effect on overall use.
I think anyone who wants to come to this country to become one of us should be able to, provided they;

Can pass the citizenship test.

Can speak english at a conversational or better level.

Can afford a more than nominal sum for a visa (1500-5000 dollars).

Can pass a criminal history check of some sort.

Doing so would get you a 5 year work visa, after the expiration of that, you could renew it again, and after that, you must either formally file for citizenship (and then agree to remain here for 5 years after other than short visits home) or go back home for at least 5 years when you can start the process over again.
> So are you saying that you think the EPA needs more funding?

They should have at least enough funding that they can catch scammers like this before they cause 10's of millions of $ of damage.
Big systems also rarely want to kill their "ego". The desire to develop what means your current self will disappear (physical print) is difficult to do. Not in the same way a young group can.
I could talk a lot about Africa. Loved it. Everything is off the beaten path, which is why I loved it. Outside of the known spots (Egypt and the northern countries, South Africa), there is no mass tourism. No bus loads of tourists that start taking pictures as soon as they step off.

Zim was unique. At that point, I already spent almost two months in East Africa (Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi), and my entrance (into Harare) was an eye-opener. A saw white people. Not tourists or the occasional white person, but actual residents. Lots of them. They had nice cars and went into nice stores. Good luck finding stores in East Africa.

Technically, my first stop in Zim was the Chimanimani Mountains. Lovely day hike. But it was on the border with Mozambique (I only traveled through Moz) so it felt the same.

Harare was a nice enough capital. I was amazed that the national museum was actually selling the art it was showing. Amazing pieces for great prices. If I was not traveling for months (and I actually had a home), I would have purchased some art. Amazing sculptures. Zim had the best sculptures, Malawi the best wood cravers. Went to a jazz club, more first show in Africa.

I did not do any safaris in Zim (did them in Uganda, Tanzania and Namibia), but I went to a place called Antelope Park. I had mixed feelings about it.

The great Zim ruins were interesting because it is the oldest manmade structure in sub-Saharan Africa. Nothing else of its kind on the entire southern half of Africa.

Took an overnight train from Bulawayo to Vic Falls. Slow. Decripit. Beer was $1 (cheaper than a supermarket) and we finished their entire stock. Plus our liquor. They called ahead to get more at another stop and we finished that as well. Fun fun times.

Victoria Falls of course was amazing.

I highly suggest going to Africa for vacation. I dream about going back. Was more of a fan of Southern Africa over East Africa.

Overall I felt safe in Zimbabwe. Better than Cape Town and forget about Jo'burg.
I lived in Rochester, NY and got a 20 hr/week job interning at Kodak in the slide film research department during HS in 1999-2000.

I remember on one occasion my boss, a mid-level executive (head of new slide film research? something like that) asked me what I thought about digital cameras, I think both because I was young and seen as "the computer guy". I didn't own one but I'd read about them a decent amount. I told him I understood they were expensive/low-quality at the moment but the advantage of ditching film and using ever-improving digital tech still seemed huge. I don't remember his exact words, but he couldn't really see the appeal or promise.

The 7-story building I worked in is just a mound of grass last I looked. I have thought from time to time just about the institutional inertia that fights against seeing what's going on and adapting. There were just tens of thousands of people with very highly specialized skills around film and chemicals and processing and dark rooms and paper and so many things most of which simply aren't relevant to a digital photography world.

Now, granted, other film/pre-digital camera companies did a far better job making the jump. I'd argue maybe in part again that Kodak seeing itself as emotionally wed to film while other companies saw themselves moreso as camera/photo companies. That Fuji has been able to survive is more surprising to me than Canon/Nikon/Olympus/etc.
There are a bunch of "preachers" who advocate "best practices" which are rarely presented as "we had A and B problems and X worked out better than Y", instead it's "X gives you 1/2/3/4 over Y and therefore X is better", and the community follows along - cult like. Limited nature of language helps promote these "patterns" and "best practices" because it's often hard to find a better solution and much simpler to just apply them indiscriminately, and you end up with verbose and crazy code that the C# ecosystem is full of.

I agree that both have their own issues but I do think one is better than the other, F# is more succinct (without turning in to code golf) and (actually) being multi paradigm avoids cases where OO just doesn't fit well. With micro services, actors, distributed computing, etc. those cases are expanding.
Again, not true, you fundamentally misunderstand the majority of car trips.

If my job is 2 hours away because there is no motorway, I will get a different job. If there is a motorway, making the commute 40mins, I will take that job.

People care how long the journey is, not how far the journey is.

People live by commute time, not commute distance. Same for service areas, if the roads all have low speed limits you would need more drivers, they wouldn't just drive for longer.
If I were still young, I probably would not invest much in real estate right now, at least not until a major downturn in prices.

It used to be very different. A year after I graduated from college I bought my first home in the mid 1970s, and it is still a good income-generating rental property. Back then, most of my friends and I all had the same goal: own our own home and one or two rental properties. Back then, this was a great strategy.

If I were 25 right now, I would probably rent in a beautiful city, probably not own a car, and seek other investments, and keep investing in my own training/education.
It is my opinion that it is a terrible statement on current affairs that this comment is ranked so high.

While all the things said here are true, they:
a) happened more than 20 years ago in 1990 ( http://abt.cm/QNKiYt )
b) have little or no direct bearing to the issue at hand (Rwanda and its place in the current technology marketplace)

In my mind, a similar example might be reading something about say, for example the state of technology in Kenya and the top comment being about what happened there during the Mau Mau uprising. Yes, the correct would be factually accurate but that time does not represent the country today. And, most of all, WTF really? Stop with red herrings. The country is working like crazy to grow and develop and instead of "nice job getting from a where you were to b today", all you can offer is "yeah, but your dad and mom did terrible things 20 years ago".

Almost every nation in the world, developed or not, has parts of its history where its' peoples and governments did things - that they now deeply regret and would rather forget - as part of becoming the nations that they are today. It just happens that some, not all, African nations are going through those things in our lifetime.

We need to be fair in our positioning and evaluation of others especially if we perceive that they are making their way out of being on the low end of our assessment curve. No need to introduce extra huddles of history to the information we share especially if those hurdles are not contextually relevant.

Finally, the last sentence in that comment is worth some disassembly.
- The first part: "Rwandans do some pretty nasty things around Africa to steal their wealth. But I suppose it's easy to overlook that stuff if you're making money. And to be fair... a LOT of people in Africa do these things. Of course, we don't usually do business with those people."

Please share some evidence around this. Else, STFU with opinions that hold no ground. And even if it were true, how is it different from, for example, the way western economies deal with African and Middle East nations that have natural resources they are looking for. Don't these economies do "do some pretty nasty things around Africa to steal their wealth" Should Africa make a decision along the lines of " Of course, we don't usually do business with those people."?

My two cents, definitely written while wearing my heart on my sleeve.

Saved a screenshot of your quote on img just in case it goes AWOL because don't want to end up sounding like a nutjob if if it does. Link to original quote here http://imgur.com/aYjzkUE
> unacceptable because it confronts people with the moral consequences

Or more likely, because it gives out confidential information about how much you're really worth, which one should never do (for reasons varying from "avoiding hangers-on" to "avoiding loss of status").
I read the article. It depends on your use case but you most certainly can successfully run your own small mail server with your own domain. I've done it for many years without issue.
>there's no code that decides whether the fork happens beside what flags the nodes are launched with

That's not what you said above. You claimed that the mere fact that it's a hardfork means that you cannot implement anything to only activate if there's a majority. But it's extremely simple to do so. Just check whether a supermajority or a plain majority of recent blocks have signalled support for the hard fork, and only produce hardfork blocks if they have.

Quoting from the blog post https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/07/15/to-fork-or-not-to-fork/

>The community tool carbonvote will be used to set the default fork option for Geth. At block number 1894000 the votes will be tallied, and the outcome will determine whether the default is set to fork or not to fork. Then merging the DAO fork PRs will proceed, followed shortly by a release for both Geth and Mist.

So they're only going to merge the hardfork code if they already have the votes.
Lisp: it's not about macros, it's about READ (2012)
Drupal 8 – PSA-2016-002 – Pre-Announcement of Security Update
At speeds well below 10% of soundspeed, as for a ship superstructure or for most cars, air is by a very good approximation incompressible.
have you ever heard of supply and demand?

There is no conspiracy to make homes expensive
It's a model that's common on youtube: you can get the content for free, but if you pay, you get it before everybody else.
The OCaml solution with polymorphic variants: http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/papers/fose2000.htm....

A very good summary of that paper is available here: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1518#comment-17566

Another alternative based on recursive modules:
http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/papers/#privaterows
Keep up the good word: your comments are a joy to read, given the cesspool of stuff they are responding to.

I find the "iron age" comments to be especially hilarious given that they completely ignore African civilizations that gave much to Europe: such as the vaunted Ancient Egyptians, to much less well known Malians, famous for their gold routes and libraries, to the Ethiopians, who represented "bastions of Christianity" when Christianity was still being repressed in the Roman Empire.
One reason you sometimes "need" BGP for this is because the networking team is highly skeptical about their ToR switches accepting routes from the server team's hypervisors/containervisors. BGP route filtering on the ToRs makes them feel more secure and happy.

Opinions vary whether this is a real concern, or just a way for the networking team to maintain their relevance.
While unobfuscated code is really nice to have from a hacker's perspective, isn't this a rookie mistake on niantic's part?

Or perhaps was this a conscious decision, not do to it for some reason?
Why does Microsoft keep doing this, over and over again a technology becomes big, and Microsoft says "learning x is hard, we developed Y so you can do X without learning it". Which sounds good on the surface, but the trade off is 1. You can't leave the platform and reapply the concepts... you're stuck in Microsoft, but even more importantly 2. The process of abstracting away the thing you're trying to avoid learning means that you're probably doing it less efficiently.
Used to be.

I would think a quarter century qualifies as "long ago" in the timescale of a single human life.
Yes, and you could make an argument that using blood or place of birth - as opposed to ideology - actually hinders people who have similar values from living together in the same parts of the world.
Incidentally the Germanic nations (German, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland etc) always ranks in top 5 in almost every ranking of this kind.
We’re referring to the same report and thanks for being rigorous on this. I certainly wouldn’t want to oversimplify.

Using self-identified rich to derive an income baseline for rich still means “rich” is self-identified, no? It still puts us in the 1-2% range.

I suggest that a measurable definition of rich should be those who are clearly above the vast majority of (say) incomes. Being richer than 80% or 90% of the population makes one closer to the top than the middle, so that seems like a better definition of “rich”. Agree that it is necessarily arbitrary, but I think such a definition is pretty conservative.

Regarding the 90%, it’s from this line:

> about 9 out of 10 respondents identified as being in one of the three parts of the middle class

But re-reading, yes you’re right that the lower bound is not self-identified. But the author’s using the $30K number (from the poverty line) puts us at around the 5th percentile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...

…which effectively puts the “middle” classes at 90% of the population.

Again, thanks for the rigor and let me know if I have misread.
The mind isn’t locked in the brain but extends far beyond it
If you're on desktop, installing Stylish and removing YouTube's comments and Suggestions panes is a huge win. You'll still see suggestions in-video, but those are slightly less annoying.

(I've also noticed that, well fed and pruned, YouTube's suggestions actually tend toward useful these days, though that's with exceptionally aggressive pruning.)

Yet another option is to use youtube-dl to download and play content locally. I do this pretty much exclusively on desktop, and find it quite helpful.
I actually think the hearse and funeral/mourning clothes count as opting out of aesthetic choice - minimizing the self by foregoing self-expression
Is this a common practice in the wider security community?

Since Drupageddon i kind of see the necessity of such an Pre-Announcement, but this seems like a horribly broken process if the only way to ensure an critical security update to a submodule gets installed is to tell everyone to get their mousecursor over the update button so you can be quick enough...
Yes, I'm aware of situation in Turkmenistan.
I left Uzbekistan when I was 22 years old (i.e. I lived there pretty long time) and heard about Turkmenistan government.

Turkmenistan for me is kinda mystery because they have a lot of natural gas and they could become pretty rich and developed country (kinda UAE). But they didn't. They got very weird dictator instead.

Yes, I read this blog already.

Is it difficult to leave Turkmenistan? Do you have some variant of exit visas?

There are very few information about this country on the internet.
Apple has demonstrated again and again that developers will put up with just about anything. As long as Apple has control of the platform with the most valuable customers, it will stay that way.
There's information missing from your argument, or something doesn't make sense.

I'm guessing what you meant to say was, all things being equal, investing principal payments is worse than some tax-deferred savings account.

But I'm not really sure that's ever really the tradeoff for most people? Like I stated above, I pay out of pocket for my primary residence, after tax deductions of interest, principal payments (which come back to me), and rental income from the portion of my home I rent out, LESS than what I would be paying for a tiny studio in a bad neighborhood. If I were a renter, and renting the portion of the house I live in now, I'd be paying more than triple, to some landlord who is taking advantage of these benefits. I prefer to pay myself.

Is it fair that there are all these tax deductions? I didn't even mention that improvements to the house can be factored in, and part of my utilities.

The following is a tangent. I regularly come across people who are huge proponents of savings for retirement as a priority 1. I'm in my 30's and am on my path towards independence already (though I have a way to go). The idea that I should defer risk and investment today, so that I can reap the benefits when I'm 67, is beyond comprehension to me, but it must be a personality thing.
Same reason nations stockpile nuclear weapons.
The US is a mix of different European cultures and touches of other cultures in some regions. Hamburgers, pizza, enchilada's for simple minded examples?

I'm not talking (just) about who came on the mayflower, there has been influxes of immigrants since the founding of the nation. I currently reside in a part of town referred to as "German Village", which was settled primarily by German immigrants in the mid to late 1800's and continues to have places that serve "German" cuisine.

America from its founding was a place for people of all stripes to gather. It of course not only is a amalgamation of cultures but it has birthed its own cultures, some of which are associated with certain groups or regions: southern culture, new england culture, african american culture to name a few subcultures/groups--even the cultures we've birthed show diversity!
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I used to keep all my important configs under subversion repository.

At certain point this proved to be quite exhaustive (i.e. I still had to log in to each server to check the config) and I started looking at some tools to automate it. Tried two up to date - puppet and chef. Both come in two flavours (paid and community) so you can try both for free.
My high school physics teacher worked at Kodak's research labs on CCDs, including some that were for use in "specialized applications," which I assume to mean spy satellites†. He said that he had quit when Kodak decided to stop shooting themselves in the foot and shot themselves in the head instead. That would have been the early 90s, I think. I don't have any specific mismanagement stories, but I'll send you his email address (the most recent that I could find.) I always wished that he would talk about it in more detail and now that it is some years later, maybe he will.

† He told us one fun story. One of his research papers had been cleared by the censors for publication and accepted by a scientific journal. However, just before the journal went to print, the censors changed their minds. It was too late to fix the layout, so the edition was released with a sheaf of blank pages in the middle. He said that it was the proudest anyone had ever been of some blank paper.

Edit: Apparently, there is no way to private message an HN user. If you have a Reddit account or similar, I can pm you there.
The gas tax was set to charge for road wear, not carbon externialities
The variations are in the implementation detail, the type checking algorithm that Kiselyov describes in your link is extensionally equivalent to Algorithm W. OCaml's type checker is slightly different to HM, but only to deal with the type semantics of things that HM was not originally meant to deal with (like mutable references for instance).

The link Kiselyov mentions is between Garbage collection (-ish, really it's more lifetime analysis a la Rust) and when it is appropriate to generalise a free type variable and how they both interact with aliasing. Take the following expression:

fun (x) let y = x in y

Here's what we expect:

* It has type `forall 'a . 'a -> 'a` (Keeping the universal quantification explicit).

* The value held in `y` outlives the scope of `y`, because it is aliased in `x`.

But the naïve solution results in:

* The type `forall 'a 'b . 'a -> 'b` (Any function of this type is pure sorcery)

* The value of `y` (and `x`) gets deallocated at the end of `y`'s scope.

The solution is that each type variable should keep track of the scope it was introduced in (like de Bruijn indices), and when generalising, we only universally quantify variables at more deeply nested scopes (which corresponds to deallocating unreachable things).
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