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A house is an investment. It isn't a liquid investment which is something to consider.

A house as an investment only pays off after a long term: if you live in the house for 30 years (doesn't have to be the same house, though trading will change the time), you have your mortgage paid off. Suddenly your monthly rent goes to near zero (only taxes and maintenance to pay) Better yet, odds are you are nearing a different phase of life (kids living on their own) and you don't need as much house so you can downsize and apply the difference to your retirement plans. (or if you decide the house is where you want to live for life a reverse mortgage might make sense - though this area is full of scams)

Note that real estate is very much about location location location. There are places and times where the difference between rent and a house payment is significant and it isn't always in favor of either one.

Also comparing renting and buying is NEVER an apples to apples comparison: owning vs renting nearly forces different life styles. Renting typically means you get a much smaller place for less money which means you have less room to have fun at home, but more money to enjoy the time on the town. Buying typically means a larger place to fill with the type of things you like to do with your small family. This lifestyle factor is very important, and not one that you can put a monetary value on
This is most likely a honeypot to make a list of potential enemies of the state.
The primaries can just be moved. The democratic and republican party aren't government institutions written into the constitution, they're just associations of politicians.
This. There are tons of talented engineers who will put some serious time into defeating any insidious crap that advertisers try to shove on us. If they start doing things like hosting ads on the same image domain as normal content with indistinguishable URL patterns, people will implement OpenCV to see if an image has any text, and block it if so (trivial example). It might be difficult enough that the mainstream ad blockers will miss it and the arms race will temporarily be "won" by Facebook et al, but the tech savvy will never have to look at ads.

Real life is one exception, since it's hard to stop cities from allowing the construction of billboards. People could start ripping them down, breaking the electronic ones, tagging them, hacking them and replacing the images with offensive ones, etc to send a message that we don't want this trash polluting our vision, but most people aren't that annoyed by them yet.
www.thevacationbrain.com

Ranks top search on Google for over a hundred vacation related keywords.

I recently redesigned the site and although there's quite a lot lacking, I do intend to add more features to it. Unless someone makes a good offer I'll probably keep working on it
His parents didn't give it to him, but he had it legally changed to that when he got married. Seems like the kind of thing a fun guy would do.
This is the beauty of the markets. If everyone indexes then this will create arbitrage opportunities for the active manager. People will chase the opportunities - and the cycle continues.
How much energy does it cost to evacuate many miles of tubing?
If the market collapses, you're screwed anyway, but at least your index fund is diversified (I hope) and liquid, whereas your house is the most undiverse and illiquid asset you can buy.
My personal favorite (though I thankfully haven't had a chance to use it yet):

alias gitfire='git checkout -b fire-`date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"` && git add -A && git commit -am "The roof is on fire" && git push origin HEAD'
Stupid question: why evacuate the tube? The ends of the cars could have props that provide thrust and "lift". I know it's not as efficient as gliding through a vacuum but it would be a much simpler solution.
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The user probably posted with either a public SOCKS proxy or TOR, so it would most likely be a pointless endeavor.
I'm not convinced security would be the same. Amtrak is great with respect to the security inconvenience (nearly none). The trains might be more regular than flights, and the price? Who knows for now, it's a new technology (for something that barely exists).
Isn't "setting up your environment" pretty much a one time cost, though? In my head at least, losing a couple days up front doesn't matter as much, it's the time after that the needs to be optimized. But maybe that's just my work place where people tend to stay on the same team for years...
i still have not been able to understand why a hyperloop is needed instead of just using pre existing high speed rail technology like shinkansen
This is just nonsense. Compare, for a start, what would happen to your 280ZX in, say, a 40mph crash. Now see how the modern 370z would fare.

Things that would have been considered exotic in the late 80s - like turbochargers or 6 speed gearboxes are now commonplace. Features that are now standard weren't even options.
Wish I could upvote this more. That is some serious queryselector fu.
This has been a problem in some areas of the UK relatively recently: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/440...
It will be really cool if we focus our energies in the short-term to interstellar communication vs. interstellar travel. This way we can atleast figure if intelligent life is out there and figure out ways to understand their world.
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Russell and Norvig's AI textbook has a good introduction, although maybe it'll go into more detail than you would like. Stanford has some classes on coursera, too.
what's the penalty for not?
I don't recall many ETFs failing in material ways in 2008 - I do agree with your view on exercising caution with ETFs. There are 5 different ETF legal structures and they each provide different investor protections. Few retail investors who buy ETFs know (or care) about the differences - but in times of stress they could make a difference.
I was thinking of canvas elements with no differences between them. Same size, same properties, random id.

In such scenario you'd have to "look at the pixels". The contents are programatically rendered and they're not subject to DOM inspecting.
You're going to have to explain that one a bit more. For making Gantt charts and the like it's capable enough.
yes, but you make the assumption that you don't have to sell the house due to factors such as sudden job loss, unplanned events such as accident/injury causing disability etc. The point of 20% down is that you have enough equity even for a turbulent market and if you do need to sell quickly due to possible factors above, you still should be ok. Otherwise, you are assuming that nothing bad will happen and you can continue paying the mortgage.
The latest rash of them have been grotesque "one weird trick" type ones. I'm not sure why they're even selling spots to whatever idiots are making these, because it's undoubtedly driving users away and pushing people to install ad blockers to not look at that nasty garbage.
The ultimate investor milking machine would be "fusion-powered flying car moving inside a hyperloop." It's almost there and it'll be truly revolutionary!
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> This is analogous to saying no business needs financial debt, and can bootstrap entirely out of cashflow.

Technical debt isn't a commodity. You can't generally can't infuse legacy technology with more technology and fix things. At best there's a lot of bespoke work to get the legacy system to work with the new technology.
Right but after you setup and start webpack do people actually look at the terminal to see it recompiling / etc? At least anecdotally I haven't heard of anyone doing that. You're not really going to be seeing much if anything important there unless you're looking for errors or something similar.
Is it a vast majority of podcast listeners?
Mail-ins are accepted "over time" as it were. Which apparently doesn't help LOL. However, it might be nice to have multiple days (or strictly mail-in, as my city now does) to be able to avoid those long lines, those can be painful...
Drives me nuts when the line numbers are turned off while pairing. That's the first thing I tell them to enable. Can't understand why that's a default for IDEs or people in general.
> Microservices are a fairly recent innovation

Yeah, no. Micro-services are neither recent, nor innovative.

Fun fact: a friend of my consults for large pensions funds in The Netherlands. One of the projects he was brought in on earlier this year to get an outside perspective on was this gigantic monument to micro-services that had been built up over a two year period by ~200 developers, at a cost of around 50 million euros.

After two months, every developer was fired, the project cancelled, and the entire 50 million euro cost written off.

But it had great micro-services, hundreds and hundreds of them!
As of right now, this is a super cool site to fire up my email client to send you an email?

Edit: There is no description for what I'm supposed to do once my email client opens up.

"Deploy your personal army of designers and developers." that means I can get projects for me and the other developers on my team with a single email? For some reason I think you've described it wrong, and what you really mean to say is "Hire us to build whatever you want."
Weren't they talking about .mov files at the time?
I dunno, from what's described it sounds like his input was on par with Andreesen's, except he wanted to be more involved. He's not mentioned after the first third of the article.
Yeah, its going from bad to worse! Comments on this post have been really helpful in highlighting my ignorance on a topic I thought I understood.
An xpath like `//table/tr/td[2]/a[1]/text()` seems like it would be a lot simpler.
The website we've been working on for a while now is finally finished. Our concept is simple: deploy an army of designers and developers with a single button.
Getting usual software job is not so hard. I think he was not after "usual software job", but after one that is hard to get (job at Google, Facebook etc). I find what he wrote very valuable, being a person that has similar aspirations (Google is my holy grail) that was very helpful.
Thunderf00t isn't just getting hate from people who take their (otherwise understandable) admiration of Elon Musk too far, Thunderf00t is also getting hate from those who are deeply invested in 3rd wave feminist ideology.
Kerf's doing well: we're adding a sort of NoSQL functionality which is pretty unique (unstructured data you can index and join on). Closer to K than J, but really pretty different from both, beyond the Array language heritage.

I had considered building a distributed processing system using J and zeroMQ, but now considering doing something like this with Kerf. Main thing is ... do the customers want it. I can't pay rent with technological innovation.

FWIIW, Pascal has something you might be interested in for GPUing in J, if you are not aware of it; jarrayfire.
https://github.com/Pascal-J/Jfire
I haven't screwed around with it, but I keep meaning to get around to it. Looks solid. I made an abortive attempt to do something cheaper (cuda hooks basically), but got distracted.
Because HTML is not a programming language thus you have very limited options to work with.
Why should apathetic people vote? They'd presumably vote for the candidate who spent the most on ads.

If anything, I'd prefer a fair voting test, where the person pulling the lever has to have _some_ kind of background knowledge.
Depends on how much atmosphere is leaked back into the tunnel and how much vacuum you need. The former is a much bigger issue with the concept, if it takes a lot of energy to evacuate the tube once it's not too big of an issue, but ongoing maintenance of the vacuum would be problematic with leaky or damaged seals over the lifetime of the tunnel.

Of course, most of the vacuum tube proposals require a vacuum of something like 0.001 atmospheres, which is incredibly problematic as well....
I think you might be right about that. In my case, although I haven't succeeded in my career yet, I did have some small wins (and good emotional support) along the way which helped keep my confidence levels up (and yes, luck had a big role to play there).

I completely agree with you that confidence is key - And unfortunately, confidence just doesn't come from within - It has to come from outside validation.

Most people in our society suffer from a perpetual lack of confidence and low self-esteem. Unfortunately, as is the case with money and power, the 'lucky few' in our society seem to have an oligopoly on 'confidence' - They tend to 'suffer' from self-perpetuating overconfidence and an inflated sense of self-importance.
I've used some of the settings at a previous company on an haproxy front end machine. Lead us to move from c4.8xlarge machines to m4.xlarge handling the same traffic. I'll do a future post on how it affects scaling.
I wouldn't quite hold my breath on that one. Anything like that is going to have to both get users to open their wallets, and do so at a rate which matches or exceeds the current levels of revenue gained by ads.

The closest thing we have now might be Patreon, and while it's successful for solo artists and small groups, I doubt a Patreon like model is going to be funding the New York Times.
What nonsense? He explicitly said in the episode that he studied some options and they were all bad ideas. He made a few million from the sale of Tumblr to Yahoo, has FU money in the bank and he is just scratching an itch and exploring his hobby. I don't see anything wrong with that.
I had an old MP3 player that would play VBR files with variable speed. I suppose the speed changed depending on the bitrate of the part of the file, but I wouldn't know how to check it in such details.
Quite a bit, but the power does not have to be stored aboard the vehicle, or transmitted to it while the vehicle is travelling at hundreds of kilometers per hour.
Snarky reply replaced: I'm sincerely curious if that's really all you're taking away from my comment, including the explicit disclaimer. My advice was to pay closer attention to the material, not to ignore it, so I'm perplexed as to how you managed to get the complete opposite message.

This seems exceptionally straightforward to me, so I'll make it as un-political as I can: There are lifetimes of new content available for your consumption every single day.

Maybe it's not all worthwhile. Maybe not 1% of it is. It doesn't matter-- you'll never get to see an infinitesimal fraction of it, even just the good, true, accurate stuff.

So how do you decide what to pay attention to with your mortal lifespan? Just as a first pass, I like to use filters like "is this notably excellent" or "does this make me want to throw up at all, even just a little".

Then if it's not excellent, or if the speaker doesn't agree with my politics, or especially both, I don't feel any remorse whatsoever about skipping it.

This isn't about shutting myself off. I think it's very important to expose myself to perspectives that differ from my own, to broaden my own frame of reference. I also think that feces play a critically important role in my metabolism, but that doesn't mean I'm excited to open a box of donuts and discover a frosted turd.

And I'll accept exactly 0 concern trolling around my publicly saying, just, hey... look in the box.

If it's a turd in there, you don't still have to eat it.
The factual value of whether or a relevant comparison is justified or not is open to question. That would turn the attack into an unjustified one.

But not ad hom.

I'm not convinced of PayPal and Facebook's net social value. They're quite mixed, though I'll allow transformative.
That's especially the case when you consider that the proposed track across CA is really a fairly short track on which the Hyperloop would not save a great deal of time in aggregate: the Hyperloop has a passenger capacity of about 10% of high-speed rail. It's obvious that given the economic/technical costs the Hyperloop imposes, it's way more marginally efficient to build a Shinkansen or TGV-like system.

The Hyperloop might be worth pursuing it it were 10% of the price of HSR, but that's just not anywhere near the case, as other commenters have duly pointed out.
How does a PhD in chemistry make you an expert in mechanical engineering and fluid dynamics?
Is there a concept like YAGNI at all in stocks/finance?
There was some discussion of this post on the raft-dev mailing list the other day: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/raft-dev...
>We're still very busy as a society pretending that computers aren't a public utility.

Fuck that noise. No my computers in my home are not a public utility.

I will run or not run the software I choose on my machines. You can call me Typhoid Mary all you want, but if an Nigerian prince somehow compromises one of my machines and tries to sell you Viagra you can report it to my ISP or domain registrar.
Because the drag from normal air pressure would waste a significant amount of energy.
Are you disputing that if you issue such a trade that you are not guaranteed to be able to execute it? Because, I assure you, there is no such guarantee. I'm not even sure why this requires some special explanation. There have to be enough people willing to trade at that price. The exchange isn't going to force people to trade with you.
http://algo-logic.com FPGA network cards that run business logic on order books before they even get into the CPU. Pretty hard to beat an approach like that. By the time you've executed a single instruction, you've already lost the race :)

Edit: spelling
Actually its a site to send an email with project details for a design or development project. You send your project, we agree over the price and we finish it within 48 hours. If we don't you'll get a full refund. We are actually a new approach to digital studios.
Good question! Many teams are using induction maglev. Regular maglev technology required either permanent magnetic tracks or expensive electronically controlled tracks with embedded electromagnets, but induction maglev requires only a conductive plate on the floor (the hyperloop test track uses aluminum)[1] and a "hover module" which induces eddy currents in the floor and repels off them.[2] Based on their spec sheet the current generation of technology consumes 66 watts per kg of lifted mass, and since it's a constant power draw the faster you go the less energy it uses per mile.

[1] https://www.badgerloop.com/documents/TubeSpecs.pdf

[2] http://arxpax.com/
IANAL, but I was under the impression that the Americans with Disabilities Act can be applied to some websites to impose just such a requirement.
lol yeah this is definitely not about revenge.
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And Democrats wouldn't be trying to import voters!

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Maybe I'm mis-remembering, but I don't recall Thunderf00t's video suggesting that the hyperloop was truly as absurd as, say, the idea of using solar roadways to melt snow off the road.

I thought that his main message was that people are over-selling the feasibility of the hyperloop and playing down the incredible engineering challenges and dangers.
I can tell you what I'd like to do with my Kindle, that's absolutely worth jailbreaking it.

I use it for my own .mobi files from a variety of sources, including books I wrote myself. I purchased mine and paid to have no advertising on it.

I would roll back to the previous operating system, which did not have advertisements on the homescreen and did not make me navigate two levels deep just to get past subfolders and a 'downloaded' option hiding my own books from me by default, and I would remove its ability to update itself or do anything via wi-fi.

I would just connect it via USB for all file management, and that would be perfect for me.

Needless to say, I'm really frustrated with the 'update' I never asked for OR installed, which has screwed up these things. I am very, very interested in what can be done with this jailbreaking. All the more as I don't wish ever to purchase a book through Amazon again, if this is the direction they're going. And they are, they obviously are.
This guy [1] made it across the US on a bike with no cash by simply dumpster-diving and eating nearly fresh fruits and veggies thrown away by grocery stores. Here [2] he is dumpster-diving in San Diego. It's amazing how much foods gets wasted.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7QO-4NjgjQ
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Gn_T1zQFc
Evacuated underground maglev has been proposed at least for 30 years now. I've first read about it in a popular magazine.

Speed figures up to 10000 km/h were thrown around (assuming near perfect vacuum).
I'm not familiar with US election system, but is there a reason why elections in USA aren't on sundays?

Here at least all voting is done on Sundays with reasoning being that this maximises the amount of people that can make it to the stand (since majority of population doesn't work on sundays and most of the others have a part-time schedule). What's the reason US avoids that?
$100 gets you 48GB of storage these days, and at my overage rates it would buy about 7GB of transmission. Not that this really changes your point.
The more I see writeups like this, the more I wonder if the effort being laid out by the people doing the work is compensated appropriately.

I'm not sure what Amazon pays for identifying a security flaw, but I imagine it's somewhere between $5 and $15k.

Having success monthly might yield reasonable compensation, but companies only pay when a flaw is identified, which means you don't get paid for your work, you get paid for your successful work. And you don't get to define what is successful, nor is there usually a clear definition of what successful actually means.

I understand that many people do this to get a job in security / security research, but it just seems like the effort-to-payoff ratio still favors people using their found exploits for evil dramatically.

There really should be a different pricing model around security exploits - one that encourages responsible disclosure more heavily.
Who cares about his motivations? Why should he be able to pour tens of millions of dollars into whatever country or election he pleases to push the voters where he wants them? Why should Rupert Murdoch be able to do similar by buying up media conglomerates? Why should anyone have this kind of power to obviate democracy?
> Not having to think rigorously about the logical structure of your data is a huge selling point for many

I'll play the devils advocate: what ever logical structure of the data you come up with will not line-up with relational DB tables - I have had the pleasure of designing relational schemas for cyclic graphs. Hell, we have been trying and failing to do Object-Relational Mapping for years now, and it's still a shit-show. I could name a long list of ORM libraries and an even longer list of their various deficiencies.

Say you've thought rigorously about the logical structure of your data and v1 is out, and now a change comes along and you need an extra field or 5. Renormalize your structure, write some migration scripts (in both directions, just in case you want to downgrade). With NoSQL I'll just dump the new document structure and call it a day (or rather, deal wiht the differences in the application layer).
It would be pretty desirable, but it would not be as desirable. All else being equal most people would rather live in less crowded conditions.
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Isn't this a poster child example for the semantic web?