skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Places that have rapidly soaring housing costs need to get rid of / streamline the permitting process a la trailer bill 707 in CA (which the special interests killed - largely unions because they use the local permitting process to exact concessions). But either we need to streamline the permitting process, or revitalize a serious transit policy (not the BS high-speed rail, but a regional transit solution that makes it feasible to live in Stockton and work in SF).
I own a house in Vancouver. Let's just hold off until I can sell it, then crack down on this blatant corruption.
This is very rarely true. The only case where I can think of where you may be right is when real estate is purchased at the top of the market and sold at the bottom. When you go to sell real estate, it doesn't matter how much equity you have in the property, you will fully collect the gain or absorb the loss resulting from the sale. Equity is usually only relevant when looking at creditworthiness.
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If your rent is more than 30% of your income and you are between the ages of 25 and 34, you are normal (46% of the renting population). Even at above 50% your rent to income ratio is still fairly common (23%). Having a rent to income ratio above 30% is also correlated with having an income that is very low [1].

If you are at 30%, you are also meeting one of the most common recommendations in personal finance (regardless of whether that recommendation is _good_ or not).

It seems obvious to me that recommendations of either moving or finding additional housemates both can have significant short and long term negative impacts on financial stability, emotional, and physical health (I didn't bother looking for a source for this because this is hacker news not a dissertation).

1. https://www.earnest.com/blog/rent-and-the-30-percent-rule/ which cites http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/jchs.harvard.edu/files/jch...
Eclectic choices. Are you Cambodian by birth? If not, how did you end up there?
>I purchased 64GB of DDR3 for <$100 a year ago.

I don't think it was ever this cheap
Actually both are true, glucose and fructose have way different biochemical impact on the both. For starters, only 20% of glucose is metabolized by the liver, rest goes to muscles, brain etc. While fructose completely goes to the liver, since muscles and brain cannot make use of fructose directly. Another effect fructose has is that it sort of suppresses ghrelin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin), the hunger hormone. So it is highly likely that you will not feel full when you have food with fructose. The advantage of having sugars (especially) fructose in fruits is that due to fibers you tend to feel full faster. Fiber also helps in ensuring that fructose is releases at a slower rate vs. a can of soda.
Its funny that the godaddy support explicitely told me that they dont support punycode emojis on any tld anymore. But yeah. Godaddy support does not such for bo reason
Arguing for the CSVW (CSV on the Web) W3C Standards:

- "CSV on the Web: A Primer" http://w3c.github.io/csvw/primer/

- Src: https://github.com/w3c/csvw

- Columns have URIs (ideally from a shared RDFS/OWL vocabulary)

- Columns have XSD datatype URIs

- CSVW can be represented as RDF, JSON, JSONLD

With CSV, which extra metadata file describes how many rows at the top are for columnar metadata? (I.e. column labels, property URI, XSD datatype URI, units URI, precision, accuracy, significant figures) ... https://wrdrd.com/docs/consulting/linkedreproducibility#csv-...

... CSVW: https://wrdrd.com/docs/consulting/knowledge-engineering#csvw

@prefix csvw: <http://www.w3.org/ns/csvw#> .

@context: http://www.w3.org/ns/csvw.jsonld
I wonder what ways US could prevent Chinese money buying real estate in the US?

1. Do what Vancouver did, add tax for foreign property ownership.
2. Tighten the checks on origin of money? How exactly, especially when it's coming as all cash? Maybe forcing it to go through a bank, where more thorough check is mandatory per IRS? But then again, banks are not the most trustworthy in this country.
3. Other ideas?
Could you please elaborate a little on "play your cards right"?
Do scientists still make predictions in Italy? Getting things wrong there is...dangerous.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/11/updated-appeals-court...
The “Bus Test” Considered Harmful
Involving hundreds of employees in the handling of millions of credit card transactions, regardless of however trivial the goods may seem, requires caution.
Is there any gain to use this over say ZFS with a script like zxfer* taking snapshots on a schedule and shipping the diffs to a second, third etc. box?

* https://github.com/redox-os/redox
Such federal standards have existed for decades now. Have you heard of the NIST Special Publication 800 series? They are quite comprehensive, although prohibitively complex for smaller agencies to implement stand-alone.
National Geographic Twitter account with 2.7M followers hacked
Thanks for the links. See my reply above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13299228
Originally "Big Pharma, Bad Medicine"

http://bostonreview.net/angell-big-pharma-bad-medicine

1 May 2010
FWIW, I have a iphone 7, and I use bluetooth literally all day listening to audio books. My battery doesn't really seem to be impacted significantly.
What area are you in now and what area were you looking at because your experience really doesn't match up with mine of living in Sydney.
hash(encryptionKey) is authentication key. Untrusted computer is a joke threat model, nobody uses them anymore. I'm not trolling.
Usually when mortgage interest + etc. > rent, it indicates that the property is overvalued and the value (over the long term) is more likely to fall than rise. Every other buyer - or almost every other buyer, except the ones that need to launder money - is making the same economic calculation, and if the cost of money to buy the property is more expensive than the rent you can earn from the property, they're not going to buy the property.
I don't get the impression that you read my comment.
I didn't say it was uncommon I said it was too much.

I would think the feeling that you're never getting ahead will have a more negative mental health cost than a housemate ever will.
So let's say you save 10¢ on every dollar by renting in your scenario. You'd have to have a hell of a return on that 10¢ you saved to beat the 90¢ you would have invested in the property but instead flushed down the drain in the form of rent....
His comment about the "zoo" of data-driven tests made the way my university's major algorithms class did tests finally make sense. It's not a concept that particularly easy to search for when you're working from the command of "make tests with this filename format, 'test-<args>'", nor is it even something that strikes one as something that might be an actual design pattern (at least for me).

I do wish the reasoning had been explained to me far earlier as I might have been able to really recognize the testing as useful and not just another strange requirement.
I guess it depends heavily on the location's property market and the regional tax rules. E.g. here in Norway, good tax breaks for owning property means we're currently paying $1k/month on mortgage+maintenance+taxes, but renting the same apartment costs 50% more.

It also means you essentially can't rent anything bigger than a 2 bedroom apartment; bigger units make so much more financial sense to own (easily $1k/month cheaper even before you include the investment aspect) that there is no market for renting them.
I recently moved to Vilnius, Lithuania, mainly because I have friends and family (my wife) here. There is quite a good local tech scene (for the size of the city), but I work remotely as the pay is higher and I don't like offices.

Compared to other EU countries it is relatively cheap, but still has a pretty good quality of life. I'd say if you are earning a western salary, as long as you like winter, you can have a better quality of life than living somewhere like the UK (where I'm from).

There are direct flights to most European capitals, so if you want to work semi-remote that's an option too. There are lots of lakes and it's not too warm (max 35c for a few days a year), so it's nice to chill out here in the summer.
You didn't answer the question - not that you are on the witness stand, of course.

Many, maybe not you, seem to be much more interested in the ideology and forget about the people. There is not much interest in the 'details' - serious questions about, and thought and attention to, how real people are really faring. Some even sacrifice real people to their ideology; they defend the ideology at all costs, not the people.
10 Most Scientifically Relaxing Songs in the World
Be a good employee. Be valued. Be demonstrably more productive when you work from home. Etc
You seem to think that 90c is going straight to equity when for many years it will be going straight to interest payments. So for the first 5-10 years your $1 is going down the drain vs the renters 10c going into investments.
For a smart guy, it must take work ... I have no doubt you can see what that comment seems to overlook.
The east (think Kensingington/Kingsford), was in the south last year.
I'm sorry but the service this website offers is to prove you have the skills necessary for ACS, which includes proving your own English is good in addition to those skills.

Trying to use this in place of your own is fraud. You're disappointed that you got a sample for whatever reason, you should look at that as lucky and got HNers to stop you.

Look at the wording on the website frog God's sake, "We safeguard your ACS RPL from any plagiarism" (it will be unique to you), Your privacy and confidentiality is always protected when you use our service. We will never release any personal info to any third parties. (that you bought it will be private).

So yes it is fraud to do this. Ask yourself what you're paying for, its a demonstration that you know these skills.

You wont be able to hide your bad English, don't forget Australia is TOEFL country.

You're also signing this:

The applicant confirms that the explanation of their knowledge and project reports submitted in this application truthfully and accurately describe the applicant and the applicant’s personal involvement in the projects. The applicant is aware that plagiarism by the applicant will automatically invalidate this application, will jeopardise any future applications from the applicant and will be reported by the Australian Computer Society to the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection.

If someone writes it for you that is plagiarism.
Walk in the Sun:
The pay is shit, though, if you don't bring a remote job with you. For comparison, prepare for sth like 40k EUR vs SV's $200+k.
Vancouver, BC. Supernatural beauty. Immediate access to incredible outdoors. Great food and cafe scene. Fantastic arts and music scene. Clean. One of the greenest (carbon footprint) cities in the world. Fantastic transit system. Fast growing technology sector. + all the benefits that come with being a Canadian city.
It isn't that rare actually in major western cities. So you are betting on large increases in property value to offset the loss from front loaded interest payments to make your investment better? That's a gamble.
Do you know the language? Is it necessary to in order to feel that life is as fast-paced as you mention?
I just forward emails to my gmail account.
"Stanley", the VW Touareg that won the 2005 grand challenge, also used LIDAR (but fused with camera imagery). In the event that the fused sensor data reduced confidence, the vehicle would slow and lean more heavily on the LIDAR sensors.

"Additional guidance data was provided by a video camera used to observe driving conditions out to eighty meters (beyond the range of the LIDAR) and to ensure room enough for acceleration."

"Stanley was characterized by a machine learning based approach to obstacle detection. Data from the LIDARs was fused with images from the vision system to perform more distant look-ahead. If a path of drivable terrain could not be detected for at least 40 meters in front of the vehicle, speed was decreased and the LIDARs were used to locate a safe passage."

This computer vision processing was performed with 1.6ghz Pentium M processors 11 years ago. Is it so far fetched Nvidia parallel processing hardware can't do better with CCDs than LIDAR?
seems unlikely having Uber leave town would have a great impact on a councilperson's reelection prospects.
In Greenland, a once doubtful scientist witnesses climate change's toll
Some of the current sites still up are likely to be exploring their options in that regard. The core problem comes down to the fact that a (potential) compromise (as in w.cd) results in the admins hitting the Big Red Button and nuking everything from orbit.

Additionally, while much metadata was lost in w.cd's demise, a large amount of the files have already been recovered through various replacements.
Cellular providers and ISPs are both regulated (especially ISPs, where a cable provider might have a legal monopoly in an entire municipality). Doesn't seem the same.
There's something terribly wrong at FIRB, but unfortunately we have a Treasurer (ScoMo) either too incompetent or too conflicted to do anything about it (he used to be the 'director of policy' at the real estate institute of Australia, a lobby group).

For instance, the chairman of FIRB thought it was perfectly fine for him to take a job with the Carlyle group, a massive international foreign equity fund, while staying on a chairman of FIRB [0]. Even worse, ScoMo was totally cool with this. He's since caved to the public pressure and resigned from Carlyle.

There's also the fact that, last year, the ATO were given a bucket of money to comb through their data and find home-owners likely in breach of FIRB rules (they have all the required bits and pieces, including data-matching programmes with state revenue/land-title offices & immigration). As far as I know, the ATO did this and handed the data to FIRB. No further action after that...

Our politics has pretty much become a game of hot-potato: whoever gets in to power tries their hardest to ensure the housing bubble doesn't pop on their watch. When it does pop, it's going to be one for the history books, given how long they have kicked the can down the road. It's also pretty worrying to see state-level Chinese 'soft-power' being deployed in Australia, via our traitorous ex-politicians:

- Andrew Robb, former Minister for Trade: 'consultant' for Landbridge Group (the Chinese company that was, for some insane reason, allowed to purchase a 99 year lease of the port of Darwin)[1].

- Bob Carr, former Foreign Minister: employed by the 'Australia China Relations Institute' at UTS, an 'independent' think tank on Aus-China relations (funded by the YuHu Group, the Chinese company that bribed Senator Sam Dastyari)[2]

- Alexander Downer, former Foreign Minister and Former Opposition Leader: was appointed (but has since resigned) to the board of Huawei, the Chinese company banned as a supplier for the 'National Broadband Network' amid national security concerns [3]. Is now Australia's High Commissioner (ambassador) to the UK.

- Bunch of others we are not currently aware of...

I am by no means 'anti-China'. But Australia is at a point where it needs to have a serious conversation about how it reconciles its relationship with the US and its increasing economic dependence on China. There's also the small matter of national defence, an area thrown into disarray by the election of President Trump. But it's going to be hard to have a rational conversation, one that produces the best outcome for Australia, if half of the participants are traitorous, paid-up shills.

[0] http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/09/firb-chairman-brain-...

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-30/andrew-robb-joins-chin...

[2] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:c3JxEyT...

[3] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-30/danby-will-the-china-c...
Well, it depends. Do I have a remote job with all of the computational resources and salary I could possibly want? Then Asheville, North Carolina. Beautiful scenery, great food, plenty of high quality coffee shops, and close to family.

If "close to family" wasn't a factor then: San Francisco, Seattle, Lyon (France), Barcelona, and London (for a little while).

It's hard to beat the benefits of the massive tech ecosystem in SF. It would be nice if some of that ecosystem moved to the South. Chattanooga and Nashville are nice cities that I wouldn't mind living in either.
All stories are about raising awareness... even if it's about awareness of a particular algorithm.

As for if politics is on-topic or not? The mods didn't delete the threads, so I assume they were considered important enough, and on-topic enough not to be deleted.

Personally I couldn't care less, creating and disseminating technology is already a political act.
As a complete bystander there may be history I'm completely ignorant of, but in Gogs issue 1304 Unknwon themselves wrote:

"In my point of view, it's a sign of success of Gogs that Gitea forked it. Gogs is under MIT license and there is no problem with me totally that Gitea is developing its own version. It happens often in open source community(when you are not satisfied with upstream version, I fork a lot actually)."

In the same issue comment Unknwon also states that they believe Gogs and Gitea to have fundamental philosophical differences, and finishes off with thanking everyone and wishing happy coding.

I don't know all the facts and Unknwon's personal view may have changed in last 18 months, but just judging by the philosophy of the original author and maintainer of Gogs the lack of courtesy, tact and respect of their roots that you refer to might be an opinion of yours that Unknwon doesn't share. If that is so, then what do you mean they lack courtesy, tact and respect towards?

Of course, if I'm mistaken or there are more recent opinions of Unknwon's that contradict this, then please disregard this comment.
If you take the view that consciousness may simply require a sufficient degree of complexity (electronic or otherwise), it gets even more murky.

Especially so when you're trying to pin down the facets of cognitive machinery required to experience suffering. Memory in particular adds an interesting dimension to the question.

Not that it was anything groundbreaking, but HBO's Westworld did a decent job of exploring this. Granted, it did so using fictional human-level analogs.

With the state AI in its infancy today, the ethical considerations surrounding insects may offer more insight. I found this article extremely fascinating:

http://relaximanentomologist.tumblr.com/post/51301520453/do-...
So again, why should we leave the quantum mechanics out of the spiritual/meditative/what-you-wanna-call-it experiences, exactly?

I think you're asking a reasonable question if you genuinely don't know. It should be answered or ignored, not downvoted.

Quantum mechanics is a sub-field of physics, which grows in the scientific way: you observe things, try to find "rules" that predict outcomes of experiments, perform experiments to distinguish between similar rules, follow whatever path seems to best predict outcomes and extend it by trying more experiments: "Yes, but what would happen if we did X?"

If quantum mechanics ever finds "spiritual/meditative..." ideas by this incremental extension process that are repeatable by anyone like the rest of QM, then this spiritual stuff will gradually become part of physics and will be science. QM isn't close to achieving that at this point and no reason yet to assume it ever will.

Alternatively, you could go at it from the other direction. Start with whatever spiritual/meditative practice rules you have and try to discover quantum mechanics by following those rules. Or use your spiritual tools to extend our current scientific knowledge of QM to something we don't already know from science but that can be tested and verified by anybody with the measurement gear, just like science.

If your spiritual tools can't discover QM, but have to wait for science, and can't even improve on what science has already discovered about it in any way, then people who know about QM via science won't take your combining QM with some spiritual system seriously.

Spiritual systems are vast in number and can have any rules they want, which should suggest a need to distinguish real from fake. If you have a real system, it should produce results you can't get from the fakes. Prove it. Demonstrate those results. If you want to include QM, then show results with that, too.

But just plugging proven QM into an unproven spiritual system does not increase the value of either one.
Go is good at concurrent concurrency and has great development efficiency. We could easily develop complex SQL logical and parallelize many operators. But its GC and cgo overhead is not suitable for developing storage engine. So we choose Rust to develop TiKV.
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And it all poured into real estate.
I use Enpass and have been happy with it.
I hear there's also starving people in Africa. You can what-about anything.

Meanwhile these wealthy people with their overpaid jobs obtained through a racist system of nepotism and cronyism are screwing over the actual working classes that need to take public transportation to get to their low paid jobs.

Why are you so fired up to act an apologist for rent seekers?
the songs are mostly inane treacle.
Hiroshima, I just love the city. Although I would certainly not work there, as the working conditions are a bit stressful.

I'll try to focus on my SaaS and have a nice, steady income to turn my dream true.
Lived in Nashville for three years, fantastic city, lots of big city comforts in a navigable and manageable size, although I know it's going through some rapid expansion.
What about somewhere like Ultimo/Glebe surely they would have housing >$30/week cheaper than your area? And be ~20 minutes commute time.

When I lived in Ultimo my rent at both places was less than half what it was for my places in Bondi or Clovelly.
this ^. to add: Identifying a good company is also key. I work for a small startup and am currently the only senior backend developer. I think being 20% of the company and 100% of the backend helped my situation.

If you got a job at a large tech company, I suspect many wouldn't be as flexible. If you want to work for a large tech company, I would find out if they have any current remote workers.
Hong Kong. I love the food, culture, and fantastic public transportation. It has a nice mix of Asian and British influences. The city has tons of energy and is always alive. Plus, despite being a huge metropolis, there are tons of hiking opportunities nearby in beautiful natural areas.

Unfortunately I'm not alone in loving it so real estate is crazy expensive (even more so than NYC/SF).
1. There little demand for more memory.
2. There are only a few Memory makers left on the market.
3. Moore's Law no longer applicable, smaller transistor isn't necessarily cheaper any more.
4. You can have a Bad NAND, you dont want a Bad memory.

China has decided to pour in 10s of Billions into the NAND and DRAM industry by 2020, until then the price should very much stable / predictable.
Why do traders in investment banks feel their jobs are immune from AI, etc?
There was a conflict of interest between the top election official for Brooklyn and a "Clinton Super-delegate" http://reverbpress.com/politics/battlegrounds/ny-poll-worker...

Whatever the case was, 126K Brooklyn-based democrats were unable to cast votes in the primary http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/officials-investigating-...

Brooklyn is one of the parts of the NYC area that have ultra liberal demographics, so one could draw the conclusion that Brooklyn's voting power would have tipped the NY primary towards Sanders.
Why can't both those goals be combined?