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Good. I don't want to live in a city.

I dislike density and can't stand not having lots and lots of space. I love the look and feel of sprawl, and I want more of it... you couldn't pay me to live in an urban environment.

Crowded cities feel like something out of the past to me. Like, my great-grandparents lived in a crowded city when they first came to this country, and every subsequent generation has moved farther and farther out into the burbs. Moving to a city would feel like moving to 1901 to me.
> There's a nuance that seems to be lost in Greenwald's interpretation of the article.

It's not lost, it is deliberate

Make no mistake, GG has no interest in the truth, he is only interested in furthering his agenda. Which, in this case, of pushing mistrust in mainstream media, is shared in common with alt-right sites
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Just a minor nitpick. If you are buying a home, and are also fortunate enough to be able to manage "retirement savings, kids college savings, savings in general, and debt payoff and avoidance", you are likely not strictly middle class. Most people who are classified as middle class can't afford any one of those, let alone the entire set.

You don't come across as negatively "privileged", but perhaps if you can afford to send your kids to college, and plan for retirement, and have a rainy day fund to boot, you might consider yourself blessed compared to the situation many people find themselves in. I'm well enough off, but I'd give an arm to be in your position. :)
I don't see anything at the site about who is "really" doing this, and am more than a bit concerned someone could spend January collecting $29+ subscriptions from folks with New Years resolutions, and then depend on folks forgetting about it come December. Particularly among those who drop the habit...
> Why are people so desperate to defend this clearly user hostile move?

Partly because even months before the iPhone 7 came out, sales of wireless headphones overtook those of wired.

http://qz.com/745108/wireless-headphone-sales-just-hit-a-tip...

People are already using it without unnecessary accessories.
Can you give a cite to any statistics or resources that suggest that real estate fully explains the wealth gap? The ultra-wealthy tend to have much higher percentage of their assets in securities than real estate. So that real estate explains the entire wealth gap sounds curious, although perhaps not impossible. I just have no idea how that could be.
>It can support a lot more housing

So long as you also build all the transportation, schooling, utility, and other infrastructure needed to support it.
Nobody[0] reads corrections. The damage is done when the original, incorrect, inflammatory article is published. You can't unring that bell, and the Washington Post editors know that.

[0] To within experimental error.
Please be more patient :) Replying to posts you didn't read will not help us, definitely.
So is it not sustainable for a family then?
I just feel like there's no amount of evidence that'll convince the folks who are currently unconvinced.
The Intercept in general (and Greenwald in particular) seems to spend an inordinate amount of time combating the "Russia Hysteria", as they've labeled it.
Modula-3, at least, had generics.
It's a three month old thread.
ingesting raw user input is good

emitting raw user input is bad
I too like his teaching style. Started from the beginning. Prealgebra. Working my way up and math is fun now!
I meant more about value attached to signals. Before if someone came to see you it meant they made some effort compares to a SMS. Now that everything is the same, lines are blurred and we feel overwhelmed.
Postcards aren't popular, you are right. I don't think they will be anymore. Kids my age are sending snaps, and even archaic image texts. I think we are are more interested in showing our friends "I'm here, look at what's behind me", then in sending some generic, impersonal postcard which doesn't prove anything.
Twitter has also been instrumental in coverage of various conflicts around the world.

And even though Pizzagate is firmly in conspiracy theory territory, you've got to admit - some of Podesta's emails were fucking weird.
We're about 1000 miles from being able to say they even attempted anything. That's the point here.
Yes, so someone might think to verify that it matches a seemingly safe pattern like "word characters separated by zero or more periods", which is still insufficient.
"A NEET or neet is a young person who is 'Not in Education, Employment, or Training'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEET
Here's where people pile on and say [citation needed]

Maybe I'm just forgetting things today, but i'm not thinking of any.

ADB? FireWire? Which ones?
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Part of the problem is intrinsic to the velocity of news in a hyperconnected world. If a breaking story comes out and your paper delays in covering it, it will lose out to another paper that is quicker to publish. If no other paper has the information yet, then your paper will be inevitably accused of deliberately sitting on the story. It's a no win situation. Even here we see that errors in just one or two stories has led to commenters accusing WaPo of being a worthless propaganda arm.

Furthermore, decreasing ad revenue and increasing competition means that newsrooms are financially strapped compared with earlier days. Back then, even big newspapers published just a few print editions a day. But now there's a constant 24-hour news cycle. It's impossible to check every story 100%; nothing would ever get published. So the editor has to settle for a sub-certain level of confirmation, with fewer fact checkers on staff to boot.

To a certain extent, it's better to issue the retraction later. You get eyeballs on your page for the initial story, then more attention for the fallout and retraction. I've now clicked on that WaPo article thrice instead of just once -- cha-ching. Obviously too much of that damages the reputation, but there are a number of tremendously successful organizations that unapologetically and routinely dispense fake news and still prosper as a result. People have been successfully conditioned to care less about accuracy and more about "tell me good stuff about my team and bad stuff about the other team."
COUGH http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL.htm COUGH
A lot of it is enforced by landlords. Go apartment hunting, and they'll all tell you they'll only lease to you if the rent on the unit is less than 1/3 your gross income.
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Inordinate?

The United States went to war in Iraq in 2003 under false pretenses. The cost of that mistake was gigantic, and continues to pile up.

This saber-rattling against Russia could have serious consequences, and seems to be inspired mainly by a need to find some kind of scapegoat on which to blame the DNC's absurd loss against Trump.

I'm glad they're doing this.
>So here we have a dopamine’d up, blissed out little programmer...

The author referred to programmers as "little" repeatedly throughout the blog post in a manner disturbingly reminiscent of a certain politician's successful tactic to smother an opponent in recent primary debates.

It's just being nasty. Whatever truth scandox is trying to share is hampered by his own apparent anger and condescension.
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I think it's sad that you've been conditioned to assume that, but I agree it does happen a lot. But in this case I am literally curious what parent thinks about this argument, because they seem to have a good grasp on the POV of many of my friends, and I want to understand better ways of engaging in dialogue.
I wish there was a way to help people understand how bad market timing is. No amount of explaining will help.
> But neither have anything to do with Democrats.

That's just not true. Democrats have been pushing the narrative that "Russian hackers" are undermining America, and pushing it quite aggressively. So it's completely valid to bring those efforts up in regard to a dramatically over-hyped story about "Russian hackers."
So you're saying that the principled opposition by the small government wing will wilt in the face of populism, wind at his back and whatnot. You're right about this, except for the principled part.
> the fact pictures and video can be taken in real time, you can then come to a conclusion that is close to the truth.

Sure, but a live video stream of newsworthy events represents a minuscule fraction of social media "reporting" and isn't even really representative of journalism in general since it's usually just an ad-hoc video from a citizen who happened to be in the right place at the right time. Even then, the conclusions drawn from citizen videos are often extremely contentious either because they are incomplete or just poorly shot (perhaps with the videographer leaving their own hysterical or biased commentary as a narration of events)
The US has tax agreements with lots of countries that prevent you from being taxed twice on the same income (and for other countries there are still solutions). Plus, you'd only be paying federal-level taxes, since you'd not be a resident of any state. Not sure about social security.

Still, it is of course painful. As someone in the reverse situation (foreigner in the US), I had to pay income tax to Norway for the first three years after moving, with US taxes paid being deducted from what I owed. On the other hand, I did not need to pay the Norwegian equivalent of social security; income tax only.

(Of course, the Norwegian tax system is also 100% digital, with very simple forms that are already filled out for you based on what your employer etc. have already reported to the authorities; the US stuff was just a small additional form. So in reality the painful part was and is the US tax return, which is ridiculously antiquated and complicated and involve lots of paperwork, especially when you have foreign bank accounts.)
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London, cities in Europe in general have good transport but not great housing options. London just overtook the pre war population (within a green belt set just after the war). Nearly everywhere is within a mile of a station, only one tiny spot is four miles away. It's all about affordable housing. We as a country are building half of what we need.
Game's fun but there's a problem when sometimes the time runs out prematurely. If it didn't do this I'd say 5 stars well done.
This too charitable to the Washington Post, who recently published that ridiculous PropOrNot piece.

It's much more likely that they know they can publish something fake, get the desired public impact, and then retract it and retain credibility.

The Washington Post is not a "higher quality publication".
You don't display any details at all about the final product. Always refer to it as a "beautiful journal" but fail to picture anywhere.

If anyone was even interested in the premise in the end they want the deliverable... So show it.
It's referred to in the documentation as 'New-style', with the old style being the % operator.
Everything old is new again

Ken Iversion originally designed APL as exactly this - an algorithm notation, then it was noticed that -- since this was well specified -- it could actually be executed. I urge anyone who finds interest in this to read Ken's "the description of finite sequential processes"[0], especially the description of the simplex algorithm[1], which is perhaps the most elegant I've ever seen.

I am actually surprised that kragen did not mention APL more, as I know he is familiar with it, and he is usually pretty good about giving credit where credit is due.

[0] http://keiapl.info/eemcd/keisimplexpages/keisimplex447.html

[1] http://keiapl.info/eemcd/keisimplexpages/keisimplex452.html
I started with his

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnyCk62hEL4

on Green's theorem. He was animated and involved. Started with a nice overview. But, bad sound. Bad lighting. They were so bad I gave up.

Please, someone help him get some okay video production quality.
I'm not sure about that... a large part of subsidies is to compete in foreign markets. A LOT of food is produced in the U.S. and the majority of trade is so we can get the likes of strawberries year round. A lot of the food staples like grains, beans, nuts, cereals, etc are domestic. Even a lot of the soy and corn. That doesn't mention that we do supply our own meat the vast majority of the time.

I think what would harm us more in total isolation would be the lack of more scarce resources (those used in electronics, batteries etc). We have a lot of materials here, but there are others where China and Africa trade are needed.
I've been using The Simple Postcard [1] for a few months now and really like it. How does this service compare?

[1] https://www.thesimplepostcard.com/
Are you implying that we drew first blood?
I'm an undergrad and I'm currently working with people in the physics. All of their code, python or not, uses N, n, and x as the most common variable names.
I suspect what happens in software is as you go from 40 to 50 hours there is a modest bump, which plateaus as people fatigue. They ratchet effort downward to handle being on deck for 50 instead of 40 hours. Reading Reddit and watching the proverbial GIFs.

Now in this situation one can try to get that bump again by going to 60 instead of 50. Or one can reduce hours from 50 to 40 and suffer (in the short term) a negative bump with the idea that it will bounce back. Given that the short term bump is immediate, and the readjustment takes some time to make itself shown; and given that short term results dominate ones thinking, we can see how one will continue to choose longer and longer hours.
That's the biggest threat here. The public is going to become desensitized to the histrionic Russian conspiracy news, and a significant portion of them will start dismissing MSM messaging about Russia outright.

I can imagine Russia actually doing something heinous and it making zero waves, all because of the media who cried wolf.
If you live in NYC check out Maple. Simple, tasty, fresh meals for about $13 (tip and delivery included!). The food leaves me full, yet not bloated and tired.

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San Francisco really doesn't have Earthquake safe housing. It's been over 100 years (1906) since the last major earthquake (7.0+), which ended up destroying most of the city.

A large portion of the housing in San Francisco dates to that era. However, rather than learn from the mistakes made pre-1906, San Francisco just rebuilt things exactly the way they were before. Look how much damage the 1989 earthquake caused, and that was a sub 7.0 earthquake. Another major earthquake would result in similar devastation to the 1906 earthquake.

The best part is the NIMBYs who refuse to allow earthquake deathtraps to be destroyed for more modern buildings. They've become so complacent and ignorant to the reality of a major earthquake, that they feel the character of the city is more important than the lives of the people in it.
Reversing the order is not possible, but you can use a dict instead:

>>> "%(foo)s" % {"foo": "bar"}
'bar'
This is a great summary, nice one!
mbrain, move to Europe, you will love the lifestyle.
Good luck!
>wealth gap is nearly entirely explained by real estate.

1) Reagan fired the air traffic controllers in 1981.

2) This set off a wave of anti-union action - http://www.alternet.org/story/154595/how_ronald_reagan_broke... - causing the great decoupling of wages and productivity: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Producti...

3) ...which caused staggering levels of wealth inequality: http://www.bankers-anonymous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/...

4) And all that accumulated wealth ended up being lent back in the form of loans (e.g. student loans), mortgages as well as bidding up the price of real estate which your grandma - a 'boomer' profited a small amount from - which is why this is actually all her fault.
There's two reasons pseudocode is used in most cases:

1. Private exploration as you said.

2. Publication of algorithms in a form most will understand and be able to duplicate.

There's an example of 2 on the front page right now:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08129

In the PDF, they describe their algorithms in pseudo-code that combines the common, BASIC/ALGOL-like text with some common notation (i.e. division) from math. I immediately understood the algorithms enough to implement them myself in about any language without soneone telling me what the notation meant. A common effect of published pseudocode since it's intended to be widely understood.

This new notation Id have to think about and practice with. Just using it in a paper with the label pseudocode would cause confusion. It's less intuitive in a world of widely-deployed, ALGOL-like notations. Maybe it has benefits worth sacrificing the wide usability but person switching it better be OK with that.
how do we report moderators?

you seem intent on forcing your particular world view on hn than providing moderation of explosive or unpleasant reading.

i find reading all the posts you like to detach often more interesting reading than any of the hn comments that get left over.
You didn't have to go all the way back to the 1870s for a good example.

Russian subs have been seen in some Swedish bedrooms the early-mid part of this year. Those Ruskies are capable of anything, you know.
If you aren't already familiar with them, you might also want to check out the stuff by Gilbert Strang (Calculus and Linear Algebra), MathBFF (pre-calc/trig, calculus), and PatrickJMT (little bit of everything).
From the referenced article:

> Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electric grid. Authorities say there is no indication of that so far. The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid.

This is journalistic ethics in action. WaPo has publicly admitted a mistake and revised their article as a result. Greenwald can (and deserves to) give himself a pat on the back.

That being said, I am disappointed in his bad faith equivocation of the (occasionally sloppy and partisan) news media with "news" that is patently false and engineered to maximize advertising revenue. Calling this "fake news" just gives the GOP more (dishonest) ammunition in its 40 year war with the Post.
In many ways it is worse in my opinion. Blatantly false stories (like the one claiming Trump won the popular vote) are easily and quickly debunked. WaPo's brand of exaggerated stories based on a small kernel of truth is a lot more insidious and persistent.
I'm not sure your joke translates well or I'm just not getting it. I skipped your second sentence which was more interesting until I read the reply. The reply saying your tone is off is correct imho.
This project was actually pointed out to be when I originally built postacard.io. The difference between the two is I support international postcards, and include a Messenger bot (also an international perk). Other than that, they're essentially the same service, and I think The Simple Postcard is incredibly well built!
That is a recurring problem. The structure is easy to follow. Variable names often suck. I think they get it from their Algebra and Calculus classes because that was first type of books I saw using those letters almost exclusively.
>he's racist, based on what, comments about illegal immigration?

He claimed judge Curiel couldn't do his job because of his ethnicity.

He claimed the Central Park five were guilty even though they were cleared by DNA evidence.

His company was fined for not renting to blacks and Hispanics.

The whole birtherism stuff.
And if we weren't talking about Putin personally hacking the DNC and other outlandish things, maybe we'd still be talking about those other points.

Btw, do you keep up with Ukrainian news?
All the city needs to do is literally nothing. Just stand back and stay out of the way. Sadly this is one of the hardest things for a bureaucracy to do.
Good point, I do only work at startups, that's probably where the autonomy comes from, rather than the web engineering.
I suspect Greenwald has been on an anti-Hillary-media kick in retaliation for Bernie's perceived mistreatment. He sees the Russia story as a scapegoat for Hillary's loss, and he'd rather see a mass media mea culpa about backing the wrong candidate.
Im watching 1080p with earbuds and have not noticed any problems. I seems ok to me. http://i.imgur.com/rx4sjHq.png
I don't see anything in the article that says it's a 10% cut compared to last year, but maybe I missed it, can you clarify?
All you can really do is sit back and watch as Western citizens succumb to optimism and ignorance of Putin's intentions. Putin is clearly backed by the establishment. Just look at Obama's inaction and weak sanctions over the past 8 years.
"Hypocrisy" is a tough concept to apply to whole nations, I'd say. I suspect most of the people upset about the Russian angle aren't exactly supporters of CIA election meddling either.
Isn't SQL injection caused by ingesting raw user input though?

Seems to me you always have to be careful with user-supplied data.
Is snapchat good enough? It looks like everyone is assuming it's a solid business and that the IPO is going to be ok. Is it correct?
The word privacy does not appear anywhere on the site. Nope.
> Thinking about math or science for a few hours energizes me, but doing the same for social issues wears me out.

I think your exhaustion comes from the moral labeling always connected to social issues. Strip out the morality and social issues really are just math and science.
they'll needing plugging into the matrix and teaching to read Russian plus linking to all the russian underground in 30 seconds or less.

otherwise its too much effort and they'll just go along with whatever seems trendy and cool at the time.

And its definately not cool to point out the sun has set on the American empire.
One big reason Apple is so much larger and more profitable than other tech companies (hell, all companies!) is that they are vertically integrated. This is an expensive business model and it leaves a lot of near-term opportunity (like seizing Android market share through OS licensing) on the table. If you want to build a bullet-proof business, follow Apple's lead.
GDP per person =/= Living standards...
"agenda news"

fvey vs fsb played out in public.
The essence of middle class is being able to do all those things.