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That's a symptom of broken governmental policy, not so much imaginary value. People still need to buy houses for them to sell, so it's not like the property bubble isn't backed by real money. It's just that people are placing disproportionate value on property over other investments.

For example, say your house went from 400k-500k in a year. For it to be 500k you still have to find a seller. Yes, there's a degree of paper value there however it's paper value only because other properties are selling for that. If you were to somehow remove property from being bought and sold, the money would just go into other investments. There is no way that 'most' of that wealth is wealth on paper in the form of property.

The reality is that Australian wages are very high comparitively. Australia is a wealthy nation.
This is Andrew Wong (@wongavision), one of the creators of astronaut. I'm amazed this has appeared on HN on it's own, thanks KeatonDunsford! Reading these comments is heartwarming, as it appears like many of you are experiencing and feeling what James Thompson (@astrojams1) and I set out to make. The idea was to create a glimpse into the unedited world. The videos are current and to some extent unbiased and of the world. The lack of 'control' is by design -- sometimes you have to just sit and watch to really see whats out there.

As an embarassed engineer (i wasn't ready to launch! :D): apologies for this not working on mobile! i'm controlling a few youtube players to create this 'no spinner' experience for the videos, but haven't gotten it to work on mobile. I'm still figuring out what is the best way to do preserve the fluid feeling between videos on mobile browsers -- any suggestions are welcome!

I think one of you discovered this on your own: [spacebar] goes into 'theater' mode. I threw that in and started tearing up while watching. I hope you can experience the same. For those wondering, yes the feed is syncronized across everyone so you should be all seeing the same videos at the same time. The videos also are constantly updated, so when it's christmas time, you should start to see family dinners :)

I love all the feedback so far and the anecdotes, keep them coming!
Thanks for the link. Great documentary. I just watched that with my kids. We were absolutely mesmerized by the earnestness and openness of the family profiled.
You can't, because if you're American and you work in the UK, you'll have to pay taxes in your home country on top of your British taxes. That will ruin whatever compensation you have.

Please. Let's leave Europe to European and USA to the USA. No cross continent comparison.
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* On Jan 17, 2017 we launched Nylas Mail Basic. This had the K2 project
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* At launch old N1 was more feature-rich and deemed "Nylas Pro". For a
* while after launch people could download Nylas Mail Basic and "upgrade"
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and, sadly:

* TODO: We don't have MailRules yet in Nylas Basic.

[0] - https://github.com/nylas/N1/blob/master/src/browser/nylas-pr...
Finding work easily doesn't mean that you'll just be automatically swept into the career you want. Some thoughtful planning is important even if it just helps you know what to say no to.
Complete nonsense. The moon has water which can obviously be broken down into oxygen and rocket fuel. The idea that we know the extent of the moon's resources is naive.
Always wondered why this is such a surprise. Getting around the planet, especially over very long time periods, is just not that hard. We're stuck in a mentality that says long distance travel was impossible prior to Columbus. But realize he was just the guy who traveled and came BACK. To migrate over long distances you don't by definition need to return, so the people you left have no idea where you went. Also you have to have a motivation to tell people where you went. Supposedly there had been fishing expeditions to the new world coast for a long time prior to Columbus. The fishermen didn't want anyone to know where they were finding such good fishing grounds so never told where they had traveled.

In addition, the evidence points to a major impact around 12.5kybp centered around the northern plains. This would have destroyed most of the evidence of any human presence.
Let alone a "Goddamn tragedy"
Great. Can I have my escape key back?
You left because Valve made a good faith gamble in hopes of accelerating the development of VR with no guarantee of return?

Was Valve not growing fast enough for you?

That being said, yes, I agree that FB has been a tad arrogant with oculus. And, if you look at sales, karma is catching up to them.
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Sounds like he left because of flat management and lack of oversight.
same. i use jsonlint all the time to pretty-print json, but this is faster/easier and a filter language too!
Valve has always had flat management. Why'd he join in the first place?

Valve is a great game company. They've done great, hugely important things. Their work on Vive has been extremely innovative and it seems to be paying off in terms of sales versus Oculus.
In my experience as one who tends towards spirituality, intuition etc over science - this type of path is jut the balance I need to keep moving towards my life's goals. I overly focus on serendipity and synchronicity to where I often don't accomplish much practical
After looking more closely, that's actually a Chinese derivative of the Alstom Pendolino train first developed in Italy.
That's pretty slick, nice work.

I don't make a lot of presentations, but the fact I could figure out a lot of it in minutes makes this attractive. I definitely see it as a web tool more than a marketing / management tool. If I showed our marketing dept markup they'd have a conniption fit.
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Because Liu is basically a railway enthusiast but in power. In order to push projects ASAP he bribed everyone thoroughly.

Each time a new HSR line is open he is the first passenger, and once on Chinese New Year eve he traveled to distant small rail stations and fire drunk station masters on premise.
My best friend and I both did PhDs in astronomy starting at the same time, me in the UK, him in the US. I completed in 4 years, he took 9 years.

The big difference was that the PhD in the UK launched you straight into research on day 1. No teaching, no courses. He spent the first couple of years in courses, and a lot of time throughout the degree in teaching. In some ways I envied his coursework, since I was basically on my own from the start (his grad courses sounded very thorough and interesting). However I do not envy the 5 extra years it took him.

That was all a couple of decades ago now, so things may have changed.
It's not a choice†, it's market forces. You'll never change the world effectively if you don't start by correctly diagnosing the problem.

†(as far as your objective is concerned. Yes, Google could choose not to have secure hardware, but that wouldn't change the end result that the market leaders in five years will have secure hardware — Google just wouldn't be among them.)
Anecdotally, you have some supporting evidence but ultimately don't trust it. That seems silly.

You also conflate anger and profanity. Which is clearly a load of shit. They are distinct things.

I doubt it is cut and dried, but I'm interested in the research. And I distrust it as much because it confirms my general beliefs. And that should be a red flag for everyone.
It'll be interesting to see if they decide to go back to it. Knowing Apple, they will most likely keep the touch bar, but it might be the case that they decide to add it back after the backlash the touch bar has received.
One of my favorite jobs was minimum wage. Certainly more fulfilling than doing nothing.

I can't be alone in feeling the therapeutic effects of work.
While it may be that a good chunk of private traffic is in the service of internet services, I think calling it 'the internet' is wrong technically and in spirit.

The spirit and technical definition is that fundamentally the internet is a connection between private networks. Initially it was some universities, ARPA and so on. Now it's Google, Facebook, Verizon, Amazon, AT&T and so on.

What happens on these networks is private network traffic. If some of that traffic travels long distances it doesn't make it less private. Why count inter-region traffic of cloud providers, why not count the inter-AZ traffic of AWS regions? Why not count the inter-rack traffic and so on. The difference between the internet and private networks is not about distance travelled it's about ownership. For instance if traffic goes between Google and AWS at a peering location in CA, then that is internet traffic even if the data doesn't go very far.
A puppy on it's back in a basket of flowers.
A teenage asian girl singing the national anthem.
A gymnast preparing to do a flatground set.
Several Japanese men in a room full of pipes pointing around and asking questions.
Two children sticking there tongues out at the camera and saying "Hi grandma!"

And then a cock fight... Like a real one.
for someone starting out with their first github project, one would appreciate your comment.. although one may be 100% OK for their work to be the subject of any rational analysis, it is worthwhile to know the constructive motive behind such discussion and thereby even criticism may encourage more future contributions (moving far from being the last project).

+1 for being vocal
This looks great, and useful. It must have been the result of a lot of figuring out, and now anyone who needs public transport data can benefit from the work. I wish my city (Prague) had something like this, in fact, should be publicly funded! ;)
Depends where you are coming from and going to. I do prefer to take the train driving from the western Boston suburbs to Manhattan (so RTE to NYP) but it's not actually faster than driving directly. Probably is faster than flying though.
Considering the baseband on the far side of the demarc point is about the best we can do today. But a trustworthy baseband would actually allow some privacy advances. Imagine fine-grained powerup/powerdown, cycling through IMEIs, and even contacting a single tower through a directional antenna to avoid triangulation.
Lyon? Pft, go to Grenoble. Friendly city, techies everywhere, mountain activities year-round, and it's not full of Lyonais ;)

(it was the classic regional thing: when we saw a car with a '69 license plate, we'd grumble ;p)
NYC has buses covering pretty much the same routes as subway, it just takes much longer. Personally I use express buses for commute and these are amazing, though twice as expensive.
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Except Mars' atmosphere is more akin to a vacuum than most industrial vacuum processes.
On a related note, ars technica has an absolutely fantastic article on reverse engineering and re-building the Saturn V.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the-...
You're fighting the wrong battle here in order to get people to use better tools. Most people don't care if it's Free Software or not. They want something that's simple to use, and offers reasonable security. Right now, XMPP is not, due to the awful clients out there, and the attitudes towards any sort of comparisons with products that they are less philosophically aligned to.

This is perhaps the biggest problem Free Software programs have when you start treading away from things like a browser. There is a huge hostility to ease of use and building things that are Powerful Enough. People don't care if you have a lisp scripting language embedded in your app, they care about how long it takes to get started doing the stuff they care about with your software. Until usability becomes more important, then XMPP isn't going to gain traction.
Taxis/Uber don't really work in very spread out areas relative to having a car.
I can't remember where, but I read an interesting piece pleading with apple to bring the 17" macbook pro back. If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. The extra headroom for the keyboard means they can easily cozy the touch bar in above the normal function keys. The extra chassis means they can put a bigger battery in there. The extra screen size would be... well it would be awesome.

But that's all a bunch of dreamy tech fluff. Apple has it's sights set squarely on a customer that most certainly isn't using the product for professional purposes.
Apple could shrink the touchbar enough to have space for the esc key. They could have also included a single classic USB type A receptacle and kept the magsafe power connector... so who knows.
Your article says that Google has overtaken Yandex in terms of the total usage for the traditional and mobile version of the Google website and its mobile apps (emphasis mine).

So a reasonable explanation is that Russians are increasingly using Google's apps: gmail, google calendar, the google now launcher; which probably has something to do with the fact that these apps come preinstalled on their phones. Not necessarily that they prefer Google for searching for Russian-language websites.
Nobody said people on basic income have to do nothing. One of the big wins of basic income is it frees people up to do whatever they find fulfilling. This could be working the same job you have today. This could be going to school so you can do more than just flip burgers. Or maybe becoming an artist, or a musician, or whatever else you may be passionate about.

It's also worth pointing out that Basic Income certainly won't give people a very comfortable life, so they'll still want some form of additional income. But maybe they don't have to work two jobs to feed their family anymore.
> If someone has no job the government pays the full $x. So the employer is only helping the government.

Better to let the government pay the full $X, rather than keeping companies around that only succeed because they depend on the government to keep their employees alive. And think of a company like WalMart—by paying its employees very little, and depending on the government to take over things it doesn't want to pay for (like security, leaving it to the police instead, at enormous cost to them, but no cost to WalMart), they can undercut other companies that cost the government far less, leaving the whole economy less healthy.

> However, the subsidies are to the worker, not the company

The subsidies are to the worker, yes. GP was asking why the government has any say in a business relationship between a worker and a company, and the answer is: because they're involved as well, through the need to subsidize whatever the company doesn't pay. They're automatically part of the equation, and thus have a say in what the worker & company can settle for.

> To see this, imagine a hypothetical world without the subsidies, and try to figure out if the employer would be richer or poorer. (Hint: richer, since they don't need to compete with the "stay home and watch TV while collecting welfare" option.)

You mean, if companies were unable to pay less than a living wage? They would have to pay the worker more money, so they would be poorer. However, since all companies were paying more, everyone would probably do better in the end.

Or do you mean, if they could pay people as little as they wanted? They'd be richer, but less and less money would end up moving around in the economy, and everything would slowly grind to a halt. And lots of people would starve.
There's enough room to have the function keys and touch bar now... the way they should have done it to begin with.
I think you would have a hard time showing this is any less closed than earlier days. For good and bad. IBM used to be at your door to replace hardware you didn't know was broken yet, and couldn't have fixed if you had known.
You need to ask him for that. But about flat management - I heard many people saying flat management system have turned Valve to the highschool-style community with "Cool Kids" running things and some people being pushed into the "corner". I have read stories where people comment on how a lot of things are immature in the company. Sorry, I am busy coding now so cannot send citations your way, but they are not hard to find with Google.
If all the firemen die, who will fight fires in the future?

If you're in a town of 3,000 people, there are a very limited number of potential firemen you can have. If they die rescuing someone, dozens of others die because there is no one else to rescue them.
> On the scale of tragedies that are currently occurring or for which there is a significant threat of occurring in the near future, the possibility that there might be a period of time with no living humans who have walked on the moon is so trivial

No. There is an argument to be made that in the absence of drama occurring up there (space, theistic mythology, etc), people will invent and create drama down here (Earth), except with more dire consequences. Considering alternative timelines, therefore, there is a decent chance that there is a real, though indirect, human cost associated with choosing not to explore. What is the human cost, for example, of boys and girls not being inspired by daring feats accomplished at the edge of possible? Nobody is quantifying it, no research grants are given to study it, but I have almost no doubt that it exists.
(creator here) thanks for the heads up! i had disabled my youtube history completely and didn't notice this...
How many people complaining about the missing escape key have actually used a touch bar computer, though? I've seen precious few examples of someone saying "I bought that MacBook, and have used it for some time, and I still want a physical escape key". I'm not saying these people don't exist, I'm just saying that I think nearly all of the naysayers are people who haven't actually bought the computer.
I've always held Carmack in very high regard. He's one of the few folks in our field where if he says he didn't my gut tells me to believe him. Here's to justice being served, one way or another. There's a great comment from a user "Netherhigal" on the comments for the article that says: "If it were anyone else saying they rewrote the code from scratch, I'd call bullshit. With Carmack though? I'd believe he sneezed onto the keyboard and functioning code happened."

Pretty much sums up my opinion as well :)
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This may change once the barrier for market entry is lower. What would stop suppliers from flooding the market with dangerous drugs? I am sure there are areas where the FDA can be improved but we should be careful.
I am the main developer of the MathPiper open source computer algebra system (http://mathpiper.org). An effective kind of programming language to learn that will help you learn math is a programming language that is part of a computer algebra system. The following video shows MathPiper solving an equation step-by-step:

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If you are interested in learning the MathPiper programming language and how this solver works, feel free to contact me using the email address that is in my profile.
Also, in homes, the main alternatives involve fire.
You can delete those from your history, somewhere in profile settings.
From the FAQ:

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

So what's the workaround? The web link doesn't work anymore.
The touch screen should be where the trackpad is, and modal. Your hand is already there, you have multiple degrees of freedom (not just left-right) and apple would finally have a logical place to put the mobile experience it so desperately wishes to bring to the desktop.

Put your iphone on your touchpad for a demo.

The touch id should be down there too.
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Totally agree. I'm trying to do something discovery oriented with https://www.findlectures.com - ideally to help find videos on topics you didn't know existed
If you're looking for a more holistic plan, one that doesn't just focus on career, check out Self Authoring (http://www.selfauthoring.com/) and specifically the Future Authoring course. It was put together by clinical and research psychologists, and has been administered to University students with pretty profound results.
Interesting. If Kaby Lake will bring support for >16GB across the board, perhaps that'll be an option for all models, with this new wrinkle of "desktop class" RAM for the upper end? What sort of speed difference might that entail?

That said, I'm fine with 16GB - personally, I'd be much more enthused about any rumored return of the 17" models. Weight wouldn't have to necessarily go down, even - the final 17" MBPs weren't exactly behemoths. Even now, having had to abandon my mid-2009 17" for a late-2013 15", I find myself wishing for that little extra display space, especially now it's the iPad that comes around with me on the go most of the time. Heck, shrink the bezel and make it 18"!
If true, this is a big fuck you to everyone who spent ~$3K+ just a couple months ago (not to mention it will totally stall any informed purchases of MBP's for the rest of the year). They better also be considering a generous trade-in program. I expect the hardware I buy from Apple to at least outlive the Apple Care warranty it comes with + the extension I add.
For a public leadership role I would prefer someone who has a solid track record of success. It's one thing you burn VC money but running the FDA requires a different mindset.
Now we see if it REALLY has that big of an impact on battery life.
The Allegheny Front, where the continental divide runs between Altoona, PA and Frostburg, MD, wouldn't be a particular challenge for HSR, because they're good at hillclimbing, and the mass of the trainset is nothing like loaded coal trains or intermodal double-stack trains which currently frequent this area.

LGV Sud-Est has 3.5% grades, for example; the Pennsylvania Railroad (now Norfolk Southern) Gallitzin-Horseshoe Curve-Altoona stretch is 1.85%, B&O (CSX) Sand Patch Grade further south is 2%.

Rather, overcoming the general ruggedness of the terrain is the greatest expense. Slower railroads can meander along rivers, but a HSR needs large sweeping curves (with large radii), requiring expensive fills or cuts or viaducts. Some tunnels would be needed to cross some of the linear ridges, just like the Pennsylvania Turnpike (and the predecessor railroad that used the same right-of-way) did. In fact, it's likely that an alignment would closely parallel the turnpike, as the landscape gets significantly more rugged south of Maryland or north of I-80.

A gentler route following the Empire Corridor (roughly, NYC->Albany->Buffalo) may be cheaper to construct, but would be considered a "detour" by a casual observer -- and the expense of the NYC->Albany portion may not make it worthwhile.

Sadly, it's not very likely that such a Mid-Atlantic-to-Chicago passenger-only railway could be economical to construct and operate. US infrastructure costs routinely run much higher than the international average for comparable projects, and even the as-the-crow-flies distance (1100+ km, 700+ miles) between NYC-Chicago puts it too far out of HSR's ideal range, even in countries where people actually ride trains.
"having a clear vision of where I wanted to be and loosely how I was going to get there meant that I could turn down opportunities that may have led me astray"

absolutely crucial advice right dere. distractions can be dream destroying(or enlightening or both)