skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it may be worth starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit_United_States_curr... and more generally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit_money

Why would a state-level actor choose to counterfeit currency? "Nations have used counterfeiting as a means of warfare. The idea is to overflow the enemy's economy with fake bank notes, so that the real value of the money plummets. Great Britain did this during the American Revolutionary War to reduce the value of the Continental Dollar." On the other hand, this is probably not worth doing unless you can counterfeit at least a few percent of all the money in circulation...

Another reason that states would do it is if they are in a position like, say, North Korea, with little access to the currencies they need to buy the items they would like to buy from abroad due to international sanctions. "There have been two primary reasons for [North Korea's alleged] counterfeiting: the first is to wage economic warfare against the United States,[2] and secondly, to help ease North Korea's domestic economic problems.[12]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea%27s_illicit_activi...

Well, thanks anyway for sending me down this k-hole of wikipedia articles about forgery...
Some things are proven to be very bad, like cigarettes or morbid obesity. There's really no question that those things kill people, and will drastically affect your life expectancy.
Hrm . . . I guess I'm struggling to think of a good reason to keep a house empty for a year. Presumably there is a remodeling exception . . .

The only thing I can really think of is that it might force people to divest in a very down market where it is difficult to find renters, but it doesn't seem like a huge tragedy for people who have at least two dwellings to be forced to sell one of them or else eat losses.
Where I live I've been going to the same gym for 3 years. I show up, squat, deadlift, etc. The conversations I have with people are about whether the power rack is free, how long they're going to take etc.

Just how do you get into conversations at your gym where you don't feel like you belong because of your decisions about how to handle real estate purchases?
I didn't feel like I fit in at my gym which is dominated by wealthy and long time home owners

Never be intimidated by people's wealth; it's not the American way, way: where all people are created equal. Just remind yourself that although they have money, they are no better than you, no more worthy of happiness than you, and no more valuable than you.

They are, in every respect that matters, your equal.
I think the point is that in the PR community it costs nothing. So the concept of having to pay to go to the beach is foreign to a Puerto Rican.

So compare going to the beach in South Jersey, where you have to pay just to be on the beach, or the area in the article, vs PR where beach access is guaranteed in the Constitution. Very different values regarding the beach as a public place.
That is true, but unfortunately not everyone can decide when they move. Losing a job, having a family member get sick, etc can force a sale and realization of loses.

But overall, housing prices do increase over time relatively inline with inflation. So even if Vancouver takes a huge hit in the short-term, over the long haul it will keep going up.

One interesting thing I noticed is that some housing markets don't really go down that much, they just stop growing. I can remember the home my parents owned in Toronto. They sold it for $325K in 1990. In 2005 I looked up the price and it was about the same. Adjusted for inflation, the it was a price decrease.
Sure it does. Advertising is the flow of information about what products and services are available, how much they cost, and where to purchase them. Some are crass, some are subtle, some are sprayed, some are targeted, and the very best (personal recommendations and such) aren't even paid for. They are all advertisements.
What I find interesting and am curious about people's thoughts on here is that while Yifan could have waited until she was able to run the pairing algorithm herself (as someone did see the comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13568108), her protest could be no less valid even though it's based on apparently inaccurate information.
Still in active development too. :) And no, Jonathan, I haven't heard anything from TrueOS people.

Which is a shame, because if a distribution is being built today, with no existing legacy service script base to cater to (or if it has to be converted anyway), going for anything else than s6 or nosh is staying in the past.
View from a drone inside Seattle's 57-foot tunnel
I suspect it's a sign that they're a lot more leveraged than one might expect. These people are not paying cash as long as money is near-free. They'd be total fools to pay 100% of 1 house instead of 20% on 5 houses. So consider a conventional mortgage that typically requires 20% down and you get it back when you sell, plus a profit. With these rules, they now have to pay 20%+15% to hold it, and they lose the latter portion to the government, plus significantly higher tax annually.

I'd guess they're good enough at this game that they're even more leveraged than the 20% conventional downpayment requirement and probably using the (bubble inflated) equity to print new money out of thin air and get another property.

I have no idea what's actually going on but this is how I've seen people speculate on real estate in other markets and seems like the obvious thing to do. I would even guess that there are ways of borrowing against money that is still in China, which subverts their restrictions on moving money.

I also predict that this hiccup will be invisible within 6 months, for two reasons.

1. Nobody goes shopping for houses in December and January because it's cold and there is Christmas/Lunar New Year etc, especially with the storms this year.

2. These restrictions are going to have loopholes and a market this big has an implicit bounty on finding them. They'll figure out how to get Canadians to hold the title to dodge the 15% foreign tax and they'll sign rental agreements with their lawyers kids/pets and say it's officialy rented or whatever else they need to do.
It's not that they are all 'not living there'.

They might live there, or have a family member/student live there, or their wife/kids while they stay in China.

These people might be a little 'price inelastic' but also 'not stupid'. A 15% advantage for local buyers gives some leverage.

It could also just be a little skittishness - 'what will the tax be next year'? Or 'will this cause other buyers to be skittish because if that happens, prices will drop, so I'll hold off'.

15% will definitely pull out a chunk of buyers - that pull out might be enough to make those buying 'at any price' not enough to keep the bubble up.

Finally - Toronto saw a big increase after Van put in the law. The money just may have switched gears into TO.
This is bogus. The new, higher readings are from areas never measured before[0]; levels are falling consistently.

[0] http://blog.safecast.org/2017/02/no-radiation-levels-at-fuku...
If you are talking about rents, sure: more demand, same supply = higher rents.

If you are talking about sale prices, then those hopefuls hardly influence that market. Instead, it is the people coming in with money that can afford to bid up houses that you have to worry about.
Cognitive Automation and Engineering of the Self
Christy Clark, the premier of BC, is considering getting rid of the 15% foreign buyers tax already and has proposed or implemented initiatives to bolster the RE market again. She and the mayor of Vancouver are said to have great ties to the RE industry. She needs to address the problem (elections are coming up) but doesn't want to anger her biggest donors (elections are coming up). One of the things she just did is implement interest free loans for 5 years for new home owners
This is a nice elaboration of the attacks and issues discovered by co-founder of INFOSEC, Paul Karger, during his pentest of MULTICS in early 1970's. That included a proposed PL/I compiler that inserted vulnerabilities into itself when compiled. Thompson got the report while on MULTICS team. The solution was called high-assurance security which culminated in Orange Book of TCSEC. It came out in SCOMP about same time Thompson started writing on the original problem.

https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf

Paul helped invent much of INFOSEC from scratch with lots of his lessons rediscovered over time by mainstream INFOSEC that largely ignores predecessors' work. Here's Paul's other stuff for any interested:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Paul-A-Karger/2467751

Back to this topic, the definitive solution is high-assurance compiler combined with SCM techniques presented best by David Wheeler:

https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm-security.html
I have no way of substantiating this, but it seems to me that there has been a shift in mindset, at least where I live, from the investment being that you slowly pay it off and eventually own your home, to speculation that the housing market will go up.

A coworker was particularly happy that his apartment had appreciated a lot in value since he bought it. Now, what he doesn't take into account is that the rest of the market has appreciated just as much. It isn't that his apartment has magically become more valuable, it's the entire market that has moved. The only way to realise that profit (without renting) would be to move somewhere where apartments are less expensive for the same standard, which he is not going to do.
The problem wasn't just parking, it was also the constant short-term flipping. Basically Chinese were speculating between themselves with a good chunk of GVA real estate, and that's what was driving the bubble.
Their technical team placed pretty heavy emphasis on their work life balance and flexible work hours during my in-person interview with them, so it doesn't seem like that culture is prevalent at this place.
In your case, I wouldn't worry about the risks of FB as much as about the fact that you seem to keep going back and forth in your thoughts. You just asked us, a few levels up, to consider the "What-if?" scenario of some future Hitler coming to power, with all your data available on FB. And so people started explaining to you that, yes, in that case, you'd definitely be very naive not to consider the (obvious) risks of having all your data up on FB.

To which your answer to that was, basically, "But that's not very likely to happen."
Not True

http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_quick.asp?i=1007
Orange County as a whole, yes. Laguna Beach however is a very liberal community.
I get paid a lot more than a burger flipper. But I don't think I improve society of makes people's lives better than a burger flipper does.

No, I get paid a lot more because my work allows my boss to make more money per hour of my work than flipping burgers would.
This should be better advertised.

I've known about SQLite for fifteen or so years, and I hadn't read about that.
Local municipalities could easily take more protectionist measures like this to preserve basic needs of local citizens. It seems very reasonable and feasible to tax money coming from outside of the municipality so that housing prices (or food prices, etc) don't inflate faster than the growth of the local economy.

I'm thinking of dynamics where geographical wealth mismatches could affect prices. A couple examples I've been exposed to:

- Chinese investment in Bay Area residences
- Transient Bay Area tech workers renting in Mission / SOMA
- Residences being turned into vacation rentals in SF
- Houston oil money buying residences in Colorado communities
- NYC, LA, SF money flowing into Austin, both travel and investment
- Vacation spending and mainland investment increasing the cost of residences in Hawaii

.. obviously many more examples could be cited. You could probably throttle taxes on purchases from any outsiders - foreign buyers, vacationers, business travelers to maintain a balance for residential property value growth.

The counter-side to this is that the wealthiest property owners (local and foreign) benefit from the free inflow of capital. These people may be more influential constituents to municipality leaders than people who would be negatively affected by rising housing prices.
OH MY GOD IS THAT a JOKE????
That's so 1950s.[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/world/eight-richest-wealt...
The first module I tried was react-native-image-picker and yes it returns an object with base64 encoded data. What I do with this data is first, resize the image then display the resized image in an ImageView then upload the resized image to Firebase Storage.
Here's a mobile-friendly copy of that:

/*

At this point, I'd like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe PSD format.
PSD is not a good format. PSD is not even a bad format. Calling it such would be an
insult to other bad formats, such as PCX or JPEG. No, PSD is an abysmal format. Having
worked on this code for several weeks now, my hate for PSD has grown to a raging fire
that burns with the fierce passion of a million suns.

If there are two different ways of doing something, PSD will do both, in different
places. It will then make up three more ways no sane human would think of, and do those
too. PSD makes inconsistency an art form. Why, for instance, did it suddenly decide
that these particular chunks should be aligned to four bytes, and that this alignement
should not be included in the size? Other chunks in other places are either unaligned,
or aligned with the alignment included in the size. Here, though, it is not included.
Either one of these three behaviours would be fine. A sane format would pick one. PSD,
of course, uses all three, and more.

Trying to get data out of a PSD file is like trying to find something in the attic of
your eccentric old uncle who died in a freak freshwater shark attack on his 58th
birthday. That last detail may not be important for the purposes of the simile, but
at this point I am spending a lot of time imagining amusing fates for the people
responsible for this Rube Goldberg of a file format.

Earlier, I tried to get a hold of the latest specs for the PSD file format. To do this,
I had to apply to them for permission to apply to them to have them consider sending
me this sacred tome. This would have involved faxing them a copy of some document or
other, probably signed in blood. I can only imagine that they make this process so
difficult because they are intensely ashamed of having created this abomination. I
was naturally not gullible enough to go through with this procedure, but if I had done
so, I would have printed out every single page of the spec, and set them all on fire.
Were it within my power, I would gather every single copy of those specs, and launch
them on a spaceship directly into the sun.

PSD is not my favourite file format.

*/
It beats declaring bills in circulation obsolete with 24 hours notice, like India did with the INR500 and INR1000 notes last fall. It's months later, and you'll regularly encounter ATMs with no bills available; and retail establishments which won't break the new INR500 and INR2000 notes which are the ones you will get if you find a stocked ATM. (INR100 ~= USD1.50, or 5 1L bottles of drinking water, or an entree at a decent restaurant that doesn't cater to tourists)

source: I just returned from a vacation in India :)

Anyway, how do you think the US should deal with old notes in circulation, any suggestions or examples from other countries doing it in a sane way? Perhaps the Euro currency transition could be a model?
Something along the lines, a group of thirty men and a beholder
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beholder_%28Dungeons_%26_Drago...) have three
eyes per member on average.
Those are trivial to buy in most countries by "investing" in a business. Probably even a business that buys and sells property.
Good story. It'd be interesting to see a portable version (which I guess would have to either run on Mono or be rewritten in something else); or maybe Google will release some of theirs. I'm impressed that Microsoft had the courage to scale mostly-vanilla git instead of hacking Mercurial.
It costs just the same in California, the report details the $22 cost is the average it costs to travel to the beach while the beach itself is free.

>We found that the average total value of a day trip to the beach was $36.74 and that the average cost of traveling to the beach was $22.09, not including parking or other expenses, leaving a net value of $14.65 This finding gives us important information about why beachgoers are sensitive to the cost of parking. Even if parking were available for only $8.75 a day that would chip into the remaining net value of the average day trip, leaving only $5.90 net value. If parking cost $15 a day, the travel cost model would lead us to predict that the average visitor would decide to forego the trip because it would cost more than it is worth overall.
https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/coastal-access/
Government parasites just keep feeding
% being overloaded as vector cross product is a bit mysterious here (until investigating Vec's definition)

It might be helpful if the instantiations were written fully too, ie. Vec(0,1,0) : Vec(1,0,0)
I've seen Cairo and Antigrain used in the wild for 2D rendering, too.
> the only signals you could add to this election were Clinton, Trump, and Don't Care.

A third party vote isn't quite the same thing as not casting a vote.

Otherwise, I don't think we disagree?
Very unlikely.
Code ??? WYSIWYG
Could there be something unexplored in the middle?

WYSIWYM - What You See Is What You Mean.

Most famously used by the LaTeX powered document processor, LyX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM
No, if the laws concerning ownership are based on citizenship, then it should be done at the governmental level that manages citizenship, i.e. federal.

A 'national 15% tax' would have been much better.

Buyers from Van have shifted to Toronto. Which kind of defats the point - one city passing on their disease to another.

Globalization is having some crazy effects on the entire world, and we need some new laws.

A 15% tax on all foreign buyers on all homes in the world would be appropriate - these are not 'stocks' or other assets - these are the homes that people live in, and they are forced to gamble with their entire savings and future savings due to shifting economic tides that they don't have the capital base to deal with.

When shifting economic tides disrupt markets - the big winners are those who have enough capital to withstand the storm - they come in and pick up the pieces. Much like farmers during the great depression forced to sell their land cheap to big banks.
A rights-based framework is not the only way of making decisions in this world.

It's one a lot of people who are fortunate enough to have attained success in life, or expect to in the future, subscribe to, but it's not the only way to see the world.

If you were to follow your reasoning through to it's extreme the same way your beer example does, you would probably need to give all of society's land back to the native populations, but I doubt you're rushing to do that, I'm sure you have some moral gymnastics that makes that fine, but anyone trying to make a claim to anything you see as yours is immoral.

While you certainly may have worked hard, and I have no desire to disincentivize hard work, our position in society at birth and even our genetics are probabilistic, so I find it hard to justify the idea that the fruits of your labour should be yours alone.

Private property is a useful concept, but it is also not a universal requirement for a society, nor is is a binary feature.
I may be prejudiced by Northern European thinking where "freedom to roam" is common, but I don't think it's right that landowners can prevent access to non-developed areas. Nature should be accessible not only in national parks, but also next to your place of residency.
Yeah, having lived in Israel it sounded pretty alien to me too. I would just head over to the beach by bus on a Friday afternoon for no particular reason. It was fun.

Hell, the municipality had installed Wifi in case I wanted to bring a laptop to a beachside bar or cafe, though I never did.

Who the hell privatizes beaches?
If China's population is ~1.3 billion, then how will trains move ~3 billion in the largest migration in human history?
GCC does not have such a clause. What it does have is a clause allowing a small library - the GCC Runtime Library - to be linked to and included in its output, provided certain conditions are met. The library is separate from the compiler input and not a result of it - it contains some core functions involving things like exception handling, arithmetic on some architectures, etc. It's held to be self-evident that compiler output that is a direct result of compiler input does not come under the license of the compiler.
I can confirm that Canadians banks do this, but I'm not sure if it happens all the time.

One of the biggest differences between Canada and the US is 30 year terms for mortgages. They are standard in the US and allow you to lock in a fixed rate for pretty much the rest of your life.

In Canada, they still do 30 year amortization, but loans are typically 5 year. You can get 1 year sub-prime loans with very low rates or 10 year fixed with higher rates. The 5 year is the most common.

What this means is that you don't get to enjoy a fixed rate over your lifetime. Get a mortgage for 4%? Great, it might be 7% 5 years from now. In other words your monthly payment could increase substantially.

Since you need to reapply for a mortgage in Canada, the banks will reassess the value and make sure you have enough collateral. I have heard of people refinancing after a downturn and the bank asks for another $5K to $20K to make sure you have the minimum 20% equity.
Most likely cause of data loss is probably accidentally deletion, so keep backups and make sure they work.
Most miners operate in a pool and rely on the pool for full node functionality.
Ah but you had a bus to the beach. Here in America we have often specifically engineered things so you can't get to the beach without a car!
The problem with opening multiple terminals is that you will eventually be slowed down in your workflow. Say you want to switch to a particular terminal, and you have more than 10 terminals running. You either have to press CTRL+Tab a few times (5 times on average for 10 terminals), or switch using the mouse, both of which are slow.

Another problem is working remotely. If you connect to a remote server, and you need another terminal for that remote server, you must establish another separate connection. With a terminal multiplexer, you do not need that.
His Doctors Were Stumped, Then He Took Over
Two things stood out for me: How is a signature picked? (he says four 0s at the start). He also says Bob can't give Alice 4 dollars out of thin air right after giving Anders 100 dollars out of thin air.
FB is a commercial privately owned publishing platform. In some countries, you need a model release to publish photos of me, in others you need a release for my kids, in others none. This is the thorny unresolved question of what jurisdiction 'cyberspace' operates under.

If you are storing any PID of EU citizens, regardless of your jurisdiction, that will come under GDPR very soon (not sure how that impacts social publishing, photos, info gathered in public vs private places, or if it has a get-out clause etc but mentioning it as an example)
In South Jersey you have to pay to be in the beach?

Like, are there walls with bouncers in entrances?
Do I get a ticket if I pay?
Do I get a ticket if I don't pay?
That is bananas.
If you care about the beach it's important that a broad swath of the population appreciates the coastal areas. That ways when it comes time to vote on bond and tax measures that go to restoring and managing these areas, people understand the importance of what they're voting for.