skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is going over a paper[0] that asks what would happen to house prices if houses were treated as disposable consumer goods instead of a means of storing wealth.

We kind of already know the answer to this: "Rental cars get trashed." The same applies to housing: neighborhoods with mostly renters as opposed to owners are rarely as well-kept, clean, or as safe as those with primarily owner-occupied units.

Treating housing as disposable also creates a significantly heavier environmental burden which isn't entirely obvious at first:

- Cheap, short-term repairs and cosmetic fixes create more landfill waste. Estimations are 45 percent of landfill waste comes from "Construction & Demolition" or as the industry calls it: "C&D". When it comes to diverting C&D waste, it's usually only the older high-quality material that can be diverted and/or reused; the rest goes in landfills[1]

- Disposable housing neighborhoods targeted as toxic sludge waste-grounds[2].

More disturbing is that a nationwide trend to start treating housing as a "disposable consumer good" already seems to be underway. REITs got their own sector in the stock market late last year[3]. Invitation Homes (bankrolled by Blackstone) has recently unveiled a Ponzi-type scheme to buy up dilapidated houses, smack on cheap cosmetic fixes, rent them out at top-of-the-market prices... all in the name of creating "stock wealth". Invitation Homes IPOed last week. For more on what we can come to expect, see this[4].

In other words, we can expect continual upward pressure on rent not for the quality of the housing being rented, but for the landlords charging tenants more for their liability insurance.

No... it's not the supply of housing that needs to be optimized; it's environmental stewardship resultant from even the tiniest bit of unencumbered land ownership that we should be solving for. My theories around how to do this have been evolving on ecosteader.com.

[1]http://www.ecy.wa.gov/beyondwaste/bwprogGBCandD.html
[2]http://www.alternet.org/books/how-corporations-dump-their-toxic-sludge-areas-filled-poor-people
[3]https://secure.marketwatch.com/story/stock-markets-new-real-estate-sector-gives-reits-a-home-2016-05-11
[4]http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-blackstone-lawsuit-20140506-story.html
This app would have saved my career a couple years ago. Now, when I visit the old office to say hi to my ex-colleagues, I still can't get past the nickname they gave me because of what happened.
Being served, as in having a guy behind your chair when eating and handing you your shirt, like in Burmese days (Orwell)? I bet this is kind of rare nowadays.

But to me employing local people to do some very noble tasks like attending to kids is quite ok, and in fact a very healthy way to share your wealth with people that have good use for it.
I might have misunderstood the last part. Why would anyone not want a massive ecosystem with their language? You can always ignore the ecosystem while retaining the option to change your mind later.
Don't the music labels own a big percentage of Spotify? Hasn't that been the whole argument that the labels are unfairly taking money out of the hands of the artists by owning a piece of the distribution? It seems to be that they have a vested interested in working with Spotify to ensure its long term health.
Thanks! It's already on the App Store (since today,) I've been working on this for about 2 years now.
Not sure if it is fair to compare India and China/Korea. I don't know much about the history of China and Korea, but I doubt if both those countries faced full scale colonialism like India did. Recovering from the devastation caused by 200+ years of colonial rule takes a while.

S.Korea particularity benefitted from the Korean war. USA stepped in and boosted it's economy.
Excellent point. First answer to why you need a piece of paper cost(time and monetary)
Pro -network
I hope you decide on doing a cost benefit analysis and keep doing projects on the side. You will learn a lot .
I'm equally lost. I can't tell what exactly the service is offering for sale or the point of it. Usually when I see these low sales service posts (small side projects), I expect to see something clever or unique, that's the only reason to pay attention to something yielding a small amount of sales. If you're going to tell me all you did was scrape and clone with a routine LAMP setup, I don't get the point of the post.
Yes. Also, see prices for "artisinal" cheeses.
Hint: If you really want to use your filesystem as a database (and don't mind the haters, there's a long and storied history of doing just this), make sure you break it up into many subdirs usually based on the first few characters of the uuid.

Example: ./jasondir/aa/bb/cc/aabbccdd

You won't like what happens when you put 100k files in one directory.
In short...No. https://www.popehat.com/2016/11/06/private-porn-shoots-brill...
Because I speak in a condescending tone that irritates people. I'm quite used to it. I fully admit it's rare that I can present my point of view in a way that is a) concise rather than a rant, and b) doesn't use phrasing that is abrasive. I should have been able to summarize my point in two sentences without negative coloring, but instead it took me three verbose paragraphs with assaulting language. I'm trying to work on it, but old habits die hard. shrug

(Also sshhhhh, it is anti-HN to discuss downvotes)
Most people who leak sex tapes involving an ex probably don't think of doing so while they are still in a relationship with said ex. By the time they think of revenge, the victim-to-be should already have revoked access.

If your ex is making secret copies of sex tapes while you are still in a relationship with him, I think you have bigger things to worry about than revenge porn.
You're underexpecting your possibilities I would say. This is like saying: I will stop trying because the big companies are always better than me. Just go a little beside what they are focusing and then you will be better than them, for sure. Do it different etc.. Of course you will not beat them in their main game (search engine, personal assistant AI with searches etc.) but saying that this niche is only a line in the book is a huge underestimation... there are whole industries living in that niche. Google is not the world. For sure not.
Imagine if scientists discovered we were existing in a simulated universe, and that sumulation had an error in it's floating point library.
Just do a test with dd or some small piece of code. Why rely on heresay.
There was an old document management system called Keyfile that did just that.
Oh, the fun that could be had by starting a meme of "subliminal advertising for bots"; part-inspired by that "alexa buy a doll house" thing, we float a startup that will pitch audible product placement in YouTube/etc videos, in the hope that your Amazon Echo / Google Whatever will buy it for you. We make millions on VC and then skip the country. Deal?
SoundCloud COO, finance director leave after earnings report, might sell
OK, we just made up a big fake conversation in the presence of a desktop and laptop running fb, an iphone running the ap, and an iphone only accessing via Safari.

We mentioned Target, including a request for upcoming sales and target credit cards, Advil, Colgate, Liquid Plumber, Scott toilet paper, Wells Fargo (though we need to rule that out bc my daughter's been googling them re DAPL), Citibank, Marriott, Red Lobster, and an imaginary pending trip to Maine.

I will report back what we see.

edit: none of these do we use or see ads for.
This question is asked commonly enough that Popehat dedicated at least one post to explaining why the "porn exception" would flop:

https://www.popehat.com/2016/11/06/private-porn-shoots-brill...
I just want to point out that there are many other forms of travel writing. Epic, aimless, business building, scientific inquiry, collection gathering, family business, enlightenment, etc. Reductionism tends to sell everyone short.
You can stop them by slowing them down. Usually you'd use ellastic collisions with light atoms like hydrogen. Water works which is what reactors use. For shipping polyethylene is often used. Then some materials simply have a higher cross section for absorbing the slow ones. Had to look this up I saw boron and cadmium.

(Married to person who used to ship Californium-252)
summary of parties....in US.

Let me quote the original statement:

"In the countries that Trump wants to vet, there were spontaneous street parties to celebrate 9/11"

so.....again, source?
Well technically it is an investment, because once you've paid off the mortgage, the rents (i
e. mortgage payments) become imputed income.
I mean, that's obvious, right?

And yet, this solution still provides a dramatic increase in security for its users. Normally, files "exist by default", and will continue to do so forever. You have to take deliberate action to delete them. But here, files are effectively "destroyed by default", and can only be accessed via:

1. Consent of both parties.

2. One of the parties going out of their way to make a deliberate copy within a 7-day window, when (you hope) they're still well-disposed towards the other person.

A security solution does not need to be perfect.

Similar issues arise with systems like Hashicorp's Vault, which generates time-limited, revokable credentials for programs. Obviously, a compromised server could abuse a time-limited AWS credential. But that's still a much better situation than handling out AWS credentials with unlimited lifetimes, because they'll inevitably wind up in all sorts of strange places.

Expiration is not a solution to all your security problems. But it's much better than no expiration.
Any .iso downloads available? Can't seem to find a site.
Not according to the recent Nova I watched on the subject.
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Meh, it seems to me that vlogging is the new travel writing. YouTube has plenty of channels of people travelling the world and telling stories with their GoPro.

They're using videos on a social platform instead of text and photographs on a book. It's just a medium change, to allow for quicker consumption and to engage more with the viewers I guess.
Presumably management is exactly who was asked what to do about this problem. They came up with ...

1) replacing the free software with microsoft software

2) see 1

3) need a third option ?

4) see 1 again

Something should be replaced, that's for sure.
The comments here are almost exclusively about the price and quality of products, with "store x has basically the same thing for less money" being a common theme.

Whole Foods nails the shopping experience for those who care about intangibles. It's always clean. It's always well stocked. They have very educated cashiers who can move lines quickly and make autonomous decisions when an item doesn't ring up. They can give $100 cash back so I don't need to hit the ATM ever. They don't have those horrendously buggy self checkouts.

If you can trade money for time and convenience, WF is a great experience. After getting used to it, other stores are frustrating to me.
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my local store will relabel old inventory and add a few weeks to the sell by dare

Can you elaborate on this?

I totally agree with your other point that others are catching up and I think they realized they don't need to have an entire organic store just certain key items(grass fed beef, good produce to make everyone happy.
The KGB spy from the article itself wasn't even an engineer, but a chemist.
> I don't know much about the history of China and Korea...I doubt if both those countries faced full scale colonialism like India

China had a much harder time through the colonial era than India. Remember, China spent decades being traded between warring imperial powers (France vs. Britain, Britain vs. Japan, Japan vs. the Soviets, et cetera). In that process, its institutions were wrecked and cultural memory wreaked havoc with. When all was said and done, they had no equivalent to India's nation-spanning railroad system; systems of law, governance and courts; or (relatively) unified linguistic bloc.
What happens when one person dies? Is the other cut off, or is the system smart enough to have a dead man's switch option that lets you allow access if no response is given in X hours / days?
I noticed something similar when I was travelling in either Hong Kong or Thailand. The network operators in that country offered free access to Facebook and so when accessing mbasic... it would ask you if you wanted to use Facebook for free, and if not then it would forcefully redirect you to the regular Facebook interface - no option to use the lightweight one.
Correction: the US president always represents the world in Hollywood movies.
Definitely agree with this. Add to it that Trader Joe's has a nice variety of prepared foods on their own brand that are also substantially less expensive than WF.

It's a very telling sign where I live that the WF are primarily only in the most upscale neighborhoods, while Sprouts locations are much more accessible (and they always seem to be busy).
i observe it was written in Haskell

https://github.com/rumuki/rumuki-server/tree/master/app
I routinely shop there as well, generally speaking, their fruits and vegetables despite being a tad more expensive are of higher quality than most places. I've also observed that WF stores usually have sufficient mancount to deliver decent checkout performances. The staff is always friendly and helpful and the cashiers in particular always impress me with their handling of the mandatory sterile discussion. When they ask me whether I would like a second bag, I sometimes feel them genuinely worried about what could happen otherwise.
Organic vegetables and fruits are cheaper than in most chains

That is clearly not the case in the Bay Area. Whole Foods is the most expensive place you can shop around here.
What's to prevent someone from taking the video of the video? The snapchat question.
I didn't notice this issue addressed anywhere: what if the blue adversary/sex partner simply steals the red phone for a few minutes in order to grant access to the blue phone? Will red be informed of this? Is there some sort of passphrase that only red knows, to prevent this?
I forget who it was, but they said "Everyone is born short on housing."

You bring up cars and TVs - for new cars, the thing actually being sold is not so much the car, it is the financing. This is less true than it once was[1], but it's still true.

[1] GM divested GMAC.

A/the reason to buy (in noncoastal or otherwise un-bubbly areas) is to save a couple hundred a month in rent. It's limited to people with good credit, so you trade a down payment and fees for a "discount" month over month.

There is only so much developers can to to push costs down. I've always bought homes a generation behind the current developments - that's been the happy valley between price and features for me. I also spend well less than 2x salary purchase price.

But so long as government policy actively pursues wage suppression, housing is much less of an investment.
Well, there was a bit of a golden age for lower/middle classes in the West in the decades following WW II (though tainted by racism).

Pikkety's seminal "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" is the famous, but somewhat dry exposition on that.

Branko Milanovic's "Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization" is a relatively slender volume that gives a great overview (on this question in chapter 2).

TL;DR: In "the West", 1950-1980
You don't need a command economy or eminent domain to pursue lower prices. There are numerous policies that could be changed to have that effect:

* Get rid of Prop 13. It discourages property owners from selling or re-developing their property leading to higher prices.

* Get rid of the mortgage interest deduction. It is a subsidy to homeowners which causes higher prices.

* Get rid of zoning regulations that prevent property owners who want to re-develop their property from building higher density.

* Institute a land value tax. Instead of the current property tax structure which charges people who are under-utilizing land less than people who are utilizing it more efficiently, charge them the same amount to encourage the land to be used for the most valuable use.
The tool OP made is neither technically challenging or interesting. The story is about what the tool was for, which is certainly not one small piece.

These types of stories are great and motivational, but not when it promotes people who are looking for inspiration to turn to stealing content and selling access to it.

Just because this kind of stuff is common in other countries or cultures doesn't change my opinion about it being wrong.
The Lesser GPL exists solely to allow linking to non-free programs.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.en.html
The “Inside Airbnb” project has earned the home-sharing company bad press
Yup, you can set an in-app passcode that locks the UI (you're asked to set one different from the phones passcode)
While someone being "geschmiert" does mean they were bribed, "läuft wie geschmiert" translates to things running smoothly (like a well-oiled machine).
Many operating systems do not handle tens of thousands of file handles open simultaneously very well.

For instance, if you run this database on Linux, the RAM overhead for each document is 1K just for the file handle, see the comment at the bottom here http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/fs/file_table.c
I guess you are right, but I think if this solution became mainstream people would do a backup as soon as they have access. This solution will give some false security and some extra security by luck and antagonist incompetence. It won't make that much of a difference.
I completely agree with the OS integration annoyance. I use Spotify but it doesn't connect to Siri and the UX is abysmal on CarPlay.
In cities like Kolkata the taxi fleet is Ambassadors. I don’t know what the average age of the vehicles is, but they almost always feel as old as they look.

For all its faults, the Ambassador is a robust vehicle.
if you're in a relationship at some point you should be able to trust the other to some degree or you won't be able to relax and enjoy it. there's no watertight way to completely assess the others reliability though, so you're always dealing with a certain amount of uncertainty.

sex tapes can be fun but are something very private, potentially damaging and a liability in case the relationship ends on bad terms (which can happen under the best circumstances).

so without (even flawed) protection like this you've got two options:

a) don't do sex tapes, which is not a good option in case you want to make sex tapes.

b) try not to let a leak affect you, which is not a good option because you're only human and part of a larger society where sex tapes aren't universally accepted (maybe with the exception of porn actors).

using this you have at least another level control/protection that might defer all but the most technologically versed (or at least prevent super high-quality leaks).
Why not make this work for files of any kind?

By default, a message could disappear shortly after playback ended a la Snapchat.

But you could store the encrypted version and bring if back anytime with consent of both parties.
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Couldn't agree more. I clicked on the link being skeptical, but the landing page is so well done that I came way impressed. Congratulations on shipping this product, and wish you all the very best.
Somewhat unrelated but.. is the music industry expecting that we go back to buying CDs (or $0.99 tracks) if streaming services die out?

Because I'm pretty sure I won't. I can't see myself going back to physical media or DRM-laden files any soon.
You could use cp.
It appears Sprouts is suffering margin compression more than a sales hit. They're generating about the same net income as they did in fiscal 2014, but their sales are roughly 30% higher. If one believes in their long-term trajectory, the stock is 50% off from the IPO in 2013.
Ask HN: What are solid but not expensive ways to license desktop apps?
When not selling on the Mac or Windows app stores, what is a good way to release and license software on your own, without breaking the bank? Any good recommended licensing services? One that charges per-install rather than a large blanket fee would be nice. And one that can offer monthly app subscriptions rather than pay-once would be nice too.

I've worked with Nalpeiron in the past but it was very expensive and at least at the company I worked for, it was a single annual charge of quite a lot.
Sorry I could not make myself clear on this - I am with you on Google is not the world. There will be a 'niche thing' in future which will overtake it. Just like Google over took Microsoft. Read any tech book during late 90s and even Bill Gates own books. He has predicted all billion dollar companies in his book 'Road Ahead' but nowhere is Microsoft created those billion dollar companies/markets. Hence my point is: With AI dependent on large amounts of data - what could be that which will be grow bigger than Google in AI. We have to come out of logic to see this.
What I often find is that artists will have have everything on Spotify except their latest album, at least for a few months. Fair enough, they want people to buy their albums; it's just one area where I find Spotify consistently incomplete.
> someone who wrote a paper almost 200 years ago

She didn't just write a paper. Her place in history is at least as well earned - I personally think moreso - as Babbage's.

"When Ada wrote about Babbage’s machine, she wanted to explain what it did in the clearest way—and to do this she looked at the machine more abstractly, with the result that she ended up exploring and articulating something quite recognizable as the modern notion of universal computation."

She did so 100 years before Turing.

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-o...
Or a useful reference point to call back to the artillery.

Recording information that is tactically useful for a ground battle would almost certainly have been a goal of the mapping program.
It is. But there's also the "how large is the rotation?"

There's the typical cash crop rotation: corn to soy. This has the advantage of cash crop and cash crop. These are both well known and the differences in weather over the course of a growing season are minimized - if its a drought year, you've got the appropriate hybrid. If its a wet year, you've got the appropriate hybrid. Very predictable.

Adding wheat into the rotation helps. http://www.cornandsoybeandigest.com/make-wheat-work http://www.agriculture.com/crops/wheat/adding-wheat-to-cnsoy... - but then this also means different equipment to harvest and a different market.

When one goes to the idealistic organic the cycle could be: corn, beans, reddish, onion, melon, sunflower, broccoli, carrots, tomatoes. Rather extreme, but an example. Also note that onions and garlic can be mixed, as can peans and beans... but that is the idea.

This works nicely for the home garden plots but when trying to rotate with hundreds of acres of fields its a bit more challenging. Instead of two or three means of harvest its nine different types of plants - tomato harvest is completely unlike corn harvest. Furthermore, it means that the farmer is a bit more at the mercy of the weather (great year for corn, but you've planted radishes because you just had corn two years ago and would need some pesticides or go to a GMO variety of corn... and that's not organic anymore) and the markets (there's no demand for the things that are in the next three seasons in the harvest - do you skip forward four?).