skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how helpful these sort of posts are for actual journalists or whistle blowers. It's one thing to tell a casual user to get an iphone as a reasonably secure choice compared to Android's fragmented mess, but for someone whose job and/or life is on the line, you need a more thorough coverage. You may even need like a mini course of sorts that covers basics of CS and infosec. Short of that, such cavalier advice can be misleading.
I think there's lots of cities that are providing "enough" housing inventory, and I'd put Vancouver and Toronto into that category. These cities have more housing starts than ever before. They are building aggressively.

The problem is that of speculative investment driven demand that is detached from local realities. This sort of irrational demand is endless and cities can't possibly be expected to keep up.

At this point this new housing supply is being partially left empty due to absentee owner/investors. It doesn't make sense.

Cities need to keep adding supply, but higher levels of government also have to have a look at new tools to control demand, such as more stringent lending rules and unoccupied housing taxes. In Canada foreign capital is an issue that has fuelled the housing bubble, but lax lending requirements and low residential taxes have also contributed.
How much abstraction overhead does the ArrayFire library introduce? Do you think you could get better performance and simplify the overall system by generating CUDA or shader code yourself?
There was never a four hour version. It doesn't exist - there's a version with a bunch of filmed material and storyboards of what might have been filmed, but that's it.
In Vermont USA we have homestead declaration. I declare the home I'm living in as my homestead, can only do it once, and the property taxes are less hardcore because it's my home.

I approve of this arrangement. Why, just because land ownership CAN be a money sink for abstracted accumulation of wealth and power, MUST it be that rewarded money sink? Why is it sacrosanct that people should be able to hoard 'location' beyond what they personally use? Note that I don't think there's a real limit to how big of a property can be 'home'. Versailles? Knock yourself out. You figure you should own 12 Versailles, and keep 11 of them empty? Uh nope. There is only so much area on the planet.
Hey, I did the same! Somehow, I don't believe them, though I have to say that their e-mail sounded quite assertive. I guess they'll change their mind when they lose enough profit.
And how well did they follow this advice? Would you know if they didn't turn their burner off, or even bother with a burner? "They didn't die in a prison camp, so they must have done things right"? Lay people who value privacy can fuck up their opsec pretty bad without noticing consequences. This is getting in to tiger repelling rocks territory, where it's no measure of one's stealth skills by hiding when nobody's looking.
Whether the moderation was slightly biased, I think dang's critique is fair without bias as well.

> You are starting to grab at straws with this argument.

> but constructing supporting arguments out of thin air really doesn't help your case.

Both of those could be stated in a more constructive manner, such as asking for substantiation, rather than stating there isn't any. Discussing in goof faith requires you to provide an argument to the contrary if you disagree, and give the other side a chance to explain their assertions more.

You followed up the first paragraph with a clarifying question, which is good. That by itself would have been sufficient.
This partial quote implies that a fully restored version exists (in some publicly-viewable form), but I don't see any details:

[At long last, materials for some of these missing sections have been found and re-inserted into the picture under the supervision of Leone’s family and surviving collaborators. The work has been completed by the magnificent team at Cineteca di Bologna and L’Immagine Ritrovata, and it has been wonderful to witness this enlargement of Leone’s vision, step by precious step.” —Martin Scorsese, Founder and Chair, The Film Foundation]
Politicians are cogs in a system that doesn't give a shit about the people or the life supporting qualities of our environment. Things would be different if we had democracies instead of the aristocraties / oligarchies / autocraties we currently have around the globe.

Besides, politicians are not making decisions nowadays.
This is why the "just add more supply" argument is so flimsy. It assumes that cities aren't adding more supply, and it assumes that there are no real physical constraints to growth.

The City of Vancouver raised development fees in order to hire more people to approve development faster. Some will say they're still apparently not adding supply fast enough. Maybe the rate of supply creation isn't the problem here...
​Psion reborn? Gemini PDA, an Android-Linux phone with full keyboard
What laws? Home owners can charge whatever rent they want, evict you with a few weeks notice without giving any reason for it, raise the rent as much as they want etc. There's no affordable housing in either of the cities. Investors are hoarding properties and claiming negative gearing and locking first home buyers out of the market. Renters need better protection in Australia if the government is unwilling to do anything about the negative gearing and housing market, which they said they won't do anything about. After all they're paying off these assholes' properties.

Edit: good analysis in this podcast if you're interested http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/2016-1...
I don't have it anymore, but I did a live coding session in ed(1) where I edited thousands of lines of XML code as a demonstration of using ed. It's a very powerful editor, almost too powerful for my "simple tools" aesthetic.

Just a few things you can do with Ed:

Structured/Outlining
Refactoring
Rapid code catenation and splitting

It's one of my favorite editors. I don't think I have a video of it, but prior versions of the code were optimized for ed(1) hacking, allowing me to do structured/outline editing easily with ed(1).
Linux in the Ham Shack at Hamvention 2017 by LHS Podcast
This boom in Real Estate investment is a consequence of global interest rates being historically low. People want to put their money to work, borrowing is cheap, so they buy assets. Art, commodities, real estate, etc.

When interest rates go up. Fixed-income securities will be much more attractive.

Combine that with local home owners having to pay a higher monthly mortgage payment due to higher rates. Their affordability will go down.

The pendulum will swing and a sellers market will turn into a buyers market.

It will be sellers racing for the exit and patient buyers on the sidelines hoping a little longer wait will produce even better deals.

When interest rates go up, this issue will take care of itself.
>have a hard time dating people who have a less comfortable situation than themselves.

This may be evolutionary wired, but forget about it. That mental model has no potential to help.

Effective relationships must provide value to both parties.

So demonstrate value. "Comfortable situation" is one shortcut to measure value. "Great father", "good listener", "considerate", "sane", "stable" are all incredibly valuable and crazy hard to measure.

The dirty truth: Many men don't provide value.
Not surprisingly, EEVblog gets many things wrong or expects wrong things in that video. But still, having done a lot of embedded work on POS terminals in the early 2000's, it was a bit strange to hear him get things so wrong since for me they were quite obvious (SAM slots etc). Usually he's better informed - but POS terminals are strange beasts, although these days it's all ARM and a normal Linux that's running on the main cpu...
That's why they offer their API.
You're uncharitably mis-reading my post, and being quite hostile in your reply.

What I meant was that - in hindsight - the fact that it had some beneficial function like restoring GI function should have been obvious, because otherwise, it would have been selected away.

That is, even a layperson _should_ have looked at the situation and thought "I bet it does something for us". But that's the benefit of hindsight; most (including myself) didn't. We just accepted the folk wisdom that it was useless.
Intel Announces Xeon D-1500 Network Series SoCs with QuickAssist, Four 10 GbE
I saw this a while ago: https://storify.com/phoul/vultr-tampering. Unsure what to make of it really but it's made me somewhat wary of Vultr.
MagSafe is the only proprietary port on my pre-touchbar MBP.
That kind of oversimplifies things. From my reading of the Swift mailing list, many things you would consider "basic syntax decisions" will have a profound impact on the stabilisation of the ABI.

Migrating is a pain, but I'll take the Swift migration pain over the maintenance of old Objective-C code any day. Even on large projects.
Voluntary Hardship: A Practice for Building Fortitude
Excuse me? Did you even read the NYMag article you posted? Allow me to provide some quotes:

"Now, as Hoffner and Salon surely know, things live forever on the internet, so you can still read the original Nickerson article here. And doing so makes it clear that Salon took a silly, overly risk-averse approach here, likely caving to a chorus of voices who willfully misunderstood the article. That’s unfortunate, since this was a brave and important article to publish — one the site should be proud of rather than try, futilely, to toss down the memory-hole."

Later:

"No reasonable reader could construe this as pro-pedophilia. Nickerson is explicitly saying his condition has hampered his life immensely and that he is simply hoping to scratch out a decent existence without hurting anybody. That’s the entire point of the article — nowhere does he defend sexual contact between adults and minors. Why, then, was his article deleted? It sounds like Salon won’t ever provide an explanation."

After reading your comment, you're the only one that's coming off like a propagandist.
There is an option to turn them off.
The way the system is now, if you gather evidence by "torture" (remembering it's just an analogy) and fail to come up with a convincing cover story for how you gathered the evidence, then the case is dismissed and everyone goes home. "Welp, it was worth a try!" It's this current system that's at risk of legitimizing torture as yet another illegal-but-oh-well tool for investigation.
The idea goes back even further, to Edison in 1908.[1] His system used a large set of metal molds which latched together to make a house-sized mold. Then just pour in the concrete and go. The houses were quite elaborate, with lots of architectural detail, all the way down to bathtubs and picture frames. A few are still around.

There's no problem mass producing concrete houses. Or apartment buildings. Building shells aren't really that expensive. The interior parts cost more.

[1] http://www.concreteconstruction.net/_view-object?id=00000153...
Unless the LEO acted in "good faith"
> The operating principal

Wouldn't the right word be "principle"?
I found this quite fun. The writing prompt was a good idea.
I have a hard time believing there wasn't video drivers available for a windows pc
Exactly my thoughts. Also uses Typeform to process signup. Please.
Melbourne will soon have a Vacant house tax as well.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/vacant-property-tax-expect...
Snarky, mostly. So often the people who want to ram through additional surveillance will do so using "think of the children" rhetoric, as though they were the most important thing in the world.

And now we find that when it comes time to actually use these tools to protect the children, the secrecy of the tools is more important.
I would consider ArrayFire a "hard abstraction" that is basically the bottoming out of the system. Previous to this I was using OpenACC. See my talk at the Dyalog User Meeting Last year to see some of the struggles there with Scan.

In short, ArrayFire is handling a lot of the core GPU algorithms for me, and that's its main contribution. This prevents me from needing to implement these myself, because this is itself a full time job. Much better to put a hard cutoff point and work on the high-level questions, rather than spending time trying to support three different architectures by myself. There is basically no good way of working at that level that isn't ugly and very very painful. I am glad to have someone else do that for me.

The benefit is that I can take better advantage of their platform independent and performance tweaks for individual GPUs (which is still a lot of work with the state of GPU programming today). This leaves me to focus on higher level concerns that are more relevant to the APL programmer.
Land Value Taxation.
It isn't a national security issue so there is no justification for those measures. In criminal cases there is a strong constitutional and natural justice basis for the accused being able to examine and attempt to rebut the evidence.
Real solutions (in my opinion):

* Public (city/state/etc) owned parking structures at the edges of the city.
* Good, all weather sheltered, pedestrian access between in city parking / housing / jobs.
* More residential development within cities, until the competition drives the rent down to the same as (or close
to) the surrounding areas; when it increases due to network effect push again to keep it within that bound.
* Improve building codes to keep the quality of life in the city the same as out of the city.
* Incentivize (tax benefits for compliance, tax more for non-complianc) units having more 'family'
sized dwellings (and those even better acoustic isolation). Make it possible to afford and find
a place to raise a family within the city.
Actually, that HN thread left a mark on me.
Before that I was vaguely familiar with the concept. "History is written by the winners", the concept of superstitions, marketing, appeal to the majority, etc.

But I was mostly dismissing it, considering that rational thought would in the end triumph. Considering that, in the least, each repetition should bring extra information for the effect to manifest.

That thread prompted me to give some though to the subject and the answer I arrived at so far does not make me happy at all.
Realizing that repetition by itself is enough, clarifies some things I did not understand and simply classified as reality not making sense.

I feel ever more justified in my energy consuming efforts to fact-check information I receive and in my strides to present information as opinion/personal thought/conclusion based on sources/mere reproduction of sources instead of truth.
I am more aware of this than before but at the same time it causes a lot more stress to me now than it did before.

I am less willing than I was to engage in live discussions where I receive information, because that places a burden of fact checking on me and I can not always do that at the speed of real life. And depending on the interlocutor I can not rephrase the discussion in terms of hypothetical statements.
Go other way to Mercury and one has virtually limitless energy. The polar craters contain ice and a thermal reservoir.
Yea they do: http://netmap.online.net (link for anyone else looking for it).
Evidence is not the evidence. It can be faked.

When you gather evidence illegally, it's easier to fake it.
Prefab houses have been around forever. I grew up in one. I think my parents paid about $100k in 1989. The construction was:

- dig a hole

- pour a foundation

- truck in the house in two halves

- bolt the house together

- do final wiring, plumbing

move the family in

I have no idea how much these kinds of homes are today, but their latest zillow zesitmate puts it at around $300k (on an acre of property)...so YMMV.

3d printing, in general, is expensive and better for one-off, or low-volume things. Mass manufacture techniques are hyper-optimized and beat 3d printing most of the time when you need to make >10 of the thing almost every time...this includes houses.
What guarantees do we have that the evidence has not been fabricated or planted? Evidence collection processes exists to minimize misconduct. If someone can't explain how the evidence has been obtained, they should be viewed as suspect.
I wonder if a very large array of solar panels would not also act like a solar sail that would would catch enough solar wind to escape the pull of the L1 Lagrange point.
San Francisco has a similar problem. There are many hundreds of "in-law" units that go un-rented because the owner is terrified they will never be able to get rid of the tenant. This article from a local public radio station explains the situation concisely: http://kalw.org/post/growing-number-san-francisco-landlords-...
> In general if a criminal goes free despite having evidence against him just because the evidence was not obtained legally

So does the investigation agency who broke the law.
Well if these guys aren't on disability, or married, then how are they getting money for food and rent? The article never answers that question- I don't think the us safety net is comfy enough to provide rent money. Are they all homeless?
This was written as a response to a question from an actual journalist. It's quoted right at the top. What do you find 'cavalier' about it?
And illegal is illegal. The investigation agencies have to make their case within the bounds of the law, they are not above it.
> With the internet and modern transport infrastructure there's no reason to live in a big US metro area like SFO or NYC.

This is an utterly ridiculous statement. Clearly there must be many reasons that hundreds of millions of people worldwide choose to live in big cities. Just because you do not personally find it valuable does not negate its benefit for countless others.
Try this one:

(2=+⌿0=X∘.|X)/X←⍳20

:-) They're equivalent, but the second should give you a bit more intuition based on your understanding of the definition of prime numbers.

Use TryAPL.org to explore the code. Evaluation is right to left with parentheses being their standard meaning. Try seeing what the left and the right sides of the / expression give you, and then try removing pieces from the left of the left side expression of / incrementally to see how its built up.

If you need help seeing what the functions do, you can see help.dyalog.com "Language Reference" That will show you what the symbols do.
Be careful about those statistics. The official reported vacancy rates in Canada are usually for purpose-built rental accommodation, whereas a large (and increasing) proportion of the rental market is rental of condominiums and secondary suites.
I used to know that guy when he was King of the Middle Kingdom in the Society for Creative Anachronism. He was an extreme libertarian long before it was fashionable. He wrote "The Machinery of Freedom" in 1971. It's an extreme expression of "markets can do anything".
You may also want to see "Game of Life in APL" on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
Would a distributed constellation of satellites at L1 work? A bunch of smaller magnetic dipole umbrellas working together.. Easier to repair and replace individual satellites without having the whole system go down.
I want to preface this with an apology, because I don't think there's a way to say this without sounding cliquish. For that, I apologize in advance, but because your account appears to be relatively new, I feel like this is somewhat necessary. If this account is a re-roll of a previous one, then I doubly apologize.

Things you probably don't know (whether based on account age or admissions within this thread):

* tptacek has been an exceedingly active member of this forum for many, many years

* tptacek has been giving us all free security advice for as long as I can recall

* tptacek has founded at least two successful companies primarily dealing with security

* tptacek has, in the past, given much advice that I've considered questionable at the time, but which has proven to be right to me after I've learned enough to realize my errors

And because that all sounds very much like an appeal to authority, I apologize again, but here's the thing -- the comments he made that you object to, and consider to be trolling? They're spot on. I'm not saying that you should believe him because he has a history of making believable claims. What I am saying is that you should believe him because he's far more versed on the subject at hand than you are, and that's by your own admissions within this thread.

It's worth taking a step back here and asking yourself how well you actually know the things you think you know in regards to this thread. I am honestly not savvy enough on mobile security anywhere near capably enough to suggest that he's right and that you're wrong, so please don't assume that's what I'm doing here -- but many of the people you're arguing with in this thread are people who have the requisite bona fides to make their claims with confidence, and while you are boldly asserting the opposite, you acknowledge that this is not your field of expertise, and that you haven't bothered to learn reverse engineering.

Again, if this seems harsh, please know that it isn't intended to. Language is clumsy, and I'm not its best handler on the best of days, but while you might be 100% correct in every one of the claims you've made, the consensus seems to be otherwise, and you haven't done a good job of convincing me that you should be believed over someone who literally pays their bills through the dispensation of their subject matter expertise on this type of material.

Because of the fantastic community, it's obvious that HN is a great place to teach and to learn. Knowing which to do, and when isn't always so obvious. Most of us have made that mistake in the time. Consider whether or not you may be making it now, or figure out how to better support your claims so as to teach more effectively, but cat-pawing at each other throughout the entire thread isn't doing anyone any favors.
Yeah, I had to do an interview anyways, but the process at that point (for me at least) was more of a formality than a decider. They were basically checking to make sure I wasn't a crazy person and that the reference bonus they were about to pay my friend was worth anything.

This mirrors the experience I've had at several jobs, so I don't think it's terribly rare.

Where it's been different than this has been when getting referred to your everyday startup -- and usually those processes are so braindead I end up in a queue for a programming exchange that won't matter in the end. And I've interviewed at some of the biggest "startups" that regularly make front-page here -- so I'm not talking about weird edge cases.
Honda's self-balancing motorcycle prototype